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KING'S PESTAURANT

(Mezzanine & 1st Floor, King's Theatre Building),

TO-DAY'S TIFFIN

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Bubblo and Squcak Fricasted Chicken and Jardinere Roast Leg of Veal and Ham

J

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Butter Toast Pudding

Cheese

Fruit

TO NIGHT'S DINNER

Fruit Cocktail Hot or Cold Beef Tea

Ox-tail Soup

Fried Garoupa Sauce Tartare

Poached Egg in. Aspic Grilled Fillet Stoak and Mushrooms

Roast Young Turkoy and Ham Iced Asparagus Mayonnaise Charlotte Russo

Ice Cream

Cheeso

Fruit

Tea of

Coffee.

Coffee.

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CANTON BRANCH-No. 4, Shakee Street.

THE

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"THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1934,

BEACH CLUB GIRL

CHAPTER XXIII

By MABEL MCELLIOTT

check

of

should

"Where on earth is my change?" Black eyes'snapped angry.

"I'd seq. Just a moment, madam." Boot clicked the tubo neveral times, There was no response. She went to the telephone and caned the operator customer's inr- below stairs. The patience grew, deepened,

There-there seems to be dimoulty," Boots explained,

"Sol hec." The woman bit her lips "Call the department furlously. ninusger, please."

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Bomo

THE

FUNNEL

BLUE

LINE

REGULAR AND FAST

FREIGHT AND

SERVICES

PASSENGER

LONDON SERVICE

MENESTHEUS mail 10 Oct. for Marcailles, Loudon, Hotterdam, Hamburg & Glasgow anila 23 Oct. for Marseilles, London, Rotterdam AENEAS

& Glasgow

sheer panie. Then the latter from Lacy's had come on the eve of Buss's It was a raw, gray November n.urn departure. Would she report on the ing, boots, waiting across Tairty following morning? Parc time work fourth street torough whic...ng euues at $14 a week was offered her.

Sho had literally jumped at the of rain that threaten momen.araty to turn into snow was conscioulain spive chance. Russ had vowed ino situation of a gawing hunger at tau palca.my. It had seemed to him perfect

all right that his wife her stomaco, in spe of the thinnessy of her shoes and the razor edge of the sanage to exist on that sum. He had wind whipping her skirts about her not waited to see her settled. His train had left the very night sho had knoes-ot Benso of adventure.

The job at Lacy's was already an noved into the furnished room at Birs.

Mr. Bliss, his white carnation pro- old story to her. She had been in Mooney's.

claiming him one of Lacy's "truubia the chinez department for more than

Well, that was over now the physi- busters" came up, smiling urbanely. four weeks now, the lowllest of a

gave this young woman a $10 the clerks. Sng had gone through Lal wrench of parting with Russ was ngonizing firal weeks of learning to over. She had been a bride a few bil nges ago, snapped the frate stand on her foot all day, Amazed that short months ago. Now she was com customer. "The change hasn't comé the human body could stand so mu pletely alone.. In her heart she still back."

Mr. Dilss questioned Boota, - tale- pure torture without whimpering. A confidently expected Russ to send for night it had been heaven to hobber. "Any gay now she assured phoned, came back frowning. Miss Lack to her room to pange there herself stoutly. This was just a bit O'Toole, he said, reported no $10 bill act ng feet into a tub of warm water. Morely to rest, to alt perfectly still inter.udo to be got through-wot had been sent through the tubes from

shoes, aching feet, shabby carpets, this station for the past half hour.

"But," Boots protested, "you saw me gazing into nothingness had been a food-smelling roams. Soon she would sort of quivering

bo with her husband in a warm and put it into the tube along with your bling

singe She

land with blue skies arching sales slip." She turned her white Ince that WAN past

now land.

They had met and loved in toward Mr. Bliss, The woman lifted | She could make out a sales

"naw nothing." MURshing. This without trembling. She know the an

un atmosphere colours and the designs: the Victorian nightmare of cold winds and lonely arrogant shoulders,

is will be made gond," Mr. Das LIVERPOOL SERVICE enbbage roses, the bine chintz with the nights would the employees' elevator assured hor. He lifted his eyebrows

pass. She was in white stag design which all the decora

Kooming upward. Sixth floor, in toots" direction-a very Roof, as tors were using, the stars in red and white and ail the others. Sho knew which were 70 cents a yard and which Southern wear. Beach umbrellas and sured, impeccable young man, as

curk sandals, a pench-coloured jersey went off with the customer in tow, were less. She felt sometimes as suit on a bronzed mannequin, lolling "Go to lunch, dear," said Mary though she never wanted to-see a elegantly on a sand beach under bril Aaterson, one of Boots' counter mates spray of hyacinths or a funnel of liant simulated daylight. Boots caught a moment later.

"But what's going to happen now?" de.phiniam again. If she had a house her breath. She would buy just such of her own, she determined, savagely in bathing suit na that before she left Boots stammered. Her head ached, eyeing the pushing horde of women at to join tuss. She had $8 saved to her morning's hunger had aettled like Last week sho a kind of blackt sickness at the very the Monday sales, she would have the ward her ticket. chairs upholstered in feather, the had hoped to save more but she had core of her boing.

had a cold and had had to buy medicine windows hung in oilcloth.

This was Monday again. Half past throat astringent and some rub

the big store hers. eight. The door of

and The dressing room smelled of wet would presently be flung open women from Brooklyn, Staten Island, wool and cheap scent. Girls milling from Westchester, from uptown Park around, touching up their hair, stow- Avenue, from the Bronx, from Chelsea ing boots into locker. A jumble of and Queens and Teaneck would rush words

six of And I just said to him. I said, in. ve yards of this. that. Is this uproof, misst How What do you take me for?

to Radio City.. Oh, Reh de I need for n chaise lounge We went

"It's stip cover? My change come back the ballet was lovely." yet? Where is the china department Coty's Peris; d'you like It... noty

"A double decker at the Barrel Bor" "they give you a dill pickle.

·

of

Already she heard their harsh, de-l

A gong beomed somewhere and the manding, clamouring volcon. The air would thicken. Scraps of paper would chip-chip of feet in the corridor out- rullect behind counters. Salebooks side swelled to a symphony. Clerks would maddeningly lose themselves from the aluminum-ware, clerks from of material. The morning the furniture department, from the Gader bolts would drag on. She would go to lunch shoes, the ribbons, the linens, the At half past 11. Forty-five minutes underwear, the millinery shop were all for lunch. It wasn't much. It meant hastening to their posts.

A few girls nodded to Boots. That she might go no further than the drug

lore around the corner. Lacy's had tall Miss Apfel from the awning a lunch room for its employees but materials gave her a pleasant smile. after one or two half-hearted sorties Boots had lunched with her one day. upon it, finding the food all tasted She was from upstate. She had, she curiously like uld boiled cabbage, the confided, takon qurse's training but girl had given it up in favour of the hadn't been able to stand the gaff." inevitable sandwich and soft drink She was plump but not overly strong. neat was Miss Apfel, in her dark

which comprises the mid-day meal of with the crisp 'organdio friil

so many thousands.

She was getting $18 a week now and thought it wonderful. True It was not enough it was not nearly enough to keep body and soul to 'gether in this, America's greatest and richest elty, but it enabled her, in the day's phrase, to "got by." That was ull anyone asked.

the thres

threat!

"Going to be a big day, dear," she whispered as they swung along toward their posts on the seventh floor.

Boots nodded. Monday was always terrible even with a long, lazy Sunday behind. At five o'clock on Mondays your feet ached with a slow, steady,

blinding ache.

•

Down in Greenwich Village in the apartment of a large, friendly and

The rash began. It seemed to Bools rather untidy. Mra. Mooney, she had a box of a room for $6 a week.she did not really draw breath until Sometimes when the weather was not 11.30. She had been so basy she had minutes Loo bad she walked to work, a matter actually forgotten the IG of 20-odd blocks. She'never walked at relief which was due her. This last night, however. Her tired body pro- customer tendered a $10 bill. tested that particular economy.

"I'll take the package with me." At first when Russ had announced Lacy's still used the antiquated he was going to Florida and that she change conveyor system. The cus- was to be left behind, "for a time at tomer's money was deposited in a sort least," Boots had been dazed with hurt of metal cradle along with the sales and anger. What on earth should she slip and dispatched in the pneumatic do alone in New York? To slay with tube which shot to the nether regions a cashier made the proper Russ's brother and his wife was un-where thinkable. Russ's suggestion that she change.

go back to her father's house had met The customer tapped her foot with with allenco, the silence of defeat, nervous Impatience and Boots, anawer- almost of contempt. She had been ing questions, throwing out bolt after Ballen, voiceless for a day or two as boll, measuring, cutting, was conscious ho want briskly about the business of the narrowed eyes and frown, of of packing. She had been conscious of the waiting woman.

JOIN THE "Z.H.B.

-RECRUITS

POURING

IN

h, nothing much," Mary said airily. The worst they can do is to take it out of your pay. Those things happen sometimes."

(To Be Continued.!.

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