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1935.

Summer Sweethearts

of the railroad tracks. The old red brick station with a modern back- bathed in a wash of clear late sua ground of up-to-date landscaping lay bine. Every spear of grass stood

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Sally pouted. "He's not even listening to mol" Imaginary audience. sho cried, addressing an

from, adoren, she la taken to the home of parsloly apart and every things she did very well. She had

BEGIN HERE -TO-DAT KATHARINE STRYKHURST, daughter of wealthy VICTOR HAYATHERGE who runs is deeply at treted by MICHAEL.

Fiding school. Kahafius le discontented and restless under her atopraother's rula. Throw VIOLET HERBER, who once was in love with Katherine's father. Violet is drawn to the DR. JOHN KAYE, Jal back from Earope, ZOE PARKER, Katharine's closest friend, ia in love with UfBDS LARKIN, and presiste in seeing him in spite of her parents objeci jons, Katharine aake Dr. Kare, to help her Legs Loe from eloping with Gilbe, They Lake Zoe to a night club where she ses dites wills a notorious woman. Ese threatens to do away with herself.

girl and they becomea friend

veils the trykhursts,

CHAPTER XVI

petunia in the round beds blazed

"I am sol" Sally dimpled. It was one of the added colour. Several stout, weary been practising dimpling, before her "You see, Father was delayed. women with little children in tow sat mirror, since she was 11." Himply on the banches in the station

D!T

"

Ho up.

did park. In front of the scarletpainted That is, I'm getting this all come home, gas station neress the road three or mixed four shirt-sleeved men sat tilted back about 5. But he had to rush right off the again and I told him you wanted to chairs. Otherwise kitchen in little square was deserted at this see him and he said to-morrow would

A Amell of frying steak and do just as well.

Thon

right hour.

ho's not leaving onions drifted out from the doors of "Ye Olde Coffee Shopp

pe away?" Michael asked, relief obvious The movie theatre down the street in his voice.

"Listen to the man! Of course, he had a gaudy display of blue and Michael Heatheroo went down into

to tell youl And I tried to get you the paddock. Prince Charlio was yellow posters, and Norman Shearer's lan't. That's what I've been trying telephone all evening but no hie

on the Mich out in bulbs overhead. Maddled. Michael had on

car turned right, Lwoeds the suit ho had worn the

I've been there or some- "Funny. night Katharine had seen him at Mrs. Main Street, and sought a broad ane answered.

sen ahead. one has all the time," Michael said. He patted Prince street sloping down to the bluo water Morsers houst. Charlie and led him into the stable of the Sound, clearly where the other horses neighed in This was a street of big, rather old with his ingenuous, masculino air of

pretentious houses. Be sticking to the facts. her stall, fashioned,

"Well, anyhow, you're here now, recognition. Fury, in stamped and neighed and pawed the fore the ugliest and most pretentious

But Michael in the block he put on his brakes and and what do we do about it?" Sally

demanded

"I'm terribly brightly Btraw under her feet. disappointed the nervous little horse jumped out.

There were some few hundred feet sorry, but it wasn't my fault, and by giving no sign of noticing. Usual- of grounds about this particular Father is probably right-ho says 17 he spent a good deal of time with house, embroidered and scalloped in Fd never make a business woman. to make a landscape artist What do you think?" she demanded the animals after dinner. Fury

rhododendron, ingenuously. ed her eyes so that only the whites way, were visible, if you alood at the stable writhe. There were

She was all scent and colour and door. But Michael paid no attention their dark, glossy leaves rich and to her only gave Prince Charlie a thick, banked in the background.

was demurely lump of sugar, and a word or two to There were evergreens of every con- femininity in her delicato frock of Sally's dinnor frock-and mock-orange and but cut-a forsythia Tip, who was rending a week-old colvable variety, dwara mered out pale pink lace. It

ther. The charms were naively displayed in it, comic section, and was on his way.

the

"I think he's probably right," Michael without one of his steeds terfly bushes, crowded together.

સોન the full was like a king without his kingdom. screened porch, running across

width of house, was crowded afichael said soberly.

and

Then they both broke into a great The little, shabby, rattling car was an

The Rober-faced tall, with wicker chairs and tables incongruous vehicle for the Tangy young man with the western swinging couches. Everything was shout of laughter. tan on his brow and cheeks. He lavish and completely lacking in taste maid, picking up scattered nows-

Michael rang the bell and a neat climbed into it, threw into gear and

porch windows, straightened with a Krim smile. began to alide down the incline away middle-aged maid in a maroon ant papers in the study just beyond the from

"Miss the shabby farmhouse. He form came to the door.

wald to tell you she'd could see Tips father's dark, seamed face, smiling vacantly at the kitchen be right down."

"I" Michael hesitated over window. The old man was washing

slightly. "I was to see Mr. Moon." #isher.

The maid allowed a flicker of sur prise to disarrange her

This was twilight. Not the Mon- tana twilight Michael knew and loved, with its sudden drop from full day to dusk, its almost dazzling,

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Mr. Moon is in the ho zald, Į

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.

"So she has a new one," this wo- man murmured to herself.

"Look, here's the thing," Sally went on after a moment, as if to herself. "Would you be an angel and take me features, down to the Blue Sky Club to-night?

was coming over from Scarsdale- Lenny Raikes-that's the boy who Michael frowned, after sho

something and can't come. taline coolness, but an eastern twi- light, warm and heavy and languid, gone, in puzzlement. When he had well, he has an impacted tooth or The day had been extremely hot, happened to mention that morning have Father's card and I was just Michael drove out of the lane and that he had to go to see her father dying to go down at his tweeds

Michael looked on business some time during the

down the road toward the village,

On the porch of the Merser house Amall girl dressed in sleeveless thin frocks were having their supper.

hod

"

And I

day Sally had said her father wouldn't and back at her. His smile wAB R home until evening, that he was little wry. He lifted his shouldern in leaving, prolatbly on the morrow, for the ghost of a shrug.

long vocation. They both waved wildly to Michael as why wt run in to see him to he passed, and he waved back. Sybil

night

she had said, sa very artles, nud Diana adored hin aieffy. They lys Sally was a friendly little thing had had three riding lessons,

It was a wonder people roundabout Nice klis, Good mother was a nice woman, too, with didn't appreciate her. So full of fun

and spirits, • fine eyes.

If Michnel could get a few more ellents like them, the club would: be on its feet.

kids. Their!

Ite

"Oh, don't be a donkey! It's the kind of pince where you don't have to dress if you don't want to. Look, they're having a beauty contest or romething later on to-night. That la to be there. I'm dying to see Cissy Malotte you know who the in

hor."

Not the kind of a place for a kid like you."

"Oh, Michael, don't be so stufTy?"

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Michael ant down and lighted a cigarette. Something must have one He frowned. The mortgage on the wrong in Mr. Muon's plans. Well. She made him feel like a maiden aunt. place, the old Rogers' place that he Sally would explain. had bought so confidently last year, She came in presently, a breath-If Father belongs to the darned thing would fall due in September.

Michael hadn't realized the taxea would be so less scrap of femininity, with her I guess I rate it. Beriden, you'll take that dark curls tumbled around her face, good care of me, won't you?" Her about

provocative. high. Hadn't known

her voice breaking into constant smile

wanted, for an instant, to shake her. special assessment, either. He gritt laughter.

tho Agures ed his teeth, remembering

"Michael, I am so sorry! What. But she was friendly, he told himself. Like a cuddlesome little kitten, al- last night. as he had gone over them

most. Not all the people around here He had pared expenses to the bone-ever must you think of me?"

He stood, smiling down at her, at were really friendly. yet the place wasn't paying. All his

"Besides, I can sign checks," Sally savings had gone into the purchase her troubled eyes, at the balf-earnest,

If with pure artlessness. of her rattled on, as of the club. He simply had to make half-pretended seriousness

tone. A small girl, Sally Moon, al-"Don't think I'm dragging you into though one day she would be on the a gyp joint. Specially when you told plump Blde-smaller by far than a girl me about your mortgage and all. who had looked levelly into his eyes Why, Michael, I think you're perfect that morning, alumped over the ly wonderful" wheel of her car, a fair girl with eyes that burned darkly blue in a delicate was He went through the shabby por face. Michael frowned again, shak- tion of the village that lay just westling the thought from him.

it go.

The bank held the mortgage. In nicock Trust Nation.ichael was going down to-night to see about It. See If he couldn't get a renewal

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BRIBERY. ALLEGED

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INTERPRETER OF SANITARY DEPT. CHARGED

commenced

other man, Tau Kwok.

She had her hand on his arm. She all gentleness and winning sweetness. Yet Michael hesitated.

(To Be Continued)

house and sent a message to Ma Ma Sing, of 123, Nam Chean Street, Sing that he should sell all his plga in the witness box said that at the by the next day. If he could not do beginning of May he was fined at so, he should have them removed as the Kowloon Magistracy for keeping a new Sanitary Inspector would bo xwine without a licence. Three days visiting that district.

The case was adjourned until tila afterwards, he met defendant at the Ling Yueng Restaurant by arrange-afternoon at 2.30, The hearing of a charge against ment made on the day he was fined.

Hawker Fined Cheng Hing, a Sanitary Board As he could not speak Cantonese le

Charged before Mr. Macfadyen interpreter, of having accepted a took a friend of his, Sul Shek-shut,

Defendant told him to at the Central Magistracy yester before Mr.with him. bribe, was

the following Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magis remove his pigs on

Sunday as & Sanitary Inspector was day with having given a bribe of trney yesterday afternoon.

As Bug-40 cents to Indian constable P.C.B. It is alleged that defendant accept to visit him on Monday. ed a bribe of 850 from a man named gested, the pigs were removed to the 743, Lam Lek, aged 26, an

Yuunati Railway Station and brought licensed hawker, was fined $25 or Ma Sing on May 25.

Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith, Assist back to complainant's lot only after fourteen days Imprisonment. The

Witness saw ant Crown Solleitor, appeared for the the Inspector's visit. prosecution, while Mr. G. K. Hall-defendant several days later outside constable stated that the defes- Brutton appeared on behalf of de-his shop and was told to visit the dant came up to him in Pee! Ling Yeung Restaurant on the fol-Street and asked him not to arrest fendant.

In opening the case, Mr. Lockhart-lowing Saturday with the $50. Ho hawkers, at the same time giving Smith said that on May 16, Mo Sing kept the appointment, accompanied him 40 cents. Defendant denied was sumingned for keeping swine by his friend. Sul Shek-shui, who this and said the constable accused without a licence and was fined $25 and the following Monday defen- acized and naked by the constable money over to defendant. him of soiling his clothes. He was by Mr. Wynne-Jones with na order dant visited wilncis'e

shop and for some money to release him. making of a pigsty had to be four feet high.

On

to remove them within three days. He removed them for a short time. discussed the was unable to sell them and brought which, iness went with a friend them back. On May 18, defendant

and to a European Inspector at a place shop warned him that he had been fined near Tal Ping Shang to lodge a com- once and was in the running for a plaint.

called at complainant's

heavier fine if he continued this con-

Mr. Lockhart-Smith said that this

duct. It was indicated to complainant Inspector was Mr. Taylor, that, for a consideration, no further Bummone would be forthcoming. Complainant, being a Hoklo whe

Cross-Examination

In the course of cross-examination speaks little Cantonese, therefore, by Mr. Hall-Brutton, witness said made an appointment at a ten-shop that he could not remember the date with a friend of his who could speak that he was told by Mr. Wynne-Jones Cantonese. There they met defen- to remove the piga in three days from dant who said that if complainant his lot. Ho admitted that he and him $50 he would, not be sum- his friends, before the case, patl- moned again. The money was hand- tioned the Sanitary Board for an od over a few days later. On May extension of six months in which to

the pigs. 20. complainant heard that a Sanitary remove Inspector would visit his lot, so went Sul Shek-shut then gave evidence. to Mr. Taylor and lodged a complaint that he accompanied last witness to that he had paid for protection that the Ling Young Restaurant where was not forthcoming.

they met defendant who said that he wanted "at least $50 so that there will be no trouble,” He suggested Mr. A. K. Taylor, Chief Inspector that all the pigs be removed on Sun- of the Sanitary Department, gave day is the Sanitary Inspector would evidence that at 0.15 am. on May 29 be visiting complainant's lot next ho received a complaint from Maday. The $50 was handed over by Sing who

was accompanied by a witness a few days later. After this, nt his market foreman, Ho Kwong and an- dofendunt visited witness

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