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Summer Sweethearts

1933, NEA Service, Inc.

CHAPTER XXX

about the whole business. The nurse gloves. What was.fi, he had expect-

Thated to find? said he was a good patient,

Sally cooed over him after he come Michael opened his eyes and star-meant he let everyone else do na he

oul un to the veranda once more. ed about him. There was a square or she pleased, and kept silent,

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of light that marked the window. One day Downrigg came and they Was he sure he'd be all right? He shut his eyes again because that had a long talk. Michael, dressed They didn't like leaving him here. light hurt him and he felt sure all for the first time in his street He ought to come back to their house aver-almost as if he had been bruis-clothes, was sitting in a comfortable with them, only prople talked so, ed in a fight..

chair out in the pavilion. Downrigg And, after all, the wedding was to Yesterday... Yesterday.....

talked a lot about the ratate what be next week. Then she could take There was something he wanted 19 estate? Michael wanted to, ask but care of him for always-her. great remember. And could not. So he didn't bother) and said there was a big, naughty boy who had been so closed his eyes and lay still. Pre- good dent of money tied up, at very lit

as auch a Michael was kind when she'd gone sently the sound of crisp, starched though not, of course,

whose The coloured boy *kirts rustling cathe to his cars, and June would like. Beath duties and '60 away.

And nuute, Michael had learned, was Tips, he opened his eyes again, Just on, he had said potentiously, little. There was a nurse. She had Michael had wondered again idly came out and said that his father And had to go to Hartford because n coet, wide face with amiling eye, what it was all about.

was alck. She had a thermometer in her hand

"You'll be sailing, I suppose, as somebody in the family and she shook it a little, milling soon as you are well, Downrigg had He'd be back next Thursday, Michael

Bald.

sall, not caring at all but down at him.

"And after you're married." After he was married. The phrase, politely, that he was sure everything "Well, we're quite a lot better to-

for an instant, stirred same memory would be all right.

It had Tips naked rather timidly if Michael day, aren't we?" she said.

Michael would have frowned in Michael, but it passed, frowning, like the square of light,been like a breeze passing over a wanted to have a look at the horses, at him. hadn't hurt him. Nurses always wheat field, bending the stalks only and Michael followed him out into talked that way,

A big roan whinned na if the patient for a moment. After he was mata shabby stubleyard, where a mara. were a child. Was he better? Herii-well, men married every day. Al didn't know. Wasn't sure, even, that This, Sally-girl was solicitious. She This was good, Michael thought. It he had been really ill. It was too kissed him when she came and went. was a homelike place. Obviously he It wasn't unpleasant. He ought to belonged here, although that cloudy wavering always at the much trouble to talk.

back of his mind, inade him feel a The nurse wrote something down remember more about her, though. sensation, on a chart that hung on the foot And couldn't.

Downrigg went on. He was leav-bit unsure. of the bed; Michael could see that? much, out of the mere crack he had ing, for England on the morrow, he Then said. They could find him in Lan. opened in his shuttered lids. she went away and came back again don. He left Michael his card... On with the mulloned windows and the with a cloudy draught which she held this side, he said, the affairs were rich, tasteless furniture, Sally sat, in the hands of Whitbread & For-Aurroumfed by a rainbow of frocks; to bin pm.

The words came rest in Wall Street, He wrote the shoen, still in their tissue wrapping", "Oh, good!"

Michael could drew lay in the boxes.

It had been easier than she had Sho giunted; drowally, almost involuntarily and he address down. could feel a very vibration of tri- on them.

"That's nice," Michael said, look-expected-all of it. umph go through the nurse's body an she kept cool professional fingers on ing down at his oddly thin, oddly with a sort of wild glee, over the helpless hands. Once they had been thought of her coming triumph. At first she had been attracted to his wrist.

Michael merely because of his hand- "Well now, isn't that splendid! brown.... He likes his medicine, doen he?

It was easier after that because some masculinity-partly because of Well, if he's very good he shall see somebody after a bit, and that will he was stronger. Only there was a his indifference. But her nature took sort of cloudines at the back of fire always at any sign of opposi

sho had been make him better still."

Michael hadn't the remotest idea this brain--not wholly disagreeable, tion and, although what she was talking about, and heut rather worrying. If that cloudi- more than once tempted to let the didn't care in the least. It was far ness would lift, Michael felt, he engagement drop, after she had heard He of his good fortune she had deter could remember a great deal. too much trouble to ask,

Michael had bean right when, ho mined to cling to him doggedly,

# titl had shrewdly gauged Sally'a reactions to the thought of

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They'd have to admit she'd done well for herself.

Hle drowsed again and the pain didn't tell the doctors this. He had was less. There was somebody-never been ill in his life before and, girl in a dark frock-nt his bedside for all he knew, this dizziness, this

She rolled the words on her lips He'd known her feeling of not being quite sure of when he wakeard.

naw, trying on a dangling crystal well before he had been taken sick, oneself might be a part of convales- but just now he couldn't quite re

He satisfied Sally by being gentle carring. "Lady Carden. member her name,

She swept herself a deep curtsey It would come

and subdued and entirely tractable. to him after a little....

and urged in the glass, liking the effect She kissed him and wept a little e no longer frowned

and her glowing dark and this tired Michael. The nura delay when she spoke of their cam-dangling crystal drops against her skin. Those old cats down at the took her away, making soothing ing marriage, but let her have thinga dark curls her way,

unub her now. покея. After that he slept for n

There WON something familiar Point could not long time and when he woke again there was a splash of rain against about the streets through which Sally

Suddenly she remembered the little the windows and the room was cool and her father presently drove him It was, the nurse told, him They expected him to smile in re-

Funny the cognition, and so he did, because he packet the nurse had given her when she arrived at the hospital, brightly, another day. way these days ran into one another, didn't like to disappoint them. They first

And when they claiming Michael. She turned it out had been so kind.

examining it again without movement or sound....

drew up at a shabby house under of her purse, pin oak trees gut on a country rond with curiosity. A handful of change, After a procession of such mean he felt a flash of something that a crumpled bill or twe. And a plain!

gold ring. A wedding ring. by was almost like pain. A young ingless days, punctuated only trays and pills and visits from a tall, coloured boy came out and shook his melancholy doctor with a gentle hand and said he was glad to seu voice, and white-coated internes who him back. Michael was very polite poked and prodded Michael and ask all through this. When he went in ed him questions, he was able to sit side he found that, sure enough, the up. The dark girl (her name was room with the narrow bed and the Sally Moon, it seemed) came often onken chest of drawers meant some And there was an Englishman thing to him. He had slept in this named Downrigg who made them room-long ago.

He went to the bureau almost as move Michael from the ward to n

This gold ring the tossed careless- privale rutan. Michael couldn't quito a sleepwalker might have gone, und understand why it mattered or why fopened a top drawer and looked into ly into her jewel box. He'd never

There were only a few neat, think of it now. Mr. Downrigg cared, but there it fit.

(To Be Continued)., WILA. He was singularly apathetic folded handkerchiefs and some worni

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after a desperate fight, corners him. Robert Taylor is the uniformed. sleuth, and Jean Parker plays his sweetheart in her most ambitious role

"Funny, old-fashioned thing," Sally sald with distaste. Well, if Michnof and thought he was going to put any such thing on her finger he was much mistaken. Not a chance. She would pick out her own diasuond ar

She'd tell city to-morrow. platinum band when she went Inte Michael about it. He could pay for it later.

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After the wedding service, a ro Diamond" filmed the new picture, discovers the gold-digging possibilities Grant is sean as the man who cannot

east includes Jean Hersholt of among the vicious but dumb gentry help loving her, despite her attempt coption was held at the home of "Men in

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MASSAGE Arthur Byron, Frank Shields, Mischa the fold can be dug. Chester Morris, scrupulous plots. Others in the cast Lockwood, Mr. So Tin-Wong and Harry Green, Henry Travers, one of the students of Mr. Roy ambitious young man who Paul Harvey, Russell Hepton, Andrew Whitfield made short speeches con- Acupuncture, Moxsexesis and Boom Battlos Auer and others of note. The story an

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Ban Francisco, 'July 24. Mackay Radio Station reports that tion of The Mystery of Edwin Columbin production will be at the it has intercepted an 8.0.8. from the Drood" intriguing was the fact that Queen's Theatre from to-day to Satur- American steamer Calmar, stating only half a dozen people of the Uni-day. An interesting story of a pup-that it has been in collision with the versal studio knew what the solution pobeer played by Lee Tracy this pic Japanese steamer Koryu Maru bon Dorsetshire, of this hundred-year-old mystery was. Luro said to possers thrills, miles south of San Francisco light-submarines has gone on a summer The writers, John L. Balderston, romance and action enought for ship. Glady

Unger, Bradley King and everyone in the family. Jimmy Leopold Atlas, were sworn to secrecy. Durante, Sally Eilers, and little

The Calmar's crew was taken by

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They are returning to Weihalwel Tho director, Stuart Walkor, was Dickio Walters, two-and-a-half year bonts to the Koryu Maru, apparently about August 10.

Admiral Sir Frederic and Lady' sworn to Accrecy, anl Edmond old child, who makes his outstanding without danger.

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