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THE

by MABEL

•MCELLOTT

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had

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DARLING FOOL

once more.

CHAPTER ONE

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

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"I'm so sorry," murmured Monnie. "I was thinking of something elac, I guess."

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bost that day. knowledge that back in town.

now

JUNE 7, 1933.

death they had had a trim red brick, "How can you, Kay? You know house farther out, with sloping lawns, she's tired out. ́ Dr. Allen sald--” and a coloured man_to

keep

borders Lidy. Papa had Kay shrugged her shoulders. a littlo car, too, and Petulantly she mullored; "A!!

you had boon a Prosperous, little care about, is gutting your own "way, Now everything was chan-If you were going out with Dan Monnie, in spite of her

"Mother!" The shrill, girlish voles "God make 1 like me, make him

ple fervour.

"Mother! You sold, you'd press

why hadn't ho called herz

A garage, Hank Wayne and Lucy Something had told her to look her years, had 'a, burden to carry. Carilgan it'd be a sdifferent story." Milison and Ernest and John Blagden

Maybe it was the helped trut it was Monnie to whom Monnio flushed a deep scarles. The lilses were budding'an Monnie went away to college, as did most of

Dan Cardigan was the mother looked for everything. What did Kay know about "Dan's walked down High street. She took the other young people from the Hill

Hello, there!" She hung her hat arcival back in town? The unfair off her hat and awung it from her When they came home from school at

on the outmoded "hall tree" (kow shanes of her sister's attitude cut her Angers, letting the May breeze ruffle Christmas time or during the summer. She had been arranging the per- hated that thing 1) and passed through deeply--- the little bronze curls around her holidays they had a series of parties fume boliles in the case, her back to the kitchen. Mrs. O'Dare-wall-at.

"Dan's back in town, Kay sald forehead. Spring again! It which were duly recorded in the turned to the door, when she heard the stove, stirring something. There glorious after the long winter. Belvedere Argus. Bliss Anstice Cory, his voice. That slow, sleep draw! had was the mingled smell of cooking spitefully. "And I be ho nover even Spring-and Dan Cardigan's irregu. who had been society editor of the set her pulses pounding: She went on, food. Bests bubbled in a big pot and

telephoned you."" lar, tormenting wo's wayward

wooing would begin Argus for 20 years, delighted in their

fingering the

squat crystal containers, from the oven floated the odour of

Monnie's heart began to boat thick- cart doings. Monnie always read about afraid to turn around and betray meat loaf..

ly, painfully: She felt almost sulfo thumped uncomfortably. Dan had the parties. The young people who what she was feeling. Then she

Cleveland winter. Now he would be back was in fact, on his five group: enviable beyond belief.

lived on the Hill seemed to her a heard Mr. Vernon's, good-natured, "Hot!" Monnie sald simply, push-cated. But she managed to say, with

dignity, "Guess there's somebody you know ing back the ringlets of bronze hair way at the moment..

ent. Monnio tried not

helper.and sighing. She was wishing, this here, Dan. Meet my new

"I knew he was coming. I heard to dance at the thought. Dan with

night, for cocl food on silver salvers, his handsome, sullen face, those long- Matk O'Dare, who was 13 and in his Guess you two know each other."

She had turned, hoping the nervous for a great high room with alivery from him the other day." lashed blue eyes whose glance had the freshman year at High School, was a

Kay smiled wisely. Bet you didn't beating groon curtains "awishing at the win- power to make her smile or weep, little too young to feel the pinch of pulse in her throat, would be staring down at hep in 'a few poverty as the others did. It was madly, didn't reveal itself. She had dowe and a man's face (it wore Dan's see him driving down Main street hours.

Kay, 10, golden-haired, a Junior In been rewarded for her calm demure features) smiling down. at her. She with Sandra about half-past two? herself wearing organdie of Oh no, he wouldn't bother to come "Where you The stocking fom", Miss O'Dare?" the tall stone High School, who mind- ness by a flash of Interest In Dan palest pink flowing to her toes. around-not till he's good and ready.

Hor voice of Laura Grayling ed most of all. Kay hated being left Cardigan's smouldering eyes. challenged

hated living on own, velvet lashed, with their amber There were blue slippers on her feet. And when he comes he'll find you her..

was 60, out of things.. Laura

waiting right where he left you.". prim, an splaster. Monnie the wrong side of town in the shabby depth, were lifted. Innocently to his.

of.Kay brought Monnie abruptly back 1 flushed. She felt that Mink Laura little shingled cottage which had been

Sandra-Dan--that very after could nee straight through her, knew the only thing left the O'Dares like me!" she ad prayed, with sim to earth. Kay stood in the doorway, noon! Monnie couldn't believe it. all her thoughts. She said demurely, when "darling Papa" had gone.

her youthful bosonì heaving with Sandra had been in the store at noon, Well, he had. And he did-she some real or fancied grievance, her hadn't said anything at all about ex "Just hurrying home to supper.

Monica O'Dare sighed. The day

this eyes, gentian-blue, where, Blonnie's peeting Dan. There was only one Lovely evening, Isn't it?"

had been warm and business in Mr. hoped! Perhaps this summer,

train he might have come on and that Vernon's drug store, where she work week, things would be settled between were amber-dark, smouldering.

was the early morning ono. Then ed, had been unusually brisk. She them. Perhaps it might be as sim 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." time Dan saw her after a absence of

Monnie compressed

lips. He hadn't asked her yet, in so many Why didn't you do it yourself? You She hurried along, her checks like months. She shivered, thinking of

But everyone in town knew know Methor's worn out as it in!" peonies.

all the girls Dan must have met dur-words.

the winter in Cleveland. Dan she "Dan Cardigan's_girl," Two more blocks-then home. She ing

ask ber.

Mrs. O'Dara intervened. hoped Mom's headache would be bet was "learning the business in his un- Everyone expected him ter.

And that Kay would be in a cle's mills. He was 21, the Cardigans Only Mannie, herself, sometimes fell

"I'm sorry, honey.. I didn't seem apprehension. When better temper. And that Mark would

only on They were proud of him, a sick pang of have 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 Her fine, delicately lined would be home. Poor Bill! He rather proud of himself. He had left Dancing or riding down the yellow all day." worked so hard. He was two years an eastern college the year before to roads in Dan's old rondster. It was face was flushed and tired: Monles when she was alone, when her mother felt a surge of affection for her and older than Monnic, who was 20. Ha go into "The Works" and it was felt looked at her, anxiously, worriedly, with it the familiar fare of impatience had gone to work at 16 when Mr.In the family, that the boy had done not speaking her thoughts, that Mfon Kay's unreasonableness O'Dare died, very suddenly in the a fine thing.

college

nie knew terror-terror at the thought evoked. night. Bill had wanted to go to

Monica wondered, for the hundredth of losing Dan. Elo had been eagerly ambitious hut his ambitions had carried him only time, how she had had the great luck

She turned in, at length, between to attract Dan. Hadn't she been in as far as the big now garage at Broad jove with him for years-sinco second the ragged lines of privet that bor- O'Dare said gently. street and Vine, the one with the

dered the red brick walk, and went,

Monnie swung. You won't

"You run along and finish soiting little brick house and the flaring red year high school, really? And hadn't with brisk step, toward the little any such thing! You'll go and lie the table Mrs. O'Daro said in a cool

It seemed the most fantastic dream white house. For the thousandth Was "expert mic

down while Kay and I do the dishes. | voice. "Kay went. Monnie, whose Chanc now and proud of it. come true, two years ago, when Dan time she thought the same thoughts: You had that bad headache yesterday kness had begun to feel oddly like

had arst begun to notice her? tended the allment of slek cars 28 4

that the house ought to be painted; She went over the scene in her mind that they ought to have new canvas blazed into Kay's. It was all very Windsor chair beside the door

and you're a wreck new." Her eyes straw, sat down on the little old good physician does his patients He had developed into a silent, rather again. She cherished it It had been

during the first week, she had clerked on the old porch swing; that the hedge well to sympathize with the younger

"Maybe if you'd have time for a needed trimming that mother's girl (Monnio didmore paaslonatoly bath before supper," Mrs. O'Dare be a perpetual brusque young man with a black rim under Angernails.

his

was. July. petunias were hardier than any others than she dared admit) but this bully- gan doubtfully, "you'd feel better. at the drug store. It Only Mannie and her mother sus. High school commencement was just on Denny street.

She had been, she re

It was a nice little house, nitriding of their mother was more than You're tired out I've got the heater pected what went on under that fair behind her.

she could bear.

lighted." thatch. Belvedere, liko so many membered, wearing a thin white dress small towns all over

United-dotted swiss. It was her clase de shabby it is true, but home, for all

that

She followed the sujking youngster If Monica longed for the States, had its fair share of snobbery, dress. Her mother hadn't wanted her fleshpats of "the Hill" she gave no into the hall, shutting the door be Bill belonged to no particular group. to wear it to work, had said that it outward sign of it. Not for the hind her. In a low. voice she said, 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 sur-ther's feelings. The O'Dares had been and the Blagdens-because he worked prised even herself, had worn it. used to better things. Before Papa's

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"I'll do it after supper,"

She folt quite sick. A little warn Ing pulse in her temple began to throb..

different tune if he came here, just Kay plunged on: "Bot 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! I should think you'd have more". "Kny!" ́A quiet volée Interrupted this tirade. Mrs. O'Dare, paic but with a certain grimness about her gentle mouth, stood in the doorway, staring at her younger daughter, Kay Mro. wilted. "I'm sorry Mom, she said. "I

didn't mean it

often

do

Monnie smiled at her. "Thanks, Mother. You think of everything."

(To Be Continued)

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