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DARLING FOOL

by MABEL ∙MCELLIOTT

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

Kay. "She's extraordinarily pret-just fidgety and suspicious, that MONICA O'BARE, pretty, 20, en poor, ty," Eustace said thoughtfully. "Or was all. Sandra was so sweet-- is in love with DAN CARDIGAN, beir tu un rather I should say sho's beautiful.. you had to trust her! of lietveders's fortunes. Kunnie wurka in

"You minx!" Sandra excialmedi drug store, helping to support her MOTHER, She has a sort of-sort of luminous her younger later, KAY, and her brother quality about her that's dazzling."archly. MARK, An older brother, Bibl og. Monica reflected that Kay Monnic, wrapping up the box: tez daza. Ban Cardigen romes back from the Would be wild with delight to hear of expensive face powder her elty and does not seek 3fannie wt we get this. Poor child, she had few friend had charmingly demanded, Bha la unhappy, Dan arrives unexpectedly as Mannie le washing the supper dish and they enough complimenta! Eo out riding. At dusting place they an counter CILARLES EUSTACE, mysterious and handsame newcomer in town. HANDRA LAWRENCE, kan helles

rage mechanic. The O'Darro have pren bet-

With

turned to stare.

"What do you mean?" Sandra looked more arch than before, her thin, prettily rouged

The music stopped and they returned to their seats. Bandra sat back amiling-faintly-Don, 48 hu rose, wore a moody look. CHAPTER III

Monnie pretended not to notice. lips smiling mockingly. "As if She fult unaccountably Hght-you didn't know!" Instantly Sandra took charge

Dan Cardigan wasn't the

"But I don't, Monnie protested, hearted. of the situation. Reluctantly Monien admitted to herself the only man in the world, after all in all honesty.

She was foolish to let every chance "Bagging that handsome devil," older girl's charm. Sandra was prettily bossy with both of the word of his, every small slight, Sandra murmured. "You're cle- ver, Monnie darling. Cloveror men-with Charles Eustace whom wound her so deeply, she addressed formally and with Sandra gave her n'quizzical look, than I thought."

Monnte flushed. "Do you enll Dan, whose first name, of courso, it was almost as if she Interpreted she employed.

Monnie's heightened colour aright, that bagging him?"

"I do," said Sandra emphati- "Fancy finding you two here," For the first time Monnio felt dis- Sandra drawled, pulling off her trust of Sandra Lawrence. She cally. Then she leaned closer so 'sture white gloves and settling herself hid it, beginning to chatter gayly that no one else in the In a chair opposite Monnie and of nothing at all Had Sandra might hear. Her tone was low, your next to Dan. Her long-lashed planned this encounter, she wonder- Intimate, confiding. "He's gray eyes flickered an instant over ed, under the clonk of her gayety? sort, Monnio," she said softly.

"Take him off my hands. Monule's simple frock. For the Had Sandra known she was to be at briefest possible moment Monnie the dancing place with Dan and, There's a lamb!"

"Monica threw up her head, her had the sensation that Sandra was knowing, had she brought Charles ctally disliking her. Nonsense! Eustace as a decay? No, no, the eyes, flecked with that lambont Sandra had been a good friend to thought was too fantastic! Eus- golden light, studying the other her all this past year, had gone to tace was far too, desirable a com- girl's Innocent face.

"I didn't know he was on them some trouble, actually, to be nice panion to be used as any woman's to her. "I'm Imagining things," cat's-paw. She was, she thought,exactly," she said slowly, dis- Monnle decided, giving herself a full of strange fancies tonight pleased-at the turn the converen- guental shake.

and at the thought she frowned.lon had taken, None the less, it pulled her to Dan-it was always Dan who in-

tinked Sandra's laugh find that Sandra was calmly an-spired this mood of envy and dis- nexing Dan and that he was per-trust. She could never be really the counter and several loung- mitting it. The colour flamed in natural when, ha, was about-must, ers at the soda fountain turned Monnie's face. Sandra was talk-always be acting a purt,

to stare at her,

across

thal

ing to Dan in a low intimate tone, Sandra toyed with her sund- "Oh, my dear, you know how not to be heard above the orches- wich and Dan gloomed. On it is she said with an airy ges-

impulse tra'a bleat. Monnie turned to find sudden

Monnic said ture. Sandra's assumption Charles Eustace's gaze full upon calmly. "I must be getting along, every unmarried male in Belve her. He asked, "Care to dance?" Dan. You know I said I'd be dere paid court to her had irked

She rose, and, with the barest home curly."

many of her contemporaries. word to the others, slipped into II muttered something rather Monnie had never felt a surge of

How tall the man was! ungracious and Monnio rose, rather irritation at this assumption be And what enormous shoulders he fearful inside, but determined. fore. Now she experienced had! He seemed actually to "All right, Dan, if you want to Of course. Sandra was charming dwarf Dan who had always, here-stay and dance with Sandra per--but-- tofore, seemed Apollo-like in his haps Mr. Eustace kvill take me "What are you thinking of?" proportions.

his arms.

home."

Sandra domanded.

it.

She was grateful to him. He It was a chance throw and it "Nothing at all," Monnie sald dunced easily and well and Mon- told. Dan got to this feet. "Sorry hastily. nie's small slippered feet followed Monnfe feels she has to break up his steps smoothly. Once ho the party."

spoke.

"Well, then, I'll be going," drawled Sandra over her shoulder. "See you soon."

She had not said a single word about Dan had, in fact, deliber- ately left his name out of the con- versation.

what

Monnie burned to know

her good

Per-

That made her ashamed but "Sorry I don't do these now; sha held to her determination. stunts." She glanced up at him "You don't need to leave now, to find he was smiling and ta- honestly, Dan." dicating the performance of two Charles Eustace had risen, was or three young couples dancing smiling at her oddly. "I should absorbedly in the centre of the be delighted If Miss Lawrence they had talked about the night floor. Cheek to check, brow to proves the, change in partners." brow, they revolved to the music. No one could have told what before. Sandra was

said Now and then they would break Sandra's emotions were. If it was friend. But what had sha

volled it apart and, with arms about each triumph she felt, she,

to Dan about her? It would be easy for Sandra to dismiss Mon other's necks, walk forward slowly well. wearing the rapt expressions of "Stick around, Dan,"

ad-nie with a phrase. Sho could say, shu

little sleep walkers. It was a spectacle vised idly. "Mr. Eustace will take "Of course, she's a nice to which Monica was accustomed good care of Monnie-and, after thing, Danny, but" and leave but, seen with the eyes of this all, you can see her to-morrow any the implication that Monnie was a nice little thing BUT her pea amused newcomer, it suddenly time." took on a new light. She forgot Her flashing glance advised the ple lived on the wrong side of her pain in Dan's defection suf- company that Monnie was always town, in the wrong sort of house. elently to smile with him.

available. All the other girl's soul Would this matter to Dan? "It is rather funny, isn't it?" rose in outrage at this challenge. haps not to him, but to his snob- Judge Ile--shrugged. "Seema-so- to. "Not quite that" she said bish family-yea! Old me. Is it the very newest?" coolly. "I'm frightfully busy these Cardigan lookod way over Mon- nie's head when he came in to Monuio told him. "The high days. See you sometime, Dan." school girls all do it. My young

cream. Geraldine, Her heart was beating very fast buy shaving sister, Kay-"

as sho left Dan and Sandra alone Dan's sister, gave her the coolest He interrupted her. "Ah-together. She felt a little alck meet. If Monnie raged at this in was sure you girls must be sis-and her victory tasted bitter in her heart there was nothing she tera. I see her every day when her mouth.

could do about it. Dan could she passes the office."

change it all quickly enough, if Monnie said, surprised, "But I Sandra came rushing into the he wished. No one in Belvedere didn't know you had one." Then drug store the next day, quite as would dare to snub Mrs. Daniel

re-if nothing had happened. In the Cardigan.

face of her bright cordiality Mon- Monnie answered the telephone, nothing. Hadn't took orders, all in a sick sort of told her. "My uncle'a place is she, after all, made the initial daze. Things were not going at what I mean.

Dr. Waterman's step the night before? Hadn't all as she had expected when Dan 1 go down there every day to she offered to leave Dan

with came home. What was she to do? rend."

Sandra going off home with She seemed to be losing him. They returned to the subject of Charlos Eustace? Oh, who was

(To Be Continued)

she flushed because she had vealed so much interest.

"I haven't." Charles

Eustace nie could

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