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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

JUNE

SERIAL STORY-

21.

1935.

THE

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REGULAR AND FAST

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LONDON SERVICE

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white 1 June for Victoria, Vaneezyer & Senkilu

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via

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Presently Michael had a·blaze going. Katharine, looking down at him, said, “Well, go on-lecturo me...”.

CHAPTER I (Continued.)

Ou

That was Thursday morning. Friday she went for her ride as usual, and Michael was there, tall, lean and

casual

"Mawain!"

She smiled at him with just the night degree of casualness. "Good morning,"

"I'd better not." Katharine hugged↑ But she had the feeling that he, her arms about her.

ton, wasn't thinking of what he was

"Well, go on -Jecture 1724 she gail, boking down at him.

The tall young man turned from the grate, chusting off his lean, long

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Michel kult, making shift, with a saying. Were hoth of them a little bundle of twigs at the side of the fire- | mud, sheltering from a mere thunder- placi, and the remains of the logs, storm this summer morning? Presently he had a blaze going. The "Fury doesn't like it," he 'said, 'of west wind whipped in at the open sloor The tightning. "She's aérvous.” and Katharinė"shivered, in spite of

"Just like 11 woaan." Katharine herself.

said scornfully,

Her to roused him. "I've known plenty of men who

either," "Oh, but have you?" Katharine | mocked him. Some devil of per- She regarded him coolly, lighting of verseneas seemed to possess her. She

Special "B" class accommodation is now available to Wel Hai cigaretta" with fingers that shook a wanted to startle, shock, annoy him→ so?" Bul Katharine's query was not the usual, little,

stir him out of his usual calm necept. | Wel, Chefoo and Tientsin (vin Swalow and Foochow), in the recently feminine Butter. She adored sterms the slicker

"Oh, for being stubbern--not taking ance of her.

commissioned "Sure enough!" "Maybe 14 better take this." Michael flung an dikin slicker neruss Prince Charlie's back.

He lightened a strap, patted Ponce Charlie's gleaming Bank. "Storm comin' up?" he announced,

you think

"Oh, do

"Nat fur Katharine said coolly.¦

me The red-haired young man glanced at her quizzically a moment, the enlled to Tips: "lere, catch this!"

The slicker sailed through the air inding in a pile of hay. The coloured boy ran to retrieve it, with a dash of

Bugered hands.

"For what?"

"Oh, that!"

He turned back to the Are, appear- ing to forget her.

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She stared at him, drinking in every at the following rates:- Suddenly Katharine felt rage sweep line of his face, the quizzien! gray

Hong Kong/Swałow was eyes with the little nughter wrinkles Tube ignored like this strangely maddening! She intuled etched around them. Michael wa deeply, frowning angrily at the how old? Twenty-eight?

His shoul- absorbed

sed young man, wher bent oders were brand, his waist slim, like solicitously over the fire. She knew a true horseman's. She knew, she tol

enough what Sally Moonor Zoe herself, duzens of men hetter-looking, Parker-would do on such an occasions. smarter, better educated in every way. Sally would whimper

n little and would be

deal of argument good

un' about accepting the The trees arched overhead in a en-Michael didn't have a coat, but that cont. spiracy of silence. In the dim in- terstices where the sky could be been didn't matter. He ought at least to there were patches of angry clouds, how some human concern about her. From the west rose a rumble of deen Why, she might have pneumonin. thunder.

face.

white teeth in an ebony Michael unshiver and wistful, and there him on earth tid she bother withi

"Just you say." nounced. He swung a long leg over his western saddle, leading the way.

You won't mind gettin' wet?" He looked back at her over his shoulder, his gently voice courteous

as usual

Katharine laughed "No, why should I?

The deep rail of distant thunder in- | creased. They crossed an open men dow with a river meandering alon-i side and an orange flash of lightning licked across the sky. Sueldenly they were again in the woods, the horses wading carefully through the shallow strena and plunging up the muddy banks.

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•

Katharine, struck suddenly by the utter nomense of her reasoning (she almost never had a cold). Inughed

alt.

"What's the joke?"

She glanced, siddewise, at Michael Heatheroe. "Nothing you'd 'under-

He flushed, the brick fint showing! above the deep dark stain of his sum burn,

You don't think much of us around

knowing what she said, here, do you?" she pursued, scarcely

"You all-people in Innicoak?" "Yes.

You think we're all spoiled, children-or something." Her tone:

เร hateful and she knew it, it for the life of her she couldn't change it. Michael stared at her thoughtfully, She had an impulse, almost irresisti ble, to reuch up and rumple that dark red crest of hair, from which the stubborn curl had carefully been ironed only that morning

"Folks around here have been migh- ty nice to me,"

"Mighty nice!" She mucked his soft, ensy drawt.

Suddenly she felt both her hands "I'm not so slow," he drawled in imprisoned, in a grip of stool. Gray that easy westerns veice of his.

eyes darkening like the stormy skies "I didn't mean that," Katharine without looked into hers, hustered to say,

"You don't you mrtn't Outside the thunder rolled and pent-} "Mustu' whit?"

Now the rain came down, suddenly.ed, the sky steadily darkened, and The treacherous tile within her in torrents, in violent sheets, For the wrensional angry flashes of lightning warmed her heurt. Was this sur- main part, the trees protected them, illumined the room. The rain, obed-render, of which she had heard so but soon the path again crossed a

ight to t

to a dervish wind, tore in at the much? civilized road, a main highway. door, ,and Mirimel closed it. Now they But Michael Hestheroe dropped her fireat angry peals of tininder sound were shot in together,

hands, released her as suddenly as he , and the sky was made livid by the "This may go on all morning," she had seized her, "I beg your pardon," almost continual flashes of lighting. said, at random, wishing only to break, he muttered. "You sure made The horses were nervous. Fury the silence.

mind, Miss Strykhurst. I guess I danced and whinnied, refusing to "Oh, I don't think it will. It's lift-forgot myself_._._."

proceed.

Wor

1

AL the side of the road was a smiling now. blue-roofed cottage which had once housed a district school, and later in amateur radio station. It occupied now. At the rear was at rude shelter for horses, Michael, without consulting Katharine, entered back to her and, seizing Fury's bridle, led the nervous little animal ander cover.

"We'd better stop here a minute,”. he said quietly. "It's foolhardy to go on just now.

dismount. Michael helped her to Then he tied both Fury and Prince Charlie to the rude rail of the shelter and quieted them with his reassuring voice.

We can go inside, if you like," he told the girl, after a particularly vicious flash of light. "I had to stop: here Inst week in that cloudburst remember? I had a party of kids. They were scared stiff.

He pushed open the door, dis- closing a narrow room with a bricked. fireplace and some battered, school benches. Someone had evidently Inilt a fire. There were the remains of logs, charred and broken, In the grate.

"Cheerful place," Katharino com- mented dryly.

He glanced at her curlously. "It's not so much. Here-lot me dust that

thing off. You can sit down."

(To Be Continued)

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