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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JULY

SERIAL STORY.

1935.

Summer Sweethearts

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY KATHARINE HTRYKKURST, beautiful, go, I lean and discontented with U-unelons round of social methylties that make up her

WILN life. She rides Dally

MICITARI HEATRERO, who runs a riding club.

SALLY MOON, local sexsette, wise enrolle nt the club for riding lessONE.

ZOE PARKER, Katharine's friend, sent to Europe to Kosovi a love affair with GIUS IARKIN, returns, he persists in seeing Qibbe in uple of her parents" "bjectiond

Katharine thing with Michael, thrown

from her horse. Shocked but not seriously injured, she is taken to the home of VIOLET MERHEIT whe years before was in love with Katharine's father. Mrs. Merser Freis drawn

to the girl.

CHAPTER XII

Isabel, the manicurist at Bliss Betay's Beauty Shoppo, bent solicit ously over Katharine's hand.

"Want them a little shorter, don't you?"

Katharine nodded. Sally Moon was in the next booth, with its rose coloured curtains swinging between painted white posts. Katharine could hear Sally's laughter as she rossiped with Miss Betsy.

"Why have you got that string tied around your Anger Katharine ask ed the little manicurist idly. Isabel, who had wayed brown hair, plucked eyebrows and

confiding air, glanced | dimpled and

UPABILI

By Mabel McElliott

test.

1939, NEA Service, Inc.

the wheel of her waiting car. "Dut time she had lifted her voice in pro- that cost aplenty. That's what I al- ways sny. No wonder these girls I don't think Violet Merser wants have all the breaks, clothes and cars to 'get in with anyone," she said und all-tearing around like nobody's | Indignantly. "Why, she knows all business. I don't mean you, of course, sorts of people in the city who do Bliss Strykhurst,

t, she finished briskly, important things-sculptors and wri- at a warning nod from her employer ters and that sort of thing. Why on who

was putting the stoppor on a earth should she want to know any mammell bottle of liquid shampoo. of us?"

a tumble Inst "Hear you took week" Isabel went on after an in- Lereal during which polish was applied deftly to the nails of Katharine's left hand. Read it in the paper. Gosh, 1 was all upset, believe it or not. I raid to myself, Mins Strykhurst is the nicest one of the whole bunch in town. Ill just be a shame if she's going to be badly hurt."

"I wasn't anything," Katharine

But that tall fellow who comes lown from the riding club, he sure is one good-looking chap," Isabel chattered. "I and to Miks Betsy just the other day, believe you me, if I had the money and the outfit I'd be taking lessons from him myself. He reminds me of Gury Cooper-sort of

only younger.

Katharine anid, "He's really very

A

Thank you. Katharine, thank you very much," Bertine had said stiftly. "We all know what you think of Inn cock. And yet I must remind you that some of the most splendid people, the finest names in the county, and hero."

Bertine had gone on in this vein for some little time, and Katharino had listened with a mutinous face, It was always like this, she reminded herself angrily. Whenever she found a friend of her own, whose pedigree had not been investigated from a to Izzard, Borline would be sure to put in a meddling finger,

"I hate her," the girl decided, whirling her car recklessly around the corner of the River Road. She would ter what her stepmother sild! Sho go to see Mrs. Merser again, no mut- had decided that.

of

with brond shoulders. I tok! him 14! Gaga, I call it real rate about him. all the week, the memory of ART &

things,

cho finished with an nocent. upward

Aweep of mascaraed joches, "I'm just 18ank you. Miss Strykhurst. Oh, this thought had been to nunko her

a nut."

years!

ture.

nimest Katharine felt

nice,"

The barns and outbuildings "Sally Moon thinks so," Isabel Michnel's place were now in view, murmured with a glance over her and Katharine's heart began to heat it there ou my birthday," shoulder. "She came in here one day thickly, furiously. How stupid of zhe

"Bh Chance-you inst week for a set, she was just her! She had been keeping at bay, know him, Misa Strykhurst. He going on at drives the express truck. Big fellow

visit in that little upper room nf the Katharine might have been entirely Merser house. She had been trying keep it there till he put n aure ring on it. I any the craziest absorbed in examining her nails, for to tell herself that his muttered, "My

all her expression toki.

darling!" had been the merest firment They look lovely. Thank you, of her imagination. But the sum of

She tipped gencruusly, all

nelf-conscious about extraordinarily "You're going to marry him then?"

aughtn't

to really you shouldn't seeing Michael nenin. Now the very Katharine stated, rather than asked. Although I won't say it won't come in memory of his slow, reluctant smile, Janbel had been doing her nails for handy. I'm saving for a new dress the laughter wrinkles about the cor

an for the plenle next week. Bill hasn'tners of his gray eyes soumed din and affection for the artless little crea-sked me yet but I'm sure he will far away. She must cling to her The Elks Club He doesn't belong! remnants of dignity. She must not, Well, yes, I guess so. We were but his unele does."

by any possible chance, let Michael playing with the ouija board last Life, thought Katherine, was com know she was attracted to him. He week and I nuked ouija; When amparatively simple for girls like Isabel. would despise her. Hadn't she read I going to be married? Well, will boubtless she would marry her Bill that, hadn't she been told by Berline you believe it, Miss Strykhurst, that

hing ran around to October 47 rin due time and settle down to a lifel and others that men hated being pur- of saving and babies and quarrelling sued? Isabel, the little manicurist, wne just about knocked silly. October and making up. Innbel was frank in could quite frankly suggest to her 4. Imagine that!"

her adoration for the hulking young Bill that the playful circlet of string Katharine smiled. From the booth man who drove the express truck. be replaced by a plain band. But she Sally Moon's high laughter sounded Katharine know that his reputation in was Katharine Strykhurat, cool and Innicock was none too good. He had assured and self-sufficient. She could "She's a very popular girl, I her been in some sort of fight at one of never, never let a man know that whe Isabel murmured with a shrug In the roadhouses the year before. He cared for him. Until, of course, he Sally's direction. The men just go was a awaggering, bald-eyed young spoke frichadi Heatheroe was a no-! running

man. handsome in a crude way And Michael Katharine felt dimly that little Jaabel. body. Bertine would be who lived in a shabby one story house desinto him as "an upper serv "Well, but about Bill and myself" over on the wrong side of the tracks, ant.

deserved something distinctly better Isabel pursued, getting back to her that that. But Isabel want favourite topic. You know, when I so it was really none of any told him about ouija he reled funny-nean. Katharine reminded. herself. kind of Said he didn't believe in monkeying with fate or something She drove past the Mermer house that. Men are so sort of queer. slowly, hoping one of the children It's like they had no intuition or some would be out in the yard. But the thing

Now take me, I always want car was not in the drive and Katha to know about the future. Why rine could see the turbaned lead of there was a fortune teller up at Play- the coloured maid at one of the upper land and she had me down to a windows; rugs were being vigorously Described my first beau and said I shaken.

Again.

"She's attractive," Katharine con- ceded, concealing her instinctive dis- like with an effort.

like

1Y DE going to get a letter and would

you believe it

*

G tn

What was it John Kayo had said? "Don't let Bertine get your geat." busi-But tint was it. Bertine had do- minated Katharine for years; it was hard to break the habit of obedience, of tacit submission to the older wo- man's will.

Katharine caught her breath. A man had ridden out of the lane. His crest of reddish hair gleamed in the sunlight. He wore breeches and an old blue jersey.

She had to step on the brakes rather "I do like Mrs. Merser," she said suddenly. Michael rode up to the

side of the car. to herself. "Wonder why Daddy was very

"Thank the

Ko stiff about heri_Urnally he makes! Was there something quizzical in There

was a good deal more of a fuss about a pretty woman..the lock he now bent upon her? She thie, but Katharine did not hear it all.

Bertino had been inclined, as usual, strove for casualness and achieved Sally Moon, a riot of scalloped waves to discourage any contection with the it. and excaping sausage curls, emerged Mersers.

"The top of the morning to you," presently from the booth, in the cris-They want to get in with the right Michael said gaily. _post_of_ellow linens with flyaway crowd, that sort of people," Bertine good Lord you're whole and safe after scarf. She met Katharine's eyes and had said in the assured tone that al- that spill." both girls bowed rather stiffly.

Irked Katharino. "Just be polite but don't encourage them."

Usually Katharine didn't bother to argue with her stepmother, but this

"Gee, that's a pretty outfit," Isabel commented enviously as Sally fluttered! out of the door to take her place at

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