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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

DARLING FOOL

DEGIN WERE TO-DAY

too rapidly of days,

MONNIB O'DARE, beautiful, poor and 26. is in love with DAN CARDIGAN, heir to on of the local fortunes. Dan professes to lore her but is often neglectful. When the press * friend CHARLES ZUSTACE comes to her old. Mannie bellaven BANDRA LAWRENCE, in Dan's Own Leerring to win him from her. UILIA, Monnie's older brother, plens ti of you.”. mary ANGIE OILLEN, who wurka 1 mandy shop, s soon as she gate a divorca |

la discontented with poverty. At dinner

divorce through quickly,

„by MABEL

MCELLIOTT

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1933.

16 in May. That was the first) understand. „Did families—ever? time she had realized, actually, Thus Kay. Now on this warm that 16 was almost grown up,-

June afternoon she began to feol

*

Chester WAB

Of course, she and 'Rissy had a trifle norvous about the whole played for a long time at being affair, Chester was being insist- sophisticated, bored with every-ent on sooing her that evening. thing, women of the world, but "But I can't possibly," shade- line, and know when to use it she hadn't, until she met Chester murred. "We're having exama- He said, "Baby, you're the prot-How old was he, Kay wondered? Bigelow, actually, appreciated the all week. I'm up to my ears.". tlest thing this side of Chicago. Thirty-five, maybe? Forty, You fact that she was almost a woman

She thought of the classroom, Know what I mean, you've got couldn't tell.

grown. Old enough for serious warm crammed with perspiring class, Lots of 'om in the front Sho and Clarissa Briggs had beaux, not just high school kids youths and maidons nibbling pon- rows of choruses would be Jealous "just run into him" one day at whone Idea of a gay evening was cil points. Bees would be hum- the Eweet Shoppe. They had been to hop into a $20 touring car with ming outside the windows, hov- Kay, walking down High street giggling over maple nut sundaes, most of its parts missing and ride ering over the Dr. Van Flest roses KAY O'DARE, 15 and still in high school. In the neighbourhood of Vernon's Kay conselous of the fact that she cut to High Springs for a bowl of which were the principal's par- party at Charles home Hunnig accidentally drug store, took one swift look should have saved her allowance chili con carne.

ticular pride and joy. The ques Dan Misa Bandra." SIETTY, 'n housemaid ahend before she plunged. There for now shoes instead of frittoring

teacher of the moment would be at the Lawrence horen, hate Handra and was a good deal of traffic. (for it this way, when they saw him. avapecla ber, of... “vamping" JIMMY, the

Bill and Angle quarrel. Angie Belvedere) at this time. It was He had come in, glanced about wouldn't Mother understand about

different. Why | hot, sarcastic,.edgy, chauffeur. says she hasn't enough money to put the 4 o'clock. The high school had inquiringly and then come straight him? Kay had never, somehow, out, suddenly, surprised at ker "Oh, I hate it all!" she burst long since disgorged its chatter-over to their table. Sho and dared to bring him home. Not own earnestness. Ing, bright-clad throngs. Shabby Riasy had pretended to be an that Chester had showed any de ancient cara nosed the slockor senoyed. "The nerve of him!" theysire to be Introduced, formally, to Kay said, "I don't belleve adans belonging to the young had said afterward, with well the family. Anyhow Kay had the

matrons of Belvedere's "youngor simulated amazement. But ho sot." Kay did not want to be had carried it off well. He had thing. The romance would vanish reluctantly.

feeling that would apoll every- seen with this minn, the travelling insisted he'd met "Klasy the last salesman who supplied Belvedere's time he'd been in town and that if Monnie and Mother and Bill and one department store with silk she didn't remember him,

| Mark looked Chestor over coolly. stockings. Belvedere would not "That's the way with you girls," | So she met him downtown telling you?" His alightly nasal understand, said Kay to herself, he had said, pretending to be whenever his route brought him voice, softened now, rushed over Sometimes he rent-the words. "Aren't you wasting Especially Monnte. Or Mother. chagrined. "Out of sight, out of to Belvedere

Still she didn't know what they mind." He had been talking to was a bit afraid to go riding with doing something in the Big Town? ed a car and drove down. Kay your time here when you might be He was polite-an Rissy, but looking at Kay. She Chestor. If her mother heard-If Lots of girls no older'n you are in nice as he could be, really. And had,

she remembered, he made the boys in Kay's class rather well that day, in the reded to find out Not that item. Maybe this time next year

looked

Monnie saw them-If Bill happon- the choruses. Fact is, they like seem awfully raw and awkward. beret and new sweater sult, the He was what she and her, class one Monnie had given her for her wasn't perfectly all right. Ches- you'd be married to a millionaire mates called "smooth." He had a birthday. Sixteen-she had been ter was "simply a peach" and all if you tried It."

that but the family wouldn't (Continued on Page 11.j

mean it.

CHAPTER XII

word of it. You're just belur nica to me." She went on, "I'll bet you say that to all the girls you mect;' and smiled to show she didn't

The young-old man in the double-breasted suit grinned at her. Faultless was the necktie, stripod and shining. Faultless the set of his sleek black hair. He objected to. had little lines around his eyes and his cheeks wore that too-well- barbored look. He had the air of weariness that comes to a man who stays up late of nights and talks

dark eyes bold and smiling, press- "Not me, baby!'! Chester, his ed his arm close to hers.

"N-no, not you." She smiled "Just school-this old town-all of it."

"Isn't that what I'm always

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