THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1933.
DARLING FOOL
CHAPTER IV
1girl, fancy free, might have found
The days dragged on. Monniahim much more than trist but at fine.
had not dreamed there could be pain like this. To know. Dan was in the same town and not to see him Was sheur torture. May proved to be a month drenched in sweet- ness. Lilac scent Mied the air, forsythia blazed in every door- yard, the nights were moonlit, soft -and-still.
Cardigan.
"I've been wondering why I didn't see you around town," Eustace began, sulting his long stop to hora
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Monnie anilled. "I've been
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Still no Dan. She did not even see nim at the wheel of the road-here. All this time.” ster, skimming along the roads.. At home the family furbore to mak
She could catch the scent of questions. Kay was caught up in good leather and Virginia tobacco
by MABEL MICELLIOTT
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station with: Officer Garvan."
Trouble?" She almost scream. ed the word. "What sort of trouble 7"
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But the wire clicked. The con- nexion was broken. She put the receiver back on the hook and She said Thursday would he went back to the kitchen. She stared for an instant at the steam- wholly engaged. She the moment Monnie's heart was ito would pick them up: About Ing kettle before reaching to turn
was In-aix-thirty. Monnie felt definite' off the gas. She detached the Klangal between Yushan and sulated against the churms of chicored. That was something to toaster, noting dully that the two Finghsiang, was considered hore every man in the world except Dan look forward to, at any rate Lithin allces she had cut wore this morning-Reuter.
had been so, dull lately. And smoldering blackly behind the mother would love it.
wires. Then she put on har hat and wandered out into the street, there if you want to see the young She ran in full of her adventure She hadn't the least idea where feller." Mothor! Whoro--are you?he was going or what she was to Where's everybody?"
Somehow her lagging feet car- do. Except that Bill." was 'In Silenco greeted her, The kit-trouble and her mother, wherever ried her across the room, somehow chen was silent, full of noonday she was, needed her.
her fingera turned the knob. faun, dancing on the cups. and
Sho braced herself for the ordeal. saucers. The stove was unlighted. The police station. Monnie had Just inside Bill sat, looking dark a whirl of high school activities, he opened a' pouch and stuffed "Mother!"
never been inside it before, in all and angry. Three mon wore Bill camo and wont, ate his meals his pipe. She stopped to watch Monnie ran upstairs, catching her life in Belvedere, and her with him, talking and gesticulat moodily, and slipped back to them do it. Funny-she liked sher foot for the thousandth time heart qualled now at the prospecting. And Monnie's mother, twist garage. Monnie came out of her man to smoke a pipe. Dan al- on the stairs. own dare of misery to realize ways smoked cigarettes. One after But there was no
of entering its dour, portals. Shoing her handkerchief. one in the squared her shoulders and march- there was something definitely the other. Nervously, She shook shabby front bedroom
with the ed in.
At the sight of the latter, Mon- wrong in Bill's sphere. He was herself. What a fool, she was looped white curtains, so carefully
There was a big, blue-coated what was she here for, if not to nie's own terror took wings. more silent, moro dour than us-always harking back to Dan! darned. Her mother's bed, man at the caken desk just inside ual. Poor Bill-it was having to The man glanced down at her maculately white, her dressor neat the door. He lifted an Inquiring bring her mother strength and work too hard and too early that shrewdly. "You are looking and tidy, all silently testided to
courage? Whatever had happen- eyebrow at her. had weighed him down so that, at rather palo," he observed. "Are the late occupancy of the owner...
ed, her mother was not to suffer. 22, he seemed years, older.
they working you too hard?" Monnie grew frightened. · Por-
Monnie made her step firm and hor And their mother-Monnie had. Monnie shook her head. "It'shinps mother had become I, had twinges of worry about her, too. spring-1 guess. Maybe I need a She seemed cheerful as always change." but her stop was alower. Sho "Thia lan grand town, to see sighed deeply and quietly when spring in," said Charles Eustace: she thought no one was about."This time last year—"
It was not like mother to go off All the O'Dares seemed to bu Ho stopped abruptly. Monnis without leaving some word. What drifting. What was it all about? looked up at him innocently to dis-on earth could have happened? Why did other people have good cover he was very white. She had With a feeling of nervousness, times, bright, happy homes while a senention of keen distress." Monnie put the kettle on to boil, the young O'Dares must carry this |
"Never mind," he finished brief-measured tea into the cracked blue heavy burden?
ly. "I was In France. It was and white pot and sliced BOTIG At this point in her reflections beautiful there, but this is more brend for toast. She had to be Monnio always shook herself vig-perteful. One orously. "This is nonsense," she home here.” would remind herself. "Aren't we There was, obviously, something all well and strong? Haven't I too painful for him to speak about. a job and a roof over my head. The two walked on in companion- and-and good friends?”
able silence, She was arguing with herself "I any." he went on after a few thus one day, hurrying home for momente, "I've been wondering if lunch, when she ran straight inte 1 couldn't persuade you to come up the arms of a tall man.
to my place for dinner one night "I-oh, I beg your pardon!" soon. Perhaps your mother-and Her heart began to race faster, All scarlet lips. flashing amber that young sister of yours. I'dWhen will he be back, do you eyes, she stared up at him. ask a few other people. We could know?"
hadn't for days.
can-can
be
fainted. In the bathroom! With fast beating heart she turned the knob. But that, too, was silent, empty.
at back at the store within the hour. Those preparations begun, she hurried to the phone. She would call. Bill at the garage. He might be able to solve the mystery.
"Hello! May I speak to BILL. please?"
"Would you really?" There was
Mr. Harnett's voice, rumbling. "BI7 intimidating, answered, Bill's not here."
Desperately Monnie said, "Mr. Harnett, this is Bill's sister- Monica O'Dare. Is anything wrong?"
"Quite all right." Charles Eus- have a sort of picnic. My boy, The voice sounded sardonic now. tace's deep voice reassured her Kong, is a wizard at fried chic-"Couldn't say, I'm sure." "I wasn't on the right side of the ken." road, either.""
"That would be lovely," Monnie They laughed together and said. “We'd like to come." Monnie's heart lightened. It was good to laugh with someone, She something very boyish In the way There was an instant's passe-
he asked that.
| long enough. for Monnie to hear. "Mind if I turn about and go "Of course." She could smile separately and distinctly, the hiss- your way?" Eustace wanted to at this nian, be friendly and ing of the kettle, the ticking of the know. "I'm just barging about gracious with him, because she clock, and the thump-thump-thump for exercise."
wasn't in love with him. Oh, how of her own unruly heart. Then How tall he was and, yes-stupid was love! It made you stiff the man at the other end of the how distinguished looking. It and awkward and unsure of your wire sald with Infinite dellbera was odd she didn't think him bet-calf
tlon: "Wrong enough, miss.. ter looking than Dan but e "Splendid, How about Thurs-There's been some trouble here didn't. He was nice. Another day next, then?"
land Bill's gone along to the
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"Is-Is Omcor Garvan In?" "No, ma'am."! She knew most of the police-volçe cheerful. men in Belvedere by sight but this
"What's happened?" she asked man was a stranger to her. "I'm in a clear voice, Monica O'Dare. Someone---I mean I was told I would find my brother here"
She knew her face was blazing and she could hardly deak above "Oh, them!" The num jerked his thumb in the direction of a door just behind him. "You can go in
a whisper.
The biggest man, the one with the loud voice, turned to stare at her. "Matter enough!" he an
belligerently. "This nounced young man's under arrest. Who are you?"
(To Do Continued.)
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