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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2. 1933.

DARLING FOOL

CHAPTER XLVIII.

Rissy Briggs' mother stopped by! at Vernon's drug store to buy some bicarbonate of soda. She had caten too much chicken salad at the wedding reception and besides she wanted to talk over the excite ment with somebody and she had just seen Miss Anstice Corey go in. Mra.. Briggs was wearing her new violet crepe de chine with a little knot of artificial roses pinned to her fox fur. She felt very elegant, much dressed up.

didn't woar a veil."

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Miss Anatice raised the lor-who gnette she had learned to use in London and regarded her, neigh -hour-coolly

"Monnie looked perfectly benu iful," she told Mrs. Briggs, "and that biscuit-coloured frock was in the best possible taste. Her hat was a French one."

The tone alone should have quelched the irrepressible mother of Risay but it failed to.

Gertrude locked really pretty in that blue outfit. Funny she had never thought of Gertrude before except as a plain girl.

by MABEL TICELLION

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FENG GIVING ·IN·

would board the train for the cast, Later they would sail for Bermuda, She kissed them all, feeling chuky fo. moment. Charles' MAY ACCEPT NANKING FOUR hand steadied her and she was in the car the motor running.

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PRINCIPLES

Peking, Aug. 1.

Firetly, Feng Yu-halang must create military posts and titles leading to the separation of Charisar from China.

Secondly, he must not reckless- ly Incorporate bandits and irre- ber of his own followers, thereby gulars in order to swell the num

Charhar. jeopardising pence and order in

"Good-by, everybody! Good-by!" Their faces were a blur now and

An official Military Counch) ing along to enjoy the advantages strewn with the frippery of the

goingaway bride. A smart, pretti- Main street was slipping past, of a city school,

It was all perfectly disgusting, y-groomed Kay with a postage The country, road, lush with May, communiquo issued this afternoon Mra. Driggs told herself self-stamp hat perched dizzily athwart lay before them. Their way led Bays that on Sunday Marshal

past the village cemetery where, righteously. For her part, sho'd her golden curls.

"Get everything, Mourie?" on a high hill Dan's grave was Feng Yu-hsiang telegraphed to Instinctively Monnie's his representative at Tientsin never encourage her daughter to

"I think so." Monnio's Jucket marked. marry for money. Who would

Charhar has been obtained and ho have thought this Chartes Eustace frock of printed silk in soft eyes sought the shaft, Charlesanying that his object in defending "Poor chap!" He slipped his is now willing to abolish his mili- would turn out to be so grund? browns and tans suited her exactly, understood.

tary post nad pledge himself to Nobody had known until Monnie's Her now bags, marked with the engagement was announced back initials that were to be hers hence-brown hand over hers. "He didn't!

She looked up at her young hukavold civil strife. in the early spring, how "well con- forward were closed and locked deserve what he got.”.

Feng Yu-hsiang's representative neeted" he was. And an orphan, Kay polsed herself for flight.

That made it even more- "Well, come along then. The band, all her heart in her eyes. too.

dend? "You're very generous, my dear." ear's waiting, Are you well, certain.

General Ho Ying-ching Chairman "Lovely wedding!" Miss Anstics

Mrs, Briggs took up her pack-You must have shaken hands with Dan was dead and there would be has conveyed this message to

always a sadness in her mind at was beaming. "Lovely pair."

age and her handbag and started a million people."

"I never had such a good time in memory of him, but she knew her of the Military Council, who said "The bridegroom is very home, It was just like Riasy to

announced their four principles handsome man," Mrs. Briggs con- flounce off with those girls her my life." And indeed Monnio luck. She had got the right man. that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and tributed. "I thought Monnie look-erowd" she called them-leaving looked the picture of a happy She was eternally grateful to the Mr. Wang Ching-wel had jointly

But be. She glanced & out her, one fates for arranging her destiny.

The marker indicating the town for the settlement of the Charhar ed a bit flyaway and wash't that her mother to go on alone.

settled, Reuter's real plain dress for her to wasn't that Gertrude Hampstead swift, inclusive lock the last being

twisting a little i hor sent, couldcepted these the matter would be choose? I can't imagine why she just up ahead? She might get a on the small room where she had line was passed and Monnie, dlapute and if Feng Yu-halang ne

few more detalls from Gertrude spent much of her girlhood,

sec the lights of the village, bloom automatically "Sorry to go?" was intimate" with the

The four principles are: Monnic shook her head, with an ing below them in the late May Pacific Service.

"No-and-yes-- It's dusk. famlly. Hadn't there been some-

"The last of Belvedere," she thing between Gertrude and BĮ April face.

home. Nothing else will ever take O'Dare several years back?

*"Well, I see ywere there, its place. She could not say said softly, with a catch in her "Ah, you'll see it again." Charles too!" Mrs. Briggs' voice had a what she really felt, that she was voice.

blow-leaving the old Monien O'Dare be-

reminded her. Be back next vinegary tinge. "Quite a

hind with all her unhappiness. out."

e, I'm not," said hard-year to visit the Mill House

Kny practically, "If gether."

Yen, he knew that, but she headed

be Mrs, year they're going to take one of would not be returning as Monni mother and Bill come back next those new little houses out in O'Dare. She would

Charles Eustace, rich and feted, that had been locked before. She Doors would be opened to her was leaving something of herself of her head so that you could see explained. Mrs. Briggs observed

She wȧs turning the all her curls. Au' she didn't look for the first time the small nosé--

The two girls went out, shutting behind. like a grown up woman, as it seems gay of blush roses and pale sweet

Mark, pages of a new chapter, the door behind them.

"Happy?" to me a bride should look. That

She gave him the smile he hnt an' the dress, too, made herpes that Gertrude held.

"My, my, quite exciting! You'll waiting to be of service, bounded Even be the next." look like a little girl.

Why couldn't itissy up the steps, two at a time, to though she's years older than my have caught it? That would have carry the bags. At the foot of the loved to see. "How can you ask

light stood Charles Eustace, walt-that?"

[The End.] Itissy! This last was delivered been something to talk about. somewhat spitefully.

Gertrude smiled, looking tran-ing for his wife. Monnie felt her heart contract in that new way at quilly, sure of herself.

"Well, we weren't going to an-sight of him. What a wonderful And how generous nounce it till Bill comes back life they were going to have to- next spring but he said to-day we{gether! might as well" She held out Charios was being with all of None of her protests had her left hand showing the modest them.

stoppel him. He had changed all pearl ring.

Well, well thought Mrs. Briggs, their lives. bill was no longer the marching off with a sour expres-sullen, stained garage mechanic sion, so that was the way, of it! but a purposeful young man with That yellow-haired hussy hadn't squared shoulders and an author- any way you looked at it, tu see got Bill after all, and she haditative air. anrough Charies, Bill Was I long?' He took her the O'Dares getting up in the quarrelled with her old friend, win to have his chance. world this way. Hadn't they al-Edith O'Dare, about the story. It

all very disappointing. hand, smiling down at her in that ways been "as common as you or was me," to quote Mrs. Briggs' favourite Rissy's beau of the moment was a gently quizzical way.

"Too long to suit me!" Her expression? And. look at them clerk at one of the redfront atores

boy on Main street and here Edith mother stood in the background, now Monnie marrying a everybody said was a millionaire, O'Dare's children were turning out | beaming.

"You'll have to slep on it to Kay going (so the story ran) cast so smartly. A person couldn't to college next fall, Bill and his help being envious. It just turned make the city in time." That was see the luck Bill, consulting his waten, being mother taking an apartment in you sour it did, to

grave and brotherly. They were Cincinnati while he took an encome people had,

Kay few Into the bedroom, I driving to the city where they gineering course, with Mark_trail-

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"It was beautiful, wasn't it?

"Well, I thought looked! They just left. I waited and Webster Addition. Bill anys by mighty funny, sitting on the side aught the bouquet."

Mias Anstice bowed, sweeping nut of the store majestically and thys putting an end to the con- versation. Baffled, Mrs. Briggs gazed after her. Poor woman, she had genuinely longed to talk over the details of the wedding but as asual who had said the wrong things. She sighed, feeling angry and frustrated. It was upsetting.

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THE FLOATING FACE MEANT DOOM TO JENNY:WRENI

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