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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPU

LOVE or MONEY?

CHAPTER XXXV

BY H. W. CORLEY

There were 20 first-class passen gers on the Miranda. The govern-

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MONDAY, MAY 22, 1933.

quiet of the tomb reigned. At that!|them aboard. A little later dinner, moment a ball announcing meal now quaintly tinged with trople time in the second cabin rang offerings, was served. briskly. There was no answering) St. Mitts Nevis. Hont and shout. Eating was far from the more heat. Native women appear. programme of the day.

Jed displaying baskets of guavas for "All sick," the ductor observed sate. Nativa boys put on diving Jaympathetically. "But by Satur-exhibitions.

day they'll be out."

Mone's plan was to proceed to Lottie watched the second cabin Trinidad and at Port of Spain_to quarters riding and falling with inquire for airplane accommoda very pitching of the boat. It was tions, to the mine.. This, she re- membered, was the method utilized "How do they stand it" she mar-hy Steve and Barry. But, tuo, had like the swaying of a see-saw. mured sympathetically. "It's cer-made the trip vin Trinidad.

Guadaloupe. Martinique. St. Lu- tainly terrible to bo poor!"

You are one of the few wealthycia. women I've ever heard say that," Dr. Allen observed.

had been a fruitless search of New tion trips to bright boys just out York for an earlier passenger with of hospitals. This keeps the ship whom he had fallen in love.

doctoring business on Its toes. Two middle-aged women, seeking The doctors are likely to have a ment official who had cancelled the home where the exchange would touch of sea-sickness themselves stateroom occupied by Mona and make their meagre Income ade- and have sympathy for the rest of Lottie was represented by another quate, were among the passengers.us."

And then came a bombshell. official quartered in the second best An enthusiatic auto salesman was Dr. Allen, it acemed, had much

They were sented on deck after "So you think I'm wealthy, de dinner, listening to the singing of stateroom. He was an attractive on route to introduce a newly pat-sympathy for Lottle. They stroll- young chap who sold modestly that ented tire lock throughout the ed the deck, sat for hours over you?" Lottie thought. Aloud she the eccond cabin passengers. The he was "th textiles." When the glands, a mission scoffed at pri- cooling drinks, aned at the rall did not any anything.

stoward was serving ices, cool Miranda reached his island it devel-vately by the ship's officers. The in joyous interchange of flippancier, the doctor was musing, "I'd be on

"If I could get her to marry me,"drinks and sandwiches. The radio -oped that he was quite a personage, natives, said

operator appeared with a message the officers, would Mona, not qulto escaping the dif A nice old couple taking a benever arous themselves to the ficulties of the voyage, lay back in easy street. It takes years to build for Lottle which she read by the lated honeymoon walked about the labour of adjusting spare tire, her deck chair, pale and smiling at UP practice."

But he did not persunde Lottle the physician.

flickering light of a match held hy deck hand in hand. A younger cou- much less the task of stealing one them.

to marry him and on the fourth day!!

"What do you think!" she ex- ple, not so amusing or intereating, from another car.

from permitted the entire ship's com- And then there was the ship's Two days out. Capo Hatteras. out she reserved her attention for

claimed delightedly. "It's pany to know that they were going doctor, to Le found at almost any The Miranda pitched and rolled the auto salesman who told her Sanllic. She says n cable and a let

ter havo arrived from Stove!" south on an important misston, hour of the day or evening at Lot-ad pitched again. The galetion of that she really should buy a new collecting tropical fish for 8 tie's side.

banjo and Hiting songs from the ear.

Friday the air was, warmer and!! "Tell her to send the letter by museum.

"Dr. Allen isn't the regular ship's second cabin quieted. The consul's nephew was return-doctor," Lottie told Mona the acc- "We haven't dropped them off, the ship's officers appeared in uir mail to Port of Spain and relay ing to one of the French Ininnds and day out. "This line doesn't have we?" Lottle Inquired of the white, Sunday it was still warm the cable," the doctor suggested.

er. The clotls were fleecy and low]} aftor what (so a steward confided) use them. They distribute vaca-physician, pointing aft where the henk. The turquoise sky seemed know," Monn added. "Steve hasn't "It may be something we should

almost within reach if one could written much before, has he, Lot- only stand tiptoe on the topmast.tic?"

nl!!

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This remarkable photo was taken by a warder in a prison In Bavaria and was smuggled across the border to Switzerland. It shows Jews and Socialists who were rounded by the the Hitler Gov. erament and thrown into guol uxorcising in a narrow courtyard of the prison." It is believed this is the only picture of its kind taken in one of the Nazi prisons over to be smuggled out of Germany. (Planet News).

The waters, on which golden sen- "He hasn't written at woed Hosted, had turned to deep Maybe the cable Is for my birth- indigo.

|day."

Mon passengers, appeared self- consciously in white linens and sports shoca. One islander wore

ith helmet as he atrolled the deck In the middle of the day.

And then on Monday morning an emerald Island appeared ahend. An emerald, set in silver sands, Hunting on the sapphire sea.

"I don't wonder the boya adore the tropics." Monn breathed.

The Miranda docked at St. Thomas and the two girls went Inshore to buy a stock of French:

perfume and fruit.

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She wired to Sullie to open and relay the cable and the answer came the next afternoon. It rend:

MISS LOTTIE CARR

S.S. MIRANDA AT SEA STEVE SAYS. THEY HAVE LEFT MINE TEMPORARILY. VACATIONING AT ISLAND.

SALLIE.

In reply Lotic sent a second mes- sage, reading:

MISS SALLIE JOYCE --WEST 65TH STREET 'NEW YORK CITY

WHICH ISLAND — STATEN, WARD'S OR CONEY?

LOTTIE. Sallie's answer was extravagently flippant.

MISS LOTTIE CARR

S.S. MIRANDA AT SEA "We can wire Bud," Mona aug- WELL'S, HOW SHOULD I KNOW WHICH ISLAND? SALLIE,

The doctor drove them to the bench past Lindbergh's Bay where the aviator had ninde n "happy landing," where they awam in the sapphire water and sat on the sil- ver bench while native boys scrum- Bled up the trees for coconuts.

Then they were off again just after luncheon. At St. Croix they did not dock but anchored far out "We can wire Bud," Mona sug- in the harbour. Native police rested. She recalled that the boys swarmed aboard, urging order had a holiday island in the Carrib jamong the untive boatsmen who ap-bean. There were literally hun- peared to row the passengers dreds of islands, scattered about. How could they find the right one? They radioed to Bud and received the answer just off Barbados.

ashore.

"Imagine coming all this way to row ashore in a boat named 'Brond- way!" said Lottie in disgust. She MRS. JOHN B. TOWNSEND and Mona hired "The Sea Gull" and S.S. MIRANDA AT SEA were invited to ten by a passenger

HOLIDAY ISLAND. BUD. who had taken the boat at St. But the captain had never heard Thonias. They returned to the of Holiday Island, though he had ship after dark. The bautumen been making the cruise for 20 | sang-and charged double fare in years. Nor had the first mate Heu of sufficient applause. There heard of it. Aspinwall apparently a alight breeze. The bont had not heard of it for it was not swayed up and down, its lantern mentioned in his manual, rolling. The quartermaster helped (Continued on Page 11.)

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