THE HONGKONG TELEGRATH, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1933.

DARLING FOOL

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

Aliter,

Learns Bill plans to marry angie ciLLEN,

s cheap, good-natured sort of Wii, soon reaction. se Angle gets her divorce...... Dan-stopa iu to 440 Monnis at the store but she ly cool to him. Kay is discontented In Belvedere and Monnte worries about her,

by MABEL MCELLIOTT

Resolutely she put this thought |[from_her.

..

finshed in hor brain. A scrap of frock with the brown straw hat. gossip which had drifted to her. No one would have guessed that ears in the store. "Two old she carried with her a burden of women, their heads together, mut- worry, too great for her 20 years. tering.

"I wish," she cried to herself "that 'Rasy Briggs. Sho's passionately, hurrying down Denny n trial to her parents and no two street, "I wish Father were hero-" gan was taught a lesson, Timajnight. He included me, too, but Iways about it. Gallivantin' around Sho wasn't old enough or wino at the enough to settle all these prob MONNIE - O'DAKE, who works in druhe know that he could not have told him I'd rather not come. You with travelin' men down store in Belvedere, small town, helps Monica O'Dare's company for the young people can have a better time hotel-"

lems. Bill, who might have helped. Sho allowed nothing of the aud-was immersed in his own affairs. wupport her MOTHER, her younger

by yourselves. He said he was KAY, and her broiber, MARK. She goes to mero anopping of his fingers-

I don't know den consternation aho felt to show That, too, Monnie had to keep from the ald of her older brother, Ulft, weunaful. "Oh. I sec." - Dan sounded asking some others.

in her face. Those terrible old her mother's cars. Bill, 22, the ly arrested in a garaga boldup, and CHARLES EUSTACE, handsome newcomer in town, beat, crestfallen. Monale exulted who"

That was foolish of you. comes her friend. DAN CARDIGAN who in her triumph. But after sho

Ile tabbles talked about everybody, head of the family, really, was in anya he is in love with Monnie, neglect hind hung up the receiver, after naked you becauso he Wanted anyhow! It didn't mean a thing, love with a married woman whose and Mennle belleves BANDRA LAWRENCE,,K sich girl who has pretended to be her friend, she had gone quietly back to fin; you," Monnie told her. Some the fact that they gossiped about husband was about to get a i trying to get Dan away from her. Monte Ish her luncheon she felt, a little how this message took the sting red-haired and had a cuddly, kiss-

Clarissa who was roly-poly and divorce out of Dan's loft-handed Invita. What did he want?" Mrs. tion, Charlos Eustace, who was able face. Only Monnie did wish alic know more about Kny's-nc- naked norvously. Her cultivated and rich and handsome, O'Daro

It was later the same day that policy in all her children's af- didn't mind lotting the whole tivities putside the homo. Kay fairs was ano

"hande

off" world know he was friendly with was mysterious about her affairs Sandra ran in to see her, San But she could the. O'Dares, even if they were sullen when questioned. It was whonever possible. proud not help noticing the change that poor and lived in a shabby little impossible for Monnie, working dra, very crisp, and fresh

shearest white, with an ingenue at night, to keep track of her. and cool, answering him. "Yes?" had come over Monnie alnco Dan house on the wrong elde of towal as she did during the day, tired fragrant in embroidered batiste of

Cardigan's return. With resent- "He's nice," Mrs. O'Dare said.

"Let me alone, won't you?" hat trimmed with field flowers. to her "Kay will be wild with joy when Kay would say, rather Bullenty. Mounie was hot and tired-it was. Dan's voice over the wire sound-ment and anger foreign

she now regarded I tell her. Poor child, she hasn't when questioned. "You

at o'clock her frock which had ed hurried, vaguely embarrassed. quiet nature "Mounio, listen, I was in such a the Cardigans. Wasn't Monnie, had much fun lately! And I keep want me to have any fun. so bored as well be buried alive."

few hours earlier was now wilted. zush to-day. I wanted to talk to who was lovely and gracious en- worrying lest she get

Monnie klased her mother and

Sandra's tone was light and con- you but you know how Mother is. ough to catch the attention of a with dullness that she'll join that

prince, quite good enough for young wild crowd in town. Mrs. Mer hurried out. She locked fresh fidential. Demanding a huge jar She won't wait-"

(Continued on Page 7.). He paused, evidently waiting for Dan Cardigan? Mrs. O'Dare had riam was telling me they had to and charming in. her thin yellow encouragement. Monnie felt a new lived in Belvedere all her life. She give the Young People's Society scorn which armehow buoyed ber know, with bitterness and a little down at the Fourth strest church fly and she did not help him out. sardonic amusement, the rigid rules a good talking to. Some of the After a few seconds he went on that govern small town society, boy's brought liquor to the last eagerly. "How about tonight? She knew Monnio "didn't belong" meeting. The janitor found the We could drive out some place now that she worked in Mr.. Ver- bottles next morning when he was It's hotter than the hinges. non's drug store. The Cardigans sweeping up." here at the club but it will cool would look higher than the little

CHAPTER VIII Monnie made herself

she said.

of

"Imagine not being able to be off by 7. We could take a pic-cottage on Donny street when they juure of those infants at a church nic basket, go out on the River put the accolade of their approval meeting" cried Monnie, struck,

on a bride for Dan.

"But Kay didn't go last time. Rond-"

Every pulse in the girl's slim "Just asking me to drive out She said she was tired of all that young body Was hammering, with him tonight for a picnic sup-crowd. They were too slow."

"That," contributed Mrs. O'Daré, Every nerve urged her to accept. per," Mannle returned in an in- the invitation. But pride held different tone. "I told him I was "was the night she apent with

her back. Coolly she said, "I'm busy."

|Clarissa Briggs. Her father and norry but I have another engage-

mother wont to High Springs. | ment."

Remember?"

t

"Monnie, I forgot to tell you," It cost her a great 'den to say her mother cried with animatic. Monnie was putting on her hat that. It was not true. She had "Mr. Eustace stopped in this morn- before the mirror, only half at- nothing on earth to do that eve-ing to ask if you and Kay would tending to the conversation. But ning bat it was time Dan Cardi-have. dinner with him to-morrow at Clarissa's name something

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