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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, * 1935.

SERIAL STORY.

BARGAIN BRIDE

DEGIN HERE TO-DAY

BARRETT COLVIN, hack in New York after years abroad, fully in love with 20-

KATHARINE HAVILÄND TAYLOR

Won

He saw a street light through the

лnow that whirling, fine, dry blow.ng across the pavement to heap in corners. The winter around was tropic compared with the chill of hia henri.

what could have happened to make the

Lying full-stretched change. and tente upon her bed; oyes widely, PRE-O ELINOR STAFFORD. Barrett 14 35.

open in the dark, she planned ques tions she would ask him. They were and very wistful wealthy, and has made a name for himself

rather chalish

and * Archerologlet.

beautiful LIDA STAFFORD, Finot's

He wondered dully how long it questions which she shaped mother, has kept the girl in the background, wanting attention for herself. Lda carry would Lake to get over it. Ilad the, reshaped until she felt they were ing on a Birtation with VANCE CARTER and whole affair been a masquerade? Had perfect examples of worldly finesse. Elinor felt nothing at all of that But with the coming of each day she constantly mehuming to keep in the good

ELLA BERTON her which he felt to fully That love that shrank from beckoning and reckon

Inherit grace of rich Miss

order to husband's aunt, in

had made him lie wakeful in the dark the explanation of his alienco she ahare of the Benton fortune.

Yines before

to feel swallowing hard as sho her

words, her

her amile,

laugh. after, MARCIA, when, a youthful romanes endod dla rously. Marcia had a aun whom Barrett, adopted. She tells Barrett that if Ulder men Always liked her.. bhu her husband learns of the affair he will never made them think they were young, blunt fact that he was tired of her, to please people, that she was as known a man "Kiinor's mother go to Miam for three Well, she had done that, to him, he Sho was certain that she did not know

she overheats knew. He had never. returns

inopt socially as her mothar hatt eald, werks. When she Barrell talking to Elinor. Realizing he could feet so young.

He'd

Lida had repeated this in various have tu get through lieve that Either dors nine roxily cars for him somehos, of course and he would ways again and again and any tune, but he only been flirting with him. Despite told himself this over and over nung often enough, clings!

agnia but could not down the pain in his heart

10. him Iliggos admitted Barre said slowly, "Sorry, forget I had a key"

"It's a bad night, sir," Higgins

Barrett ahlalded hla ilf --warmed, shaken by remembering began on it-probably lay in the

turg's her.

Mirash to kak the sell marry hm, ilm Interrupta, Cleverly the leada Barrett to be

ur, Bareit erro

CHAPTER XII

Barret Gulv.n strade blindly through the chill winter afternoon. "Amorous tableaun," "pecking." "madern"-the words reaped in his brain. He kept hearing Lida Stafford say them again

and again.

So he had only been "another man" to Elinor-the girl to whom he had Д hurr.ed been so caretul for fear courtship might frighten her.

He despised himself because the

stirred him touch of her lips still because he could not forget their sofiness and warmth and the promise of generous giving that had been made by their pressure.

"I was mad about you" he said half-aloud.

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Mar. 11 Mar. 18 Mar. 10 Mar. 24 April 6 24 Mar, 24 Mar, 2 Perhaps, Elinor reflected, the really

April 8 April 10 Apr 17 April 22 big puzzlo of the affair was the fact

April 3 April 5

Biay 4 that he had tarried near so long as

April 17 April 19 April 21 April 23 April 25 he did.

She wondered (her conjectures | E/Russla

*May May May 14 May 19 May 1 May were endless) if he considered her the port of a girl a man kissed easily be E/Japan

May 15 May 17 May 19 May 21 May 23 E/Asia

June 3 June fore he rode away. Her checks tinm-

E/Canada May 29 May 31] little alfair." the sung over at this thought. Perhaps now he was She could not imagine him faintly and E/Russia June 12 June 14 Juno 16 June 18 June 20

episode

July

1 July

July Ironically amused by ruch an

June 20 Juno 28 "We supposed you dined out, sir.'

He and yet, she realized, she had not E/Japan "Oh, yes- Barrett said.

July 27 14 July 16 July 18 known bini really. Sho, had only

E/Asia July 10 July 12 July hadn't lined

he cou.d

known her dream of him, her love for

July 20 July 31 Aug. 7 Aug. 12 12/Canada July 24 July 26' Higgins' worried cyrs followed him and a new need through him.

"That will be all," Barrett

Harrett's cont was damp from the now that, clung to it, lio was while and tired; hs hands atlifened by the cold and reddened by It.

think of food.

but

said. "You may lock the house

She grew thin, strained and her He plodded slowly up the broad smile became rather force. Bent- stairs. As liggins looked at him a well Stafford, seeing that smile, found appeared his heart which had seemed inured to vision of Barrett's father

had pain breaking anew as it had in youth before hins. The "alf master plauded slowly, wearily up those stairs and quite as painfully.

almost the same way when he had known that something wrong WAR going on behind his back, something

wan

Lida's emotions were mixed. She was amused and sometimes rather child to learn that happiness "for the "A newsboy looked after him to

annoyed. "Just as well," she decided, no one would tell him. urmur "Nuts!"

not made by some one's amille but Higgins understood that something out one's hold an tangible things." Snow began to fall as Barrett walked. Minr.ca had told him that was wrong now. He hoped it

Yet now and then she felt herself Bobby Telfair was Elinor's "almust not Mr. Haur's boy, for other touched, and this always aroused re nccepted admirer, Marcia had add-wise it might concern, "the young

or feeling apologetic about anything ed, "I suppose she doesn't want to lady," Mr. Barrett had come to care sentiment. She loathed "going soft"

ew. Higgins

that she had done. setlie down yet. These are the years great deal, they all knew.

of her age want to have could tell from the way, for instance, when girls

that Barrett reached for time." That had not alarmed Barrett nor her, letting the other letters wait

while he read and reread it. seemed

hult any particular tu significance when it was spoken. But could tell from the fact that Bar

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note from

but

She gave Elinor a hat she had worn twice. This donation came after the in lind sa'd--halting at threshold of Lida's sleeping room-

"Mother, did-did you say anything to

could!

She was

ho understood-he was certain he un-rett's appetite was capricious-very ha responded, "Darling. what derstood now. And Misa Ella had good or none at all. And from the Rad

"Older ment always adni're way he

Hlging oke to her at the telephone,ld I say? I can't think what you

hoped with all his heart that

mean Even Miss Ella nothing had happened to spoil all

consummate actress, seen him as one, no doubt. Barrett this. Such a biow for his master Every gesturo she made was a posc. Her bafflement at Elinor's question wounded where he was most would be too cruell vulnerable. Elinor's mother had said Higgins was saying a prayer, as

was completely convincing. the girl laughed over the way older he often did without knowing it fully, men drank in her flattery. "Ainorous but fooling it. Anddafrica the King

dom of God is made by those who ableaus

Even while he told himsel that love others better than themselves. he despised such a girl he was aching no doubt God knew, for her. And hating himse't for it.

He had lived decently; kept to his code. It seemed to Barratt, who rarely gave himself pity, that this was unfair. Why should the one girl to whom he had offered his honest lave have proven to be of such tawdry, material?

For three days Elinor waited, trembling if the butler Urew near, hoping that this time he would any "Mr. Colvin is at the telephone, Mix Stafford." J

For three days and nights her with conjectures of mind whirled

"He tired of me." Elinor mused, standing by a window, looking down on Park Avenue and scoing nothing. "Or else be despises me because ho thinks I'm one of those girls who lat any man kiss thent"

She did not cry. She wished she could ery but tears, the relief valvo for bitterness and hurt, were denied her. Elinor unfortunately had from childhood had to bear a good deal of hurt without showing it.

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