1933-06-07 — Page 15

THE HONGKONG

DARLING FOOL

CHAPTER ONE

by MABEL ПCELLIOTT

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1933.

death they had had a trim red brick "Ifow can you, Kay? You know house farther out, with sloping lawns, she's tirod out. Dr. Allen sald—” and A coloured man to koop

ged. Something had told her to look her was the beat that day. Maybe it knowledge, that Dan Cardigan was back in town.

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Monale's heart began to beat thick ly, painfully. Sho felt almost-suffo- cated. But she managed to say, with

the borders tidy. Paps had Kayshrugged hor shoulders, had

little car,

and Petulantly she muttered, "All you 100, they had been a prosperous little care about is getting your own way, family. Now everything was chan-If you were going out with Dan

Monnio, in garage. Hank Wayne and Lucy

ear, Mone, lu den of how Cardigan it'd be a different story,"

a burden to carry,

Monnie flushed helped but it was Monnio to whom what did Kay know about Dan's Millison and Ernest and John Blagden

a doon scarlet: The Illaes were budding as Monnio went away to college, as did most of

the mother looked for everything. walked down ligh street. She took the other young people from the Hill.

therof She hung her hat arrival back in town?. The unfair- off her hat and swung it from her When they came home from school at

on the

outmoded "hall tree" (how she ness of her, sister's attitude cut her fingers, letting the Day breeze ruffle Christmas time or during the summer She had been arranging the per- hated that thing!) and passed through deeply. the little, bronze curls around her holidays they had a series of parties fume bottles in the case, her back to the kitchen. Mrs. O'Dare was at "Dan's back in_town,” Kay, sald forehead. Spring' again! It was which were duly recorded in the turned to the door; when she heard the stoye, stirring something. There glorious after the long winter Belvedere Argus. Miss Anstico Cory, his voice. That slow, deep drawi had was the mingled smell of cooking spitefully, "And I bet he never even Spring--and Dan Cardigan's irregu

gu-who had been society editor of the set hor pulses pounding. She went on, food. Beeta bubbled in a big pot and

telephoned you." lar, tormenting wooing would begin

Argus for 20 years, delighted in their fingering the squat crystal containers, from the oven floated the odour of once more. Monnie's wayward heart do Monule always read about afraid to turn around, and betray meat loaf. thumped uncomfortably. Dan hnd

feeling. Then the and the parties. The young people who what she was been in Cleveland all winter. Now he lived on the Hill seemed to her a heard Mr. Vernon's good-natured, ing back the ringlets of bronze hair

"Hot!" Monnle said aimply, push-dignity, would be back-was in fact, on his golden group enviable beyond bellef.

"Guess there's somebody you know and sighitig. She was wishing, this way at the moment. Monnie tried not

hero, Dan. Meet my now

"I know he was I heard to dance at the thought Dan with his handsome, sullen £ te, thone Jong- Mark O'Dare, who was 13 and in his Guess you two know each other. night, for cool food on silver anivers, from him the War Coming lashed blue eyes whose glance had the freshman year at High School, was of pulse in her throat, now beating green curtains swishing at the win- She had turned, hoping the nervous for a great high room with silvery

Kay smiled wisely. "Bet you didn't power to make her smile or weap, little too young to feel the pinch of would be staring down at her in a few poverty as the others did. It was madly, didn't reveal itself. She had dows and a man's face (it wore Dan's see him driving down Main strect hours.

Kay, 18, golden-haired, a junior in been rewarded for her calm demure features) smiling down at her. She with Sandra about half-past two? "Where you goin',

Miss O'Dare?" the tall stone High School, who mind-ness by a

Her palest pink, flowing to her toes. around-not till he's good and ready, smouldering oyes. The mocking voice of Laura Grayling ed most of all. Kay hated being left Cardigan "ash of interest in Dan Kaw herself wearing organdle. of Oh no, he wouldn't bother to come

out of things

There were blue slippers on her feet. And when he comes ho'll find you velvet own,

lashed, with their amber challenged

Was her. Laura

50, out

hated living on

waiting right where he left you.” were lifted innocently to his. "Mo-ther!" The shrill, girlish voice. prim, an acld

that Bilas Laura little shinglod cottage which had been

Sandra-Dan-that very after- could see straight through her, know the only thing left to the O'Darca ke me!" she had prayed, with sim-to carth. Kay stood in the doorway, noon! Monnie couldn't believe

ple fervour.

hor youthful boxom heaving with Sandra had been in the store at noon, all her thoughts. She said demurely, when "darling Papa" had gone.

Well, he had. And he did-she some real er fancied grlovance, her hadn't said anything at all about ex- "Just hurrying home to supper. Lovaly evening, isn't it?"

this eyes, gentian-blue where Monnie's pecting Dan. There was only one hoped! Perhaps this summer,

train he might have come on' and that week, things would be settled between were amber dark, smouldering.

was the early morning one. Then them. Perhaps it might be as sim- "Mother! You said you'd press why hadn't he called her?

flushed. She felt inster, Monnto the wrong side of town in the shabbyod make him ilke me, make him of Kay brought Mennie abruptly back

"I thought," said Miss Laura, "that you must be goin' to a fire. You nearly knocked me down."

"I'm so sorry," murmured Monnie. "I-I was thinking of something else, I-gucan."

Monica O'Dare sighed. The day had been warm and business in Mr. Vernon's drug store, where she work ed, had been unusually brisk. Sho was tired. She did hope things would ple as this-Dan would come to see

be smooth at home. She wanted to her tonight and say: "Let's cut my linen and you didn't!"

look fresh and unworried the first down to High Springs Saturday and

be married."

A

abeonca of

n sick

WAS

-

lips. You is!"

It!

She felt quite nick. A little warn- ing pulse in her temple began to throb.

Kay plunged on: "Dot he'd sing a

once, and found you'd gone out with someone else. But no, you're always ready and waiting, whenever he hap. pens to take a notion to drop around!

different tune if he came here, just

time Dan saw her after

compressed her Monnie thinking shivered,

of He hadn't asked her yet, in so many "Why didn't you do it yourself? She hurried along, her cheeks Ilke months She peonies,

all the girls Dan must have met dur- words. But everyone in town knew!

sho "Dan Cardigan's Kirt." know Mother's worn out as it Two mare blocks-then home. She ing the winter in Cleveland. Dan

her.

Mrs. O'Daro intervened. hoped Mom's headache would be bet was "learning the business in his un-Everyone expected him to ask ter. And that: Kay would be in a cle's mills. He was 21, the Cardigans Only Monnic, herself, som times folt

"I'm sorry, honey. I didn't seem better temper. And that Mark would only son. They were proud of him, pang of apprehension. When

passed his exams. And that Bill and Dan, it must be admitted, was they were together it was all right. to get around to it. I was on the go be home. Poor B He rather proud of himself. He had left Dancing or filing down the yellow all day." Her fine, delicately lined worked so hard. ile was two years an eastern college the year before to ronds in Dan's old roadster. It was face was flushed and tired. Monlen I should think you'd have more" older than Monnie, who was 20. Ho go into "The Works" and it was felt, when she was alone, when her mother felt a surge of affection for her and had gone to work at 10 when Mr. in the family, that the boy had done looked at her anxiously, worriedly, with it the famillar flare of impatience

unreasonableness O'Dare died, very suddenly, in the fine thing.

not speaking her thoughts, that Mon- Kay's nie know terror-terror at the thouglit | evoked. of losing Dan.

She turned in, at length, between

the little

"I'll do it after supper,"

often

"Kay!" A quiet voice interrupted thin tirade. Mrs. O'Dare, palo But with a certain grimness about her gentle mouth, stood in the doorway, staring at her younger daughter, Kay Mrs. wilted. "I'm sorry Mom," she said. "I

didn't mean I

night. Bill had wanted to go to college.. Monica wondered, for the hundredth He had been eagerly ambitious but his ambitions had carried him only time, how she had had the great luck as far as the big now garage at Broad/to_attract Dan. Hadn't she been in the ragged lines of privet that bor-O'Dare said gently. street and Vine, the one with the love with him for years since second dered the red brick walk, and went, Monnie swung. “You won't do

year high school, really? And hadn't little brick house and the flaring ret it seemed the most fantastic dream with brisk step toward thousandth any such thing! You'll go and. Ho

Bill

down while Kay and I do the dishes. "expert nie- pumps.

WAS an

come true, two years ago, when Dan time she thought the same thoughts: You had that bad headacho yesterday proud of it. He had first begun to notke her? chanle' now and

that the house ought to be painted; and you're a wreck now." Her eyes tended the ailments of sick cars or a.

She went over the score in her mind that they ought to have new canvas blazed into Hay's. It was all very good physician does his patients. Ho had developed into a silent, rather again. She cherished it. It had been on the old

awing; that the hedge wall to sympathize with the younger trimming; mother's girl (onnie did-more passionately with a perpetual during the first week she had clerked needed young

man

It was at the drug store.

July. petunias were hardier than any others than she dared admit) but this bully- rim under his fingernails. Only Monnie and her mother sus-High school commencement was just on Donny street.

It was a

nier little house, a trificing of their mother was more than pected what went on under that fair behind her. She had been sho re thatch. Belvedere, like 00 many membered, wearing a thin white dress shabby, it is truc, but home, for all she could bear. small towns all over these Uniteddotted swiss. It was her class day that. If Monica longed for the She followed the aulking youngster States, had its fair share of snobbery. dress. Her mother hadn't wanted her fleshpots of "the Hill" she gave no into the hall, shutting the door be thehind her. In a low volce she said, Bill belonged to no particular group. to wear it to work, had said that it outward sign of it. Not for He could not "go with the crowd on was highly unsuitable. But Monica, world would she have hurt her mo- the hill-the Waynes and the Millisons with a gentle persistence that surther's feelings. The O'Dares had been and the Blagdens-because he worked prised even herself, had

it used to better things. Before Papa's|

brusque

worn

that

"You run along and finish setting the table," Mrs. O'Dara said in a cool whose voice.. Kay went. Monnie, kness had begun to feel oddly like straw, sat down on the little old Windsor chair beside the door.

"Maybe if you'd have time for a bath before supper," Mrs. O'Dare be gan doubtfully, "you'd feel better. You're tired out I've got the heater

lighted."

Monnie smiled at her. "Thanks,

(To Be Continued)

Mother. You think of everything."

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