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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1931

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Heart of Liane

by MABEL MCELLIOTT

CHAPTER XXIV

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thing else." Shu paced up and down.

"Well, can't you do something?" | the snapped. "You have before. I Write her a note, have her come in j and throw a good, hard ware into her. She knows what The Tattle- tate in, anyhow.

The man threw out his hands.

"I wonkin't touch her if she's got ¦

McDermid in her train." he said: explosively. This business's tricky enough but you can't expect me to put my acck into a nonse. That' bird's dynamite. Ife'd ns aeon frame me as eat. And he could, too.”.

"Oh, you make me sick, all of you!" the womun cried, "Afraid of

It was nothing like the ferling she had for live. No, that was fond The big man announced. "Youngness, comradeship. She loved to be lady to see you, Lleutenant."

with live. They laughed at the At the scarred desk at Shang same jokes. He made life seem McDermid, staring as though he'd casual and amusing. scen a vision.

Nor was it like the whitehet The girl advancing was enveloped emotion that smole her when Van in a smoke-coloured coat filting her Robard appeared on the scone. your shadow." snugly at the waist like a Cossack's Van's presence could make her uniform. Little smoke-coloured tur pale cold and her face feverish clear. What a how yon put up ban from the close frame of which When he appeared she said artifi- when it looked as if there was go bronze curls escaped. Small, ex- cial things, acted a part. She won- quisitely fitting shoes. There was deral why her emotions couldn't being to be a lenk on the Miley ense. a subtle scent in the big, grim offke steadier. She hated herself, feeling You didn't want it known that you with the unwashed windows. Shane light and frivolous and unstable. were one of my tipsters" shared, and small wonder that he in

did. He got his feel stum singly.

"Miss Barrett?"

"Yes." The vision smiled.

"You're all grown up," he said marvelling. You were a little girl lust summer."

"And you've been made a lieu tenant. I'm almost afraid of you

now."

"You talk big, I notice," the man said. "But you keep your skirt

"I have to live among them." the woman said sullenly. "It's my bread and butter."

"Well, you'd better lay off thin girl. I'm telling you," the man ob served. “I wouldn't touch the story

"I'm the wrong sort of girl," she thought wildly. I'm fond of three four men, can't stick to one." She went blindly out of the big station. aut into the street. The first snow of the winter was falling in her amarily cut sont with its "Maybe the tabloids will then.“* tining of fur she was guarded from neered the woman. She stood, up the storm. She looked with sym- pathy at the girls who passed wear to go. Without ceremony the door ing thin shock, their thin cloaks upened and a big young man sham- bled in. Even in his dark, plain

with a pale,"

He laughed, but was pleased and held gallantly about them to pro-suit he had the tell-tale marks of a dattered, too, "Not à bit of it.tect them from the wind. Well, well! Is there something I **I'm

lucky" she thought policeman. can be doing for you?"

"There hit for the grace of God She told him. Between breaths go 1." he made deep sounds of unger. She longed to help the poor. She "The dirty le caught him dropped a dollar into the cup of a self in time. "You'll have to ex-fegless man. Now that the land on euse me. "The rais- Tvil me her heurt was lifted, she felt un- what the feller looks like,' he com- [accontatably happy. manded.

"I must try to love everyone" she

like Liane rufiled her forthend in an decided.

a child who hu effort to recall the least clue. "He's escaped punishment and, grateful, dark like a Spaniard-or Mexican," holds out her arms to all the world she said haltingly "He has a tiny | "Evci--even moustache. ile is beautifully mani- cured."

"No rings? Jewellery?" "No, I don't think so. Oh, he had a le gold watch charm. remember he kept playing with it. Shaped like a tiny lion."

Tresso." Well, that would take a bit of doing. Tressa had been enfriendly to her from the start.

"Person?"

The man at the desk, nervously shuffling proofs, said yes, he was Ferson.

"I'm McDermid, from Headquar- ters.

You seen Barbados"** "I've seen him." "Well, then, you know that I this fie-up. I just know about wanted to drop you the news, for fear Johnny hadn't made it plain enough, to lay off."

Ile fixed a gimlet eye on the Woman.

"I've seen you at the opera," he "Perhaps it has been my fault," said suddenly, snapping his fingers. Linne thought. "Perhaps I've been "I know you, ma'm, and that's a nasty when I might have been fact. Don't be spring in anything on any friend of mine or I'll be nice."

"Um." Shane McDermid pon-

She took a taxi from the station. obliged to see that your connexion dered. "Tuesday, you say?" The grate in the big hallway had a with this filthy rag this arm swept "That was what he said. Yes," crackling Are in it Clive, looked the offices of "The Tattletale") gets

about."

"The Alexis Club, That's a new up from his book.

place, now. Johnny Barbados. I ""Well, we were just about to Hend The woman shrugged, know Johnny. He's a Greek. Not out a searching party." He stood

"Well, that wouldn't do you any

a bad one, either. Now, look. Don't up. touched her almost awkwardly good. No. Better do what I tell Her laugh you." McDermid rumbled out of you worry your head about this.

"I must the door,

She drew away. I've got something on Jolinny. He sounded brittle, strange. won't want me to get down on him. hurry if I am to change. Just you stop worrying. I'll see to senu shopping.'

it,

me.

Trous- The man threw out his hands

expressively.

"There, you aco?"

It looks mighty funny to He nodded. Shopping was an Shane McDermit pondered. endless, mysterious pursuit and he They know about old Cleespaugh's did not pretend to understand it will and that's not generally known, "You looked pale this morning You say. And they're aware you've but now you've a grand colour." he To money. It looks as if you're to waid appreciatively,

be scared out. Well, leave it to me." "I feel words better," Liane said,

Liane rose. He seemed to be din She stretched out her arms missing ber.

• *

The extension telephone in the upstairs hall rang sharply. Linne went to answer it. Norn on the downstairs wire anid, "It's for you, miss."

"Hello. This la McDermid. "Cureful! You mustn't do that "You're not to worry-It's-all-fx- "You think It's all right, then?" His tone was almost a 'growl. Sud-ed, no I told you." "I'm tellin' you not to worry, na' denly, without warning, he had "Oh, thank you. A milion mil. I mean it. Johnny Buruados.awooped upon her, kissed her full lion Well1"

on the mouth.

...____..

Shape saw her to the door He Above them tinkled a small volce, said, "Call me up tomorrow. Maybe!

Sorry

to interrupt such a charm- tableau. -I'll-havó-good-news-for you.ing-

"I can't think you," Llane man- They both looked up. Trosan aged to say. She was fumbling for stood a few steps above them. Her a handkerchief.

eyes blazed with hate, "Well, there. You're a good girl

the

And I like to help good girls. Don't. The woman with the black veil see one any too often." He laughed threw her clgaratte into awkardly.

wastebaskel. The man. growled, She went out into the street feel. "You'll not this place on fire yet." Ing rather dazed. Half an hour She said fiercely, "Don't bother ngo she had been quite sick with me. So they muffed the whole

Now the business!" fear, with forchoding.

to

cloud seemed, momentarily at least,' "She has friends at court; I tell

'you. Came down on Johnny like have lifted. What a good fellow Shane McDer brick. He's lucky the place wasn't: mkd was. Her heart warmed to shut up. He's yellow, I tell you, him. She wished she might tell and is scared foolish his dump' Clive all about himi But she got a bad name." daran't--at least, not yet.

"It's nothing. You're antirely. welcome."

There was a faint buzzing-on thewire....Then Shane's voice came through quite clearly, "Look out though. You've an enemy."

Liano clicked frantically

but

the connexion was cut off.

Mrs. Amberton called to her from hor sitting room as the girl; passed down the hall.,

"Come in and talk to me."

STEEL

FLANGE

Experiments with pneumatic rubber tyres on steel-fanged wheel have worked so successfully In France that short-haul railway passenger traffic may be revolutionized. Above, the now coach, and below, a photo showing how flanged wheels grip the rails, though the car rides on rubber.

Our photo shows top, the wreck of an amphibian machine In which Captain J..M. Patterson, the noted New York publisher (inset) miraculously scaped Injury and provided his newspaper with a "scoop."

There was a little furry on the stairs as the talk halted lamaly. "Are you all ready for the wed-They could hear Nora saying, "Tressa's been in town all day ding?", Mrs. Amberton asked "You're wet through, miss." Isn't it a fiendish one?, I hate lazily..

Liane obeyed with, alacrity. ago instead of hours. Her heart She liked this slow-volcad, amiable was lighter now.

woman.

rain."

"Almost." Liane sat, "It was anow yesterday. Too fingers in and out. early for that but better than this "You're wearing a voll drizzle," Liane agreed She saw everything?"

"My dear Fanny cried a Jacing Tressa pushed past. Where have

you been?".

and I've had the most frightful' www.day," Tressh said, ignoring Liane. very "Let me hava a tub and rest before

"That is to laugh," the woman herself again" going tremblingly "Oh, yes, but it's to be Liane felt, she thought an enor said cynically, "Bad name for down the dirty side street to the quiet. No maids. Just mother to you start asking questions." mous affection for Shane McDermid. Johnny's place. It never had any-police-station. It soomed years rive me AWAY.”

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