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THE HỒNGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY

DARLING FOOLS

CHAPTER XL

Where to turn?

am. I'm sorry to worry you all so, It was the shock""

to

1933.

ARMS TRAFFIC..

THREE CHINESE HELD

IN CALCUTTA",

Calcutta, July 28.

arrested to-day for being in Threo Chinese from an Amerl- can vessel,now in Calcutta' wero-

possession of six Italian mado pistols and 500 rounds of am- munition allegedly, intended for the terrorists.-Router.

be

She was grateful to Charles. Ho presonca soɑméd to glyo ́tho jacone some reality, some substance. "Good girl," he said gently. "You' ro a real soldier. I'm proud of | It trvo-could, it have hean? Non-Charles holding her hand.”

you' | sonso) · 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-nic said brokenly, "Don't be silence of the little hall and Kay The telephone's ring split the heart just then for anything but times.

afraid." Of a sudden her voice few to answer it. Monnio, listened the terrible, nching fear, Dan She wouldn't faint, she told her- took to her. "Don't be afraid apathetically, almost dreamily hurt--perhaps dying! Why, It solf resolutely. You didn't do I'll do anything to got talked about. the one-sided converantion. wasn't possible! Only last week-things like that-frighten people We're all so terribly afraid of that, seven days ago she had received when there was no need. You aren't we? As if it mattered when

"Yes," Kay said and again "Yes" his letter. He had written that he were strong and brave as long as someone's dying. But I won't. Daro's, frayed nerves could bear

"Yes" and "Yes." - Mrs. loved her. He had said that and you could bear things. But she My place isn't there. Here is." Monnie, believing him, had rushed was in a sort of fog now. Things,

the suspense no longer. She went half across the world to prove it. voices, cam to her only dimly. Thero was'n blackness in hor jup to her daughter and plucked that had been erected after San- Now this! What was she to do? Kind eyes looked at her sorrow-mid now. It was, she imagined, she asked tensely. "What? Wasn't it, that it should now

nervously at her sleeve."What is dra's mother had died. Ironien, fully, compassionately. There was what you folt when you were Mrs. O'Dare and Kay stared at a new face in the room. Who was drowning. Only she wasn't drow-faced the group, head erect. He's ter?

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

him slowly across the room. Sheness and desolation. She felt he 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.

wants to know if Monnie'll come.”

herself from thinking. nle?" Kay half-whispered. "You so right!

"Don't talk like that," Kay said, couldn't now that

Kay's eyes finshed. At last the "Charles," she said faintly. eyes wide with fright. You know haughty Cardigans had to come to

I don't know." Charles' face Monnie passed her hand gerosa "He's-he's"

that fan't what we feel. We're just the O'Dares for something. They was turned away from her. "Not her eyes. What had someone, gaid "I know," he soothed. "I know." so worried about you-how you're had never been generous. Would seriously, I think. Her face- a minute ogo? The world still Then, in the tone one might use taking It."

the O'Dares follow their example? | cut-flying glass.” rocked around her. Ah, yes, she to an ailing child, "It's all right."

Monnio Inughed, and the sound Monule 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.served someone, waiting, had ob- know. "Sandra and Dan married by a justice of the peace right."

there," she said without stirring. It didn't matter in the least that lust night,” n volce had inld. `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- amooth 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, too."

Dan enlled her name she would-go, "Oh, is she? Is she, indeed?" to him across oceans, through fire Monnio 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. Monnio felt a dreadful mind. The trip with Charles to the calmness.

hospital was through the familiar "Don't do that, Mums," she said streets. Charles driving silently in a more natural tore than she land expertly, not saying a word. had used since first she heard. the The low building of white stone. "I'm all right. Really "The Judith Lawrence Memorial"

WHITEWAY

Capt. Sears, who removed the wreath placed on the Cenotaph by Herr Rosenberg during his visit to Landon, is pictured na ha re placed it with his own floral tribūts. (Planet News).

This picture shows the four 'King's Indian Orderlins (who attend the King on State occasions) arriving with Col; A. P. Lawson at the Duke of Connaught's London residence. (Planet Nowa),

MARLENESHIN TO

Paris with her husband

news.

+

Straw hats are to the fore in London following the Prince of Walos load. But the umbralla habit persists with one gentleman! (Pianet News).

The amusing Zoological Ride given by the 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards at the Aldershat Show, Picture shows the "white bear jumping a table while the "frogs" look on. (Planst Nawa),

The doors opened

to them as

"Miss O'Dure? Yes. Will you

come in here?"

This was the waiting room, bright, cold, Impersonal. The whole place, the corridor, every- thing recked of disinfectants. A cart moved by "on rubber

tires. Monnie shivered,

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

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

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 grent 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 situa- tion for which he felt extreme die- taste, the utmost shrinking..

Another door swung silently open, before them. They wore in a narrow white room. A hos- pital bed, high, narrow, stark, with a figure beneath the blankets.

·Monnie-didn't-see-the-middle-aged woman in the big chair, the young nurse beside her. She didn't re- cognize Geraldine, dark, under a blue hat. She saw only Dan.

Hls eyes were closed and kis breath came slowly and painfully, almost in sighs. At the nurse's nod, Monnie moved closer, Was this Dun? 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- sclous of floods of tears welling up within her, tears she dared not shed.

Suddenly the long lashes flick- ered and Dan's eyes were open, staring at her. Recognition down- ed in them.

"Come closer." the young purse said softly. "It's all right."

Sho advanced until she stood be- aldo him. Why, Monnis," Dan sald in a perfectly natural voice, albeit a weak one. "They told me you'd gone away. I was looking for you-overywhere—”

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

"Don't bother to talk," Monnie said softly. I'm here now. It doesn't matter, dots It?' Sho had dropped to hor knees by his side, was cradling one of his big banda, so strangely limp, In her own two slim onca.

"I'm glad you've come," Dan whispered. "I missed you80-" The nurse leaned over, her :-fin. gors on his pulse. Her glance, bright, calm, Impersonal, took them all in

"He mustn't get excitou," Blo said, wordlessly, over Mrs. Cardi- gan's shoulder. Monnio nodded. Dan's eyes flow open again... malDon't, go away,"-ho said, sud- děhly strong, suddenly, clear volood.

I want you here beside me."

promise, Dan," Monnio anid

in a voice she had : difficulty in

keeping, steady.. "I promise you.

To be Continued.)

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