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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

DARLING FOOL

DEGIN HERE TO-DAY

tu one of Belveders's rich families, Monica

CHAPTER VI

by MABEL ПTICELLIOTT

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1933.

passed on the street glanced at others. She couldn't show the thom curiously. Well, the true white feather, She went down- story would be about soon enough, stairs. -

Still there would always be people "Kay! How about a cup of tea?" to remember that Bill O'Dars had The younger girl, lovely even in been arrested once upon atimo.her auliounces, in spite of the lines She couldn't help that. It was no of dissatisfaction etching them. good worrying about it.

selves about her charmingly mouth,

rose from the sitting room couch.

"I made some a few minutes ago, Want it fresh ?"

"

Suddenly there was A commo-t "Ho is?" This was Bill, a now,

Bill sald suddenly, "Drop mo MONICA O'DARE, beautiful, poor and zo, tion in the outer room. A small ardent Bill, unaware that such is in love with UAN CARDIGAN he belongs whirlwin burst through. A slip people as his sister and her escort at the garage a minute, will your

Monnte understood. He wanted works so balp support by MOTHER, her of a girl with flying, yellow hair existed. "No fooling?" younger sister, KAY, and brother, MARK, above extraordinarily plucked eye- Two uniformed men interrupted to seo Mr. Harnott, to know if his When Bill" an older brother," ja uremied, brows..

the

Monnie said in a volcs which sho Bald, scene. Ono

gruffly, job was safe. at the garage where he works, Monnie gore Lo hald, Bhe gets in touch with CHARLES Whore Is he?" she demanded. “You're all washed up, young Presently she was alighting from made cheerful with a decided effort, EURTACE, handsome newcomer to town, who “Oh, Bill, What a map you are!" feller. You can go home now.". the car at her own door...

"I certainly do. Be a good girl and she le are will-help'her,

I'm half dend." Bill looked sheepish. The girl- It was as simple as that. A "Don't forget about that din-fix it for me.

"The way you go she couldn't have been 20-whirled moment before Bill had been in nor engagement," Charles Eustaco

dashing about-and-stared at Monnie-and-the-hands of the law. Now he was reminded her with his faintly around!" and Kay in a coldly con Bill said, "I'm not blabbing, Charles Eustace.

released. Tho oddly assorted ironical smile.

temptuous tono. You make me ace?" He said, "Bho's just n_giri "Isn't he a nut?" she gurgled. quartet left the building.

Sho caught her breath, She sick, you do. If I were you I'd let I know. Sho's all right. Sure, "Acting like a movie herojust Charles Eustace said, "I can had utterly and completely for-Bili O'Dare fight his own battles: sho's got a husband. What does because he doesn't want to say ho drop all you people wherever you gotten it..

Getting us Into this mess that matter? She's just a friend took me home from the Inn last say "

"I'll be here for you, as I said." Monnio stared at her indignant- of mine "

night. 'Course I was there with Bill, remembering his manners She rushed up the walk, "Mo-ly. "What on earth are you talk- Bill, blustering beneath tis B. Those big bozos breezed up rather belatedly announced:ther, It's all right!They got the ing about? I never heard such fright. Bill, pale and big-eyed. to our table and tried to get fresh "This is Angie Gillen. My sistor. thieves--and Bill is free."

nonsense. As if families oughtn't. Monnie touched his hand. "I and he told them to light out. Mr. Eustace."

Kay came out of the kitchen, a to stand together! And besides, It know. But it will help-lots-That was all. Imagine Jimmy The girl, Angie, flicked her ten towel in her hand... Kay looked wasn't Bill's fault." you can prove you weren't with Garvan trying to say Bill had a lashes at Charizs Eustace and pale and sullon: ”“She's, upstairs." Kay was really too silly. They that crowd last night."

"conference" with themi She mi-smiled at Monnie. "No need of Monnie ran up, taking two steps had petted her, babied her,

and Bill set his jaw stubbornly, Imicked the policeman with dia-dropping me any place," she said. at a time.

now she was horribly spoiled. Was "I'm not dragging any girl into bolical effect. She told Bill. "I cheerily, "I ran over in the old "It's all been fixed.ZHIll stopped It too late to do anything about it? this. Don't you worry. It'll all gave Jimmy Garvan something to bus," indicating a shabby touring at the garage. He'd be home In a Was she so deeply steeped in her come out right. They're crazy, all think about! Anyhow they've just car at the curb. Bill helped her minute."

own selfishness that she couldn't of them. They know I had nothing caught the gang over at Newton in and there was a moment's low- Mrs. O'Dire wasaling up in see anyone's side but her own? to do with it."

Contra and everybody knows you're voiced confusion.

bed, looking fragile and weary "I'm disappointed in you," Mon- Monnie stifled her exasperation. aut of it."

"You run along and I'll see you among the pillows. It was so nie went on coldly. "No, don't She must make him see what it

“You-you're simply fine to do to-morrow," Angie concluded. She strange to see her vigorous, active bother to make the tea. I can get meant to all of them!

this for us!" Monnie cried, her whirled the engine into a fury of parent in bed during the day that my own, thank you.” "All right then," she said stead- eyes shining.

commotion and barged off with a Monnie had to choke back an in- Kay followed her into the kitch- ily, "You don't care what happens

"Fine!" The girl patted the rattle of fenders. Bill, rather destinctive feeling of aldrm; len. A slightly placating note had to Mother?"

pleats of her pink sweater suit flated now, climbed into the back No, she would not tell her about crept into her voice now. If she She had made a dent in his ar-carelessly. "Why, I'd do anything soat of Eustace's car.

Angie Gillon

just now. She offended Monnie too gravely it mor-she could see that.

for Bull. He knows that." She Monnie's first emotion was of needn't. That could come later. mennt, perhaps, a cutting off of 'Don't talk foollak," Bill com-looked coy.

Joy, pure and simple. To have "Yes, I had some ten," her moth-privileges-less pocket money, manded her sternly. "You know

|Bill free-vindicated—was enough. Jer said In response to a question. "I didn't mean that we ought not I do.".

Bill said, "You should have But sho hated having to tell her "Kay mado It. Suppose you run stand together," she said. "Only "Mother's sick," Monnie told him.kept out of this. There'll be mother of the atato of Bill's down and have a bite yourself. —well, I got sick of it all. Being "Sho's hardly able to sit up, she's all kinds of talk."

affections. A married woman! You missed your lynck-

poor and not having any decent so worried. She won't ont. Dr. "What do I care?" asked the Mrs. O'Dare, who hnd old fashioned Monnio realized now she was clothes or knowing the right peo- Waterman has given her some yellow-haired girl, airily. "Me tons of propriety, wouldn't like hungry. Almost faint with it. It ple" alcoping medicine-"

and Stan are splitting up anyhow. that. In a town the size of Bel- 'had been a tiring, and unbearably "I suppose I don't!" Monnie Bil stared straight ahead. What's the diff? Stan knows I vedere the affair amounted to alexciting day. She flung hor hat on blazed, muting her voice so Monnie sat there, despairing, as 'have dates--he does, himself, virtual scandal. Well, there was the bed, pushed back the damp Ita angry tone should not reach Charles Eustace. detached and Stan," she told Bill confidentially, no use worrying about that now! ringlets of hair around her white the woman above stairs. "I sup- friendly, smoked his pipe and paced "is going to Cleveland next week.

forehead, looked at herself in the pose you think I like all this. I up and down.

He's got a job."

She fancied the few people they glass with grave dissatisfaction. suppose you think I never have a She experienced the Inevitable re- thought that doesn't include buying action of the person who has been you a new dress and rushing down. [struggling for hours, toward a goal to the store on time."

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Galos that swept the mid-section of the United States, reaching tornado force in many areas and causing a death toll of more than 100, struck Chicago's environs after a heavy bail storm. The picture

-shows a.wrecked high_school near Elgin, U..

that

and suddenly, unexpectedly reaches In her white face hor great am- it. What, she thought dully, did ber eyes glowed feverishly.

An

it all matter anyway? Life was angry sob choked hor. Kay frank- Just a battle for her. It was going ly stared. It wasn't like Monnie to to be harder and harder as time flare out at her this way.. Monnic went on. Bill was on the brink of why she was supposed to comfort an affair. Kay was discontented. Kay whenever anything went Her own affair with Dan was going wrong. Kay's pretty lips parted badly.

to show her exquisite teeth. She "It's all so-so hopeless," she gasped. whispered to her image in the glass.

Then she squared her shoulders. She had to be courageous for thei

"I tell you," Monnie went on in a half whisper, "I'm sick and tired of it all! If it weren't for Mother, I'd clear out of here to-morrow" (To Be Continued).

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Federal Judge JABU) A: Lowell (above), of Boston, Mass., became the target for attack in Congress when he freed a Negro, George Craw- ford, wanted in Virginia' -murder charges, holding that Negroes do not serve on jurisé -In Virginia and that any convic

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