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DOUGLAS FAIRBANKSJ ELIZABETH BERGNER..!

*CATHERINE

THE GREATE

with

FLORA ROBSON &

SİGERALD DU MAURIER.

Directed by

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Produced 50 ALEXANDER KORDA

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1934.

BEACH CLUB GIRL

CHAPTER XXXII

By MABEL McELLIOTT

A cloud had fallon over the face of the sun for Boots. The day had been perfect her little oasis in a desert of dullness-and Kay had appeared to spoil it for her.

But she remembered Boots, eer- tainly! It would be easier is hate her, thought the younger girl with

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She had only a few dollars in her hot glancing about at your neigh- purae. Please God, make it bol bours, You tried to rend and when enough for the ticket, she prayed the type lanced before your eyes you Pleased

stored out of the window. The green ( lush Belds of Long Island, - rushed Denia tore himself from Kay'spinst the villages. There were cows side and the older girl watched the bi the meadows beside running brooks. little scene with anused, almont mock-There were pain fields and golf clubs, ing dark eyes. Boots must stay, lying white ant smug in the rays of Denis said, with contrition in his the setting sun. You thundered, past a fierce pang of resentment, if her volce. Ilu would drive her back safety gates behind which, dozens of manner were not so perfect a blend inter.

n.otor enrs were drawn up. their of cordiality and patronage. It would

But she was firm. Honestly, hon-power impatiently leashed until the he easier to hate her if sho anubbed estly, she protested, ale must get bell should stop ringing and the ene aponly. But this was not Kay's

ay back. The air of the place now crossing guard lift the gates again. "line" Indeed, as Boots observed

People-p è op 1 e-all together, her, she was hard put to it to decide suffocated her. She longed only to

be alone, to review the humillation thought the girl bitterly. Mothers what the other's ine" was. Denis, and the bitterness of the last hour and fathers in little sedans; lovers she noticed, was cool, almost sulky in silenco.

in rodsters with the canvas tops with Kay. And all at once suspicion, verified by further observation, flash dressed hurriedly in the cabana, hear sonse sandy knoll. Only, she in all nt last it was arranged. She folded Imck; plenickors waving from ed into Boots mind. Denis had ing the boom of the surf, the light the world seemed to be quite alone. Anden that Kay was week-ending at lighter and the clink of glasses out-

A truck farmer's wife appeared Easthampton. He had planned this side. Denir, again in his gray flan- at the door of a collapsing shack and whole thing. He had deliberately meis, stood on the verandn of the threw groin to some chickens as the used her as a pawn in his

game. Crano's panudo-Colonial house as she train rushed past. In the gathering They had quarrelled-something un- emerged. He'd drive her to the dark Boots saw a lamp lighted with important probably but still a qunt station hintself he said. le wore in the little house and a table set reland Denis had brought Boots again the aloof, almost cold look she for supper. Lights in all the little with him to show how little had come to know. He seemed to be houses, she said to herself, and men

completely withdrawn

coming home to their wives after Somehow Boots made her fare- golf or swimming, and children going LIVERPOOL SERVICE wells to the group. Kay waved a to bed in little rooms under the Alime

She in all the world was ringed hand at them. "See you

Inter, darling!" Her quite alone. eyes lingered on Denis and she turned

The city was insufferable after all Away.

this. Streets which had been lying

cared

"Oh, I hate him, I hate him, she cried in her heart, affronted.

They Werv murmuring together

now, side by side, in low-slung can- san chairs, Boots, through Leo's

sily running Are of slangy putter, Woa actually conselous of Kny's

silky voice of Dents, protesting,

angry.

So

The slender, golden-haired girl in the striped linen Buil climbed into baking under the sun all day gave

"But, my

the rather battered rondster beside, out the pungent odour of hot tar it's only until to-

She tolled up the long flight of stairs? the young DIAN morrow morning," Kay Kald easily, I

In Kray. Casual leading to the room she called home. In a silence, "You can't mind that, pasker-by might have observed that lot tears prickgl her eyelids. It was they were a very delightful looking know the man is a couple. Aurely. Yes. I

They had ratler but after all I'm his wife's youth, good looks, a certain dash.

everything ruest. And the chef is too, too di Yet neither was very happy, Denis

I couldn't resist the invitat in his own thoughts, scarcely determined, she would not telephone

vine. tion

He

Denis' face

white, act. WRA wasn't responding properly

to her easy blandishments, Leo's demented nologie went on and Boots, the bright spray of her hair hiding her Troubled face, half Estened

a bitter ending to her happy day.

Whatever elso happened, Boots

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KUMAEUS Dus 19 Ort. From V. K. vis Etraila vaguely, at the baronial "cottages" to accept the patronage he threw so

DEUCALION ensually her way. Why, she might

Dun 26 Oct. From U. K.viu Straits they passed, scarcely seeing them.

"Sorry you feel you must go!" He have been a stray dog he'd picked an came away from the

Sprelatly reduced fares aro quoted for cargo steamers with ticket window. on the street, for all be cared what the green stab in his hand. He had really happened to her! You throw

limited passenger accommodation. insisted on buying her ticket back to a dng a bone occasionally--and give "But you have your own small the city. She felt he was immensely him a kind word. Buss had loved mmmunements," whe henr Kay's

displeased with her, that he thought her and he was gone. creamy velce say, indulently. "The her childish and caprielous but she She had not thought of Hiltic blonde from the Village..

Her heart thaded angrily against did not care. He had used her as a sciously, in weeks. Now, in real whe told herself jeurnest, the tears came, fter pillow her ribs. Dents said something, very talking horse.

She had was soaked with them. After the low, for Kay's rays alone. OE, A

passionately and proudly, ket away, to get clear away from all thought better of him; she had be storm was over she lay shaken, treme this, this bright, careless, cruel crawlieved. In her sublime idiocy, that he hting in the narrow bed in the narrow

really liked her a little.

room. Street sounds came to her "Thank you for a nice day." She through the light-pricked darkness said it with stiff lips and the words and the sound of doors opening and were woniett. They had no life or slutting. Mrs Mooney came in. conviction in them.

Her hearty, good-natured voice was Denis gave her n twisted smile. beard in the hall and she opened He bought a magazine for her, put Boots' duer a crnek after a faint it into her hand. All her life Boots knock,

"Ah, she's in, all right. She's remembered that day whenever she SOW thave familiar orange-covered asleep." magazine; it gave her a pong for Mrs. Mooney had a mid, maternal

of people, thought Boots flercely. She felt the taste of salt on her lips

and knew it to be the taste of tears, not of the xen. She had been foolishly happy only & few short hours ag

She had been wrong to PopKe They were all laughing at her for a foolt

Leo was marshalling his forces, They must all go on to Touy's, the Bune House, he said. They would have lobster And crepes suzette. Tony's crepes were swell,

"How about li?" He WAN Boots' elbow, urging.

"Oh, I've got to got back to town," she said, looking about her. "Do proti mapipuse someone could run me te the Train?"

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The case in which William Gordon Routley, a land bailiff attached to the Public Works Department, is aummoned for the alleged assault of Chinese woman, Mrs. Lam Yuet. fong, was continued before Mr. J. H. 3. Lee at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon.

Mr. Peter Sin represented the cons plainant, while Mr. F. H. Lonely, of Messrs. Russ and Company, appeared for the defendant.

Two doctors, Dr. J. Durran and Dr. P. F. S. Court, were recalled, and after a lengthy examination, and cross-examination, which was of a teclinical nature, by Mr. Loseby and Afr. Sin, the case was further ad- journed to October 31.

In the course of his examination Dr. Durran stated that, if a blow by natone caused a tear in a sinck- Ing, he would expect the tear to be at a right angle. Ho further unid that the injury on the leg was in- consistent with the tear in the stock- Ing.

On being cross-examined by Mr. Sin, ho admitted that the tear could have been further torn when boing washed.

After examining the complainant's leg, witness stated that there was ovidence of skin. disease, but he saw no sign of the leg having been scratched.

The complainant was recalled und on being questioned admitted that, owing to some pimples, she had scratched her leg just below the knee, but did not cause the leg to bleed.

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