THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1933.
DARLING FOOL
BEGIN BERE TO-DAY
MONNIE O'DARE, beautiful, poor and 20,
too rapidly of days.
Ito sald, "Baby, you're the pret la in kres with DAN CARDIGAN, heir to one tiest thing this side of Chicago. of the lock) fortunes, Dan professes to love Know what I mean, you've got her but is often neglectful, When she needs
friend CHARLES EUSTACE romes to her class. Lots of 'em in the front aki, Mannie belleyes BANDRA LAV Nom rows of choruses would be jealous
LAWRENCE, ber. BILL, Monnis's older brother, plans in of you." mare ANGIE GILLEN. who works in' candy shop, as soon as she gets. A divorce. {
divorce through quickly,
CHAPTER XII
by MABEL MICELLIOTT
line and know when How old was lie, Kay Thirty-five, maybe couldn't tell.
to use it, wondered? Forty, You
16 in May. That was the first understand. Dld familles over? time she had realized, actually, that. 10 was almost grown up.
Thus Kay Now on this warm Juno, afternoon she began to feel Of course, she and Rissy, had a trifle nervous about the whole played for a long time at being affair. Cheater was being, insist- sophisticated, bored with every ent on seeing her that evening. thing, women of the world, but "But I can't possibly," she do she hadn't, until she met Chester murred. "We're having exama- Bigelow, actually appreciated the all week. I'm up to my cars." fact that she was almost a woman
She thought of the classroom, grown. Old enough for serious warm crammed with perspiring beaux, not just high school kids youths and maidens nibbling pen- whose idea of a gay evening was dil points. Bees would be hum- to hop into a $20 touring cur with ming outside the windows, hov- most of its parts misging and ride | ering.over the Dr. Van Fleet roses out to High Springs for a bowl of which were the principal's par- ticular pride and Joy. The teacher of the moment would bo hot, sarcastic, edgy.
"Oh, I hate it all!" she burat out, suddenly, surprised at her own earnestness.
"Not me, baby!" Chestor, his dark eyes bold and amiling, press- ed his arm close to hers.
"N-no, not you." She
She and Clarissa Briggs hud just run into him" one day at the Sweet Shoppe. They had been Kay, walking down High street giggling over maple mut sundaes, KAY O'DARE, and still in high school, in the neighbourhood of Vernon's Kay conscious of the fact that she It discontented with poverty. At dinner drug store, took one swift look should have saved her allowance chili con carne. party at Charles hovie Monnie accidentally
Dan Rise Bandra, 1ETTY, a housemaid ahead before she plunged. There for new shoca instead of frittering at the Lawrence home, hates Banden and
was a good dont of traffic (for it this way, when they saw him,
Chester was diferent. Why JIMMY, the **yamping" suspects her of
Bill and Angie austrel. Ang Belvedere) at this time. It was He had come in, glanced about wouldn't Mother understand about chauffeur, says she hasn't enough money to put the 4 o'clock. The high school had Inquiringly and then come straight him? Kay had nover, somehow, long since disgorged its chattor-over to their table. She and dared to bring him home. Not ing, bright-clad throngs. Shabby Riosy had pretended to be an- that Chester had showed any de-; ancient cars nosed the stocker senoyed. "The nerve of him!" they are to be introduced, formally, to
belonging to Kay sald, "I don't believe a dans
the young had said afterward, with well
the family. Anyhow Kay had the word of it. You're just being nice matrons of Belvedere's "younger simulated amazement. But he to me." She went on, "I'll bet you set." Kay did not want to be had carried it off well. He had foeling that would apoll every say that to all the girls you meet, seen with this man, the travelling insisted he'd met Risay the last thing. The romance would vanish reluctantly. "Just school this and smiled to show she didn't salesman who supplied Belvedero's time he'd been in town and that if Monnio and Mother and Bill and old town-all of it."
Mark looked Cheater over coolly. "Isn't that what I'm always one department store with silk sho didn't remember him.
So sho met him downtown telling you!" His slightly nasal "That's the way with you girls," The young-old man in the stockings. Belvedere would not double-breasted suit grinned at understand, said Kay to herself. he had said, pretending to be whenever his route brought him voice, softened now, rushed over her. Faultless was the necktie, Especially Monnie. Or Mother. chagrined. "Out of sight, out of to Belvedere. Sometimes he rent- the words, "Aron't you wasting Kay your time here when you might be Still she didn't know what they mind." striped and shining. Faultlens
He had been talking to ed a car and drove down. the set of his sleek black hair. He objected to. He was polite as Riasy, but looking at Kay. She was a bit afraid to go riding with doing something in the Big Town?
Ahe remembered, had little lines around his eyes nice as he could be, really. And had,
looked Chester. If her mother heard if Lots of girls no older'n you are in and his checks wore that too-well- he made the boys in Kay's class rather well that day, in the red Monnie saw them-if Bill happen- the choruses. Fact is, they like barbered look. He had the air of seem awfully raw and awkward. beret and new awenter sult, the ed to find out! Not that item. Maybe this time next year weariness that comes to a man who He was what she and her class-one Monnie had given her for her wasn't perfectly all right, Ches you'd be married to a millionaire stays up late of nights and talks mates called "smooth." He had a birthday. Sixteen-she had beenter was "simply a peach" and all if you tried it."
that but the family wouldn't (Continued on Pago 11.) -
mean it.
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