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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 18,

SERIAL STORY-

SILKEN SPINDLES

CHAPTER XLV

by Laura Lou Brookman

Slen rose and women screamed.

the doorway a gure loomed-a mon whose face was covered by a strip of black cloth. "Get out of herol he shouted. "All of you-clear out!"

Thero

against the masked man's chook.! The other leaped forward, biting "Clyde Fisher." Steve on

the nose,

1935.

"You mean?"

Their voleca choruned the name of the mill fore

"You with man. Gale, surprised, wald, the mask was like one possessed, recognized him, too! How'd Steve staggered, steadied himself and gucas--?"

"You-

Thy mah

You

"It was tasy. Didn't you see how were others behind him.swung again. The blow landed.

"I didn't notice that," Galo nid. They were coming in at the rear of Steve's fint shot out once more, sud-his mask fell back?" the room and through the broken denly flow upward. His body recled

and he fell heavily.

"I was his eyes. I knew I couldn' window-a dozen or more then, husity,

The club that had struck him be mistaken about those eyes. And ail wenting sturdily-built fellows, masks, all armed with sticks or clubs, mashed down a second time. The he was the lender. Who do you sup "Oh, some of Thatcher's prize "Out of here!" the lender shouted with the club had come up be-pore the others were?"

hind Stove. His face, too, was cover- again.

thugs, I suppose." ed. with

"Well, they broke up the meeting all right."

"They certainly did."

mask. Joe Gillaspie sprang forward.

"That'll hold 'im," he said harshly. "You can't do this!" ho cried. "You

"Give me that club!" It was the get no right to come in here. This first man shouting. He grabbed the is a private home"

The girls had reached the corner "Yeah? Well, what do you think club, brought it down again and again

turned. of this?" The fist of the man who on Steve's head and about his chest.

Gale said inipetuously, "Don't go yet, had spoken smashed against Gillas-The man's lips twisted cruelly, let- where Jonic should have

ting out an oath. ple's face.

Blood spurted from Steve's fore- Josie. Let's see if Steve is home.. Gillaspio

came out. I'm "You've no right!" repenteil The other man raised ahead and spread in trickling lines He'll tell us how it

down his cheeks. He writhed-and terribly anxious to know." club, brought it

against down

Josie agreed. She was auxins, then lay quite stili. Gillaspie's head.

"Oh, God" screamed a woman, "Look what they done to Joe! They ked him and they went to kill the rest of us! Help-police!".

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will

The second man drew back. "Say, top. The luvaston of the meeting by un- the masked men was the most excit he?" He left the words

ing thing that had happened in a long while. finished.

"Itell, what do we care!"

*Maybe."

Josie said, as they went on, "I A handful of mill workers, were waging a desperate struggle across suppose Thatcher'il have all our ex-names to-morrow. Maybe he'll fire the room. Shouts and coarse clamations rose above the sound of all of us. scuffling feet. A chair went hurtling unhrough the air and struck a window,

shattering the glass. Two men, graj pling, pushed against a table and overturned. The two men went on

ghting, rolling over and

The leader whirled. "Police!" he jeered. "That's a good one. Sure, call 'eni. Sreech your head off and see if the police help you!" lils hand landed at the woman's cheek,

"Come ont" be shouted to those behind. "Let 'em have it!"

Instantly the room was in uproar. A short, thick-set mill worker truck one of the masked men and was in- stantly

surrounited. Chairs were overturned. Women and girls scram- bled toward the doors. There were shrill cries and angry bass ones. A big fellow, masked, grabbed up chair and awung it, narrowly missing a mill worker's head. He swung it again, landing a low against another who let out a cry of pain. The chair went crashing to, the flour, the back splintered.

Steve nude

his

"Come out the leader bellowed, and was answered with cheers that were profane, derisive.

Gate and Josic, terrified, had drawn against the wall. way toward them. "This way!" he said, motioning toward the door. hdy shirkled them na they pushed forward. "Get out as fast as you can," he said. "Get to the houset Anywhere!"

Josic was whimpering. Gale saw

the floor.

over on

They were "silent as they halted before Steve's home, sllent as they went up the steps and knocked at the door.

A woman opened it--n little woman with gray hair twisted on curiers and Suddenly, there was a shrill cry; wearing a faded bathrobe. She held the door open a few inches and asked, and the room was in darkneks.

Who is it?”

.

•

Gale and Josle huddled together in the shadow of a scraggly thicket. They had been hiding there for what seemed hours,

"Do you think they're gone now?" Josle whispered,

"I don't know. We'd better wait a while longer."

There was a rostling smund on the other side of the bushes. Both girls stiffened, motionless. But It only a amall dog that, a moment later. sniffed at their skirts and trotted on: its way.

"Silence again, and then the noise of a distant freight train. Jonic mail, "inle, I'm awfully cold, Don't you think it'll be all right to και πολύ τα

"Yen-I guess ro,“

"It's me Galet" the girl said. "Is Steve here, Mrs. Meyera7"

The door opened wider. "Come in, Comic Gnic-oh, and is that Josie?

in, both you. No, Steve hasn't come home yet. I've been ao worried. I didn't suppose the meeting would last as long on this,'

The girls stepped into the house. why, that's' strange," Gale sald. we thought surely he'd be here." "You mean the meeting's over!" "Yes"

"Then where's Sieve? Why doesn't he come home?" Mrs. Meyers' vojce was sharply anxious. "Do you sup pose anything's happened?"

There were souls on the walk oul- side. Vaices in the darkness. Gate turned. "Til see who it is," she said over her shoulder, and stepped out-

"If we stay back near the trees side. nabody will see us."

There were four men landing They made their way cautionsly, | there, Tour men carrying a heavy Ones voices came from across the burden-a stretcher on which WAR street and the girls crept behlad na man's body.

Cale said. "What is it?" She

a blond, red-faced woman beating her fists against the back of a masked mau lle swung at her, but she jerk-¦ ed away. He tried again and his fist building. The voices drifted out of Janded on the mouth of a youth who hearing and the two girls went on.rould see the figure on the stretcher had come between then. The bay They reached the end of the block, only dimly. She went down the steps. staggered, raised his arms to protect turned into another street. There hurried forward. "Has someone been himself, and fell.

were houses here, with lighted win-hurt?" she asked. "Who Is it?" Gale cried, "Oh, Steve!". She elung dows.

Before anyone answered she bent

"Hurry"

but he shook her, vit.! Josie drew a sigh of relief, forward, peering at the figure on the he said. "Get out of here" "Whew!" she said. "I live to be stretcher, "Oh!" she cried. "It's A hand grabbed Steve's shoulder.a thousand, F'll never forget this Steve?" It was the man who had knocked Joe night."

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mask he wore were wide and gaping. Sumendy must have let it out; Gale stared. She know that man: about the meeting. the eyes were unmistakable, SHE KNEW HIM!

Stove said, steely-voiced, "Take your hand of me."

Lookin' for trouble, huh?"

"I and take your hand off!" "So you're askin' for it!"" The hand drew back, but Steve was too quick,

His 1st cracked smartly]

Gale did not

she said, "Josie-”

"Yes,"

answer. Presently,

"You know that man whỏ grubbedi Steve's shoulder just us we went) through the door?"

"Yes,"

1

"I think I know who he was." "Sn do L

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