1933-07-28 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

DARLING FOOL

CHAPTER XLIV

angrily.

"You asked for that."

Monnie was at the telophone "Oh, oh! She panted, strug- the following Monday morning, gling for release. "How

daro trying to got a blurred connection. you?"

"Long distance calling." the "You wanted me to." He taunt- operator droned. "Calling Missed her with that, letting her go. O'Dare."

Then came a man's voice, lolsuroly, deliberate. "Monica?"

"Yes."

"This is Arthur Mackenzie. I'm passing through your town to night. May I stop to see you?"

Almost before she know it she had answered him and the brief connection was broken. A step sounded behind her and there stood Charles Eustace.

"Sorry I Interrupted." She smiled at him. "You didn't. It was just a friend." Then she

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tone had a woulth of bitterness in it, a deep, abiding hurt. Charles tone Was

contrite, Monnie, I didn't mean that. You know I didn't.” I'm sorry."

She would not, could not, forgivo him the injury. All the pent-up pride and loneliness of the past fow months towed over her and, putting her head down on the desk, she wept bitterly.

Sho would have atruck at him blindly but again those strong arme pinjoned her ag in a viso, "Saving them for Mackenzie, ok?" Monica flushed a deep scarlet, Not only the words but the tone were insulting.

"No, no, don't touch me. You're "You--you're insufferable! Ijall alike—all of you !” don't know why I ever thought you were my friend."

"Friend!" Charles laughed softly, "You must know that's rot --friendship between a man and a girl. Either they're in love and know it or-or-"

He hovered over her, desperately contrite.

Jump."

FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1933.

“Mmmm-mm,!? Kay nighed deeply. "Then he's a man after

POST'S TRIUMPH.

my own heart. I like 'em bossy." New York's Great Welcome

"He's so rich It acuroa you,” Monnie said after a pause. "But ho's nice in spite of it,"

To Flier.

Now York, July 27.

"Liko him?". Kay watched her idly.

For the Becond time in two "Oh, yes," Monnio polished years. Wiley, Post, who has just her nails.

flown around the world in a little "Don't seem awfully enthusi-over a week, has made the usual astic."

triumphal progress up Broadway to the City Hall of New York.

"Don't I? Well, I can't help that. He really is splendid and I'm very anxious to see him."

Kay rolled over on her back and regarded the ceiling. "Home Town Girl Marries King of Wall

One hundred thousand people assembled in the streets and 200,- 000 in front of the City Hall.

required to control the crowd.

Twelve thousand policemen were

There was, the usual shower of ticker tapo from the office windows; but someone also dropped a heavy telephons book from an upper storey and it struck a woman be- low. She collapsed but was not seriously injured.

During the ceremony at the City

with

Gold the Congressional Mednt for valour.--Reuter.

thought, "How stupid of me to be "Or what?" She was still fur-I never want to see you again to marry him to-night she was go- Hall, Wiley Post was presented

like this with him?" She explain- lous with him but curiosity hnd her ed, "It was Arthur Mackenzie. In its grip. She must know what He's dropping in to see me to: he meant to gay. night."

"Dropping in?" Charles' voice was anrcastic. "From London or .Paris?"

She flushed, lifting her chin. "Neither. Merely from New York, Why don't you like him?"

"Or they're in love and don't know it," Charles finished shortly. He walked over to a mirror, coolly straightening his tie.

If Arthur Mackenzie asked her

Ing to say "Yok."!.

(To Be Continued)

Street." sho chanted awcotly. "Hung With Ropes of Diamonds."

"Don't be an Idiot." Monnie "Whom do you mean?"

tightened her lips,, remembering "Everybody in this wretched the man who had held her in his place." The words came between arma only a few short hours be noba. "At first you were so nice fore. Charles would see! She wonderful, really. I never known anyone like you. But now

had would show him, you're like all the rest. Go away!

Presently she was able to raiso her head, to dry her eyes. Charles stood watching her wretchedly.

"Monnie, if you'd only listen---" She shook hor head with tragic dignity. "You can't do anything now. You've done the worst. "Sorry. I didn't mean to be- thall never forget it have like a cave man," he said. Nor forgive, added her sore "I just stopped in, really, to say heart. Charles shrugged. "He's

goodbye. I'm leaving day after to- right. One of those pleturesque morrow, Before I go may I wish Monnic dressed half-heartedly buccaneera of Ánance. Rich

you health, happiness and pro- for the coming of her visitor enough for--"

sperity-all that gort of thing?" that evening. He had said his "Thank you." Monaic was train would arrive at seven and be trembling all over. She could would call directly afterward. "For anything." Charles' tone scarcely stand but she was deter- Monnie was not thinking very dropped the subject. Courte-mined he should not know it. clearly of him. Over and over ously, as one stranger to another, "I suppose I won't be invited again she rehearsed the scene of he asked, "Is the doctor in ?" to the wedding."

the afternoon. Words, expression, gestures-all were printed on her brain. She looked at herself cur- lously in the mirror, her eyes darkening at the thought of Charles' kisses. How had he ever dared? Oh, she would show him! He thought the worst of her any how. She might as well give him reason for thinking it.

all

"For what?" Monica prompted

him.

"No, he's not." How odd, she "I don't know what you're talk- thought, that he didnt know Dr.ing about," Waterman had gone to Chicago

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for that conference. Surely she His voice wha harah. "Don't had heard him tell Charles only you? Miss Anstieg says he want yesterday about the trip.

ed you to marry him in London and that you'd almost made up your mind."

"I won't stop then," Charles said. He was gone with a cool and distant bow in her direction.

"Really? Who's listening to "I hate him!" Monnig said, gossip how." She wanted to put aloud in the quiet room. She was her hands on her hips and shout furiously angry. No one had over at him. She had never felt such made her so angry before. Shea passion of violence in her life. wanted to quarrel with him vio- "Ono hears things." Charles lently, satisfyingly.

lit a cigarette, watching her coolly

"And you assume I couldn't re-i sist. the charms of great wealth?"

"What girl could?"

*

"What did you say?" Charles was on the threshold again, lean and elegant. He had heard her!

"Nothing!" She stared back at him, all defiance.

Kay came in as she was putting the finishing touches to her hair.

"Nice." commented the younger; sister briofly. "I Hike your hair that way. Makes you look frail and interesting." She grinned, gumin-wise.

"What's this king of finance like, anyhow ?" Kay demanded, drop- Monien whirled on him, a verit- plng on the bed' and propping her ablo amali fury. "You 'mean chin on her linked fingers. "I'm what poor girl'! Oh, how dare dying to see him. If the country

"Oh, yes, you did." Suddenly you talk to me

like that? You clubbers thought we had bagged

his face was not two inches away never would-to someone-some- such a big bird they'd all be on our from her own. He, too, was angry.one like" She could not go ondoor-step." His lips were set grimly. Monica She was afraid, desperately afraid, deliberately pouted her own, in she was going to cry. the shape of a kiss. Almost be-

"Like whom?"

"He's well. he looks like a movie director's idea of a Wall strect man," Monica" confessed,

fore she knew what was happoning She regrained her composure wrinkling her brows. "He knows he had pinned her arms to her after a struggle. "Like Ellen what he wants. When he goes in- sides, was kissing her fiercely, Willard-or-or-Sandra." - Her to a restaurant all the waiters

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