THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1933.
DARLING FOOL
CHAPTER XXXI Dan's volco was flat and colour Iess. "She's gone! For for how long?"
Kay smiled. "Soveral months, Perhaps they'll be back by Christ- mas, perhaps not."
"Beo."
The man stood for an instant, hands plunged deep in his overcont pockets. "I see" he re- peated vaguely, "She didn't leave any message for me?"
by MABEL MICELLIOTT
breath. The trip would be good for Anstice, "he would have been con Moanie. She needed to be shaken sidered quite a catch."
out of herself. Monnie' had been "Oh but ho is All of that." unhappy this past year. Kay set protested Monale innocently. All her lips, thinking of the Cardigans. the mothers on the Hill are angling Horrid woman. Dan's mother! It for him. At least that's what I wed the, of course, who had made hear."
con-
'Well, Kay wouldn't. Anyhow he that people were nicer to her. the difficulty between Dan and "I understand none of them have hadn't asked for it. ~· Hu'd looked as Even stiff people like Mrs. John Monnio. Well, Monnie would for- though Monnie's departure really Blair, Mrs. Blair had called up Inst get all about Dan. She would have been very successful," murmured. was a blow. That seemed queer week to remind Kay of the big a marvellous time and perhaps come the older woman with an oblique too when he'd been at Sandra Law-bazaar at St. Thomas' and to hope home with a foreign prince in tow. glance, rence's beck and call for so long. she could drop in for lunch one of Kay clicked her tongue against her the days when the Ladies' Aid was teeth, reflecting that men wore real [serving. ly the limit! It was high time that Monnie stopped this nonsense about Dan and discovered, there wore other men in the world.
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You never could tell. Monnio was "With Charles 7" Monnio beautiful enough to be a princess. sidered this. "Well, I don't know. Kay was half way through a day Charlos is sort of well, distant. I O'Dare, the lady had coed. Kay presiding over a reception to "my carog much about girls."
"We're counting on you, Miss dream in which she saw herself don't," averred Monnie, "think he had tried
to keep from smiling, sister, the Countess de B" when "Monica O'Dare! I could shake remembering how Mrs, Blair had sho reached the dingy office of the you!", "Monnie?" Kay's voice tinkled.
snubbed her at the High School | newspaper.
"What for?" The girl turned a She set off for the "News" office dance where Linda Blair, her "No, indeed." Into her eyes came quite gaily, feeling serene
Meanwhile Monnie, speeding east-surprised look upon her companion. a sparkle of malice. "She was capable and alert. It was good to in an expensive frock-had tried to Miss Anstice had insisted extra-shrugging
and daughter-clumsy and unattractive ward in the drawing room which Miss Anatice primmed her lips, wearing Charles Eustace's flowers have this thrilling new job; to have be the belle. when she loft. Orchids."
"Never mind. Only-I never Kay a place in the world. Kay wasn't
vagantly upon reserving, felt her- made the word vastly significant. |at all nervous about doing Miss Kay hummod a little tune, self living in a dream. The narrow heard such nonsense in my life!"
Dan gave her a comprehending Anatice's work. It was simple, stepping along at what Charles glass reflected a glowing girl look; then, without another word, really, and she knew just how it called her "race-horse". gait.
wrapped in brown fur, a small hat It was only, Monnie reminded he lifted his hat and withdrew. should be done. You could, thought Belvedere wasn't such a bad place atlit over her right eyebrow. herself, 12 hours since they had left "There !" Kay, congratulated Kay coolly, do it with your eyes after all. It was really nice, es- "You look awfully smart in that Belvedere. With her eyes fixed on herself. "Guess I gave him some- shut. Life was different for Kay pecially on crisp October days such cont," Miss Anstice told her critical- the stage where the deep-voiced; thing to think about the concolted this year. The old sullenness and as this when the maples on Donny ly. "It's just your style. I am tragic-eyed girl moved so gracefully thing!" She felt not the slightest impatience had slipped from her street seemed to have turned to very proud of my travelling com- Monnie's heart beat more swiftly. compunction though she remember like a clonk. She no longer thought pure gold and the air was clear panion.”:
All day she had been perfectly ed Monnie's volco, saying clearly longingly of Now York, of going on and spicy. Kay didn't envy Monnie
happy, looking forward to the trip, that morning, "If Dân cålla give the stage. She had. noticed since even, en route to New York and
Miss Anatice, 50 and birdlike, the hotel and the excitement of the him my address."
aho had been helping Miss Anstice later England. She took
But now she was remind-” her neat gray curls ́escaping from big boat. n deep
a new blue velvet turban, smiled ed of what a wrenching thing love benevolently
could be. She wanted desperately "We'll go first to the Splendobilt, to forget that, wanted to be gay, to my dear," she said. "We'll be to laugh a little and play a lot. there by G. Dinner in our room "Isn't it beaulful, my dear?" or if you'd rather, down in the That was Miss Anstice, wiping her restaurant. Yes, I think that eyes. "People don't love like that would be better. You'll like that." any more. They don't know rent
"Oh, so much!"
romance."
A picciniany giving his playmate an improvised bath in the grounds of the Besuchamp Lodge Home for Children at Maida Vale, London, during last month's heat waxo. (Planat Nowi).
The annual service for His Majesty's Judges took place at St. Paul's Cathedral. The Lord Mayor' and Lady Mayoress also attended., In this picture are some of the Judges leaving the Cathedral. (Planet News).
"Well then, that's settled. "I suppose they don't." Monnie thought if you weren't too tired knew she didn't mean that. Of we might go to a play. There's course, they did! Of course, they Katherine Cornell in that new one did! Manners had changed and that's such a success," purred Miss speech along with costumes. But Austice, taking, off her gloves and the flaming feeling-that was the blowing gently into each finger to same.
keep the shape, as she had seen her Coming up the aisle of the theatre mother do.
later behind Miss Anstice the girl "I'm never tired," declared the was conscious of eyes watching her. girl in the green cont, meaning it She lifted her own to encounter the and looking as if the statement bold stare of a tall man in full might be true.
evening attire. He held his top "The boat sails at 12 to-morrow," hat at a most elegant angle and murmured Miss Anstice, rehearsing stood negligently on the fringe of a their plans for the dozenth time. smart. party. The women, Monnie "I won't sleep a wink I'm afraid, observed, were beautifully dressed It must seem silly to you, at my and talked in shrill, assured voices. age, but the fact is I'm terribly
"How extremely rude!" Miss excited, my dear."
Anstice, taking her arm, was pilot-. "Oh, so am I cried Monnte. Ing her toward a taxi. "It's the most wonderful thing that "I think it extraordinary the way has ever happened to me. I still people' stare in the city," observed can't quite believe it"
Miss Anstice. "That man!
"That's a very nice young man," didn't like the way he looked at Miss Anstice mused a moment later, you! Oh, that one's taken, my touching her curls reflectively. dear, and it's raining, I'm afraid "Who? Oh, Charles !" Monica we are in for a wait. The last time O'Dare smiled without a trace of my father and I were here we had self-consciousness. "Yes, isn't heja most frightful time getting a taki splendid?"
when it rained." "Now in my day," said Miss
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