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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1933.

DARLING FOOL

DEGIN HERE TO-DAY

MONICA O'DARE, beautiful, pour, and 20,

la in love with DAN CARDIGAN who belonge

¡the transaction he managed to get

POSSCssion of one slim hand.

"Monnte, honestly, didn't you works to help to support her MOTHER, her oven know I'd been away‍?" younger sister, KAY, and brother, MARK.

She glanced around nervously,

To one of Delvadero's rich familles, Monhis

by MABEL MCELLIOT

was the way of it! He hadn't the courage to face his family with the fact that he loved her. He expect- ed her to be content with scraps of comfort, with whispered words now

have his faith in womankind way of the young, pretty frocks, restored by her. They would have someone to admire her, excitement. a quiet wedding and go abroad on Most of all she desired freedom a honeymoon.

from this love bandage which had "Wake up, Monale!" It was Mr. been like an Illness since she first Vernon's good-natured voice. Infd eyes on Dan Cardigan "Daydreamin'?” {"

"Gucas. I was."

雜。

But try as she might she could

Featherweight

HATS

stammered, not banish anger from her heart SOFT FELT

on

When Bill an older brother, is arrested at glad there was no one in the store and then. Well, he was mistaken?ed away, his spectacles pushed, know, how she felt about Dan and

the garage where he works Manhle goes to

hield. She asia in south, with CHABLES Cxcept Mr. Vernon himself, busy at KURTACE, handsome newcomer to town who the soda fountain. she be sure, will help her. Dil, chivalrously:

webing to keep out of his trouble the name "I've been rushed, Dan. Didn't of the girl he was with when the robbery you,"her voice grow sorious

planned refuses to alk. Their "didn't you hear about that din clear his pAIŢIE, Monnie learns Angla le about culty of Bill's?"

Wa

ANGIK, GILLEN, rushes in him and helps to

to be divorced and will then marry Di

CHAPTER VII

"Hello, Dan!" **Lo, Monnie.”

In the shape of n crop.

"Haven't seen you in nges," he told her lightly.

•

She flushed and

anger and a sense of betrayal for "Well, Mrs. Burko wanta Sandra Lawrence. Sandra pre- ounce of scena leaves." He shuf- tended to be her friend. Sandra yet seemed to be doing all she could There was a pain in her chest just high on his forehead. He was a the same, a stricken sense of hay Vernon. Belvedere referred to

kindly, middle-aged man, Mr. to undermine Monnie with him.

"She says she doesn't care a fng been cheated. Sandra would him as "an old bach." Monnie had thing about him," Monnie remind- see him at lunch. laugh and chat about nothing at it at 60. He was unfailingly kind "What's the matter, daughter?

They would

no idea of his age, but roughly put ed herself. "I wonder!" all. And Sandra didn't care in the to her and in return she gave him You don't seem to have an appe- {lenst_about him—or did sho?

the best service sho knew how to tito?"

"

Oh,

(To be continued.)

'Other Woman'

Chooses Death ·

There, it was out. She had brazenly dragged it into the open been pushing into the back of her to thank him for letting her have at the dining room table, eyed her. This was a thought Monnio hnd give. She had never known how Her mother, sitting opposite her Monnie was writing down a pren-giving Dan no oppertunity to cription number for old Mrs. Beads ignore it. He frowned and mut-mind for weeks now. Oh. it was this job.

anxiously. Monnie roused herself when she heard his voice. Her tored uneasily, "I did hear some Sandra knew men in overy quarter serving that Donny, the boy who "It's pretty hot. I guess that's

folly-It was utter madness! She filled Mrs. Burko's ́ordér, ob-to smile. heart began to hammer against her gab about it 'round town last

of the globe. Why should she fx attended to the soda counter, had |¡t."" ribs and she felt the warm colour night."

"Bill is back at work," Monnie her attentions on Dan Cardigan? his hands full. The high school "I'll have cold things for sup- surging into her chooks.. Angrily she took herself in hand. Whun sald coolly. "Mr. Harnett was glad Just because she, Monnie, thought boys and giris often came as far as pot," Mrs. O'Dare said. "Just a

him the handsomest, most devastat- Vernon's for their ham sandwiches salad and some cold meat and she turned around, after serving to live him. It all blew over."

"Well that's fine," Dan salding male in the United States was and chocolate majted milka. No The shrilling of the telephone in- hor customer, she was quite com-heartily. "I'm mighty, glad." He no reason every other woman need to look for Kay, Kay "look" terrupted her. posed.

was still prisoning her fingers de should regard him in the same way, her lunch, hating It, longing to join "I'll take that, Monnie. You terminedly in his. "Monale, I just Several customers came in after the gay ranks thronging to the finlah your lunch." He was in one of his best moods was low and confidential and in and be agreeable. It helped, she But it would have been too severe pale face a triflo flushed. "Monnie, She was back in an instant, her wanted to tell you" His voice that and she had to hurry, smile "hot dog" wagon across the way. to-day, she could see that spite of all her pride and resent thought, to be what people know as a drain on the family purse to let someone for you. It's Mr.—it's looked splendid in his riding ment her traitorous heart respond-"a poor working girl." Yon Kay buy her lunch every day, Dan Cardigan.” clothes, sure to make the loafersed to it. But she was not to know, couldn't sit around with your mind Monnie sighed again at the recol on High street nudge each other that day at any rate, what Dan on your troubles. And she was, lection of this one, last restriction and stare. Gabardine sleevelcas tan sweater, carelessly that moment an imperious young She got $18 a week. That, with it was difficult to be poor, and no

breeches, wanted to say to her because at really, the mainstay of the family, the O'Dares were subject to. knotted brown the with a gold pin person in the coolest and freshest the tiny income left by her father mistake about it!

of summer white bore down upon and with what Bill contributed, them.

kopt them going. If only-slu Presently she was free to leave "Dan, don't you know Mother's thought for the thousandth time-for her own mid-day meal. Sho waiting? You said you'd be only if only Mark were older. It would washed her hands at the little a moment." His sister, Geraldine.be five years at least until he could basin hidden by a screen in thei Geraldine's bright eyes flicked fend for himself. And Kay, so back room. Mr. Vernon had al- Monnie's face for a moment. She pretty, so alluring-Monnie would ready anatched a bite at the coun was cool, distant, self-possessed. have to see that things went right ter, during the lull. She glanced

"Oh, how d'ye do."

for Kay.

lat herself in the cracked mirror

over the bowl. She looked, she! It wasn't much, but from Dan would have suspected that before mal in a cage-trapped-desper-wonder Dan preferred Sandra's Sometimes she felt like an ani- thought, pale and dragged. No this meant a lot. She tried not to the days of the be elated but she was.

O'Dares changed ate. She could not get out! She company to hers. Sandra was al- Dan had fortunes these two had linked arms Why, it made everything different. es. Geraldine chose to ignore She would not be free until Mark links and the tennis court. missed her he was telling her so. together at juvenile dancing class-would have to stay just where she ways gay and witty and well dress- was, to be tormented and snubbed. d, rosy with sun-tan gained on the made the shop, the street, the Monica O'Dare nowadays because and Key were able to look after whole town, come suddenly alive. Monnte clerked in a drug store and themselves. By that time, thought over Monnie, with this wave

A sort of spiritual nausea swept She straightened a case of pow-jhad only one new dress a year.

all this," she der boxes with capable fingers and "Sandra will be waiting." Dan's Monnie drearily, she would be old. self-pity. "I hate

"Niec of you to sister continued. "She anid to be Old at 251 amiled at him.

feried rebelliously in her soul. “I say that, Danny. I've been fright there at one and you're not evenOh, If only (she thought, wildly must find a way out.". fully busy-

dressed"

and frantically) she could get All the way home the thought | Dan relapsed into his old de-away to New York-be in a chorus persisted. People said often that fensively sullen air and followed do clothes-modelling-anything! if you wanted a thing-long enough her out of the store. Not before She could see herself, suave and and hard enough you got it. he had said, very low, "I'll be sec-sophisticated, wearing the most made a wish, like the heroine of Well, she would try wanting. She Ing you soon. Monnie,"

beautiful clothes, going to the thea- tre, being popular and mysterious. half a hundred fairy tales, for hap She and her mother could have an

Ipiness.

"I don't care how I get it or apartment. Presently some splon- did man-a captain of industry, for when," she murmured. "But I choice-would come along. He want to be happy before I'm old." would be older-38 or 40-he would By happiness she meant, In the

Monnie said, "No, Dan." "I've been out of town," Dan went on with importance. "Dad had some business in Chicago I had to 'tend to." He lowered his volce and it took on the caressing nole) Monnic knew.. "Missed you, sugar," he said..

Just so he wouldn't think she'd: been altting at home waiting for him, that was. Well, it was true too. She had been busy.

He ordered some cigarettes and paid for them. Sonichow during

Monnie acknowledged the salute with a slight bow. You never

So that

She raged in her heart.

Scottsboro Witness Leads March

of

Choosing death over life with.. aut her married dentist-employ er. Miss Robocos Roche, abors, leaped from the 234 floor of a Chicago building. Her suleido followed a conference, with Dr. M. M. Renteli and his wife dur Ing which the girl was told her love affair with the dentist must

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