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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

DARLING FOOL

BEGIŃ MERE TO-DAY

by MABEL MCELLIOTT

branches at the sky, was seeing, last winter? She was plain, really. HONNIE O'DARE, 20 and beautiful, sa un. Instead, the high minarets and Angular and her skin was awful. happy because DAN CATIDIGAN who pro towers publicized by fesses to be in love with her inner postcards the famous "akyline, tost that was wonderful. And the picture Yet, Sandra said she got a screen his snobblah. family,, GHANIES EUSTACK, handsome newcomer ta Hatreders, pays She was seeing the Empire State she's getting along very well. I Monnie market attage, have with building and the Chrysler tower, saw her picture outside the Cames Camily duties and when KAY, her younger sister, tries to run off with a travelling sales. the winking lights of Times the other day when I came home," "I forgot you'd met her," said there," Kay stated eagerly. "I ugly?"

"There'd be a chance for me Kay interested. "Was she really

man, he and Monnie bring her back without Square, weandal,

SANDRA LAWRENCE, onetime friend of

Monnie's, tries to win Bas away from her Bandra's maid, HEITY, thinka Bandra is Ja jealous.

CHAPTER XVI

Monnio heard Kay's voice and looked up. It was Sunday morning --11 o'clock, to be exact and Mon- nie was enjoying the sweet freedom of her "day off,” celebrating it by the weekly washing of her burnish ed bronze hair. Sitting out under the apple tree In a shabby old basket, chair, looking extra- ordinarily childish In the white emock she were, she answered her younger slater.

"Yes? What is it?"

"Girls not 'one bit older than I am," said Kay with fervour, "are carning scads of money in the movico."

said

"Oh, the movies, of course," Monnie, dismissing them.

"Well?" Kay seemed to think she had made a case.

nesa.

gave."

1

MONDAY, JUNE 26 1993.

boon awfully glad.I was afraid,” sald Kay with alatorly candour, "you might be turning out to be the sort of dumb, bunny who cries with joy when a boy shows for any attention. And that with your looks, would be dumbi”-

MINISTER'S TOUR.

1

A

SIR MILES RETURNS TO PEKING

returned this afternoon by air

Peking, June 25. Sir Miles Lampson and his party,

from Hankow.

Ing her hair now. It did not mat

"Thanks." Monnie was brush- ter if her face had crimsoned.

"What I any." cried Kay warm- ing to her subject, "is, let Sandra was Madame Wilden, who has been Among the plane passengers have him, and good riddancel visiting Uppor Yangtza Valloy Charles Eustaco in a better bet any points. way you look at it. S

The party, landed at Nanybunn "You're not- Insinuating," said aerodrome.-Reuter. Monnie,, between tears and laugh-

stirred.

trying to vamp JAMES, the chauffeur, and could make something of myself. "Not ugly-but, well, plain, inter. "that Charles fa in love with have relinquished him to Sandra; i

be somebody. Get some place." a distinguished kind of way.

Monnie sighed. They had gona Sho," remembered Monnio, "wan me? Because I nover heard such was sho? Her fighting blood was over the ground before. She the girl Sandra met in Florence, nonsense in my life.” sympathized, wholly and utterly,

From un old Boston family, H Kay whistled Ilka boy, "May-What did you say?" but what could she do about i£7 think"

be not yet, but all you have to do been thinking of other

She had "You're too young to be on your

Kay frowned. "Sandra, by the is lift a finger,” she advised.

things, own," she

her thoughts worlds away, but Kay said with gentleness, way, is throwing a big party to-

"That's absurd. If there's any-was prattling on. "Even if wo had the money to

morrow night.. Having people one he's interested in that way, "I said she might have invited stake you for a while-which we from the city and the usual snooty it's you. He's always "Talking you, anyway," Kay was haven't you're far too young to go crowd here. Wonder she wouldn't about your looks and your live-subject of the party again. Mon- on the off that way by yourself. Mother Invite you! You used to be awful-liness-"

nio frowned. would never hear of it.”

ly clubby."

Kay giggled."Charlos in? "I couldn't have gone," she said Monnie throw the bright voll of That's good." silly," she said with affected light-

She seemed vastly obliquely, hair over her eyes. "Don't be amused."

"Why not?" "You talk as if he were Me- "I have another engagement.” "You wouldn't expect me to thuselah," said Monnio, nettled at She smiled at be asked to every party Sandra the reception her bit of news re-tification.

her sister'a mys- colved, "Ho's not yet 30,"

"Monnio! Not a new time anyway," Kay went on, stub Kay told her. "He's O. K. I'm

"She might have done it this

beau !" "That's right, stick up for him," "Wait and aco,"

A little later, pressing the deep. bornly loyal. "I know her. What for are successful," argued the older all to herself. She worked hard on He's Just not the not the type, flection in the mirror, she said to "Yes, but for the half dozen who she wants is to get Dan Cardigan think ho's awell. But not for me, hair, frowning intently at her re- Charles, with both feet: crisp waves Into her still damp 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 starve? Turn оп the

hope," prattled Kay, turning the Ronald Colman and Gary Cooper." not go to Sandra's party to be knife in her listener's heart with "He's been everywhere, seen flaunted as her prize possession. blissful unconsciousness, "is that everything, knows everyone," Mon- she gets Mamma Cardigan with nie said quickly glad the talk had rence had to learn. One of them There were things Sandra Law. him! They'd be a fine pair. Both shifted from Den to less dangerous was that she was bosses. Neither one will give an ground.

not nearly, so subtle as she thought herself. The other was that Dan Cardigan added shrewdly. "Mr. Briggs was saying only the other day when I

"And he's very, very rich," Kay was not hera for the snapping of

a finger.

She, Monnie O'Dare, knew bet- there at dinner that hister than that.

was an eastern millionaire." mother inherited scads from old "You seem in good spirits," her Mr. Waterman and that his father mother said to her at the luncheon

Monnie reflected, pretending to be molded casque of metal, seemed

table. "Not a bit spolled though,"

"I ani" Monnie's bronze hair, rapt in her subject although, all

capping her small head like_a. the time, the thought of Dan was Her eyes sparkled. hammering

Tairly to crackle with mind. So she was supposed to rence that she was a foe worthy of vitality. at the back of her

She would show Sandra Law-

respecti

(To be Continued.)

A new Kay, since the adventure. A curiously silent, obedient, almost pathetically-anxious-to-please Kay, Monnie reflected. It had been lucky-it had been really miracu lous-that no one else had learned of Kay's brief flight with Chester Bigelow, from which Charles Eus- taco and Monnie had providentially rescued her.

"Monnie,

I want to do thing " Kay's voice, her expres- sion were tragic. Her sea blue eyca, long lashed, shadowed faintly Monnte gave her a speculative inch." with mauve, stared straight ahead, look.

You might," she sald "I've got to find something. I slowly. "And

"What makes you think," naked then again you Monnie in a mulled voice, "that I'll go crazy if I don't."

might not. It's not being prelly she's going to get Dan, as you and talented alone that puts you ao elegantly put it?" over. I read just the other day

some-

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

kinds of things. You read about it every day."

"1" said Kay magnificently, "would be successful."

that a good camera man could make

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Her voice fell The

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