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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 2,

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SERIAL STORY-

Summer Sweethearts

The girl, lying limp amidst the pillows in the cool, low-coiled upper room, heard Michael's step on

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BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

KATHARINE STRYKHURST, beautifuí, zo,

Is erations we discontented with the waelewa round of moris activities that make un der Mie. She richm cindy with MICHAEL HEATREROF, who runs a riding club.

SALLY MOON, luen) moquettes nån enrolls at Ham clubs for råtteg Zemmasrın.

ZOK PARKER, Katharine's friend, went in forget & love affair with GIBBS Europe to LAUKIN, returns, She, peralata in nelag Gibbs in ngite of her parenta“ abjeetbersa.

Kaderine, riding with Michael. & thrown from her bare, Shocked but not merely in Jured, when in taken to the nearby homes of VIOLET MERSER In the evening Michel

comes to sew Iter.

CHAPTER X

Long, shadows lay across Violet Merser's old-fashioned garden when Michael Heatheroe, brave in

gray

tweeds, his stera young face sun- browned and anxious above the crisp neas of linen, came to inquire for Katherine.

the atmir.

folly. "You don't know what a loud (with shining locks brushed back, that takes off my mind!"

Katharine allowed herself ghost of a smile.

appenred in her doorway. the Good

Міля night

Katharine. Sybil says pleasant dreams."

Diann came to stand by her bel side, straight and tall in faded blue) pajamas.

"She's sent the dog nway," he ven- tured further.

"Mrs. Merser? Yes, I knew. The children were heart-broken about it." "Little devil," said Mickael Chought- fully, of the terrier.

"Oh, the poor thing didn't mean to he mischievous. He was only n puppy." Katharine wasn't conscious of the meaning of the words. She only knew she had to say something. While 'Michael continued to stare at her like a mna bemused. There was a subtle singing in her blood; her pulsea thudded

"He'll be all right out there in the country," Michael said abuently.

like

dogs, don't you?" "Yep." Michael confessed, smiling that altogether charming smile of his that lightened the sternness of his face and lumined his eyea,

"I never had one," Katharine con-i fessed.

"Mummy anya we miny tell you good night. Will it bother you?"

The soft little voice, the lambert, enger eyes stirred Katharine.

ot course not," Diana perched bird-like, on the

stool. dressing

"Do you care for children? Some people don't very much. I had a tencher who didn't but she was movad to another school. Don't you think that was a break?"

"Mummy says you're not to alk to stand at her elder's ride. She was slang, said Sybil, coming gravely adorable in her thin one-piece pajama suit, printed all over with yellow and lavender

Charlie Chaplins. "You're darlings," Katharine said, The girl, lying limp amidst pillows "Never did?" He sat on the grand stiff and difident, as she usually in a rush. She didn't feel at all cool in the cont of the low-ceiled upper of the chintz-covered chair Mrs. Mer did with new acquaintances, “I'm room, heard his step on the purch, ser had Intely occupied. There was afraid I'm putting your mother to heard the slow roll of Lavinia's hearty nothing, Katharine thought, African laughter in answer to his

congrious about this tall. lean young her out of her roam and all."

the most dreadful trouble, running

27107] in this altogether feminine Mrs. Merser was established in one Michael Heatheroe might be poor but.

roora. He filled in nicely, easily. Diana

"Oh. that's perfly all right," suld Πάνου seriously.

see, Daddy's corner of the white-curtained rouni with a book. Katharine had been no matter what Berne might say on his western trip right now so she often steens in the guest room dezing. Far below, in the fields, the made of

to be near us. Lavinia's downstairs, faint shouts

"Never had a dog?” he demanded, of tho children

jund sometimes Sybil gets scaredy in nghast. could be cautioned io be

the night." while Miss Strykhurst

"No. My stepmother doesn't like shopt them." Katharine, with a faint smile curving her lips, had listened to their chatter "Italten shame," he contributed.

always as they had had their supper on a Katharine

Cairn," confessed. After my

voice.

wanted L

"You're the one that gets scaredy," said Sybil scornfully.

"Children, children, Cotte along! You'll wear Miss Katharine out."

"Yes, this was the sort of room

rustic table

able in the garden. Funny, nother died had a puppy. He-Katharine would have liked to fall

he was run over."

sho had always had an iten she wouldn't care for children, but these Queer that she should be telling wise, kind, soft-velced person to asleep in when a child, with some little Merser girls were rather dar him this! She had never talked twitch the covers straight and bring lings, with their eager, crisp voices about Deggie to anyone before, and their bright eyes. Sybil was the little one she was 8, with a rosy room. "Patient satisfactory?"

Mrs.. Merser came back into the her a drink of water. small face framed in Alice-in-Wonder-

"Oh, she's a wonder," said Michael,

Mummy.

TE made Katharine nehe to think how much she'd missed. Bertine had meant well, but Bertine was a marti- net. A girl of 13, who had been for

land hair. Diana was just past 10.It's a great relief to know that abe's slim and sturdy on straight. lttle all right."

her brown eyes alert and wistful

legs,

at once. Katharine could hear them.

躯

"Tell me good night, PKuin,

Sybil's volce.

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"Muminy, you're a lamb." "Mummy, of hills to the southwest as he went good and bad, had been the merest The sun slipped behind the line four years under the care of servants, this is such a good supper."

Yes, this was the sort of house Katharing down the stairs, so that the bright-grist to Bertine's mill.

would have liked to have grown up

i11.

An

his going, Katharine could hear him noma of the day actually faded with

chafing the two little girls in the Garden as he passed. He was nice with children; sonic men were.

"I'm coming riding some day." small Sybil called

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"Don't do that, Katherine," "Stand up straight, Katharing."

declare, Victor, she's stubborn as a mule. And she never shows the slightest sign of caring

Those had been the complaints, down the years. No wonder Katha- rine had fearned to keep her child- ish dreams, her adolescent hurts and uagininga to herself.

And then Michael rame,

I'll go down," Violet Merser said. "It's that young man the riding clubs owner. I'm not sure of his name."

"He's Michael Heatheroe," said the

"You do that," Michael told her. Kirl faintly. She gave the syllables

Then he was gone. You could Howard lick, like a caress.

Violet Merner widened her ear the sound of his old car, the broken-town one he had bought at eyes at the tone. "Do you want to that Bling station for $25, chugging loga for her guest's comfort.

Violet Merser came in again, anx- see him?"

Colour washed across Katharine's away down the road toward the town. "He seems a nice boy," said Violet

"We can see all the hill lights from a tide, leaving her mute and face like

she hore,

sald, going to the window. Merser, straightening pillows. She beside Katharine's bed. "See, those helpless. "I don't know."

The older woman's gaze was touch was thinking that the girl looked as to the right are the windows of the ed with compassion, and with same. if a lamp had been lighted behind old Rogera place thing else, perhaps. She had heard those dark, long-lashed eyes of hers. Katharine's eyes kindled.

Or could she be imagining it? It "I was right," Violet thought. would be rather difficult If Victor "She does care about him."

handsome, white-haired gentleman of 60-odd. Katharine's father. "I'll call Miz' Merrer." Violet came down the stairs at that moment.

Bertine's fretful voice a few hours before.

"Perhaps it would, be wise. He's Strykhurst's daughter were to fall in Downstairs Lavina been ringing up all day. Gucas he's beon fearfully worried."

"If you think it would be all right

course, I do."

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love with a nobody hard-working young Lochinvar who had ridden out of the west.

"Want anything before I marshal | my two whirlwinds to bed?"

Katharine shook her head. "Not a thing, thanks." Michael had to stoop his head a

"Well then, I'll leave you for a bit. trifle to enter the door. There was Ring the bell if you need anything. the girl in the bed, the white, plain Lavinia will hear. The quaint way coverlot twitched straight over the this house is arranged, the kitchen outline of her slim ahape; there was juts out just under this

bedroom, Violet Merser, tall, dark-eyed, sym-raid Mra, Merser, with her low. pathetic.

throated laugh. "Mine Strykhurst is just splendid," "It's just darling," said Katharine said Violet Merner easily. "I'll go swiftly. "So old and sort of nort *peak to

Lavinia for a moment of finished," she finished Inadequately. Those little Indians of mine have. "You should have seen it when we gone off the reservation."

took it over," Mrs. Morser told her. "Sybil was a baby then., We camped ain the barn that summer. My hus-

band fell in love with the place be cause of the maple trees. It has

She was gone, with a faint rustle of silk like a whisper or liko

Ісіня

Lace rose and fell with the quicken ing of Katharine's breath. Michael heaps of drawbacks, but every time I

In her room, and she alone! How complain about the plumbing and go strange life was!

"You're all right?"

"Of course. The doctor Tan in ngain. He sald I can got about to morrow,"

"Just a bit of a shock?" "Just that, I guess."

"Gosh," confessed Michael

to see some shining, atiff modern houso I come back loving this the more."

Sho went off with a' small grimy hand in each of her capable ones, and Katharine could hear delighted shouts from behind a closed bathroom door. youth-Presently two small scrubbed fares,

admitted

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"So, Victor," she said lightly. "We meet again!"

(To Be Continued).

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