THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1933.
DARLING FOOL
DECIN HERE TO-DAT
by MABEL MCELLIOTT
want."
be genuinely charming. Pretty whimsically. "But I get what I enough, everyono, said, to bà in pictures or on the stage. Why not? But she didn't seem to want to stick to anything, Perhaps sic hadn't found herself yet.
Last year when she'd been in New York, sho'd been so bored she had even tried getting some work as an extra in a studio. They
the Cardigans to go out to Wyom-whenever she thought of Hetty and MONNIE O'DARE le secretly engaged to ing. Their cousins are on a dude the scene on the evening after the DAN CARDIGAN whose parents want him ranch there. It sounds," finished party. How dared she' speak to to marry BANDIA LAWHÊNEK. CHARLES
of Sandra in that way? It had been were making a picture in that big EUSTACE, stranger in town, admires Bonnie Sandra with a playful
note
as well as her younger sister, KAY. Dllylatfulness, as though it would be unendurable. The things Hotty place over on Long Island. She her older brother, plane to marry ANOIE GILLEN, whose divorce is pending, much to MTB. O'DARE'S dumAY.
Sandra. who pretends to be Monnie's friend is tryls to win Dan away from her. Dan's mother and alafer plans trip to Wyoming.
Sandra and several other young people are La accompany them. Dan does not want to so kit feels obliged to,
CHAPTER XXIII
fun."
"Um-mm. I sec." Mr. rence considered this.
had said! And James! Họ had had known a girl there, someona Law- been little better. To think she'd met in art school, who was Sandra felt the slow colour burn her "making good.” -_Lillas-that was "I can drive you about for a chooks-that she had treated him so the girl's name Lillas Martingalo week or two until you get some- well, like an equal really, and then wasn't a bit good-looking, really. Sandra Auch Ingratitude! Sandra clenched Too thin and her eyes too big for ono to replace James," Bald eagerly. "I'd love that.hor fists, remembering, Mrs. her faco. But it had been Lillas Then you'd go away-und so would Peterman hnd assured her next day who had got a small part in a pro- I-and when we got back every- that James and Hetty had gone off duction and who had been sent to Sandra's father grumbled, thing would be running like clock-together. Sandra kad
thought Hollywood. **The place is darned uncomfortable, work again."
better of James. It all.. proved Della's on the warpath-stopped- "Sounds all right. With the how wrong one's judgment could Sandra Kad traveljed; all over me to say the now maid won't do Cardigans, eh?" rumbled Gregory be. She had thought James had Europe with her nuat, Mrs. Bayles and she'll leave if we don't get Lawrence. "Looks as if that boy possibilities. It was just as well from Boston. There'd been lots of someone better. I wish," he observ. of theirs is making a dead set for the pair of them had gone to the men to meet and dance with. That ed testily, gazing across the tablo my girl, eh?"
city to Cincinnați, Mrs. Peterman Englishman at Cannes. She had at his daughter, "that you hadn't "Father!" She pretended to be had said. You never know, how liked him. And two
or three rowed with what's-her-name-Het-confused. "How can you be so girl like Hetty might talk. Not youngsters in Paris. But they ty. It's extremely disagreeable to-s0~"
that anyone, believed, servants"} hadn't been serious. Nolther had have things going on like this." "Just outspoken, that's all." But gossip. Still
sho. She'd come back to Belvedore "I didn't row with her as you she could see his good humour was Sandra supposed she had been the autumn before, had done over put it. Daddy," explained Sandra. partially restored.. Mrs. Peter Just n trifie injudicious. with the house in a whiri:Df enthusiasm Candlelight brooded over the big man's roast chicken was delicious James, But that, was all. She and then had settled back to see luxurious room. "She was Inso- and so were the perfectly cooked couldn't help it if men admired her what happened. It was dull. That Jent to me. think I explained and seasoned vegetables, handed and showed it, could she? It was why she had mado friends with before "
round timidly by the girl in the wasn't that she was a flirt-never Monica O'Dare. Monica.had some- that Flirting was cheap. Maybe thing-some quality you couldn't
"Yes, but why did James have new uniform. to dash off the same day, that's "I'd like seeing you settle down there was some quality about her describe. But Sandra, dismissed what I want to know?" pursued here, Sandra," he observed when that men simply couldn't resist.her now with a shrug. Monnie Gregory Lawrence, unappeased, they were once more alone. "Run-Anyhow she hoped James wouldn't didn't count. Nobody did if they "He was a fine boy and I'd had ning around to Europe all the babble to Hetty about the timo he got in your way when you wanted him for years-ever since Higby time, traipsing to New York. and Sandra had picnicked together. something. Sandra herself was n died. You know I hate to drive worry about you-don't mind any-That awful girl would be sure to Bghter and proud of it. If Monnic myself and it's a job getting any-ing an. Now Dan Cardigan's a misunderstand. How like a flam had lost Dan, if she wanted him body properly trained off short, gucd fellow, very good chap. You jing fury she'd looked that night! and couldn't keep him for hewolf, notice. Most upsetting."
could do a lot worse although Dan'd Sandra, shivering aftorward in the it was just her hard luck. A welcome Interruption (for do well to stick to business these privacy of her room, had acknow- "I may be hard-I may be ruth- Sandra) was provided by the re-days... What's he doing dashing offledged she'd been a blt frightened. less." Sandra told herself, amiling moval of the soup plates. The to a dude ranch with things as they Well, they'd left Belvedere, во new servant, as Mr. Lawrence's | are 7"
that was all right. She had noth-! conversation had forecast, Wnx
wanting to worry about. They'd have disappointing. Her cap was habit to go," Sandra hastened to as to get along without references ually skew and she seemed unsure him. "It's his mother-she's from her. She had told James' so commonly nervous. Sandra, wait- most anxious for him to have a very coldly the next morning. ing to present the question of the [rest."
"Not going any place to-night,
"He doesn't in the lenst
western trip, almost despaired. "Well, well, it's none of my af-child?" Her father's question in- She knew her parent well.
fair, I suppose! Ring the bell, terrupted her train of thought. "What you need-what both will you, there's a good giri? I She shook her head, smiling of us need," she interposed, skill want my coffee now."
faintly. "I'm rather tired. I fully, "is a vacation. This hя That was all. Sandra wisely turned down several invitations.
Hot said no more. So far as she was Want to rest,"
been a miserable summer.
and muggy. Why don't you Ho concerned the western trip was It wasn't true but Sandra had up to Pine Lake on a fishing trip? settled. And she lind, she con- to keep face. She was, to be It would do you good and Della gratulated herself, skidded nicely truthful, rather frightened of an could get another maid and train over the thin ice of Hetly's dis-evening alone. Restless, on edge. her while we were away."
charge. Usually she consulted her That's why she went dashing off
"We?" The keen blue eyes un-father on all household matters. whenever she became, bored. But der the bushy white eyebrows Not that he wished to be bothered you couldn't do that all your life, stared at her. "You
wouldn't but he was jealous of his authority Sandra considered. And people care for Pine Lake."
*
"N-No." Sandra admitted the truth of that. "But I'd thought of -that is I have an invitation from
and ordinarily she would not have had a way of being disappointing, dismissed a servant without having no matter where one went. She first gone over the matter with him. was, she thought, rather perfect in her turnouts-clothes, make- She still turned sick with rage up, everything. She knew how to
Dawdling in her room Inter withTM| now French novel, wearing sheer white pajamas splashily monogram med in scarlet, she heard her fa
*(Continued on Pago 0.)
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