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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1937.

.SYNOPSIS

slave

In 1842, a British patrol ship captures a slaving vessel. Cap- tain Nuggin Taylor and his male, Powdah, are taken into custody. They receive brutal treatment from Lieutenant Tarryton. Tau- for knows that Tarryton is

th league

the syndicate and tells him sO. Later, Taylor conspires with the Naval Commissioner's Ofice to trap Tarrulon in his slave acti- the Всества vities. Tarryton Navy and gets ready to salt for America on the William Brown. Taylor is to take the same boat. En route to the docks, Taylor meets Margaret, Tarryton's als ter, and her meld Babsie, who is atro booked as a passenger. He wild escorts them through a crowd on the dock. Margaret is grateful and Taylor falls in love with her.

CHAPTER IV

"SOULS AT SEA

novalized by "

RICHARD MATTHEW HALLET

From the Paramount Picture co-starring

GARY

COOPER

GEORGS

·

RAFT

The tall thin man wrapped in ringing slap. So there might be shawls protested feebly; but the another way of recovering the fateful good-natured crowd thrust him for-schedules. ward. Hesitating, mild, he closed bony fingers over the farmer's

"Good." De Bastenet spoke with

A well-olled precision, as it slipping|

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EMPRESS OF ASIA

(10 p.m., Doc. 1;

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..at Noon Deo. 24th ..Feb, 8th

1

EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF JAPAN

man with an unlighted cheroot in his into place the bolt that must bar DIRECT TO VANCOUVER (from Yokohama))

match, Mr. Edding Tayler out forever from his cream mouth l glared at the flame with a strange of that head halord by the moon. light in his slate-coloured eyes. Sud- "Good. And now, my friend Taylor

shall we may dawn to-mor denly he had the strength of mad. ness. "Awill," erled the farmer. His row?" arm yleided, his knuckles ropped on the table. He dashed down bis hend in shame Now the match was out, Edding was more feeble than ever.

sister." Tarryton cried, coming from behind,

infuriated..

"But Stanley, he was only~" A hiccup cut her short.

"Yes, I was only" Taylor's

cup whi-anxist?

were

Powdah, lurking en the fringes of the crowd, closed his fingers on the round arm of Babsic the maid,

sea-anemone, that is "My little nothing," he boasted. "Now as for me, I can kill ten men before break- fast to get up an appetite."

"Drop my arm. Miss Margaret saya you are not a St companion for me," hie-Babaie faltered.

"Miss Margaret again. Is she so Margaret? You

Tarryton's rich as they say, this

These jewels you were speaking of diaphragm buckled worst of all.

Hils sister's peal of laughter wander the transom in

Where does she keep them?"

her cabin. cut short by another hiccup. "He

In a small metal casket her father was only curing me of sea-sickness."

ask?" "The dance is a cure for hlecups," sent from India. Why do you

"She must be careful, that's all. Taylor proposed.

lot of roughseruff on this There is ship, remember

girl, you are My

ish doubloon. There will be a moon prettier than the picture on a Span- for to-night's dance, and you shall dance with me, lady in the moon."

"So. You are reaching

"Well, then, one dance... Stanley, One I must show my gratitude. dance, Mr. Taylor, but you must not say anything."

THE William Brown with all sail set moved slowly across a calm sea. Taylor, lounging forward, saw

They danced, close-pressed, and the pale violinist from the Red Dragon playing softly for a flaxen-he said nothing. The music stopped, haired youth to dance a folk-dance Shadowed, they clung together and

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"Bounde," Tarryton cried. "The English government surprises you in the act of sigving and you say that overstep bounds."

with a pretty peasant girl. The said nothing. But his eyes tantalized moon, Mr. Powdah?"

Babsic whirled out of his arm. The youth's mother, Mrs. Martin, sat her. Then he sald, "If I could get a knitting, with now a smile for her toe-hold on the moon, I would bring kan went down and the moon rose, had prophesied. The son, and now an amused glance att down to make a halo for your as Powdah

was against the moon quarter-deck, lighted with red flores old Schmidt the 1oy-maker, who hend. It

and lard oll lamps, was alive with wound up a woolly lamb and placed saw it first."

"But

you promised musle. But the ship rolled a little. George it on the deck. The lamb look a stir

step or two, and felt over with nor Caplatz) 183100+ The fiaxon- hatred_youth.......

little

to talk?"

"You are trining with me then7" cen,

"Your brother at least is not In #

little Ba-a-n-a." Schmidt's

"I promised not to say anything," Murtin, wrapped in dreams, lingered daughter Tina seized it to her heart. he jested. "That is different. I am by the rail with bis peasant girl.

it is like a book," he "He has not got sen-legs yet. Het man of my word too." ivs only half made," Schmidt

"A short book perhaps. But short thuckled.

may have happy endings," trifling mood. Look, he is conspiring books with his friend D'Artagnan there..." Alleen said. They returned to the In fact, big with battle courage, dance, and Margaret took their place Tarryton was on the point of advanc-alone by the rail, in dove coloured satin and silver silppers. She grip- Ing to the attack again.

the rail hard with both hands. "Easy, my felead," de Bastonet the ped the swordsman cautioned him.

"Like our destinles," the Rever end Clark said a little sadly.

The Reverend was not alone in thinking that his destiny hung by a Tarryton thread. Stanley brittle came and plucked Taylor's arm.

"I have the honour to ask you again for the schedules I gave you.

The schedules. But I swore to you not to part with them to any- one," Taylor said blithely.

"You are quibbling sir."

"I was never more serious. member, the Orm is still Taylor and Tarryton."

goddesses are subject to "But she dances with him again. mal de mer," a voice said in her ear. You

2007"

"Perhaps it is the some dance. The dance of life, M'sieu."

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FIL

was Taylor, with his sympathetic eyes and his adruit hands. He look-

silm, powerful, intrigulag. "Leave me, I beg of you," the girl

"He has betrayed me. Whut if Re-were he who caused Margaret to murmured.

Martisel? 11 WD3.

"Not until I cure you." He opened under her nose. break with tear his chist."

a chamois pouch He shouldered Taylor Impudeaus "This is Kali Saggi. The gamborg make it out of roots and herbs.. It away from Margaret.

"Now you Dre overstepping eures nausea, but it may give you

biccups." bounds, Lieutenant."

"The firm is dissolved," Tarryton grated in a fury.

"Then the papers remala with thei senior partner," Taylor said lighily, and turned his back on Tarryton.

A thick volte cried pridefully, "Who can touch my knuckles to this bench?

A Yorkshire farmer, squatted on!

The fingers of his left hand closed "Bounds," Tarryton cried. "The! English government surprises you in on the back of her neck, be pushed "How dare you?" Margaret cried. the act of slaving, and you say that the pouch against her nostrils. I overstep bounds.

"You are not the English govern- "You, a slaver." one side of the bench, chuilenged all ment, remember, and you are not on is an American comers to the farmer's hand-grip. English soil. This A hulking tailor tried and failed. ship, and I am an American citizen. Crash, His knuckles split on the oak. Besides, the English government ex- Next?

onerated me."

"You try it, Mr. Edding," little Tina Schmidt conxed,

"Llar."

Tarryton simpped Toylor's face al

"A slaver, but I dare my duty - ways. Confess, the queer feeling is gone."

"Why...y-yca, it is gone," Mar- goret confessed, surprised.

"I'll teach you to iny, hunds on my

(To be Continued)

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