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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1935.

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KATHARINE HAVILAND-TAYLOR

******** She settled on a low stool at his feat.

DARRETT COLVIN, back in New York

"But what?" Stafford prompted. | morning." after four years, meets 20-year-old ELINOR How had anything so beautiful come STAFFORD and falls in love with her.

himself an archaeologist.

Ban

"Then-that's all right!" she said happily. She didn't want hett la 81, wealthy and has made a name for to him and to Lida? So beautiful quickly,

spiritually as well as physically? Ho Mr. Colvin to meet her mother until had had a little chance. sho, you

Elinor's beautiful mother," LIDA STÁF-nover had been able to make it she wouldn't have any chance at all

FORD, has kept the girl In the ackground, wanting attention for herself. Lida la carry- Ing on a flirtation with VANCE CARTER sed like him as a very good friend.

terrified for tear her husband will loses of been a very good friend!" she ended

before Dartwit shleided Marcin when a youthe ful romance ended disastrously. Marcla had *son whom Barrett adopted. The boy la nine years old now. Marela inalate that if her him?” husband learns the truth be will never for

overy your

la constantly scheming to keep in the good know he's helped me a lot with had happened before with Kraces of M188 ELLA BEXTON, her husband's Cousin Philip, going to see him when man who had been attracted by

manage to because of nor, except Bobby Telfair who had auni, in order to inherit ahare of the I couldn't Hexten, fortune, Ellnor hates this hypocrisy, Mother and the way she feels. He's remained adamant under her mother's

Darrett's halfter, MARCIA RADNOR, la

giri understood, in order that a selfish attacks. The attacks were made, the as unfortunate episode in her past Years loya 1 know, Poor young devil! (woman might prove the fact that sho could attract and enchant and rule wherover

and whomever she wished. The thought of this had never before really mattered to Elinor. Now. It the broad Benson appeared in "I had the most wonderful after-doorway just then to announce that Barrett takes Elinor Stafford for a drive.noon I've ever had in my whole life!" dinner was served. Each time ho are her she seems more char ahe confensoul.

give her.

HAROLD threatens

what about Colvin? You He "Very much" The response camo low.

DEXTER the boy's tutor.

"Hum-!" Bentwell again lifted his Blackmall. Barrelt, hinting at knowledge of Dexter's past (all of which glass, bla), frightens the man into promising be will not make trouble.

ED.

CHAPTER X

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Bentwell had known it would come

Elinor rose quickly, her father in to her in that way; that she built to give a whole heart and not a his slow and cumbersome way. The cautious inch of it. Suppose Colvin dining room had been decorated under Lida's direction in what she consider not to were damned fool enough

an impressive manner but to-night realize that which was offered him?

in traits "Do you know Mr. Colvin, Father?" the aged oak walls and family por-

looked down on faded roses Bentwell Stafford sat before the fire, flushed and heavy eyed. The she asked. She wanted to talk of the centro of the table and a Vene-

the usual decanter and glass were bo Colvin, he saw. There had been a side him on a small table within easy time years ago when he had wanted tian cut-work cloth that was a little rench. For the first time that he to talk of Lids in the same way. The crushed. The candles, too, had been

Lida was burned before.

It was the sort of thing Elinor do could remember Elinor had not greet-time had been short, as

sho simplicity ed him as he came in. Although orphaned and alone and they had

mar-tested. Consistent left him had the home-coming

thought to be so much more agroo hallow

It warmed him, too. He married quickly. Soon after

nor even to think of her. Elinor had

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not

bo hurt!

of Lida's deceits. The fact that she had no few good

Mother dining out?" Elinor asked "I know him fairly well. ho re- times made his eyes fill with those tears that rieu casily from alcohol. sponded in his slaw way. "His family

under her. A little stir at the door, made him have lived across the street from Aunt after Benson had pushed her chair. turn to see Elinor, her eyes bright Ella for more years than even I can

Yes," her father said, "Off some- While

1 was still on the and shining,

remember.

where with that young Carter." rasping, low voice after the, coughgh I used to be drawved-there-and I loatho him and yet I'm sorry for Calvin and his sister ran in often. him, too," Elinor stated. It was odd He's a good chap. I understand, but "Dearl" she exclaimed. She came they say he's hard-boiled 'bachelor. I how she could talk and hear herself Passenger Rates: forward swiftly, stooped and kissed him, then settled on a low stool at think a good many women have tried if from a distance while all the to marry him. The Calvin fortune is time that now, excited feeling in hor heart made her neem to be a different person. considerable, you know."

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"Well, child”he

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Her father studied her. She was beautiful-rarely, undoubtedly beauti ful, le didn't sco how even the dullest eyes could miss that fact.

"And what?" he asked. It was a nightly ritual, one that had started back in the days when it prompted a history of her play hours and of how she had done at, lessons.

She flushed at the words,

"Father,"

"Yes, dear?"

"How are you off financially just dreas yesterday I now? I sw would like to have.

"I'm not going to try to marry him." Elinor admitted honestly and a trifle loudly. "But if he wanted to marry

"Then get it," he answered quick- me he'd have to do no more than snan hin fincers or whistle!" She ly. Elinor's doing without because tried to make a joko of it, laughing. Lida simply "had to have" this or "I had a ride," she replied. She but she could not. After the failure that had always angered him. And managed to was staring into the fire and trying she covered her face for a moment yet somehow he never

hands.

compensate Elinor for her patience saw her set her with her not to smile. He Leeth on the lower lip which would "Suppose, Stafford said slowly, with having so few frills.

"Thanks ever so much," she said. turn ward,

the dreaming he hasn't sense enough to know how

lovely you are? Suppose he's as blind Elinor was thinking that she would languor of her eyes.

Um1" Stafford renched for the ns as many damned fools?" decanter to pour another drink. He "Then I supose I'll know I wasn't neck. had always known it would hurt when-nice enough."

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it came; but he had never sensed the

"Don't!" Her father begged, Elinor depths of the hurt. And yet he slipped her hand into his and looked

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"Like him, don't you?".

"Yes, I like him but

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(To Be Continued)

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