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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

SERIAL STORY

DECEMBER 23, 1935.

BARGAIN BRIDE

DELIN HERE TỪ ĐẠI

BARRETT COLVIN, back. in New York After years abroad, fall in love with 20- year-old ELINUR STAFFORD. Barrett is 35. won'thy, and has made a name, for himself |

an archaeologát.

LIDA STAFFORD, Elnor's beautiful mother, has kept the girl in the background, waiting attention for hers, Elda far ing on s'rtation with VANCE CARTER and constantly scheming to keep in the good Traces of rich 189 KLLA BRXTON, ber husband's Aunt, in order to Inherit a share of

the Sexton fortune,

Years before Barrelt shielded b's half. slater, MARCIA, when a youthful romance ended dienstromats. Marcia had a son whom Harreit adopted. She lalle Barrets that if her husband learns of the affals he will never

forgive her..

Lids goes to blami. Elinor glad, know. Inw that with her mother away the will have some chance to hold Barrett's Intermit. She se him frequently during the three weeks

her mother to away, Then Lkia returne un- expectedly. She enters the apartment, hears Elinor Wiking to a Man and latens dallberately eavesdropping.

CHAPTER XII

Lida leaned forward, listening frankly. She wanted, to know what Elinor and the young men were say ing. Her eyes took in a huge bouquet of red roses on a table in the hall. Beyond, in the drawing room, sho saw butterfly orchids in a silver bowl.

Then she heard Elinor say, "But Barry-1"

who

obviously easily influenced by him.

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KATHARINE HAYILAND-TAYLOR

Oh, but she could not have that! moved swiftly toward the Lida drawing room door. On the thresh old she paused, knowing the picture she made.

Bessis Thrope, Miss Ella (who would talk, talk, talk), and her father for whom she had to wall, When Elinor returned sho found Barrett still standing, looking rather white beneath his heavy int, and with new lines: around his mouth. He said, bowing

that he must stay at hord 30 done?" Elinor

My dear, dear, doar child!" she exclaimed tremulously. She saw the colour drain from Elinor's face and her eyes grow big and dark. Elinor had on a new dress and was wearing asked as she heard Benson close the her hair in the way Lida had declared outer door after him. to be absurdly theatrical. Barrett Colvin did not like the interruption, Covin

was flushed and looking she saw. Ho sullen. But she would manage it so that he would thank her and later,

more managing, sho with Httle could bring him to heel..

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"But what can you mean, dear?" Lida questioned in turn and with an assumption of innocence that mace Elinor know something very bad had happened.

"I mean what I say, Mother." Her voice shook "Can't you just for E/Aala

.E/Canada The envious malice naserted itself der-be honest 7 I love Barrett and brought a tinge of pink to Lidn's Colvin and he loves me. Ho was lovely skin. It would be an absurd going to tell me so when you came in E/Rousia marriage for Elinor, she decided. The child, Lida saw wearily, was E/Japan Elinor would be far bappler

E/Asia- to some poor man, puttering about at Kong to make a scene,

crying, shaking. housework as Bessie Thrope did, try-

"If he loves you, dear, of course E/Canada ing to stretch pennies and nickels, that attempting to manage the house he will tell you so. What could my E/Russia

coming have to do with it?" hold of a millionaire.

Eliner laughed suddenly, hysterical- "Be a little glad to see me, please, ly. Then, sobbing deeply, she turned Japan May 1 May dear!" Lido begged wistfully

and left the room. Elinor and very tenderly kissed her. She saw a question in Barrett Colvin's

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Barrett walked blindly, without E/Canada eyes which she knew (with satisfac: know.ng where he was heading. Mrs. E/Russia tion) had been put there by Elinor's Stafford had said (it came back slowly turning a a cool It was Darrell Colvin, Lida real-

Lida laid her small hands on Ellut all too clearly): "It is so good to E/Japan Ized. She did not want to have Barnor's ahnulders. "I can't tell you how Bind you lure with Elinor!" He had E/Asia

thanked her. trifle surprised at the rett Colvin devoted to Elnar! She guad it is

is to sou you, my darling," she she had

cho went on wanted him to admire her; to reelt said, her voice full and throbbing, was at the words. her good qualities to Miss Ella Sexton ve

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hesitantly as he sat down, "that Bobby WAR

Barry and "It's going to be ridiculously easy. Telfair might be here. His influence devoted to

Lida thought. But she mustn't leave is not at all good for my little Elinor. A tragedy it would be, Lida cided swiftly, for Aunt Elin to leave them alone until she had had a chance' She is, I must confess, quite modern

to speak to Barrett in private!

enough without-help. Can you get the bulk of her fortune to Elinor. "Darling." Lidn sald, pulling off used to want these youngsters call And Aunt Ella was quite likely to her gloves, "would you do something necking, Mr. Colvin?" leave a large part of it to anyone for mother?"

He had cleared his throat. He lind Barrett Colvin admired. Eliner's

murmured a stifled, "Why

Lida "Elinor tastes were too simple: Elinor would Elinor stood like a ntiek. All her

is so appealing,"

iroubled way. "Every- have been perfectly happy living on the smallest allowance while Lida race had been wiped away by resent-continued in

erment and growing fear. Yet surely, one likes her, especially older men. simply had to have money! Eliner,

what the girl thought, trying to down the She flatters them mercilessly into the of course, would give her mother what she needed but Lids did not want her gehe that was beginning in her heart, feeling that they're young again and ho cared! He was too true, too loyal then laughs about it afterwards. where she position

he to be influenced now. If he could be Youth is so cruel, don't you think? give, nor have her capable of changed by her mother he was not the Ho hnd moistened his lips, nodded. spending what she plunged and where man she had believed him to be. ahe pleased: Elinor would be together too generous with such people

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could be then as she had settle scamp!" Lida murinured and

"Promise me you'll use your dreamed. Life would tech, it would Influence with her she appealed, He made no response. "I'm sure,"

as the Thropes and Phillp Sexton, be horrible!

"Any young girl is better dif (for Her heart cried out, "Please Bar- Lin admitted laughing, and ruefully,

control," Lida

could always makt often. She rett! Please understand!"

herself

"that I won't have to cough COM- Lida went on, I want you to tele- whenever I enter a room in which fortable concerning any le

and phone Aunt Ella to tell her I am back you are alone with Elinor!"

skort assure herself that whatever she

ne home safe, sweet. And dear Cousin She sat allent then for a wanted was the thing that was right. Bessie and, of course, your father. time, apparently given over to her

She tiptoed a little closer to the Tacy're all so absurdly anxious about unhappy problem. drawing room doorway and stood close my safety," she ended, turning to "I am, Me. Colvin," she confessed to a billowing curtain, pressed against | Bithout a word. Elinor left the sort of 'personaux Elinor has pre- |

with a gh, "a rather old fashioned fear. Sume of the

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the wall. Elinor was saying, "But I've never known anyone so fine a room, her knees week. For the first amorous you are, Barry. It's ridiculous for line in her life she had been truly vided for me have quite broken me up. you to keep harping on age as you happy. For the first time she had "but her lips trembled. He saw realized what He might bold. And her fumbling for a handkerchief and He blurted out, "I want you to the moment before-nite could hardly saw that she could not go on, that have the best!"

realize it now-Barrett had kissed her. she had all she could do to

As she left the room Elinor could control. There was a silence. Then Lida are, without turning her hand to look Eliner came in then. Barrett could heard his deep-drawn breath and back, that her mother was holding not look at her. He could only stand, Inew he had kiesed Elinor.

Barrett, dully, aching in every fibre and feeling out an appealing. hand to "I didn't mean to do that before." Until that moment Lda had ignore a cheated fool. Somehow, he realiz be said and hesitated. He was going am, apparently completely absorbed ed in the chill of the outer air, he had on, Lida was sure, to say "before. I in her reunion with her daughter, made_hk_escape.. asked you to marry me."

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