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"Telegraph's" Now Serial From The First National Picture story by Commander Frank Wead, U.S.N.,

CHAPTER "KI

"Here we are, just getting started, and-zingo!" He snapped his angers and looked at Dave and then at Dad Brunn.

Dad Brunn spoke quietly. "From the time I built my first pinne nine- teen years ago, I've had many set- discourage backa, Don't let this

Dave. tired.

He looked at Dave, kindly. won't be discouraged," answered He stood up wearlly. He was

"Well, where to now?" asked Tom. "Pack up, I guess," answered Dave, "Get hold as he started for the door. of the girls and we'll have a nice long wakel"

They met that night in n little table d'hote restaurant near the airport-- Brunn and Dave

Jean, "Dad" "Mother" Brunn, Tom Collins and Sunny Avery, Tom's fance,

Dad Brunn was drawing intriente little designs on the table-cloth and explaining his plans.

"I think I have something." he an- nounced, thoughtfully. "It won't be

large as the ship we're talked about.. But it's a start. It will be as big as we dare build it...passengers like company. It should be a flying boat-capable of Rying oceans, Somr thing like this

He roughly sketched what was to become the first Brunt Amphibian while the others stood and looked over his shoulder.

wo

Dave made the first suggestion. "How about putting retractable wheels on it?" he asked. "So could use fanding fields or water." had thought about

that," answered Dad. He continued his drawing as the others stood by allent- Jy

and watched.

When he had finished, Dave picked up the table cloth, folded it gently and put it in Dad's coat pocket.

"Let's get to work on it, Dad," he sald. "I'll help you all I can, and I know the others will, too."

They left the restaurant in high spirits.

A few months later found them in Key West, While waiting for Dad to completed his plans, Dave took what money he had left and a few hundred dollars which he borrowed and formed an air service between Key West and Havana.

night,

of

and

It was the day before the Inaugurat Dave, Ton and Dad Brunn were busy on a a last-minute check-up rather Bimsy looking ship the which Dave was to fly to Havana, As

Dave

worked over the Instrument punct in the pilot's cockpit, a dark, middle-aged approached the ship and called up to him.

Рауа

man

looked down and recognized the man. He was "Hap" Stuart, a wartime flyer who had been in the -service-with-him.-

"Hap!" called Dave. "You're 4 sight for sore eyes!" He climbed out of the cockpit and jumped to the ground. "What on earth brought

here?"

you li

"You know inc," answered Hap. smiling. "Just barnstorming around looking for a flying job wherever

I can find one,"

"You've found "one," announced Dave, as he took the flyer by the arm and pulled him over to the spot where Dad and Tom were checking the motor. "Dad and Tom. I want you to meet a new member of our crew, Hap' Stews

Stewart-we flew to- gether in the war.

And so Hap Stuart, hoppy go- tucky barnstorming pliot, became a member of "the gang"

That evening, Dave insisted that Inp accompany him to his modest apartment in Key West to meet

Jenn.

"She's a swell kid," said Dave as he guided Hap up the stairs. "She wil be tickled to death to meet you

after me talk about you all

these

They entered the apartment, and Dave

Dave shouted:

"Jean, darling Guess whom I've

found, Hap Stuart!”

There was no answer. Only a de- pressing silence.

"Sit down, Hap," sald Davé, in- dicating chain "She probably usleep.

I' go in and wake her up." He strode into the single bedroom

which the two shared.

Jean was not there.

She had left

a note on the table, and Dave's hands trembled as he opened it.

He read it and then let it drop to the floor. He couldn't blame her for leaving liim. She had led o. drab life those past few months-sitting around the apartment while he spent days and nights at a time at the air- port. If she only could have waited another few days, though. The auc cess of this arst flight would mean everything.. More money, recogni- tion and the chance to go ahead for the next big step-the line to South America.

noto

Dave looked down at the again. Yes, why couldn't she have stuck to him just a little longer?

Pulling his tangled thoughts to gether for a moment, he returned to

Hap in the living room.

n

#Jean's gone away on a trip," he

explained. "We'll

a'll go out and have

dinner at a restaurant."

Hap sensed what had happened,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, MARCH

-1937.

“TELEGRAPH’S” NEW FILM SERIAL

LLOYDS OF

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE:

Jonathan Blako, pensilose Dr- phan, and his playmate, Haratio Nelson, son of prominent church- man, uncover a plot to loot the gold cargo of ung Maggio-Q Norfolk, England, harbor in the year 1710. They board the Mag- glo-0, watch the thieves at work, and make their escape. When Horatio is unable to po with him, because Horatio la to enter the Navy, Jonathan sols off for London, 100 miles away, alone, to inform Llodys of London of the fraud. He is about to be ejected from Lloyda by a waiter 10hen the tolling of the Lutine Bell, signifying news of d marine disaster, aounda in the rooms.

Chapter Four

The bell at Lloyd's hung directly over a rostrum and nobody was ever known to mount, that bell ex capt the walter whose duty It was to ring the bell. Having rung it ance, olience Battled over the coffee hours Instantly, The walter then rend from a bulletin:

The brig Maggie-O, Corunna to London, reported sunk in the Channel off Burnham- Thorpe, in Norfolk. Total loks claimed on vosssi and cargo. There was a moment'e niíence, then everybody appeared to sighiat unes and scraps his chair, as if the shock of this hows had enured m

ah involuntary instinct to rotment from a heavy loss, Then allence again, shattered by a shrill childish volce:

"The Maggie-O didn't sink by ac cident. She was scuttled for the in- suranco-please, please, don't throw me out. I munt see Mr. Lloyd. He's being robbed, I must tell him

"Much you know about it, you young lunatis," the waiter dald grimly, and dragged the boy toward the entranca. As he pulled open the door a gentleman stood in the on- trance. "Your name, sir," the waller querled, still holding fast to the boy'a nape,

Benjamin Franklin. I have an engagement here to meet Dr. Jolin- Hon and Mr. Boswell."

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Information that had just reached I'd like to grow up into an Insur-mant of human nature and a feare him. “Has there been any nows re-ance underwriter! coived of the whereabouts of the belg Senhorsa?"

"We'll age, wa'll see," Angerstein murmured, "Watson!"

Iomanana thai, in after. He, wad to insure the success of whatever en- terprises in which he might en As it in answer to hh query a A middle-aged man with ono log ago. He knew his threat to re- wafter mounted the rostrum and off at the knee, came hopping over port the butler's not at all polite rang the bell twice. "Drg Sen to Angarstein's table, "Watson, observation to Mr. Aagerstein, had

that

Individual powpowe horso, Le Havre. to London with tako this walf out and buy him given wine, spoken la the Channel three everything ho needs in the way of pruso, so he tried another shot now. clothing. See to it that he gets the "I will anzume that you meant days ago."

We'll have a committed from bast, Then take him to my home no hoffense by that remark about Lloyd's, together with the London and turn him over to the butler, vermin," he said with a dignity fur police, waiting to board ber when with Instructions to have him bath beyond his years. "I shall forget he docks. If the gold is found ined and clothed and given a bed in It." He drove his index Anger Into her master'a quartors the proof of the servants' quarters. Watson," the butler's fat paunch. "Happear harratry-will be numficient for a con- he explained to Jonathan, "is my anena hoften deceive oven very

wise men." viction. May I suggest that our chief clerk."

He recalled the fact

Summoned before John. Angerstein, Jonathan retells the story of the scutuling of the Maggie-0 by the crew which had looted her cargo of gold. Thus began the life-long association between the elder man and the boy which was to witness Jonathan's riso to greatness in the association of Lloyda of London.

chairman take charge of this mat-1 ter and give it the most thorough investigation?"

mood

"Thank you, sir." "Hum-m-m Got some manners about you for a brat Have you had any schooling?"

The waiter let go Jonathan to receive Mr. Franklin's hat and cone and the boy took advantage of this momentary relief to dodge under the waltor's arm and back into the coffee hous. He ran to the ros

pursued by another trum, who walter and collared there.

that Horatio sometimes assumed an air of pomposity, when speaking "I tell you the Maggio-0 was

with him; it was half in jest, halt acuttled," he acreamed, "Mr. Lloyd

He returned to his soat and an!,

in earnest, designed to let Jana- must not pay the insurance. It's a

"A little bit, sir." playing with his watch oral and

than know that, despite their com- swindle,"

valce atentorian

"You'll have to have a big bit radeship, Horatio was above him shouted: beaming benevolently upon him fol Waller, let go that boy. What the low underwriters, He was in this if you wish to have a seat in socially. So he said to the butler: devil do you mean by man-handling good

when the walter Lloyd's coffee house. Well, you ap "Nover forget that, my good man.

Thank you, sir, thank you,” the, the little fellow? Eloy, come here." brought Jonathan back to Anger-pear to have the right spirit-

Jonathan behold a gentleman in stein's desk and presented the bin honesty, courage, persistence, and tatter 'ropiled bumbly,

A week later John Angerstein quite a bit of personality. You he middle forties rising from hie for the boy'a meal.

"Now then, young follow, mlad." must have come of good stock,had Jonathan summoned to his 11- table and crooking a finger at him.

brary after dinner. He smiled aN He came over. "Are you Mr. Lloyd, sald John Angerstein, "thanks to well, take him away, Watson." air?" he asked respectfully.

your warning the underwriters at Watson took the boy away, to a he noted the boy'a handsome, In- "No, lad, My name is John An- Lloyd's have probably been saved store where he purchased for him telligent face; there was a healthy Eerstein. I am an underwriter and a terride loan. The Maggie-O ear a completo new, outfit of clothing: glow in it now; the paleness and 1 have underwritten the thousand ried insurance in the sum of one then they Journoyed together in peakedness of malnutrition were pounds of the insurance on the hundred thousand pounds on hull four wheelce to John Angerstein's gone. "Well,"

Like you were right about the Maggie-O Maggie-O and her cargo. What and cargo, of which I was respon-residence in Regent Street ground have you for crying to this sible for ten thousand, You'll have all of the housen in that street it being scuttled. The police found formidable old Georgian the gold under the floor of the company that the Maggie-O was to remain on hand as a witnesa, not nunk by accident but was pure provided we can prove this villainy, house, handsome and dignited, like euddy of the Sea-horse, and the _ponely sunk-scuttled 7′′

Lloyd's will provide board and it's ownor. A butler in livery met crew of the Maggio-0. rounded up Jonathan told his blory, while Todging for you-likewise a com-them rat-the-door-and-turned up in-your-precious-relative's grog- John Angeretein's kind eyen applete outfit of clothing of which his aretocratic nose at sight of the gery in Burnham-Thorpe, readily He turned confessed to save their necks. The praised him. "Remarkable," Ab you stand so sadly in need. If we ragged Jonathan,

captains will presently ba geratain murmured, "You appear and that gold aboard the Seahores down again promptly when Watson two to have arrived in London a few you may rent amoured you will be (Jonathan had already discovered hanged on Tower Hill, The various minutes ahead of the nows of the handsomely rewarded for your Watson was an ex-officer of the syndicates that had written in- ion of the Maggio-O. How did you good work."

Brilial Navy and had lost his leg surance on the Maggie-D and her manage to get hers so soon?"

And wot," piped Jonathan plain- In battle) with the air of command cargo are therefore relieved of the "I walked, sle."

tively, will become of me after inseparable from those who have rlek." You walked a hundred miles?"that"

been accustomed to exercising com- "What's a syndicato, «ir?" "Yes sir, I had to. I had no. "Why-why-I do not know. You mand, gave him John Angerstein'o

"A group of men who pool their money to buy a ride on the conch will return to your home, I dare orders.

Jonathan followed the butler money and write Insurance or un-

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"What caused you to come to like a boy with a 'ome to go to?" Lloyd's?"

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but he kept silent as they closed the apartment door and started down the of attention shown her, broke off her pilot the ship on its first fight to stutra.

engagement to Tom and took a train Havana. Trouble, they say, comes in cycles, back to Philadelphia,

As Dad, Hop and Tom waved their "The "next day Tom Collins, the

It was

a highly-depressed crew hands in salute, Dave throttled the youngest of the ploneering band, had that made ready to take off that engine and took off across the waters. his share of it in a petty quarrol with morning, Dad Brunn was nervous The first regular airmali was on Its his flanceo.

as he watched Dave put on his helmet way, to Havana." Sunny, also depressed by the lack and goggles. Dave was going to

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8 After the necessary study set off

for an African river.

9 Rather stiff, this clue, 50,

11 také steps dealing suitably with what, has been written therein. 12 Pass a rope through a hole and round a considerable number. This will give case.

14 Queer outer change.

13 Popular home from home, with

the front part at the back.

16 The dance for old soldiers.

16 Has a queer heart for a chlid. 21 The family settles down on both banks of a Spanish river, and gives a ringing sound.

22 Thara transformation used in

South America, it is

24 stated.

27 Smokes.

28 The country that makes it easy

for father to fall into error.

20 Only Just about fresh, so replace

It.

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30 Gives a free issue to theatre-

goers (two words," 9, 4).

DOWN

z Render vold.

3 There are many in a hive, but

only one in this."

4 Part of a lighthouse that attracts birda and is never without one. 18. Any number up to nine.

0 No rod! Lal (anag)N

7 Leg of mutton. 8.One who takes off people's

heads.

10 A rating that would be useful in the early morning if the ninth letter were the seventh (hyphen, 8,4);

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17 How low dogs start to ́swear. 19.A middle age money-maker for

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20 and this is just the opposite. 21 Describes certain races, if not

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23 Fear.

25 A regal presentation.

26 Spirits.

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