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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 10, 1939.

DARLING FOOL

DEGIN HERK TO-DAY

by MABEL MICELLIOTT

I could, You had-a rotten time of "No, honestly," Bandra sald with MONICA O'DARE. 20 and beautiful, is in it and you've been a good little pretty eagerness. "I'm perfectiv Juve with DAN cardioan, hale to a local soldier."

(content-perfectly-just to sit here fortung. They are secretly engaged. ILL

"Do you honestly think so, Dan?" and talk. Isn't it coay?" G'DARE worries his mother by planning to|

the

MAETY ANGIE GILLEN who has not yet got Her eyes shoric. This was her divorce.

BANDILA LAWRENCE, who pretends to be praiso she wanted above all else. Minnie's friend, is trylog to win Dan from ber. Band discharges

And two servant4

unded.

and waiting for a letter from Dan

"I'd love to show you the place," played a marvellous game of con she said with enthusinam... "Oh, the|tract. She could sing. Sho hnd times I bad on the Riviera last taken tap dancing and fencing autumn! It was all too marvellous. lessons in Now York last year. No There was n count who rushed mo doubt about it, the man who mar frantically. Honestly, Danny, I al-ried Sandra would have a beautiful {most took him up. He was the best and accomplished wife. That was looking thing! And there were two the way Dan still thought of her- Englishmen don't you adore the as some other man's prospective British?" she broke off to inquire. wife. Nover for an instant had he "Can't say I do," said the man. seriously considered her as his own. "Considering that my forebears She left his pulses unstirred. Dan agreed, stuffing his pipe came from County Sligo, I'm not All her pretty ways, her exquisite "Of course I do." Dan reflected and settling himself in the big so crazy about them."

clothes, her charming Imperious- "Well, I dosimply adore them. [ness were lost on him in that ro- they try to kidnap her. Nhe capel. Dan that it was something of an effort, leather chair opposito.

"Just like," giggled the girl in You're rather liko an English spect. As an onlooker he admired mother and alter plan a trip to Wyoming supplying Sandra with the moral tuis ranch, Bandra is to accompany then courage she needed. Only this blue velvet, "just like old married country gentleman yourself, Dan. her performance quite impersonal- Dan does not want to au but nelly per morning his mother had said to him folks." She shrugged her shoulders Big and taciturn-and handsome." ly. But it was Monnie, he reflect-

MISS ANSTICE COREY, an old friend of firmly, you've simply got to pour land murmured delicately, "Honest-

"Oh, cut it, won't you?" growled ed, whom he really loved. Monnio the O'Dare, Inherita 150,000 and arks Monnte in po to Frute with her. CHARLES confidence into that poor nervously, Dan, I don't know what's got Dan, pleased In spite of himself. with her bright hair, her way of KUSTACH, Lowcomer to town, pays Monnio child, son. She's splendid but she into me lately. Isonichow I seem Sandra's light laugh rippled again. looking at you of telling you how attention her to not interestis. walline had a shock and it is our duty to to be changing. This time last "I never saw such a boy," she she felt about something. Yes, i

his heart nes her through this bad time." year I thought of nothing but tear-declared. "Just a great big bear, was Monnie to whom

had, belonged. Dan

somehow, Ever since the kidnapping San- ing around. I was in Monte Carlo That's what he is!" dra had been having "bad" head- in October-having the most won-

[never expected to care about any Itderful time. And now...”. Sandra said, "You've been waches" and "wretched nights."

Dan grinned, reflecting it wasn't girl as he did about her. He had fully sweet to me, Danny." Her was not, she said with a charming. Dan promoted her. "And now so bad to have Sandra talk that been cynical about love. Monnio volco broke a little on the words. ly patient smile, at all like her to what 7"*

way to him when there was no one had changed all that. "Well, I acem to be perfectly else around. Honestly she was "Sho's no darned aweet,"*""Dan She was leaning against the fire go to pieces this way. The otherя place, the sweep of gray stone be agreed and pointed out how brave contented with the simplest sort of kind of cute when you got right thought to himself now, forgetting hind her throwing into high relief she had been through the dread thinga. Books and good frienda" down to It. Entertaining. And the beautiful girl here beside him the perfect coutour of her honey ful experience itsolf. Now-well, Her limpid gray eyes besought him she didn't seem to have any moods in the intimacy of the warm room. coloured head. The flames from Sandra needed Dna to len on, to understand.

was always bright and charm- Firelight, setting, all were lost on the big logs threw shadows on the needed him at her side when they Dan, sensing dangerous ground. ing. As his mother had said, him.

had a great blue velvet lounging pajamas she rode. She seemed perfectly con- said grufly. "What about Monto Sandra had

"What did you say, Dan?" She could chatter ware and Dan thought, quite idly, tent, parfectly happy when he was Carlo? Did you have a good time advantages.

"Puh-I was just thinking." that she made a graceful picture, murmuring in her ear, when they there? Father wouldn't take us French in a way to excite Dan's lle tapped his pipe against the He was in riding clothes, casual (sat at table, side by side.

when we were over. Said it was a envy and alarm since he had never hearth, pretending it needed clean- and smartly western oven to the big "You're awfully good for me, gambling hell and he didn't want mastered the college course in the ing. Sandra gave him a swift, ap- handkerchief knotted about his she wottld any softly with a side us to go near it."

language. She intimated that her praising glance. Then she said in throat. They wore alone-except wise glance at him. Dan felt, in a "Oh, Dan, how quaint!" Her German was excellent also and that a low voice. "There's something for the Chinese servants. His puzzled way, that he was commit- laugh rippled. "I can't imagine" she managed to make herself per- I've been wanting to talk to you mother and the rest of the party ting himself to something without She broke off suddenly to sny fectly understood in Italian. Dan about." had gone to see n pletare show at knowing what it was all about. quickly that of course his father wouldn't know about that. But it The man raised his eyes, watch- Benning, eight miles away.

"Sure you didn't want to see that was a dear-so upright--so charm-did seem that Sandra did overy-ful, guarded. "Shoot." "It's all right." he said rather picture?" he said now, hoping to Ing but Dan had to admit he was thing well. She rode and swam

a bit old-fashioned. awkwardly. "Glad to do anything change the subject.

n streak, Dan sold. Sho

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Sandra shrugged her shoulders, "It's just that, well, I like so our being friends that I hope a certain person won't misunderstand."

"Who d'you mean?"

Sandra gave him a limpid lank. fall girlish ingenuousness. "You big silly. I mean Monnie, of

course."

Dan drawled, "Why should Mon- nie mind?" He had to be genuine- ly on his guard now lest he give the whole show away. Sandra was not to know how he felt about (Continued on Page 9.)

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