THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1933.
DARLING FOOL
DAN CARDIgan whose wealthy parente do
win Dan from her.
Tho velled woman clambered Into
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by MABEL MCELLIOTT
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to my father demanding $60,000." Jamce groaned. "Ionost, Hetty, did you do that?"
The girl nodded, defant.
"You little nit-wit!" He whirl-
ed on her. "Do you know what
frock.
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GRAIN CONTROL
and
PRODUCING NATIONS IN AGREEMENT
London, July 5. BEGIN HERE TO-DAT
Before stepping into it Sandra. "Run for it!" Buld a hoarse a mess you can get us into? You
The four greatest wheat produc- MONICA O'DARE helps to support her glanced about "quickly to fix the voice. Sandra Bw the velled wo- and that no-count cousin of yours." ing countries of the world, Canada muther, younger brother and sister by work; scene in her mind. In the dark-inan trip over a log. Then the "I don't care," Hetty sald sul-Australia, the Argentine
small town' of Davedere, fler older brother, ULL, plane to ness she could see only a rotting lights of the car shone full into lenly. "I said I'd get her and 1 United States, have reached an
ETY ANGIE VILLEN Our as Angie fence and dooryard. The whole her eyes.
did. Sho's not as smart as she agreement on grain problems, on divorces her husband. Monnisle in kore with place was like half a hundred dia "You big-"
thinks she is. Anyhow we got to the formula put forward by the Sundra locked up, half laugh- go through with it now. She American representatives at re- not approve of her. BANDBA LAWILENCE, Couraged farms tended by renters pretending to be Monnie's friend, tries 10 in the countryside. There was ing, half crying. But Instead of knows who we are and she'll get cont discussions,
Bandra becomes angry at a maid and her nothing to distinguish it
the friendly bluo-coated figura the police after us if we let her The great purpose behind the gather's chauffeur and diamanea Chem. A "Never mind your lookin"," the she had expected to see, she found go. Don't be auch 21 chicken wheat producers move is to in-| few days later when she receives, a telephone
not comin' herself staring Into the cyca of hoart, Jim. Sho Age saying her father is badly hurt mun cackled. "We're
doesn't care crease prices. Wheat which onco Sandre hurries to him only to And herself this way again."
James, the chauffeur,
what happens to us. Why should sold for G$1.00 per bushel, has the victim of kidnappers.
"You all right?". voice we care about her? She'd let us been selling in recent years for the back seat and Sandra felt thean sounded relieved. The woman, starve to death." CHAPTER XXV
boring eyes upon her.
having picked herself up, now be
one-third the amount. Even the famous hard wheats of Canada Sandra's voice, in spite of her
gan to run. In a triee, the long- There was danger In the at- have falled to maintain a better They rodo, bumping and sway-legged James had overtaken her, mosphere. Brooding hatred. The yield. desperate efforts to keep it cool, had a noto of hysteris. "Where Ing. for what seemed to the giri was shaking her soundly.
hours although when she glanced at: "Little sap!" Sandra heard him eyes stared at the girl in the Parissult of the newly reached agree- smoke of revenge. Two pairs of It is understood that as a rc- are you taking me now?"
"You keep your, mouth shut!" the dial of her watch she saw it saying. "Didn't I tell you?"
She could hear angry sobe,
ment, the plan will be submitted The woman in the heavy veil, the Was only 11 o'clock. Curious they
fetty!
"What good is she anyway?" to European wheat producers who one who had joined her capter a didn't trouble to blindfold her!protesting murmur.
Hotty who had been
"Never docs athare undertaken not to augment | Hetty raved. her moment before, spoke hoarsely. She knew this road-It was the was
turn. Makes mischief grain acrengo or production. Tho hand's Sandra had a fleeting Impression Embury Turnpike. Wouldn't it be captor, whose burning glance of she had heard that voice before the. simpleat thing, she thought, to hate had eaten into her very flesh. wherever she goes. What right's consuming nations, it is under-
she got to live?"
stood, have promised to reduco and that its owner was attempting scream-to attract the attention of
Recovering her composure com- to disguise it. She shrank from some passing motorist? For all
Sandra saw something flash__inį tariffs against wheat when the the glare of eyes behind the heavy she knew alarms might have been pletely Sandra swung herself over the darkness. She heard a muffled price rises in consequence of pro-
There drapery of gauze.
was broadenst already regarding her the side of the car.
report. She watched, fascinated, duction restriction. "Would anybody," she Inquired the struggling figures. Homething
intimidating disappearance.
Wheat prices have strengthened about that stare.
As if reading her thoughts, a coolly, "tell me what this is ail
James, turned hla hend sharply. | already, though they have probab- They conferred for a few min- rasping volce from the rear said about?"
"Get out of here," he barked.ly been affected by adverse crop James turned. The hubit utes outside the closed door while harshly, "No funny business now.
"Run the girl on the couch, her feet I've got a gun!"
respect was strong but even San- tell about this night-If you get and elsowhere as much as by the still bound, allowed her eyes to They turned left into aa
dru could catch the note of dis- Hetty into trouble--you'll be sorry hope of international, sales con- rove frantically about the room, lined with poplars. The
for it, that's all."
trol. seeking
Grudgingly he of escape. was rising and the landscape iny
muttered, "You BONC means
Canndo, Saudra ran, stumbling in the
Australia, Argentine There seemed to be none. The cool
out without jobs. You and sharply etched before threw
rats, almost sobbing. Briers tore and the United States will exercise window was locked and barred-them, like a back drop in a the- wouldn't give us
Imend.
even a recom-her thin stockings and once she a double control: that la, they will It wasn't our fault." she could see that. Even if her jatre. Black against the sky rose shackles
loosed it were
would a clumsy house, sprouting half a
Sandra flushed, "She was in Tell into a pool of ooze, sinking govern exports and interual stocks
with vigilance, take some superb tneties to get dozen chimneys. Dark. Sinister, pudent. She didn't deserve It."
The agreement has not as yet Jumes put a restraining fool she had been to come alonef Banded his herichwoman. Helen Hetty.
whose hinge forward road, a bedraggled figure. Which been signed, but since Australin They had got her into this trap jumped out and went about to the oded no good to Sandra. The way to turn? She did not know, has signified assent it in under- stood that the pact lacks only with maddening ense
back of the house, returning pres-, her original captor, hud by se took the right, hoping it led formal approval to be efective. Sandra's
this time disappeared, drifted into toward home. Her thin shoes thoughts roved tolently, in disgruntled mood.
the darkness somewhere.
The wheat plan to which the four home and her father. He would "Key's not here," he tried to
were hopelessly inadequate. Her countries have agreed at present be reading that soiled note pres-the woman in the back seat. SanJames said defensively to Sandra.
"You better not talk that way," budy felt as if it had been beaten. does not specify any definite figures. ently. If she knew him, he had dra had an almost insane impuls"You better be glad I come along almost blinding her. Her breath European countries and consumers Several cars passed, their lightsThese would be filled in. If the already telephoned the police. to laugh. It was
so absurd, this time to save you. Then what? Would his life also criminal protesting innocently that the indicated the struggling Hetty! sobs, every one burning her phrch Renter.
When she" was torn from her, now in gasty give assent to the proposals. be in danger? Pretending to he couldn't get into a house he gets a mad on she's a sure enough ed Throat, On and 08 she wildent. She was bound to get stumbled along this road that; even."
not goin' to let her off
seemingly hnd no turning.
this nightmare hold for her? At last she heard the pur of a "Sandra!"
She heard her father's joyous She tried tlon. She was frightened, rather ahout just before she lost con-
relieved. hearing men's Aciousnças. shouts, What new horrors did
(To Be Continued.)
wildly
out of this fetid
ruom,
Fool-
"Walt here,”
Lane
like.
the man com-
shrug off this notion as pure enuse he hadn't a key. melodrama,
Sandra raised her Tize woman wrenched the ear
of
hand
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At last she reached the main
hend proudly. The man re-enter- door open, evidencing her inten- "I'm
the tion of searching for the missing like this, so easy," panted Hetty motor going in the same direc-
ed and, stooping, loosened
ankles together.
stifling a scream. Lights were "Come along, you!" he said, blurring the roadbed of the lane.she couldn't, she gave us both the
to get her hooks into you and when than not unkindly. "We're steppin' A car was coming toward them out of here."
at top speed.
nir." Sandra brushed against the "It's the cops?" yelled the man.
James intervened. "You woman in the passage as she fol- "Let's go." He flung himself into know as well as I do, Miss Law- Jowed. Again she had a sense of the driver's sent The starterrence, we can't get jobs without Imminent menace, of an almost whirred-died. Again and again we have a recommend." tangible hatred.
"They didn't want that-they he tried it, desperation in every The man indicated she was to sit move. But the car bore down on wanted money," Sandra Informed beside him in the rickety sedan. | them..
him icily. "They've sent a note
ropes which bound her slender key. But instead she passed, "She was sweet on you.
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