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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1933.

DARLING FOOL

CHAPTER IV

The days dragged on. Monnia had not dreamed thero could be pain like this. To know Dan way In the same town and not to see him was sheer torture. May proved to be a month drenched in sweet- ness. Lilac scent filled the air, foraythia blazed in every door. yard, the nights were moonlit, soft and still

by MABEL MCELUOTT

girl, fancy free, might have found She said Thursday would, 'hu the moment Monnie's heart was him much more then that but at nife. wholly engaged. She

He would pick them up. About sulated, against the charms of cheered. That was something t was In-six-thirty, Monnio felt definite' every man in the world except Dan look forward to, at any rate Life Cardigan.

had been so dull Intely. And "I've been wondering why. I mother would love it. didn't acc you around town," Eustace began, sulting his long. She ran in, full of her adventure. step to hers.

"Mother! Where aro you" Where's everybody?"-

Still no Dan. Sho did not even sce him at the wheel of the road-here. All this time." ster, skimming along the roads. At home the family forbore to ask questions. Kay was caught up in a whirl of high school activities, Dill came and wont, ale his meals moodily, and allpped back to the garage. Monnie came out of her own daze of misery to realize there was something definitely wrong in Bill's sphere. He was more silent, more dour than us unl. Poor' Bill-it was having to work too hard and too early that had weighed him down so that, at 22, he seemed years older.

Monnie milled. "I've beon

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Silence greated hor, The kit chen was silent, full of noonday sun, dancing on the cups and saucors. The stove was unlighted.

"Mother!"

station with Omcor Garvan.” - NY Trouble?" Sho almost scream- od the word: "What sort of trouble?"

RAILWAY PROJECT.

CONSTRUCTIONAL WORK IN

NORTH KIANGSI -

But the wire clicked. The con- nexion was broken. She put the receiver back on the hook and wont back to the kitchen. She

Nanking, June 10. A project for the construction of stared for an instunt at the storm-a railway stretching across north ing kattle, before reaching to turn Klangal batwoon toaster, noting dully that the two inghalang, was considered here off the gas. She detached the

"'Yushan" "“and

thin slices she had cut wore this morning-Router. smoldering blackly behind the wires. Then she put on her hat

and wandered out into the street. there if you want to see the young She hadn't the lonet idea where feller." she was going or what she was to do. Except that Bill Was in Somehow her lagging feet car trouble and her mother, wherever ried her across the room, somehow she was, needed her.

her fingers turned the knob.. She braced herself for the ordeal. The police station. Monnie had Just inside Bill ant, looking lark never been inside. it before, in all and angry. Three her life in Belvedere, and her with him, talking and geaticulat- heart qualled now at the prospecting. And Monnie's mother, twist- of entering its dour portals. She Ing her handkerchief. squared her shoulders and march- ed in..

There was a big, blue-coated man at the oaken desk just inside the door. He life an inquiring oyebrow at her.

She could catch the scout of good leather and Virginia tobacco an ho oponed a pouch and stuffed his pipe. She stopped to watch Monnie ran upstairs, catching him do it. Funny-she liked her foot for the thousandth time man to smoke a pipe. Dan al on the stairs. Ways smoked cigarettes. One after. But there was no one in the the other, Nervously. She shook shabby front bedroom with the herself. What a fool she was-looped white curtains, so carefully always harking back to Dan! darned. Her mother's bed, im- The man glanced down at her maculately white, her dresser neat shrewdly. "You Dro looking and tidy, all silently testified to rather pale," he observed. "Are the late occupancy of the owner,

"Is-is Officer Garvan In?" they working you too hard?"

Monnio grew frightened. Per-

"No, ma'am" g Monnie shook her hend. "It's haps mother had become ill, had. spring-1 guess. Maybe I need a fainted in the bathroom! With men in Belvedere by sight but this

She know most of the police fast beating heart she turned the man was a stranger to her. "I'm knob. But that, too, was silent, Monien O'Dare. Someone I empty.

It was not like mother to go of mean I was told I would find my without leaving some word. What She knew her face was blazing on earth could have happened? and she could hardly speak above With a feeling of nervousness, In whisper.

And their mother-Monnie had twinges of worry about her, too. She seemed cheerful as always | change."

sighed deoply and quietly when spring in," said Charles Eustace. ahe thought no one was about. "This time last year" All the O'Dares seemed to bel

but hor stop. was slower. Sho "This is a grand town to sea

drifting. What was. it all about? Why did other people have good times, bright, happy homes while the young O'Dares must carry this heavy burden?

At this point In her reflections Monnie always shook herself vig orously. "This is nonsense," she would remind herself. "Aren't we all well and strong? Haven't I a job and a roof over my head. nud-and good frienda?"

herself

brother here—”

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He stopped abruptly. Monnis looked up at him innocently to dis cover he was very wilts. She had a sensation of keer distress. | Monnie put the kettle on to boil, "Oh, them?" The man jerked his "Never mind," he finished brief- į mensured tea into the cracked blue thumb in the direction of a door ly, "I was in France. It was and white pot and. sliced some just behind him. "You can go in beautiful there, but this is more brend for toust. She had to be peaceful. One - can-can be at home here.”

There was. obviously, something too painful for him to speak about. The two walked on in companion- able silence.

back at the store within the hour. These preparations begun, shej hurried to the phone. She would call Bill at the garage. He might | be able to solve the mystery.

"Hello! May I apenk to BI. please?"

Mr. Harnett's voice, rumbling. intimidating, answered. "Bili? Bill's not here."

Her heart began to race faster. "When will he be back, do you know?"

She was arguing with

"I say," he went on after a few thus one day, hurrying home for moments, "I've been wondering it tunch, when she ran straight into I couldn't persuade you to come up the arms of a tall man.

to my place for dinner one night "I-oh, I beg your pardon!" soon. Perhaps your mother-in! All scarlet lips, flashing amber that young sister of yours. I'd eyes, she stared up at him,

ask a few other people. We could "Quite all right." Charles Eus-have a sort of plenie. My boy. The voice sounded sardonic now. tace's deep voice reassured her Kong, is a wizard at fried chi"Couldn't say, I'm sure." "I wasn't on the right side of the ken." road, either."

"That would be lovely," Monnie They laughed together and said. "We'd like to come." Monnie's heart lightened. 'It was "Would you really?" There was good to laugh with someone. She something very boyish in the way

There was an instant's pause- hadn't for days.

he asked that.

long enough for Monnie to hear, "Mind if I turn about and go "Of course." She could smile separately and distinctly, the hiss- your way?" Eustace wanted to fat this man, be friendly and ing of the kettle, the ticking of the know, "I'm just barging about gracious with him, because she clock, and the thump-thump-thump for exercise." --.-

wasn't in love with him. Oh, lcw of her own unruly heart. Thon How tall he was and, yes-stupid was love! It made you slit the man at the other end of the how distinguished looking! It and awkward and unsure of your-wire said with Infinite delibera- was odd.she didn't think him bet-zelf,

tion: "Wrong enough, misa.

Desperately Monnie said, "Mr. Harnett, this, is Bill's sister- Monica O'Dare.. Is anything wrong?"

for looking, than. Dan but she "Splendide--How about Thura- | There's been some trouble here didn't. He was nice... Another 1 day next, then?”.

and Bill's gone along to tho

men wero

At the sight of the latter, Mon-

nic's

own terror took wings, What was she here for, if not to bring her mother strength and courago? Whatovor had happen- ed, her mother was not to suffer. Monnie made her step firm and hor volco cheerful.

in a clear voice.

"What's happened?" she asked

The biggest man, the one with the loud voice, turned to stare at her. "Mattor enough" he an nounced belligerently. This young man's under arrest. are you?""

(To Be Continued.)

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