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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

DARLING FOOL

CHAPTER XXXV

Dan muttered, "I don't why I did that. Sorry."

self. It was just one

that.

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by MABEL MCELLIOTT

TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1933.

"Your father'a a lamb," she flock That horrid. Hittle snip murmured. "I adore him."

Kay, geing around to luncheons and

He had set his mouth

For a moment they smoked in toas now and making notes-she pleasant. slienco, brokon only by makes me laugh. Really she does the fall of a log and the brief ex- with her airs. I just don't see her citement of a flare of sparks. Both most of the time-just don't know ant staring, fascinated, at the fire. she's around." Did you notice her at dinner, Dan?"ness. It wouldn't be a bad idea-" Sandra was the first to break the "Well, I think that's darned dumb She established him in the big She narrowed her eyes, staring into spell. Softly she said, "What do of you," Dan said roundly, Impolite- know chair, seating herself opposite on spaco, "Cincinnati's a good place, you hear about Monnie, Dan?"

|ly." "Kay's a good kid and sho a low green couch whose colour pro- : Dan," she observed, "Things going He started, clenching his fists, not like some of these people who works hard. She'll get somewhere, Sandra laughed a bit shaklly.vided

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back-un there. You're burfed in this He didn't want to discuss Monnie hang around doing nothing." effective "We're just crazy 1 guess," she ground.

town. It's a shame. I don't won with anyone. said lightly. "Never mind, Danny, "Now this is cosy." Sandra dor you think about lighting out.

Sandra "Nothing," he told her shortly. ing whom?"

straightened. "Mean- don't take a kiss so seriously. It curled her small feet under her, Don't blame you." She selected a "Why?" Isn't the first time"

|little girl_fashion. Dan, with a cigarette from a shagreen box at her|

Dan made an impatient move. "Guess I won't come

Sandra shrugged. "Just in after glass and a plate on the small table elbow, and Dan sprang to light it-dered." she said. Her eyes par- the Bliss girls, Geraldine, the whole won-ment. "Oh, all that HIIl crowd--- | all," the man told her awkwardly. beside him, relaxed in the atmos-In the fare ho couldn't help ob- rowed. "I'm really angry at Mon- lot of them. They mako mo tired. Darn it all, he didn't want to get phere of friendliness and ease, serving the clarity and delicacy of nie," she told Dan softly. "Who are in deep with Sandro, he told him-1 "Nice people to-night," he com-her skin, the long lashes which thought better of her."

they anyway? Their of those montod. "I liked them."

fluttered down to hide hor eyes.)

grandfathers worked in shirtalcevos things. She was a nice kid and all "Oh, did you, Dan?" Sandra He'd been a fool, he told himself, stubborn expression she knew so starting in law business with the In that when Monnie's grandfather was acomed enormously pleased, "I'm thinking Sandra was in league with well. Dan was not to be moved Vickerys and Coroye." Sandra so glad because they liked you, his mother and Geraldine to trap-not to be budged from the post- announced in a bright, matter-of- too. Tad sald--but maybe I ought him and keep him in Belvedere. tion he had taken. Sandra, glanc-Sandra sald on a note of pettish- "I've heard all that before," fact voice. "Nothing's happened. not to tell you this. Your head Why, she was all right. A paling away, allowed a hurt not to ness. Then her demeanour changed, Don't be absurd, darlin.' We're will be simply too swelled. Tad She understood. friends, always and forever, aren't sald you looked as if you were go- "I've got to stand by Father."creep into her voice,

became gentler, "Dan, don't let's "After all the nice things I did quarrel about Monnie and her peo- Bing places."

Dan blurted out, reddening. He for her," she complained, she ple. After all it's none of your Dan nodded, feeling foolish. "Honestly?" Dan couldn't help hadn't meant to say

that. The didn't even let me know she was affair what they do or what they But what else was there for him grinning, pulling out his cheat a bit. words had just allpped out. But leaving. Well, it's engy to seo have

that Maybe it was bunk but it made him Sandra rippled, on, not seeming to where her thoughts have

been. That's in Charles to do when she put it on

been Eustacu's book now, isn't it?" baslat Sheepishly he followed her feel good.

sense that his words bad any deep lately."

"So I hear," muttered Dan. into the softly lighted sitting room;

significance. Probably she knew

"Well, but of course it must be where a tray with glasses and sand- "Really, Dan!" Sandra leaned nothing about business, Dan

Dan did not rise to the bait, true," the girl cried gaily. "Charles wiches was neatly Inid.

forward confidentially. "I happen thought paternally. She was just bat sat smoking impassively, his enw her off. Everyone in town "That new maid is a jewel," to know, too, that he's looking for a little girl at heart, for all dark face a mask.

know that. He sent her orchids, Sandra chattered on. "Pauline. someone to assist him in the busi- sophisticated pose.

"Not that Charles isn't a lamb. too. You know what it means when Ile is and I adore him," Sandra a man in this town sends hastened to elucidate. "Only-orchids,“

a giri well, you can't help wondering "Guess I do." Bitterly Dan was what he sees in har, that's all.” roflecting that he hadn't had the "Monnie's a fine girl," Dan said gumption ever to send Monnie heavily almost angrily.

flowers. Why hadn't he? He was

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course you will,"

her

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"Of course she is. Of course, quick enough to send them to the Sandra agreed with suspicious girls in his own crowd for any haste. "Haven't I always said so? casual reason. No, he hadn't valu- Haven't I stood up for her when ed Monnie enough-hadn't known everyone"sald—well, you know how her true meaning in his life until people talk, Dan."

ahe had gone away. Almost he He had risen now. To the slim grouned aloud. girl in the shadows he seemed to tower over her, broad shouldered, his face grim in the firelight.

"What did you say, Dan?"

He canio alive. "Nothing," he

"What anyone could say," he said., "Nothing." began monacingly, "about Mon- Ica O'Dare-

"Another sandwich, Dan?"

"No, thanks. Got to be running

Sundra Interrupted him, her along." He glanced at his watch, volee sirupy. "Only that she is "Good Lord, but it's late. I had out of your class, Dan." ake na-no idea-"- sured him. "Only that she has that Sandra had risen and now she

A family of here to drag around after slipped that cool, long-fingered her, Monnie's the flower of the (Continued on Page 11.)

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