THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1933.
DARLING FOOL
CHAPTER XLVIII.
by MABEL П ELLIOTT
ing along to enjoy the advantages strown with the frippery of the of a city school,
Rissy Briggs' mother stopped by It was all perfectly disgusting, at Vernon's drug store to buy some Mrs. Briggs told herself self bicarbonate of soda. She had righteously. For her part, she'd caten too much chicken salad at never encourage her daughter to the wadding reception and besides marry for money. Who would she wanted to talk over the excite- have thought this Charles Eustace mont with somebody and she had would turn out to be go grand7 Just soen Miss Anstice Corey go in. Nobody had known until Monnio's violet crepe de chine with a little knot of artificial roses ploned to her fox fur. She felt very elegant, much dressed up.
would board the train for the cast, Later they would sail for Bermuda,
FENG GIVING IN
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She kissed them all, feeling choky for a moment. Charles' MAY ACCEPT NANKING FOUR hand steadied her and she was in the ear the motor running..
"Good-by, everybody! Good-by.1′′ Their faces were a blur now and
goingaway bride. A smart, protti-Main street was slipping past. ly-groomed Kay with a postage The country road, lush with May, stamp hat perched dizzily athwart lay before them. Their way led her golden curls.
"Got eveything, Monric?" "I think so." Monnie's jacket Crock of printed silk in soft browns and tans suited her exactly. ller new bags, marked with the
past the village cemetery where, on a high hill Dan's grave was marked. Instinctively Monnie's eyes sought the shaft. Charles understood.
"Poor chap". He slipped his. deserve what he got."
Poking, Aug. :1.
An' official Military, Council communique issued this afternoon- uaya that on Sunday Marshal Fong Yu-hsiang telographed to is representative at Tientsin saying that his object in defending
Charhar' has been obtained and he
Mrs, Briggs was wearing her now engagement was announced back initials that were to be hers hener brown hand over hers, "He didn't is now willing to abolish his mili-
"Lovely wedding!" Miss Anstice was beaming. "Lovely pair."
"The bridegroom is very handsome man," Mrs. Briggs con- tributed. "I thought Monnie look
in the early spring, how "well con-forward were closed and locked nected" he was. And an orphan, Kay palsed herself for flight. too. That made It even more→→→
She looked up at her young hus "Well, come along theu. The band, all her heart in her eyes. well, certain..
car's waiting. Are you dead?"You're very generous, my dear." You must have shaken hands with Dan was dead and there would be a million people."
always. a nadneas in her mind at my life, and indeed Monnio luck. She had got the right man. "I never had such a good time in memory of him, but she knew her looked the picture of a happy She was eternally grateful to the
swift, inclusive lock the last being be. She glanced about her, ono fates for arranging her destiny. on the small room where she had spent much of her girlhood.
Mrs. Briggs took up her pack age and her handbag and started home. It was just like Rissy to flounce off with those giris-her "crowd" she called them-leaving her mother to go on alone. wasn't that Gertrude Hampstead But just up ahead? She might get a few more details from Gertrude Miss Anstico raised the lor-who was "Intimate" with the gnette she had learned to use in family. Hadn't there been some- London and regarded her neigh- thing between Gertrude and Bill hour coolly.
O'Dare several years back?
e a bit flyaway and wasn't that a real plain dress for her to choose? I can't imagine why she didn't woar a veil."
"Monnie looked perfectly beau- tiful," she told Mrs. Briggs, "and that biscuit-coloured frock was in the best possible taste. lier hat was a French one."
"Well, I cee you were there, too!" Mrs. Briggs' voleo had a vinegary tinge. "Quite a blow out."
J
"Sorry to go?"
ary post and plodge himself to avoid civil strife.
Feng Yu-halang's representative has conveyed this message to General Ho Ying-ching, Chairman that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and of the Military Council, who said Mr. Wang Ching-wel had jointly.
announced their four' principles The marker indicating the town for the settlemont of the Charhar line was passed and Monnie, dispute and if Feng Ya-halong ac twisting a little in her seat, could cepted these the matter would be settled. Reuter's see the lights of the village, bloom-automatically
dusk. ing below them in the late May Pacific Service.
The last of Belvedere," sho said softly, with a catch in. her
April face. "No and yee- It's Mounio shook her head, with an
home. Nothing èlso will over take its place." She could not say what she really felt, that she was voice.. leaving the old Monien O'Dare be-j "Ah, you'll see it again," Charles hind with all her 'unhappiness. reminded her. "Bo back next , I'm not," said hard-year to visit the Mill House to- hended Kay practically, "If gether.", muther and Bill come back next Yes. she knew that, but she year they're going to take one of would not be returning as Monnie those new little houses out in O'Dare. She would be. Mrs, Webster Addition. Bill says he Charles Eustace, rich and fated. won't have any trouble renting Doors would be opened to her that had been locked before. She thin. Hank Harnett wants it."
was leaving, something of herself чудя The two girls went out, shutting behind. She
turning the the door behind them. Mark, pages of a noiy chapter. "My, my, quite exciting! You'll waiting to be of service, bounded "Happy 7" have caught it? That would have carry the bags. be the next." Why couldn't Rissy up the steps, two at a time, to She gave him the smile he been something to talk about.
At the foot of the loved to see. "How can you ask flight stood Charles Eustace, wait- that?" Gertrude smiled, looking tran-ing for his wife. Monnie felt her
[The End.] quilly sure of herself,
heart contract in that new way at Mi Anstice bowed, sweeping "Well, we weren't going to an-sight of him. What a wonderful out of the store majestically and ounce it till Bill Comes buck life they were going to have to- thus putting an end to the con- next spring but he said to-day we gether! And how generous versation. Baffled, Mrs. Briggs might as well-" She held out Charles was being with all of
Gertrude looked really pretty in The tone alone should have that blue outfit. Funny she had aquelched the irrepressible mother never thought of Gertrude before of Rissy but it failed to.
except as a plain girl, Well, I thought it looked) "It was beautiful, wasn't it? mighty funny, sitting on the side, They just left. I waited and I of her head so that you could see caught the bouquet." Gertrude all her curls. An' she didn't look explained. Mra. Briggs observed like a grown up woman, as it seems for the first time the small nose- to me a bride should look. That say of blush roses and pale sweet hat an' the dress, too, made her peas that Gertrude held. look like a little girl. Even though she's years older than my Rissy!" This last was delivered somewhat spitefully.
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gazed after her. Poor woman, aheler left hand showing the modest them. None of her protests had had genuinely longed to talk over pearl ring. the details of the wedding but no usual she had said the wrong things. She sighed, feeling angry and frustrated. It was upsetting, any way you looked at it, to ace the O'Dares getting up in the world this way. Hadn't they al-] ways been "as common us you or me," to quote Mrs. Briggs" favourite expression? And look at them now-Monnie marrying Л boy everybody sald was a millionaire, Kay going (so the story ran) cast to college next fall, Bill and his mother taking an apartment in Cincinnati while he took an en- gineering course, with Mark trail-}
ARMADA
Was I long?' He took her hand, smiling down at her in that gently quizzical way.
stopped him. He had changed all Well, well thought Mrs, Briggs, | their livės, bill was no longer the marching off with a sour expres-sullen, stained garuge mechanic aion, so that was the way of it! but a purposeful young man with That yellow-haired hussy hadn't squared shoulders and an author- got Bill after all, and she had itative air. unrough Charles, Bili quarrelled with her old friend, was to have his chance. Edith O'Dare, about the story. It was all very disappointing. Rissy's beau of the moment was a clerk at one of the redfront stores on Main street and here Edith O'Dare's children were turning out so smartly. A person couldn't "You'll have to step on it to help being envlous. It just turned make the city in time.”” “That was you sour it did, to see the luck | Bili, consulting his waten, being some people had.
grave and brotherly. They were Kay flew into the bedroom, driving to the city where they
FLIGHT
"Too long to suit me!" Hor mothe, stood in the background. beaming.
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The four principles are: Firstly, Feng Yu-hsiang must not create military posts and Litles leading to the separation of Charhar from China,
Secondly, he must not reckless- ly Incorporate bandits and irre- gulars in order to swell the num- ber of his own followers, thereby Jeopardising peace and order in Charhar.
Thirdly, he must not interfero with the Government plan's for the defence of the border of the Province.
Fourthly, he must not make use of Communist leaders, thus foster- ing tho Red menace in North China.
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