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SERIAL STORY-

Summer Sweethearts

DEGIN HERE TO-DAY

KATHARINE STRYKHURST, beaurul, 20, In discontented with the useless round of metal Activities that make up her fe. Her father and aristotle panther, BERTINE, fuse to let Katherine adectake any sort of work.

Jally with MICHAEL Khibaring rides HEATHEROF, young westerner who run a riding lid. BALLY MOON, locat coqurite, who encalls at the elul for ring lessona, 206 PARKCH, Katharine's friend, retur from Europe where she was went to futur a love affair with GIBBB LARKIN, of whom Zoisit in love her pasta duapprove. with Gil

DR. JOHN KAYE,. a relative of Bertine's, park the Strykhurata a vialt.

Katharine telephones the riding club. Jearne Michael is riding with Sally and feels a bang of Jestory.

CHAPTER VII

Zoe spoke cautiously into mouthpiere: "Telegram,

the

she said.

"Straight telegram to Mr. Gibbs Larkin, Pequot House, White Bay, Maine: Come back. Must see you. Awfully important. All my Signed Zoo,"

love.

were

She sighed with relief. No ano had heard her. The malds downstairs, busy with lunchcon pre- parations. Her mother, in crisp nen and a shady hat, had driven off half an hour ago to Garden Chi miret. ing. The gardens brociled in the fog, Regularly, at intervals, a mournful

the stillness

the sound pierced foghorn, blowing durmured to

the

Paint. "It's uncanny." Zoe herself. The soft summer morning was breathlessly warm, still; haze brooded! over everything. Nastur-

tium leaves were furred with bright drops and the tall spikes of foxgloves eaught and helt bends of moisture

in their inverted uneecaps.

She downstries, ran out upon the lawn, her white shoes becoming

staired streaked

with!

the heavy It Gilber should wire back. If Mother should get the wire-oh, she would be in situation then, right

Her

ཝཱ ཝཱ ས heart enought

benting She couldn't

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"Listen, Kay," said Zoe, "I'm nearly frantic. I wired Gibhe to-day—”

"Well, take 10 winks if you feelf

Heating She had been like it. You de krok tired."

bered-had

sand this much giddy with shock last night when someone that Ilart boy, she remem

said Gibbs was going to marry some girl from Swampscott, It wasn't, it couldn't be true! Peo- pic started stories like that, braven only knew why. But she had to see him had to find out what it was all about.

She ran berass the unearthly bright green of the closely-clipped grass, her rubber sales making a faint squeak as she passed. You could scarcely see the pier. Down below, at the club, a few people were in bathing You could hear the faint ghostly sound of thin laughter.

Zoe hugged her arms nhout her. shivering in the warm stillness. Un- canny, this silence, this all envelope

tense

uncut.

Gerda intercepted her.

"There's

a call for you, miss, On the upstairs Zoe went out on the terrace, well phone,"

Her heart seemed to stop beating! within the range of the library tele. phone and the driveway, up which for an instant. She flashed a smile Gerda was clever. She any errand boy might tool his bicycle, at the girl. She fixed her eye on the printed knew there was something in the page, but her and was swhere, wit One-thirty now, and the wire must Zac ran like a have been delivered about 11. Well, but Gibbs might be out for a day's broad staircase.

Was "Hello. Hello," sailing, fishing-anything.

shaking. absurd to expect an instant reply.

But it was Katharine's familiar. answered her. Inughing, voice that Zoe felt actually sick, shaken, with disappointment,

It

The long day dragged past. Edith Williams came in for to; Zoe could hear her mother chattering about the Welfare Society and milk for the Italinu bubles in the Hollow. And still no call, nu telegram?

might be.

wild thing up the

Her hands were

"Ellen said you called before." "Oh, I did. Look, Kay, can yot run over for a minute? Have you' guests?"

"Bertine has, but I can get away. Down at the end of the garden? In five minutes

So this was what it was to have paur heart actually breaking. Zoe ing fog!

hat read about it, lind after heard of She hnd, tetters to write, a new it, but somehow she had never book with the leaves still But she couldn't settle down to any realized what an agonized process it

Zoo powdered her nose, thinking its n She

Strykhurst thing. She listened.

Telephoned the violin string, for the sound of the

house.

Ellen's greable voice, within a detached way that she looked telephone, for Gerda's voice calling its touch of brogue, informed her hastly. Katharine was the lucky That Miss Katharine had gone to the one, not to have involved herself in uny way if a love affair. "I wish I detached," Zoe thought. e Do you want her to cali?" "Yes, please!" Zoe had to tell some- Katharine's pale green orgundie Katharine might not under-gilmr are behind the trellis. You

She needed a shampoo and mani- cit'll be back for dinner, Miss could be like her. She's so cool and

to

her, eure, but she dare not leave down to the village. Her wire might come; hor

mother, urgent, might open i

it

thinking

go

it

jane.

All day she waited, strung on thin/stami; but she would be sympathetic skirted the convent garden to come

wires of waiting. Lunch was served. She toyed with food, her ears strained for the scrape of a messenger hoy's wheels on the gravel..

"You're not hungry, dear." "Not very, lind n late breakfast." "You ingy kitten. Father played 19 holes with Victor Strykhurst,"

enough.

in this way, A painted gate and a There were just three of them for rustic sent broke the line of the dinner. The fog still held ni it was hedge, and below the rough line of close and warm indoors, so they dined rocky beach showed.

on the terrace.

"Broke 10 this morning." her father said genialy. He was a spare, florid man of 56, very proud of his waistline and his red setters. One "Don't see how they could see the of these amiable do now ambled up to the table and was discouraged, not club's the

much "Oh.

higher too strongly, by his master. ball ground, you know. I always think "Get away. Laurie.

we get the worst of the dampness

Bud for my sinus,

round with Came down here.

It's

Gerda soufle.

"You must try some of this. delicious. Cook will be hurt."

Zoe helped herself to it indifferent

Maybe she was going to be really

No

Down sir.

"What's up?"

Tho

"Listen, Kay, 'n nearly frantic

wired Gibbs to-day whole story tumbled aut

J:171.

"I don't believe he's going to marry anyone," Katharine said dally.

"But if he is! What shall I do?" She was sa obviously miserable. Strain showed in her round face, pale moners

10 take him the now in the gathering dark, and in the Tell Gerda to the kitchen," said Mrs. Farker plain-hadows under her eyes.

"He's not worth it," Katharine he- tively.

ely. "He nets as though Waters

But she WAK interrupted: hadn't fod him."

loth girls drew instinctively together as a dark figure sprang at them out! of the fog, from the direction of the it. Her checks burned, as if with n "There was a good deal more of this, beach.

"Oh, he wen't eh?" demanded a and her hands were like ire. Mrs. Parker objecting stremously to i fever,

note of the dog's presence on the terrace, her masculino voice, Gibbs!

"Gibbs!" cried Zow, on "Katharine looked lovely last night, husband agreeing but keeping Laurie didin't she?"

(To Be Continued). have to scream if she were compelled "What did you say, Mother? Oh, at his side, Zoe thought she would terror and delight, yes, she was graad in that white to stay there much longer. Oller thing. Sort of goddess-like."

terrible! They filled "Noel Cotains thought. He their days with the most stupid

"Oh, he's been fed, l right, he just likes his family, don't you, Laurie, Ek, boy?"

people

Were

FOR A

anid she reminuled him of the old pic things-others' meetings and needle-ARE YOU LOOKING

ures of Lady Diana Manners." work and ordering food, raising dogs and playing golf and sitting at stuffy

offices. desks in stuffy didn't know what it was like to be really alive, or, if they did, they had

since forgotten it.

I must tell Kay that," Zoe said, trying to rouse herself to some in terest. Her mother would be sure to notice, if she didn't.

"Did you notice Gracia last night 7"

Zoo tried to smile intelligently, (Was that the library telephone You could hardly hear it in here: it's trill was so faint.)

They

to suffer, as she was now suffer- Το ing, thinking of Gibbs, with his hard. handsome face, too lined, too know. ing, staring down Intently at sonte smug, horrid lttle girl who went to the Vincent Club dances and lived an a dead set for Dr. Beacon Hill and went to Swampscott Kaye, observed Lian Parker, with in the summerilne-oh, it relish. "Captain Byrne is going bearable. back to Fort Sill next week. I sup

"Not particularly. Why 7" "She made

ture.

Twilight deepened; the

Wan un-

candle pose Gracia is planning for the flames burned straight and steady in the dimness. There was no breeze The foghorn began anywhere. ""Kitty, kilty, kilty!”

"Why, Zoc, I'm not being in the again a monotonous, eerie note.

declure, that about Gracia. Every-I

catty

on

my

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flirt. She'll marry Captain Byrne, after an interval. all right, but she must be amused in the meantime."

Words, words, words, thought Zoe woarily. As if she cared what Gracia Mellvaino thought tik. But she had to pretend "interest, smile, inauthfuls of the rich dessert.

eat

At last lunch was ever and she

*

•

Zoe pushed back bar chair. "I hate' fl," she said explosively. "I can't stand it a single other minute,

Her mother stared after her re flectively.

"She's been moping all day," sho aid. "I don't know what's wrong.

was allowed to escaper mother took She seemed so gay-so glad to bo

"No tennis?" out her

.. at first."

ingarepom. She was work-hovou pay entirely too much atten

trlento Affair

this Ume, an in-

amall of

blossoms on a black ground

bright tion to hor," Henry Parker said, de- liberately cutting the end from a long

"I don't think so. I'll swim later, cigar. Going to stretch out in a deck chalr now with my book."

Zoe ran through the hall, searcaly conscious of where she was going...

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July

New York Cotton

Juno 26. June 27,

11.01

11.08/09

October

11.30

11.35/36

December

11.50

11.38/98

Union Ins., $365 sa.

January (1936)

11.03

11.30/39

China Underwriters, 40 cls. n.

March

11.41/41

China Fire, $382 n.

May

11.18

11.13/43

Spot

11.95 12.00

New York Rubber

·July

12.25

12.26/20

September

12.36 12.39/89

December

12.50

12.59/40

12.67n

12.84

12.67/37 12.B0b

804

II.K. Fire Ins., $200 n. Internat'l Assce., Sh. $4 a.

Shipping.

Douglas, 336 n.

H.K. Steamboats, $4 n. Indo-Chinas, (Pref.), $30 n. Indo-Chinas (Def.), $12 n. Shell (Bearer). 71/10 n. Union Waterboats, $11% 11.

Mining.

Antamoks. 71 cts. n. Balatoes, $18 n.

Baguio Gold, 20 cts. b. Benguet Consolidated $101⁄2 b. Benguet Exp., 10 cts. n. Benguet Gollfeld, 10 cts. n. Big Wedge, B eta, n. Gold Creek, 30 cts. n. Gold River 5 cis, n. Ipo Mining, 90 cta, n. Itogons, 32 eta, n. Salacot, 12 cts. n. Kailan, 14/0 n.

Langkats (Single), $14 n. Shai Explorations, Sh. $4 n. S'hai Loans, Sh. $0 n. Raubs, $5.00 n.

Venz: Goldfield, $2.30 ..

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Cotton Mills.

Ewo Cottons, Sh. $8 a. S'hai Cottons (old), Sh. 661⁄2 n. S'hal Cottons (new), Sh. $41% n.j Zoong Sings, $81⁄2 n.

Wing On Textiles. Sh. $66 n. Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and S. Hotels, $4.16 n. H.K. Lands, $34 b. H.K. Land 4%

$100 n.

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July

Chicago Wheat

80 80%

81

81 80% 83% 836 83

20,882,000 bushels Chicago.Corn

824

BL 81% July

70% 75% 75% September

6614

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81 820%

82%

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July'

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Montreal Bilver

July September December January

1.32

132

69.50b 60.55/65 70.10 - 70.00/00

71.30 71.50/50 71.40n 71.80 Total males:--101 contracts.

Singapore Tractions, 10/6 b. Singapore Pref. 22/6 6.

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Malabon Sugars, $8.50 n. Cald: Moeg. (old), Sh. $191⁄2 n Cald: Macg. (Prof.), Sh. $13 n. Canton lces, $1.80 n. Cement (Converted), $51⁄2 5.. H.K. Ropes, $2. n.

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b.

R.K. Govt. 24% Loan 5% prem.

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