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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1936.

THE HONGKONG “TELEGRAPH'S” NEW MOVIE SERIAL

SYLVIA SCARLETT

Based on the RKO-Radio Picture featuring Katharine Hepburn, Edmund Gwenn. Coming Shortly-to Hongkong.

PART III

(Conclusion)

Some hours Inter, however, she was glad to have his hand on her elbow and to feel his presence beside her. Together they stumbled in the dark over the moors. hunting for her Vaz- father. After reaching the caravan couver they found him pathetically concern- Victoria ed over Maudie, who had run into the village to buy bloaters for tea and hod not returned. He'd talked about

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have heard even if she were asleep and it was whispered. The cry came again, Michael Michael! Michaelf" Clearly it was Lily who was calling.

Sylvia went flying down the clif. toro off her skirt and shoes, screamed for Monkley and throw herself into time Monkley the waves. By the reached the bench she had Lily out of the water. Together they worked over her. When a little colour flowed back into Lily's checks Monkicy carried her up to the caravan. They gave, her some brandy. Sylvia was her when she complained, she was still cold.

"Come on," she called. "Hurry, dol He's bolted with her, that's what!"

"Left you stranded, too," roared Michael. The swine!"

They carcened along the const road, whizzed around hairpin turns. It all came to have less and less reality to Michael, and he thought fantastically that Sylvia must be the reincarnation of one of the Furies, to drive so recklessly yet so safely.

rats, too, and insisted he saw them nder and wrapped blankets about saw the caravan ahead on the road.

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"Stop worrying about Maudie

"Why did you do it?" she demanded

Jano 29 with that man with the mous when Blonkley went outside.

every

time she leaves the

wore on.

It was growing dark before they "If only," said Michael, "he won't sec us for a while."

developed as the night one of him-Michael," Lily saw us first, He has eyes in the

Maudle

9 July 14 Sylvia pleaded. However, was gone, it de

Whether or not she went to join the other fellow no one knew. But Henry Scarlett act out after her, and himself did not return.

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"But," Sylvia's voice was a little

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a way Lily admitted, "but not a way that's good enough really. All the time we guarrel. Today WO quarrel because I don't tell him that your father, I hear he is dead. And he is afraid you. will think him cruel that he doesn't come to see you." hor shoulders. "I for- She shrugged get what it is wo quarrel about yester day. Tomorrow it will be something eise. 50*

So i poca."

There was a long silence.

Lily said. "I am not

"It is meestroy him. That's

good.

"He hasn't come back," Sylvia sald sadly. "He hasn't come back yet. Why I went out on the rocks and..." Poor Old Man.

It was Monkley who found hum several hours later., Lying at the bottom of the cliff near which the caravan was parked. They need not have looked so far.

"You must love him very much," Sylvia told her, "to be so brave."

Ly's laughter was bitter. "Yes, for they say, when drowning one's past life passes before one. To risk

that 1 trus brave."

Sylvia arranged her pillows and fucked the blankets closer about her.

"Go to sleep." she said, "and when: you wake up he'll be here to take you home."

Sylvin didn't cry. Not even when hey buried him the following day.

"Why should I. cry?" she asked Jimmie who semed to expect it of her. In her black raincoat, with a black sou 'wester hat pulled down She went for Fane herself. "Your and a black scarf wrapped about her friend's at our caravan," she told throat to hide the galety of the dress him. "You must be very kind to she was obliged to wear she looked very while and very young. "Life without Maudle would have hurt him more than life with her did and that: was bad enough."

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her. You must put things right be- tween you. She meant to dle and threw herself in the water."

Fane grabbed her hands. "Is she safe now, perfectly safe?" FAT But Sylvia went on with her story Monkley laid a clumsy hand on her in her own way. "She meant to shoulder." "A little warm-heartedness die," she repeated, "because she between us would do no harm," 3o thought she was bad for you." suggested, and it might keep us from

"Who saved her?" Fane wanted to being lonely."

know.

I pulled her out, but it's only you can save her, really save her, I

dlid,

копе.

Sylvia's eyes softened. She won. dered if Monkley, when he talked about being lonely,, meant the same

mean!" feeling that had been inside of her

Pell

the mell they drove over ever since she had walked out of

country roads to the clit. But' Michnol Fane's studio and left him when they got there the caravan was and Lily there together. If he she pitied him..

"She's turned worse," Fane said, Sylvin was sitting on the caravan

Monitley's driven her to the steps while Monkley gathered up "and their paraphernalia preparatory to doctor's." He jumped out to see by their departure when she heard the the wheel marks which way they scream. It was soft enough, but had gone. Sylvio slid in Michael was o name Sylvia would driver's seat and

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Sylvia laughed. "It's my guess he back of his head, like a fly."

Monkley had seen them. At the crown of the hill he stopped. He got ous and unfastened the trailer. The road along the cliff was narrow. It would be difficult to avoid that trailer When Michael as it raced down hill.

breath. On saw it coming he held the wheel Sylvia's hands grow strain- Sho ed and white. waited until it Was almost on top of them to see which way it would swerve, then she tho hill she head- awerved, too. Into

the car and at the last minute pulled on the brake. She saved their lives and saved the car from any seri- ous damage, but it was an hour be fore they got it out of the ditch that bordered the road.

Sylvia and Michael went faster than ever after the accident. Up and down hills and through two startled to a townships. At the entrance third town they were arrested for speeding. They landed in the local Jail. In the same cell.

"If you hadn't driven like such a tittle fool," Michael began.

"You're

the nervous type, are you?" Sylvia asked. "Well, I I was after a girl I shouldn't care?"

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"You happened," said Michael, "to be after something quito different-a man. You don't believe for minuta I thought you along that way to save Lily!" Lot to! vero tearing

"I hadn't given what you might be thinking!" Sylvia's chin was high but her heart wasn't.

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ho

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I'll fetch you some."

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He went striding down the corri dor. At the dining-car door

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but why?"

"Why? Because I love you, that's

why

nut

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"We're

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They jumped down from the train and ran swiftly for the woods.

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