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CHINA CLIPPER
"Telegraph's" New Serial From The First National Picture story by Commander Frank Woad, U.S.N.,
CHAPTER FOUR
While Dad Brunn. worked until the small hours of the mornings, pour- ing over his plans for the giant amphibian, Dave tolled relentlessly on the problem of the island landing buses. He sent Tom Collins to there. bases with boatloads of ' equipment, complete radio outfits, power plants, machine
refrigerators, food, shops, materials, for building hotels for over- night accommodations, and quarters for staff and crow. It was a gigantic undertaking, and Dave grew more Irritable day by day as the plans pro- gressed.
In the middle of these operations, Hap Stuart returned to the fold.
Hap swallowed his pride and apolo- gized to Dave. He asked that he might be allowed to "go through the mill" again, and Dave, secretly happy to have him back, placed him a charge of student navigation Instruc- tion.
In the meantime, Tom Collins faced the nerve-racking task of estab- Hshing the air bases at Midway and Wake Islands. With crewe of sweat- ing men, he cleared brush, blasted rocks, dug wells and amoothed land- ing felds. They faced blazing heat which dried their faces and cracked thair
lips, Still
Still they carried on, apurred by daily radio communica tions
from
Davo in New York wito kept in constant touch with thern.
Dad Brunn's only remaining pro- blem was the spacing of the gasoline tanks. He sat with Dave in the latter's offre one afternoon, and pon- dered over this question.
As they were tallung, Sam, the negro porter came into the room and offered the two men elgars from a box which he thrust towards them, a happy grin on his face.
"My wife's just had twins, gentle- he announced. These here
men.
cigars is on m
I've got yelled Dave, jump- ing up, "Double bottoms!"
"What do you mean?" bsited Dad, puzzled.
"Twins!" answered Dava, clapping the porter on the back. "Double bb!- tom for the airplanes. A space for the gasoline without the loss of weight! Can't you see it, Dad!"
Dad laughed, Dave was himself again, laughing like a child as he gave Sam A bill and sent him
away. The
two went back to work on their plans, the final obstacle gone.
Throughout the next few months a crew of technicians was kept busy night and day building the huge ship which Dave had deelted to call the "China Clipper." It was row late in the year, and unless the ship mode its first fight across the Pacific by November 30th, the franchise granted by the Goverrament would be con- celled.
When the ship WAS completed, Dave look it on several test fights, held secretly in Eastern watera. Then several days before the dead- line, the plane was taken to Alameda in San Francisco buy, the spot design- aled for the take-off.
When Dave arrived at the tem- porary office that had been set up for film at the Alameda airport he found a surprise awaiting him. Jean, look- ing more radiant than ever, was kit- ting at his desk.
"I'm to be your secretary here in Alameda," she announced.
"But...how...?" began Dave, He was helpless for the first time in many months,
was hired through your regular employment bureau," answered Jean.
you mind?" "Do you
"I do Dave. "Bulmind," said I' not deprive you of your job. You'll have to work hard, though."
"I expected to," answered Jean, miling. "When do we start?",
"Right now," said Dave as he sat down behind his desk. "Call Tom Collins and Hop Stuart. I want to .talk to them."
With Tom and Hap seated before
him, Dave outlined his plans for the
fight.
Birst
"I have decided to have Hap make the first trip," he told them.
Tom was stunned. Ever since the formation of the plan for the trans- pacific trip he had expected to be the pilot on the inaugural fight. Hla face flushed a deep red as Dave went on with his plans.
"You'll be in complete charge of operations here. We need someone at Alameda who knows more about aying and
and the weather than the skip. per in the plane to guard it and keep it informed.
Hap broke in on Dave.
This isn't fair, Dave. I can run the offloc. Tom's carned the right to go!
Dave slammed his fist down upon the desk. "in't a question of who's done what, who ought to go, For who ought to stay. It's' simply a question of putting every minn in the job he's best suited far. If the line goes over Tom, I.have plenty of chnuces to fly the Pacific. Now get going We'll aliove her of the day ailer to-morrow!!!
When
they
to lis
had gone, Dave slump. ed down into his chairs. Why did ho act that way-talk that way. Iriends? They were, his friendlalan- 100s he had lost them through his ruthicas methods of driving them to the last inch o
of his hired branco. Were now? Talk- behind h hia back?
they
Just
about
him
I was sitting in the same position
an hour later when Jean opened the door to tell him that government offl- einis" were waiting outside, to imako: float tests of the China Clipper,
(To Be Continued)
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1987.
“TELEGRAPH'S” NEW FILM SERIAL
LLOYDS
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE:
An orphaned boy, known as Jonathan Blake, slavoy in a Nor folk, England, proggery operated by a Widow Blake, in the your 1770, and his pal, Iėratio Nelson, discover a plot to steal a cargo of gold and defraud the insurers, Lloyds of London. The boya agree to go to London to fall Lloyds, but Horatio breaks the Bargain when his family declifca to enter him in the Navy, where' gears later he is to become Ad- miral Lord Nelson. Bo Jonathan hikda the hundred miles, informa John Angerstein, of thô Lloyds syndicato, and eaves him from being defrauded. Grateful, Angor- slcin takes the boy into hía hóma, and later aonda” him to Eten, planning to take him into the insurance syndicate when he has graduated.
Chaptor Six
JONATHAN graduated from Eton
with honors, the highest in his class. Consequently he won a #cholarship to Cambridge Univer alty. Jobh Angerstein's pride In kim know no bounds, "Watson," he nald to his chief clerk, "there'a good blood in this Ind. No common Cockney's son, 7' warrant. That sort of breeding doesn't show in his face. Go down to Burnham-Thorpe, In Norfolk and interylew an old harridan there named Dlake. She Is the proprietor of a groggery, Ascertain the antecedents of this boy. I'm curious,"
OF
by
LONDON
PETER B KYNE
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Lloyd's, In the meantime, had no- vary scarce. A storm has been rag- [that. Your entary as my assistant, moved to the Royal Exchangn, a ing in the Channel for two weeks now that old Watson is getting so aplendid Georgian building, aubs and not a boat has put anhoro." old and helpless he must soɑn bo quently destroyed by Are, And it "You have splendid sey quarters penatened, should support you in was to Angerstein, at the Royal here, sir.”
rossonabio style. You'll be wanting Exchange, that Jonathan reported "Oh, yes. We have a soundly or chambers of your own, of 'couran. upon his return from France. Ho ganixed association now and the Woll, take a few days of to attend was now twenty-six years oldssociation didn't spare money onto your personal affairs. Meanwhile thirteen years had passed since first | furnishing our new home. Jonafhan, let us have a cup of coffee.“ he had wat eyes on John Angerstoin this le a very worrying business, He led the way out of the vast and he thought now: "How every- | The lack of means of swift com- | room," through swinging doors into thing bas changed." Bla patron was munication la, very trying.. A vendet a coffee shop next door. The sign gray around the temples and the goes ashore in Scotland and if we above the door read; Lloyds Coffea change in fashion-in men's cloth- knew it here in London twenty-four | Shop. "I suppose," Jonathan re- ing further emphasized the passage hours later we might dispatch ald¦ marked gally, "you old underwriters of the yeaTE. Chimney pole hate to her, get her all, repair her and couldn't function if, between the were now the vogue; breeches and save ourselves considerable loss, writing of polletes, you didn't have slik slockinge, with buckled shoes, But it's a week or two before we a coffes shop adjacent, into which had given way to short socks and hear of it and by that time a storm ¦ you could pop for refreshment." trousers fastened under the instep has sprung up and the vessel has "Habits," "Angoralen rejoined of tall boots wern inside the been hammered into small places." smilingly, "never dle until the pro- trousers leg.
"Of course," Jonathan agreed, prietor of the habit dies. This cuffen On the wall two placords further "this lack of swift means of com- room la open to the pubile, and it cried aloud the angñ of change. Ons munteation does make for greater is called Lloyds Coffee House, al- read: "No gedan chairs allowed in- lesson, and greater lossen do make though the owner's namo le Men- #ids." That meant that, the mom for a higher rate of Insurance, cham. Edward Lloyd has been dond bor of Lloyds were no longer car which doesn't, enrich the under too long to object, and the name ried from thair homes to their writer a great deal and is a distinct had great adverilding value. And decks, Jonathan 'kad an impression handicap to the ship operator or the coffee is even better than it
In about two weeks Watzon ro turned. "The old women's dead," he reported, "but I found neighbors who remember the boy and through them I ascertained that tho Binke woman got him from the local work-house-81, Bwithin's. I inter viawed the head of the work-house, who looked up his records and dis covered that a boy named Jonathan Greenhill had been given to one Amanda Blake, of the address where her groggery used to stand. Both parents died -- mother when the boy was born and the father when the lad was four years, old, Father was a naval officer, killed in action-name Alan Greenhill, Bo I came back to London and looked up Alan Greenhill in the Admiralty, Senior leutenant in Hia. Majesty's i navy, commanded the twenty four gun sloop-o'-war Gloriana, sunk by a Spanish frigate off the Holland coort, but not until the Gloriana had fought off and put out of action two thirty-six gun Spanlats frigates. Looked up his marriage in the Re sintrare office in London and dis covered he married the Honorable Agatha Langhorne, youngest daugh. -tor of the Baron of Langbornu, Greenhill was the youngest son of An admiral-no monoy, nothing ex-f cent his pay, usual navy prospects. that sedan chairs were far fewer in merchant, I've been giving conal-was in the old daye, A walter here The marringo was regarded as a number now; carriages had to a derable thought to this subject, Afr. is a waitor and nothing else." mesalliance and Langhore cast his considerable extent replaced them.. Angerstein, 1 bave conceived the Closs to the door that lead from daughter off. So much I learned Another sign, read: "Subscribers idea of a system of somspheres, the Subscribers Room into the cal- from the man who was formerly and Connections Only Admitted." say five miles apart, the length and fee house was a stall where wero coachman to the Baron of Lang- So the waiters of the old coffee breadth of England, to signal nows dispansed, newspapers, perlodicals, horne, who has been dead some shop days ware gene-no, thero of shipping song our const. Such a cigam, shuff, tobacco, ote, It was Fears. The title died with him. It were two of the old hande, clerks gyateta might smelly be self-support-presided over by a pretty, pert, was not hereditary. Langhorne's now, but' (because tradition dies so ing from lis carnings, not only for commen young girl." Angerstein entato was heavily encumbered and hard in England) still known as the transmission of shipping nawe nodded to her: "Good morning, was sold for the beneft of the waiters! Loyds no longer fun but also newe of general interest Polly." creditors,"
tloned in a coffee house; hones the|to the publlo and henco, to tho
"Good morning, Mr. Angerstein." John Angerstein milsdengely, casual visitors who came, ostensibly newspapers walch sall news to the She touched a small hand-ball to.. "Good sound stock," he mur to imbibe coffee and rolls, but là public. Lookouts at ́načħ ́semaphore mured, he sort that never lets reality to gape at the underwriters, station, with a powerful telescope arouse the attention of the walters. England down-the sort that never wore forever debarred. Here was would read the menenges and trans-Augerstein and Jonathan seated Tets the sun down on Engilsh soil! 4 fine large room done in the best mit thom. Sort of a relay system." themselves at a table and a walter. Wall, bell bo glad to know his style of the period, fenced off into "In the daytime yes. But how nhed over to take their orders. ancestry, but he's been Jonathan little boxes, each box furnished with about night-time?" Make so long I arenay nothing a handsome desk and two or throa "I'm giving that some thought, would be gained by adopting his chairs for the underwriters. There too. A system of lighting by lan-
was a more elaborate rostrum now, korns." So Jonathan Blaks want to Cam- but the old bell still hung over it,
rent namo at, this falo date."
"You muri get to know Peggy," Angerstein told Jonathan as the two entered the coffee house head. quarters of Lloyds Of London, and encountered a comely young woman behind the deak, "Sho's a raro good sport, and will give you many a laugh.”
My boy, I do believe you're the only man in England who has had the wit to study this important problem and strive to solve İL"
"You must get to know Polly. Jonathan," the elder man sold. "he's a rare good sport and will give you many a laugh.
"Who is the somewhat over- Crossed and smirking dandy talking to her now? Is he connected with Lloyds? I mat him coming out of the Subscribers' Room as I came in.**
on the
bridge for four years and emerged, with a newer, larger and more or to all outward apearances a charm-nate Bulletin Board close by. ing, cultured, bighly educated gon- Jonathan aaw at once that the tleman, even if he had sprung from old, free-and-easy camaraderie of
In what condition are my frat blot en the fair record of a middle-class family. His French | the coffee shop days was gone. Here was perfect, but John Angerstein was no place for gossip. It was de ancos, airy"
one Lord sent him to the Sorbonne to remove voted entirely to business, as a cor- "Well, thanks to your frugality nntare: Jonathan, is from it a tendency to speak it attain quiet and decorum, so differ- and your preference for study. Everette Stacy," And Angerstein times with an accent which, though ent from the old days testined. rather than balling around, drink added, unconsciously humorous and "I do not faint, betrayed his English birth Jonathan shook handa with his ing and gambling, the hundred quite and afterthought: and raising. At the Sorbonne he patron and sat down in one of the pounde a year I have managed to like the fellow. He has approached knowledge of which would, he desk. He smiled. "Well, sir, I await you through Elon and suppiled your their syndicates a silent partner, also studied naval architecture, apare chairs by John Angerstein's make your capital earn has takene of my colleagues
Bjbject of investing moncy In thought, come in handy when ap orders,”
every need. Thanks to yourself, you praising the seaworthiness of ships "Til have to have a desk put in won the Cambridge scholarship, so you know. He knows of no other preliminary to insuring them. For here for you, lad...”
your annual Income has still been less that will pay him such Floyd's was now, in the greater The bell rang and waiter more than suflelent for your needs, high interest on his money, I want protection of te risks, employing to the bulletin board and wrote: Watson has your account made up othing to do with the fellow." marine surveyors to examine, ali Garbage scow Bails of Woking to date and presently I will give
"From the look he is giving you ships upon which insurance had founders in Thames. Total loss you a check for the amount due now air" Jonathan opined. "Ho been applied for, Buch ships wore claimed.
you. Unless, of course," he added, would like to have something to given a rating, changed as the ves "I hover underwrite any of the "you prefer to leave it in my myndi do with you." sola deteriorated, and upon this Insurance on garbage scowl," An- cats, of which you have been a ✪ 3m CENTILE • FOR FAM CORPORAVIAN rating the insuranes rate of pre- gesteln sald bilingly. "News of allent partner since you first came mium was based,
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article EC/- in this.
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prosent. Relative
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to a
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$25
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