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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

OCTOBER 28, 1934,

BEACH CLUB GIRL

·CHAPTER XXXVII

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By MABEL MCELLIOTT

blood rose.

"Nice room!" he approved. Her man!. Into your life he strode with

The Impudence of the out a by-your-leave!

tray, conuelous of the dent she had down and tell me what you've been Boots was curled in one corner of the couch. For the rest it was all ing these minutes.

left in the deep tumbled pillows of doing." She hated herself for wast- the big conch. In this room with Iyalory, all enchantment, to

Presently he studio window, its marble mentel and this sim, dark young nan here in herself in the pillows and weep her have would go away and she would bury grate in which a red fire glowed co- this autumn room, full of the scent of heart out because she had wasted the fortably, there were expert touches, dying chrysanthemums and cracking precious moments in such idloeics. Frances had made the linen sulp re corers with calla lies, on a terra

"Tell me Just this," the man per cotts ground. The books that lined her back braced against its back, and you going to marry Edward? ile's She sat down in the barrel chair, med, sitting down bealde her, "Are the shelves were many and various looked up at him. Very deliberately one of the best, you know but be: poetry and netion and biography. he in his hat and stick down a auro of yourself this time. You're Frances was interested in child train- the priceless walnut of Frances old really such a baby. I feel wart,of ing and "mental health" and there knechole desk. Very deliberately he responsible for you. was a full shelf of books on the latter removed his topcoat. .subject. There were chrysanthemums in a deep-mouthed, amber vase and

Iler hand, alim, long-fingered, the the wet wind, stirring the curtains,

on the cushion bealde him. Denis nails rosy as little shells lay curled mingled with the scent of the fire und the tangy, bitter, odour of the flowera.

"I'm glad you like it."

picked it up almost aloofly as he Boots, glancing up from her book "Cigareller" He snapped open a child. The warm current of her be.

might have done to the hand of and yawning, liked all of it. This wafer thin case of silver and sho Ing flowed into the very centre of that was a step up, indeed, from Mrs. shook her head in refusal. All this rosy palm. Something electric flash- Mooney's narrow room with its humpy was preliminary to exactly what?ed between them. Boots never knew bed and sagging dresser, Boots

was up this way," Denis said con- how it happened but suddenly she liked sharing quartern with Frances, vernationally. "Ed told me the other was in his arms, her bright head who was equable, amusing and day where you lived. I've been want- crushed against honourable. She liked the long Sun- ing to see you...

hin black-coated days in the empty apartment when He'd been wanting to ane her! All

shoulder. Frances went to spend the day with the air was full of musle now, faintzig-zagged in their courses and then It was only for an instant. Stara her married sister in East Orange or and far away, and there was a leap righted themselves; a gilt-haired girl with any one of a number of class-ing in her pulses as though rivers of in amber.ilk swayed to her feet, nates. Franons also had beau-alen had been released. Oh, he had facing a tall, vory, pale young man tail, serious young man who taught said that: she hadn't dreamed it. economies at one of the nearby uni "Well, I've been around,"

In evening clothes. she of- versities and frequently came up for fered vaguely in the silence. She matter with me," she said dizzily. I don't-don't know what's thic "binge" of dinner and the theatre, had resun.ed her place on the couch "I think we must both be a little It was one of thong occasions which now and was curled up. n amali Boot was celebrating__now with a Tanagra-like figure in amber silk, re-reading of "Jane Eyre" and a her hair a rully cloud about her supper of bread and milk. Edward heart-shaped face. The room was a was out of town; he had been invited warm,, enclosed place, holding a man to one of the myriad house parties he and a girl with so much unspoken be- was always being bidden to. But tween them, Funny thing, life. presently his voice would be heard on One minute you were half asleep, the telephone and Frances would droning over a book, not really caring come dashing In It was good to be what happened; the next instant you alone, to savour all this,

came alive suddenly at the sound of a voice, the touch of a hand.

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mad"

"My fault," he said unsteadily, the pan and she flew to answer it. The telephone rang stridently in Edward's honest, hearty voice.

"Hello, beautiful.”

"Hello"

away?"?

"Been a good girl while I've been

sought Denis. He was staring at her "Oh, terribly good." Her eyes

moodily and he was frowning.

"What's the matter?” Edward

concerned.

"You sound as

was

The bell rang shrilly in the still- Ross and Boots scrambled to her feet, glancing at the clock. Half past 101 Denis, in the wing chair, seru Too early for Frances to return from tinized her coolly. She wasn't dream though, you'd been crying or some, her theatre, much too early for Ed-g. It was Denis, himself, critical as thing. Didn't wake you up, did 17 ward to call. His note had said he would always, assured, be arriving at 11, and that he would She had dreamed of hint oflen and if it isn't too late--"

faintly mocking thought I'd drop by for a minute telephone ber the instant the train often in some such attitude, in this Rot in just to see how she was. That very rooni; who had not expected the it was Edwardi

dream ever to come true. She pressed the buzzer which open- ed the downstairs door. ft night be telegram or a special delivery letter from Frances' young man.

It might

Running steps on the single flight | of stairs leading to their apartment, A dark, smooth head appearing in the stairwell as the girl, bent double in her lounging pajamas of nabur HK.! fing over to pee who the late caller might be.

"Oh, but

honestly. Not to-night" In pante she interrupted.

"So you're going to marry again?"an Its cradle Dents had his topenat on When she put the instrument back She sat up straight as a ragtede arm. "That was Ed?” disdaining the pillows, “Wim" "knys

She nodded.

no???

lfe shrugged, "I heard it,"

"And if I am?" There was chal Jenge in her gaze, in the smile she lifted to him. It was, she reminded hun wordlessly, one of his altair,

Denis gal to his fert, extinguishing the cigarette in a brass tray at his) 1-lbaw.

"Oh, nothlug," he said moodily.

She drew back, very pale, “Donis!" "I always had a sort of feeling 11 I was he. Denis in falt evening might investeered you into pafer lát, very handsonie and debonair, a waters the other time, Just For

stick held in the crook of his arm of grandfather complex, I guess. Thenis with his opera hat rrushed lu! That's all."

his hand, his white muffer stowing. [ "I can take care of myself,” Boots Their eyes met. He was breathing told him aírily. He bent Ľ bafest hard. He had been running but he gaze upon her and she felt nahanied, add casily. "Hello! May I come in ?" He had taken care of her when she The insolence of him, the unquali- was III, helpless as a kitten. Why was fled in.pudence of the mont. She had it that she said these'stupid, tactless į not seen him for months-two, three things to him? She flashed. months, at least. Not since he had; seen her, unamiling, to that Easthame tun train and had gone back to his Kay,.

But politeness triumphed over pride, She said, "Of course, come in

She was conscious of her tumbled curis, of the empty blue lowland the ringed tumbler on the teakwood

"Gues you " brooded Denis,| thrusting his hands deep in his pucketa. Silence fell upon the pleasant room, a silenen broken only by the fall of, a coal in the grate and the hoot of n late-going ship in the} neatby river.

"Sorry I was. cross." the girl sald quickly. “It's nice to see you. Sit

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