New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1928, Page 3

§\~‘;x:~=}:,1. & —_————— = - “Maybe Meester Smythe can writc a story about a bad womans and a good little girl. . . who madc love to them both.” THIS HAS HAPPENED Ashtoreth Ashe, adventurous ste- nographer, becomes involved in a dramatic affair on shipboard. Ash- toreth is taking a cruise to the West Indies and has encounterex two particularly interesting people. Mona de Musset, with whom she ' rooms, is a mysterisus lady of ex- | ceptional beauty, who possesses rare charm and priceless pearls. Jack Smythe, an Englishman, | warns Ashtoreth against Mona, and | declares that the girl is motorious. Asl @ reth is naturally shocked, but | Mona has been so kind to her that! she declines to sever their briet | | friendship. In a few days Mona will | have left the ship at the i Guadeloupe, a French posses the Indies. Ashtoreth treat her as usual. Smythe, who has already kissea Ashtoreth once, persuades her to| %o on the lonely boat deck with | him And there he makes love in a fashion utterly new and thril- ing for Ashtorath. Suddenly, from the shadows, a| woman approaches them. It is Mona, who turns on Jack in un- controllable fury. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | CHAPTER XX “Now Mona.” | Jack Smythe spoke soothingly, as one humoring a recalcitrant child. He cven touched her shoulder. “Don’t you Mona me!” she cried. | And drew away as though his touch had burned h. “No scenes! curtly. “And’ you'd better get out| of thls, you know. It's none of your business, Mona. | Her dark skin was livid with fury. And her mostrils quivered | with the excitement of her un-| leashed emotions. | Zasy now,” he cautioncd. *‘Easy!" " she hissed. There was something dreadfully primitive about her sibilant fury. Smythe turned to Ashtoreth. “The woman seems detcrmined to make an exhibition of herself,” he said. “Perhaps, Miss Ashe, you Fad better go below.” But Mona had snatched Ashto- reth's wrists. * she ordered. “She’ll stay and of | on in! resolves te commanded here. The Englishman had grown very {attend you | cidal, pale in the moonlight. Philosophers | say that the superior man find | himself in no situation in which he | is not master of himself. But therc is no superiority born of man fo rule the fury of an angry woman. And no one, assuredly, had ever wastered Mona in a rage. Smythe’s | poise secmed to increase her agita- tion. Now she like a virage, “I told you,” she cried, “that ho was a bad mans. He made love to me, like to you. And then he put it in a book — and sell it. People ! buy his book fo read why I go wrong. And he make mone; | The vchemence of her tirade choked her, and she stopped for | breath. She put her handkerchict against her mouth, and when she took it away, Ashtoreth saw that there was blood on it. “Mona!” she cried. TDut the other girl shrugged patiently. “It is nothing,” she said. Ashtoreth shuddered. “Please,” she begged, “don’t he 80 excited. You've made yourself ill. It's awfully dangerous, Monu— blood in your mouth, like that. It might be from your lungs you| know. A hemorrhage. wheeled on Ashtoretn Mona moved indifferently to the rail and put her arm about Asu- toreth. “It's all right, ma cheric,” she whispered. Her volce had grown | weak, with exhaustion or frighr. | “A short life and merry onc, mon | petit chou.” | Smythe cleared his throat. “You ought .0 see the doctor, Mona,” he declared. “If you wil| g0 to your cahin, I will ask him to immediately. It's sur- you know — g your strength this way. My God, vou ought to get yourself under con. trol!” Mona laughed mirthlessly. Swine!” she retorted. Smythe looked at her coolly, ani turned to Ashtoreth. “Mademoiselle,” he rems to imply that—" But Mona cut in hotly upon hls imperturbable humor, “Guff!” she shricked. “Please, Ashtoreth,” he besought, observed, o im- | can tell me wis she NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1928. Tears sprang woman's eye *“I have { womens | womens. to who But unde never | girl who would forgive a bad known,” she said, | the French | Ul crstood EOO betore a goo i You are very kind. ma cherie.” urned niocl | Moester Smy |uunlhcr story — for “That's absurd,” he declared. refuse to discuss it any furthes You're utterly propostcrous, Mona TI've told you already that your im |agination has simply run away with you. Youre talking like a| fool.” | “I talk to him before” ex-| They went plained Mona, “when you go to Smythe remuin bed, ma cheric. And T make heem Where they promise to keep his hands off you He promise—and T say, ‘Very well —then 1 shall not tell | went herself to find And then,” flared Smythe, “you | He inspected Mon: me sneaking back from shore, to | handkerchicf gravel spy on us!™ | temperature, *1 do it to take care of Mademoy | “Eeet is nothing” sclle,” explained Mona, quite un. | But her temperatur ruffled. > is one good girl. ! The doctor “You're a great one to take care | tapping scpulchrally of apyone!” e s what Smythe turned on his heel. . : told him. “You can't even take care of your-| “And you do | that means | was soft | “Mais oui, | again, and throaty with that curt- am content.” ously thrilling quality that Ashte- (TC BE CONT! | reth had noticed the first night. “1 {take very good care of mysel, Meester Smythe.” | “Oh. yes” he retorted brutally. | “You flower in flame!"” out & bad womans, And a good litt tiame, eh? An “Come, Mona," beg; to on t hi suaded Mona to lie d 0?* Mon'a voice Mona. talks of life the next chapter, Tears the philosophy Mona touched the long pearis | that hung from her ears, and liftea the triple string of pearls around her neck. She shrugged her shoul ders. | “You do not hate me, ma cherie? Her cyes were soft now, with « cobalt-blue tranquillity. And she | smiled her fuminous smile, A litte te wistfully, Ashtorcth kissed her swiftly. | “No, Mona,” she said, School Lik Algiers, Dec. begun to build a U intellectuals in the One hundred room dormitory will be pale check | North African pos: | monthly rental of hate you. Poor, poor Mona.” the land. . And a mans | | “take her down wit | simply killin Mona h you She's| ) difficulty, pros: sinst her lips 1l and her | skin had v of old! parchment. You lood,” —s0 smug! swallo know told of my “You A% enly | dan- had | nd she felt, ningly v the girl, | « down | 1bout | ously near completely overwhe to our roon you. Plese I'm | The Frenchwor nds | behind her on tl | she | tell you | will | 1o s0 “But T doesn't n den't ke Mona! Tt You anything when you feel If h been your sweet- heart, Mona and you're hurt, dear—T shan't ever him again. I swear” Ashtoreth drew Mona toward the companionway ! “My ‘swectheart . Monw ghed. “I nave 1 plenty of sweethearts, ma c “nd some I have loved. Lot 1 spit on Meeste, better. ‘ I te “Listen, Ashtoreth craz Smythe she's tryi Mona lar “He peated ‘poor his nos “I Smythe 2id, - (he weman's | spoke < fo 1 wd i put m “and placati ke through wrote “Mona £ wh published last ms to have e it Mona book make in And Mona cousiderably in m " insisted 1t in w | Now he 1 put it | stubbornly, to mauk love anof her Smyth at the s 1 corners, OUR BOARDING HOUSE EGAD LAD,w L THINK 1 WiILL OPEA UP A HEALTH ScHooL AND SAQITARIOM I8 A FEW MoRTHS!fIl/] il P -1 WAST A CLEENTELE OF -HE 4 HUSTLING, ENERGETIC MEA OF AFFAIRS, WHO ARE SO ENGROSSED! 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