THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1933.
DARLING FOOL
BEGIN HERE TODAY
by MABEL MCELLIOTT
Jealous fato might intervene.
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fool, she know that, to be so ap prehensive. What did a month
How big bo was, how splendid, matter? He would be back soon. Monnie thought, watching him "You have tho. fidgets," Koy, ob- strido down the path. Why was served, threading hor needle. it that, in spite of all his protesta- "Why don't you toddle off and get tions, hor heart failed hor, went some rest?"
"Hellove 1 will”
like him to be go garrulous. These away from her. She was foolish lalek and faint when she thought of
Kay Hazed sternly at the door- MONICA O'DARE help to support her fellows, he sald, had got away, to imagine that, even for a minute. the impending separation? Not-
scaled way through which she had just muther, younger brotive and sister by work Sandra was so dazed slie couldn't Buch things were done only in old-hing would happen. Sandra would lug in a drug store in the small town of even describe them. They'd been time melodramas. Besides, weren't and that Dan's heart was Delvadara. Ker brother. Bliz plean la
Angle foreigners, though. Hadn't talked sno and-Dan pledged to each other? against her. It was just bad luck passed. "Darn Dan Cardigan, any iffvorces ber husband, Donnie is in love w much English-not that she could This was the end of August-al- that affairs fell out so Dan had to way!" she whispered explosively.
She had been most September. In Jamiary they go to Wyoming with the party. stof approve of her. BANDRA LAWUENCE understand, anyway. pretending to be Monnie's Friend, tries plucky, hadn't she, to get away would be married. win Das from her.
Handra becomes angry with 1, 's male, from them? and JAMES, her father's chaufleur, und dies:
JAY ANGIE GILLEN HAN CARDIGAN, whore wealthy parents do
CHAPTER XXVI
"Very brave,"
"That Dan?" Monnio nodded.
* . •
a little cry of excitement and plea- aure.
an
"Girls, what do you think? Miss Anstice Is
heiressi Judge Cory's sister in Beston has left her $60,000.
They heard the great nows about Sho went back into the house Miss Anstico Cory the following "I'll miss you horribly.. everywhere Kay sat, mending some morning. Mrs. O'Dare, reading the agreed Monnie minute. Dan told her on parting. filmay pink garment. Kny looked Belvedere News. looked up with charm them. A few days later she receives quietly. Sandra seemed definitely She stood, facing him, her amber
Jup seriously. a teleptions message saying her father is hari.
eyes darkened, with the pain or Little Handra hurries to him only to find herself the heroine of the occasion.
separation. the victim of kidnappers. The kidnappers "Her father was on his way to impending
James prove to be Halty and her cosain.
put the money where they asked," bronze tendrils curled about her betan Bandra ACADE
Dan pursued. "He was just about pearl pale face. "I'll be thinking
"He left early, didn't he?" wild,, willing to do anything to get of you, too, Dan,", she told him
"Yes. He's awfully busy. Go- her back. But she wasn't having soberly. Dan explained slowly, painfully, any of that!" Dan's eyes shone. "Well, then-" He was awk-ing to a dude ranch on Wednesday
Monnie, heavy eyed and pale, sip- "It's like this, you see. She's had You could see he admired Sandra's wardly trying to tear himself away. with the family." a shock. She's not-not, herself. courage.
"It's early but I've got all that
"I read about it in the News" ning her coffee, smiled, "How mar-
vellous !" She keeps calling for me. When "Not that I want to go for a packing to do. We make an early
It made the day seem brighter, she's well enough the doctor says minute," Dan told her later. "It start on Wednesday. I won't be Kay said coolly. She know
this news of something nice hap- it'll be all right for her to make just seems-well-the best thing. able to see you to-morrow night." that Sandra was in the party. But
Her heart was like lead. "Iteho refrained from: further this trip. And Dad-all the rest You ace Mr. Lawrence holds that
ment. Kay went on stitching, hum-pening to someone she knew. Any- of them seem to think I ought to go big loan of Dad's. This is conf-doesn't matter."
ming a littlo tune under her breath. thing might happen if Miss An- Dad wants to He put his arms about
stico were to be removed from the along. Just," he hastened to add, dential, of course,
Monnie picked up a book and scene of her labours, after 20 "to humour her. She's perfectly stand in with him right now. I'd "You're sweet, Monnie, d'ye know
tried to read but hor restlessness years of writing Belvedere society all right. It was just a bad be a pig, wouldn't I, to hold out that? My girl!"
against him?" Block."
might was acute. A pain bent at the notes. It almost helped Monnie back of her mind like a. living to bear the thought that Dan was
Wyoming
the one-thing. She felt sick, envious, dis- leaving for Some couraged. Sandra bad everything morrow.
"I see." Monnie lifted her eyes, Again Monnie agreed. The best staring out at the fanding garden. [thing-of course it was merely that, Dan rushed along. It was not nothing more. No plot to get Dan
"Don't, Dan. Someone sce."
No ono must know-no their plans for the future.
her.
then
com-
find
and she had nothing. Her job was Perhaps he would call, Monnio deadly. Always the same. She thought. Perhaps he would could do bigger things, more in-time to telephone her--surely, teresting ones, but because she was he would. But each time the 'phone the mainstay of the little family rang and she answered it to find the she dared not take a chance. She caller was emphatically not Dan, sighed and found Kay watching her heart grew heavier.
her,
"Don't you feel well?"
Kay flew in at lunch hour, spark- lingly pretty, lit by an inner ex- citement.
* have a headache." Monnio "Aren't you off early?" Monnic Baid. Heartache was nearer the wanted to know. Usually the two truth but she would not admit it. girls at the library made ten pr heated soup over a gas ring in "Take an aspirin when you go to the back room and ate their lunch
| bed," said Kay practically.
there.
"Just ran over for a second,” - Twenty-four hours more and Dan would be speeding westward away Kay enrolled. ""Something impor- from her. She would have his let-tant to tell you. Are you leaving ters, of course, but Dan's letters now for lunch?" were never antisfactory. When he Monnie washed her hands at the was away from her he seemed to little cracked basin behind the par- vanish completely. Oh, she was a (Continued on Page 2.)
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