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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH..

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1932.

THE YORKSHIRE FLOODS--THE RECLAMATION OF THE ZUIDER ZEE

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The scene at the railway bridge on the main road to Selby, Yorkshire, where it was necessary to take to boats, to reach the Gooded houses. (Timer copyright).

The work of removing families from their flooded homes in the Tall Bar district of Doncaster is continuing. Our picture shows a resident of Prospect-Place transferring bedding into à relief bon.. -Times enpyright)..

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The huge dyke separating the construck, was completed recently.

Zuider Zee from the North Sea, which has taken over four years to Our picture shows the dyke just before the gop was closed.--

(Times copyright),

MAN HUNTERS

BY MABEL McELLIOTT

BEGIN BERE TOLDAY

Susan Cafey, 19 pretty had an arplanin, Elven with her Aunt Jenio In Chiengo, d Under

creintit Coltse at

downtown

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the train roared into the station.

Susan found herself a seat in a inst empty coach and though the window caught a glimpse of Denise casually embracing

#tail.

Hay whistled. "One of the maids;! My hat! How many do they havej and what kind of n place is it?"

hunian actool. There she meets Bob Dunbar -heir to a fortune. She s employed as mere

lary for Ernest Jenth, architect. Jack Warlow Brath ́n nasistnot. Tries bogaart a blonde young man, carrying Self Birtation but be rebuffval Mrs. Henth wnabe Sean, Bets Lampman.

sticks. Unaccountably her heart young musician

tells her he is reinar Abroad. Sean's aunt

"It's--oh, it's beautiful!" saich Susan, eyes shining. "It's out in! the real country. There's every kind of bird you ever heard of--"]

Ray chortled. "Wouldn't you think they'd want to live on Lake | Shore drive or somewhere like that? Wouldn't you think they'd have a duplex up near the park?! How anybody can see that country

her.

stuit gets me!"

"You couldn't have a garden if you tired in a duplex apartment.'

ink her to studie early but she does not lightened. In the back of her mindi "It's lovely," Susan told +njur it. Bunlar Inhes her to funch and all this time, unacknowledged, had departs ariels and Hose Milion stayslain the fear that Denise might be with Sun Lonely, the girl goes driving the unnamed charmer in Bob's life, with Waring and Ray Flannery, employed in the urst office, Waring klase her not It did not seem so hard to lose him

Λ to someone she had never seen.

she resulves never to Ku with him in. Men Lampa anka Susan to marry him and

apologize for his endlak behavior.

newspaper gossip column. Human rends that Bob Dunbar is to be married. She Susan thought.

works overtime at the ofles and Heath for

at

£

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for you."

"Bob Dunbar?" As in a dream she answered.

"Who wants a garden?" Ray de- wanded. She had followed Busan into the office and draped herself wint arcept her refusai an fast. Waring real flesh and blood rival was more gracefully over a partition. "Me,

terrifying. "Perhaps it isn't true." I'd have a standing order

She wondered where Bob was and florist's for orchids or maybe gar

denius."

thrust the flowers into an umbrella returning. How Jack Waring interrupted them. stand and flipped open her desk. Sounds like your line, sugar," be The man smiled wryly, recognizing

"Yes. The old man wants some xaid Impudently. Ray made a signs of dismissal.

"Sorry you're so busy," he said sort of Elizabethan shack out at "You know me, old thing!" To smoothly. "I wanted to tell you Half-Day, you know, and Heath told saucy face at him. Susan she said. "See you later. about meeting an old friend of me to run over and give him a line find your lunch?"

on it." Hastily Susan said, "I've got sol

the first time realise how young and charming when he was -hu in. When he becomes i sha gors country home to take dietallo,

CHAPTER XX

to

strange that he had not even writ- ten her a line! She had watched the mails day after day until pride "You've got plenty of time, miss," had come to her rescue. Then the

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yours."

Susan had slipped a sheet of pa- much work to do I'm going to have per into the machine. Her eyes, in- Curiously Waring gazed at Susan. an instant.

sandwich sent up." Ray departed, tent on her work, raised to his for

a

"No. I didn't know," Outwardly Suaan was composed, but that throb

"He's a

Isn't handsome devil, of her blood told the tale. he?" pursued Waring, "Where'd you meet him?**

She kept her fingers steady on the keys.

WOB

That was Simon, grinning at Su- dream had died and more than one san and helping her out of the ear. night her pillow had been wet with

"Thanks. You did that benutiful- | tears. ly." she told him, feeling conspicu-

She dismissed all this now reso ous with her armful of flowers. She went to sit on one of the berlutely and began to think of other ches outside of the station. Idly things-the house she had just left

"The boys must have been feeling "Old friend of mine? Really? she noticed a girl in white flannel and her employer with his lean, better," he hazarded. Susan re- Who is ha?"* with a great Russian wolf hound ascetic face and quizzical eyes. turned his look with utmost enn- "Listen to her," the man teased.

had every dor. on a leash, pacing up and down. Surely Ernest Heath

"For all you know it might have There was something familiar thing to be desired-wealth, pasi- "No, he wasn't really," she ex-been a giri."

"At business school. Hu about the set of the beautiful little tion, friends and that beautiful plained. "He looks miserable. But Susan laughed, embarrassed. I taking the course-some whim of head under the rakish, white hat. House and garden. She could hear he was so nice. He told Simon to know," she said, "but there was his father's. Yes. He's very nice." When the girl turned her profile herself describing the place in de wait and had all these gathered for something about the way you said: "Very nice, Very nice." The fu- Suonn knew her at once. It was tail to Bose or to Aunt Jesale.

me. It was sweet of him, wasn't it that made me think-

tile, foolish words mocked her. As Denise Ackroyd. Deliberately Su Aunt Jessle wald sniff at what she

it?"

"It's all right," he told her. "It if she hadn't been dreaming of san looked the other way. She called "fol-de-rols," but she would

was a man and he was very much Robert Dunbar's image for month. could not quite forgive that girl for be impressed just the same.

Waring agreed gravely, keep interested to know what you were (Continued on Page 10), having interrupted her and Bob However, it was. Ray Flannery ing his thoughts to himself. He doing.". Dunbar at luncheon. The old pain who first heard the story of Susan's had learned several things in the Susan walted for him to go on.

visit.

last month or so about this girl. She thought impatiently' that he was poten

began to throb in her breast.

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"I was so happy a moment ago," "My eyei Flowers, where are Cynic that he was, he had discov-being rather silly. Why so much Susan. thought resentfully. Why you going with that girl?" Rayered that Suann was to be takon at secrecy? need the remind me of him? I was shrilled, meeting Susan in the hall. her face value. What she said sho "Don't you want me to tell you trying to forget."

Susan turned a blooming face. meant and what she seemed to about It?" Waring was laughing at Irresistibly her eyes were drawn they're from Mr. Heath's garden. true. Jack Waring had not under her great, luminous eyes to his own "Aren't they lovely?" She asked. be she was. It was startling but her openly now and the girl lifted back to the straight, graceful fig-front there to take dicta-stood that at first. Now he was a in wonderment. Quietly she said, ure. At that moment Donleo's gazo' mat here. She bowed frigidly and tion. He's laid up."

little ashamed of his earlier atti-"Yen, very much. Please go on,” moved away.

Ray whistled softy. "Getting a

tude. "I wonder if her family know she stand in ?" She inquired. "I'll bot

Strinokys the missus didn't pick those

goes around with the

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for

Susan said with dignity, "Ono of

Susan began to wish Waring She was scarcely prepared for would go. He made her nervous, the name altting there drumming on the desk she restrain the warm colour that

he uttered nor

could

crowd?" Susan reflected, thinking you." disdainfully of that sordid menage

to which Bon had introduced her, the maids did. Mr. Heath told her She buried her face in the roses as to."

with his well manicured figures flooded her checks.

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