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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1937.

· “TELEGRAPH'S" NEW FILM SERIAL

"Lloyd's of London" is a film which is shortly to bo prosented at a local Theatre. To-day appears the second, instalment of It is a narrative of much interest in the full story of the episodes in the life of the great corporation on which the film is based. itself and is appropriately made public at a time when the presentation of the film in Hongkong is soon to be made.

OF LONDON

LLOYDS OF

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE: Jonathan Blake, 13-year-old orphaned slavoy to dissoluto old Widow Blake, proprietreas of a waterside tavern at Burnham- Thorpe, Norfolk, England, in the year 1770, overhbars two drum- ken customers, saviors, plotting to transfer a cargo of gald from the trig opglo-0, souille her and fraudulently compel Lloyds of Lindon, the theurere, to pay the shippore for its loss. Ho hustons to the home of his play- mate, Horatio Nelson, who was later to be Admiral Lord Nelson, In the fashionable home of the latter's churchman father, and the 100 agree they must” baik the plotters.

Chapter Two

IT is probable that there has never been a boy of good family, ten- derly reared, grounded in the con ventions of his class and taught pride in his superior breeding, who dei nut experience an unholy delight in næselsting with boys his direct antithesis in breeding and social well elhas. Jonathan Blake was aware that Horatio Nelson's parents disapproved of him very strongly n a companion for their ann. Horatio niko wa mware of it; hence with the trious wilfulness of boyhood they had struck up a friendship in defiance of parental mandate and rejoicui in the knowledge that their friendship carried an element of danger, Both were inds of daring and Instintive; they were venturo nome with the courage to take risks, for the life of ench wn, in s widely divergent way, equally dull, Tinka were productive of thrills af thrills ennhle one to bear with the tedium of a duil life. Horatio was an extraordinarity obedient boy. yet he could not bring himself to obey la father's Injunction not to adelate with the ragamuffin Jona- than. Indeed, he fell a little chag rined that his father, a clergyman, did not pomeza a wider charity. Jonathan, however, laud no thoughts on the matter. His low social status 'gave him a wido measure et free- dom, and he was accustomed to brutal treatment; Horatio was the nole gentle human being, he had ever known and he adered the latter accordingly,

PETER B. KYNE

Fax:plature, itaning.

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went forward to the forecnalle and then the owners will get a settle-Horatia pleaded. "Ta bo gone days roused out his men. A batch was ment of the insurance from Lloyd's and days and father and mother removed and the men descended of London while those thieving cap wouldn't know whore I want."

"Look here, Horatio. You and I Into the hold via a companion lad-tains divide the gold botwoon them

minde a pact once. Whatever we did, dor: prosently they came on deck and the crew."

wouldn't again, each man bearing a heavy "I s'pose the gold an' the rest of wherever we went, wo Ingot of dull yellow metal. Ovorher cargo sa innured, too," Horatio acparnte. And if one of us won't the plank bridge they came and replied. "Well, one thing's certain, back on the pact the other had a solemnly fald the ingots on the deck If we're discovered aboard, they'll right to clip him a clout with his knock us on the head and throw mautey. Well, I'm goin' to London, of the Beahorse.

"Pick them up and 'carry them us overboard. Let's go forward.and wot I do you got to door down into the cuddy," the mastor We're too clone. Bomebody may arooke" and Jonathan pulled back

hin flet. of the Maggie-O commanded hareb-us V.

"Art a mo, sir," one of the men replied insolently. Behind the bar rais Jonathan nudged Horatio

They started forward' and Jona- than stumbled over a bucket filed with water. At the crash and the involuntary cry that escaped from

Horallo commenced to pload. Jormthan stopped closer. He meant business,

"I'll-21 g," Horatio mumbled.

Crouched behind a barrel on the dock of the Maggio4, Jonathan and Horado Iiston to the seral muiin-

"It'll be awful but I'll go."

ous crew of that ship demand a greater share of the gold looted from the hold of the Seahorse, under threat of informing Lloyd's of London concerning the plot. "That's one of them," he whispered, Jonathan the master of the Sea- and the man in back of 'im is is horso whirled and challenged sharp- pas, Them'a the two wot was in ly: "Who's there?" the_graggery."

"Get on with it," the master anapped. "I'll have no back talk frem you, Hawkins."

The two boys proceeded through the fog to the boat landing; the canadent Horatio, over the lender in their escapades, helped himself calmly to a stiff lying at the font and Ahipped the card. Neither he nor Jenathan had the alightent Idea of their destination, nevertholem they pulled out into the fog on the off chance that Fate would tend them in the right direction. For an hour they pulled around. taking turan at rowing: then out of the Hawkins grinned evilly and waved thick mint the high stem of a la deprecatlag paw, Before we versel protruded and aerom it they transfer this here bullion, Cap'n," read her name-MAGGIEO. She he said, "we got to have an unner- wh lying alongside another and standin' about our share." larger vessel, which proved to be the Seahoren. Both vesels lay there, rlaing and falling gently with the awiali of the tide and there did not appear to be any activity on their decka.

Jonathan opened his hand and extended it to hin pal. "Tip us your "Two boys," the master of the auley, ho demanded, well pleased Manglo- orind. Get them. Damna-not to have had recourse to the

agreed alternative had Horatio per on! They know too much Said Horatio. Tako It pasy, cisted in his stand, "We'll start to- Jonathan. We can never get back night. I'll meet you at eight o'clock aboard the Maggio-O now and down just outside the carriage house. Wo must get our supper first and try to our skiff, Forward. Quickly."

They fed up the deck with the 10 Ft name food for the journey." ahook hands as solemnly "na two shipmasters racing after thom. "Ah, so you do. I'd forgotten that, "Overboard with you," Horatio or rown men and Jonathan scam- of course, Hawkins. The seamen are dered. but Jouathan, frightened, pored away to Widow Blake's Ale to receive ten sovereigns cach, the hung back. Instantly Horatio seized House, Ho hoped the tap room him by the legs and tumbled him would be empty and his horrible mates afleon.”

aunt quite drunk, in which case ho "Make-it-a-hundred-pun sach, overboard: he heard the bark of a cap'n," the man Hawkins urged. pistol and the whine of a bullet could dry-out by the sea-coal Gro before starting on the greatest ad- Horatio passed the skin's painters sallers has held conference past his head as he dove off the

venture of alla journey into terra around the bob-stay of the Maggie-an have agreed that we get a hun-high bow. When he came up Jona- and climbed out and up the bob dred pun each or we squeal to than was beside him, treading incognito. But the Widow Binks was most surprisingly sober and stay to the end of the bowsprit, Lloyd'a. Wet you're doin' sir, is water. "Dive, he yelled, "and swim

cuffed him crually for being wat upon which he clambered and then

Two bulists. splashed into the and having lost his hat. He stood crept down along it to the deck. called barratry, an It's a bangin' under water as long as you can." Janathan, his heart pounding with offense. Us aallore ain't riskin our

sest in to the kitchen to eat his the delicious thrill of the adven-neck for no lovey ten sovereigns, water between them; they dovo; the punishment stoically and was an' that's wot an' wo got ter have when they came up for breath an ture, followed after him. They mada their way aft over a wet deserted the money as soon as the gold's other bullet spinshed dangerously poor supper, while the widow re-

cold.'

close, so they dove again; when mained on watch in the tap room. deck to the cuddy and observed

they poked their heads up the secAfter eating, Jonathan wrapped a

to the deck.

shingle.

olck."

two heavy planke connecting the The manter of the Seahorser bad ond time the outline of the Sephorae loaf, neveral cuts of roast beef and two rescia over their gunwales. alipped arouad in the back of the no longer toomed through the fog a small cheese in a large napkin, Here they paused latening and man; he had paused at the pin-rail and the two boys struck out for the resurrected an old hat he had die hearing nothing, campered across 10K enough to select a long hard-ahore, It was a long cold journey, carded long ago, slipped out the to the deck of the Seaborge: they wood apike; as Hawkins voleed his but the tide favored them and evan-back door and without one farewolf the glance at the only home ha bad were standing hesitantly by nome dedance the club came down on

aver known, allpped blithely away harrel in the waint when the nound the back of his head and he dropped tually they waded out on of veless reached them and two unconscious to the deck. "Now, "Good-night, Jonathan," Horatio into the fog and darknem. Ife knew men emerged from the suddy on then," the master of the Seahorse chattered. "We've got to hurry home he was not going to see the Widow

announced calmly, "who wants some

no matter what might happen to The boys dropped behind the bar more of the samo? Get along with our clothes or we'll be inite or her establishment again, rein. "Wett, then, that's settled,t. I tell you."

haven't any clothes to change him. She had struck him once too one of the men observed. "We've Cowed and terrorized with their into." Jonathan replied. He slipped often and, his mission in London agreed on it, so let there be no leader hora de combat, the crow his had through his chum's arm. accomplished, he would not return changes now. Ten sovereigns to picked up the ingots and carried "D'ye know wat we got to do Ifora- for another beating. He rejected each of the seamen and fifteen each them down into the cuddy of the to? 've got to get to London as that he could starve or half starva In London quite as well an he could to the mates: the rent we divide Seahorse, Onitheir return to the hold quickly as possible and tell Mr. equally between us?

of the Maggie-O the master of the Lloyd all about this, so he won't beat Burnham-Thorpe.

"I don't believe she's my aunt, "Aye. Well, all your mon Are Sentorse helped each man across deceived into paying the insurance anyhow," he decided. "I hope not.

"We can't." "Horatio protested, antare, so they won't know any- the ran with a brutal kick or a thing about it Ti rauss out the blow of his fist.

It's a hundred miles to London endhen he thought; "Maybe Mr. Loyd will find employment for me when crew of the Maggle-O now and "We've seen enough," Jonathan we havent conch fare."

I tell him about the Maggie-0 and we'll make the transfer while this whispered to Ilorate, "They are "We'll walk; we'll steal rides on have him a fortune." fog kolds; then we'll warp her a removing the gold from the cargo the back of the coaches. We've

of the Maggie-O to the Seahorse: GOT to get there before that thier-15 20m enervRT • FOR FILM COMFORATION The last sponker croaned tho then they'll haul the Maggie-O gets thero." plank gangway to the Maggie-O, away some distance and sink her;

bit and scuttlo hor."

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