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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1933.

DARLING FOOL

CHAPTER XXXV

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

by MABEL MICELLIOTT

Did you notice her at dinner, Danness. It wouldn't be a bad idon-" She catablished him in the big She narrowed her eyes, staring into know chair, seating herself opposite on space. "Cincinnati's a good place, a low green couch whose colour pro- | Dan," she observed. Things going Sandra. laughed a bit shakily.vided a most effective back-on there. You're buried in this "We're just crazy, I guess," nho ground.

town. It's a shame. I don't won said lightly. "Never mind, Danny,] Now this is cosy." Sandra der you think about lighting out. don't take a kiss so seriously. It curled her small feet under her, Don't blame you." She selected a isn't the first time--"

littla girl fashion. Dan, with a cigaretta from a shagreen box at her "Guess I won't come all," the man told her awkwardly, Darn it all, he didn't want to get in deep with Sandra, he told him- self. It was just ono of those things. She was a nice kid and all that.

"Your father's a lamb," murmured. "I adore hlm."

she

flock. That horrid little anlp, Kay, going around to luncheons and teas now and making notes-sho makes me laugh. Really she does with her airs. I just don't see her most of the time-just don't know sho's around."

Woll, I think that's darned dumb'

For a moment they smoked. In pleasant sllence, broken. only by tho fall of a log and the brlof ox- citement of a flare of sparks. Both sat staring, fascinated, at the fire. Sandra was the first to break the apoll. Softly she said, "What do you hear about Monnie. Dan?"

He started, clenching his fists, He didn't want to discuss Monnie with anyone.

"Nothing," he told her shortlying whom?" "Why 7"

of you," Dan said roundly, impolite- ly," "Kay's_n_good kid and ahe works hard. She'll get somewhere. hot like some of these people who hang around doing nothing."

Sandra straightened. Moan-

Don made an Impatient move- Sandra shrugged, "Just in after glass and a plate on the small table elbow and Dan sprang to light it.

wonment. "Oh, all that Hill crowd- beside him, relaxed in the atmos- In the flare he couldn't help ob-dered," she said. Her eyes nar- the Bliss girls, Geraldine, the whole phere of friendliness and ease.

rowed. "I'm really angry at Mon- lot of them. They make me tired. serving the clarity and delicacy of shu told Dan softly. "I Who "Nice people to-night," he com- her skin, the long lashes which nie,"

are they anyway? Thoir: mented. "I liked them."

thought better of her." fluttered down to hide her eyes.

grandfathers worked in shirtsleoven He had sot his mouth "Oh, did you, Dan Sandra Ho'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 scemed enormously pleased. "I'm thinking Sandra was in lengue with well. "Of course you will,"

Sandra so glad because they liked you, his mother and Geraldine to trap not to be budged from the posi-

Dan was not to be moved Vickerys and Coreys." announced in a bright, matter-of- too. Tad said--but maybe I ought him and keep him in Belvedere. tion he had taken. Sandra, glanc-Sandra said 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 hor demeanour changed, Don't be absurd, dariin. We're will be simply too swelled. Tad She understood. friends, always and forever, aren't said 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- we?"

ing places."

Dan blurted out, reddening. He Dan nodded, feeling foolish. "Honostly?" Dan couldn't help hadn't meant to say that. The for her," she complained, "she ple. After all It'e none of your But what else was there for him grinning, puifing out his chest a bit. words had just slipped out. But didn't even let me know she was affair what they do or what they to do when she put it on that Maybe it was bunk but it made him Sandra rippled on, not seeming to where her thoughts have

leaving. Well, it's easy to see have been. That's in Charles basis? Sheepishly he followed her feel good.

been Eustace's book now, isn't it?" sense that his words had any doop into the softly lighted sitting room

Intely." significance. Probably she knew

"So I hear." muttered Dan. where a tray with glasses and sand- "Really, Dau!" Sandra leaned nothing about business, Dan

"Well, but of course it must be wiches was neatly Inid.

Dan did not rise to the balt, true," the girl cried gaily. "Charles forward confidentially. "I happen thought paternally. She was just but sat smoking impassively, "That new maid ja a jewel," to know, too, that he's looking for a little girl at heart, for all her dark face a mask.

his saw her off. Everyone in town Sandra chattered on. "Pauline. someone to assist him in the busl-sophisticated pose.

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

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well, you can't help wondering "Guess I do." Bitterly Dan was what he sees in her, that's all" reflecting 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 "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 led Monnie enough-hadn't known everyone said-well, you know how her true meaning in his life until people talk, Dan."

she had gone away. Almost ho grouned aloud.

He had risen now. To the slim girl in the shadows he seemed to tower over her, broad shouldered, his face grim in the firelight:

"What anyone could say," he began menacingly, "about Mon- ica O'Dare"

"What did you say, 'Dan?"

He came alive. "Nothing." he said. "Nothing."

"Another sandwich, Dan7" "No, thanks. Got to be running Sandra Interrupted him, her along." He glanced at his 'wateli. voice sirupy. "Only that she is "Good Lord, "but it's late. I had out of your class, Dan," she ne-na, idea-"

sured him. "Only that she has that Sandra had risen and now she family of hers to drag around after slipped that cool, long-fingered her, Monnic's the flower of the (Continued on Page 11.)

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