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Summer Sweethearts LUXURY LINERE

CHAPTER XLIII

In

she realized that she had hurt her! ankle cruelly. Not a sprain, perhaps, A brassy sun wheeled acroan

but nearly so. She stumbled on ... molten sky. Ifere and there Were

There was no pity in the nching clumps of mesquite and

sage sky, no living thing in all the world brush. But there was not one sinto pity her. Only the burning and gle living thing in sight wave the heat and silence, and far-off, the birde tall, aliin girl in riding things who wheeling and swooping. stumbled across that dreary desert.

11. Any

bu-

"Ged, don't let anything happen to her."

That was a prayer, if a crude ona. There was a pale in his chest, an though a glant Land squeered his heart.

Want to go on, brother?"

That was the pilot speaking. The fat, amiable pilut who had a date that night back in his home town and wanted to keep it.

It worth your while to kee make Even keep going."

"Oh, that's okay, brother." There was silenco for a while, dur- raked the A

It was nTE.

It seemed to Katharine she bat

There were

no planes to be had been walking for hours. The wrist watch strapped to her slender wrist carer than Claymore, Hilda Hillard told Michael lifelessly. Fifty mileni told her it was half-past moment now, she told herself gallant back, the way they had come ly, she might see the car and the lent then it was not certain. and the little group' of

of civilized

emergency landing Beld.

you come with me, so that man beings she had left behind. Any I shan't lose the way" Michael de moment ..meantime she must keep manded. on going. Ta stop me

mennt madness.

Evelyn Vincent stepped forward she only had a single drink of

Of course Hilda must water! Just half A glass quar. tor of a glass to quench the thirst their only chance,

Michael winced at the words. that already tortured her. She

Hilda climbed into the seat, and thought of the mountain stream in the motor of the shabby car spun which she had carelessly bathed

and

roared. Bicharl remembered yesterday morning: thinking nothing little later of that mad ride. Fifty of the largesse flowing over the golden miles over desert roads, rocks.

She thought

Claymore of mounds of

served at dinner

sherbet, pale Kies.

go.

It was

ing which Michael's cyc countryside spread below him, barren, hellish waste, he told him-

self. A cruel land. Then be gasped. "Good God-I think-look there!" He handed over the Reld glasses.The plint nodded. Think

yeat"

It was a huddled figure they saw head on the desert floor. Khaki coloured clothes. A bright scarf.

Wilbur made a beautiful landing.

lemon yellow in the distance, and merciful God! Michnel never knew afterward hos

She thought little rine.

the wing of a clip visible over the he got out of the plane. He remem

bered

stumbling as he ran, and he of ice, tinkling in a tall grass

Your head whirled, dwelling on with n moustache. Clem Wilbur from followed him.

The pilot was a tubby little man remembered hearing the soft, hurried breathing of the little man who певе things. Better to think of Santa Fe, he anid, Introducing him- Homething else.

"Got her, brother?"

there

War

self. His own ship-mado a hobby

'Clem

had Kath- She sang songs, lightly, until her of it but if the lady or the gentle-Michael nodded. He cracked thront rebelled. She

man wanted to go up, why sure, he'd arine's head in his arma. Now ho deadly tired now but still she stum- be glad to

was lifting her, carrying her gently bled on, the harsh sund drifting above) Michael, briefly, explained,

As though she were infinitely fragile. the tops of her jodphur boots. Once Wilbur whistled. Yes, he knew the ingt She was alive thank God!

She was unconscious she was breath- she tore at the top button of her

Come pon-region. shirt and released it as if better started pronto.

slong-they'd Ret

Her peor, pretty lips were swollen. to breathe.

Her Hilda got back into the car Michael There was a acratch across one cheek. face was stained and streaked, Frank Millard would find her, or had been driving. She Dirk. They both knew this coun- would be half-distracted.

said the They had her in the plane try

Hilda, as Michael holding her close.

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"Guess she had a bad time of it,

like a book. They would laugh

laugh yet, wouldn't let herself think of Dirk at this adventure later on. Or wouldor Frank either. Of course, they huh they? She the story of a man and woman lost And yet you never knew!

reading were old

old hands at this desert business, The fat little man turned his ship in the desert. They had been sniddle- aget lovers. The

By the time she'd

the motor

got man had left running, Clem Wilbur had taxled to

his heart medicine at home so as not to appear handicapped

ed to his bride; the woman had not worn her specta- cles for the same reason. And so both had perished, one because of his the other because she could seizure, not see ta lead them out of their trouble.

Ah, but Katharine was young and strong! She shudd red, remembering the story. That could not happen to her. Death was something far away and unreal, not to be faced just now. She saw a far away speck in the sky and whirled, her heart in her mouth, thinking it might be a plane and that she might signal it. But IL was only a great bird--there were other birds in its wake-wheeling and cireling. Buzzards!

Horror-horror! It

WAS

back toward Claymore. There a doctor there, he said.

They put her to bed in the house

.

A bare

the end of the field. The little ship rose surely. Hilde brushed her hands of the woman whose husband was across her eyes. Of course the whole in charge of the flying field. thing was a night-mare

ranch house, but the linen was clean and the little bare room had a shade southward. Michael's heart was ham-shabby man

The

ship made a steady course at the window, The docter came, a in baggy clothes, and mering against his ribs.

This

Michael waited in an agony as Mrs. He hanked and swerved, dipping low, ud within.

man Wilber was a clever pilet. Darragh and the physician ifsappear- and Michael strained his eyes until they ached. Once he saw something Wilbur nld. Michael said, "Walt a "Guess I'll be pushing off, brother," white flattering and his heart leaped, minute."

to earth they saw it was only a but coming closer dangerously close | little,

tle, he fumbled' for his wallet, woman's torn scaf, caught on a jag- regretfully.

The plot shook his head, as though "Sorry, brother, but I ged root

can't take it. "Twouldn't be right. I've got a girl myself."

"She's my wife," Michael said. "No fooling? Well, congratuin. tions, brother,

The little ship circled and swooped. "She's here one place," Michael said. "We can't help but find her." tore at her The sense of It, closing in her, made her shivver na with

throat.

ол

With hands that shook n

"You think she's going to be

said politely. But he was not so sure "Oh, sure, certainly," the fat man they would be in time, if they did find right?" ague.

Five minutes-had It only been five

her. He knew the desert.

Why, sure. She'll be right as Michael Heatheson had not prayed rain. See if she isn'" minutes since she glanced at ber since he was a child. His mother! Michael watch dial last? It seemed hours-had taught him to pray, but some Whatever happened, he could never wrung the mari's band. yearat

where along the line he had forgotten,thank this man. Some day, perhaps, A sagebrush root tore at her ankle. The words came back to him now, he could try. She stumbled. Fell. Rising again, Child's words. Simple, imploring.

(To Be Continued). .

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is told as if these happenings are popular hits including "Brother Can seen through the eyes of the boy. You Spare A Dine" and many of Although Bobby knows that his George White's "Scandals" numbers. mother is the guilty one, the court fe has just completed four numbers awards the custody of the boy to her to be heard in the Fox

Film, "Lottery for eight months in each year, the Lover," which comes to the father to have him for the remaining Theatre today. "The very latest four. Hobby barely endures the time development is a return to the waltz. "Living on Velvet," a First Na- spent with his mother and step-father, Nat the old-fashioned style our grand- tional pleture which is heralded as a and looks forward to the time to be fathers knew, but mere the Viennese powerful drama with a most unusun pent with his dearly loved father.type which is a trife faster. This When, after what seems like an was proven in a recent poll sent to romance, is scheduled as the feature eternity to the hey, that time arrives, hiusle publishers and composera. attraction at the Alhambra from his hopes are dashed to earth upon

More than 80 per cent. voted for the Saturday to Monday. It has an all-discovering that his father also in- waltz, so that is what the public will star cast, headed by Kay Francis. tends to re-marry. From this point bear over the radio and in its theatres who has two leading men in Warren increasing suspense to its unexpected that prompted Al Keckett, producer of on, the story mover on with ever- for the next year. It was this len William and George Brent. The story climax. The picture features Edward Lottery Lover' for Fox Film, to ank tells of two men in love with the Arnold, Karen Morley and the boy. for a catchy walts tune for his pic same girl, cách of whom tries to give Directed by John Robertson, It was ture. We hope we have such a song her up for the other wan. Brent, upervised by Kenneth MacGowan. in There's A Hit of Paree In You, portraying Л dashing daredevil,

which is sung by Peggy Fears, Fox whose mental attitude toward life has

"Ladies Love Danger"

Film's newest serrational discovery, been warned by a terrific airplane

Fear strikes most actresses who be is also another waltz in the picture

Nick Foran and Walter King. There weekdent in which his parents and his come known ax Hollywood's best Close Your Eyes and Sue, which is dressed women. They recall the fate sung by Lew Ayres and 'Pat' Pater- considers himself the same as of various stars who passed into obson." "deal" man, and rushes from one mad scurity as actresses after they gaineıl escapade to another, trying but fame as "clothes horses," Glamorous able to forget. Tie is always saved Mona Barrie, extolled by Royer, screen "The Beat on Wing" now showing from the consequences of his rash stylist, for her ability to wear clothes at the Queen's Theatre is a rowdy nets by his friend, a part played by better than anyone he has seen in riotous story of two Warren William, who stands by him Hollywood in five years, is unafraid roustabout romance and a girl who fighting, loving, like the Rock. of Gilbraltar. When of becoming

" Here mannequin. hnd a place in her heart for both of Brent falls in love with the woman "Katherine Cornell could wear the then! A new "Sez you & Sez me" his friend is hoping to marry, he most stunning gown ever created or screen team with oodles of troubles rushes away. But Kay Franch, who just a barrel and she would still hold all of them blondes Adapted to the has the role, in nian infatuated with her audiences through sheer acting screen by. Ethel Hill and the aviator and sends the one

sister are all killed, and he escaped,

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can think of no woman to-day who Kohn, the picture was directed by William, to find the

Irresponsible youth and marries him in spite of the Miss Cornell, I still believe clothes

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The Studios. opposition of her family. Follows a will not take any audience's mind deep-sen divers and their careers on series of trying experience nt away from either good or bad acting, the opposite sides of the law. domesticity, for which the man is love smart clothes and being amart theme is a dramatic one, with romance utterly unfitted and in which he nearly dressed." In her latest Fox Film and comedy wall blended. Seen in ly wrecks the girl's life. Then in a vehicle. "Lailies Love Danger," co- the principal roles are Jack Holt mad moment he smashes his own life featured with Gilbert Roland, Miss Edmund Lowe and Florence Rtice ably in a thrilling situation sald to be one Barrie wears sumptucus clothes. Sho supported by such notable players us of the most dynamic climaxes of any portrays a baffing strunger who non-J. Farrell MacDonut, Frank Sheridan picture over screened, Other import-Lehalantly enters a bachelor's smart and Bradley Page. ant characters in the story include apartment, and setties there for the Helen Lowell, Henry O'Neill, Russell night, without explanations, just after Hicks, Maude Turner Gordon, Samuel a murder has been committed next Hinds, Martha Merrill and

Edgar door. Rover specially designed Missing after. This is how advance re A night in Paris without the morn- Kennedy. The picture is a

Frank Barrie's clothes for this Edward ports describe "Felles

T Borzage production, directed by him Lowa production which Bruce Humber-Darryl F. Zanuck's new 20th Century Bergure," from the story an acreen play by stone directed. They forecast coming musical extravaganza Jerry Waki and Julius Epstein, modes authentically. "Ladies Love Maurice Chevalier, showing at the Sothern and Merle Oberson have the starring personates in his act as well. Ann Danger" will be sen next Wednesday at the King's Theatre. Others in the King's Theatre to-day. The lavish leading feminino roles

In "Folies dance and musical "Wednesday's

prosentations, Bergere," which Roy Dal Ruth direct- cast are Donald Cook, Adrienne Alnes, featuring more than seventy of Hollyed from a script by Boss Meredyth Screen Drama of Dementie Crisis and Hardle Aibright, Herbert Mundin, wood's loveliest dancing girls, were and Hal Long, for release through motion picture which promises to hold Nick Foran, Marion Clayton, Ray

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