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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MONDAY, DECEMBER

9,

1935.

THE

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LINE

REGULAR AND FAST PASSENGER SERVICES

FREIGHT AND

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for Marseilles.

for Mesville, London. Boj terdin, Hamburg & Ginsgow

for Havre, Liverpool &

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SERIAL STORY-

BARGAIN BRIDE Canadian

Chapter 1.

Barrett Colvin, bronzed by sun- baked miles of rand, sat forward so that he might see the windows of Fifth Avenue. It was a bit earlier than mid-afternoon last minny windows

with were warm the yellow glow that is a glare by night. The skies were Bullenly low and there was a drizzle in chilly air. The English, Barrett it "a dirty day."

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the average

cted, New Yorker, it was

"rotten weather." Those folks upon whom he had recently turned his broad back would call it "the will of Allah" Well, the fulth of the East was the most comfortable but Barrett didn't.

Er it.

He moved uneasily and it a ciga-1 rette. It was always unsatiafactory to come back. Memories that seared his from embers. A mind would leap corner of an uptown street or an old 10 Brush

Away building would

Marcia, make him sco to

ainter, the his tempestuous little daughter of his father's second wife. Marica, violent in her trap. Marcin

years

crying, he must help me;

I've no one

He had intended to help her, but with the passing of years he had been less and less certain about what he had done by putting himself between ile had made it her and the storm.

without meaning to, for her to evado her responsibility and to live a lie.

And now Marcin was married. She had written Barrett, "Of course Dick. doesn't know." And here, from her evasion, was another problem and one of the oldest one-a problem discuss ed often in "Advice to the Lovelorn" columns in answers to letters usually beginning, "Shall I tell the man I am going to marry, cic." Almost always the description of the unfortunate af- fair ended with a wistful, "I was so young,"

Barrett Colvin tossed his half- amaked cigarette from the lowered to- xicab window to lean back, already wearied of civilization which is not always so ordered as it seems.

KATHARINE HAVILAND TAYLOR

BARRETT COLVIN

"I'm so frightfully happy," she n perfect her at Miss Ella's house-the golden shrine for all those relatives who felt admitted. "Dick's such they should be rementbered in the husband! And to think you haven't even met him! Darling-may I have He hoped Dick Radnor deserved the Sexton will. devotion he had won from Marcin. The hall and Higgins' shutting the a cocktail 7"

How Barrett rang for Higgins, at the The facts might so easily come out in world away with a closed door.

time studying Marcia. She time, Barrett reflected, and unless good it was to be homel The same same

grown lean, hungry-looking, hadn't remembered Dick were the man Marcia thought dimmed, lovely tapestry. The same an had him to be there would be the devil to clent hat rack thut Harrett kept be- nervous. Ile

cause, looking at it, he could some those sudden, angular mannerisms.

"You're pretty stringy, Marcia," he "Ife must go up to see the boy, Martines' fancy he saw his father's hat

said perplexedly. cla's boy, Barrelt decided, as soon as on the black marble surface, his moth- he could manage to get away from er's small gloves and card case.

"It's good to be here again, Hig-it. town, Marcia did not care for him as

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"Darlink everyone is! You'll notice inve a cigarette? Thank uch, I've been tell She The should and it wasn't fair to the ginnt's good to have you, sair!" day. Always so tuuch to youngster. He must have grown

Barrett saw that Higgins' eyes held dropped to a chair as Higgins appear deal, Barrett reflected. It was

you bring Win broad four years since tears and he laid a strong hand oned at the doorway. "Good afternoon,

Higgins four

With a gentleness | years a he had seen the child whom Marcin the old man's arm. had implored him to

to "adopt" and that, combined with his strength, Manhattan 7"

Higgins murmured greeting, bowed whout he bed adopted.

beckoned too many weak mortals his

her chall

chair. Barrett Calvin felt a little tingle way, Barrett naked, "I hope you're and departed. Marcia sat forward on "I want to talk to you about a lot when the taxicab turned into a sedate been well, Higgins?"

"Yes, Mr. Barrett. Now and again! old street where brown-stone-fronted houses told of other times and other a bit lonely-not that I mean to com-of things, Barrett. Are you too "Not at all," he answered and tried This was getting home. No plain, sir. I think you'll find every frightfally tired?" manners.

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even than when I reidised. More Again she paused. Barrett's eyes grew sympathetic. He knew what it must east her to say all this.

"The harbour was foggy, I presume, The door was opened as the taxicab sir?" Higgins asked us he took Bar- came to a sudden halt. liggins, the rett'a conta, weighted by the wet in the butler, appeared, obviously excited to day's air.

Mr. Barrett" home again. The

red, bul chauffeur swung several scarred,

bags from the car to the walk.

sett

upon his ggins' eyes were master,

his voice almost tremulous. In a winlow across the street Bar- rett saw the imperious head of Miss saw her not stiffly and Sexton, say wave a hankerchief so black-bordered

to suggest ns to

A few minutes later when Barrett a death of Spul Barrett, after bowing

went was poking through his mail-frankly her fell, scarlet-tinted lips. "about up the brown stone steps of his home, and naively surprised at its bulk on Moore what a fool I'd been--- So little was changed. The glimpse of Marcin etme hurrying in. "Darling!" everything!" Miss Ella, the characteristic tilt of her she called from the doorway of the aristocratic rose, told him that she big, dark room. He turned, rose and still ruled sternly and coldly over all she was in his arms, crying, laughing, those who waited her death.

clinging to him.

The same huge thing," she ex- At the door, which liggins held claimed breathlessly, standing away, open, Barrett tuned again and as he "and so famous, dear! You

Murcia went on again. "When I

realisert," she repeated, moistening

(To Be Continued). -

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"No, Mr. Barrett, That is Miss anyone no brainy. Oh, it is good to Ellinor Stafford. She's grown a deal see you, dear!"

She pressed close again and for a these four years, sir."

Barrett nodded. Illa smile widened. moment hid her face against the top He remembered Elinor Stafford dimly button of his waistcoat. Then she as a gawky youngster with a brace on drew away and raised her face, to let her tooth, a youngster with an especial him see her smile and her misted talent for stumbling. He had met eyes.

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