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CHAPTER XXIX.
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By ANNE AUSTIN.. Author of "Saint and Binnor."
MONDAY, MAY
1928.
TRANSATLANTIC AIR MAIL.
AN AMBITIOUS SCHEME.
A regular air mall service from London to New York ́sounds. fantastic ifter the "disastrous at- tempts that have already been made! to conquer the Atlantic..
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But this is the ambition af Mr. F. P. Young and others interested "Better let me handle this, "What did he look like, Sally?" in the Transatlantic Air Service, a honey," Pop Bybee interrupted Bybee asked,
company that is about to be formed. "Everybody tumble out! Pop again, this time more firmly. "I don't know," she answered, His dream will become a reality on Bybee wants LLA all in the Turn the child loose. Ain't a bit her big blue eyes imploring him July 1 next. In two years' time, privilege car," a carnival employee of use breaking her arm. Now, to belleve her. "We couldn't see he told a Morning Post representa shouted, running down the sleep folks, I might na well tell you all their faces. Wo just recognized tive recently, the air service across a hand into cach berth, like a PuJust what, happened, and then try Nita's voico and her yellow hair the Atlantic will be an ordinary ing car and pausing only to thrust
to get to the bottom of this matter., that looked almost white in the fact of our, everyday life, “ man porter awakening his pas- When the worst of the storm was moonlight. He wasn't tall, not any The Idea, he stated, was not, so over Mrs. Bybee left the show train taller than Nita, and I guess he much to capture passenger traffic as But Bally was already dressing, to look for me, to see if I was hurt waan't very big either, because the mail traffic, though the type of getting her dress on backward and or if she could do anything for any- they were so close together that machine to be used would be cap- sobbing with futile rage at the one who was. She hadn't been out they looked almost like one personable of taking five passengers, la time lost in reversing it. When of the stateroom all evening till We didn't hear the man Bay addition to its two pliots, two she was scrambling out of her then-not since she'd put some word. Nita was doing all the talk- mechanica, and a navigator, upper berth, a tiny hand reached money into the safe, right after ing-"
Mr. Young said that he could not, out of the lower and tugged at her supper. She found the boy Dave "Nita would!" a volce from the at present, divulge particulars of starting out to look for Sully, and crowd growled. "Reckon I can the craft that it is proposed to use, "Don't forget me, Sally" the she ordered him to stay on the tell you something about this, Pep. beyond the fact that it will have midget commanded sharply. "And train to keep an eye on it, in caso I was just ready to advertise the a wing span of 100 feet, will be for heaven's sake, don't take on tramps or crooks tried to board it. fast performance of the "girlie' fitted with six engines of 450 horse- so! You'll make yourself sick, There wasn't anybody else on the show when Nita come slouching power each, and be capable of crying like that. Of course your train. That right, Mother?"
up to me pulling a long, face and a alighting on and taking off from He turned to Mrs. Bybee, who sung-and-dance about being knock- either land or water. David didn't rob the safe. I'm all
nodded angrily.
It is estimated that each filght dressed."
ed out with the heat. Bessio had. "She told him she'd jook after fainted at the last show and I will take about 3,000 gallone of Sally parted the green curtains and stretched out her arms for the Sally, but he'd have to stand guard thought Nita might really be all in, patrol and will be completed in midget, who was so short that she on the train. She didn't say any so I told her she could cut the last about 36 to 40 hours. could stand upright upon her bed thing to him about the safe just performance and go to the dress
The idea of the promoters of this without her head touching the told him to patrol the train while tent. I never seen hair nor hide service is to fly the initial craft to rounded support of the upper berth. she was gone. The safe is under of her again, and he passed New York on July 1 and to leave Little Miss Tanner ran into Sally's a seat in our stateroom, and far significantly, "I don't reckon I again on July 3, arriving in Eng-
ever will."
Innd on the following day, and, if arms and clambered to her shoul-as we knew, nobody knew where it was, except Sally here, who hap-
"No, I reckon you won't, not un-successful, it is to be followed by a Ia that Nita." She nodded pened to come into the stateroom less the cops nab her." Mrs. Bybee regular fleet of 25 machines.
An all-the-year-round service, her miniature herd emphatically, when my wife was counting
cut in bitterly. "I always said she" day's receipt."... ""I always did have my suspicions
was a snake in the grass-And-Mr. Young admitted, was out of the about her. Always turning white "Please, Mr. Bybee," Sally inter-that David, too! Them goody.question, as there were winter gales
sheet when a policeman hove rupted, memory struggling with goody kind ain't
over worth the in the Atlantic that no aircraft. Ante sight."
the panic in her brain. "Someone powder and lead it'd take to blow could withstand.. "But David's missing, too,"diso
knew out their brains! I told you, Win- Sally sobbed, as she hurried down When I left the stateroom that last feld Bybee, that there was some- the aisle. which was becoming day in Stanton. I saw Nith disap- thing phony about that hussy and The dead body of, a man aged chocked with froway-headed women pearing into the women's dressing Dave! Tain't like a star perform about 60 was found recently on the In all stages of dress and undress. room, and I thought she'd been er like Nita, thought she was to beach at Littlehampton. A silver "Of course he didn't do it—" listening. She--"
trail around after a cook's helper,case in the pocket of a waistcoat "Hurry up, everybody! Don't? Hold on a minute!" Bybee cut ko she done with Dave. They lying 60 yards away bore the in- take time to primp, girls!" a man in sternly. "How do you know didn't pull, the wool over my eyes, scription, "F. C. Lowman." A bawled at them from the door. she'd been listening? Any proof?" even if they did double-cross the visiting card bore an address at
They found most of the men em- "Yes, air!" Sally cried engerly, kid here--if they did double-cross Wistcliff-on-Sea, ployees and performers of the car-"Mrs. Bybee had been telling mo her Mind you, Bybee, I ain't say- nival already assembled with the that she'd found out that Ford ing I believe a word she's been Bybees in the privilege car. Popisn't my real name, that the womun saying! She knew where the safe Bybee's usually lobster-coloured always thought was my mother was, and she tipped off the boy. face was as white as putty, but wasn't really my mother at all.. "I ain't forgot they was both his arm was gallantly about his She said she guessed that my wanted by the police when they wife's shoulder. Mrs. Bybee still mother was ashamed I'd ever been joined up with us! As I said be wore the black sateen petticoat and born. And that same day. Nitafore, if it hadn't been that she was red sweater in which she had hur called me a bad name that buried under the freak tent, she'd puzzle on another page. ried from the show train to the means" She could not go on. have skipped with Nita and Dave. carnival Immediately after the atorm. Her reddened eyes showed Jobs began to shake her small body You roped Nita in on your little that she had been crying bitterly, again and her face was scarlet with scheme, didn't you, because she'd had more experience cracking sufes but as the carnival family crowded
"That's right!" Gus, the crier, than you or the boy? That's right, Into the privilege car she searched each face with fury and suspicion edged toward Bybee through the ain't it?" the old lady demanded
"Come here to me, Sally Ford" crowd. "I found Sally fighting in-fiercely of Sally, aho shrilled, when Sally entered to Nita for calling her that name.
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shame.
did know! Nita
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Sally shrank from her in hor- the car with "Pitty Sing" riding and Nita didn't deny she'd done ror"but the midget, still perched 1. Reckon that proven she was on her shoulder, patted her cheeks on her shoulder.
Ne, no. I didn't "Now, honey, go easy!" Pop eavesdropping, all right. And if reassuringly, Bybee cautioned her futilely, she was listening , ale was prob-even tell David where the enfe ably peeping in, too, or heard Mra. was I didn't! David didn't do "Better let me do the talking-"
"You shut up his wife com-Bybee talking about the safe. He couldn't! Pavid's good! He's the best man in the world!" Was the door open, ma'am?" manded angrily. "Sally, you
"Then where is he?" Mrs. By- know where I kept the money! "I don't know!" Mrs. Bybee You saw the safe! Oh, I was a snapped. "Yes, it may have been.ee screamed. "Why did he blow? fool, all right, but I wanted to show It was awful hot. And I didn't left him to guard the train, didn't that I trusted you! Huh! know anybody was on the train." And he ain't here, is he? He Thought I'd wronged you by ue- It was open a little way." Sally wasn't here when we got back from eusing you of taking presents from cried, "I remember distinctly. Be the carnival lot after the tents was I worried about whether raised. If he's so damned good, my husband! Tell him you saw cause
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the safel Tell him!" And he Nita had overheard what Mrs. By why did he blow with Nita and seized Sally's wrist and shook her hee had been telling me, And this Steve you've made up out of
something so that the midget had to cling there's
elsesome your hend ?
"Now, now, Mother," Pop Bybee tightly to the girl's neck to keep thing that happened that night, from being catapulted to the floor. when David and I were walking" soothed her, but his eyes were "Yes, Mrs. Bybee," Sally an-Memory of that blessed hour in troubled and suspicious. "Reckon swered, her voice almost dying in the moonlight brought tears to her we'd better notify the police, folks. her throat with fright. "I saw eyes, but she dashed them away hate to call in the law. I've al- the safe. But I didn't tell any with the wrist which bore the ways said I was the law of this
marks of Mrs. Bybe's rage.
outfit, but I suppose If I've been body--"
"You're liar!" Mrs. Bybee) "What was it, Sally?" Pop By-harbouring thieves. I'll have to get screamed. "You told that David beo asked gently. All we want the help of the law to track 'em boy that very night! Sneaked off is to get at the truth of this thing. [down. Ben, you and Chuck beat it down the tracks to the police and went walking with him and Don't be afraid to speak up." cooked up this robbery so you two "I hate being a tattle-tale," Sally station and give 'efu a description could make your getaway.whimpered. "I never told on any-of Nita and Dave and this Steve Thought it was a grand way to get one before in all my life! But person, as much as Sally'a been
the cops David and I were sitting under a able to tell us anyway-" out of the state so
"Please, Mr. Bybee!" Sally ran couldn't pinch you, didn't you? tree, not talking, when we sudlen- Didn't you?" she repeated, beside ly end Nita's voice. She couldn't to the showman and seized both herself with anger, her fingers see us for the tree, but we peeped his hands in hers. "Please don't I know clamped like a vise on Sally's wrist, around the trunk of it and we saw set the police on David!
"Oh, please!" Sally' moaned, Nita and a man walking awfully he's innocent! There's some ren- writhing with a pain of which she close together, and Nita was talk-son why he isn't here-a good ren-. was scarcely conscious, so great ing. We just heard a few words.son! But he didn't have anything know was her fear and bewilderment at She subd: No monkey business to do with the robbery. this unexpected charge.
now, Steve. If you double-cross that! But if you tell the police "Sally certainly didn't go with me I'll eat your heart out! Fifty-he's been with the carnival they'll JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND ÷ MADAC
find him somehow and put him in him," Pop Bybee interposed rea-fifty or nothing-"
voice had jail on those other charges-and Bonably.
"Sure she didn't!" his wife mimicked Nita's, on that to the me, too! It doesn't matter about shrilled with angry triumph.starlled carulval familly it seemed me, but I couldn't live if David "She couldn't! She was buried that Nita, the Hula dancer, had ap was put in jal on my account! under the tent!' if it hadn't heen peared suddenly in the car. Oh, please! You've been so good for the storm she wouldn't be here "Sounds like Nita,, all right." to us!" And she went suddenly on now, working on your sympathies Gus, the crier, nodded with sat her knees to him, her face up-
huh? Who raised in an agony of appent, with them dying-calf eyes of hers isfaction, “Steve."
the devil is this Steve?"
(To Be Continued.)
A PAGAN NATION.
AMERICAN. BISHOP DENOUNCES HIS COUNTRY.
Jerusalem, Mar. 27.
Unconsciously her
legate and a Methodist Episco- palian, "I come from a notion which in many respects is pagan. We subscribe to the doctrine that Inilitariem is the god of nation- alism, and have given ourselves to the pursuit of wealth."
Mr. Harold Grimshaw of the At the International Missionary International Labour Office, anid
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Washington, May 6. The German-American concilia- Conference, being held here, the that the rift was due to the fact tion and arbitration treaty has representatives of Tokyo and Brazil that organised Christianity did not been signed-Router. were in agreement that Mammon condemn war as a social injustice. The Bishop of Manchester de was a greater rival to Christianity than the higher religions. Chris-clared that if Gandhi were a Chris tianity had lost credit because, tion he might not find God in
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