New Britain herald., 1929-01-12
THIS HAS HAPPENED

AshtOreth Ashe. adventuring Tar from home. has thrilling ad'en- ture in the West Indies. There she meets. by accident. her employer the rich and famous Hollis Hart. She misses the boat on which she is travelling. and goes with him to his house in the mountains. Her clothes have gone ahead on the cruise ship. bu: Hollis fits her out a. best he can. And they spend a dangerously glamorous week to- gether.
 Six wonderful days have passed. and t's ship is due back again. Ashtoreth and Hollis prepare for their last day together. suddenly tle hurricane rushes in from tho almost without warning. a horri- sea.
 The servants seek refuge in the hurricane shelter. great cham ber in the mountain side. Ho'''s takes Ash,oreth to the house, where they spend the day. and most of the following night, quite alone.
 Ashtcreth does her best to yamn her host. She even dons paiamas, and wanders with him through the garden .. and lets him hold and kiss her. He calls her Orchid, as his own secret. tender name-because she reminds him. he says, of the flower. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER NNNI1
 Tn: storm had ragged all day, and TOW it was night.
 Midnight and the wind. worn out with it's fury. shu'ked like fitful wrath. lifting the poor, dead things it had killed, and tossing them about like chaff.
 The butterfly bushes lay on their purple heads. And the petals of the red hibiscus spilled like blood on the grassy slopes. Great boughs stretched across the lawn. And, beneath the wreckase. the whole gay garden was crushed and broken.
 Lime trees had ben uprooted and thrown aside; and the vani- las and cocoas. And a giant palm. spilling cocoanuts from it's broken fronds. lay across the garden wall.
 A few pale stars came out and peered sadly down. Hollis and Ashtore,h looked upon the horror that had visited their small para disc.
 Servants. with flaming torches, wandered here and there. A child. in the hut where the women lived, cried and sobbed. And an old man moaned.
 Down in the gully, dogs bayed fearsomely. And the servants scuffed their torches out and ran as though the devil chased them. For they knew that dogs never Eowlnl like that, except when the Suck F. Tan rode on the wings Of the night and the wind sighed gustily. Everything seemed hurt and sad
 And only Ashtoreth was happy. For Hollis had told her that ne loved her. He had, moreover. asked her to marry him. . And that. Of the two, was the more important declaration.
 It had been wonderful. in the cozy fastness of the little house. Hol- lis had fo'Sad pair Of black pa jamas. with gold frogs. and Chi ncse dragon writhing up the back. How they happened in his bags he could not imagine. For they ha1 been bought in Pekin. for the wire Of an old friend. It was months since he had seen them. Parkins must have mistaken them for some thing more utilitarian tParkins. Ashtoreth gathered. was Hollis vaIeD.
 Hollis begged Ashtoreth to ac- copt them.
 Mrs Lee would look like a mea, bag in them" he declared. Please. Orchid = they're lounging thi- gs. really. Not to sleep in at all.'
 So she had put them on. And taken a candle from her bedroom, to light the way 10 the drawing room. 10 show him how beautiful they were on girl who did not at all resemble meal bag.
 He had blown out the lamps