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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1933.

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MONNIE O'DANE, le sécréily, engaged to DAN CARDIGAN whose parents disapprove of the match. CHARLES EUSTACE, stranger in town, admizwa Honnie as well ne See younger sister, KAY, BIL her older brother, plan to marry ANGIK GILLES, whose divorce la pending, much to MEN,

O'DAREB dismay.

BANDRA LAWRENCE, pretending to be from her. Sandra receives a hurried message that her father has been hurt and for her to

friend of Monnie's, le trying to win Dan wWAY

come at once.

Chapter XXIV

by MABEL TICELLIOTT

cared deeply for, with the exceping him to follow her. But her

brain, hadn't been working. tion of Dan Cardigan

sole thought had been to get there

Naturally her thoughts turned to Dan.

Her

loyed, sat in an armless rocking She flung the poncil down. "I

chair a few fost away.

won't sign it. I won't." "Where is my father?" Bandra The strong fingers gripped her gasped. "What have you done to wrist, twisting it.. "You won't Thin?"

misay? All right then, you'll be

The man grinned. When he sorry.” spoke his voice was surprisingly The foul adours of tobacco, of unwashed clothing, of liquor, low and easy, pleasantly pitched

"Don't worry, lady," he told her, choked her. She screamed, "Ali

All right. I'll sign!" "He's prob'ly back in his own right.

That's a good girl." He ahowed parlour now readin' the paper. Ho

his fangs, grinning at her. don't even know you're out."

scuttling down the hall. In an other instant Mrs. Peterman, red- faced, breathing hard, appeared in the doorway.

Wild surmises leaped to her mind. Kidnapped for ransom? Yes, that must be it. There had been a lot of that sort of thing in the papers intely. What a fool who had been

She drew herself up, har oyes your minds 1" to leap to their bait so quickly.

You, sir? Oh, thank God. We thought you'd been badly hurt.”

"17 Are the lot of you out of

What bad luck-thus at ones. thoy raced-that Dan had boon Automatically her mind. regis

"Then he wasn't?" Even in called away that day on come tored the fact that a man detached business of his father's. She himself from the small group at the her terrible plight she felt a dis-"What on earth are you staring Lawrence might have called him. It would roadside and moved toward her. tinct sensation of relief. What- at 7 demanded Mr. bo na well as to have someone go Indolent was his gait, calm his mien ever these people intended to do to sharply. The new mald, twisting with her. Father might be aerl- and the exelted girl, drawing up her she did not know. But she her apron, did not reply. Instead ously hurt. She shivered at this, and jumping out of har car, felt ʼn was glad to know Daddy was safe. she turned like a frightened rabbit,

flash of impatience, No, she would not think it.

"What's happened?" she begun. Her car raced along, taking the Sandra tooled her roadster ex-corners with more than her usual 'Where is--?"

She got no further. A strong pertly out of the drive. She had touch of recklessness, Elm Tree dressed in haste, but her blue Lane. It was, she remembered, hand seized her. She smelt some

Through her berot was at exactly the right a lonely spot far on the edge of thing sickening. angle. It was characteristic of town. The lights of houses were struggles she heard someone say, the girl that she managed always now fow and scattered. In spite "That was easy.. Wo get her all flashing proudly. "You'd better The cook stared, arms akimbo, to look perfectly turned out, no of her vaunted courage Sandra right."

let me go." she told her grinning "No sir," she said firmly. "Miss matter what the circumstances.often observed lightly that sho

captor. "You'll get into all sorts Sandra had the phone message and And this time she was generally was afrald of nothing-she When she awoke her arms were of trouble. My father"

sho went tearin' "off" like a wild

worried.

"Yeah," the man drawled. "Wo thing before we could find out what glanced uneasily over her shoul-bound to hor side. She was hatless The volce-a man's-had said, der as she drove. There was and her hair was disordered. Her know all about him. Practie'ly it was about." "Hurry. Your father is hurt something in the air-No, it was head felt heavy, feit dizzy, as if she runs this town, he does. We know.

"Sandra got a message about and? an That's why we thought you'd be What on earth?"... Elm Tree Lane." Wild thoughts just her nerves. She would be all had had a blow. She was in raced through Sandra's head, Aright once she saw her father and untids room, a sort of sitting room useful."

"Somebody rang up, sir, and had hit him, probably. He assured herself he was all right. In an obviously old house. An oil

said you'd been in an accident went along with his head down, There was a car drawn up at the lamp with a green shade burned in Sandra was silent, her heart somewhere. She got her little car not looking. To do Sundra jus-Lane turning. Hadn't they sent one corner. Sandra was conscious hammering painfully. She must out and went tearing to soc."

she was genuinely fond of for an ambulance, the idiots? of eyes staring at her, boring in find a way out of this, she told her- "What nonsense is this?" de- manded Gregory Lawrence. "A her parent. In all the world, he Sandra wished she had telephoned upon her. Slowly ahe turned herself. She must!

"What do you want?" she asked nasty sort of practical Joke.' I was probably the only person she Dr., Keating before she left, ask-laching head. A man, small, crafty-

presently in a quite ordinary tone.jshould say. What time was this?" If it's money, I warn you there'll About an hour ago, air, Just be trouble afterward. You'll not shortly after you'd started for your go free, any of you"

walk. I was settin' my rolls for

car

tiee,

The man was transformed in an breakfast when the bell rang. I instant from a grinning gargoyle said to the girl. I said, 'Get onto to a towering menace. He stood that wire, will you,' and she run for over the lumpy couch cn which she Miss Sandra like the man told her sut, glaring down at her.

to- "You keep your mouth shut!" he barked. "You mind your busi- ness and do as you're told or may be you'll be sorry."

Sandra's haughty spirit quailed before this exhibition. The man produced a pad of paper and a stub of a pencil. These he thrust inte her fingers."

The mun broke in on this, with furious impatience. "Never mind, never mind. What did he say?"

That I couldn't tell you, sir. Miss Sandra rushed off like some- thing was at her heels. Didn't any who it was called nor anything."

Gregory Lawrence pressed bis lips together in Impotent anger, "Write like I tell you," he Then he strode toward the tele- commanded. His, words now held phone closet. His resonant voice faintly wheedling note. "Be a could be heard plainly by the two good girl," he said, "and there women outside, won't a hair of your hend be "Give me Chief Burkhardt, harmed."

please. Tom? This is Gregory Lifelessly Sandra took the pen-Lawrence. Some funny business cil. The man began droningly to at my house. While I was out just dictate:

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