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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE

20.

1935.

SERIAL STORY-

Summer Sweethearts

CHAPTER I

By Mabel McElliott

lesson." He had thrown a glance in Sally's direction, and Katharine had forced her stift lips into the sem biance of a smile, Naturally he would ride with Sally Moon, if she were a beginner.

Katharine threw up her handsome hond with an impatient gesture, going

the brief.sccne again.

In threat of the intense heat which ovarim quite, quite mad," she confidedi

toads

mid-day.

tainly. it was none of her business

frum her brow and gatherock that has

and

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Her father and her stopmother had

good

A glance at her watch now wanted her that her hour was nearly ended. She spurred the tittle horse back in the direction from which she had come.

idea what went on under those It was July, the hour 8 o'clock in

smooth fair brows. Inwardly Kathar the morning. Locusts sang in the

he seethed; outwardly, at least, she high clans bordering the winding rond

was calm This riding club of Michael which capped the ridge of hills. The

Heatheroo's had

a Fiven deep blue sky was brushed over with

needed outlet lately, When things wisps of clouds, and there Was in the

on her, when life seemed "too erly poisonous" to bear another would

presently brood over the whole countryside in the quiet of

and drive

over to Shady Ridge Cas where tho A bridle path wandered through the to the silent nislos, riding by. Certhimate, she would slip into her riding smell of trampled stillness, and there was a church-like if Michael had a new pupil. He need earth, the stamping of horses in their

talls hush in the deep places, where brooks

satisfied nemething in herself. ran over copper coloured stones and ed all he could get during the spring.

and summer Keason. All the summer Not that she would acknowledge, even Kathed in the long grass.

people went back to the city the frat for a minute, that she was interested Strykhurst walked her of September, leaving Innicock shut-in Michael. mure through the woods, slowly at tored and silent. No, Michael had to first, later spurring her to a more look to his own affairs while summer daring

gait. The beautiful Katharine people rented big houses on the bay

this fine morning. was frowning arched brows almost

and along the Innes, dark,

intense

dark met over fino eyes of an blue. Her fair hair, fine and silky, with a sheen of authentic gold in its drep waves, was brushed

into a knot at the nape of her neck. Her white linen Jodhpurs, her casually open white shirt, set off her looks to per- fection. Yet there was something almost startling in the contrast be to men, half bold, half coy.

can't-I won't compete with that tween the darkness of those eyes the fairncan of her skin and hair.sort of thing," Katharine Strykhurst Kotharine, in fact, was a mass of con confided aloud to the world and was

con startled at

Who was making at herself. teadictions, and was occasionally proud her to compete with Sally? What on of it. She was at once proud and earth was she raving about 7

The car door stammed and Zoe ran humble, arrogant and gentle:

She began to laugh, and with the spirit suffered venly because of the first rippling sound her black mood forward uttering shrill cries of greet- i contrariness of her warring

What a footing. Zor, Katharine told herself alid from her shoulders, This morning was a fair

critically, was really lovely. Those she was, making a mountain out of a She had come to the riding

malehi Michael was her friend, a glittering white teeth, that charming Michael Heatheroe's club-fully

tall, rangy young man with a slow warm blush of sunburn, those bright Michoul to accompany her on smile and a caressing note in his voice due dancing eyes fity Zor was such pecting

For weeks now her morning canter.

for everyone. Sally as only a small crashing feel!

"Hello, darling!" actually-that has been the accepted

and a trick of making every

WOR Zue

In white linen with a vest order of things,

Katharine no longer conversation seem a competition in of dark blue ren, dotted in white. needed the

of a groom. She

shoes, her bat, her gloves were handled the ice of a

iltale are now with spirit

In a good humour now, Katharine all unbelievably crisp. and nuthority. Init

int it had been gulloned the mare the last few pheen "You look smart!' Michael's habit to mount his ropy and of that stretch of line which would "Thanks. You do, too, darling!"

This par the paths.

cross the Shore Road which Zoe cried. "We just got in last night. stables before her out, it was a broad ribboned high-you and what've you been doing ?11

"Oh, the urun." Katharine drawled.

crazy to

to see everybody." declared. Everybody knew that Zoe's ambitions mother had whisked her to Europe in May in order to avoid n

Gilb about

Larkin. Gibhs WR

36, handsome in a thoroughly dis

lind solute way, conscienceless. Zoe fallen heading love with him, with Kroll

Some men liked Sally Moon's type: there was no doubt about that Sally Fury paused obediently now at the was luscious, sun-kissed, like a peach intersection of the bridle path and ripened over-long. Her River Road, Michael had taught her chocolate-coloured alid in alt to do this and, even though Kathar directions, ospecially in the direction ina's Louch on the bridle urged her on of whatever mun happened to be the hesitated, nervously pawing the about. She had a way of sidling up red earth. Katharine, roused from her thoughts, stared unreeingly for a moment into the eyes of the girl in the little green car which had drawn up as Fury emerged from the green tunnel.

Zoe Parker! When did you get bnek ?"

her

--ever since the early part of April, towa coquet with too much makear

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Wild

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Pupil lnd Present's main artery. This far I was going to call you. How plu, dark, lusciously, pretty girl was

gway, flanked by red and white gas Katharine recognized as Sally stations and an easional mammoth Moon, one of the girls who had gone sign. A mile or two back from the to the same school Katherine had at Sound, it became lanicock's Malo tended in the village of Innicock, which Street, with tall maples shading old Jay below her now in the shimmering

houses with green haze of morning.

Further down still was the bank. white-painted church, the library, Miss Matilda's

nursery school, and

Katharine had nodded coldly to Sally who was resplendent in breechga and brightly polished boots and who wore the test absurd of crocheted yellow sports berets on her dark mass of curls, at an abord angle,

white

cery store. Louisack Was old vilinge, aleepy, confortable, leisurely. Katharine often said, with passion, that she hated it.

She

2

scandal

her lightning. Impetuousness. Gibbs, people said, would never marry. He was one of those cterual bachelors

to

who sip sweets where they will. Zare lived in one of the oldest and bad recklessly and defiantly been seen with The coloured boy had come out, inrgest of the stone houses down on

him ex

every place. grinuing at Katharine, leading the the Feint. It was set in the midst of recklessly in love, thought Katharine, These girts who fall ao wildly and little maro kumwn as Fury, Kotha-park-like acres. I Norman turret rine had shut off the ignition, had was hung with ivy, and in suminer contemptuously!

They chatted for a few moments leaped out of her ear, and (not with felematix drooped mournfully from tel out a flourish) had mounted Fury's portico. Within it was dark with longer, making an engagement back with ease and elegance,

seasoned oak, eastern rugs, bronze meel that afternoon.

"Has velvet hangings Katharine wondered.

she got over' Gibbs?" She had heard Sally say languidly lamps and red

She did hope to Tips: "Is Michael coming?" Twenty-five years ago it had been Ze would spare her the confidences.

Out of the corner

her eye, "show-place,"

and in the eyes of Katharing had been aware that Tips Katharine's trim, modern stepmother These love recitals were bound to be fnd nodded in the direction of the it was that still. Her father, white-horing. Katharine prided herself on stables, whence Michact Heatheron

haired, portly, a lawyer down in the her imperviousness to the grand pas

sion, Love was stupid. It tied you was at that moment emerging. The city, never thought of changing any all up, get your feelings confused. sun caught the crest of his red hair thing about it.

"fell

There was no sense to It and made it gleam. Katharine

Katharine said to herself that she All of which, of cou had noth- her hear: plunge, right itself. It was hated it. When she came into her whatever to do with her feelings insane-this is the way her traitorous mother's money that would be next

was looking for word alut Michael. She and Michel d always behaved when Michael March, and she

been imply

good comrades, A per- to it--she would find herself a gay,

friends, first appeared on the serne,

perfectly untural she fectly ordinary young run in riding modern apartment down in the city and it was

should clothes, she told herself, proudly and and work furnish it in the modern casually gave away the hour which be slightly miffed when he so scornfully: that was all he was,

manner-tweedy fabrics, chairs fash-

bad |_ keva to her for months...

ncred Michael had greeted her with an joued of chromium tubing, angled

Her face reddened, as she waved unself-consciousmile.

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goodbye to Zoe. I've faces.

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"What's the matter, darling?". "N-nothing Katharine lied, vali autly. "Just n heat wave, I guess."

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