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BEACH CLUB GIRL

By MABEL McELLIOTT

CHAPTER XXIV

"The Mary had said to Boots, worst they can do is to take it out of your pay," quite as if $10 weren't a small fortune when you worked at Lucy's and were pald $18 a week. Ah, but was that the worst of it really? Might not the management suspect hor of dishonesty, suspect her with that of having done away particular $10 bill? Boots, walking to the soda fountain on leaden feet, had visions of an ignominious search. Of course they would not find the money, simply because she hadn't stolen it. But she felt that she would: never be quite the same again after such an ordeal. No, she would feel definitely smirchest

Bill was swallowed up forever in the to 10 minutes past 10. Stupid, be- enormous maw of Lacy's change sys- fogged with sleep, she struggled to tum.

her, feet in response to a loud knock- In spite of a heavy heart and a ing at the door. sense of impending disaster Boots "Oh yes, Mr. Mooney," she said. discovered she was hungry. There "Coming." was a bakery shop on lower. Sixth "It's a telegram, Miss Raoburn, avenue not far from Mrs. Mooney's dear," The landlady, broad, comfort- where she could have a hot,-filing sbly untidy, stood in the aperture. ineal for 40 cents. A slab of pot "I didn't hear you come in so I didn't reant with red cabbage cooked Ger- know you were home or not. I junt man style. A crisp poppy-seed roll, thought I'd nec. Ain't you feelin' No "I do Icel a little-little hot," she A cup of stean.ing called with cream well. You look feverini,"

The tables were bare white slabs.: The scarred linoleum floor was chip agreed, swallowing hard. Her throat ped by the passage of many feet hurt. Oh, well, that was because The air was steamy with the odour of she'd slept so hard without any alr cooking and wet woollen clothing. In the room. Naturally she felt Boots was too utterly weary to care groggy. She fell Me Mooney's to-night. Her natural fastidiousness bright, curious, but not unfriendly was submerged in a deep sense of stare upon her. Tatigue and discouragement.

When she had finished the warm,

But

There was no use trying to cat Somehow she swallowed the scalding, bitter tes with the horrid little muslin bag floating around in the thick cup. Scmowhere, she thought drearily, at this very moment girls her own age satisfying men! she found she was were sitting in softly lighted and so tired she could scarcely drag her scented restaurants, sipping a bever self forth into the rain again. Ah, age totally unlike this. There would it would be heaven, she told herself be faint music playing behind a screen dimly to fall asleep then and there... of groenery and waiters would be not to wake again for hours.

that was madness. She slipping back and forth deferentially of course with silver dishes.

must get home, strip uff thene wot draggled clothes, dry her soaking inward with

shoox. weda-fountain swung

madden- Mrs. Mooney's flat was reached by monotonous regularity and ing whoosh-whoosh. Everyone who means of two long fights of stairs. came in, borne on the wings of the The carpets smelled of dust; the old, November wind, lookes cold, darkly painted balustrade must ence looked shabby. A fast mounting have been part of a house with some puddle of water formed under the pretensions to elegance.

raw

Meantime the revolving door of the

Boots had her key all ready to t

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(To Be Continued.)

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it, in the half-light cast by the dini bult, the door swung open and a dark young man brushed past her with a muttered "Beg pardon." oven glance up at him, so xunk was she in her apathy. All in the world she wanted at that moment was to seek the solace of her tiny room, shut the door on the world outside.

A GREAT SUCCESS

The Garden Fete at the Kowloon Tong Anglican Church on Saturday afternoon proved a great success in spite of adverse weather conditions, Over $700 was realised.

The fete was opened by Mrs. R. Q. Hall, wife of the Bishop of Hongkong.

dripped nad a discouraging, appetite- destroying odour of stale dishwater hovered over all. Oh, it was no use, it was simply no use trying to buck this game, the girl thought in utter despair. in the mirror beyond the concoction of "chocolate milks" she bowl of cold storage eggs used in the concoction of "chocolate milks" she could see her own pale countenance.

The apartment was part of a made The tip of her small nose was ever so slightly reddened. Her hat which over brownstone front. In the front had been last season a dashing enough of the house, looking over the street. "sports model" of brown felt was Mrs. Mooney had her own quartern wilted by the rain. The brim drooped, a led-sitting room and a kitchenette. She swallowed the last of the bitter A narrow corridor bisected the length liquid in the cup and pushed back of the remainder of the flat and two The following wore the stalls and paly, thin, harrow doors opened off either alde. side-shows:-Lightning Sketches (Mr. her stool, giving place to a

Boots" room was one of those on the Scotcher.); Treasure Hunt (Miss D. spectacled girl who had been ini

more than, Lee ami Mr. E. C. Johnson); Bran patiently waiting for her to do just left. It was tiny, nat that thing. The counter buy called eight feet square. There was a for. Tubs and Fish Pond (Misses L. A. and Jorn brass bed and a bureau which had G. Sue. T. S. Yung and II, Cheung "Another hom with the special, . . ."

once been painted ivory but whose and Messts. T. T. Tan and E. S.. Boots drifted out into the rain again.

Cigarettes, Drinks, former coats of paint-some grevu, Camingham);

(Mr. G. S. Ludd); Mr. some faintly lemon coloured-now and Ice Cream That afternoon was torture.

showed through in patches. A knob, Ping Pong Hazard (Mr. E. A. Lee); Bliss questioned her signin. She was

Fancy Gods (Mrs. Credland and

Mira sure she had put the bill in the con- was missing.

Upon this bed Brats how collapsed, Bertram); Woollies (Mrs. Anderson talner? Well, they would check up

White Elephant un the day's receipts. Of course she kicking off her sodden shors with the and Mrs. Peters);

rubbers still clinging to them. She (Mrs. dex); Flowers (Mrs. Goddard); quite understood that if the money

ld not turn up she would be held had splushed through so many puddles Homemade Products (Mrs. Ashby responsible? Boots nodded mutely. that the rubbers had been sorty pro- Scents (Mrs. Wood) and lavender

Later, she told herself, fir! (Mika 1). Tolian), She was at the singe now where a tectors. single kind word would have brought when she was rested she would get upon a spell of bitter weeping. For up, staff paper into thane forlorn Tunately she was so busy she did not file, oxfords and make certain of Ten their being dry by to-morrow. Her inve fime for this luxury. dollars-why, that would wipe out only other pair, patrot opera pumpe, were at the shoemaker's and he closed all her mall margin of savings and idke two other precious dollars out shop at 8,

f her week's pay besides!

Al long last the terrible day drew to a close. In the washroom Miss Apfel came clone and murmured sympathetically, "Heard about it, dear. It's a shame. It happened to

n.e.once.

..

She wriggled out of her cont and Iny there for a moment, savouring the blessed Holitude.

were:

Treasure: Huat Winners.

The winners of the treasure hunt

Ladies:-Mrs. Ashby, Miss Ablong. Mrs. Shen and Miss M. Lay,

Gentlemen: Messrs. E. S. Cunning-| ha, E. F. Shea, F. C. Clemo and II. Q. Junt.

"Oh, I'm so tired," she whimpered i

Girls: Misses. V. Jex, J. Banker, D, faintly, burrowing her face deep into Freeman and U. Jex. the pillow. ti TAN not a friendly "Honestly 7" Boots' eyes lighted pillow. It was hard and unyielding Boys: Masters F-Lay, D. Anderson, with the first hope she had felt all and it smelled ever so slightly of. Wong and L. Wong, China. Lay won day, Perhaps her disgrace was not some nerid disinfectant. Boots shrank the weight guessing competition).

from it. After moment she atax The committee were:-Chairman.. so deep after all,

"No kidding. I was only here agered to her feet. Better hang this Rev. N. V. Halward, M.A. M.C. Hon. week. I like to die," Miss Apfel coat up. Better get off her working Secretary,, Mrs. F. C. Clemo, Hon. ussured her, reddening her lips. "It frock-it was the only one she had Treasurer, Mr. F. G. Clem.o. was only five. But it sure looked suitable for work at Lacy's, the pre. like a fortune to me." She sighed scribed black with white collar. It Misa L. Sue, Mr. H. L. Langley, Mr. heavily at the memory..

was damp and wrinkled now, She R. Ashton Hill, Mr. E. C. Johnson and would have to get up early and press Mr. S. Jex,

The Kowloon Tong Anglican it. Her coat on a hanger, her hat on

Mrs. Scatcher, Miss R. Mowfunk.

been

"I don't understand it," Boots said, on the edge of tears. "I put it right in and slammed it shat. Then we an improvised form of tissue paper, Church has just completed its first

she wrapped herself in her warm year of existence, which, has waited and waited.

"This darn change system is years dressing gown and flung herself be- most satisfactory from all points of behind the times, that's what," Miss tween the blankets. She was chilled view. The object of the fete was to It seemed to her she would raise funds for the running and up- Apfel stated firmly, adjusting & nose heavgh.

St. keep of the Church, to which vell.

"Just don't you worry. Maybe never be warm again for hour. John's Cathedral and St. Andrew's It'll turn up yét." But her tone was She must have slept

kind rather than encouraging. You When she awoke the hands of the Church have helped in a large inea, could see she believed that precious alarm clock oni.the bureau pointed sure during the past year.

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