THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. -THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933.
DARLING FOOL
DEGIN HERE TO-DAY
MONNIE O'DAHN who is in love with DAN CARDIJAN, local hair to a fortune, be Haves she a losing him to BANDRA LAW. RENCE, supposed to be her friend. In spite of the sitentions of CHARLES EUSTACE handsome newcomer, Monnie continues to pine; for Dan. After neglecting her for sometim
Dan again, come interested,
At a big party which Bandra gives Dan: le missing. There is a scene between Bandra and HETTY, der minit, jeho belleves" Sandra lamping" JAMES, the chauffeur,
CHAPTER XIX
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"What's that ole holl-cat want?"
She looked up, her hand at her heart, to see her young sen, attired now in bathing suit and dirty white slacks, signalling her from the door- A tall woman in a black and way.
hend white print dress put hor
"Mark, you scared me. Don't in the O'Daro front door and talk that way."
"Well, she is that, yodelled coyly up the stairs, "Yoo-
by MABEL ПTICELLIOTT
body else was furious at her, but Suddenly she felt a little alck and
this was really too much, Herfaint. The heat of the day, the Bill-and a married woman!
work she had been doing, and tho Coldly she said, "I think you blow she had just received, com- must be mlataken. I'm sure you bined to defeat hor. She must." She rose to her feat," alleaning against the door frame, small, flashing guardian of her looking white and when Kay do- home, an angry hen brooding over breezed in.
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her maligned chicks. She waited, "Mums What on earth's tho tho withdrawn and a bit disdainful, mattor 7"
for her caller to make her adieux.
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Hor guest's half-hearted, pro-, nover came to call unless she test followed her into the shaded sired to unburden herself. kitchen where, with a thoughtful "How're all your folks?"
ripe caller wanted to know. frown, she consigned the
"I-It's nothing-I just" golden fruit to a blue enamel két- Mrs. O'Dare put back a strand This Laura Briggs did rather She put up her hand to her eyes, tle, setting it over a low flame.
of curling hair before, sho an-badly. She was chagrined at the staggering in the bright kitchen. swered. She was a pretty little effect her news had made. What woman, an elder replica of Mon- she had expected, she could not
Kay was thoroughly frightened. ica. "They're fine," she assured say. Tears, perhaps. Harsh "Let me got you some water. Here, Laura Briggs. They're Just words for the errant son, curi-le down on the sofat That's bot- splendid. How's Riasy?"
osity about the charmer, the blond ter." Kay's face was sober now. But it was plain the other had alren. None of these would Ers. She looked sorious, responsible." not come to discuss her daughter. O'Dare accord, her, Crestfallen,
"I'm all right." Her mothor Mark, reflected his mother, had sho withdrew.
ant up, setting her mouth firmly. Loft alone, the little mother been 'right. Laura had something,
"It's only-tell me this, Kay, In she? on her mind. Well, whatever stormed inwardly. Not that, she
was, she would hear it soon. She believed there was a word of truth there any truth in the story about rocked to and fro, waiting.. In the fantastic story, she assured Bill and some married woman?"
"Oh, gosh!" Kay groaned, turn- "What's this we hear about Bill herself angrily. And yet--and yet
great ing away. "Who told you?" getting married?" demanded the Bill had been spending a "I'm going down to the river newcomer with an arch smile.jamount of time away from home "I don't like being kept in the with the kids, Mom. Be back about "You're such a deep one, we never these days. His absences had been dark this way," protested the mo- 6."
hear the real news from you" unexplained. Gertrude Hampstead ther. "You all know everybody "Be careful, son."
The woman in the rocker showed had been very cool to Mrs. O'Dare in town knows, apparently-and He gave her a peck on the cheek no algn that the blow struck home. whonovor they had met; had. in only I am left out."
"Monals thought it would worry and she heard hlin whistling down Her expression was still admirably fact, looked the other way, pretand-
herplacid, undisturbed.
Jing not to see,
|you,” Kay explained. "We thought, the path. Then she turned attention to the cooling drink aho "Well, you know Bill," she said Bill-her boy-involved with aor hoped anyway, that it would all
a lot married woman! She groaned.
(Continued on Page 5) had promised her visitor. Lemons lightly. "He's always had were brought from the ico box of girls-but he's never really "Mrs. O'Dare! Oh, there you and presently from green glasses n been, serious. You don't are. Just ran in for a minute."inkling tune sounded.
Isn't hoo!" A head appeared over the Always snooping into somobody's landing-Mark's freckled faco, business." above the swathe of a bath towel. "Oh, Mrs. Briggs! Mother's out in the yard. She's peeling peaches for Jara."
The tall woman Awished her way through the neat hall, with its oak stand harbouring three or four discouraged looking umbrellas. She passed through the kitchen, a critical view of the white shelves covered in blue oflcloth. Then out to the porch.
Mrs. O'Dare shook her head ro- Provingly at him.
The woman under the maple "My, that tastes good!". tree, swaying back and forth gently
Gertrude, do you?"
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mean
Laura Briggs put her head back, Mrs. Briggs sniffed disdainfully. sho didn't in the old rocker, looked up and sighing gustily. There were two Of course, she said,
parentheses etched at either side of mein Gertrude. No, it was the smiled at the newcomer.
"git downdo!" She indicated her thin-lipped mouth. Her black other, that blonde from the Sweete a battered basket chair at her side. hair was drawn back from a face Shoppe. Didn't Bill's mother know "Isn't it hot? I thought I'd do n which must, in its time, have been Bill's girl? bit of preserving. Doesn't seem to lovely, but which now boro matter how hot it gets-I always marks of illness and discontent. feel the urge, long about this time."
the "I've met auch, a lot of them," protested Mrs. O'Daro, pretending "You oughtn't to go walking In to brush away a cobweb, avoiding "You have got energy!" The the sun like that," said the gentle the sharp eyes of the other woman.
diecon-voice of the woman in blue gingham. "I can't remember them all." speaker cyed her hostess
all tuckored out "It's bad for you." tentedly. "I'm
"Somehow," said Laura Briggs "I town, myself. Walking by from
know." Laura acidly, "I don't bellove Bill's ever just thought I'd come
have a bit of gossip."
know. I
in and Briggs was impatient. "But it's brought her to the house. You Rissy I had to get the stuff for ace," she paused to give her arrow
a
"I'm glad you did," Mre. O'Dare a dress she wants to wear Friday its full flight, "you see, this one's
night, and she's at me all the time, married." anid cordially, pushing aalde wooden bowl of parings and rising. Will couldn't drive me. He had to "Just Bit here in the shade a minute go up to the elty."
the while I put these things on
She paused and her stove. Then I'm all through. I'll waited for the declaration bring out something cool to drink." was sure to come. Laura
"M-married!" Edith O'Dare stammered over this. Thon
she latener was angry. She had always tried which to see the best in Laura Briggs, Briggs had stood up for her when every-
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