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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1984.

BEACH CLUB GIRL

BEGIN DERE TO-DAY.

BOOTS RAEBURN, 18" and prolly, tries po to be Jealous of the other members of her crowil Lachnock, fashionable New York Waburb, HTLVIA RIVERS, richest giti ka town, dislikes Boola and fails to mak ber to a party at the Yacht Club. Iloots accepter, a Inst-minute invitation from MIS, WATER-

· MAN, socially prominent to a dinner at the | club ibat same night.

Quite innocently. Boots la thrown into an embarrassing situation by HARDY WHIT- HOER, one of Rylvia's guewin, who had been drinking. He tries to Indues -Dools to av aailing with him and, when aha runs away, ween off in a bout alone and falla overboard, His rescue exuam considerable excitement and. Bylvia la farious. Rhe maliciously repeats the aloży to Atita, PERNELL, who iska Boots to resign from the Juniors.

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CHAPTER V

Sylvia Blcked the ash from her eigarette. The hand holding it trem bled a little. Sylvia wore huge merald on her third finger; against the sunburned skin it burned like an

evil eye.

I don't know what you're talking about," she said languidly, Isabel faced her squarely. The crisp red euris on Isabel's sunati head fairly erneklett.

"I think you do," Isabel safd sturdily. "Mr. Fernell saw you that day. She sent for Borts. And now Bonts is—is out," she Ünished, spread. ing her amal Augers apart All expressive gesture.

“And so what does that, make me?” Sylvie wanted to know, with ins

lunce,

"You know as well as I do, Sylvia Rivers, said Isabel hotty, "that Boota Raeburn hadn't a thing in the world to do with Hardy's being tight that night. He'd had a lot before be urrived at your table. He had rome more there

"Am I denying that ?" Sylvia in quired, squinting through noke, Siniling ever so faintly. "No, my

By MABEL MCELLIOTT

"We simply must patch the whole thing up." Isabel insisted.

fear, your little girl friend's big mis-"Really!" she snki, disposing of suburban interior. Bents like to ge take was in going out on the heat Boots and cousin Minion all in one there.

"Hello, there." Frances put down with hina-getting berself talked breath.

purch,"

her. "I hear 'you're

housekeeper. Come and have lunch with us to-day. We'd love it."

Boots porched on the arm of the

to. Sure you want me?" uttered wicker armchair. "I'd adore

about. I" sald Sylvia coldly and "And I think Hardy is terribly the story he had been reading and alooly, "bad nothing to do with that." interested in her if you ask me."eckoned to

"She didn't go with him and you Isabel flared, annoyed at the other's know it. They went out on the air. "Why wouldn't he be?"

"Well, that's perfectly sweet of "And alter that," Sylvia finished you, dent," murmured Sylvia with with a Inugh that was like the Rick the tolerant air of one humouring a of a whip, "after that she remem-unatic. So Isabel went away, wound-about her tone and Frances George hered nothing. Oh, I know that gaged and puzzled and worried. If Boots vlovsted line. I've heard it before."

had gone to the Barn with Hardy "What d'you mean? Of course, we Isabel sprang to her feet, flushing on the heels of being asked to resigna

from the Juniors, that was the eply.

supreme gesture of defiance. All the er Juniors knew Mrs. Pernell's attitude.

"You're perfectly hateful. Hardy admits Bents wouldn't go with him en the boat. He grabbed her and she got away .....

There was something challenging

inquiring eyebrow.

an

Roots shrugged her pretty shoul- "The ladies are after my on the subject of the Barn. It was a ni, no longer a member of

the Larchneek Juniors." all right, of course, for John Fernell, "Oh, thai!" Frances Inughed eleor- 23 und dissipated, to go there; hutt fully. "Well, I don't see how you And she didn't turn up at the the girls under Mrs. Fernell's leader-tood it as long as you did party again that night." interrupt whip in the Juniors understood thee dead long enough. Sylvia. "I know. I know." She cast up her eyes in assumed innotnet bun on the place..

cence,

"If you let Boots suffer for this you and I, se through as friends," She know when he was Isabel said. fhenten. There was no use trying to

appeal to Sylvin,

"Dear, dear, how melodramatic the child in murmured Sylvia softly

Come around some day when the weather isn't so hot and perhaps you'll feel differently." She dropped her air of studied insolence and now spoke almost casingly to the other girl. "Snap out of it... Inbeli haven't a thing to do with this nifai

You'll

"You don't understafid,"

Boots went on with a sort of gay deflance. "I was asked to resign."

Boote attitude, when Isabel

The young woman in the blue print her, puzzled her further. This was frock frowned. What do you

how Boots, cool, enigmatic, pase I care?" she demanded. **Ten touchable. It was funny, resigning me about it if you want to, but it from the club, wasn't it? she wanted doesn't matter in the least. She to know. Silly outfit, anyway. She rose from her chair at a shrlek from hnd never liked it. Everybody was one of the small red-suited Agures. so stuffy...

The boy-child was belabouring the giri-child with a shovel,

"I must rescue Gwen from the

"But next year's dunges," Isabe began, applied. "Why, we simply must patch the whole thing up! It's Fiend," she said casually, to the utter all so stupit. You want to go to the scandal of two Indies nearby, gossip. Thanksgiving dance, don't you?

Boots smiled a faraway smile and later. Chow at one."

ing over their needlepoint."See you If Boots has been indiscreet that suid she hadn't the faintest idun Roots went toward the bathhouses her business. Why, I'd be glad to where she would be by Thanksgiving with her head held high. It gave talk to Mrs. Fernell about it-skisabel, repulsed by the other girl's her a lift to have the matter of her her to give Boots another chance."

enldness and disinterest refrained disgrace taken so casually. Maybe "You would Honestly

from saying anything about Sylvia, Jaho wasn't outside the pale complete. "Yes, only that only that Boots the Barn, or any of the other topics y, after all, went to the Barn last night with her mind had been churning about. But as she passed a group of young Hardy, and Joba Ferneil saw her there. It's all," Enished Sylvia in tene of gentle regret, "all over town this morning."

"I don't believe it." Iabel knew what Mrs. Ruchura thought slut the Barn. Not that anything shocking had ever happened there-only, well the nicest girls in Lurchteck didn't go there, usually.

The girl went on to her cubicle. her heart beating fast, her blood, racing. So it was to be war to the kaife, 'was It? She would show them how much-how little she cared! (To Be Continued.).

she had known that, on her depeople at the showers several heads parture, Boats-flung herself down stį were turned aside casually. Judith the living room couch and burst into Devlin, whom she had known rather untic weeping she would have re well at school, looked straight through turnust quickly. As it was, they hoked beyond her. parted with a distinct sense of re- "Come along," Judith said to Boute serve, almost unfriendliness, Boots, unseen companion in her clear, plea conscious of having been in error want volce. She ignored Boots com when she had gone to the Barn with pletely. Hardy, wounded in her pride. Isabel, hurt to the quick, stung by her friend's unresponsiveness and withdrawal.

"I don't know what's getting into “Well, my dear, ask her yourself." me these days," Boots murmured at Sylvia's manner was a judicious com last, struggling to a sitting position pound of sympathy and boredom, and mopping her streaming eyes. "I "Even nowadays," Bhe went on look a perfect fright. What if any judically," girl has to be fairly one should come to the door!" careful what, she does. Oh, I know,

and She bathed reddened eyes my dear, we all pet and smoke and straightened her tumbled locks. How take a drink if the tabbies aren't could Isabel understand that her looking but the Barn! Well, even adventure last night had been a I draw the fine at that," said Sylvin gesture of defiance, directed at her virtuously, amitting to old that she enemies. Why, the Barn had been a had been there two or three times horrid bore. Couples revolving slow.! during the winter when fur collarsly in a smoke-laden room. Indiffer- were rather in the nature of dia-out food, sandwiches with dry brend

It is learned in official circles that guises and when the Larchneck set and rancid meat. Ifardy, bringing the Reda, who recently invaded didn't go there much, anyhow, -out a flask, and running entirely true Southern Hunan, have slipped into

HAVEN OF REFUGE,

HUNAN REDS CROSS TO KWEICHOW

Cantor, Sept. 20.

"I admire you for your loyalty," to form as the wild young man out Kwelchow Province, apparently for Sylvia said with suspicious sweet for night's galety, Boots had the purpose of avoiding pressure ness and gentleness. Nobody knows hated all of it and had drawn a long from the combined Kwangtung and better than I what a true friend you breath of relief when at last she had

niore

divisions

of

On

are. But, believe me, you're wasting been set down, in her own driveway. Kwangsi armles. your time on Bouts. She is evidently But to-day everything was

The Kwangsi military authorities determined to be deciusser, Some horrid still. Instead of pouring out have ordered two girls are like that. You can't do the torrent of sympathy and indignant Bwangsi troops, now stationed anything with them." She ground championship she had expected, Isabel the Kwangsi-Hunan border, to her cigarette out in the huge pewter had come around with a stiff, wer-move into Kweichow immediately tray.

ried air to ask if she didn't mind in order to assist the Kwelchow don't believe it," Isabel said, being left out of the autumn parties! Government to suppress the Com- "We grew up together. Until they Boots made beds and washed dishes munists.-Central News Agency. lost their money about five years ago with apathy. How different the Boots was asked to everything. Her house looked with Mother away: family has lived here longer than Nothing seemed to go right. Even anyono clee's,"

the window shades were at crazy

they didn't seem

foundly bored. "I know," she offered ed at them

to

"Sylvia allowed herself to look pro-angley and no matter how she twitch SUMMER CONSTIPATION. lightly. "But where does all that get respond. Oh, she would get out of us? There's no use kidding, your here, gu over to the club" and swim Helf, Izzy darling. Doots has chosen and forget her troublea,

a different line. She's probably, de-|

cided sho's got to do something

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Lassitude, debility, sick headache, Jong of appetite. furred tongue, mental depression, any of these troubles can arise from constipation one of the commonest, allments" which bonet men and women. The best and surest remedy is Pinketten, the well-

spectacular to get notice nowadays, She went along swiftly, awinging Not that I think Hardy would over her bathing bug, humming a tuna Inke her seriously. He's just amusing with an air of casualtiess she was known laxative. himself."

far from feeling. On the veranda, A vegetable compound containing "Dools in beautiful enough for any a magazine in her lap, ber eyes on nothing injurious, these Hittle pilules man to take seriously," Isabel said, two small figures in the sand, sat net in a infld way, They are non. with heat. "My cousin Marion--you young Mrs. Perry George, one of the grining and non-habit-forming Im- know, the artist-sald when she was tanturnses neighbours. Boots 1lked mediately you feel off-colour tako here last year that Boots has true and admired the tall young woman two or threo Pinkettes at night classic beauty, Marlon raved about with the fresh colour and the friendly before you go le aleen: you will wake her."

eves. Frances George had been an up bright and cheerful in the morn Sylvia contented herself by merely editor's assistant, before and after her Ing. Obtainable at all chemists, lifting her finely arched browa ovykininrriage,

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