THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1933.
DARLING FOOL
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
by MABEL MCELLIOTT
had the swiftness of a platol shot. Istore, eager for a brief chat with MONICA O'DARE, pretty, 20, and poor, is in "She did, eh? I don't see how she go and yet here she was, giving lars with DAN CARINGAN, heir to one of could have. I've been busy as a him a chance to escape. trus klor, helping to support her MOTHER bird dog over since I arrived."
Dairedera's. fortunes. Monale worke In
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Now he was helping hur into the [omnly gyrating on the dance floor. low-slung car. The door slammed. Monica ussured herself, aftor, a The motor purred.
swift survoy, that no one sho know “Gold ?" „Dan was looking down was present and was consequently at hur as they flew along. She relieved. shook her head and laughed.
The man who owned the place, "Of course not. It's a beautiful a thick-set, cheerful looking Italian, night. Just ke summer." Sho led them to n table by a window, felt happy now as she always did supplied them with menu cards and when she was alone with Dan. loft them. Dan turned to hor and They talked a little-desultory Monnie's heart missed a beat. For her younger sister, Kay, and her brother, Monnie did not look at him. The look Dan bestowed upon her talk Dan drove fast. In the the first time she saw the old Dan MARK. An older brother, BILL, le « take The old struggle had begun again was baffling in its hiddon quality, flashing lights before they reached In that glance the humbly wor- mechanfe, The O'Dites have en betler
Dan's constant He said easily, "Not unless your the edge of town Monica could see shipping Dan who had first said to daya. Dan Cardigan comes back from the between them. cily. And does not week Mannis auit once. evasions maddened her, whoso na- mother, sands me. Or would't you his handsome profile. How splen- her summer before last, "I'm fall- Ska-la unhappy. CHARLES EUSTACE, mys- carious and bendsome newer in town, dature was simple and honest as the like to go for a ride? Just out to did he was! What did it mattering in love with you, girld've wages Kay's admiration. Den arrives unex once and for all?" her inner volce Mill Creek Road and back- if he had been driving with Sandra know that?" pectedly-tonnie-is-washing-the-supper demanded.
Unaccountably, the girl's heart that afternoon and had not told
|~~~Yes, Datt" was looking at her NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
The struggle to keep Dan inter-lightened. What did I matter, her about it? ested, to keep him in love with her after all, whether Dan fibbed to "I thought we'd drop in at the again in that way. There was no mistaking that. Her pulses begun CHAPTER II
wearied hor. But some strong her about the time of his arrival? Cabin for a bit and danco," Dan to pound. compulsion she did not half. under-He was here, just na she had announced, casually. Monien felt
He only said in rather common-- He stared down at her, long-stand made her keep it up. It dreamed. That was all that count-a momentary flash of disappoint-place fashion, "Missed you. Liko lashed, sullen-looking, eyes lighted
ment. Of course it would be lovely from within. "Hollo!" he said wasn't as Dan were the only ed.
man who had over paid attentions "I'll dash upstairs a minute and to dance with Dan. Just to be the very devil." lightly.
She strove for the light touch. Monnie shrank back. The greet- to her. There were half a dozen fix my hair," she murmured con- seen with him was a matter for
in nud around Belvedere who fusedly. And vanished.
pride. But it was grand, too, being It would never do to let him know ing was casual, as though he had would have been proud and glad As she traced the outline of er alone together. However, ahe said how much she had missed him. been gone a day or a week instead to claim Monica O'Dare-but Dan mouth with a Hitle raspberry col-lightly, "That would be fun,” Never, never! of almost a year. Her pride rose. was the one she wanted.
uored stick and powdered her nose She atified her conscience. Gallantly ahe said, "I've thought She took her cue from him, shrug-
Mrs. O'Dare stirred. 'Her glasses Monnio could hear the rumble of Mother didn't like her to go out of you a lot, too." ging herself out of his prisoning fell to the floor with a clatter and Dan's voice, taking to her mother, to the Cabin, a harmless enough Dan set his jaw in an ominous jingers.
"Nice to see you," she said cool-she called, "Who's that you're talk. Her despair of half an hour ago appearing road place some 10 miles way he had. He demanded, "Is ing to, Monnic? Did Bill get in had lifted. She felt cheered. out from town. Of late rather un- that all you've got to say about ly, trying to deny the sick torment
| Anything_might happen. yet?"
Any pleasant reports had drifted back to it?" his arrival had stirred within her.
The girl was grateful for the thing could. Was sho a fool to Belvedere about it.
Monten could have laughed aloud, "When did you get back?"
interruption. An awkward silence stake so much on her hopes of
could, 'have sung for pure joy · nt like a barrier had grown up be- Dan? Why couldn't she care for The red stucco roof of the Cabin his flerceness. tween her and the tall young man Sam Merriweather or any of the came into view presently and the MAIL?" she asked demurely. others who dropped into the drug limuffled beat of jazz. Lights "That's a lot, This is a small "It's Dan Cardigan, Mother," she her? Why had she fastened her streamed out from the casement place, you know, and I miss my~ said casually. "He knocked but affections on anyoun n for above windows, behind the panes of which my friends.” we didn't hear, so he came round her as Dan Cardigan?
a few waiters could be seen, hurry- Mrs. O'Dare greeted Dan.
Well, she had done it and it was ing to and fro. "Come out of the kitchen, chil-too Into now to go back coldly over. "Don't know why they call this dren. I was Just thinking of the progress of her feeling for place the Cabin," muttered Dan lighting a fire in here. It will be Dan. Love was like a prairle fire, Jovially. "It looks for all the world cosy
Once lighted, it awept on madly. ilke a near-Spanish bungalow.” heedless of what it destroyed.
He helped her out of the car and "Good girl. That didn't take she smoothed her frock, glancing long," Dan approved, amiling down down at it doubtfully and wishing Int her.
she had changed to her blue crepe. "Don't bo late, dear,"
her Oh, well, It didn't matter!
There were a few couples sol-
Dan's gaze shifted. He saunter ed to the little bay window which looked out on the lawn. Red geraniums bloomed there in an old- fashioned wire stand. Dan Axed his eyes on this and mumbled, "Oh, around noon. I was busy with the family until just now. Thought I'd drop in and see how you've been behaving since I left."
"He's lying to me," suid Monnie's traitorous heart. "Why don't I let him know that I know?"
Aloud she said casually: "Oh, nice of you. Kay said at dinner she thought she's seen you."
in the gray suit.
Monale interrupted, her usually aweet voice high and strained.
any
"Dan just stopped in to hello. Ilo's running along."
Why had she said that, sho
He swung around. His answer wondered? She didn't want him to mother warned.
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She gave him an impish smile. Dan glowered ai her, his blue eyes fairly crackling at her under his long lashes,
"What have you been doing with yourself all winter? I suppose you've got a trail of young men from here to High Falls."
This wasn't quite the note Mon- nic had expected him to strike.
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