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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1931

ROBINSON CRUSOE MODERN STYLE::: LATEST BRITISH SUBMARINE.

Leaving Lonely Cocos Island behind them, the three Amari. can castaways of the wrecked yawi West Wind are pictured taking a lasi luok at the tropic sput in the Paciɓc which was their home for alx months. Shown aboard the U. S. 5. Sacramento which rescued them are, left to right Mr. Gordon Brawner, Mr. Paul Stachwick and Captain Enri Palliaer. They Iired the lives of Robinson Crusões, maisting on a diet of fish, wild hogs, fowl and coconuts, after they ware wrecked on the isolated island last April.

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The home for the modern Robinson Crusoen was this rickety-looking shack. The mareon. ad men had salvaged rifles and fishing tackle from their brached craft and lived mainly on the wlid bogs which they shot and ocean fih which they caught.

There was little left to the "What Wind," as this picture shows, after it had been cast ashore on isolated Cocos laland, in the Pacific, laat April. Here you are amamen from the U. S. S. Sacramento examining the wreckage of the yawl after the sunboat had rescued the marooned men.

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They know help was on the way, when they found this sign and box of supplies on Cocos Island. The sign and provisions had honn left by Julius Fleischmann's yacht Camargo, which found traces of the marooned trio but, unable to locate them, sailed away to get help. Cocos Island in the destination of Sir Malcolm Campbell, who is going there soon in search of

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BEGIN ARME TU-DAY.

Jupiter in rubbed and i

murdered daring na indagement party whic

HAZEL IROSS HAILEY

is giving for her rolary, Mary Barkness the running-board.

Mary's scapegrnes benther, Eddie, le sitppimed

I have been in the bouro al the murder

tour.

Mary's faner, fids mes her b

about having artangi tu met

FAdio

macretly, until he mast laenter the bay.

os pented,

Bowen, Police reporter, the the Star, mboss Pale mapped visit. Dirk

The launching of H. M. Submarine Swordfish at Chatham Dockyard. She in the first of the three submarinus authorized in the 1929 Navy Estimates to be pục font. The others are the Sturgeon, under construction at Chatham, and the Thames, which is being built by Vickers-Armstrong. Limiled, at Barrow.--(Timer copyright).

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call up some day and tell him her Then the ebap from the telephone ute, indy," someone told her. dog was lost and consider she'd [bootli- brushed against him do be Bowen was aware that he had given him a sensational story, Most hurried

Cros the street, been bleating "He's all right, he's people, and particularly women, he Bowen raught a glimpse of a ton all right," into her ear, in an effort reflected bitterly, had no idea what ned boyish jaw. unshaven. and to reassure her. But as he watch- the newspaper business was hunted grey eyes, as he looko 4 hur-led the face of the policeman who | n holi.

riedly right and left before plung-had his ear against Eddie's chest. Well if he didn't find a. igle, ing into the traffe. The blue mit he knew that it was not all right phone pretty quick he wouldn't was wrinkled and mussed, and be with the boy, and never would be. make the final with the story be worn no hat.

in this world, again.

"I take you wherever you're before its closed glass door.

Mary Pavela a maid. fete, from telling anyway.

town king that nflermyʊa,

CHAPTER VII

The was no choice. telephones

44

standing

now.

Nothing

did have. He chugged along to Mary had rushed to the curb!

Mary was aware that an arm the carner. looking for a drug and was holding out her hands.; store.

There was one across the The boy had reached the mithile She did not look around. Eddie went about her and lifted her up.

street.

For the street now and stood he was all she could think of, lying He had to stand and wait out- |tween two rushing streams of side the only telephone booth the ears. A break in the traficone still there. looking oddly white store afforded. Cursing under his, more leup--and be "would

hay through his tan. She had not

not kept him with her as she should have breath, he puced back and forth reached the other side.

done and he had come to this. Jie İTİM:

The zeal of the news-hunter was death, and it was her fault. She Dirk Nurther, blue-blooded young lawyer, Ring," he offered, "No fooling."

we offered. "No fooling. I won't impatience mounted rapidly as a lawoke in Bowen and drowned out should never have let him go it

glance into follow you i take you there and showed him that the young man like, went the Jupiter murderer

the dark interior every other voice. There, if you alone in spite of his protestations. I've got an edition to enteh

Self-accusation redoubled in within Was not talking-justund hare Bowen stood! If ever her, reduced her to the pit of de-

with his elbow on the there was a fugitive from justice,spair. that it has found Fallie and wall inke bears or run the chance of misser. Now and then he jiggled the part. The

She shelf, holding the receiver at his that boy looked

Looking arount dazedly, and neted the as she found a seat in the am- ing Eddie. She got in swiftly and

reporter hurriedulance, she saw that the man with ¡they went pouring off toward town

Look.

It was puddening. If he hertss

her was Bowen, the reporter. his number, why a gratifyingly rapid pace. Bowen eldn't get

He had gained the middle of the What did it matter? Everything Mary mastered a wild desire to was mercifully silent, devoting him didit the fool hang up?

street, too, and was just a few would come out shout it her future mother-in-self to getting the last once of had their effect or the young man a chance to go on, when a long

Bowen's vicious giances presently steps behind Harkness, waiting for mattered-Eddie was dead. law. Could nothing crack that speed out of his decrepit car, and tired of waiting, for soon, choos- black streuk swerved out

As the ambulance clanged magnificent self-assurance? But once they were in town, to worming

of its through magically clearing streets, perhaps Mrs, Rugther hadn't known it swiftly through the heavy lateing a time when the fuming Bo-place in line and shot down the the siren sounding its hideous how important the matter waA. afternoon traffic.

wen was glaring into the depths middle lune as if heading straight wail, Mary wondered if they had When she finally got through to A block before they had reached of a cigar counter, he opened the for the boy.

caught the car yet, and what Dirk, Mary could hear him growl-[the corner Dick designated, she door of the booth and slipped out. A shout of warning burst from would be done with the driver. ing sleepily: "What time is it? asked him to put her down. To Bowen enught only a frightened Bowen's lungs. He lunged and Surely God wouldn't let it get Three-twenty? Oh, dainn it, why junke up for her obvious lack of glance as the boy burried out. A tried to grasp the boy hut Hark-away. She prayed, grundlin, tense wasn't 1 called? Mary? Listen, trust she thanked him warmly. fat woman who had just come ineas bad heard and jumped back.

palm together. "Catch hiri Get a cub and go

the corner of

of "If I do have anything to give oozed into the booth, and the re:The car shot past almost in the Catch him?” Third Avenue and

Street.

the newspapers I'll tell you first"porter gave her a dirty look and same instant, swerving deliberate- She alipped her hands out of The northwest corner, Eddie will she promised and gave him her set out to find another drug store. y toward Harkness, who stumbled Rowen's grasp as. the boy on the meet you there at four. You've hund. Bowen, fishing for a cigarette Outside he looked about. The bog and fell backward, striking the stretcher moved restlessly and half an hour, but you may make it and watching the slim figure hurry who had been in the booth stood pavement at Bowen's feet. mumbled, Dropping to her if you hurry. Got it? All right, off, was the victim of mixed emo-in the shelter of the doorway, now Bowen, white and sobbing with knees, she put her ear close to

shock and Fury, saw the car take his ps. can."tions. Well, he had said he wouldn't and then peering furtively out. She turned from the instrument, follow, but he could have kicked Just then Bowen's eye fell on the corner on a wide swing and! "No use, lady," the attendant her thoughts twirling Gloves, bag himself for making the promise. Mary Harkness standing on the op- shoot away, its number obscured warned her. "He's out. What-

in a cloud of smoke. The boy ever he says she must have money for the He was getting to be a softle, let-postle corner, looking anxiously

won't make any cab. Had she enough? Better call ting a pair of heavily-fringed eyes 6

about. Bowen stared apprecia- tried to regain his feet and was sense." Tom, But Tom had been up and an artless of swore him would be for the photographers and feet. Bowen looked down and me" she insisted.

tively: What a prize subject she rocking drunkenly on his handa "He mustn't clic, without telling

run.

www.

come as fast as

night and had just turned in for a from the line of duty. little sleep. The other chauffeur

alternated in the role of gardener's |

It turned out that the WAS

what

go_limp.

don't

up

Again the lips moved, the boy's) Bowen had seen girls who wore he feared she was smart little slump to the ground and

body arched on tho stretcher. helper and was out on the lawn that look of dewy

innocence gold-digger too smart to look the There was an instant hue-and-Make him give me my,

cont?'t somewhere in dungarees.

before, in his travels about New part. There would be pictures of ery; A policeman cume running His voice died away weakly. Belter got a taxi Bowen was York. Later he hnd discovered to her standing, sitting, with legs—there was no traffic officers on

Mary looked at Bowon, but waiting for an answer to his re- his sorrow that they were "harder crossed, and-looking through the the corner and someone comman there was only pity in his eyes. quent that he be allowed to go with cookies" than himself, which was bars, probably. Hard luck! Why dearod a passing cab and took

"He doesn't know what he's say her to meet her brother, but Mary saying a good deal. At least they did the mere thought of Mary after the vanished car. "Hit-and-ing." he told her gently, Mary's motioned him away absently. profited

great deal more from Harknesa tossed in with the rest run driver!" The city streets eyes filled and she clutched him "I can't talk to you now," she their endeavours than he did from of the rabble in police court make know no more

savage rallying frantically

"Oh, Eddie-boy, deur, said hurriedly, and went out. The his. From long observation of the him feel sick? Little girls with ery." newspaperman hesitated but there New York scene, he had learned itching palme

and "atick-up"

But Rowen, who had seen what The attendant picked her was nothing to do but leave so that the good, the true and the friends put themselves in the way he had soon, know batter. To him and Bowen drew her to the sent followed. Under the portice stood beautiful are not always want they of such treatment when they set the meaning of the seeming acel beside him. The two men looked a ramshackle car whleh Mary, in seem. Yet he was dead Aure that out to get-rich-quick. But the re-dont was damnably clear. Not at each other over her bent head. desperation, was eyeing specula- Mary Harkness was real. How he flection was no comfort to him. tively. Empty taxicabs don't ply knew it, herime to let her get the gutter in disgust. It was hell,

caroleen, but devilishly careful. Eddie's fate was plainly written could not say,

Bowen threw his cigarette into driving had dealt that donth in their eyes. the Long Island by-ronds. She'd It was a

stroke. Someone

didn't want

The boy's lipa continued thuir have to call up the village, and away. She had promised him the but he was falling in love.

umblo and the interne, with n Eddie Harkness to get away. precious seconds were ticking story though, so he wasn't cheating

Trafile jammed around thoni, half-grin at Bowen, flapped his awny-

the paper, he reflected uneasily. Suddenly the girl's face lighted Bowen, observing her dilemma, But long experience with such up and sho ran forward at sight Mary Harkness, lifting the still hand back and forth as if brush-

body in her arms, Ufted stricken ing a fly. advanced toward the car, oposed promises had taught him to suspect of someone. For a glad instant cyoa that looked about for help, "All right, son," he told the boy the door and paused with a fout on their worth, alas. She'd probably Bowon believed it was

kimuolf. "Ambulance be hore in a min-

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