THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 10, 1933.
DARLING FOOL
BEGIN, KERK TO-DAY
MONICA_O'DARE, to and beautiful, is in love with DAN GARDIGAN, bele to a local Furtune. They are, acretly engaged. ILL O'DARE WOTEice his mother by planning to marry ANGIE GILLEN who has not yet go her divorcR.
BANDRA LAWRENCE, who pretende to Monnie's friend, ie trying to win Dan from ber. Banden, dischargse
And two BEYAnie
O'Dares, inherits $50,000 and mak
by MABEL MCELLIOTT
I could. You had a rotten time of y "No, honestly," Sandra said with it and you've been a good little pretty eagerness, "I'm perfectly soldier."*
content-perfectly-just to sit hors "Do you honestly think so, Dan?" and talk. Isn't it cosy 7".
the eyes shone. This was Hor praise she wanted above all else,
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"I'd love to show you the place," played a marvellous game of con- she said with enthusiasm. "Oh, the tract. Sho could sing. She had times I had on the Riviera last taken tap dancing and fencing autumul. It was all too marvellous. lessons in New York last year. No There was a count, who rushed me doubt about it, the man who mar- frantically. Honestly, Dunny, I ni- ricd Sandra would have a beautiful. most took him up. He was the boat and accomplished wife. That was looking thing! And there were two the way Dan still thought of her- Englishmen don't you adore the as some other, men's prospective British?" she broke off to inquire. wife. Never for an instant had he "Can't say I do," said the man. seriously considered her as his own. She left his pulses unstirred. "Considering that my forebears Dan agreed, stuffing his pipe came from County Sligo, I'm not All her pretty ways, her exquisite "Of course. I do." Dan' reflected and settling himself in the ble so crazy about them."
clothes, her charming imperious- "Well, I do simply adore them. ness were lost on him in that re- they try to kidnap her. She excapes. Dans that it was something of an effort, leather chair oppoalte.
"Just liko," giggled the girl in You're rather like an English spect. As an onlooker he admired malber and slater plan a trip to Wroming supplying Sandra with the morni duda ranch. Bandra & to accompany them courage she needed. Only this blue velvet, "just like old married country gentleman yourself, Dan. her performance quite impersonal- unded ot want to go but finally is morning his mother had said to him folks." She shrugged her shoulders Big and taciturn-and handsome." ly. But it was Bonnie, he reflect- MISS ANSTICE COREY, a lit friend of firmly, you've simply got to pour and murmured delicately, "Honest- "Oh, cut it, won't you?" growled ed, whom he really loved. Monnic Monnie le so to Europe with rete CHARLES confidence into that poor nervously, Dan, I don't know what's unt Dnn, pleased in spite of himself. with her bright hair, her way of EUSTACE wcomer to town, pays Marnie child, son. She's splendid but she into me tutely. I somehow I seem Sandra'a light laugh rippled again. looking at you-of telling you how Attention, he not inturrated,
wing had a shock and it is our duty to to be changing. This time list "I never saw such a boy," she she felt about something. Yes, it his heart and waiting for a letter from Dan
ace her through this bad time.". year I thought of nothing but tear-declared. "Just a great big bear. was Monnie to whom
belonged. Dan had, somehow, Ever since the kidnapping San-ing around. I was in Monte Carlo That's what he is1 CHAPTER XXVIJI
never expected to care about any dra had been having bad head-in October-having the most won- Sandra sald, "You've been aw-aches" and "wretched nights." It|derful time. And now"
Dan grinned, reflecting it wasn't girl na he did about her. He had fully sweet to me, Danny." Jer was not, she said with a charming- Dan prompted her. "And now so bad to have Sandra talk that been cynical about love. Monnie voice broke a little on the words. ly patient smile, at all like her to what?"
way to him when there was no one had changed all that. "Well, I scom to be perfectly else around. Honestly she was "She's no darned sweet," Dan She was leaning against the fire-go to pieces this way. The others place, the sweep of gray stone be-agreed and pointed out how brave contented with the simplest sort of kind of cute when you got right thought to himself now, forgetting And the beautiful girl here beside him hind her throwing into high relief she had been through the dread things. Books and good friends down to it. Entertaining. the perfect coutour of her honey ful expérience itself. Now-well, Her limpid gray eyes besought him she didn't seem to have any macds in the intimacy of the warm room. coloured hend. The flames from Sandra needed Dan to leań on, to understand.
was always bright and charm- Firelight, setting, all, were lost on the big logs threw shadows on the needed him at her side when they Dan, sensing dangerous ground, ing. As his mother had said, │him. blue velvet lounging pajamas she rode. She seemed perfectly con- said grully, "What about Monte Sandra had had a great many "What did you say, Dan?"
Sho could chatter wore and Dan thought, quite idly, tent, perfectly happy when he was Carlo? Did you have a good time advantages.
-uh-I was just thinking." that she made a graceful picture, murmuring in her ear, when they there? Father wouldn't take us French in a way to excite Dan's He tapped his pipe against the He was in riding clothes, casuni sat at tablo, side by side.
when we were over. Said it was a envy and alarma since he had never hearth, pretending it needed clean- and smartly western ovon to the big "You're awfully good for me," gambling hell and, he didn't want mastered the collego course in the ing. Sandra gave him a swift, ap- handkerchief knotted about his she would say softly with a side us to go near it."
language. She intimated that her praising glance. Thon' she said in throat. They were alone--except wise glance at him. Dan felt, in a "Oh, Dan, how quaint!" Her German was excellent also and that a low voice. "There's something for the Chinese servants. His puzzled way, that he was commit- laugh rippled. "I can't imagine" she managed to make herself per-I've been wanting to talk to you. mother and the rest of the party ting himself to something without She broke off suddenly to Bay fectly understood in Italian. Dan about." had gone to see a picture show at knowing what it was all about. quickly that of course his father wouldn't know about that. But it The man raised his eyes, watch- Benning, eight miles away.
“Sure you didn't want to see that was a dear so upright so charm-did seem that Sandra did overy-ful, guarded. "Shoot." picture?" he said now, hoping to ing but Dan had to admit he was thing well. She rode and awam
a bit old-fashioned, change the subject,
a streak," Dan said. She
"It's all right," he said rather awkwardly. "Glad to do anything
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Sandra shrugged her shoulders. "It's just that, well, I like so our being friends that I hope a certain person won't misunderstand."
"Who d'you mean?”
Sandra gave him a limpid look, all girlish ingenuousness. "You big, allly. I mean Monnie, of
course."
Dan drawled, "Why should Mon- nie mind?" He had to be genuine- ly on his guard now lest he give the whole show away. Sandra was not to know how he felt about (Continued on Page 9.)
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