NEW SERIAL
HIGH
FLIGHT.
By Ruth Dowoy
CHAPTER
"The Kraal Jerry said it precisely as Alester ticipated. He chuckled.
hadan
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1929.
through but she hang back and let Jerry precede her...
"Addia's enting fire again," she said under her breath, but Jerry Icaught the word.
"But that's a notorious place!" She had no time to ponder the Jerry exclaimed, puzzled at the meaning before her was a scono amusement he was showing.
of describable pandemonium. "You're right; it ia," Alester
At a table in the foreground, sat agreed. "But it's also the hottest a group of young men and women fashion of the younger crowd at who were plainly of Alester's and the moment. They've got a show Betty's sort. On the table was a that lifts you off your chair." large black pot and under it an artificial fire. The table was very low-made from rough boards lafd on the floor. The guests aquatted on mat seats.
"I didn't think respectable people go there, Jerry ventured, wonder- ing if there was any possible way of getting out of it."
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Rubber Granby But it was not the table or those Inter Rooms are private and no one will about it that attracted Jerry's Missouri, Pacific (Com-
|attention." At the end of the room ace you."
I was thinking of Miss Morti-that end which connected with mer," Jerry replied. "If she's the the central hall-wide doors, the kind of girl your mother likes 1 entire width of the room, had been should think she would be too nice thrown open to afford a view of the
entertainment. to go to The Krual."
"Oh, Betty likes to go alum- ming." Alester told her.
"I knew you'd be shocked," Ales- ter admitted. "You're so funny, but you needn't worry,, The Magnolia
Alester led Jerry to a seat. and as she took it someone extinguished "Well, I don't," Jerry said em-the lights. Only the glow from the Beyond, phatically. "I know how the other potfire filled the room. half lives and I don't believe in where the show was on, there was commercializing misfortune to at-a dim, greenish light supposed to resemble moonlight filterng through tract the curious.
jungle verdure,
"But the people who go to The Kraui aren't the victims of misfor- tune," Alester replied.
be
They are, or they wouldn't there. "It's a misfortune not to know better."' .
"Well, you Alester faughed. just walt until you've suffered a little over the misfortune of hay ing to eat the fried chicken and honey wifes we're going to have there and you'll pray for more bad luck to bring you back."
"Can't, we go some place else
Jerry pleated, "
"On Sunday? Not a chance." Jerry sighed.
The music had changed now. The Hair vibrated to typmani, the throb of tom-bom, the unvarying note of beaten gong, the shrill clash of cymbals, the strange, sound of musical bones.
Jerry's hands were clasped in she leaned unconscious tension as forward and watched the scene be- fare her.
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Dark figures emerged from painted forest and gathered mund a huge pot like the smaller one she had seen on the table near her They joined others that had come before them and piled wood be- which issued neath the pat, from
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Here is the solution to the puzzle an another page.
WIND. WILD, WILL." WALL,. CALL, CALM,
upset over his role of escort. to a raiding wifg.
No one protested Cleve's depar ture. Jerry was sure she heard a "I suppose I don't need to change a white smoke like steam.
Jerry saw, with a horror she sigh of relief from Betty, and im my dress to go to The Kraa)," she
a general Said after a while,
could not shake off, two grotesque mediately there was
toward the dancing' Alester told her no.
creatures 'drag a girl, bound hand movement Shortly they
driving and foot, to the edge of the fire, spa. Alester led Jerry out and through a high picket fence and up where they threw her to the ground she saw with disgust that Addic a rutted road to a group of harkat left her to groan and shriek was left with her head buried in covered buildings that spread cat while they cast themselves into a her frem à central hali in the shape of veritable frenzy of leaping whirl-alond,
A star.
were
Alester drove around them until he came to the entrance of one that bore the sign "Magnolia" over the door. Here he parked his car and led Terry across a dirt-floored porch to a heavy, barred door.
ing, bending, grovelling gestures.
What happened at the end of the dance she never knew exactly, be- cause she did not look, but from the comments of those around her she gathered that the girl had been sacrificed to the appetites of the It opened at his touch; and Jeannibal-nt least that she had found herself looking at a grisly get tossed into the huge pot. faced attendant who stood at at- tention with a spear in his hand-
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The the wide doors were closed.
a spear, she saw, that had beenth lights went up and Jerry was introduced to the members of dipped in red.
Alester's dinner party.
She shrank back from this sight and Alester put a hand on Her arm. It's a gruesome place," he warned her, "urdess you keep in mind that it's all hokum to produce atmos phere."
She heard a tall, thin girl with ropy hair and kohl-darkened eyes
ddressed as "Addie."
..
Jerry looked at her euriously, to w what a fire-enting girl was like *new that Addie ghe
"And spol your app-tite," Jerry She saw at
bad missed her last name--had
„dded, shuddering.
Just then a burk of weird"soundslaves nears for no one except a came thrath a distant door that Poulleoking man whom she called
"leve," someone had opened. "It's like n
jungle madhouse," Jerry thought. Addie clung to him in a desperata Alester was leading the way to attempt to hold his attention-to ward a curtained opening at the end abeyrb him, it seemed to Jerry, "whe of the hall. "They lean hard on felt shuined for her. the wind instruments," he said. The man gave an impression of! "Wind instruments?" Jerry retrying to legist but of being Tas- peated, thinking of delicate flute cinated against his will. He cast!
nxious glances about the table now notes.
"Oboes and....those things," and then and Jerry heard him ad- Alester replied, never having trou- monish the girl to "stop it." Once bled to inform himself that the he heard him say: "Marian may primitive notes like those of the came in, "Addie--you know she's trombone that came to his car were trailing us."
produced by a sackbut and that the Addjo laughed the same uncon- tuba, the ocarina, the hautboy, trolled, mirthless sound that Jerry bassoon and bombardon all added had noticed Betty listening to in their tones to the wondrous synco the hall. pation that had brought fame to The Kranl.
That's getting on my nerves," someone remarked irritably, "It's been going on all afternoon.".
the Jerry looked around at Someone appeared at the open; Ing. A jewelled hand moved the heightened colour on the faces of the curtain aside. Jerry say a flushed men, the feverish light in the girls' girl in a simple silk dress standing eyes. It was easy to believe they before her. She supposed it was had been in this horrid place for Miss Mortimer but it occasioned hours.
Retty sat down beside her and her no surprise that a society girl should be gowned so inconspic-put, Jerry's thoughts into words, She had learned from Nasty, isn't it?" she said unemo- uously. Evelyn that smart women never tionally. "I don't know how, they
stand it. I came in just a few min overdressed.
"Lo, Al..lester," the girl said
in a singing voice us she came for ward to meet Jerry,
"I've heard about you," she said.
les before you arrived."
"It's interesting," Jerry an swered in loyalty to Alester.
"Addie always spoils things,"
"Alester's impossibly boastful of Betty went on in tones of absolute his theatrical acquaintances, but boredom. But Jerry noticed that we're all grateful to him for giving her eyes were fixed unensily upon us the opportunity to know you Addie and Cleve, and the flush had not left her, smooth young cheeks.
too.'
1 s;
Jerry thought it was a very nice
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speech. She wished she felt it was "What does 'enting fire' mean?" sincere but the girl rattled it off Jerry asked like rote. Her mind seemed to be conscious
before she WES had that the words
on something more important than formed in her mind. To her sur meeting a show girl. She turned prise Betty explained.
her head in the direction from "Oh, it's just an expression we which she had come and Jerry have for trouble seekers," she said knew that she was listening.
indifferently. "Poachers, princi- The music broke abruptly. A girl pally," Iaughed before it began again in a It was a vague explanation, but thin, nerve-torturing whine. Betty Jerry was further enlightened a few Mortimer bit her lip.
minutes later when a very attrac
"Come on," she said quickly;tive young woman with a wild-eyed "you're missing something."
young man in her wake entered the
A maid in a strip of printed room. cloth wound round her came to She was greeted as "Marian" and take Jerry's and Alester's wrapa, she went about her business with They followed Betty to the cur-no fuss and feathers the business. tained doorway. Alester held the of removing Cleve. The wild-eyed bamboo fringe up for her to pass young man tagged along, obviously
arms on
the table sobbing|
"I suppose she thinks she's in love." she said to herself scornfully.
At the end of the dance she ven- tured to suggest they ought to start for New York. Alester unex- pectedly agreed. "There's an act I' want you to see first." He told her: "I ask to have, it put on now for us."
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SCENE IN A LINER
OVER MIGRANTS.
EX-M.P. PROTECTED BY POLICE.
Migrants on board held a meet- ing and demanded that Mr. Hughes, be required to leave the vessel,
Later, Mr. Hughes, who was seated on a deck-chair, was at- tacked from behind and knocked down.
He was then surrounded by an angry crowd, and an ugly scene was developing when police arrived on board.
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Fremantle (W.A.), Aig. 7. Riotous scenes occurred in the They walked toward the doors ateamer Bendigo following the opening into the central hall. Ales-publication of criticisms by Mr. ter rolled back one of them and Collingwood, Hughes (former M.P. left Jerry there while he went for Peckham, Camberwell) of Austinuing his journey to the Eastern across the jungle floor to speak t: the orchestra leader.
tralian immigrants.
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The situation was explained to Mr. Hughes, who insisted on con-
States, and refused to retract u word of his criticisms.
Reuter reports that the Austra- Mr. Hughes was reported to Halfway back she saw him pause alenly and stand transfised, his have declared that there were "delian Premier says the allegations on one of the tables that occu-generates, criminals, loafers, unem-against the migrants, are "obvious- plovables and weak-minded chilly extravagant. An inquiry is tu nid the earners of the hall. (T. "Be Continued i
dren" among the migrants."
be made into the question,
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