PAID IN FULL

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21218, 14 September 1940, Page 12 (Supplement)

PAID IN FULL

NEW SERIAL STORY

by H. S. Sarbert

rmiiimimiimmmimimiiiiimiimmin CHAPTER VII. Harry Responsible “Harry responsible!” Carrie exclaimed. She glanced from one to the other of the men. Then she took a quick step towards her father. “What do you mean?” she said sharply. “Harry has done no wrong. Everything he did was under your guidance, father. You said his plans were quite all right, and the material that was used—or is to be used—in the construction ” “Should be under the direct supervision of Mr Harry Preston, who signed the papers and got out the plans,” Freeman interrupted, in his dry, hard voice. “But Harry is ill. He has been injured—seriously injured. , He mustn’t be worried in any way.” “That's bad news; but I have my duty to do!” said Freeman. “I must tell your father exactly what has happened. That’s why I’m here.” “Father ” Wilmer Lucas made a quick gesture. He did not keep a great deal from his daughter. These two had not many illusions about each other. They both believed in the good things of life—a good time at any cost, ease and luxury, making the most of this world, and not worrying in the least about the next; that was their code. That it was a code that was utterly wrong, a code

Symphony Orchestra. 8.4 o: Reserved. 9.0: Daventry news, followed by Dominion and district weather reports and •nation notices. 9.10: The 2Y.\ Concert Orchestra Conductor: Leon de Manny. <) to- The Orchestra. 9.25: Dennis Noble ’baritone). 9.3 4: The Orchestra. 9.45: Richard Tauber (tenor). 9.54: The Orchestra i 0.0 Close of normal programme, t During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight. Daventry 3Y A Christchurch (720 kilocycles'.— 11.0: Methodist, service, relayed front Fas' Beit Methodist Church. Preacher: Rev. «». It Harris. Organist and choirmaster: K. 1L Sherris. 7.u: Roman Catholic Service, relaved from the Christchurch cathedra;. Preacher: Rev. Fr. J. S. O'Brien. organist: Miss Kathleen OT.onnor. Choir conductor: Mi ms Mary O'Connor. S.LS: Recordings. 8.30: Vienna Philharmonic O relies tra. S.3S: Sydney Tune Ewan v tenon. 8.45: Reserved. 9.0: Daventry new-, followed by Dominion and district weather reports and station notices. 9.10: “Locusts”: A struggle with Nature. A drama bv \Y. Graeme Holder, presented by the nbs. 9.40: Two short recitals. 9.5-2: Mary Lewis (soprano). 10.0: Close ot normal programme. (During the war. the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight. Daventry news, n ;..m.) 4YA Dunedin (790 kilocycles I 1.0: Salvation Army Service, relayed front the saivairon Army Citadel. preacher: Adjutant Kta Ora Tyler. Choirmaster: W. A. Baylis. Band conductor: A. Millard. Recordings. o.3o: Anglican Service, relived from St. John’s Anglican Church. Preacher: Archdeacon A. C. H. Mutton Choirmaster and organist: G. Wilkinson. 7.45: Recordings. 8.30: sir Edward Elgar The Russian Cathedral' Choir. s.-i r. ; Reserved. 9.0: Daventry news, followed by Dominion and district weather reports and station notices. 9.10: “Music from the Theatre.” The Opera “Maritana,” by William Vincent Wallace. 10.20: Close of normal programme. (During the war, the station will remain oil the air until 12 midnight. Daventry news, li p.m.)

that must in due time bring about its own punishment, was a lesson J that Wilmer had not yet learned i himself, it seemed—or. if he had • '.earned it, had deliberately put it j it the back of his mind, and not J assed on to his daughter. But, at the same time, Carrie was ot aware of everything that had happened in this case. She might nave guessed something, but she cer.ainly did not know the whole truth. She did not know, for instance, that this building scheme had been one huge fraud from the beginning. Harry’s plans had certainly been I used, and they were really quite j good. If they had been submitted j to an experienced and expert man, j certain alterations might have been I suggested, even insisted upon, but ! that would have been all to Harry’s 1 good. He would have been learn - | ing something. Nothing of the kind j had been done, however, Lucas and i his colleague. Freeman, had one idea I only in mind—to make the biggest I and quickest profit. Already money j had come in in quite considerable I amounts, in the form of deposits by i prospective purchasers of houses on | the estate, and this had been used, i This was why the news that Freeman had brought was rather serious, and why Lucas decided that it would be better to see him alone. “I'll speak to you presently, Carrie,” he told his daughter. “I’ll just take Freeman along to my study, and we’ll talk about these things there. You won’t be going out just yet, will you?” “No, not yet; but I’m deeply interested in this matter, father, for it seems to concern Harry and me quite a lot.” “Perhaps it does,” her father answered. “But I’ll tell you more about it later on, my dear. Come, | Freeman!” Continental Holiday : The two men were together for the ! best part of an hour; then Freeman j took his departure, and Carrie went ! to her father’s study. It did not 1 need a second glance to tell her that Ihe was decidedly worried. He was | pacing up. and down his room as his | daughter entered, and he motioned j her to the armchair, but he did not i speak for some moments, j Carrie began to find the silence 1 more than she could bear. “Father, please!” she begged, “what is all this trouble? What exactly does it mean?” “You know George Wyman, the solicitor, don’t you, my dear?” “I’ve met him once or twice—yes, but ” “You know he doesn’t like me?” Carrie looked straight at her father. “I know that Mr Wyman is suspicious of you, father,” she answered quietly. “I know he looks on some of your transactions as—shady.” Wilmer Lucas sat at his desk biting his finger nails —a rather unusual thing for him to do, a habit in which he indulged only when something was perplexing him very much. I (To be continued)