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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER
SERIAL STORY-
12, 1935.
BARGAIN BRIDE
DEGIN HERE TO-DAT
BANNETT, COLVIN, 15, returns to Now. York after, four your almenom. Ila le rich and has made a name for hlerweli na un Arheologist. The fint to greet him aha
RADNOR, MARCIA
Younger, half-alter, setilab and apoi Marcia is happily married now. Years before Barrell shielded her when ended dhately. youthful flirtation Marels had a son whom Barret adopted. She bas 30 worried beeste the boy's tutor threatened her with blackmail and declare her husband will never forgive her it he lew the truth Barrett agrees to deal with The tor, HAROLD DEXTER.
An Marcin Jeaving she sees ELINOR BTAFFORD serve the street and offam to drive her home Filmor, 20, has been calling on her wealthy aunt HIGS ELLA BEXTON. All Mian Sexton's relatiers (with the excep Bon of Elinor) are eagerly awaiting har death, hoping to inherit a share of the mother worst fortune. Elinor's Berton
of the lot.
Marcia and Elinor depart. Instead of going home Elinor are to a shabby apart. ment house. knocks at the door and says, "It' 1, Phillp t
CHAPTER II
There was the sound of someone
moving chlad the closed door and a voice called, "Just a moment- Instant later the door openol.
A
AT
He
bitterly.
young man stood inside. unstled at Elinor a trifle "Envoy from the land of plenty!" he
added a a Harsh "Come
cz "Hello, Philip." Elinor crossed the
cousin, depressed. Her Philip Sexton, was often so difficult. Philip's smallness and thinners were. emphasized by the robe he wore over his frayed clothing. It was not fair of him to treat her na he did, she knew, but still Elinor loved him. He little Riri had been kind to her, n
her time among spending most of servants who were not always kind. moved across the shubby
Elinor Httle room and dropped upon a couch bed covered with a sailed red blanket.
"I brought the money-all I could raise, she began.
"All could raise?" he echoed, lified upward, smiling, un
brows life
pleasantly.
Eliner's chin set. "I've told you,'
"
by KATHARINE HAVILAND-TAYLOR
"I brought the money-all I could raise," Elinor said.
she confessed mustendity, niillion, again. Into his room. If she married people, how to talk to them or what times how it is! We keep up this well, as a girl of her attractions will please them" effect un-nothing. There are bills could, she would be able to do much everywhere-1"
"Oh, yes. Waiting for the old Indy
to die!".
her. "Philin she appealed, "éan't visits to Philip always defunding a smartly attired girls of her ago.
Elinor believed this implicitly and, for him and she was not the sort to together with the clothes her mother forget early days nor kindnessca dur-chose for her, it eclipsed her for all the most discerning. Most except ing her childhood. Elitor angged bark wearily, I was Elinor hailed a bus, boarded it and people saw her an quiet, ill-dressed true in a way but it was not true of settled down to ride uptown. The and somewhat shy and immediately her. forgot her for the more assured, you be reasonable?"
In an hour he would begin
At the same Elinor saw this, of course, and "Look around you," he invited piano in a cheap cafe.
she, her mother, and the other judged from it that she was a fallure. " tell me whether you moment would begin dressing for Un bitterly,
to this sday she had hecepted the think these surroundings encourage turning the other cheek!"
Philip was wenk but he hail Inct and concluded there was nothing" dinner. She Sh had no rengun to look.
gain never been helped to any to do but try to make the best of it. knew the room well-its appalling strength. The life he had known had Now auddenly she wanted to attract shabbiness And open
revelation of drained his slight strength. Not like as did other girls whom she knew. Se poverty. The effect was cruelly en-Mr. Barrett Colvin, she mused, whose wanted above all to have Mr. Barrett
have him unable to keep away. phasized by the silver-hacked tollet muscles would have grown stronger Coivin show some interest in her; to things that Miss Ella Sexton nd if circumstances pushed him down- given her orphaned great-nephew but of course he was exceptional. She when he lived in her home and before remembered with gentle amusement she had learned about his forging her her little-girl adoration of him. With
out amusement she realized that, at name on a check.
seeing him again, the feeling had crepe back to sweep over her in full force He was not exaelly handsome but so Ane-looking. Pulitips she would meet him at Aunt Ella's.
*
Elinor watched Philip's nervous. slenderly effeminate hands roll-a cigarette le lit it, dropped to chair facing her and studied her quizzically.
Philip/"
*
"She nodded, similed at the doorman outside the large building into which Staffords apartment. she turned, the building that held the
"A wet night, Miss Stafford," the man said.
"Isn't it?" Elinor paused to add, "I hope your little boy is better, Will-
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"I think he is, thank you, Miss." He heard her warm. "I'm so”
80"glad" and looked after her as she entered the spacious, too ornately impressive Agents: foyer. She was one of the best, he reflected, as he'd said often to his wife. Ho didn't see why she didn't have good times like the other young people. Always, coming and going, she was on fort and alone. It didn't seem right, The doorman turned quickly an a
Leaving the bus she realized tha, "I imagine you don't advertise
a visit to our visits here to our esteemed great for the first time after youre hazarded.
Philip, she had forgotten him and the aun
"How
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"Of course," she thought, "a man alone,
she protested. "Oh, I know!" he agreed, his bitter-ko Mr. Colvin would never.
and suddenly ness sinking. And I know I'm a think twice about me,
you, the she felt the chill in the late autumn brute. I shouldn't be--to one of all my beloved relatives will afternoon. If things had been dif-motor slowed. That was her mother ing to acknowlotge my existencel" forent and she had nown how to in the taxicab, escorted by the usual make herself attractive he night young man. The doorman stiffened Again he sneered.
have thought twice about her. But his face to guard a sneer,
She opened ter purse, saying, "Twenty dollars is all I could manage, Philip."
Ile took the bills with a dissatisfied, "Welle" and a Uxtless rise of the shoulders, folded them and slipped them into a pocket. She snt, big, violet eyes enst down. She was al ways shamed by these transactions i which turned him either debonair or petulant,
"How is our work going?" she
asked.
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Elinor, after ginncing at an alarm LoLo
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JOHOR "Goodbye, dear," he said, and kissed KOWLOON
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"Goodbye. I'll come next week if I
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Ho watched, her down the dark, grimy stairs. Sho was growing loveller each day. Her mother, of course, was doing her best to conceal tho
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