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THE HONGKONG

DARLING FOOL

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by MABEL MCELLIOTT

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY

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I'm sorry to worry you all so It was the shock-1 **She was grateful to Charlös. His presente Beomed to give the scene some feality, some substanco. Good girl," he said gently. “You'- [re a real soldier. I'm proud of you."

The telephone's ring split tho allense of the little hall and Kay flew to answer it. Monale listened the one-sided conversation.

ARMS TRAFFIC.

THREE CHINESE HELD IN CALCUTTA

Calcutta, July 28 Three Chinese from an Ameri- can vessel now in Calcutta were arrested to-day for being in pistols and 500 rounds of am- "Yes," Kay said and again "Yes"munition allegedly intended for

the terrorists.--Reuter. "Yes," and "Yes." Mrs. O' Daro's frayed norves could benr the suspenso, no longer. She went

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CHAPTER XLI

¡It true--could It have beon? Non-Charles holding her hand.

sense Ridiculous! Just one of "No, I won't go to him," ̈Mon- There was no room in Monnie's the stupid lies people told some-nie sald brokenly. "Don't heart just then for anything but times.

afraid." "Of a sudden her voice the terrible, aching fear. Dan She wouldn't faint, she fold hor-took to her. "Don't bo afraid apathetically, almost, dreamily to Possession of six allan made hurt-perhaps dying Why, it self resolutely. You didn't do I'll do anything to get talked about wasn't possible! Only last week-things like that-righton people We're all so terribly afraid of that, seven days ago she had received when there was no nood. You aren't we? As if it mattered when his letter. He had writton that he wore strong and brave as long as someono's dying. But I loved her. Ho had said that and you could bear things. But she My place isn't there. Hers is."

won't. Monnie, believing him, had rushed was in a sort of fog now, Things, half across the world to prove it.volces, come to her only dimly.1

There was a blackness in her up to her daughter and plucked that had been erected after San→ Now this! What was sho to do? Kind eyes looked at her sorrow-mind now. It was, she imagined, it sho naked tensely. "What?" wasn't it, that it should now be nervously at her alcove. What is dra's mother had died. Ironical,. Whore to turn? -

fully, compassionately. There was what you felt when you werd Mrs. O'Dare and Kay stared at a now face in the room. Who was drowning. Only she wasn't drow faced the group, head erect. "He's

Kay, hung up the recolver and housing Judith Lawrence's daugh- hor with stricken faces. The that? Oh, Charles. How good he ning. She had Charles to cling to calling for Monnie. His father younger girl, usually so nonchalant, was-how strong! She went to He would save her from utter dark heard she'd got back. That was Monnie didn't really want to know "How badly is Sandra hurt?? so cool, was shaken.

him slowly across the room, She Dess and desolation. She felt ho Mr. Cardigan on the wire. He but she had to talk, had to keep "You won't go to him, Mon-clung to him. Somehow it seemed understood. nlo?" Kay half-whispered. "You so right!

"Don't talk like that." Kay said, wants to know if Monnie'll come." herself from thinking. couldn't-now that-"

"Charles," she sa

Kay's eyes finshéd.. "At last tho Bald faintly. oyes wide with fright. "You know haughty Cardigans had to come to

"I don't know." Charles" Monnie passed hor hand across "Ile's-ho'e—”

that isn't what we feel. We're just the O'Dares for something. They was turned away from her. "Not her eyes. What had someone sald "I know." he soothed. "I know." so worried about you-how you're had never been génerous. Would seriously, I think Her face- a minute ago? The world still Then, in the tone one might use taking it." rocked around her. Ah, yes; she to an ailing child, "It's all right.”

the O'Dares follow their examplo? cut-flying glass,” Monnie laughed, and the sound know, "Sandra and Dan

Monnie came to life. "Of course were He repeated it quietly. "It's all wasn't pleasant. Sandra will be I'll go," she said with curious calm.

The doors opened to them as married by a justice of the pence right."

there,"

she said without stirring, It didn't matter in the least that sorved someone, waiting, had ob last night," a voice had said. "Was She answered Kay's last words, "Sandra will hold his hand and Sandra was already Dan's wife; served their arrival. A tall, gray- smooth his pillow. Won't she?" that she bore his name in the eyes haired woman in crackling white, Kay shook her head. "She of the law. Monnie brushed all her cap banded narrowly in black can't," she said faintly. "She's that aside. It didn't signify. If velvet ribbon, received them. badly hurt, tno."

Dan called her name she would go "Oh, is ahe? Is she, Indeed?" to him across oceans, through are come in here?"

"Miss O'Dare? Yes. Will you Monale turned a white, sleep-if need be.. walker's face to all of them. Her mother; looking small and old, be; It was all part of the dim dream gan to whimper, a frightening that the day became later in her sound. Monnie felt a dreadful mind. The trip with Charles to the calmness.

hospital was through the familiar streets. Charles driving silently and expertly, not saying a word.

The low building of white stone. all right. Really The Judith Lawrence Memorial"

VHITEWAY

Capt. Sears, who removed the wreath placed on the Cenotaph by Herr Rosenberg during his visit to London. is pictured as he re- placed it with his own floral tribute. (Plarist News).

This picture shows the four King's Indian Ordarllas (who attend the King on Statà occasions) seriving with Col. A. P. Lawson at the Duke of Connaught's London residence. (Planat Nows).

"Don't do that, Mums," she said In a more natural tone than she had used since frat she heard the

"I'm

news.

Straw hats are to the fara in London following the Prince of Wales lead. But the umbrella habit parsists with one gentleman! (Planet News).

The amusing Zoological Ride given by the 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards at the Aldershot Show. Picture shows the "white bear" jumping a table while the "froga" look an. (Planet Nawe). "

room,

every-

This was the waiting bright; cold, Impersonal. The whole place, the corridor, thing reeked of disinfectants. A cart moved by on: rubbor tires. Monnie shivered.

Dan's father, aged 10 years in toward a single night, shuffled them.. Why, thought Monnie with surprise, ho was really an old man! The great Mr. Cardiganf. And she had been afraid of him always. Why? He seemed stran- gely humble, strangely small.

"Monica?" When had he ever called her Monica? It was odd to hear it. "It ivas good of you to come. Yes. My boy he is bad- they're afraid-"

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His voice broke on the words. He could go no further. Monnie saw him not as Dan's father, barrier always to their happiness, but as a shattered human being, bowed down by a weight too great to carry.

She said something to him in a low tone and he looked at her gratefully. "You can come right along with me," he told her, glan- cing at Charles. "Both of you. How do, Eustace." Charles nodded, Monnie's mind registered, sub- consciously, the fact that Charles looked remote, cold.. It was as if he were being drawn into a situn- tion for which he felt extreme dis- tasta, the utmost shrinking.

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Another door swung ailently open before them. They were in a narrow white room. A hos- pital bed, high, narrow, stark, with a figure beneath the blankets. Monnfe didn't see the middle aged woman in the big chair, the young nurse beside her. Sho didn't re- cognize · Geraldine, dark under blue hat. She saw only Dan.

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His eyes were closed and his breath came slowly and painfully, almost in sighs. At the nurse's nod, Monnie moved closer. Was this Dan? It couldn't be. "Dan was strong and invincible, brown and alive. This was the wreck of a man. Her heart felt as though an icy vise had clamped itself upon it. She had not felt like weeping. before this but now she was con- scious of floods of tears welling up. within her, tears she dared not shed.

Suddenly the long lushes flick- cred and Dan's eyes were орел, staring at her. Recognition dawn- ed in them.

"Come closer," the young nurse said softly. "It's all right.”

She advanced until she atood bo- side him. "Why, Monnie," Dan Buid in a perfectly natural voice, | albeit a weak ond, "They told me you'd gono away. I was looking for you-overywhere

He coughed and the mother, leaning forward with a damp handkerchief pressed to her lips, throw the nurse a warning glance.

"Don't bother to talk Monnie said softly "I'm here now. It docan't matter, does it?! She had dropped to her, kreos by his side, was cradling one of his big. hands, so strangely limp, in her own two slim onoa..

"I'm glad you've come," Dan whispered." "I missed you, so" The nurse loaned over, horfin- gers on his pulse. Her glanco, bright, calm, impersonal, took them All ID..

"He mustn't get excited," sho said, wordlessly, over Mrs. Cardi- gan's shoulder. Monnio, nodded. Dan's eyes flow open again.

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