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SERIAL STORY

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1935.

Summer Sweethearts

CHAPTER XXIX

By McElliott 1933, NEA Service,

| baro chamber did not afford many, out an offelal-looking paper and

hiding places. A bed, tidfly made up chuckled over it. Sally said furiously, "i don't under-with a mended white spread, a com- "Here's somethin' than blg-talkin' stand it. I simply don't get it at mon oak chest of drawers, a ward young lady ain't goin' to find," All Bho glared at the inoffensive robe with one of the old-fashioned Clarence said to himself. "Cause I Tips and at Cinrence, stooped and doors swinging wide ... she wont got it first. An' it's Mist' Michael's

raying, in the background.

through them all,

private business."

It was the marriage certificate of Thero was little enough. Thore Michael Heatheroo and. Katharine was pitifully little. A handful of Strykhurst. old lotters with the postmark of n little town in a western state. watch. thick, clumsy old gold button box.

a

"And that was day before yester

got any

A

A

•

and

Sally rushed to her room opened the, lettere she had found in Michael's bureau. They WOTO not vory Intorosting letters. There were several notes from the bank about the mortgage. Thote

a bill of

was a

President LinerS

FIRST CLASS

SPECIAL

SUMMER ROUND-TRIP

"You say he said he was going to the city?" Sally demanded."

Clarence nodded. They had been over the ground several times before, but if the young lady wanted to ask the same questions over and over he had no choice but to answer them. Sally rifled through the letters. "He say he goin' to the city," The stable boy came to the door to Clarence elaborated, - with

Aldo. staro at her.

You long roll of chocolate ores in a

go away, Tips," she said sale for a mare. There were one or dark face. "He say fo' me to lock crossly.

you bother me two brief and badly written, personal This up."

letters from a man in Montanaa HONGKONG TO:- in my business." "Ain't nobody

right man who signed himself quite simply buttin Into Mister Michael's private "Bill. Nothing Incriminating, nothing dayes'm. In the evenin'. We ain't things," he said stubbornly. But he to point the Way Michael had gone.

dared not interfere. After all, abe Sally stood staring at the letters was the girl his employer had been in bafflement and angor. Her tom- perament demanded that sho expend fnarry. engaged to

Clarence had shuffled out Into the energy on someone. So she dressed kitchen. You could hear him rattling herself in plain dark silk and boarded pots and pans and setting down the train for the city. The clipping

about

Michael's inheritance lay in the cups with angry gusto. Saily paid no

art dark blue handbag. attention to all this. She had come soiart

She went straight to Mr. Down- determination to go through

that gentleman Michael's belongings, to see. If she rigg's hotel and

to "the foyer to meet could find any clue to his disappear came down ance. She flounced into the living an with a stoop and a courteous,

her.

was a lean, elderly English- room after a busy five minutes, a tired voice. No, he hadn't had nny #mall bundle in her hand.

heard nothing from him since."

Bally waved an afternoon nows. paper in his eyes. "Have you seen this 7"

"No'm, Ain't

nothin!" Clarence's eyes executed a sudden roll of apprehension. They ain't nothin' in it 'bout Miss Michael, is they 7"

Sally laughed-an unpleasant laugh, drawing back the corners of her lips from smail predatory testh.

"Read it."

"

Tips bent over. "Pa can't read," ho said. "Larsen he has a magnify. ing glass. His eyes is bnt."

"What do it say? Clarence want. ed to know.

•

with

lo

communication from Mr.

as yet. And that was odd Mexars. Malley & Gerhardt had DA- sured him Michael was easily to bo found. All his telephone calls on the day before had been fruitless. nald, was away and it was not known when he

Tips watched her go, open-mouthed. His father came out of the kitchen nak him, "That her car goin' Away ?" Tips bent over the

"That's it." Tips sniffed, going Bir. Heatheroe, the servants new paper, reading slowly. It says how Mister into Michael's room and picking up Michael is a lord or something" be a cushion Sally had dropped in her snit slowly. "It says how his daddy haste, "She sure made a mess of this "Something's happened then." Sally was a son of a lord in England or here place. She sure is a big-talking announced firmly. "Something hap Ireland and now Mister Michael, young lady, Miss Moon."

pened to Michael the night he came seems he comes into the business," "Her!" Clarence uttered contemptu into New York." She raw it all now,

"Exactly." Sally Moon, with

"Ain't no Moons even goin' She had been stupid to be ao frighten- nously. sound that was more like a sort to come high-tonin

I knowed and angry. Of course Michael had than the sarcastic, laugh she haut 'em."

been hurt. He had no reason

Intended. slipped down

me,

101

morgues"

on

into the "She taken away a

of stuff earth to run away on the eve of this shabby porch chair. Over her link- of Mist Michael's," Tips offered triumph. ed, gloved hands she regarded the hesitantly. "Letters and such."

Her manner softened percentilly. two shabby men.

Clarence grinned, an old man's She bad met Mr. Downrigg with an "I believe you two know more wide, siy grin. His lips were stretch-air of challenge, thinking he knew About this than you pretend to incongruously wide. She did. something about the absent Michael, she snk on a not of angry RIIK.

2. huh?"

thinking, perhaps, he had aided and picion. "I believe you perfectly well

"Yes, suh!" The stable boy was abetted him in his ercape. know here Michael

emphatic. "Looks like Mist Milchuolt "You must help mo," she salti, Clarence shook his head, run away from her while the runnin' her voice taking on its cooing note. I'm going

to find out," was good. What you think about "We nist search the hospitals-the Sally Bald swiftly. Before either it?" one of them could stop her she had His father lifted his shoulders in "My dear young woman!" shudder- flung herself inside the door

an eloquent shrug. "Boy, of

I ain'ted Mr. Downrigg. "Surely you don't Michael's house "I'm going to mindin' nobody's business."

think....." "You think we better atay' on a

She was firm, but to show hlm while? Tips said,

how deeply she was affected by tho Wo go, anyways?" thought of Michael injured or dead demanded. "You talk-crazy, she wept a little, quite prettily and And, case that girl comes back here sonny-boy. Courso

stayin'. convincingly. wo'ro lookin some more, we goin to lock not do otherwise. After all," she

"WO

Munt,"

she said. "We dare reminded him, with a liquid glance of up this here place."

He turned the key in the lock and those dark, opaque eyes. "I'm his went back to his lekurely puttering promised wife, you know." among the kettles. Tips wandered She could see herself telling the aut into the stableyard, fed the story to newspaper reporters. Dead horses and illy swept up some neat- or alive, Michael should not escape. tered hay. In the kitchen, behind the her.

And

which

bedroom / "

search his papers," she said. don't either of you interfere!”

She was inside the room hai served Michael as a before either one could say a word. Tips looked at his father, and the older man looked back apprehensive "She ain't got a bit of business in there," the boy sad humbly.

"How we goin' to stop her?" Clarence wanted to know.

Sally went through bureau drawers like a whirlwind. The neat, plain, red checked curtalis, an old man took

CINEMA NEWS

NOTES FROM THE THEATRES

"The Mystery of Edwin Drood" the mont mystifying of stories, has been booked for show

mystery ing at the King's Theatre on Friday Claude Rains, the famous "Invisible Man" has the leading role, that of a sinister choir master. Those wh have seen this film declare it to be

(To Be Continued).

Girl" and "New Yorkers" as well as ponsibility. To Josephine Spiggins, other revuen. Durante made his

with

of the

that "to-

motion picture debut in "Roadhouse the brother's fiancee he was a da. Night"

Helen Morgan and lightful companion. This is the gist Charles Ruggles. "Carnival is the of the riotously funny plot of "Vaga- story of a puppeteer, played by bond Lady," the Hal Roach-M-G-M Tracy, who tries to bring up his son production, terminating its local en without a mother. This human story. author of those famous hits, "Lady Theatre. The older Spear in the mil

to-slay at was written by Robert Riskin, the Ragement

the Queen's

and "Broadway Bil." Walter Lang whose motto is "Dignity-Always." for a Day," "It Happened One Night lionaire owner of a department store, directed.

Josephine's father, an irresponsible character. 1s Head Janitor "The Woman in Red"

store and a former college mate of his boss. John, In planning his mar Barbara Stanwyck has the nost picture that has you sitting on dynamic role of her career

ringe to Josephine, has stressed the the very edge of your chair from new First National production, "The poise. But when Tony, his brother, in her importance of dignity, culture and the opening scene to the dramatic Woman in Ret," which is showing arrives on the scene, after a round- and spectacular ending when the for its first time to-day at the Al-the-world cruise in an ancient sail- mystery in solved. Four of Hollyhambra Theatre. This talented star ing vessel, he tells "Jo" wood's best-known writers, Leopold has an unusually strong vehicle in morrow is a long way off so "to- Atlas, Bradley King, John Balderston "The Wanan in fted," and makes the day" should be enjoyed to the full- and Gladys Unger, did the screen most of every scone play, and one of the most success based on the papuiar novel, North ing philosophies is humorous-and at The picture, est. The result of the two conflict- Jul directors in pictures, Stuart Shore," by Wallace Irwin, is filled times dramatle. At any rate, it re- Walker, directed. The film has been with thrills and intense dramatiticsults in complications. Further when produced on a grand and spectacular action set in the luxurious atmos-"Jo" and Tony discover scale with some of the largest sets phere of Long Island country estates. love each other, things take a rapid that they that have ever been constructed for Miss Stanwyck appears in the char-turn. There are grief results when a picture. Supporting Claude Rains acter of a Kentucky girl thoroughly some boisterous companions Is a cust of film notables such as is versed in horse tore who, when the Tony's drunken Man Friday, a sailor and rarely seen in one picture. Among family fortunes are reversed, becomes named Corky, them Are Douglas Montgomery, a professional rider for a wealthy

upset the applecart Heather Angel, Valerie fobson, Francis L. Sullivan, her skill as a rider she brings one strightened out when "Jo's" habit of David Manners, New York society woman, Through, put Teny in and light with "Jo". The .situation IN finally E. E. Cilve.. Forrester Harvey and blue ribbon after another to the own chewing gun upsets the wedding Walter Kingsford.

er, whose gratitude turns to hate when she wins the man they both Tony finds it easy to talk John out ceremony, driving John frantic. love. Miss Stanwyck is charining in of the marringe idea and then pro- Three honest-to-goodness trouper the situations, but she rises, to new Featured in

the lighter moments and the roman-ceeds to annex "Ju" for himself. hend the cast of "Carnival", the heights of emotional neting in the Robert Young, Evelyn Venable, Re the production Are Columbia production, opening to intense dramatic sequences, especial-ginald Denny, while the supporting morrow at the Queen's Theatre.ly in n sensational court trial in the east includes such players as Berton They are Lee Tracy, fast-talking smashing climax, in which she is Churchill as Mr. Spear, Frank Craven star of more than twenty pictures, willing to sacrifice love and honouras Mr. Spiggins and others of note, Sully Eilers and Jimmy Durante, in order to save a man she knows Mr. Young fanus professor of the schnozzola, to be innocent from conviction on a "Tony"

да the irresponsible Tracy trained years in small stock

makes himself delightful, murder charge. before he ever et foot the role of an impoverished young and likeable "Jo" while Denny does companies

Gene Raymond, in Miss Vonable makes the beautiful upon Broadway stage. He play-aristocrat who sweeps the Kentucky the exceptionally fine work as the eu vaudeville, hoofing it and speak beauty off her feet in a whirlwind dignified "John". ing in the category of the profes courtship, proves himself a magnetic For Singapore. Colombo, Bombay,sionals, he knows the rupes." His lover, as well as Suoz, Port-Said, Brindisi, Vonice, on the New York stage.

Brul big role came in

"Broadway'

accomplished horseman. Genevieve Tobin, alwaya Later the finished actress, gives an art- (London.by rail) & Tricsto,

notion picture studlo bought the pro- usually fine portrayal of the wealthy and

The question of whether a man

Woman duction and Tracy was signed to play acelety woman who employs Miss Kociety's disfavour have a right to who have incurred the same purt he enacted

on the blonde actress, first began in pictures break up her love match after she ture, "Woman in the Dark,"-show- stage. Sally Eilers,

beautiful Stanwyck and does everything toed in Dashiell Hammott's latest plc- each other's love is daringly answer- with Mack Bennett. Her first pie herself has lost out. She brings out

of the ing at the King's Theatre to-day. ture was the "Goodbye Kiss." After the vixenish characteristics several years of hard work, Jimmy woman of polished surface with great The Thin Man" has probed to the In unfolding his plot, the author of Durante decided he wanted to go on large and talented, supporting cast. quick the emotions of his principal. Anesse. There is an exceptionally the stage. He started singing songs

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