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by MABEL MCELLIOTT

"Not ugly-but, well, plain in way. distinguished kind of he girl Sandro met in Florence. She," remembered Monnie, was From an old Boston family, 1 think"

MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1939.

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MINISTER'S TOUR..

SIR MILES RETURNS TO PEKING

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been awfully glad. I was afraid,” sald Kay with sisterly candour, "you might be turning out to be the sort of dumb bunny who crles with joy when a boy shows her any attention. And that, with your looks, would be dumbf"

Paking, June 25. Thanks." Monnio was brush- Sir Miles Lampson and his party, branches at the sky, was seeing. last winter? She was plain, really.

this afternoon by MONNIE O'DARE, 20 and beautful, i un instead, the high minarets and Angular--and her skin was awful.ing her hair now. It did not mat-returned

from Hankow. happy because DAN CARDIGAN who pro towers publicized by the picture Yet Sandra said she got a screen ter if her face had crimsoned.

WOH wonderful. And

Among "What I say," erled Kay warm-

the plane passengers his hobbleh family. CHARLES EUSTACK portcards-the famous "skyline." test that

Pay She was seeing the Empire State she's getting along very well. I Belvedere, newcomer to

Yangtze Valley Monals marked attention. He helps her with building and the Chrysler tower, BBW hor picture outside the Cameo ing to her subject, "is, Jet Sandra as Madame Wilden, who has been family dimeuitlew and when KAY, her younger

winking lights of Times the other day when I came home." have him, and good riddance! visiting Uppor slater, trics to run off with a travelling sales

"I forgot you'd met her," and Charles Eustace a better bet any points.

The party landed at Nanyhuan man, he and Monnie bring her back without Square.. scandal,

"Thore'd be

chance for me Kay Interested. Was she really way you look at it."

"You're not insinuating," saldaerodrome.-Reuter: SANDRA LAWRENCE, onetime. friend of Mannie's, tries to win Dan away from her there," Kay stated eagerly. "I ugly?" Sandra's maki, HETTY, thinks dendrs could make something of myself-

Monnie, between tears and laugh- ter: "that Charles is in love with have relinquished him to Sandra, trying to ramp JAMES, the chauffeur, and

be somebody. Get some place." is Jerious.

Monnie sighed. They had gone

me? Because I never heard such was she? Her fighting blood was nonsense in my life." CHAPTER XVI

over this ground before. Sho

Kay whistled like a boy. "May-

"What did you any?" She had and utterly,

| be not yet, but all you have to do been thinking of other things, Monnie heard Kay's voice and sympathized, wholly

her thoughts worlds away, but Kay locked up. It was Sunday morning but what could she do about it?

Kay frowned. "Sandra, by the is lift a finger," she advised, "You're too young to bo on your

"That's absurd. If, there's any- was prattling on, -11 o'clock, to be exact and Mon-

"I said she might have invited night. morrow

Having people one he's interested in that way, nie was enjoying the sweet freedom own" she said with gentleness. way, is throwing a big party tos

talking you, anyway." Kay was on the of her "day off," celebrating it by "Even if we had the money

and your live-subject of the party again. Mon- the weekly washing of her burnish-stake you for a while-which we from the city and the usual snooty it's you. Ho's always

inte frowned. ed bronze hair. Sitting out under haven't you're far too young to go crowd here. Wonder she wouldn't about your looks

"Charles 187 Kay giggled.

"I couldn't have gone," she said the apple tree in a shabby old off that way by yourself. Mother invite you! You used to be awful-liness

ly clubby." banket chair, looking extra-would nover hear of it."

Monnie threw the bright veil of That's gooll." She seemed vastly obliquely.

**Why not?" hair over her eyes. "Don't be amused. ordinarily childish in the white

Me- "You talk as if he wore

"I have another engagement." amock she wore, she answered her

silly," she said with affected light-

her sister's mys ness. "You wouldn't expect me to thuselah," said Monnio, nettled at She smiled at

tification. younger sister.

"Monnie! Not a new beau!" "Oh, the movies, of course," anld be asked to every party Sandra the reception her bit of colved. "He's not yet 30." A new Kay, since the adventure.

Rave."

"Wait and see.” "She might have done it this A curiously silent, obedient, almost Monnte, dismissing them.

"That's right, stick up for him,"

A little later, pressing the deep, "Well?" Kay seemed to think time anyway," Kay went on, atub Kay told her. "He's O. K. I'm pathetically-anxious-to-please Kay,

into her still damp What for bornly loyal. "I know her. Monnio reflected. It had been she had made a case,

Charles, with both. feet. Tcrisp waves lucky-It had been really miracu "Yes, but for the half dozen who she wants is to get Dan Cardigan think he's awell. But not for me. hair, frowning intently at her re lous--that no one else had learned are successful," argued the older all to herself. She worked hard on He's just not the--not the type.flection fr the mirror, she said to of Kay's brief light with Chester sister, "aren't there hundreds who that job. She deserves him. All I Even if he is a cross between herself that Dan Cardigan should to be Bigelow, from which Charles Eus-starve? Turn

the gas-all hope is, prattled Kay, turning the Ronald Colman and Gary Cooper." not go to Sandra's party

faunted as her prize possession. You read about kalfe in her listener's heart with "He's been everywhere, seen tace and Monnie had providentially kinds of things.

"Mon-

There were things Sandra Law- it every day." rescued her.

blissful unconsciousness, "is that everything, knows everyone,' "I," said Kay "Monnic, I want to do ROME-

magnificently, she gets Momma Cardigan with nie said quickly, glad the talk had rence had to learn. One of them thing!" Kay's voice, her expres-"would be successful."

him! They'd be a fine pair. Both shifted from Dan to less dangerous was that she was sion were tragic. Her

sea blus

bosses. Neither one will give an ground, eyes, long lashed, shadowed faintly with mauve, stared straight ahead, "I've got to find something. I I'll go crazy. if I don't."

Monnie said mildly, "But there aren't any jobs for you In Belve dere→→→

"Yea? What is it?"

"Girls not one bit older than am," said Kay with fervour, "are earning scads of money in the movies."

on

Monnie gave her a speculative {inch."

"You might.” she said look. slowly, "And then again might not. It's not being pretty and talented alone that puts you over: 1 read just the other day that a good camera mar could maké

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"What makes you think," asked you Monnie in a muilled voice, "that she's going to get Dan, as, you so elegantly put it?"

"Well, Fil tell you," began Kay "I know." Kay interrupted an actress and an unfriendly one confidentially. "Mind you, Monnie, "That's exactly what I mean. If ruin her chinnees. There are tricks I wouldn't be talking this way if I could get away-to Chicago-why, some of the most successful I weren't certain you'd got over Or New York-"

ones are not a bit pretty if you Dan—and a mighty good thing that Her voice fell on the name. meet them face to face! Don't you is, too, the interpolated. "Ever magic : name of The City.remember Lilas Martingale, the since that night you turned him staring through apple-girl I told you I met at Sandra's down when he asked for a date I've

The

Koy,

news re-

not nearly 80 subtle as she thought herself. The other was that Dan Cardigan was not hers for the snapping of a finger.

She, Monnie O'Dare, knew bet- ter than that.

"You seem In good spirits,” her mother said to her at the luncheon

table.

"And he's very, very rich," Kay added shrewdly. “Mr. Briggs was saying only the other day when I was there at dinner-that his mother inherited-scads from old Mr. Waternian and that his father was an eastern millionaire."

"I ani?" Monnie's bronze hair, "Not blt spoiled though,"

capping her small head like n Monnie reflected, pretending to be molded casque of metal, seemed rapt in her subject although, all fairly to crackle with vitality. the time, the thought of Dan was Her eyes sparkled. hammering af the back of her

show Sandra Law- mind. So she was

supposed to She would

rence that she was a foe worthy of respect!

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