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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1936.

Letter

I

to a

An Over-fond

mother does more harm than good

HAVE been staying with John and his mother. I'd only met her once before and was frankly afraid of go- ing to stay with her.

Girl Friend

misfortunes that have come to him in the average ups- und-downs of life personally, and made such a fuss about them that now John hides as much as possible from her. Ile hates scenes.

He hides the good things, too, because he knows he is her only tople, and it is embarrassing to be eternally held up an

a paragon and know that people are Inughing.

Soon after I arrived she said to me: "John tells me everything, we are more, like brother and sister than mother and son." How mistaken she was, poor woman: I always suspect that kind of remark.

She expects too Much

1

SHE has, it is true, given love, time and money to John. Now he remembers, her sacrifices with gratitude and a guilty conscience. She says she But it is She told me on that occasion that she had has had no time for friends because of him. given her whole life for John, and I thought it not fair to expect to share his, and to have him constantly

by her. He has his own fe to live. boded ill. However, I went, and in the end I managed to make friends with her.

·Putting him first Always.

Has she not, if she would only look truth in the face, regarded hin

him as a sort of investment-n plaything and hobby when he was small, a continual source of occupation, amusement, and emotional satisfaction when he grew up? Did she not expect to share the interests unselfish for which he did the work, and the friends whom his JOHN'S mother thinks she is a

person. In one way, I suppose, she is. She personality had attracted? Is she not sapping his youth has put John first all the way along. She has taken the and vitality?

most

One woman

gives

the

One day she confided to me she was not getting on as happily with John as she did a few years ago. He was more of a stranger every day. In the end I told her what I thought about it, and what I'd do. She took it very meekly and sad perhaps I was right.

1sn't. And that lent eye-black, it's The new plan

to make the lashes grow,

"I'd much rather pay for myself." You say this (a) when you know! they haven't much money, (b) when you know they have, but don't want 'them to know you know.

THIS

works

HIS moralog I had a letter Things are from her. woriting according to plan. She says she's given up asking John where he's been and what he's doing, and finds now that he tells her a lot off

In neither instance it true, "Of course, we can still be friends." You say this when a man is walking out on you. It prevents him from geling away altogether, and gives his own bat. him a sense of confidence while you

Iny plans work up on him theatre the other night, a thing that again from a new hasn't happened for nges. It made her very happy.

game away

ned and

angic. He never refuses the friend- ship, even if he has doubts about because it lets him out of HAVE you ever used any of these it,

he doesn't phrases on a man? I'm pretty feeling,a ead. Mostly sure you have-and got away with even have doubts. il, too.

For men are so gullible that if the Deep laid

right woman says it they'll believe

anything, and how many times have plans

you

sald:

"I never use make-up."

So many

"It's so lovely to be able to just! men believe this that many women talk. You say this when your de-| have begun to belleve it too.

After all, powder doesn't count, termination to make him propose And no one could call it touch of really deep-laid; usually at about 10

rouge make-up.

He took her out to dinner and the

She's determined not to take his failures as tragedies in future, and to be pleased by his successes without bragging.

In a magazine Suzy sees a pic- ture of Madame de Chabris with Andre and recognizes her as the woman who tried to kill Terry. She rushes to Terry to help her save Andre. They And him at the home of Madame de Chabris, When he refuses to leave, be leving Suzy is merely jealous, she makes her accusation,

CHAPTER ELEVEN Madame de Chabris burst out laughing.

34

Me're Goldwyn Mayer LUCY HUFFAKER

of the stairs, he heard her calling him to come back.

"You look at him," she said chok- ingly. "I think ho-but thought you were right, and I was wrong."

He bent down over the couch. Then he rose slowly and faced her. This time you are right," he said. She did not cry out, she did not weep, she did not move. She stood perfectly still, gazing straight ahead. There was a strange look on her face. It was almost hard; it seemed bred, not of sorrow, but of determina tion.

Terry," she said after a moment or two, "I don't know how it is to be This is better than a play or a done, but someway It must be done. We could not save Andre from death, murder mystery. Please go on."

"Suzy," said Andre, "have you but some way you and I must save lost your mind to make such an at-him from the scandal of such a death. It so unfair that he died as he did. He cusation? And you, Terry, what do Even if there should be no scandal, it

"You can't laugh this off," said had earned the right to a

hero's you mean-" Suzy calmly to Madame de Chabris. death." "And I am not crazy, Andre, I know exactly what I am saying. Madame de Chabris, I have seen you twice before and on the same night. It was when you were operating London, just before the war."

I understand, Suzy. But what can we du?"

"If he had died in the air-}|—” Terry's eye fell on Andre's flying incoat which they had fung on a chair. He drew in his breath sharply. li was too wild a chance, the odds would

"Mistaken identity, evidently. You remember, Captain Moore, I'm at ways thinking I've seen some one be fore. Madame Charville is evident- ly like me in that one respect. For haven't been in England since was a school girl."

I

be

the

"Whatever his faults, he was brave and gallant. And it's not of Andre alone I'm thinking. There's his father. He could bear having his Andre gave her a sharp look. It son dle n hero's death, but this

Terry had leaped across the floor. was a bad slip she had made; he remembered her telling him she had He took off his coat. He was put-

ол Andre's

Whatever been walking along the Embank-ting

great the odds. ment when she heard the newsboys chances, however shouting of the assassination at he knew what he must do.

"It may fall," he said to Suzy, Sarajevo. He did not speak. Ile. was listening intently to what Suzy; but I'll do my best to see it doesn't

explain now-no time." can't was saying.

"I now you shoot Terry." Suzy "All right." said Suzy. "Just tell "Nothing but the hardest thing went on firmly, "because you thought me what I am to do."

Just he knew your pians. You really needn't have done that, for he anyone can ever do-walt. doesn't understand German. And stay here until I come back. And down that will not be soon, You may have before that, I saw you

Tone hours alone. There is much I Schmidt's factory."

have to do."

at

This is too fantastic," said Ma- dame Chabris. "And it grows more so with every word you say. Not Best of all, she's developing her only have I not been in London for own hobbies, reading more again. years. as. I just told you, but until doing a bit in the garden, and making this minute I never heard of Mrs. plans with friends of her own. SheSchunidt's factory." now was an exchange of news for John, not mere comment on hils doings.

"Why did you say Mrs. Schmidt?" asked Suzy in an even

"I voice.

sald- "We all heard what you said," said Andre. "And I think you have said enough. It is all quite clear

She's making a younger, happler

now, nagging fear of losing John's affer woman of herself; she's got over the

Lipstick certainly when his resistance is at its tions and is rich in new friends und

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interests us well. And I can't tell 1 have never known a man who didn't fall for some, If not all, of these you how pleased John is. feminine decoy lines. And they have! one or two lines of their own, too. which trot out with bewildering

they sincerity, such as: --

"Women only lose once." They say this (a) because they can't be leve a girl cars ever have loved any one but them or (b) when they're trying to get out of the whole thing. If it's (b) the follow-up line "You'd get to cure too much."

"Women have no togic." They say this when a woman has driven them into a corner, disproved all

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evasions, refused to follow their red herrings, and won her case. Men never get their own back

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LL the flowers that. bloom in the garden arc used as trimmings frocks. on new Flowers--from-a-patterned fabric. are cut out and arranged to en- circle the throat, as shown in this sketch drawn by our artist at a Paris dress show. They are also sewn on the gloves.

Another charming idea is to have a dress in plain fabric, with half the sleeves and collar in an all-over floral cripe, and six or seveni Inches of the patterned material appliquéd to the bottom of the skirt.

A careless nosegay cut out from a re-patterned crêpe and appliquéd to

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Nothing could be simpler or smarter Of than the almost crownless hat shown

1a the sketch,

Of course "You're so diferent." you

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"It's different for women.” course it is.

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It is time for us to go." The door opened. The butter

come in.

"I am here, Madame. Together we will handle this litle nitair."

Terry made a dash for the tele- phone.

I

"Very well. I will wait."

It has

"I don't know how I'll go. Just come to me that they must have put our car out of commission, some- way. They'll not overlook that. I may

have to walk. But somewhere along the way, I'll surely be able to get a lift."

He picked up Andre's cap. He came over to Suzy,

a

"You must be prepared for any feel sure you are in no physical danger, but the mental strain- you'll thing that may happen," he said. 7

And there is have to bear that. something else." He hesitated moment. "If it is within human possibility-if it is not beyond what would seem possible, I will be back. Perhaps I won't come back. That, too, you must face. If I am not back by mid-morning-but I can't think of that. Then you'll just have to do le raised the arm which had been whatever you can."

holding 1 behind him. He was pistol.

"I wouldn't, if I were you," the butler said with a twisted smile. It would only be a waste of time. I have cut the wires."

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Thank you, Terry," she said. Without another word, he "Burry, Diane," he commanded. down the stairs. When he reached "The car is ready. Our bags are in the rond, he found, as she had fore- It nad a hamper of food. The win-seen, that he could not use the car. dows and doors are all barred, as this one will be when we have lett. We have time enough to get away

but only enough."

started to- Madame de Chabris ward the door as he kept Suzy Terry and Andre covered. She stop

minute, looked Andra

laughed.

At least I'll never have to listen to your childish prattle any more -that's something."

Andre, in a fury started across Madame de Chabris stum- the room.

A shot bled against the butler. rang out.

The butler backed out after Ma- dame do Chabris. There was the sound of a lock turning in the door. Within the room, there was a cry of pain, Andre fell to the door.

Suzy reached him first. She help- ed Terry carry him to the chaise longue, hoping to make him more 1 table comfortable. There, was with a decanter of brandy and a siphon bottle on it. She spurted water in his face, while Terry forced some brandy down his throat. Then find the they opened his coat to wound. It was bleeding badly.

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In the dim light, he saw some- thing leaning against a tree. If only te hardly dared hope-the sples would never have overlooked-he walked toward it. He clasped his hand across his mouth, to slide a shout of triumph.

It was a motor-car-Andre's, with his Insignia on li

(To-morrote: Terry keeps faith with the luing and the dead.)

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