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CHAPTER XXIV

The lofty room was simost empty except for a few groups of red. capped parters. Katharine, with her tail, white-haired father at her elbow, followed man carrying their bags through the gleaming, long or dor. They wore to meet Evelyn Vincent at the train gate.

mliing, Katharine saw that the man was Dr. Kaya:

spirit Relief flooded bar weary "John," she stammered. "But I didn't know you two knew each other."

Miss Vincent explained. They had met on the boat in June, returning from Havre, Dr. Kaye had prescribed for her since.

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talking in a pleasant mono- tone, passed them again.

Katharibs drew a long breath. “I --I don't know how to my this..

**There's somebody else?" impulse toward teams

She

with an

of was afraid of that," the man sald, Two men in

in dinner clothes, Victor Strykhurst was pleased, flushed and exuberant, came strid- Katharine could see thats The fact ing along the pattform, glancing at that John Kaye know Katharine's the couple with obvious interest. Dr. travelling companion seemed to make Kays stood aside to let them pass things "more regular." Bertine would through the door of the train, but his

have to admit that.

eyes never left the girl's downcat face,

The whole vast station had an un- familiar air. When shall I see this place again? the girl thought dully: It seemed to her that she was saying farewell to home, to the city

Katharine hadn't known, hadn't Perhaps by some conniving she

remotely suspected that John was manage to stay in New Mexico until coming down to see her off. Now, the spring, when she was to come into naturally enough, be walked with her her mother's money. Then she nood down the great length of the platform never see Innicock again. Travel while her father gallantly followed strange places--would help her to Vincent. There were white-

forgot.

She had urged Violet Merser to come down to see her off. But with queer little twisted smile her new friend had said she thought she'd better not

I porters in every doorway; most the beds were already made up. Katharine was conscious now of the stir and movement attendant upon departure. It wasn't a dream. She Was really

m all. leaving them She talked with a feverish bright-

"It's-it's nothing." began Kath arine, thickly and painfully. "Just a crazy fancy I had. I'll-F'll get over it all right."

"That's why you're 'going away.” "Partly."

•

"I'll get over it," Katharino re- peated, smiling and blinking in the silence. "And when I do

"You'll let me know," said Johnı almost gruffly. "Promise me

Katharine thought with a finah of in-iness to her companion. If you talk. /* MW” In her roller at this

"She doesn't like father, that's it,"

father had been specially nice to the time to think. She found her com things like that; every day you read |

Somewhere a bell began to clang in a long, dolorous peal. Her father and Miss Vincent were at her elbow, "Weil, well, I suppose we've got to be leaving you."

sight

Well, neither Bertins nor her ed hard and fast enough you hadn't turn of the interview she looked al- People did get over most happy. fail of flowers-button pertment Mersors, and ignored them, in fact. Pertanthemums in wine colour and about them in the newspapers. Just But Violet usually didn't notice such che, and a knot of gardenias in now the pain was like a sword in hor smallness in the girl thought, was so generous and lay on them.

people.

Violot, hersolf, wat of allver paper. John's card eldo. But later-later perhaps every-.

thing would be changed. She would genuine a person that she ignored in

"I didn't know whether I'd be able forget Michael Heatheroe, bo whole others the qualities she deplored. Well, but father had come around to get away or not," he said with gain amazingly in the matter of the trip: some difdence,

Katharine felt her Hpa trembling No matter how Berting stormed and ranted, he had been gently persistent and smiled very gaily to hide it. were tears burning at the Katharing He had said that perhaps. was old enough to decide by now just back of her eyelids. who her friends ought to be. And

good to

me" "Not too good, Katharine!" this Miss Vincent seemed a pleasant

She had never heard that note in woman, distinguished and charming.

Evelyn Vincant Father in his voice before. understood the least,"

thought with a and her father were pacing briskly ways seen him, as it were, through form, for the moment, to themselves, They had the whole big draughty plat a haze of Bertine's way and prejudices. Maybe he was on hor side really,

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A hand truck loaded with luggSES rattled along the concrete. The man with the improvised magazine stand began to put his wares out of sight. A boy with

a telegraph company's cap strolled along, asking for last minute telegrams. "All boad," said the porter malli. fluously.

pang of He who had al-up and down, talking animatedly. inaigtis on his

-

They were misking conversation John Kaya bent close to the silm, now in the polite, laboured way peo- fair girl in twoeds. She was pinning pla employ just before a train dopar- the gardenias to her fur scarf with

fingers that shook a trifle.

ture.

my

money

flight.

know what I want to tell you,

She her lashes

His hand caught, prisoned "Don't you?" Her voice was very faint. How could she stop hin? "No-no. I don't think so."

hers.

"Sure you've got your safe 7" cheque And med traveller an instinctive movement toward alligator-akin purse. She та in palo tan tweeds with a far scarf lung over her slender shoulders. Her fair hair gleamed under the brim of her brown felt hat. Her brown gloves, her slink brown shoes, were perfection.

•

Wan

"I can't let you go away without saking you if I have a chance, Kitay."

This this

terrible! hadn't dreamed of anything like it Sho Zoe with her foolish, irresponsible chatter turned truth.

had somehow hit on the Katharine couldn't hurt him. That

They saw Evelyn Vincent just then, heard her agreeable deep Eng lish voice and saw that a man WAS with her. His back was Katharine could just so the topcoat and the gleam

affected by the prospect of

to talk to a stronger. It seemed to her she was so deadly tired that any further effort would be devastating.

But when Bliss Vincent turned,

Kartharine felt ber father's lips, cool and parental, on her cheek. Now he was shaking hands with Min Vincent and Katharine was crowded

Into the little corridor with Dr. Kaye.

"Johnny, write to me."

"If you want me to

maffle yen wore dark with some an- surgeon's hands gripped hers. Kath arine, looking down, could see the whitened knuckles.

Evelyn Vincent crowded into the vestibule now, her bulk filling it.

"You'll be carried to Harmon, Doc- tor, before you know it."

He put his lips to her hands-the all in an instant. The train moved palms of them. Then he was gone, slowly along the platform, gathering impetus sa it went.

Evelyn Vincent stripped off her gloves."Well, that's that, my dear," Katharine did not hear her. Sho anyone. But how was she to was staring out of the window at the answer him truthfully without doing stanchions flying past. What a mess it all was! John in love with her | Her silence was prolonged. The and she bound to someone who des

swinging his stick briskly, Miss Vin- walking couple, Victor Strykhurst pised her.

She was unite fair hond. was the last thing she wanted to

CINEMA NEWS

NOTES, FROM THE THEATRES

do

no7

(To Be Continued).

to stifle her love for a man who the position, and thus begins a series considers himself bound by moral of highly dramatic adventures which obligation to a faithless wife, a role befall a young girl entirely un which should enable this beautiful and accustomed to the world and its pit- talented actress to add many new falls. More than 100 young admirers to her over-increasing fan were engaged for these scenes, which girls following. Other well-known names in the cast include Little David Jack also show departments in which are When Director Rouben Mamoulian Holt, the 2 year old actor who made Laught serring, wood-working and

the other useful arts. wanted to film a cavalry drili 3* * his sonzational appearance on

The Good Fairy," directed by a few months ago. Berged from the play by Ference detail of Dmitri's wild and reckless screen

William Wyler, WAD life as a cadet in "We Live Again," Mercer, Shirley Ross, Stuart Casey and the cast supporting Miss Sallavan the Hamuel Goldwyn screen version Adrian Morris, George Irving and of Tolstoy's "Resurrection," which "Plush" the amazingly intelligent and Marshall includes Frank Morgan brings Anna Sten and Fredric March canine actor of "The Barretts of Wim. Reginald Owen, June Clayworth and to the King's Theatre on Friday pole, Street," "Age of Indiacretion" other favourites. March refused a double for the stir was directed by Edward Ludwig. ring manoeuvres. He said there was nothing the professional riders, many

of them former Cossack officers,

could

"Blind Date"

"The Little Minister"

It might nover have happened if But they hadn't met on a blind datol RKO-Radio spared no effort in re- they did moet and it did happen. do that he couldn't do. And, in the

and the romantically comic aftermath picture, ho proves it. "We Live search work to make its film version

of Columbia's Again, incidentally, is the third of exactly like the original book of Sir tre of March vehicles to be shown now at the Star Theatre. Four well- "Blind Date opening to-morrow at

shown James Barrie's "The Little Minister," provides the theme

highly entertaining screen

drama almost throughout the country

no thres

Alms known writers, Sarah Y. Mason and the Que multaneously, and

Queen's Theatre. "It happened one could possibly offer an actor three Victo

three or. script "Little diversified roles

the exclusive domain of Infringe on more widely such golden opportunities to prove Murfin, and Jack Wagner, worked on Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. his versatility and artistic ability. the story for six months changing A mutual friend arranged an Appoint The first, 20th Century's

airs Barrie's of Cellini," in which Freddie plays accurate a word pictures intement between Ann Bathern, cant se

film reproductions. A repro- of the village of Thrums was tor and Neil. Hamilton, selon of his

role,

opposite Constance

"The Affairs

Bennett,

farco. In the

Back the Barretts of Wimpole |

for the

Victor Hoerman, (respot), Jane night-if we might be permitted to

on

is constructed from hundreds of photo father's immense department store

graphs and drawings made by studio weal technicians. Robert Watson.

They meet. They exchange cala- wealth

Sothern's industrious auto mechanic Street, ho plays the dashing, ro-brated Seetch novelist, who residedly glance and Paul Kelly, Miss to four miles from the town of Thrums, Sance, is expelled inte humbur. But, it Browning, post, Robert mantic Norms Shearer's Elizabeth Barrett. acted as technical adviser. And, the third, "We Live Again." a powerful and compelling drama, based having such a ་

on for funds, Ann's father is employed

himself, congratulated the ste,appoers, not for only. Hard pressed | on the immortal Russian story and "keep them tinguished man to Kelly as a helper and through the

Bten.

he BQ

Heintly

former's carelessness Kelly is forced released by United Artists, offers him puts it. A notable cast,

into the hospital with a few crushed young Katharine Hepburn, and including ribu. the role of the handsome

Out of gratitude, to her af- Prince Dmitri who loves and betrays John Boal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp fanced, Miss Bothers feels constrained the peasant, Katusha, played by Anna Lumsden Haro, Andy Clyde, Beryl to refuse Hamilton's proposal

Proposal of Mercor,

Biny Watson, Dorothy

marriage and remain loyal to her Stickney, Mary Gordon, Frank Conroy promise to Kelly. Events from this

to a startling "The Age of Indiscretion"

Elly Malyon, Reginald Deany, Leonard point on build up to tro-Carey, Herbert Bunston, Harry Beros. It is the romantle story of a chance In "Age of Indiscretion" the Metro ford and Barlows Borland, was dirout-

with the wrong man that Goldwyn-Mayer production current at- traction at the queen Theatre Pauled by Richard Wallace. Lukas has what is probably the most

Baltic rule of his career as the

tion

publisher whose deep dovo-

"The Good Fairy"

climax

her whole lifel She took the

Leth

love and tried to for

get in the arms of another “man.

Intimate glimpses of a great Here is a romantic angle that un-

and loyalty to faithless wife, orphanage forin & part of the earlier ravels with a generous provision of

to played by Helen-Vinson, threatens sequences of "The Good Fairy the comedy, drama, romance and pathos, wreck not only his own life but also brillant Universal comedy which Hoy Wm. Naill directedsedni that of the secretary who secretly now at the King's Theatre, with

and - Herbert

him. Lakas, who scored such Margarab Ballavan loves personal hit in Little Women" has Marshall in the starring roles, Miss proved to be a

prime bly because of the fauxite prob Suliayan herself is an inmate of this quality of Institution, photographically correct dignity and restraint) that is reproduction of the Municipal Orphan- for Itt Bodspast, Hungary, and becauer be personines degree the pall hed, courtly, consider

to

the

so apparent in him screen:JOTE-BAARK Marwith alergen vnumber of her kate-loverkänt denil twoman admire Monsoon; at work" in the

of the refuge. Here,

tale for

By her splendid portrayal of the 'difs out: a fairy tale the benefit of fonts dramatle role of Agnes in group of the younger girls gathered "David Oopparfeldt)Madga 3 orang about har, Margaret loses her hald. bargocinitel kestab lived; herself dan sewinging light and

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