THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934.
The
ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
CHAPTER XXXIII
The gossip about Juanito and Estelle Anally reached Lottic, "I'll apoll her face!" she promised shrilly as she stood, arms akimbo, looking down at Bosu who lounged
wicker chair,
In a deep
he
"Aw, show a little sense?" "It means we'll be kicked outa here," Lottie sold craftily. That might reach Beau, she thought.
"A let you're
worryin' about that!" he commented. "Kid," said easily, "we got our rake-off. know how you feel about him, Lottle, but he don't lean your way an' that's all there is to it. You might as well make up your mind about it. It ain't your fault an' it ain't his."
"I'll kill that girl!"
No, he would not give Pablito way. But before the passage of an hour he had put a codicil to this decision.
KATHARINE
HAYIL „TAYLOR
SHENG AN PIRACY
DEATH FOR TAUDIEN AND WESTERMANN
|ing air that make a moonless Cuban | “Well, I understand all this but I soarch his pockets for a cigarette,
night,
won't have it! How far has it case, find it and light a cigarette. gone? Where have you been meet-"I've always wondered," he went un, whether the method they use Ing him?"
Usually at the park and the is quite merciful. It sometimes Cathedral,
takes three turns of the switch or He guffawed. "You'll do better button-whatever, it is to kill next time," he prophesied, "but man. Have a cigarette, child."
**Na." next time it will be harder, too!
The
young man's life in in
Dairon, Apr. 26. I'm going to have you watched.
The trial of the five foreigners, Understand? And-I won't have your hands, Estelle. He hadn't a this! I have other plans for you." chance if I turn him over to the alleged to have pirated the Chinese police. And he couldn't hide steamor Shông An on June 28, 1933- He sat back. "Estelle," he said, again. I shall have him watched and murdered three Russians and "I recognized Juanito tonight. until you tell me that I do not seven Chinese in the process, ended Juanito !"
Carlito was. In the hall with a letter in his hand as Field entered. Carlito showed his surprise and made the mistake of holding tho letter behind him.
"What have you there?" Field demanded.
"Nothing, Sir."
"Let me see it."
"It le-a letter from the sweet- heart of one of the servants. I take it to him.
"I said let me nce it!" Carlito answered bravely. "Mr. Field, It is a letter from a lady
"Do you want me to knock you "Now dont talk crazy! You got! enough to keep you the rest of down?""
Carlito felt Field's strong, blunt, your days with what you can pick
A mo- up easy. You don't wanta go knif-fingera tighten on his arm.
ment and the letter was in those in' anyone
same fingers.
"Don't I?"
"Aw, have some sense!" he at- vised again, much tried and show ing It,
need to. It's for you to decide?.
and
two
She lost even more colour,
She began to speak as he had to-day in the Dairen District Court, "I'm going to turn him over to known she would, to beg his mercy.
Captain Hugo Taudler the police if you ever Beo him She was still amazingly young, Heinrich Westermann, the again. That's all. Otherwise he he thought, as he heard her. Her principal accused, were sentenced can go his damned way without voice blurred, shook, broke as she to death, Arthur Gautch and any interference from me. Is that repented her petitions.
Walter Muller to life imprisonment clear?"
All this is Interesting," he com- and George Schroeder to ten years' "But he didn't do it, Father-1" {mented as she paused, breathing penal servitude. He smiled and raised his bushy hard and shaking. Interesting eyebrows. "I don't care whether but not convincing. If you see heidid or not. I said I have other him again I'll send him to life im-pealed against the sentences. "A letter from one of the.ser-plans for you. And I also said that prisonment or death. Have you vanta-addressed to my daughter! If you see him again I'll turn him ever known me to break my word ?" Field sneered as he slit the envel-over to the police who are st op. He drew forth the folded sheet looking for him. Do you under beginning, "My own dearest," and stand me?" ending, Juanito."
Field laughed. "God!" he ex- claimed, "this is a find! And I thought she was mild as milk!"
"Yes.'
"Do you agree?" "No."
She made no answer, Field took out his watch. "I shall give you," he said, looking at the watch, "five minutes in which to decido."
All five accused immediately ap-
Story of Piracy.*
The men arc alleged to have boarded the Sheng An at Tangku on June 26 and to have pirated it when off the coast near Shanghai. After killing Captain B. Vikhman, He whistledd waltz tone that the first mate and the first mate's He started, leaning forward was being played at the cafes. wife, all Russians, in addition to "Why not?"
The girl sut before him, her seven Chinese seamen, ull of whose stricken eyes on bls, her tense bedles were promptly thrown over. hands gripping the arms of the board, the ship was commandeered chair.
and diverted to Dairen.
"I love him so!" "Is that all?"
"What else?" she questioned with
little surprise. He relaxed, amil-
Marcla ant by Estelle's bed. The girl had suddenly become ill when she heard Marcia planned to go to the night at La Miradores, She had arked Marcin to stay with
The letter still in his hand, ho her. Marela had stayed, but she
pounded up the stairs and made hed also done some wondering.
She knew that Estelle was only his us, without knocking, into sick. Estelle his daughter's room. She was in by pretending to had recently shown little desire her alght things and a negligee, a for Marcia's company. She had standing by n window, Fielding once more. been an irreproachable hostess smiled on her with that smile he "Well," he said slowly, "If you but Marel had schned the Inet always gave those wholly within can't give him up 1 can inform the
his power.
authorities and let justice take Ita that Estelle did not like her.
Well, In me she'd find out what "I have letter that is directed course. That will mean that your It meant. Marcia decided. Mean-to you," he said and his sense of Junnite will go to prison for life time-
strength was increased by her sud--if he's lucky. Otherwise he'll den palor.
sleep a few nights in the Death House and then--" He panged to
"Shall I read to you, dear?" she asked.
"How long has this been going Estelle said that would be very on-and just how far has it gone?" nice. As Marcla hunted for the he continued. bok Estelle added. "I
hute to
Estelle did not pretend to mis- think of your going Monday--it understand. Fiold's keen, aly eyes
is Monday, isn't it?"
followed her. He heard her say in Marcia smiled. Quite obviously the dry, faltering way of those who the child wanted her out of there badly frightened, "I love him way.
ns 1
never thought I could love
Ab" he murmured.
"I might stop a bit longer," she anyone- wald with hidden malice, "if sone- one begged me very prettily!"
She saw Estelle swallow hard nt) that. "Now what's up?" Marela asked herself. "What In the world-?"
"Sit down.
We must have a little talk."
Trembling, she settled in a low chair and he dropped to one that, faced it. She wished, shrinking, that he was not so near. Then be Inughed suddenly, elated by the Jim Field recognized Juanito as feeling that she was, after all, his Pablito, the boy who had run his achter. He himself had not been bonts, but he had no intention of too particulur in his gayest years, mentioning the fact. He had woners was the same streak in her; heavily on Juanito. "Ted Jeffries the streak that could let her inve Was nu good anyway." Field prize fighter, a murderer and thought as he rode home through thief.. the darkness, the scents and movi
"You little devil!", he commented,
Prince Wilhelm, second son of King Gustav of Sweden, is keenly in- terested in Elms and is now making talklos.from...hi_now_scenarios.,
(To Be Continued.)
THE KINGLY WAY.
A most fantastic plan to take the
the Sheng An across
Pacific to Valparaiso where it was to, be sold together with its cargo of ground- nut oll, was revealed by the pri İsoners after capture.
JAPANESE RESPOND WELL,
TO PHILOSOPHY
The ship early on July 1 ground- Dairen, Apr. 20. ed off, the conat of Kokusokisho, The pirates The Premier of Manchukuo, Hoshigaura, Dairen.
for shore, three being Mr. Cheng, and his party have (dashed returned from their mission to caught after a brief freedom and two others arrested on the follow- Japan.
Interviewed here,
Mr. Chong ing day.-Reuter. declared that the Japanese hnd responded well to the Wangtao ("Kingly Way") philosophy. in consequence of this he was con ndent of a strengthening of the tles of friendship between Japan and Manchukuo-Reuter,
Nanking, Apr. 26. Me.. Huang Mo-sung, Commie- aloner to Tibet, has left for Chengtu by aeroplane, en routo for Lhusa.-Router.
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AN APOLOGY.
If I feel the necessity of apologising for those bright check sports jackets which we introduced into Hong Kong this season, it is because, one or two of them were distinctly bright,
(We described them as snappy to our Customers!.
We sold one to a young American, and understand that it has given his particular state an uplifting impulse-the Customer's return to Earth is expected at any moment. We sold another bright one to a local lad,--nice lad, but he assures us that life for him has grown more complex. We believe it. Life is made that way, but after all what is a theme of beauty between friends.
From other Customers | have received appreciative remarks, besides appeals from Mothers, Wives, and so on.
But they were good jackets: since that merry day, when they were first seen in Britain, it has roused itself from lothargy and "got a move on. Scottish weavers did their best, and the result was that everyone was happlar than they had been for years. And-value, the best l'have met with in long months.
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Her flags fluttering in the breeze, the U.3.3. Farragut is pictured sliding down the ways at Quincy, Mass, after her christening by Mrs. James Roosevelt, daughter-in-law of the President, pictured below with the boitle of champagas. The Farragut, la ons of the first group of destroyers bullt for the U. 5. Navy since com- pletion of the wartime programma in 1920.-
Model of the Edison 'Memorial, which will cost $2,000,000, will be three hundred feet high, havĺnj, a bronze status of the famose Inventor at the foot of a marble column.
·Stars of "Cavalcade,” judged the best film of the yanı, Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard are shown as they appeared in Los Angoler at the ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arta and Sciences when gold statusties were awarded for outstanding artistle and technical, work in the last 18 months.
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