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AFTER THE BIRTH OF
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DEATHS.
BY
THE HONGLONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7r", 1919.
GUY THORNE. (Author of "When It Was Dark," "A Lost Cause," etc.).
Mr. Baltug nodded to Wisten, who left, the room quietly.
I need no
THE PATH OF A HUNDRED' The richly furnished ball was silent and empty, lit with hanging Moorish lamps of old silver and opal tinted glass. "Now, Arthur," Mr. Saltus, said, "I Mechanically, he hung up his hat and see that you ara thoroughly done, and went heavily up the wide carpeted stair-small blame to you. I have every detail case to the library, which was Mr. of this affair in my mind. Saltas private and particular room, sleep. Indeed, there is so much to bo He pushed open the door and entered. done that sleep to me would be criminal The shutters were closed, and heavy at this moment. But it is different for curtains were drawn over them, but the you. Unless you rest, you will be fit for room was brilliantly lit Upon a small nothing to-morrow. To-night I have table at one side a light supper was laid, designed for the opening of the sealed and Wisten was sitting in a chair by the packet left by your father. It is im Archar entered, and a foud sob of relief papers have to tell us. It becomes more Greside. The little valet jumped up as perative that wo learn all that those imperative than ever in view of Muriel's Will you
CHAPTER X
OPENING THE SEALED PACKET.
Arthur Hughes stopped out into the dark courtyard at the back of the Empire Skating Rink, lit only by a single feeble
as lamp.
burst from hin
Oh, sir," he said, "I cannot say how
things. This news is so terrible.' glad I am you've got here safe. I have been imagining all sorts of dreadful
I Mrs, Parker here?" Arthur
asked, quickly.
"Yes, sir, she is down-stairs with one to attend to her." of the maid-servants whom I called up Arthur mid go and
will
Mee her
at once," Wisten suniled. You Forget, sir," he replied in a quiet voice, you cannot see Mrs. Parkor."
"
be
disappearance. You are in no fit state
to go through these papers. trust me to do so?
thousand times," Arthur answered. Can you doubt it?"
Mr. Saltus handed Arthur a pen-knife, | and with shaking fingers the young man cut the red tape which the seals secured. Directly he had done so Mr. Saltus put the half-upen packet upon the table.
The back door closed behind him. night air, with a sense of utter and total He stood there breathing in the mid- strangeness, of worse than that, of fear.
He was dressed in a sober suit of black, "I tried various remedica, but these only wore a silk hat upon his head.
a collar of an unaccustomed pattern, and
Without another word Mr. Saltus wont to one side of the room. He pulled away to kipsit my stomach and made me worse. After hand was an umbrella with a hooked In his
A tall screen of gilded Spanish leather, Every meat I was waised with violent pains in handle, which had seen some service. His
revealing the door of a small Chubbs the chest merompsuled by naneen, which later hrnet felt hot and curiously uncomfortable
safe let into the wall. He opened it, and after a momentary search brought out a became so bad that I was afraid to take selld under the marvellous wig of red hair
large packet of papers, sealed in many which covered it. His mouth, entirely
places, and marked, in a flowing legal hidden by a heavy red moustache, so
hand, To be opened by my son when catly and skilfully stuck to the skin- Arthur ground his foot into the carpet.ie leaves prison, and by no one else hair by hair having been placed in posi-For a moment he had been oblivious of under any circumstances. tion and secured with a minute drop of his hunted state, of his disgrace. spirit gun worked and trembled.
There is nothing to do, then," The terrible news which had been said, "until Mr. Baltus arrives?" brought to the secret room by Wisten Nothing at all, sir," Wisten answer- three-quarters of an hour ago had shakened, "but if you will be guided by me, him to the very foundations of his being, sir, you will take a little food and some- No incident of his escape, no moment of thing to drink.". his continued peril, had affected him like Arthur made an impatient gesture this. Tes bear that the girl he loved more with his hand, but the little man was than anything else in the world, the not to be denied. He went to the side bright, radiant girl whom but few table, there was a pop, and in a moment hours ago he had been holding in his or two Arthur found himself mechanically arms, had vanished utterly from among eating a sandwich of caviare and sipping her people, was a blow so staggering and wine did him good-Wisten was wise
at a foaming glass of Heidrick. The sudden, that mind and body reeled under and he had hardly set down the empty When they had gone, Mr. Saltus took He had been given brandy, he had been Saltus, his light overcoat turned up jacket, filled a glass of soda-water inne-
glass, when the door opened, and Mr.
off his coat, rxchanged it for a smoking forced to pull himself together. Napoleonic friend and counsellor had round his face, and a soft hat pressed cent of whisky, lit a long cigar, and sat animated him with his own courage and poseful steps.
over his brow, enterod with quick, pur down at the writing table. decision. The blow had fallen Matsumi
His fine in- night'e composed sleep, for nightmares and had made his supreme counter move-that"Now I am going to see Mrs. Parker. arranged then in order upon the table, Good," he said, when he saw Arthur.telligent face was set and stern, and as he lifted out the folded documents and was all the more reason why, during You will stay here." Taking off his there was a steady and almost dreadful should keep control of all his faculties. Wisten, he left the room again hurriedly, every moment of this crisis, Arthur coat and hat, and handing them to light of purpose in his eyes. The strong courageons words of Mr. and was absent for some half-an-hour. Saltus rang in his cars still. It rested At the end of that time, he came up into grently with him whether Muriel could the library.
Mr. I. de Filva, o' t'eylon, Restored to Health by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. food and consequently became very omaelated During the two years that my illness continued I on truthfully say I did not enjoy a single
Teakening night sweats greatly disturbed me, and in the mornings I arose feeling totally unit for the day's work.
it alike.
"For a considerable time my health remained in this critical state, and it was not until Mr. Dharmaratne, Editor of the well known Sinha.be saved or not. Less newspaper, Lakminipahana," told me of the merits of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills that my hope of recovery revived.
His
Immediately after delivering his news, Wisten had been sent back to Half Moon
Street.
H
"I have heard all there in to hear," he said, and it throws no light what ever upon Muriol's disappearance. I have telephoned to Scotland Yard. In For half an hour Arthur had been com-
a minute or two an inspector will be "After taking only a few bottles of Dr.pelled to remain still-constantly soothed here. Do you feel able to be present at Williams' Pick Pills I slept better and the and heartened up by Mr. Saltus, whose the interview? I neglect no ehance enervating night sweats disappeared. My
confidence never failed for a moment whatever. To all intents and purposes, appetite improved and I could take solid food while the adroit artist, Mr. Willy, had you are Andrew Lauris, who is always completed his splendid and impenetrable een about with me. It is a small point without feeling any after discomforts. I began disguise. When at length the young man perhaps, but the fact of your being pre- to put on weight, and found myself altogether stood up and gazed at himself in the sent and assisting at the interview, will in a much better state of health. I continued mirror he could not believe the evidence add another safeguard to your freedom There is no risk if your nerves can stand taking D: Williams' Pink Pilis antil all traces of his own eyes. To all intents and pure strain, of the Headaches and Brok-pains disappeared, there, and the closest scrutiny would
poses it was Andrew Laurio who stood "I can do it" Arthur replied, and and I have had no return of any of the have failed to detect the imposture. symptoms of my illness since.".
Now, however, a great ordeal lay be fore him. To an ordinary man, to walk out from a back alley into Regent Street tu summer a cab, and to be driven the short distance to Piccadilly would be as nothing. Bat to the hunted convict, his nerves worn and fretted to breaking point by the intense strain of his escape, his whole consciousness reeling under a blow more terrible than any he had ever known, the task was indeed no easy one. Yet it had to be undergone. Mr. Saltus plans had ben carefully laid.
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"Now," he said, pressing a bell-push, "Wisten will take you to your room." From drawer in the writing table ka reduced a little bottle full of tabloids. which will culm your nerves, and ensure sleep. Take three of them dissolved in water immediately, Wisten, so that Mr. the Poom which is prepared for him." Arthur is made comfortable at once in
This.be said, is ammonium bromide,
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About mid-day on the following morn ing, Mr. Saltus left his house in Half Moon Street. He wore a light grey frock-coat, and a flower in his button- hole, and was as well dressed as smart man about Town on that bright morning. Swinging the Malacca cane with a gold top which he usually carried, he walked briskly in the direction: f Mayfair. He had been busy with the police for the last hour. At nine bleek that morning the porter and hall officials with Professor Martin hitself, had been of the Empire Skating Rink, together strictly examined by the officials of Scot land Yard. Professor Martin know during the ten minutes' interview that
nothing, save that he had noticed Miss Tracey in the rink during the afternoon, followed he sat by the writing table, and the man who put on the skates distinctly occasionally joined in the conversation. remembered taking off Miss Tracey's, and peaking, strung up as he was, in a voice placing them in the locker which she so like that of the absent secretary that rented. He also remembered that the even Winten and Mr. Saltus started now young lady had been in company with an and again. The Inspector, a keen-faced elder one who was a frequent visitor to man, with a moustache, questioned Mrs, the rink. The porter and the clerk in the Parker with the greatest care. He pro-ticket-office-where the telephone also was mised that within a few minutes the threw more light upon the subject. machinery of the Yard would be work They explained that Miss Tracey had left ing, but he said that little could be done the rink, in company with the well-known until the officials in the hall of the Skat-suciety lady, Mrs. Albemarle, of Mayfair, ing Rink could be examined, which and had driven away in the latter's moter This new factor would not be until breakfast time..
eluded, "and we shall know much more
breagham. It is only a few hours, sir," he con- when the day dawns. Meanwhile every thing that is possible will be done He was moving to go when Arthur rose from his sent.
made no difference. It was essential that the young man should carry out his patron's programme in its minutest de- tail. He walked out of the yard and down the narrow street which led to the Quadrant.
All other sensations were swallowed up
news.
the Mayfair fiat.
The police had immediately called at received them, and had been thrown into Mrs. Albemarle had
a dreadful state of consternation by their She had, she informed them, "I will see re to the door, Mr. Inspec-offered to drop Miss Tracey on her way MINERAL WATERS in the strangeness of being alone, a free library walked downstairs into the hall the corner of Grosvenor Street, and said der, he drawled and leaving the home. She had stopped the brougham at man, in the streets of Town. He passcil with the Inspector.
good-bye" to the girl in ordinary out to Regent Street. It was half-past one. All the public houses and restaur-
"I am sure, Mr. Inspector," he said, fashion. She had then returned straight "that you will do your verra best to to her fint. This was corroborated by ants were closed, but a few wretched discover the young leddio, and I can tell irs. Themarle's chauffeur, and also by women still moved listlessly up and down you, as Mr. Sultus confidential man of the servants at her flat. The porter at
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Curiously enough, the it will be munde verra well-worth your the chauffeur, examined separately. from home at a cost of 90 dont young man felt little fear of these officers while."
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The Inspector nodded. Thank you, returned home about 6.30. Then you
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and a wild recklessness which had something possible; and, of course, any reward that that Miss Tracey had disappeared of her
Consignees of Cargo by the above-named Captain Robert White, having arrived, Coo contains no disenes gorms, heady and intoxicating in it. He walks offered well, rewards do have a
own volition, and they hinted strongly vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are signees of Cargo are hereby informed that their With the
ed with a fem step towards a massive stimulating effect, don't they?
to Mr. Saltus what their suspicions were being landed and placed AT THEIR RISE in the Goods are being lauded and placed at their risk constable, who was standing opposite the
Ye've formed no theory, Inspector?"
Meanwhile, everything possible was being Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown in the hazardous and or extra Café Royal, looking round him for a cab Arthur asked.
Godowns at Kowloon, where anch Consign Godewus of the Hengkong and Kowloon Whart as he did so. The taximeters had all dis-
done to find the missing girl. Mr. Saltus ment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and and Godown Company, Ltd., whence delivery The Inspector looked round him care had said nothing committal, though he appeared from the streets at this hour, fully. “Well, sir.' he said, in a con-
Optional Goods will be landed here unleas All Claims must be presented within ten days. instructions are given to the contrary within of the stomer's arrival here, or they will not be Now, jauntily, nodding and smiling to 6 hom not cleared within 8 days including family and all that, but you know the various acquaintances he met to all
recognised. young lady was engaged to young Mappearance as if he had not a care in the date of arrival will be subject to rant.
Goods Hughes....
"I mind it world, he walked to Curzon Street; May- Arthur nodded gravely.
No Fire Insurance will be affected by me in well. he said. The young man was fair, and rang the bell of the expensive any case whatever.
Damaged packages must be left in the convicted just before I entered the sort neenpied by Mrs. Albemarle. vice of Mr. Saltus, and, of course, in He gave his card to the maid, who Godown for examination by the Consignees common with the rest of the warrid, I ushered him into the bright and pretty and the
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drawing-room, and a few minutes after-and Dovolas, et 10 AM. O MONDAYS Arthur, looked for a moment, and then Marvellous thing," said the Inspec-wards Mrs. Albemarle, in a brilliant ad THURSDAYS. All Claims must be presented whistled. There was a clatter of hoofs,ter.
within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, "I wish I had been put on the job. morning toilette, hurried into the room. and the cab came rapidly towards them. Our meu seen to have blundered in an "Oh, Mr. Saltus," she said, effusively No Claims will be admitted after the Goods after which date they cannot be recognised. Arthur entered it, gave the friendly extraordinary way; but still, what I was we have met, I think, once or twice-hava left the Godowns. guardian of the streets a shilling, which going to say, sir, that it has crossed my what dreadful news this is about poor was received with a gratified salute, and mind that the young lady iney not have Muriel Tracey. The police have been was driven rapidly towards Half Moon been decoyed away by anybody, but may here this morning, and I have given them Street.
have taken the opportunity of rejoining every information in my power. Doubt- So far, so good. That constable, who her lover wherever he may be. In view
less they may have told you. As I under- stand, in the absence of Major and Mrs. Morduant, you are doing all you can."
Mr. Saltus bowed. Yes," he said, Mrs. Albemarle, I have heard all that
"DEN OF GLAMIS," having arrived from the above Porte, Consignees And you have come to Bee une?
THE
THE sbore-mentioned Vossel having arrived, of Cargo by her are horohy informed that all Naturally you have. But I fear I can
Consiguess of Cargo are hereby notified Goods are being landed at their risk into the The poor girl to send in their Bills-of-Lading for counter-hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the tell you nothing more. seems to have vanished utterly.
signature and take delivery of Cargo from Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Her acting was perfect, the distress in Godown. Cargo will be landed at. Consignees Co., Ltd., whence and or from the wharves her voice seemed real enough, but the risk.
may be obtained. delivery wars, keen observer saw the glint in the
Goods not cleared by the 11th inst, at 6 r... woman's eyes, and knew how well aware
will be subject to rent she was of why he was standing there in
broken, chafed
and damaged packages are to be left in the Godkowie, where they will bo the sunny drawing-room...
"We are quite alone ?" he asked.
examined on 10th fust., at 10 am. Cisims Quite," she returned, with a look
against the Steamer must be presented her head abould be harmed. Then Splendid! Splendid my hoy," he Saltas ? of
within 10 days of arrival, otherwise they will towards the door. "What is it, Mr.
not be recognized. and there he made a mental resolve to
Perfect!
But I am afraid With your permission, I will sit sacrifice everything if it would do the slightest good. He dismissed his cab, you've overdone it as far as you your-down," he returned, doing so as
"Now, Mr. Albemarle, I have come to and let bief into the house at Half self are concerned." Moon Street with Andrew Laurie's key. and be sank helplessly into a chair,
They helped the young man upstairs, ask you where Muriel Tracey is." (Continued on Page 8.).
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must have seen his photograph a dozen of what has happened, it secus highly
times in the last few days in the secret likely that they have been in communics police news, had absolutely failed to de- tion, and, if that is the case, you may tect anything unusual in him. Almost take my word for it, Mr. Laurie, that
to go.
"
Arthur answered, Holding
immediately, however, the excitement of the discovery of the convict will only the police have to say." the past moment vanished, and it was with be a matter of hours."
Well," an icy fear at his heart that the young man traversed the short distance he had open the front door, "the young fellow has made a sporting attempt, and I wish Still, the law must do its Muriel had disappeared! Muriel was him no_ill. in the hands of his enemies! This was
duty. Good night, Inspector, and good, indeed a master stroke, and how it would luck with your investigations."
He held the door open for a moment, end was tunes that he should be re-and watched the man stride away with
impossible to foresce. Better captured, sentenced to another long term quick, martial footsteps. Then he closed f imprisonment, give up all hope of it, and leant against the wall of the hall, of rehabilitating his name and avenging his white and shaking, sick to very death.
Mr. Saltus came hurriedly down the father's death than that one single bair
followed by Wisten.
said.
to
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