THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NEW AMERICAN SERIAL:
GIRL ALONE
CHAPTER XXX.
By ANNE AUSTIN. Author of Saint and Sinner.”
girl and took my money bag with the safe they had rabbed. For him. Every damn cent I had! Sally knew that the robbery must Pop Bybee looked down upon But it was sweet before we have taken place before David Sally's agonized face with trou bled indecision in his bright blue was married and he was nuts about caught his first glimpse of the eyes. He tried to lift her to her feet, but her arms were locked
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me."
"Aw, let the kid alone!"
What must
have
taken place.
TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928,
BRITISH ATTITUDE TO CHINESE.
DUTCH INDUSTRIES FAIR.
(Continued from Page 7.)
ANOTHER SUCCESS IS
RECORDED...
feelings of respect and cordiality towards the Chinese with whom The 18th Dutch Industries Fair, we came in contact, and happy re-held at Utrecht from February 21st collections of the many years. we till March ist, was a complete auc- were 'associuted with them, both ❘cess. The number of participants in business and in other activi- had increased to 1089 (978 at the tien.
Spring Fair 1027), owing to which this Fair takes the third place in the list of the last 18 Dutch Indus- tries Fairs, as to the numerical strength of the participating firms. Only the 3rd Fair, held in 1919 and the 5th. in 1921 (the first Interna-
The number of visitors of the 18th.-Fair may, based of participants. on the admission tickets issued, be roughly estimated at about 100,000, among which number were a great may foreigners, as appears from the many orders placed at the fair from
abrond.
The fair started with a brisk
Mutual Courtesy."
Notwithstanding the great dif- crooks. Otherwise the safe would ference in social customs, we were Sue be intact now, even if David's dead never bored in their society, as about his knees. The midget had slipped from the edge of the berth body had been found as silent wit-suggested by "3. D.," and on our tional one) had a grenter number
Her mind ahuddered away from bulk of Englishmen in China, we serambled from Sally's shoulder to and yawned widely. Heavens I'm that he had fulfilled his trust. part, and on the part of the great the floor of the car and as Byboo sleepy! If the cops don't catch helitated, her tiny fists beat upon that Hola husey I'm going out that imagined picture, went back treated the Chinese with the same
looking for her myself, and when to the painful reconstruction of courtesy as our own people. his right leg for attention.
“J. D." has a hit at Englishmen are not going to break your gut through with her some on David had seen them, had given who are sent to the outports and promise to Sally, are you, Mr. By shake another grass skirt! Come on bee7 the tiny voice piped shrilly. Mazie. It's three o'clock in the chase. Of course! Otherwise he
cach other's "You told her and the boy you'd morning, and we've got 18 shows would be here now. Was he still a country by their firme. He
pursuing them, or was he lying ays they get on somewhere near the road, wounded, nerves, and, as he puts it, get fed protect them. She's told you the jahead of us today" truth. Don't you know truth when "Maybe!" Mazie yawned. "If his splendid young body ignomini- up to the teeth with the whole place, and wish to God they had you hear it? I always knew Nita Pop wasn't kidding us, we'll be only flung into a cornfield?
never come, but. This is one of was a crook. She never saw a po-stranded in this town. Good night
She could bear no more, could liceman or a constable or sheriff Sally. Good night, Midge. And
Do longer be safe in her berth. D.'" most ridiculous without turning white as a ghost. say, Sally; even If, this Dave She joined up with the carnival boy has left you, you won't while David needed her somewhere.ments. It is well known that the Very carefully, for all her haste, happiest communities in China 10 trouble getting an- she lifted the tiny body that are in the smaller const ports. Of just to learn the lay of the land have and tip off her accomplice this other laddie. Gus was telling us nestled against her side and laid course, in every community one Steve person-where to find the about that New York rube that's it tenderly upon the pillow, which will find the disgruntled person money. That's why she was apy trading, you. Hook up with him was big enough to serve as a mat- who is unable to fit in with his
Mrs. Bybee that day in and you'll wear diamonds. Iselieve tress for the midget. Then, Bob own equalrymen. ing on Stanton. Listen to me!"
me, kid, they ain't none of bing soundlessly, she groped for "I'm listening. Misa Tanner," worth losing sleep over when you've her shoes in the little green ham- Pop Bybee acknowledged wearily got 18 shows a day ahead of you. ek swung across the windows;
"J. D.," in our opinion, has "And I swear, I don't know what Good night."
found them, put them on, slipped drawn quite a wrong picture of to say or do. If they get clear When they had gone the midget to the edge of her berth. She was the life of the Englishman in wway with that money the show'll pulled the green curtains togetherprofoundly thankful that the girls China. It is a cruel detraction be stranded. Every cent I had in with comical fierceness, then had not undressed her after she of a community which has to bear cupied a space three times as large the world was in that safe. Reckon crawled under the top of the sheet had fainted.
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I was a feel to carry it with me, that covered Sally. but I never trusted a bank, and, -it-was-more-convenient, having it
"I'm going to sleep here with
right with me. Tomorrow's pay-you, Sally, she said. "I don't take day, too, and all of you are in the up much roam." same boat with me."
ness she
And the woman who was
"Cruel Detraction."
state-
trade on the first day, which favour- able tone was maintained and in- creased during the subsequent days. Especially in the sections for furni ture and home furnishing, building materials, radio, ceramic industry, foodstuffs, and luxuries, good buni- ness was, done. The building materials and roldmaking sections were very extensive this time and represented by most of the leading
Grma,
The special pavilion of the "Vereeniging Nederlandsch We gefcongres," where various speci- mens of modern rond-covering con- structions were exhibited, created" much interest.
The Electro-Technical section oe- duras that at the previous spring fair. heavy vory
The Electro-Technical Congress ing the pust fow years held in the Industries Fair Build- through no fault of its own. The
titude with which they have faced moted visits of electro-technicists unexampled patience and for ings at the same time with the fair, -proved-a-grent-success, and.... pró- their troubles, both personal and to a very large extent. Special at-
burden
upholds the good traditions of his the "Verein Deutcher. Seidewe-
in China..
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
GENIUS MAY ALSO BE ECCENTRIC.
tiful exhibits of which, accont mounted in their own pavilion, drew
universal attention.
Some 34 Austrian firms were pre- sent at the Fair for the second time in a separate Austrian group. The results gained by them were quite satisfactory.
Distributed over the various nationalitites the participants were us follows:-Holland, 803; Ger- many, 123; France, 35; America, 24 England,28; Belgiumi, 22; Aus tria, 34: Scotland, 4; Czecho-Slo- vakin, 2; Sweden; 1; Haly, 3; Swit zerland, 8; Norway, 1; Roumania. 1.
During the Fair, the Bourd un- nouneed its plans for the extension of the oxiating Industries, Fair
Building.
When she reached the car in which Mr. and Mrs, Bybee occupied and his wife through the open door, a stateroom she saw the showman old talking to two strangers whom she
on it." Gus, the erier, spoke up her 2-inch body in the curve often from police headquarters of the Englishman in China worthily section this time by the exhibits of "Listen, boss, let's take a vate enough to be Sally's mother curled guessed to be plainclothes police-commercial, is proof enough that traction was given to the Textile) suddenly and loudly. Now me-Sally's right arm and laid her tiny Capital City. The two men wert I believe the kid here is telling the cherit, as soft and wrinkled as aj evidently about to leave, modding country, and we feel sure that the bereien" and the "Pluschund Sam- truth. No college buy could crack Worn kid glove, in the hollow of impatiently that they understood, Chinese, with their wonderful psy- | tverband" at Crefeld, the beau-
when Sally apeared, like a fright-chology, have a great respect and a safe like that. It was a profus.Sally's firm young neck.
But long after the midget was uned, pale little ghost in green regard for the British merchant sional jub, or I'm a liar! Of course Nita may have taken the boy of sleep, Sally by wide-eyed and and-white-striped "gingham.
She forgot that she wus without | with her and this Steve, since she tense in the dark, her mind a wel- was so crazy about him, but weter of fears and love and doubt. make-up, that the police were look- ain't got no proof she did, and as he had pleaded passionately with ing for her as well as for the crim Sally say, if you set the tops on l'op Bybee for David, Bercely push-inals who had robbed the safe. the boy, the jig will be up with to the dark depths of her mind But Pop Bybee had not forgotten. her as well as the boy. Another even the memory of the jealousy Still talking with the plainclothes thing, Dave may be laying in the which Nita had Bendishly aroused detectives, he motioned to her bushes somewhere with a bulletin her heart. But now that she violently behind his back. She "Oh! Sally screamed, as the full had saved him temporarily by con- turned and forced herself to walk significance of Gus' words burst vinring Bybee that the boy could slowly and sedately toward the njon her. She fainted then, her not. have taken part in the robbery, other end of the ear as the detoc-
Records of unusual children, little body stumping into a heap doubt began to insinuate its ugly lives made their farewells and their!
those dark brusque promises of "quick action." particularly those of the genius at Bybee's feel, her head striking body upwand from
When the men had left the car type, reveal actions which are one of his big shoes and resting depths where she had buried it.
Bybee's voice summoned her in hardly those of the normal child. there.
Did he really love her a husky stage whisper, galling her It has become common knowledge When she regained conscious-thetic, immature girl from an or
was lying in the lowerphanage, a girl who had been alla," so that the detectives, if that brilliant children are likely to
not they were listening, should
be eccentric.
This extension will con berth which had belonged to Nita, nothing but a responsibility and identify her with the girl who had
The skeptical person who aska siat of a aubsidiary structure over and the midget was kneeling on aurcé of dire trouble to him run away from the orphanage in what happens to all these brilliant 5 floors, covering an area of about the pillow beside her head, dal since he had first met and cham-the company of a man wanted on children when they grow up is 1675 square metres, and a tempor- bing her face with a handkerchief pioned her on the Carson farm?
a charge of assult with the in-likely to be informed that most of ary hall of one floor, covering an soaked in aromatic spirits of am- Her old feeling of inferiority tent to kill.
them are never heard of again, be-area of about 1,200 metres. Build- monia Mazie and Sue, two of the rose like nunses in her throat. "Are you crazy?" Bybee demand-cause their emotional, handicaps in will be commenced on June 1st, dancers in the "girile" show, sat
the edge of the berth, their cold-life is an orphanage is not calcued hoarsely when she had come run-are so great that they are unable 1928, and it is expected that the lated to give a girl faith in herning to the stateroom. "Them was to make proper social adjustments, new wing of the Industries Fair eveamed faces almost beautiful own beauty and charm No one, dicks Policemen, understand? The psychologist of the Bureau Building will be ready for the with anxiety and sympathy.
Juntil David's teasing, fond eyes They might have nabbed you. What of Children's Guidance of New Spring Fair of 1930. Both on the "What's the matter? Is it tine had rested upon her, had thought are you doing up? Get back to bed York City found that 15 per cent. ground floor and on the other floors to get up?" Sally uskest dazudly, or beautiful.
and try to sleep."
of children referred to that bureau the exhibition space will be con- "What are you doing. Betty?"
Had he been unly sorry for her, "Have you found David?" she since its establishment were super-nceted with those of the existing
building. brisis voice: "I'm bathing your glad of an opportunity to "clear" quavered, brushing aside his anx-normal children who manifested
The midget answered in her tiny,
State and "Municipality have undesirable behaviour. face with amnionia which Mrs. By-to set out of the state where he jets for her.
readily promised financial assist wanted OA two Aurious be sent. It should be cologne, and Was
"Not a sign of him." Bybee Their social unadjustment was ance for the new building scheme; this ammonia will probably dry charges? Was he dismayed, too, your son something dreadful, but by the fact that moonlight had shook his head. "But I didn't spili so obvious that they failed to pro- 3/5th of the money to be contri- it was the only thing we could get. tricked him into telling her that the beans to the dicks. I'd given gress in school, 20 per cent. of bated by industry and trade, being he loved her, thus addin the re- you my word, and Winfield Bybee's them being over-age for their already, subscribed during the last
grades. Sometimes a gifted child Fair. You fainted, you know."
The 19th Fair will be held at Ut "Oh, I remember!" Sally moaned, sponsibility of her future to the word is as good as his bond."
"I'm going to look for David," has been lowered in its grade four her head beginning to turn from burden of protecting her in this
she announeed simply, but her times because it did not adjust it recht from September 4th-13th.
A special Group, only participat- side to side on the pillow. "Have hectic present?
Then
blazing eyes dared him to try to self to the routine work. sweetery Suner memory
ing in the Autumn Fair, will be they found David? I know he's:
clamoured for attention. She heard prevent her. "He's hurt some-
Adapting Behaviour."
the group "Utensils and Machinery been hurt!"
The supernormal child is placed for Dairy Industry." "They're looking for him," the again his fond, husky voice caress-where-or killed. Fra going to "Mr. ing her, his "Dear little Sailfind him.' midget assured her briskly.
And before the astonished man in competition with older children During the Spring Fair a large And involuntarily her mouth. Bybee took a yote on whether he
for tho was to notify the police about Da-pursed in memory of his kiss, that or his wife could stretch out a hand who are emotionally more mature portion of the showrooms was re-
Autumn Fair. vid's being gone, as well as Nita, kiss that had left ber giddy with to detain her she was gone. When than he, and he finds himself un-served by participanta
she dropped from the platform of able to adapt himself to their type and the vote was No! That ought delight.
the cur she heard the retreating" of behaviour. He thereupon slumps How unfailingly kind and sweet to make you feel happier!"
of the police car. Instinct in his work and is demoted. "Oh, it does!" Sally began to he had been, since that first day turned her in the opposite direc- In some schools special arrange- The Chinese who was alleged to
when he had strode into her life, cry softly. “You have all been so with the sun on his chestnut hair ion, away from the city, down the ments are made for children with have attempted to obtain employ- kind, so kind! You said Mrs. By-and the glory of the sun in his
railroad tracks leading into the exceptional ability, and promotion ment in the Water Police by pre- bee sent the ammonia?" she asked eyes. He had not failed ker once,
open country!
in the routine work of the grades tonding that he had been formerly wistfully.
but she was failing him now, by She did not know, and would not is adjusted to the physical and in the service, of the late Mr. W. of the Gerrard, was convicted by Mr. W. "She certainly did, and she's in doubting hins, by picturing him as have cared that, Mr. and Mrs. By emotional development
Schofield this morning and the kitchen of the privilege cara fugitive in the dark, fleeing with bee were following her, Mrs. Bybee child.
The brilliant boy who at 9 or 10 tenced to six weeks' hard labour, right now, making you some hot a pair of criminals who had robbed uttering disgustedly.but refusing ten. She won't say she's sorry, the man whose kindness had pro-to let Sally search alone for the years of age has reached the high with the option of a fine of $50. probably, but she'll try to make it lected him from the law.
buy in whom she had such implicit school is hardly adapted to contact The late Mr. Gerrard's gardener faith.
with girls at a high school dance, who was called denied all know- up to you. She's like that always!
Why, she must be easy to think for a moment that David could do wan, in a sky that was shamelessly ball team. Nevertheless, he is he had never seen him before.
Dawn was breaking, pale and or to play on the high school foot-ledge of the defendant, saying that a thing like that! No one in the cloudless and serene after the vio brought into contact with activi world was as good and kind and fence of last night's storm, when, ties of this type to which he is honourable as David.
over a slight hill, a man's figure utterly unsuited.
flying off the handle and suspicious
of everybody, but she's got a heart
as big as Babe, the fat girl."
"And so have you!" Sally told
rear
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to be excessively coddled both at shop manager, who died at 81 Des laying them softly against her lips. Not for a moment could she be it plodded toward the show train. home and, in Achool; in other Voeux Road West, first floor, on for the United States to-day by
"Ain't love grand 7" Mazie algh-leve that he had fulled in his "David!", Sally shricked. "Da-
Letters of the President McKinley will be éd deeply. "If it had been my trust. Painfully, Sally tried to vis-vid
words, to become a pet. He there- August 23, last year. sweetie, I'd a-fell for that line of ualize the dreadful thing that had "She began to run, her ankles fore resents attention to others, administration have been granted Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson. Ma Bybee's about him running off happened. David alone, patrolling turning against clots or cinders and responds to crossing of his to Hoshi, widow, residing at Mr. Anderson is the head of the puzzle on another page. with Nita, but you sure stuck by the train, his eyes sharp for in- but her arms outstretched, a glory will by tantrums, disobedience, 87 Des Voeux Road West, first well known local firm of Anderson him! I was in love like that once traders. Then the sudden appear- greater than that of the dawn in merely tends to accentuate the
: impertinence. Punishment floor. when I was a kid. I married him, ance of Nita and the man, Steve, her face. too, and he ran off with the albino weighted down with the contents of
(To Be Continued.)
and
difficulty of the response.
Recourse to Reading.
.
and Ashe, marine surveyors and stevedores, and is travelling through to San Francisco. Mrs. tearns to bluff in class and to study. Lillian R. Ashby is leaving for the even less than he should to keep United States to reside perman- at the top of the work. The extraently, with her, children. Mrs. The child who apende practically time is not properly accounted for Ashby was formerly connected LUNATIC ON A JURY. menta! report concerning an of the Callan Park Institution sab all of his time in reading may be and may be spent in truancy or in
allegation that a mental patient at as a juror in the recent trial of exceptionally brilliant and may undesirable activities.
with an hotel in Calcutta, Callan Park had recently sat on a Robert N. Urquhart, who was read because of some physical The parents whose offspring is a jury before whom a man was tried charged with having murdered his inferiority that he feels excessive genius are perhaps to be congratu-police yesterday that a
A riesha coolle reported to the Chinese for murder. Ministers take a wife at Pyrmont. Urquhart was jy, or to protect himself from in- inted on his intellectual achieve woman passenger had left a rat- serious view of the allegation and acquitted of the charge by the ability to play with other chil-ments, but they have before them tan basket in his vehicle and had should it prove to be correct steps, jury. It is further alleged that dren.
problem of behaviour and control disappeared. When the basket: will be taken to prevent a similar when the alleged lunatic returned A child who learna rapidly and demanding special study and in-was opened it was found to con- [occurrence in the future.
to the asylum he stated that he spends only a half-hour in study of sight, and for which unfortunate tain the dead body of a Chinese According to the statement would not convict any man for kill-material that may require two ly but few parents are especially girl of about six months old. made to the Minister, an inmate ing his wife.
hours for come other child, sconsulted,
SERIOUS ALLEGATION IN AUSTRALIA.
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