THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1933.
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by MABEL: MCELLIOTT
with the lot of them at the Inn?"¡firm of Kerrigan and Cory.
"No." The monosyllable was She found the judge in his dusty
wrenched from Bill. "No. But-office above the First National Featherweight
The big man cut him off Bank. Trembling, she told him her abruptly. "Notic of our buts, story. The old man looked at her young feller."
shrewdly out of rhoumy blue oyes. "I'll go down to see him. Don't you worry. Did they say anything about furnishing ball?"...
"I didn't know them. Thoy just sat down at my table," Bill flung across at him. "I swear I didn't
Monnie throw out her hands. His eyes found his mother's hag-"We haven't any money, Judge. I gard face, implored her to bellove didn't dare ask about it even." him.
"No. No. I s'pono not." He "Then when they drove up, brave contemplated the problem, stroking as you please, at 11 o'clock didn't his white beard. There isn't any you fill up their gas tanks and pass one, I suppose the time o'day with them as happy Monnio flushed. She know what as you please?" want on the bly, he must be thinking. Everyone in man. When the says 'hands up, town-aupposed her to bo engaged didn't you let them get away with to Dan Cardigan. Wouldn't the it? Don't tell me you aren't part Cardigans help her out-that was and parcel of the gang!"
what Judge Cory meant,
Absurd-of course it was absurd. get away, Maybe you don't know MONICA O'DARE, 20 and beautiful, is in Bill O'Dare under arreat! Why, we have positive evidence he con- tuve with DAN CARDIGAN, one of the ho'd lived in Belvedere all his 22 nived with them payroll thilevca know-" town's rich roung men. At a locat dancing years. He was honest as the day The veins in-Bill's forehead were BEH BANDILA LAWRENCE, with Was long! Everybody know that. awollen painfully. His scornful her friend, handsome and mysteriisa newcomer, CHARLES The big man who dominated the blue eyes flashed defianco. Was it EUSTACE
BANDRA. Immediately
cherie or acone found speech. He glowed at fear that lurked behind those blue Dan., Monale, hurt, allows Charles, to meort Monnie.
oyes? No, Monnio would not enter her home. When Moonles older brother, DILL, I errested at the singe
where he
"Absurd, is it?" he bellowed tain that thought for a single min-, ́worki·she rushes to his mid.
"And who, may I ask, "are you?" utal
"I'm lile alster," Monica said, "What evidence?" she demanded CHAPTER V
| bringing the full battery of her staunchly. |flashing aniber eyes to rest upon "Ho was seen at Black Tree Inn Something in the policeman's him. Would you mind telling me with the lot of them last night," tone stiffened. Monica's trembling what this is all about?"
said the big man, enjoying the backbone. She actually managed a Several people began to talk at drama of this announcement. "He laugh. "Bill arrested ?" she echoed once. The big man silenced them. knew them. He was in it. He left "But that's absurd."
"Maybe you don't know" he be there carly and who he was with. Bill's dark frown relaxed the gan truculently, "that there's been | Guess that sounds guilty, don't it?” morest trifle and. Monnie had the n robbery down at the gas station Bill and thickly, fiercely, "That's satisfaction of seeing her mother]—an' a big one. Maybe you don't in lot" straighton, look about hor bracely.İknow this young feller let them "It's not a lle you were drinkin'
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Mounio said in a low clear voice, "Don't worry, Bill. We believe you. We'll get a lawyer."
"No one," she said with decision. What the proud Cardigans would think when they heard that Bill O'Dare was in jail she did not dare to consider. It was Bill she had to fight for now.
But Bill had been at Black Tree Inn. That alone counted against bim. Bier Heart was pounding painfully. No matter what he had "I'll go right down and soo tho done the O'Dares would stand by boy." The old man stood up, reach- him. But how dreadful it all was. ing for his battered Panama. "I'll The tag end of a verso she had al-do the best I can." ways loved came into her mind Just then. 4%
The men of my own stock Bitter bad they may be, But at least they hear the things
I hear,
They see the things I see " Bill looked oddly like their dead father at this moment. Daddy, the most honest man who'd ever lived. No, Bill O'Dare wasn't couldn't be a thief. There must be a way out of this nightmare and Monnie would have to find it,
Of all the townsfolk she could think of only one friend to ap- peal to. Judge Cory, Mes An- stice's father. He had been her grandfather's' partner in the law:
She had to be content with that.
• • •
over.
Somehow she managed, a smile for her mother, walting down- stairs. "He's.going right Don't worry. I'm sure everything's going to be all right."
"Monnio, I'm sorry," the older woman said in a low voice, “but I'm not feeling very well—”
She swayed against the girl, her face lighted with a deadly pallor. Mounto felt the world swimming around her for one dreadful mo- ment. Then she heard a friendly voice. Charles Eustace's.
"Let me carry her to the car, Miss O'Dare."
She saw him swing the alight
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