1933-07-26 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.

DARLING FOOL

CHAPTER XLII

It was night now. Outalde os

made it easier for him

(bu MABEL

MCELLIOT

WEDNESDAY JULY 26, 1933.

Kone...

When Monnie came in for her this mood, opening her heart to bo kind. She wrote to him in luncheon she opened the big creamy simply and honestly. The corros- envelope. There was a brief note pondance that followed was a heavy from Arthur Mackenzie,

one, Monnie's litle notes flow "Dearoat Monica"! (he had writ-back and forth and almost overy ten), "I've just heard the sad news day a square, parebment colourod- 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 ifjbold handwriting was deposited in the street lamps were lighted, silver the car ngain. The same stars, appointments and heartache, with you well? What are your plans?

Then she was beside Charles in the past year, its fretting and dis- there is anything I can do. Are the letterbox for her. pears blooming suddenly high in the the ones that had shone above her her great loss at the top of the high Let me hear from you soon. early dusk. inside the quiet hos-Inst night, were bright in the sky, hill.

Just before Christmas,there ar- pital room nothing was changed. A girl and boy, arms linked, wont

Dovotedly, Arthur Mackenzie." rived at the O'Dare home what Quiet feet slipped to and fro, by in the street, laughing. The

Sandra she did not see again. A Monnie remembered him grate-Mark excitedly described as a bale Someone helped Monnie to a low world was going on, quite as if wook after Dan's funeral Sandra fully. Here was a man who asked of roses from a city florist'a shop. chair. She did not take her eyes nothing was wrong. Moenie felt had gone away, heavily veiled, with nothing of her not love, not avon Charles Eustace, on the heels of from the face of the boy in the something clutch at her throat. her father.

friendship really, but who wanted high, narrow bed. His eyes were fShe wanted to say, "Charles, I'm closed now. There was an expres-afraid I'm going to be 1. But Mrs. O'Dare, not without a coriain) sion of deep contentment in his face, jahe 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.

"She's marred for life," Kay told

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grim satisfaction, She's gone to 820 plastic surgeon in Vienna, Linda" gays, hoping he can fix her up. They say there's a bad scar across her forehead and one near the_mouth."

Mrs. O'Dare shuddered. "Don't drink this and you're not to talk,"

"Dr. Waterman says you're to tell me about it." "Anyhow he Jan't in pain," she she told Monnte. The girl was Kuy said, "Did you know they'd kept telling herself over and over, obedient. She felt strangely ex-all been drinking the night she and drugging herself with the thought.hausted, strangely limp. Through Dan ran off? Sandra wasn't but "Anyhow it's being made easy for some sort of fog she was grateful she say to it that Dan had too much him."

to them all for taking care of hor.and then dared him to elope. Ho The famous specialist bustled in They were kind everyone was. was in one of his black moods and just after the Jumps were t There was a hurried consultation. somehow picked up the threads of

In the days that followed Monnte did it just to show off. He never

really knew what happened.". Nothing acemed to make any her life again. She was broken,

"Does Monnie know that?" difference. The verdict was the she told heraclf. Nothing could really "Charles said he wanted to tell "I think she does," Kay said. Monnie was conselous once dur- the best she could with what was about It. Charles says Dan never make her whole but she would do her. He said she should know ing the long hours of Charles Eus- left. She was tace at her side,

so quiet, no sub- loved anyone but Monnie only he missive thut 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." some rest," he urged softly. "This drive? (This from Bill who had

"Sometimes I think we were all

same.

born.

nanie.

is doing no good. He doesn't know lately acquired a small second-hand, wrong, discouraging Monnic about you're here."

She shook her head, gently stub. Bill would drive oggedly about the sure they were terribly unsuited Hedan.) Yes, t t would be nice. Dan," sighed the mother. "I felt 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 nowwell. I don't know. Just. before midnight he opened when he pointed something out to It seems to me 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." swaying on her feet, called his baffled and, worried, would bring the most tenacious affections. She Bill, Monnie's life is ruined. She has Dan closed those dark blue her 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 me?" 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. lend say goodbye. The nurse led Mrs. said she thought sho'd better not. said the mother, smiling. Cardigan away and Mounle, dazed, It would be dreadful, having all found herself in the corridor her old friends come in and pity on her bright curls. They love to

Kay set a blue hat jauntily ntilty Charles' arm was about her. It her, sympathizing with her word-be treated that way," wasn't true, she thought wasn't gone. Oh, there must be was taking it."

" she said Dan lessly, watching to see "how she saucily. The postman's. knock something someone could do! Watorman told her he wanted her door.

Besides Dr. sounded and she flew to open the was monstrous, unbelievable!

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

Monnie flung her-Ladies' Aid Christmas sale before You self into it with a passion of de-I stop at the office."

And she was

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