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BEACH CLUB GIRL

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By MABEL McELLIOTT

CHAPTER XXXI

| flang herself gratefully, when she was of sunlight falling athwart the shabby

weary and discouraged.

bureau. If she refused she might sit Boots had never known a summer;

Mrs. Moonny, satisnod, went out Jaione, all day companioned only by like this one. Back in Larchneck it rustling in back taffeta, and pros. pride. After all, what did it matter? had been warm, certainly; but there ently Boots heard the door slam "All right t you'll And yourself you had had nwhinged rooms, the blue nfter Mrs. Dawson who had smiled something to read in the sitting room Sound Italt

about instiffly and primly at the young girl in I'll be along in five minutes." Games, shaded porches, pinying white with her gil curls spread fan

"I go over to Sixth Avenue," he lawn sprays, children skipping de- wise over the chair back. Boots was said easily, "and plek up Boma liriously unaer big trees in the care utterly alone. The big, empty apart-cigarettes. Bo right back." of starched and aproned nurses-allment was very still. Airs. Mooney's Men, she reminded herself after ho this and meant summer to Boots. You other vomers, two silent, iniling had departed, despised girls who were had a big house, of course, and big Irish boys who worked for a big chain as easily avaliable as this. But t windows with the breezes blowing store uptown, had taken their rattan didn't matter. Denis thought of her freely through the rooms. There sulicases and departed the night be merely as a friend. Probably he were lead drinks In the big refore, bound un Home hilarious ex-wanted to talk to her about Kay, any- frigorator in the roomy, shabby pedition to Summit.

how. That was it; that was why he kitchen. Salads, crisp rolls, moun- fainous custards tempted your ap: told herself drowsily, she would take

Boot was alone. Presently, she had come. petite. Both salte foamed pink or her little blue teapot (from the dime green in the big tub and the fooling store) from the cup board; she would of crisply ironed silks next to freshly go out to the silent, scoured kitchen powdered, sun-browned skin was in with its eternally dripping tap and its finitely delicious.

linoleum; she would make herself some tes and nibble crackers,

She was ready in 10 minutes, if not in five. Her striped brown and white inen sult was fresh; the organdie blouse (from Lacy's basement) frilly and crisp. Sho crushed the small brown straw down upon her fair hair and crumpled clean gloves in her hand.

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All this was changed now. Mirs, Mooney's rooms baked and aweltered under a brolling aky. Mornings were

Well, she looked all right. Not brief interludes of peaceful coolness But the peace and the alience were smart, of course, as Kay Chillingford but before 10 o'clock the store itself too much for her. She must have did, but nice. Denis needn't bo was an inferno. At noontime you fallen asleep. Sho was on some ashamed of her. went wanly in search of food, but dream voyage, vague and pleasant,

He had a rather shabby little rond- nothing was inviting. The limp when she was awakened by the cound stor. But why was it, Boots wonder LIVERPOOL SERVICE lettuce leaves in the cafeteria, the of a voice.

ed, as he helped her into it that it bowls of sandwich mixtures at the "Sorry, but no one answered the scomed infinitely more likeable than fountain lunchroom appalled you. At bell.

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It was on this Sunday that Boots, Imp, tired, yet weekly thankful for the interlude, lay stretched at length In her sagging chair with the day's news shoots scattered about her She had just washed her hair and it curled and sprayed about her

palo face in which the brown eyes were unnaturally dark. She was wearing an oki frock of white lipen, many

"Ah, how you frightened me!"

"I rang and rang." Dents told her. "I saw the deur wan ajar so I walked right in. Where's Mother Mooney?"

"She's gone to Jersey to Rock away, I mean." Boots stammered. Denis! And she was wearing this old rag of a white frock and her slim feet were thrust into heelless blue, anther slippers and her hair was all over the place! She ran skilful fingers through its curly confusion.

"Don't-ah, don't do that," Denis sald with that dangerous soft note that in his deep volce. "I like it wny."

hnd

They left the hot city streets be hind them and ran over the long bridge. Presently they were on tho, Parkway, the green country slipping past on either side.

"Like this 7"

The dark, narrowed eyes sought hera amilingly, Boots nodded, trou- bled at the unwilling happiness which came to her whenever she was with this n.nn.

(To Be Continued.)

Now Swimmer and Cyclist Too.

Berry, of 28 Coxhill Street, Leeds,

Woman's Astonishing 'Experience, Now full of life and glowing with "Like?" The flush, a deep rose, health, a Leeds woman. Mrs. 1. caloured her throat, her cheeks, "Child!" The mocking note disappeared and Denis faced her, England. here tells how her life has smiling oddly, "You're not shy of of a siek, niling girl to a keen, healthy been completely changed from that me, are you? Where have you been keeping yourself all these months?portswoman.

"Even as a child I was weak and

times washed. Boots naked nothing to-day ave peace and coolness and the tone in which to rest.

"The papers Any hot again to morrow', Mrs. Mooney volunteered,

If he thought he could march right niting." said Mrs. Berry," and hot thrusting her red, good natured face back into her life like this, shellacas after illness. I WAS Aixteen into the angle of the half-open door, thought, with a rare spurt of anger, weeks in hospital with diphtheria, and

I'm just off to my sister's down to he was mistaken.

later I had scarlet fever. Time went, Rockawny. Would there be anything "I've been around!" Her tone was I entered my teens, and how 'I you'd want before I go? Mrs. Dawlight but there was a subtle under longed to be like other girls! Then son is still in her room but she's current of resentment.

ne dny a friend advised me to take Dr. Williams' Pink PaİN. won't be lonesome 7"*

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takin' the 2:10 for Teaneck. You Denis said, "I've been working like

mad on the book. It's finished."

"Being only too glad to try some. "Really" Polite interest. nothing thing different, I started taking the more.

pilk, and deriyed much benefit almost "Yes, I think I've been going immediately, I continued with the around in a fog. That's over now. pills and they gave me new energy, want to do things and go places, new strength and new vitality: in How about it? What would you fact, my whole body seemed to wake | Outwards for: think of a drive out on the Island up to a new life." Maybe a swim ?”

Mrs. Dawson was the gray, silent, elderly roomer who bowed to Boots remotely when they passed in the hall. Mrs. Mooney offered the information that she had "three married daughters In Jersey but she won't stay with a wan of thim!"

"I'm enjoying it all this." Boots

Mrs. Berry IN BAW Tul enly a Fuld, Indieating with a Resture the She'e away. Boots sold to herself keen

cyclist, but a tine swimmer breeze rifling the mended curtains, resentfully. "He hasn't anything bệt- ubao, you tou are run down the quiet and order of her smallter to do. Just the same, because she through illness, lack-He- and -spirit, | – domain. How strange it was, she had was young and lonely, the temptation suffer from headaches, achea and been thinking only, a noment ago, was great,

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