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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 25,

SERIAL STORY—

1935.

PRESIDENT LINER Z

Summer Sweetheart TRAVEL SERVICE

DEGAN HERE TODAY

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KATHARINE STRYKHUNST, 20, Im contented, wil ontless because her wealthy fallint, VICTOI THYRINT, and ht

aristocratic stepmother, HERTINE refuse Jet Katharius undertake ans moet of work.

Katharine Plilee daily with MICHAEL HEATHERDE, young westerner who trans riding eluks. She anngren herself she ka not in- Late Michael Just frek s panu of rafmy when SALLY MOON, toen! coquette, engolis at the club for foETEN,

ZOE PARKER, Katharinda friend, returna from Europe where she has been taken t furget above nitairi with GB8 LARKIN, of whom

diantstore. ZAM jelle Katlarım she must see Gillis, begs Kalikrior to help her arrange A meeting.

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CHAPTER IV

Zoe glance at the riders- · Mich- ael ani Sally Moon--and said ente Lesaly, "So she's got her books into him!"

Katharine felt the hot colour burn her checks. She pretended not to hrar. Her heart had plunged-now righted itself. She steadied her hand Dgainst the door of the ear so that Zoe should not see how it was trembl ing

Ahead of them, tnder the high arch of trees, Michael and Sally rode 'un. The sound of horses' feet was strange- ly loud in the stillness. Katharine could see a flash of sunlight on the red ¢cqext uf Michael's head. Sally drooped toward him and his altitulé toward her, even at this distaner. seemed protective, solleitous,

It was all absurd; it

WIN not Katharine's affair, certainly, if Michael rode with Sally Moon.

Kny."

silence.

so I count on you, then. she heard Zam say, In

"What¬· ·↑--alder-bear--you*! Katharine's tone wa's comfused, her cheeks doing.

Zo

"BR

a darling and think over what

་་

I said about taking a trip to Maine," coaxed. "Mother wouldn't prind hit if you

suggested it. wouldn't even suspureit"

She

"Why, Johnny Kayel" Katharine exclaimed. “Wherever did you

drop from 7**

Zoe, remembering her tears and furies and imprecations, when dragged away from the adored tiibbs, had the

rice to colour.

"Not--not fun, dxnelly. Oh, but

vault that was lined with her father's books,

**Why. Johnny Kaye! Wherever did you drop from?"

"Oh, really!” Kathreine WHO In Berountably nettled by the suggestion that she, at 20, was so staid and ge

inble that a wilful, pretty child like Zor might be trusted with her ary- where. Why did people think she was made of, anyhow? She had feelings like the rest of them. Anger swept her,

treating and

She win wanted, recklessly, to strike out, tol,

The people in Inneerk who thought hurt someone. She felt savage it's what makes life worth Bving. Katharine Strykhurst cool and self- was usually so cool and judicious. Haven't you over, int one single time, contained would have been amazed at Zoo was in no hurry to get on. She waked up in the morning to find the this transformation in her. The man lighted a cigarette now, from the little sky bar and the sun brighter and of 30 who rose from the derp leather silver ense she always enrried, and everything-oh, marvellous-just be-chair evidently was not surprised at Her two offered Katharine one. The other girl cause you were going to see me the warmth of her wifeome.

hands one 7"

were clashed in his. There refused.

**Ka. I haven't.”

was a duet of volers as Mrs. Stryke "I don't," murmured Zoe, "quite beurst passed the window and glanced

curiously within. heve it."

Zue nodded in the dirtction of Sally Mom's departing figure. The absurd yellow cap could be seen, bobbing in Lune with the mare's joemul trotting

"lear movements,

she's refused Howe Mackenzie?"

"Oh, I don't believe it," Katharine said sharply.

Zoe giggled. "Why, Kay, I believe you don't like that

that girl,"

Any moment now, Katherine's "So John Koye's back," observed. errant thoughts ren. Any moneal Berline Strykhurst with satisfaction. Michael and Sally Moon would be "Well, perhaps we shan't have Kath fording the low river, Sally's dark arine Roping any more." curls would bob deliciously on shoulders if you like that thing, it was all right-and Michel would be spenking in a low tone tra Fury, urging her up the bank

Nith

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Katharine shrugged her shapely Staldenly everything was hateful; shoulders. She hated the subject, but Zoo with her babble of puppy love and was fascinated by it. Howe Mackin-sunrises and blue skies-everything! zie, fat and rather stupid, n bore at "I've simply got to see Gibbs," Z

20, was in the nature of a town joke, cried abruptly......reverting to her. Yet Sally had been sought in marriage original theme,

Fawn

That was

he

"I won't have a thing to do with

rich. Some day be im- it," Katharine declared. portant in loral politics; that was the Oh, how mean of you!" way the straws pointed. Sally Moon. Katharine strode up the lane without foolish anal deceitful and cheaply part a single barkward look as Zoe, after ty, hid had a chance to become alone or two reproachful mutterings, lid the car into gear. Oh, it was als

wife

Not that Katharine wanted mar trgether a horrid day! Now, Zov ringe. But, from her chilly and would be angry and Katharine felt rather bewildered heights, she won- within herself the purmurings of a discontent. She longed, sud. how. She had

dered how it was done, Sally knew to, be doing something im

105.

***

system, involving the

(To Be Continued).

How that

CORN hurts!

if she read her compansemen. Poor girls, Ketharine mused, Pain Stops

use of eyes, of furtive, fleeting cares portantoing to Paris to study art.

af

words on doneć laking a school in the southern moun- floor and

veranda, Kuthurine had al-talos as Harriet Greene had done, I ways held herself aloof from what making something reat and important she called that sort of thing." Now, of her life. suddenly, she was curious.

1 Terrible to be a girl-even in this; "Sally hus her points," Zoe suid day of much vaunted freedom for carelessly,

thoughts.

had all the luck. They could strike I don't doubt it!" Even tojout for themselves. They could have Katharine herself the words sounded the infinite satisfaction of doing work: vaguely bitter. She wouldn't stoop, that was fascinating or important she told herself, to the sort of thine bath. Sie hated her soft, easy, un Sally indulged in-brushing against a interesting life. To go back home, to man's

shoulder, appearing to stumble listen to her stepmother talk prettily and catching the nearest masculine af bridge and new slipcovers for the hand or arm. spraying oneself with morning room, seemed unendurable. the most seductive perfumes

"You're a funny girl," Zoe Raid curiously, almost Apcenlatively. "Don't you like men?'

The house was dim and shaded when Katharine reached it. Wisteria and

Katharine

rine slid the door lever open, jumped lightly to the ground. In the swung before the drawing room bright light of early morning her skin windows. Striped cherry and white was flawless, ivory stained faintly Awnings shut out the sun from the with an apricot glow. Her fair hair og veranda facing the water. The Parker place was some few hundred curied in little

tendrils about her face; yards away. separated from the she's gorgeous koking, really, Strykhurst's only by the grounds of Why the other girl thought. "Want wouldn't sne be like if she waked up" convent. Through the wooden Int- "Don't be a goose," Katharine anid tice, work, Katharine could see a few "I don't know how the paths. An old nun was reading gently up and down good-naturedly. we got on the subject. Of course. I

from her daily office book. In the like men. Don't I dine and dance and

rape arbor, two or three Jay

sisters swim with them?"

worked busily, talking softly together, "Oh, it isn't that. know you have

How happy And busy they all heaps of beaux." Zoc hastened to thought the girl, with envy. Here seemed, ament contritely. "It's just that-- well, you're so sort of casual with there was literally nothing to do. In them. I don't believe you've ever the garden a gnarled Italian worked even felt

flutter. Have you?"

novices moving

да Mrs. Strykhurst, moving capably from bush to bush, gave orders in her concise volco, Maids were busy above stairs, shaking out fresh lirten for the beds. The cook sang over her pudding sauce in the kitchen.

Katharine clenched her hands. "I've got

do something," she said.

Acome to me that everyone else in the

Katharine shrugged. "All this talk of flutters," she said with distaste, "It makes me well, just a bit sick.'

"There, you see?" cried Zoe. "I knew it! You're on the heights mor of the time. And," she adde: my-"I can't just drift around here. It sterlously, they don't like it"

"Who doesn't?" Katharine, compre. tending perfectly, was purposely lofty.

"Miri"

sald

Zon softly. "They're afraid of you bet" said Katharine..

"Let them "Oh, don't be cross," coaxed the girl at the wheel of the read- ater.

only wanted-well, it does] stem such a waste-your,, being so

little

"

Korgeous and all that Katharine with

"You think," began superb scorn, "that being in love's. Ruch fun. Is that it?"

whole world has a pince meaning Her eyes filled, to her dismay and anger, with tears.

Ellen, the pleasant Irish parlour- maid, came out upon the veranda at the moment.

"There's a gentleman to see you, Miss. I left him in the lib'ry,"

Katharine took the car from the Gilder Kaye." little silver tray, and read, "John

Instantly she was on her feet, runn ing along the hall to the dark, cool

Instantly

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