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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1933,

DARLING FOOL

CHAPTER XLII

made it easier for him,”

by MABEL MCELLION

soon,

gone.

to be kind: She wrote to kim in When Monato came in for her this mood, opening her heart luncheon aho opened the big creamy simply and honestly. The corres- envelope: There was a brief puto jpondence that followed was a heavy from Arthur Mackenzie.... one. Monnie's little notes, flow "Dearest Monica" (he had writ-back and forth and almost every ton), "I've just heard the sad nows day a aquaro, parchment coloured votion. It was an anodyne for her from Miss Corey who wrote me envelope addressed in Mackenzie's pain. When she worked she forgot from Paris. Please let me know if bold handwriting was deposited in It was night now. Outside on Then she was beside Charles in the past year, its fretting and dia- there is anything I can do. Are the latterbox for her: the street lamps wore lighted, silver the car again. The same stars, appointments' and heartache, with you well? What are your plans? pears blooming suddenly high in the the ones that had shone above her her great lose at the top of the high Let me hear from you carty dusk, inside the quiet hos- last night, wore bright in the sky hill.” .

Just before Christmas there ar Devotedly, Arthur Mackenzie." pital room nothing was changed. A girl and boy, arms linked, wont

irived at the O'Dare home what Sandra she did not see again. A Monnie remembered him grate-Mark-excitedly 'described as "a balo Quiet foot slipped to and fro. by in the street, laughing. The week after Dan's funeral Sandra fully. Here was a man who asked of roses" from a city florist's shop. Someone helped Monnio to a few world was going on, quite as I had gone away, heavily veiled, with nothing of her--not love, not even Charles Eustace, on the heels of chair. Sho did not tako her eyes nothing was wrong. Monnie felt

friendship really, but who wanted! (Continued on Page 18.) from the face of the boy in the something clutch at her throat. high, narrow bed. His eyes were | She wanted to say, "Charles, I'm closed now. Thore. was an expres-[afraid I'm going to be ill,” But alon of deep contentmont in his face, she never managed the words. His mother, on the other side, sighed deeply again, a tearing, When she awoke she was in her rending sigh. The doctor came, own bed. Her mother, anxious touched Dan's pulse, went away. [eyed, hovered over her with a cup There was no consciousness of time of steaming liquid in one hand, and place for Monnie. The only reality was Dan, sick and broken in the narrow iron bed.

"Anyhow he isn't in pain," she Kept telling herself over and over, drugging herself with the thought "Anyhow it's being made easy for

him,'

The famous speciallat bustled in just after the famps were It. There was a hurried consultation. Nothing seemed to make difference. The verdict was same.

her father.

"She's marred for life," Kay told Mrs. O'Dare, not without a certainį grim satisfaction. "Sho's gone to see a plastic surgeon in Vienna, Linda says, hoping he can fix hor up. They any there's a bad scar neross her forehead and one near the mouth,"

Mrs. O'Dare shuddered.. "Don't tell me about It."

drink this and you're not to talk," "Dr. Waterman says you're to she told Monnie. The girl was Kay said, "Did you know they'd obedient. She felt strangely ex-all been drinking the night she and hausted, strangely limp. Through Dan ran off? Sandra wasn't but some sort of fog she was grateful she saw to it that Dan had too much to them all for taking care of her. and then dared him to elope. Ho They were kind-everyone was. was in one of his black moods and In the days that followed Monnie did it just to show off. He never somehow picked up the threads of really knew what happened," "Does Monnie know that?" any her life again. She was broken, the she told herself. Nothing could really Charles said he wanted to tell "I think she does," Kay said. make her whole but she would do her. He said she should know Monnie was conacious onco dur-the best she could with what was about it. Charles says Dan never ing the long hours of Charles Eus-left. She was so quiet, so sub- loved anyone but Monnie only he missive that she frightened them was too weak to come out and claim "You must come away and get all. Did she want to go for her in front of his family." somo rest," he urged softly. This drive? (This from Bill who had is doing no good. He doesn't know lately acquired a small second-hand wrong, discouraging Monnie about "Sometimes I think we were all you're here,"

sedan.) Yes, that would be nice. Dan," sighed the mother. "I felt

tace at her aldo.

She shook her head, gently stub. Bill would drive doggedly about the sure they were terribly unsuited born. As if she would leave now! countryside, his silent passenger at and that she'd never be happy with Why, she had given Dan her word his side. She would feign interest him. But.now-well, I don't know, Just before midnight he opened when he pointed something out to It seems to mo perhaps they should his eyes. It seemed to Monnie that her. "Yes, that was nice, wasn't have taken their chances. Maybe he smiled at her. His mother. it? Thanks for taking me." Bill, Monnie's life is ruined. She has swaying on her feet, called his baffled and worried, would bring the most tenacious affections. She name. Dan closed those dark blucher home again, feeling dimly isn't like most girls nowadays." eyes of his again and a little shud-alarmed. der shook him. That was all. It

"Meaning mo?" Kay grinned. was as if he had smiled at them to come back to her old work Monnie some of these boys rather a dance," When Mr. Vernon asked her to "Well, you know you do lead any goodbye. The nurse led Mrs.said she thought she'd better not. said the mother, amiling. Cardigan away and Montile, dazed, It would be dreadful, having all Kay set found herself in the corridor-her old friends come in and pity on her bright curls. They love to blue hat jauntily stilt Charles' arm was about her. It her, sympathizing with her word-be treated that way," she said wasn't true, abe thought. Den leasly, watching to see "how she saucily. The wasn't gone. Oh, there must be was taking it."

postman's knock something someone could do! It Waterman told her he wanted her door.

Besides Dr.jsounded and she flew to open the

for his secretary, to take calls in..."New York mail for Monnie," The shuffling old man by her the office and help with his Wednes- she said. "I hope It's something side was weeping frankly, like a day children's clinic. child. Dan's father. He said, his was really the first thing to claim on my way, I've got to go to the This work that will cheer her up. Bye. I'm features working painfully, "Thank her attention. Monnie flung hor-Ladies' Aid Christmas sale before you, Monica.

Thank you. You self into it with a passion of de-I stop at the office." And, she was

was monstrous, unbelievable!

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