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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.: WEDNESDAY, MARCH -- 14, -- 1984;

Forgotten Sweetheart ↳ MARY RAYMOND Summe

CHAPTER XXXII

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John Waring? Intersections flashed by In orderly "Don't you remember-the girl sequence but he did not recognize yay them. They were part of a topsy warned me against in turvy world, a scheme of things Huddenly gone utterly awry from Bob's viewpoint.

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this cruise for some time!

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Friday morning camo.

by

Then we'll cable."

a hurry, Dad," Bob suid,

with Joan had gone so far," he mero caprice or the result of mis- they would have seen the meit-a "It was rather hard on Barbara. said. "If I had, I might not have understanding. It was even harder tall, blond young fellow and a More than one driver cursed suppone you had reason, been so ready with advice."

to convince Harney's stepmother gray-haired man-join the crowd Bob Weston freely as he swung the though."

"Don't worry" Bob told him. that, or all three young people, boarding the yacht. But Joan was roadster in and out of

on "I did. Or thought I did. "I'll be all right!" He went none were happier over the outcome talking to Mrs. Blake and Pat's traffic. Miraculously, though some Nothing in the world seemed quite to his room, thinking Indulgently than Joan

eyes were only for Barney.

A little Inter Joan and Mrs. mechanical agility that had nothing so important.””.

how obvious had boon his father's

"You see, Mra, Blake, Joan loves Blake stood on the pier in the whatever to do with conscious The older man walted. Thon efforts to make things easier for offort, Bob avoided each Impending Bob went on. The masked singer him. Pretending he had planned another man," Pat explained. collision. A dozen times he skirted was Jonn Waring, Dad.”

Well,

But this other man had little milling crowd. Everywhere there were happy, excited voices, the the edge of disaster. Streets and

there was no way to get beyond substanco, ile was almost a myth flurry of departure. Goodbyes were parental devotion. And his father in the light of Mrs. Blake's prac-being said, baggage carried aboard.

tical reasoning. If Joan loved) Barney and Pat stood at the rail. Mem-was one in a million.

After he was alone again Mr.him so much why wasn't he there? of the big liner; looking down on Barney and Fat were married Joan and Mrs. Blake. Barney was "Yes, I remember" his father Weston reached for the telephone said, shocked by the despair on his beside his bed and called a number. Just before noon. They did not beaming and proud. Pat's oyce

wire Mrs. Waring. Joan had pro-were shining, Hon's face. "Perhaps I was wrong, Now he knew that, despite doubts Bob. She is very beautiful and she

mised to write her mother as soon "Goodbye. We'll write," Barney and disappointments, he had always has a lovely voice. Perhaps I was It proved to be the strangest, as the steamer sailed, to write promised,

most unaccountable day in all voluminously and explain every- Het Joan apart from other women. Loo hasty in my judgment."

"You know you won't!" Mrs. Only to find that she was common

Joan's 20 years. And she was thing. A wire would only have Blake chided, smiling. clay after all, pitifully frail and

Too hasty! Bob could have sure, being honest with herself, left firs. Waring confused and

"Happy voyage!" called Joan. humanl

laughed, Instead he looked steadi- that it was to be one of the hap troubled. She was wearing a mask, exly at his father, without answering, plest days she had known, tou.

They had luncheon at a flower- And then Barney was waving ploited and glorified like some The bitterness in his eyes

She felt free. No more com-decked table in the corner of a he and the fluttering of Pat'a hand- tel dining room. Those aroundkerchief joined hundreds of others. cheap, intriguing show girl. There plain,

pulalon, no more doing this could be but one interpretation of "Well, there's Barbara," his that under the pricks of conscience. them had only to look at Barney Slowly the little tug beats eased the Jonn's presence in that luxurious father said, his voice unusually She had never been more light and Pat to know that this was a liner out into midstream. Slowly the liner turned, heading toward apartment. She was living there gentle. He was thinking that he hearted than she was as she packed gala alfair.

the sea. na Mr. Burney Blake.

would have given a great deal to the pretty clothes bought for herself Bob assured himself that he spare his tall, handsome son the into Put's steamer trunk.

There were nearly two hours be- "We'll be lonely," Mr. Blake would put her out of his life now, pain of disillusionment.

"She's a

"Joan, you're sure you don't fore sulling time and Barney sug-said.

gested 'n drive. They passed the "We'll miss them," Joan replied, atterly and completely. From now fine

the girl"

mind" Pat demanded in one of New York Yacht Club basin with guiding Barney's car. through the on he and Joan would go their

"YEA. Barbara's

all right," her impetuous rushes across the its jungle of sen craft. Fat's gaze thick traffic. She was thinking separate ways. He would never Bob said

without enthusiasm.roam. think of her again.

she wouldn't be lonely. The picture After a moment he added, "It

was caught by a group of young that of her as he had seen her a short would please you if I married her, what had happened, hard for her to yacht. She called Barney's atten- telephone call from Bob was walt- it was hard for Pat to realize people about in board a private Never again! Perhaps even now a time ago a little girl in a simple wouldn't it. Dad?" dress with hor sweet, mobile "I'd like to see you happy and bellove that Joan actually didn't tion to the gay group and, with his ing for her at the apartment.

want to marry Barney, just as attention diverted, they almost The afternoon newspapers would month and wide, blue eyes--he settled. Young people are would wipe from his memory for- colta, Bub, Part breeding, part Barney did not want to marry Joan. collided with a long black limousine, be sure to have a story about Pat's Then there was the matter of shooting past. There were two and Barney's marriage. Bob would being put through their paces early. Barbara comes from a good family persuading Mrs. Blake, who had men in the back sent of the black see it. Anyway, by now he must

heard the explanation in complete car,

have reasoned things out and she's had the right training.

not If they had slopped a moment (Continued on Page 11.) bewilderment, that this was

ever.

But he could not forget the way she had responded to his kisses, the way she find whis pered, "Do you love me. Bob?" What could it mean except that she

was willing to cheat this other man who had taken her so far along her ambitious way?

Bob let himself into the great hall of his home and mounted the stairs. A light was burning in his father's room and the door was slightly ejar. "That you, Bob?" his father called.

"Yes, Sir."

The older man was propped up in bed. pillows behind his back and a book in his hand.

"Sorry

dashed away in such

like

suppose that counts." Hob said wearily. He added. "Well, you win. Dad. Just give me a little · time, won't you?"

I

"Of course. I've been thinking I'd like a little trip somewhere. Perhaps a cruise to Havana. was looking over the yacht yes- terday and it's ready to sail on an hour's notice. How about coming with me?"

"Glad to Whon can we leave?" "To-morrow alternoon. Does

that suit you?"

"Perfectly. And thanks, Dad." His father was watching him keenly. "I didn't know this affair

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