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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1935.

SERIAL STORY-

Summer Sweethearts

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

KATHARINE STRYKHURST, beautiful, 20, le discontented with the useless roen of social activitim that make up her life. Her father and allocratie stepmother, BERTINE, refuse to let Katharine undertake any sort of work.

Kathar rides dally ~ with MICHAEL HEATREIKE, young weilerser who run -* riding club. BALLY MOON, local soguete, also enrolls at the club for riding lessona,

ZOE PARKER, Katherine's' friend, retu from Europe where she was sent to forget a love affair with GIDES LARKIN, of whom her parents disapprove, Zoe la sini in here with Gle. She sends a wire to him, waite frenically for an answer which does not come. She confides In Katharine While they ATU talking Gibbs appears.

CHAPTER III

Zoo was in Gibbs' arms, laughing, half-crying, casting

half- fear-

ful glanco over her shoulder in the

direction of the house. "Oh, Gibbs, darling!" she said. "When you don't answer I waited and waited

Katharine stood apart, faintly withdrawn.

"When I didn't answer whai ?"

hy, my wire this morning."

White Bay yesterday," Gibbs nid casily. "My boat is out there I forefinger plerced the Log

ed,

Then you didn't get it at all7"* "I'll be going." Katharine interrupt-

"No, Kay, dear. Stay, please! I told Gerda I was going down to see YouWe can't talk here," interrupted the man. Why not take a run out to the boat?"

I wouldn't dare," Zoe lycath- ed, with her eyes on the dim lights of the house some hundred yards distant.

"Why not? Kay here will come you, chaperon won't

song,

KAY?"

His bold, lark eyes were exploring her face: she felt that she disliked him intensely. Yet she couldn't, somehow, fail Zoe, who pleaded with her: "Do, Kay! Oh, I'll do some- thing for

you home

day!" Katharine's lips curved in an ironic

Zoe

smile. Nothing like this. she thought, with a cort of royal distaste for entanglements,

But in the end she went. Gibbs' broad back, in its blue, double different girl. You could tell just She couldn't let Zoe down. That breasted coat, was before her solidly by the warmth, the lazy assurance much was certain. as she settled her ruffles in the stern of hor voice.

rowboat in the

which he had

Thanks a million, Kay." come to the Parkers' pler. Zoe a "Oh, you're welcome." For the mero white glimmer, sat in the bow, life of her she could not keep an edge her fingers trailing the water, her of irony out of her tone. small face lighted by some inner Rome,

was in Gibba" arms, half-laughing, half-crying. "Oh, Gibbs,

darling!" she said.

of

"Kay doesn't approve of me, sweet Gibb's cabin cruiser was trig as heart." Gibbs had Zoe's hands linked a chef's kitchen, gleaming with paint in his. and polished barses. No one knew exactly how he managed this parti- "Oh, you Just imagine that," Zoe cular luxury. He was always com- sail eagerly. "You must really dash plaining, audilly and with mock now, Gibbs, dear. I think

Father's cigar pathos, of his deadly poverty.

"Kay, I wish we had someone to amuse you. Will it here you nwful- ly if I talk privately la Zoe for a minute?"

se

Zoe slipped down in the shadow of the anthouse just as a mascu- line figure strolled toward them.

Katharine her draperies floating

Now, John. Good

he

in "Turning night,"

"I'll walk back with you." said quietly. In silence they traver- gravel path. Zoe could sodile get safely back to the house now. It would be ni right. And what did it matter if Jahr Kaye thought she was the sort of girl who met strangers furtively, by mysterious might? She would survive this, as she had survived other disappoint- ments. She had thought of John us her sturdy friend. She had felt

John would take that always on faith. Perhaps she had

wrong.

her been

She felt a surge of distaste for around her slender figure, whirled An animated game of bridge pro- this glib min with the Both to face the newcomer. The blate-gressed

long in the library. The MADHUKA. Why had she comet At coated figure of Gibbs, hin white windows shed light an they passed, was all wrong. And she wished he trousers gleaming in the misty dark-on the terrace. Bertina and Kath wouldn't call her "Kay"

ness, slipped quietly out of sight; arine's father, Gracia McIlvaine and there was the faint plash of ears. Mr. Cotuine, the Englishman, sat Then silence.

"I don't mind in the least Zoe, we mustn't stop longer 15 minutes."

but

it

than "Don't worry, darling. We'll make

snappy." That fit voice, so woebeeone half an before!

around the table.

Zoe's

"Well?" Katharine said, on note of inquiry,

Л

hour

גון

Katharine settled her frills in a deck chair, and Zoe and Gibbs re-

tired to the stem from which vicinity

low

murmar of voices ensued.

"Oh, very good, partner", Kath- arine heard -Gracin say brightly. But her eyes were ruving. She knew

Dr. Kaye answered quietly, "I was Dr. Kaye was somewhere about. just taking a stroll.””

"I think I'll go up," Katharine "Hello, John!" Her laugh was sald. She looked. in the half-light

Was Zoo nervous.

out of sight? shed from the inner room, like some

etched

were!

The youthful chaperon amused her- Not that John would tell he could dryad in flight. The delicate outline self for a few minutes with puzzling to trusted--but it was just as well of her lovely figure was out the various lights she could see not to confide this Intrigue to any through the tram parencies of her fair hair caught Amy rock, Her bobbing here and there. That dim one.

He stood, leaning on the wall. gleams of light and her eyes green one was on the very tip end

made her dark, wistful, shadowed, in spite of of the

silly smoking. His silenee Strykhurst veranda, lantern thing that Berting had picked nervous volubility increase. Surely the dtermined coldness of her voice.

"Well, I'm moving in to-morrow, up somewhere. The twin red lights he had seen Gibbs slip away-at were the Yacht Club.

least he had sech it was a man Won't see you then for some time," a grand sport; he Dr. Kaye said. I threw away his but John was

word. wouldn't say

cigarette, the reddened tip descrili

brief are, then а

sputtering I loved your place to-day, Juhnny!" ing "I'm glad."

away to nothingness in a hydrangea bush.

"It's been nice to have you here," the girl said dutifully.

this place always seems like home to me."

Zoe, honestly, we must get back. I tremble to think what your mother would any if she knew"

But her words were spoken almost absently. She was thinking of She had, quite nuddenly, the con- Michael Heatheroe, the way his viction that he was disappointed in mouth curved when he laughed, the her, John Kaye, who hold old- fashioned views of womanly con- sweet, strong curve of his lean face- duct, thought she had been slipping Katharine shook hereelt angrily.

"All right, all right," Presently the little rowboat was akimming toward shore again.

"Look out, Gibbs. The buoy's right

there

"Night you are, darling."

Zoo basked

THE

In this. She was

out clandestinely to meet some man. It must be clandestine or else the sultor, whoever he might be, would present himself openly at her father's house.

Oh, well, if he thought that of

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He had her hand in his now for farewell. There was something al- most electric in his clasp. Katharine, felt the ice about her heart dissolve a little.

"You're so nice, Johnny."

His grip tightened. "Don't ruy pretty things to me. I'm not used i to it."

She could encll the good scent. lenther, of tobacco, at Jaundered linen, mingled the faint but unmistakable odour of disinfectant that always clung to John Kaye's Noctor's

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"Johnny, are you honestly for me?” "What do you mean, child?”

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"Am I complex?"

On this courageous noto she fell

(To Be Cotinued).

as simply Dr. Kayo kissed asleep.

"Good night, Johnny, dearl””

Io patted for shoulder. "You are,

The lights of the ball brought my dear. I've known you since you her to herself. Somehow the little torrace had in it a ware in middy blouses. A atormy scene on the

little thing, worth winning. A chip not foit lighter than it had for note of unreality. But Katharine's

on her shoulder always."

"Oh, John, that sounds terrible."

"I told you I didn't like milk-and- water people."

days.

She found her bod turned down had laid out and waiting. Elion

word looped summer

She clung to him, quite un-self-gown and negliges and little silver consciously, "Johnny, I need you mulos, The curtains to be my friend. Sometimes I get back against the warm so lonely. Oh, I've got to stop this, night. Didn't mean to make it into a sob One thing was certain-she would story"

stop mooning about as Zoe did.. Sho His deep voice heartened her. "It would ride again, quite simply and isn't. I'm proud to know I matter."naturally, with Michael Heatheros on

She draw a long sigh.

the morrow. Michael would take his Keep thinking I'm not so bad, rightful place in her life, in the

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