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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1933.

DARLING FOOL

narrow.

by MABEL MCELLIOTT

what."

the train there. He said he'd give Monnio caught, the sickening me the fure to New York. What's fumes of bad gin, as she helped the that?" she interrupted herself, put- sobbing girl out.

ting her hands to her cars. "Back here, dear. Charles' cur? You're all right. Don't cry any moro."

"I think," said Monnle soberly and with satisfaction, "that Charleu Eustace is giving that man a beat- ing."

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Much, much later that night, when Kay was in bed and Monnio lay, very wide-awake and troubled, In the cot beside her, a voice cáme

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

between. The main road forked fender of the car. She could not "H-he said I'd better wrap up wouldn't MONNIE O'DARE who loves DAN CAR at the Waynesboro turn. This hear what he said but presently in that thing so folks DIGAN, rich and handsome, discovers her was virtual detour, rutty and he came. back, looking rather dis-know me," Kay was saying, be- friand, BANDRA LAWRECH, is trying to win

gusted.

twoon gasps. "He put on a dirty him from bar. CHARLES EUSTACE, « new. eumer, in town, paru a good deal of atlan.

It was madness-madness-tho "Some Idiot of a drunken yokel," old cont so that he would look dif- tion to Monnie and helps her when her bro

"His wife's furent. He began to drink from a iber, ILL, get into dimeuilles. Bi plana giri told herself, to thrash about he said disgustedly. US MEITT ANDIE GILLEN, who works in in this way. What they should asleep! 1 couldn't get anything out flask he had. I got scared. Ho softly through the darkness.

11ETTY housemaid at the Lawrence home, have done at once was to have of her. What luck! My huuch was only going to drive

to Waynesboro and then put me on „dislikes her mistress, suspecting her of given Kay's description to the lo- was a rotten one."

"amping" the handsome chauffeur, JAMES. Mannie starts out with Charles to find KAY, cal police. They had a system of her younger sister, who has gone away with CHESTER BIGELOW, travelling sslerman, Kay, frightened, wants to turn back from the

candy shop, as soon as she gets her divores.

adventure before it is too, inte.

CHAPTER XIV

to

Monnie was sick with disap-" radio alarm that was wonderful, pointment. She hadn't really ex- she had heard. But no-no-that pected anything of this chance would be broadleart to the walt-cluc, They were searching for a ing world!

needle Inn knystack, she : re- "I couldn't do that her," minded herself. She must keep Monnie groaned inwardly.

up her courage. The wind whipped. Hittle ring- They plunged through Newton "Tell you what we'll do," Charles lets of bronze hair Into Monnio's Centre, a hamlet of some half said in a hearty tone. "We'll purk oyes. It was as if they were flying dozen suntlored houses. Charles on for Waynesboro and Inquire at along in the summer night. lighted a cigarette without taking the hotel there. If they're stop- "What a wild goose chase," she is eyes from the road. Monale, ping any place to-night it will be said, as if to herself. Waynes-training her gaze ahead, was there. It's the only decent place; boro-Miss Anatice had said that conscious of a-sudden spurt of for miles around--" Kay was on the way to Wayne energy in the motor.

"They wouldn't-Kay boro but wasn't it quite possible That car ahead," Charles toldn't Monnie stammered. that the man had thrown that her. "I've had its tail light over "Kay's going to be all right! question out at the filling station' aince the Falls. It's turning into Don't you worry about that," the merely as a decoy? Wasn't it just a lane. Suppose we stop and take quiet voice told her. The young n reasonable that Kay was, at a look."

man beside her started his en-

to

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would-

this moment, speeding westward "It's probably some farmer's gine, which purred dutifully,, and instead of taking the custerly dooryard," Monile said despair-the car began to slow about on road Charles Eustace's car was ingly,

the slippery road. There had been travelling?

heavy rains the night before. Poor Kay, foolish little Kay The winking red light disap- The wheels whirred uselessly for She ought to have know what peared for an instant, reappeared a moment in mud and the brakes was going on-ought have again. Charles was slowing hi groaned. watched her more closely, She engine now, Its powerful roar "Nasty pinen!" had been, Monnie reproached ber-mufled so that the sounds of in- self, too utterly absorbed in her accta, of whirring crickets and own affairs to see where Kay, in croaking tree frogs could be heard. her impatience and discontent, Monnie realized the car they her checks hot. This was awful--- was drifting.

were trailing had stopped. Before awful-they were losing proefons she 'could speak the man besida time. her had put on the brakes, was aliding out of the Hunt.

"It's my fault!" she broke out, rather incoherently, to the silent man beside her.

"You stay here," he said in a reassuring whisper. "I'll do the

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The engine killed, sickeningly. Monie felt her painis wet and

In the split second of illence after the roar of the motor a girl's clear voice came to them,

"I want to go back-oh, I do!" Key's volce.

Bonnie was out upon that mud-

"That's nonacuse." His dark profile was grim in the faint light of the intrument board. "And talking." anyhow, nothing's happened yet. Monnic wns trembling with We'll have her safe and sound Innervousness now. She had to grit.dy read before she knew what she an hour or two." Eustace spoke her teeth together to keep them was doing, netually, Her frantic with a confidence he was far from from chattering. She watched fret were carrying her toward the

feeling..

Charles tall 6gure striding pur-red light. She could hear the Monnie wat tense, every nerveposefully away from her. In the pounding heels of her escort ho tingling with the excitement of ear ahead she could just see the side her. the chase. High Falls—a scatter-ontline of two heads. A woman's, She flung herself against the Ing of lights and then the open shawled. A man's.

door of the little red sedan. "Kayl rond again. White arrows point-

wanted to enli

to Kay! It' Monnie! I'm out

hore, ing the way at the crossroad- Charles to come back-to hurry. denr. Don't be afraid!" turn here for Waynesboro-that They must be on their

way. It Kay, with acme kind of black was all right-they had taken the was folly to waste even a few min- | silk scarf wound around her bright right turn.

ates trailing some surly farmer locks, Kay with a face stained with Charles slowed ench tinie they who would, like as not, resent tears. A sullen, young-old man at passed a car and Mounie stared with blows their interest in him. the wheel. eagerly, expectantly, Into the In the blurry mist the 'headlights "Aw, let her go. She's a quitter. faces of The occupants, The Innde she could see Charles drop- that's what she is. She wanted to vehicles were fewer now and Türthurling himself causally over the come with me.

It's racket, that'e

She

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