Daily News from New York, New York • 968

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YOU FEEL .3 FEEL TOO ft ONLY EXCUSE FOR, I WaL? MW7 sSyjf NOT SHOWING UP I -r I ZrrrrmTL AT CONNIE'S PARTY, gL ft OP 1 i fallow her to pass. Elaine mur pThe competition for i i abut now I come to think of it. seemed to be warming up. Gloria left the saloon to conduct the search below. The newcomers bowed to Senor Arriaga and took their places at table.

Their talk was rapid and gay, their laughter frequent. They were clearly on excellent and familiar terms with one another, and many heads turned to observe their obvious enjoyment. Jeffry, leaving Senor Arriaga at table and leading Elaine out on deck, spoke with something less than appreciation. II NO OUTSIDERS ARE WELCOME "Happy lot," he observed, "but not what you'd call sociable. Youll notice on the trip that the English will begin to mix, but 1964hrEnalthCfca ELIZABETH CADELL- THE STOHT SO FAR, The winner of a cruise to I -as Palma with her fiance.

KLAIXE TKACY. her engagement broken, sails alone. orry for the perspiring news photographer Elatn- maneuvers an angry stranger Into camera range with her to substitute for her missing fiance. Her cabin mates are austere, neat MRS. CRESSWELL.

and untidy flash? MRS. GLORIA ELLIS, who is traveling to Las Falrais to be married there. Elaine had spent her five years' savings In one afternoon, recklessly buying clothes for this trip after a stimulating row with her fiance. SK.VOR ARRIAGA. a friend of her rodfather had been asked by LORD BARRADENE to look after her.

Affabie JErFRY KINGSTON' flirts with Elaine. She was photographed with CHARLES STAYI1SH. an Englishman whose father has large properties near Buenos Aires. Jeffry books a table for himself and Elaine and they are joined by Gloria and Senor Arriaga. Open Dislike TjlLAINE, grlancingr at the expression on the faces of the Hi two men, wondered whether the trip might not already be spoiled, but the quartet proved less disparate than she had feared.

Gloria ate a great deal but said little. The men exchanged views on the various they all had very heavy travel schedules. That kept them moving and I daresay kept them moral. Where did you meet Senor Arriaga "He came up and spoke to me when I was standing on deck before dinner. He's a friend of my godfather." "I've never come across him In Las Palmas, but I know his name well enough.

He's got a lot of weight in business circles. I have an idea we're going to see more of him than we are of Gloria on thistrip, so you'd better know at once that he's rich, unmarried and owns a big property four or five miles out of Las Palmas." "Thank you," she said. "Ill make a note of that." She had coffee with him and that she was tired and would go to bed early. He accompanied her to the end of the deck and there she said good night She went towards the lift, saw that it was in motion, and walked down the Stairs and along the corridor towards her cabin, feeling tired and a little confused. She paused to get her bearings.

deck; correct but the wrong end of the wrong corridor. She turned and walked through a short connecting alleyway. A woman was coming in the opposite direction carrying a cup and saucer and seeing Elaine, she flattened herself against the closed door of a cabin in order to mured a word of thanks and was going past, when a sudden memory brought her to a halt and she swung round with an exclamation of surprise. "Miss Milton!" The woman gave her a moment's blank stare, and then, without a word, plunged down the corridor and round a corner. For some moments Elaine stood where she was, too astonished to move.

Her mind went back to the only other occasion on hich she had encountered the woman. Yes, it was the same: short plump figure, round red face, wispy gray hair, the meeting in a narrow space, the flattening against the wall to allow passage. It was without doubt the woman who had, on that previous occasion, smiled and stated that her name was Miss Milton. Then why, Elaine wondered in amazement, why this headlong flight? For flight it had been. The stare had been succeeded, incredibly, by a look of fear, and then hadTcome the hurried stumble round the corner and out of sight.

Out of sight, but the corridor was long. There might be a chance of catching her up to explain where and how they had met previously. HER APOLOGY BRUSHED ASIDE Impulsively she darted out of the alleyway in pursuit and crashed violently into a man who was passing. There was no possibility of stopping or even slowing down; she hit him with force, and as he was holding a pile of tapes precariously in his arms, I she caught him off balance. He tried to steady himself, slipped and went crashing to the floor.

Looking down with abject apologies on her lips, she saw that the man was Charles Standish. For some seconds she felt alyzed. Round him rolled the tapes, their ends uncurling and twisting themselves round his ankles and hers. A steward, glancing out of a pantry at the end of the corridor, emerged and came hurrying to the rescue, but before he reached the scene, Charles Standish had got to his feet and fixed on her a look of open dislike. She began a halting apology which he brushed aside.

He bent down to assist the steward, who was picking up the tapes and piling them up once more. "Thanks." He dismissed the man with a nod. "I'm sorry." Elaine was horrified to hear a quaver in her voice. "I was following somebody." (Coatianed Tomorrow) jnterested in uuitn yesterday metnods of traveling, between England and Las Palmas and agreed that this line was the most comfortable, if one could spare the time to go by sea. "Do you have to travel much?" asked Senor Arriaga.

"I go over to England two or three times a year," Jeffry said. "You belong perhaps Senor Arriaga put the question with delicacy "you belong perhaps to some firm in Las Palmas? I know many of the business people there." I' AN ENGAGEMENT RING DISAPPEARS "I'm on my own. Kingston Enterprises. I've got an office not far from the Cathedral. I came out eighteen months ago.

I was handicapped at the start by not knowing any Spanish. I won't say Im fluent now, but I get along." ''I am sorry we have not met before." Senor Arriaga said. Jeffry, without returning this compliment, addressed Gloria. i33 Tracy tells me that you're being married in Las Palmas." he said. "Do I know him?" Gloria, bent over her food, had been looking absorbed and happy.

1. i. 1 I wt I "No, you don't know him," she said. "Hdw do you know I don't?" Jeffry asked in surprise. "WelL I mean he's not there." "I thought Miss Tracy said "Well, he will be there.

He's coming," explained Gloria. "Then we're going to get married and going to live in Scotland." Oh, how nice. What part of Scotland?" Elaine asked. There was a pause. "Well, I don't know yet.

He hasn't told me," said Gloria. There was silence as the others digested this unusual information. Gloria, as if sensing a certain incredulity in the atmosphere, put her left hand on the table, to display, Elaine thought, her diamond-studded engagement ring. The next moment she had given a cry of anguish and begun the frantic search Elaine had witnessed during tea. "Oh! My ring!" she wailed.

The others said that she must have left it downstairs, but before going down to investigate, she made Jeffry crawl under the table and search, while Senor Arriaga had to leave his chair and examine the area surrounding the table. Finally a quiet English group dining at the next table had to be disturbed in order to make certain that the ring had not rolled in that direction. II TWO HANDSOME SPANIARDS APPEAR The table on the other side had up till then been vacant; Gloria, divwe underneath it and groping for the ring, held up the Argentinian party who had just entered to occupy it. Elaine saw that they were the family group she had seen on deck. Charles Stand ish was still with them.

Added to the party, she noted, were two handsome young Spaniards of about the same age as Charles Standish. Without a word she plunged down the corridor and round a corner. not the Spaniards. They'll keep a then, overriding his protests, said themselves to themselves. That group playing Happy Families next to us just now will still be playing Happy Families when we reach Las Palmas, and no outsiders permitted.

When I first settled in the Canaries, I thought I could persuade one or two little Carmens to come dancing with me, but no. None of good family, I mean. They're protected like the harem women some of them are no doubt descended from. Not that I blame the parents or guardians. They think the English and the Swedish tie for first place in easy-to-get, which surprised me, somehow.

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