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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER
THE UNKNOWN BLONDE
CHAPTER XXVI Bannister exclaimed sharply. What is it?"
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about?"?
BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN
tracks a second time but before no a.d that he examined the Interior or the sedan. it was large and
word some road maps in the door
LAID TO REST
FUNERAL OF THE LATE' MR. HO LEUNG
The funeral of the Into Mr. II. Loung hold at 4 o'clock sustoday afternoon, the remaind
Bannister looked down at the Bannister explained briefly. He The roadster came to a halt.igure on the ground. The man's had called the newspaper office at ratuor cuinbersome, a model six or | boing buried in the family vault brakes grinding, Coleman jumped, yet were closed. His hair was the same time he had notified the eight yoara out of date. There on Mount Davis.
iminttod and there was a dark stain police of Drugan's death. from the car. "Back here," he across his forehead and down one While the physician madó apocket, a pleco. of cloth that had The obsequion wore attended by called and ran In the direction, cheek. His upper Ilp had been cut | hurried examination atcNeal asked heon used to remove dust, a circular a largo and distinguishou gained. from which they had come.
and bled copiously.
questiona. He wanted to know letter from a musical instrumenting. Prior to the interment the Bannister followed, slower and j Suddenly, with an exclamation where the wrecked car had been company, addressed to Drugan, and remains were rested, at the Wing more cautiously. He could make i that was both amazoment and sound,
a can of shoe polish.
Pit Ting, where · those, promont out now that there was something | horror, Bannister dreiv back. "It's
pard tho.r ́lust respects; bowing to ahead. Something black and oddly Drugan!" he cried.
McNeal, poking about the up-no couin and mourners. shaped, lying at the side of the
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holstered seat, suddenly draw forth road just beyond the turn..
Drugant He played in
an object. "A" he exclaimed. "Wait!" he called to Coleman. King's orchestra. He and King
"Look at this!" but the other did not wait. Pont-were friends. I was talking to Ing, breathless, "Bannister made too him only, the other night. Yes, dozen yarda. He knew now what it's Drugan, all right. We've got It was ahead. An overturned auto-to do something! We've got to ...mobile, stenting on the hillside, it get him to a-house 'some where,
call a doctor-{"
-- wheels reared grotesquely,
"Is there anyone there?" he enlled.
Bashlight "Can't tell. There's A in my cart"
Coleman was off again for the flashlight. Bannister searchett
his pocketa for matches, founu them and struck one. He had to move to the other alde of the overturned sedan and cup his hands to protect the blaze. The match sputtered an instant and then died. but in that instant Bannister had , caught a glimpse of a man's face—
white and cut and bleeding.
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"It's still there," Bannister told him. "Just as it was"
McNeal wanted to know how Drugan was lying when they found him. He wanted to know what time. It was and naked a dozen.
other questions. Bannister left Coleman to answer them and walked away,
There had been nothing about Al Drugan to arouse admiration, By the time they reached the so far as Bannistor knew; nothing nearest farm house Drugan's heart to set him apart from hundreds
vas
Not for one moment did the Injured man regain consciousness. There was nothing that the doctor | could do for him, nothing at all. At 23 minutes past nine o'clock that night AlDrugan's earthly cares wore at an end.
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The principal mourners wors Mr. and bira, Ho Wing and chil dren, Mr. and Mrs. No Kwong and It was a quart battlo, almost children, Mr. and Mra, Ho Ky and empty of the dark uid inside.andren, Airs, Ho Chouk and chil McNeal held the bottle to his now dron. Dr. 9. C. 1o, Mr. and Mrs. triis, removed it hastily with a. D. Bush, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. grimace.
| Kow, Dr.. and; Mrs......... E. Law, Mr.. and Mrs. Ho Kom-tong and chili dron, Mr. and Mrs, M, K. LỤ, ME, and Mrs. M. W. Lo, Mr. and Mrs. Horace, Lo, the Binson Maggio and Lily Cheung, Mr. and Mra. simon abo-yan, Mr. and Mrs. Choy -iu, air, Androw The, Migu Joan Ho. Tung, and Mr. and Mrs. W. Gittona.
"What Is it?" Bannister asked. "Small it.",
still beating, slowly and of others like him. Nevertheless, Bannister sniffed the contents weakly but nevertheless beating, as Bannister saw them carrying of the bottle. It was whisky at was still beating, weaker and the dead man's body to the ambu-whisky that was no vije-emelling it nore lowly, when the ductor lance, placing it inside, he was must have been among the cheapest arrived, but it did not best much lashamed of the emotion that came grades the bootleggers suppy, longer,
over him. He had seon dontha. Bannister returned the bottle. plenty of them, that were
more "So that's it?" he maid, "Well, horrible. He did not understand if he drank all that I'm not sure why he was ao moved now.
prised he couldn't, keep in the Presently the ambulance was on road." Its way back to Tremont. McNaal and the other delective climbed into Parker Coleman's roadstar When Coleman returned with the The women of the farm house-Bannister role with the Post flashlight ho found Bannister one middle-aged, plump and gray photographer and they followed struggling with the door of the haired, the other alenter and the roadster to the place where the sedan. The car had fallen in such younger-hovered near the door of over-turned sedan still lay. a way that the door could not be the room where Drugan's body lay. opened.
"What will we do?" the older "There's a man in there!" Ran.woman naked. "You're not going nister told him. "We've got to to leave him—7′′ get him out!"
"Do you think he's alive?" Cole
man asked.
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Suddenly there was a roar like a gun shot and a flash of light, Snwyer, the photographer, called, Crowd up clone together, wit you? I want to shoot another one...”
Bannister managed to stop naitis before the second pleture was taken. 118 did not fancy his like- neus appearing in the public presa. caldes there were too many in the group.
He turned and found › Packor Coleraan at his side.
"Say," Coleman naked, "what are these detectives doing? Why didn't they just send someone out
Among the large gathering at the funeral were also the Hon. Sir Thomas Southorn,・・ (Colonini [Secretary) the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, the Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood, (Secretary for Chinese Affairs), the Hon. Mr. R. II. Kotowall, the Hon, Mr. S. W. Ta'o, the Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson (Director of Pub le Works), the Hon. Mr. J. J.. Paterson, and the lion. Mr. T. N. Chau,
Sawyer wore softly an he stopped out, surveying the wreck
Uthors present Included Mr. and had planged from the road and the handlights of the two
Mrs. W. T. Stanton and Miss Feat "I've called the pollee," Ban-supplied light enough to show what
ham, Mr. R. Gordon, Mr. T. II, G. Brayflald, Mr. T. A. Mitchell, Together they struggled with nister told her. "They'll be here had happened. The sedan fallon for-
Major, V. E. Duelos. Dr. and Mrs. the door but it would not open. In a tie while. No, they won't ward, turning completely over.
G. H. Thomas, Mossen, F. G. Hall, In the bright raya of the flash- leave him hore."
was lying with its wheels in the air
A. H. Potts, E. Abraham, It. Poss light they saw that the man was It was a police ambulance that and the hillside was gashed with
tonil, L. G. Frost, E. O, Butler, alone in the car. He had fallen they took Al Drugan back to Tre deep, ragged furrows, showing the
A. Kidd, E. 9, Kong, J. M. Wong, forward, his body pressed against mont. But when the ambulance path it had taken,
to bring in the car? I don't un. ¡A, P. Grenvos, 8. M. Churn, C. M. the steering wheel. There was a arrived at the farm house, besides "Some smash-up!" Sawyer ex-derstand it. It was just an ac. S. Alves, La Koon-chun, Li Chi- good deal of blood on the man's the driver and his assistant, there claimed and repeated it, "Som eldent, wasn't It? I mean they tong, C. Y. Kwan, Pang Kwok- clothing and samo on the cush were three other passengers. smash-up!"
don't auspect-?!'.
Stu, Thoman Tam, Tas Taing ions of the car.
McNeal was among them and so Ho became busy Inimediately.
"I don't know," Bannister told fong, II. Lowcock, J. Litton, G. A. was the polico physician. The getting his camera from its caso him. I've been wondering the V. Hall, U Sze-wing, Fung Pak- other man was from the detectivo and rummaging for flashlight paw-same thing but I'm going to find lok, Yun Koon-man, J. Shen, W. It was almost 20 minutes' werk bureau.
der. Bennister moved on to Join out."
Fox, J. F. Grose, I Gockchuon, before they anally managed it.
minutea Inter another the others. Ha and Coleman tried It was not untli they wore back Shi Tu-man, Chow Ngan-tin. Eric Coleman had stripped off life top smaller car drow up in the farm to show the detectives how Drugan at central headquarters that Ban Wong-tape, H. C. Yang, Yung Chi- coat and laid it on the ground. yard and Sawyer, the Pont pho had been pressed in between the nistor got the answer. Then homing. Fu»- Kwong-un, Chan Ping- They put the man on the coat.tographer, stepped out. He found steering wheel and the side of the said, "Look here, McNeal, just exau, Chau Ping-un, Chau Man-ches, Then Bannister, down on his Bannister and asked, "What's car. McNeal seemed interested in netly what do you make of all Wong Tak-kwong. To Jack-man, knees, bent over him touching his happened? They called me at the tracks down the hillside and this Drugan's death was an ne- H. Hong Sling, 8, N. Pan, Harold hands.
home and anid there's been a bad inspected them with his flashlight. client, wasn't it? How could It Loc, Tam Woon-toug. Tao Ka-po "They're warm," he exclaimed. accident out here. I don't acc
have boor anything but And a moment later, "His heart's any
nn accident. What's
He wont back to Fook at the dent?"
accl-Tang Shlu-kin, Ip Lan-chuon, Li all it
Yau-taun, Wong Kwong-tin, Dr. S. The captain's eyes were on the To Wong, and Dr. Ma Luk. cigar he was lighting and he did There were many beautiful not raise them as he spoke. "It foral tributes, including one from could," he said, "have been mur-Peel, and Lady Peel, and one from der, murder cleverly planned the Java-China-Japan line. to look like an accident."
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