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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1934.

BEACH CLUB GIRL

BEGIN WERE TODAY

Vi

By MABEL MCELLIOTT

want to begin to live. It's terrible thing we could dig up for you, SYLVIA RIVERS rules the younger set to be young and battled up....Library work...n book shop. . . of Larchneck, fashionable New York suburt, What shall I do?"

"Oh. If you could!" she told him, She duke BOOTS HAEBURN whose family! Ah, she knew what he would say, passionately. She got to her fuct,

a little honey,

De night at the Yacht Club Boste ja put

what any intelligent, diaprasionato "I must be getting back," she told in embarrasing allustion by, HARDY

person would say-Wait-carve out him with a nervous laugh. "It's past WHITMORE, one of Sylvia's sure, who tome sort of carter for yourself seven. They'll think Ive been kid- had been drinking. yirin mallcarly con be brave, patient, Life won't pass naped." trives to furce Boots resignation from the go by! Juniure fumdilated, Boots withdrama from

know.

"Pll call you," he told her, erect the crowd. Be sure about with . RUSH It was easy to say that-easy to beside her. "I let you LUND, the swimming instructor. Rus fall, counsel · patience, courage. Mean- Something may turn up. in love with her and nanosances he's going while Buss waited, with ki dogged

She didn't dare to say to him: away. Ite bess Houts to cope with kint and look & devotion, his calm, Battering if I don't run away and marry with

the Ach for chine to think it over.

eatly morning walk, kita merta

·PENWAY. young author.

Mr. Raeburn returna from a vett and nevil of her. Boots felt what every in a week I'll take you up on that. Hoola dremis having her mother hear about girl binesoming into rosy womanhood But her slim fingers lost themselves her resignation from the club Out for a feels the urgent need of being want in his big clasp and the smile that DEN18 ed. Ignorant of the forces working the gave him was compounded of within her, she was conscious only many thing gratitude, the dawn of of a great desire to do things, to bo king, hopefulness. ull that was lovely and desirable, adequate in any situation, however dimeult.

CHAPTER XV

Denis Fenway stood looking after her before resuming his walk.

"Pretty Httle thing," he anki to himself, striking at the rocks with his stick. "Wonder what she's wor.

Some fool kid

about.

OT

She could, the thought, have been pluneer woman, gallani in danger, resourceful in difculties. Why, her ried"

w great grandmother, at her age, other. and had a child! As it was, every vaguely annoyed him. Why shouldn't had been married for two years- He wondered why the thought one treated her like a child. still. this golden-haired child with the en-i

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"Don't pay any attention to me," she said quickly and lightly. "ve! She was told to run away and play ormous eyes and the sweet husky Kot the early morning bites. One when she spoke of anything more voice be interested in one of the cubs of my Irish ancestors is stalking me serious than a sorority ten. It was roundabout 7 "Ta going home next Loa

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"Oh, the shower's over," she told him. "It was nothing."

"Cry away," he said briefly. *t He looked up at her, a keen, obser- have

vant glance. "Don't want to tell me, good shoulder." Boots put her handkerchief reso-ch?" Jutely away in the pocket of her] "No," she stammered, all confusion. white woolly sweater and smiled: "I-I don't think so." She looked again,

away, struck by some flash of insight in those narrow dark blue eyes,

"How-how old are you?" she If this handsome, indolest young blurted out suddenly, scarcely realiz mau thought she was going to tell ing what she anid. him her troubles he was vastly mis-i "I'm 27," he told her gravely. taken. Probably he would try

use "Why?"

"I just wondered." Just n few her for what did writers call it7- copy. He was going to be disappoint-years older than Runs, she ed if that was his nim.

inusing. "You've done a lot, been She threw him a side glance. How successful, haven't you?" black, how absurdly long and sweep-

He shrugged, madently disclaiming ing his lashes were, over eyes of this view. "I've been lucky. I finish darkest blue! And how extraordined college earlier than most people. arily tall he was. If he weren't so hnd-breaks. A Brat novel at 24. alviously self-satisfed and conceited It happened to sell. I met the right she might have led him a little. crowd in New York, my stuff began As it was she put an her usual mask to go well." of ensual interest.

hove

all about Boots forgotton Raeburn and the way her velvety dark eyes looked, spangled with fresh- tears,

He told himself his intarest in hor was purely academic. When he went to town for lunch he would ask Abbot Fairman if there were any openings She seemed a bright in his offer. child. She had a pleasant person- ality

Russ Lund watched him from a ledge of rock, black hatred in his

heart.

What had Boots been talking about was for so long to that writer bird? And why had she come out to meet him? (To Be Continued.)

Bosis cupped her chin in her' handa.

with

"I thought you'd gone hack to Her heart-shaped face, framed in its California," she said by way of mak-gilt halo, was very serious. Her in conversation,"

brown eyes, faintly lecked He drew a pattern un the wat mmber, stared straight past him. earth with the stick. "Presently." he drawled.

Boots flushed. If he thought she was interested-if he only remotely knew how unimportant his comings and goings were to her! She began to scramble to her feet, feeling she hated this hundrome, well-dressed young man who was so definitely certain of himself and his place in Lhe world.

He put out a lean brown hand to detain her. Even through her one hoyance she was conscious of the strength of those warm brown fingers with their well-cared-for nails, their look of leashed power.

"Ah, don't go," he said, on a note of penitence, There I was, thinking you'd talk to me for a minute. You're forever on the wing!"

"Am I?" Boots wanted to know. arrested by this view of her.

"Yes. You're always scrambling

"Do you honestly think that breaks are what count?" she demanded. "Do you think life is mapped out for us or that we make our own cision?"

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Age-old question, age-ild probium! The young man, thus gravely chal lenged, gave her a fleeting glance.

"I don't honestly know," he enl. "I think luck has a lot to do with it. You meet me this morning, we have a talk-maybe the whole course of your life is changed. If you hadn't waked early perhaps everything would be different"

"Ah, but we haven't sald anything that matters, really," Boots offered shyly. "I haven't asked advice. You haven't given any. So what?"

He shrugged his shoulders, "I meant if you had asked mel Then I should have told you precisely what I thought, pulling on my old gray beard, and you would have gone.

in or out of a car or rushing to swim home strengthened, comforted.

or something," he complaluce in his His eyes had the ghost of a twinkle ugrecable deep voleo, "I stopped by in them.

to ask you to come and have ten "You're laughing at me," with me the other day. You were said, affronted. nut-the beach or sumapluce, thei coloured woman said."

Linda had never told her. Not that it mattered.

So he had ha?"

| "stopped by," had_

"Oh, but I'm not. Honestly!”

Boots

A silence fell between them. The blue waters tapped the shore. Far out gulls wheeled and swooped. On the deck of a trig Ittle launch, riding Suddenly Boots, warmed by his ut anchor just beyond the point, friendliness, his obvious desire to sailor in blue jeans appeared hoisting! please, was conscious of a desire to fing. It was very quiet and peace- enfide in him. He was the perfect ful. Life and its troubles seemed far confdant, 21 1

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"How could I get a job?" Boots No, she couldn't do that. She demanded abruptly. "Tin ignorant. daren't tell him or anyone! Stated I haven't any training. But I'm baldly, it sounded too fantastic. young and strong and willing. I'm "There's a non-I know .. ho anxious to learn. What could I do?" hasn't any money or any background "Are you serious?"

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