THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1933.
DARLING FOOL
DECIN HERE TO-DAY
MONNIE O'DARE secretly ensured to
the
DAN CARDIGAN whose parenia iliangrove nt
match, CHARLES KUSTACK, stranger in town, admires Monnie as well as her younger alster, KAY. BIL, her older brother, plane to maĚTY ANGIE GİLLEN, whose durarea is pending, much to MELSs O'DANEB damay.
BANDRA LAWRENCE, pretending to be a friend of Mouni la trying to win Den awar from her. Bandes receives a hurried message that her father has been hurt and for her
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Chapter XXIV
by MABEL MCELLON
eyed, sat in an armless rocking chair a fow feet away,.
She flung the: panell dawn. “'I won't sign it. I won't."
"That's a good girl." He showed his fangs, grinning at her:
"What on earth are you staring Mr. Lawrence
"Where is my father?" Sandra
The strong fingers gripped hor gasped. "What have you done to wrist, twisting it. "You won't himi?"
Imlasy? All right then, you'll be The man grinned. When he sorry." spoke his voice was surprisingly The foul adours of tobacco, of unwashed clothing, of liquor, cared deeply for, with the excep-ing him to follow her. But her low and easy, pleasantly pitched.
Hor brain hadn't been working. tion of Dan Cardigan.
"Don't worry, lady," he told her. choked her. She acreamed, "All Naturally her thoughts turned sole thought had been to get there "He's probly back in his own right. All right. I'll sign!"
What bad "Tuck-thus at once.
parlour now readin' the paper. He to Dan. they raced-that Dan had been Automatically her mind regin-don't even know you're out."
Home tered the fact that a man detached "Then he wasn't-?" Even in called away that day on business of his father's. She himself from the small group at the her terrible plight she felt a dis- might have called him. It would roadside and moved toward her. tinct sensation of relief. What-at?" demanded be as well as to have someone go Indolent was his gait, calm his mien over these people intended to do to sharply. The new mald, twisting with her. Father might be scri-and the excited girl, drawing up her she did not know. But she her apron, did not reply. Instead ously hurt. She shivered at this, and jumping out of her car, felt a was glad to know Daddy was safe. she turned like a frightened rabbit, acuttling down the hall, In an No, she would not think it. flash of Impatience.
Her ear raced along, taking the
"What's happened?" she began. Wild surmises leaped to her mind other instant Mrs. Peterman, red- Kidnapped for ransom? Yes, that faced, breathing hard, appeared in Sandra tooled her roadster ex-corners with more than her usual Where la-?" pertly but of the drive. She had touch of recklessness. Elm Tree! She got no further. A strong must be it. There had been a lot the doorway.
of that sort of thing in the papers "You, sir? Oh, thank God. We dressed in haste, but her blue Lane. It was, she remembered, hand seized her. She smelt some lately. What a fool she had been thought you'd been badly hurt." beret was at exactly the right a lonely spot far on the edge of thing sickening. Through her
"I Aro the lot of you out of angle. It was characteristic of town. The lights af houses were struggles she heard someone say, to leap to their bait so quickly.
Sho drew herself up, her eyes your minds?" We got her all the girl that she managed always now few and scattered. In spite "That was easy.
flashing proudly. "You'd better Tho cook stared, arms akimbo, 'to look porfectly turned out, no of her vaunted courage---Sandra right,"
let me go," she told her grinning "No sir," she said firmly. "Miss matter what the circumstances, often observed lightly that she
captor. "You'll get into all sorts Sandra had the 'phone message and And this time she was generally
afraid of nothing-she When she awoke her arms were of trouble. My father"
she went tearin' off like a wild worried.
She was hatless glanced uncasily over her shoul-bound to her side.
"Yeah," the man drawled. "We thing before we could find out what The voice a man's-had said. der as she drove. There was and her hair was disordered. Her know all about him. Practic'ly it was about."
Your father is hurt something in the air-No, it was head felt heavy, felt dizzy, as if she runs this town, he does. We know. "Sandra got a message about me? Elm Tree Lane." Wild thoughts just her nerves. She would be all had had a blow. She was in an That's why we thought you'd be What on earth?" raced through Sandra's hend. A
"Somebody rang up. sir, and ear had hit him, probably. He right once she saw her father and untidy room, a sort of sitting room t
assured herself he was all right. in an obviously old house. An oll
said you'd been in an accident went along with his head down,
There was a car drawn up at the lamp with a green shade burned in
Sandra was silent, her heart somewhere. She got her little car not looking. To do Sandra Jun-Lane turning. Hadn't they sent one corner. Sandra was conscious hammering painfully. She must out and went tearing to see.” tick. she was genuinely fond of for an ambulance, the Idiots? of eyes staring at her, boring, infind a way out of this, she told her- her parent. In all the world, he Sandra wished she had telephoned jupon her. Slowly she turned her self. She must! was probably the only person she Dr. Keating before she left, ask-laching head. A man, small, crafty-"What do you want?" she asked
**Harry.
Was
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presently in a quite ordinary tone. "If it's money. I warn you there'll he trouble afterward. You'll not go free, any of you--"-
"What nonsense is this?" de- manded Gregory Lawrence. "A nasty sort of practical joke, I should say. What time was this?"
About an hour ago. ir, just shortly after you'd started for your walk. I was settin' my rolls for The man was transformed in an breakfast when the bell rang. I instant from a grinning gargoyle said to the girl. I said, 'Get onto to a lowering menace. He stood that wire, will you,' and she run for over the humpy, couch in which she Miss Sandra like the man told her saf, glaring down at her.
tom"
"You keep your mouth shut!" The man broke in on this, with he barked. "You mind your busi-{furlous impatience. "Never mind, ness and do as you're told or may-never mind. What did he say? be you'll be sorry.
"That I couldn't tell you, sir. Sandra's haughty spirit quailed Miss Sandra rushed off like some- before this exhibition. The man thing was at her heels. Didn't say produced a pad of paper and a stub who it was called nor anything." of a pencil. These he thrust into Gregory Lawrence pressed his her fingers."
ps together in impotent anger. "Write like I tell you," he Then he strode toward the tele- commanded. His words now held phone closet. His resonant voice a faintly wheedling note. "Be a could be heard 'plainly by the two goed girl," he said, "and there women outside. won't a hair of your head be "Glye те Chief harmed."
Burkhardt,
please. Tom? This is Gregory Lifelessly Sandra took the pen-Lawrence. Some funny business cil The man began droningly to at my house. While I was out just dietate:
now Sandra got a message telling "Dear Father, I am in danger. her I'd been injured. She's gone--- Leave $50,000 in the old mill house God knows where."
just east of Somerville by morning A pause during which Mrs. or they'll do away with me. No Poterman, rolled her eyes and the polico. It will be bad for me if new maid twisted her apron, you tell anyone...
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