THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1933.
DARLING FOOL
BEGIN WERK TO-DAY
la in love with DAN CARDIGAN, heir to
her hand, folded back to MONNIE O'DARE who
social ilven with her Anstice's"
columu. mother, brothers and sister in a small town words leaped at Monnie. local fortuo. CHARLES EUSTACE, new. "Among this evening'a. guests roner in town, seems to admire her but she will be Mr. Charles Eustace, Mr. likes him only sea friend. HAX, ber diater|Daniel Cardigan, Jr.-". La diacontented at home and Monale is worried About Thie.
"He was invited to that party," BANDRA LAWRENCE who pretends to be Monnle said lightly. "Ifo's just friend of Monnie's tries to win Dan away not going-" from her. IETTY, a maid in the laWIYNER beme, thinka Bandra is "vamping" JAMES, the chauffeur, and she is jealous.
„Bendra plani an elaborats party to which Monnie is not. Invited.
CHAPTER XVII
Her voice
over the telophone
by MABEL ПCELLIOTT
A
tiny shrug. "Your people-amelt the fragrance of cigarettes and mino."
"I thought your mother me," Dan began, injured,
and shaving soap and fresh linen. liked Blue eyes atured into dark ones
.
for one long moment.
F
"Ilaven't, eh?" growled her
"She doen," Monnie told him "Dan Cardigan, let me go," quickly, "She thinks you're a Monnie commanded. "You've no Miss oflice, call her up and say I was splendid buy-that you have won-right"
The yanked out of town-on import-derful possibilities. But what
ant business. Good Joke." With Mother says is this, ahu wants me captor masterfully. "You're my his free hand he shook a cigarette to have the best. She doesn't girl. You're going to tell me here from the paper packet and some-like to think I'd be snubbed and and now what's changed you or how managed to light it.
looked down upon just because I'll know the reason why I' Monnie Informed him, "if
"She'll be awfully mad at me,' swe
happen to have lost our Under her struggle for hemoney. Mother foels we can hold posure Monnie was conscious of a pid, gulleless. finds out.". Her eyes were lim-up our hends with the
them. She's not willing to let me Things seemed to be working out best of deep and secret flash of triumph. "Nuts!" said Dan inelegantly, in for unpleasant situations. After her way, after all. "She can't run me. Let her be all, Dan, I'm not being critical but
(To Be Continued.) mad. Tell you what, Monnie, you know your family hnan't been said she's too bossy for me. No mat-particularly nice to me." having ter what Mother'says-"
"Not 7" Mrs. O'Dare's pretty, anxious face looked
up, looked Jnway. "Oh, I see!".
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sounded small and clear. "It's so quiet lately. It isn't quite fair to you about, Dan," said Monnie standstill now in a little
"That's what. I wanted to talk He had brought the car to a
Monnie, Dan." She could almost
hear the intake of breath at the other end of the line.
"Monnie! That's great! But you and you wouldn't
"Don't you worry Monnie's voice was
"I know I did." She bit her lip to keep it from trembling. alle felt singularly light-hearted. How absurd it was to behave like "In all right." this! "I changed want to see you, Dat."
my
mind. I
There was no hesitation
on his part.
"Sure. Glad you
When and where?"
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а
was
grove forgotten
A moment later she gently, "I'm glad you're attle fun, lovey. You've been
your not having a good time in the gentlest voice Imaginable. of oaks.. Dinner was when the rest of those girls do.""I think it's about time we came in the heat of the discussion. Her geature embraced Sandra and to some decision about our our af-Monnie had never looked pret- all Sandra's crowd.
fairs. There's a good deal of talk tier than at this moment, her face about me." around town-"
coloured delicately with excite- gny. Indeed
ment, hor amber eyes dark with The young man
interrupted feeling. her, frowning deeply.
"I know they haven't. Darn "But you're young," fretted "About what?"
'em Dan muttered vengefully. the mother. "You need
your Monnie tucked in vagrant "Pack of snobs." He squared now chance, Monica. Don't think I curl. Her expression anid heartily, don't know what working in that sweetly untroubled.
still about, facing her, breathing in decided
her nearness and fragrance. His to. Atore all day means-helping to "About you and Sandra," she finely chiselled face with its Celtic
run this house everything. him.not exactly a girl's job. It's too to marry her."
It's onld, "They all say you're going eyes under the heavy brows was
She put up her brought very close to hers. much for you." She bent over hand to ward off Dan's torrent of There was the barest pause and the paper to hide the sudden rush explanation. "I don't know how me," Dan said soberly, steadily.
"What you're trying to then Dan said, "Of course. I've of molature that had sprung to true it is and honestly, Dan, "is that you've changed your
a date- but I'll break it. her eyes. yot Shall I call for you around 7?"
don't care." She paused to let mind. I don't deny that I hnd Monnie laid her smooth young that sink in. "But what I wanted rather-well, cooled off when It was arranged then. How hand over the worn one. "You're to say was-I completely releage got back in June. Mother worked simple it had been! Monnie not to worry, I snid. Everything's you from the the agreement we on me a lot, said I owed hung up the receiver with fingera tine. Everything's splendid!" that shook a little. Sandra "did
had last autumn. I want you to marriage to the family. All that not know how right she had been snatches of dance, tunes. It was do as you like. After all,"
She sang as she dressed, little feel perfectly free to go ahead, to kind of thing. Then you were when she had advised Monate to enough to-night to be young, to be Monnte in dulcet
said pretty snappish and standoffish play a waiting game with
tone", w every time I saw you. I thought," Cardigan. The very fact that she that
Dan alive, to have a brief glimpse of were pretty much kids last year. said Dan slangily, "What the deuce? had held him at arm's length for when at 7 a motor horn sounded us. Perhaps we're seeing things her and the girl had to rip herself happiness. Perhaps we're grown, up, hoth of But now--" He stared down at a month had awakened his inter and she heard Dan's deep voice in their true light."
to keep from trembling at the in- est anew. Now she determined
an instant later, conferring with with all her heart to fight
"I don't know what you mean tensity of that gaze, "Now I'm not Mark on the verandah, she could by that," Dan muttered sullenly. so sure I want to call it a day. him.
have wept for sheer joy,
"Tonight," the girl told "It's important.""
for
clusive thing,
utter
an engage.
on
tell
I
a big
See? I'm not so sure some other
Sandra had once said with her
"It wasn't really air of knowing all about it, "A for this," Dan. told her. helping earnestly.
"Sandra's going to eat me alive ment anyway." Monnie pursued chap, hasn't been muscling in. woman can have any man she her into the car.
"We just well, sort What's happened, Monnie? Is wants if she really sets her mind
of pledged ourselves, to
there somebody else?" "She's-for what?" Monnie other in a boy and girl way. You ward deliberately before choosing
each on it." Of course
She flecked her lashes when Sandra pretended
down- Innocence. Her gave me this," and her curling words to answer him. had said that she had been think candid eyes Implored him to share fingers opened to disclose a seal ing only of herself. She had not the secret. meant the words to apply to any-"Oh. that big racket
ring. "Mind you," she went
"What makes you think that?" she's softly, "I'm not saying it wasn't
Those strong brown one else,
hands throwing to-night." Dan sald care-really-awfully sweet
gripped her slender, ones. and pre- unusu-lessly. They'll be one man short, cious. ally self-conscious when she ex-that's all.”
I was thrilled over it. But plained to her mother
I've come to realize just that she "Oh, really" Monnie frowned have, Dan dear, that we're not ex- na you und an engagement with Dan thoughtfully. Cardigan that night.
netly suited to each other—" #bit," Dan He broke in. "Who says we're at her. "To me, not?"
at. Dad's She gave her siender shoulders
Monnie felt more than
"Doesn't matter "But
I thought----, ** Mrs. grinned down O'Dare had the evening paper in that is. I had Frear,
She
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