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ummer Sweetheart.

BEGIN HERE TODAY

KATHARINE STRYKURAT, 20. ka contented and reations become her wealthy

VICTOR father,

TRYKHURST and her ariatentie supmother, BERTINE refuse let Kalbarino undertake any sort of work.

Katharine Ilides daily with MICHAEL HEATHEROh, yonor westerner why runs, m riding eluks. Kemur hetwolf whe la no! In- [farewies in Michael but ferie a pussy of fealoting when BALLY MOON. local rigette, enrolls

i the club fer JeweİİN,

Lo

ZON PARKE, Katharinga friend, relat from Europe where he has been Enro

forget a love affate with RDS LARKIN, of white burr

disapprove. Zoe fell Katharine abe intact are tilbim, bers Kailine to help her arthogo a meeting.

CHAPTER IV

Zoe ginnerd at the riders--Mich- nel and Sally Moon--and said care. ・learly," she's got her hooks into

Kistharine felt the hot colour burn her cheeks. She pretended not 40 hear. Her heart hnd plunged--now- righted itself. She steadied her hand against the door of the car so that Zac should not see how it was trembl $235.

Ahenal of them, under the high arch of trees, Michael and Sally rode on. The sound of horses' feet was strange. Katharine ly loud in the tiness. could see a flush of sunlight on the red crest of Michael's head. Sally droup toward him and his attitude Daward her, even at this distance, serpurd pratvelive, solicitous, It was all absurd; it Kathuring's aítnie, voi

ertainly, it Michael rude with Sally Moon.

silence.

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not

sant on you, then, she heard Zeu say, in

"Wint 1 abidn't

Kalbarine's tone was confused, her Cheeks duming.

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"But a darling and think over what

I said about taking a trip to Maine." Zoo coaxed. "Mather wouldn't mind

bit ir

She you suggested it. wouldn't even suspert."

"Oh. really!" Katharine WAS A accountably bettled by the suggesjon that she, At 20, was so staid and re liable that

wilful, pretty child like

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"Why, Johnny Kays!" Katharine exclaimed. "Wherever did you

drop from?"

Z might be trusted with her any

Zoe, remembering her tears al vault that was lined with her father's where. Wht did people think she was: made of, anyhow! She had feelings furies and imprecations, when dragged books.

"Why Jobuny Kaye! Wherever like the

rest of them. Anger swept away from the nered Gibbs, had the swift

did and unreasoning. She grace to colour.

you drop from?" nuted. réellensly, to strike ani, thị

“Not--not fun, exactly. Oh, but The people in Inmicork who thought hurt someone. She felt savagee it's what makes life worth living Katharine StryFirst cool and self- who was usually sterol and judicious, Raven't you ever, Lut one single time,contained would have been amazed at Zoe was in no hurry to get on. She waked n in the morning to find the this transformation in her. The man lighted a rigarette now, Trom the little sky bluer and the sun brighter and of 3 who ease from the deep fenther silver case she always carried, and everything-oh, marvellous-just be chair evidently was not surprised at offered Katharine one. The other girl cause you were going to sed anme- the warmth of her welcome. Her two refused.

une?"

Zoe nodded in the direction of Sally! Moon's departing figure. The absurd yellow cap could be seen, bobbing in Lune with the mare's jocund trotting

she's movements. "Hear Howe Mackenzie?"

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

refused

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

hands were clasped in bis. There

was a duel of voices as Mrs. Stryk

"No, I haven't." "I don't," murmured Zoe, "quite behurst passed the window and glanced

curiously within. lieve it."

Any mement

"S Jom Kaye's hark," observed) now, Katharine's errant thoughts ran. any moment Bertine Strykhirs; with satisfaction. Michael and Salty Moon would be "Well, perhaps w stan't have Kath- fording the low river, Sally's dark arine moping ans more." curls would bol deliciously un her

(To Be Continued). sort of shoulders if you like that thing

It was all right-and Michel would be speaking in a low tone to Fury, argin

her up the bank Suddenly everything was hateful; Katharine shrugged her shapely shoulders. She hated the subject, but Zoe with her bile of puppy love and was fascinated by it. Howe Mackin-sunrises and blue skies--everything! zie, fat and rather stupid, -n boré ut "I've simply got to se Gibbs," Zoe 20, was in the nature of a town joke.rried abruptly, reverting to Yet Sally had been sought in marriage original theme.

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was something. Howe "I won't have a thing to do with was rich. Same day he would be im-it." Katharine declared, portant in local politics; that was the

"Oh, how mean of you!"

Katharine strode up the lane without

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way the straws pointed. Sally Moon,! foolish and deceitfal and cheaply pret-a single backward look as Zoe, after ty, hail had a chance to become a jane or twe reproachful mutterings, lid

the var inte gear. Oh, it was wife

Not that Katharine wanted mar-tegether horrid day! Now Zoo riage. But, from her chilly and would be ungry and Katharine felt rather bewildered heights, she won within herself the murmurings of a dered how it was done. Sally knew deep discontent. She inged, sud- how. She had a system, involving the denly, to be doing something im- use of eyes, of furtive, flecting cares-portant--going to Paris to study art, words on dance taking a school in the southern moun- es, of murmured floor and veranda. Katharine had al-tains as Harriet Greene had done. way's held herself aloof from what making something real, and important; she called "that sort of thing." New, of her life, suddenly, she was curious,

"Sally carelessly, as

Terrible to be a girl even in this; her points, Zoe said day of much vaunted freedom for

as if she read her compan- women. Poor girls, Katharine mused. Pain Stops

ion's thoughts.

"Oh.

had all the luck. They could strike!

I don't doubt it!" Even to out for themselves. They could have Instantly

Katharine

herself the words sounded the infinite satisfaction of

of doing work vaguely bitter. She wouldn't stoop, that was fascinating or important or herself, to the sort of thing both. She hated her soft, ensy, un- in--brashing against a interesting life. To go back home, to

the

Sally

man's

dedor, appearing to stumble listen to her stepmother talk prettily!

and catching the nearest masculine of bridge and new slipcovers for the hand or ann, spraying oneself with morning room, seemed unendurable. The most seductive perfumes

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ht. "What wouldn't she be like if she waked up!"

"Don't be a goore," Katharine said. good-naturedly, "I don't know how

othey giri thought.

n

funny girl," Zoe said, "You're curiously, almost speculatively. "Don't

The house was dim and shaded when you like men?"

|Katharing reached it. Wisteria and "Katharine slid the door lever openvy swung before the drawing room jumped lightly to the ground in windows, Striped cherry unit white

of early morning her skin bright light 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 curled in little tendrils about her

yards away, separated from the "Why, she's gorgenas Itoking.

Strykhurst's only by the grounds of a convent. Through the wooden lat the

lice, work, Katharine could see a few novices moving gently up and down the paths. An old nun was reading grape arbor, two or three lay sisteru "Oh, it isn't that. I know you have worked busily, talking softly together. How happy and busy they all seemed, heaps of beaux," Zoe hastened to and contritely. "It's just that thought the girl, with envy. well, you're so sort of casual with there was literally nothing to do.

the garden a gnarled Italian worked them. I don't beileve you've ever even felt a flutter. Have you?"

from bush to Kave orders in her concise volve. Maids were busy above stairs, shaking out fresh linen for the beds. The cook sang over her pudding sauce in the kitchen.

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we got on the subject. Of course from her daily office book. In the like men. Don't I dinc and dance and swim with them?"

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

"There, you see?" cried Zoo. knew it! You're in the heights most

Tere

In

ne Mrs. Shoving capably]

Katharine clenched her hands. "I've got to do something," she said.

of the time. And," she added my-"I can't just drift around here. It seems to me that everyone else in the teriously, "they don't like it!"

doesn't Katharine, compre-whole world has a place-a meaning."

hendis, was purposely lofly. Her eyes filled, to her dismay and

"Zus poftly. "They're | anger, with 'tenrs.

Ellen, the pleasant Irish parlour- anafit, came out upon the veranda nt the moment.

of you "Let them be!" said Katharine. "Oh, don't be cross," coaxed the ittle girl at the wheel of the road- ster. I only wanted-well, it does zeem such a waste-your being ao! gorgeous and nil that ..

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

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

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

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

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