A SERIAL STORY
A TALE OF
• MYSTERY.
MY LADY:
By EDGAR WALLACE..
Author of "The Four Just Man," "The Sacrot" Houma." &o., &to.
JOHN MORLAY, head of a firm
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THE SAILOR'S JOB IN CHINA.
HOW BRITISH INTERESTS ARE
PROTECTED.
CONDITIONS ON YANGTSZE.
While holiday-makore, sitting at the sea-side, idly watch the war-! ships come and go, or pay u shilling towards naval charities for the privilege of inspecting some of the vessels of duty, it seems hard to realize that quite a numerous naval detachment is "This is indeed fame," said the on active service, on-lookers at father drily. No, Mr. Morlay, and sometimes participators in a won't sit down.. if you will for-kind of war, and sharing in distracting habit of war's privations, hardships, and Kive my restlessness-I will not keep you adventures. Yet this is so, and
"Father Benito isn't it?" he
of commercial Inquiry agents, unsaid as he offered his hand. dertakes to protect the beautiful young
COUNTESS MARIE FIOLI from the designs of JULIAN LESTER, young fortune hunter, who sus pects the Countess's nurse,
long."
1.
our naval men concerned some- Father Benito was a member of times wonder, with a faint amuse- MRS. CARAWOOD, head; of several shops in London, of having the Franciscan order, whose serment, that so little is heard about mons had attracted large and fit, a naval correspondent informs appropriated part of Marie's for fashionable audiences to a Fran- the Liverpool Post. tune. With Mrs. Carawood. Hves ciscan church in Mayfair. His HERMAN; a young man she has attacks on certain sections of adopted. He with FENNER, an society had made him famous, as eccentric carpenter, endeavours to John reminded him. The father frustrate the intentions. of MAR-made a little face, and his kindly TIN, an inquiry agent, and
Chapter XI.
a
No Sinecure.
and
It is not exactly a soft job, being on one of our war-ships on duty up the Chinese waterways. We have quite a respectable force eyes were filled with laughter. JOE SALTER, an ex-convict. "That's one of the penalties of out there, but there is plenty of employed by Julian to ferret out sincerity" he said. "One Heta work at times for all the units. details of Mrs. Carawood's talked about. In this world of Most of the British war-ships in Anancial circumstances. In the sham and make-belief the sincere the East are small, for the. reason meantime, John Morlay finds him- must inevitably be conspicinous. that heavy ships could not get up self falling in love with his ward, And before I go any farther, "Mr. the rivers, and in may instances whom he accompanies on expedi- Morlay, I want to tell you that would be unable closely to ap- tions about London.
haven't come, in the exercise of proach the coastal towns. Some my mission, but on personal large vessels are there, notably the affair. I spoke to Sir John Calder aircraft carriers Hermes last evening, and he suggested the Argus, but most of the other you were the men who could best vessels are destroyers and river gunboats. There are severnl of advise me."
the famous "Insect" family, which first made their appearance in the Great War, such as Mantis, Cock- chafer, Scarab, Bee, and Aphis. The "herbaceous border" is repre others, and among well-known boats on the station are Marazion, Keppel, Despatch, Carlisle, Wis hart, Bruce, Petersfield, Wanderer, Stirling, and the new arrivals which reached Shanghai in com- Pany in the middle of July, the Veteran, Witherington, Wivern, sounds like It and Verity
John smiled. "I never
expected to find a Franciscan among my clients," he
anid.
John Morlay sat down to take ac- count of himself. For three daya his duty had been light, and there had been little or no call for his attendance on his lovely charge. A normal man, he told himself, would have. welcomed the respite,
Far a second the father said for his work at that moment was heavy. There were callers to be nothing, and then he asked a ques-sented by Hollyhock and some interviewed, accounts to be investition that took the detective by sur cated, the movements of a long-prise. Arin swindler to be traced; and i some madness had not come to him he would have learnt with relief from day to day that Marie's time had been fully mapped out.
And yet he was irritated, and every ring of the telephone bell made his heart jump. He had cer
"Do you know the Countess Marie Fioli?" he asked.
John stared at him. "Why, yes, I know her fairly well."
"Do you know Mrs. Carawood, her-guardian?"
John nodded, wondering what was coming next. Father Bonito pondered for a while.
has
tainly apent one happy evening with Marie, when he had escorted
"The business which her to a theatre. What the play was about he never remembered, brought me here is rather a de- but there was music in it and dan-iicate one. cing girls, and somebody sang a Bong which most of the street boys
sense of
a page of the Navy List, which it literally is, or like a bit out of Kipling's "Fringes of the Fleet"
"Sent op Unity, Claribel, Assyri.
I am, as you realize, an, Stormcock, and Golden Gain."
worried You
to me.
Father Bonito nodded. "It is incredible! And yet of course I must accept your word. You are sure?"
in-
FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 23, 1927.
EX-CHAMPION'S HARD LUCK.
Jack Dempsey, who staged à come back recently, follow- ing his loss of the heavyweight title to Gene Tunney, and last night, met the holder, in a return match, and had the hard luck to lose on points.
BOXING SEASON."
(Continued from Page 1.)
SMART CAPTURE BY HAWKERS.
ROBBERS DETECTED ON A SHIP.
H. M. S. Berwick. They are A. B. Mudge, the featherweight champion
An attempted robbery which faile of the R. N. and R. M., and a wel terweight champion of the R. Ned, despite considerable labour ex- 1 and R. M., and a welterweight run-pended on it by three waterfront ner-up in the same tournament by thieves, was related to Major C. name, Crichton.
Willson at the Central Magistracy this morning,
I
It
was
"Kid" Marriott, ex-featherweight champion of Hongkong, is busy in Kowloon training quite a number four of good and enthusiastic boys for the coming season,
.*
stated
that for successive days three boarded the Tai Lee, only to leave it at the time
men
of sailing, To three fruit hawkers Jim Cartlidge is still goingarrying on business on the ship,
*
promoter and trainer" in Saigon.ang then substituted, in the place He is very keen to get a fight in the basket, another one nearly Hongkong during the coming sea-rembling it. Clearly, a robbery ion the three watching hawkers son, and has expressed his willingya in process, and on this assump- flosed in, and each made a capture, neys to meet Percy Lake.
BANK ROBBERY.
some
As it turned out, the hawkers were able to prove the theft at the Police Court this monring.
The dummy basket on being opened was found to contain nothing more valuable than a dirty jacket and package of salt.
Two of the arrested men had pre- vious convictions, and each received ix weeks' hard labour from the Magistrate. The third man was The National Commercial Sav-entenced to four weeks' hard
What do all these boats "do with strong. He recently put paid to this appeared a remarkable circum- coloured tance, and yesterday they left their in the world and yet out of it. themselves? Well, they are play the pretensions of a Matters, which seem of the higheating that exhausting, and some-fighter, Sam Minter, in a very hard esiness to watch developments. importance to the average
times exciting and deadly game contest.
They saw the first man remove a were whistling.
Moreover, and this syniptom mean nothing whether
Andre Dupre, the French light-dothes-basket from a woman pas- alarmed him, he had found himself Nevertheleas, my vowa do not re- called "protecting British
The third individual in the at extraordinary hours wandering tease me from a certain obligation terests." Some of them have been along Penton-street. Once, at five to society. I am troubled and fat it almost without a break since weight, whose fights with Cartlidge enger, and pass it to the second o'clock in the morning, he had worried more than I thought was last November getting hundreds will be remembered, is now boxer, man. passed under her window, and the possible by this--" lie seemed t of miles up the great Chinese mere fact that he did not feel un-a loss for words to describe the rivers, especially the Yangtze, Look on a map of China and note utterably foolish was discreditable cause of his disquiet.
about Chenglin. It is a good way up the "Are to his innate sense of humour.
Yangtaze and is the highest point He always had an excuse to him- Countess Marie?"
A long- "Yes, in a sense," said Father reached by one of our destroyers. self for these excursions.
And then and its remoteness from the coast forgotten suggestion of his doctor Benito, after a pause. that he should take a long walk be. he made a statement which brought and all help will give an idea of fore breakfast was one, but there John Morlay to his feet, wide-eyed, what jobs the Navy takes on in
"You don't mean that!"
time of peace. "Protecting British consists largely in interests" was no reason in the world why
(Continued from Page 1.) he should be standing on the op-
keeping a watch on the river posite side of the street, looking at the light in her window, when the
traffic to see that British trading vessels pass to and fro on their Kiangse Road to the west side Ile died at clock was striking twelve on the
Forgetful of his restlessness, the lawful occasions without let or Two shots were fired at him, the second night after her coming.
reverend father pulled a chair up hindrance. Chinese. armies have first proving fatal. Here, however, his humour triumphed, and he went to the desk, and for half an hour a nasty knack of firing from the Shantung Road Hospital back to his fiat chuckling irritably he spoke with scarcely an interrup-bank at anything going by, and time later. at himself. He wondered what the tion from John. Once the tele- there are the numerous pirates to dead and gone Morlays, those phone bell rang, and John Morlay be frightened away, or, if neces-ings Bank is a British-registered labour. sedate and dignified men, would went out of the room and instruct-sary, chased, and fought. For bank and does a considerable local have thought of their descendant, ed his assistant to put through no some months there has been no and outport business. There were
A Chinese was brought before They were men whose love affairs further calls. For the rest of the need for actual fighting. Watch, three vaults on the ground floor!
રા low however, is incessant and the where the Russian burglars were Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning had run a smooth and conventional time the men talked in house, and in his most extra- tone, and in the end John accom-price of safety and the security working. One of them contained charged with hawking without a vagant moment he couldpanied the robed figure to the door. of merchant shipping (not British! "I will put the matter into your
is believed, & considerable-quan-full possession of one tael-of-non- imagine either Uncle Percival or
tity of paper currency also. Had Covernment opium. A Chinese evidence, Uncle Jackson mooning like a love hands and be guided entirely by only, but of all nations) is eternal large quantity of silver, and it licence, as well as being in and a
gave the burglary proved successful the detective, who Drill And Discipline. slek calf before an old clothes you," said Father Benito at part- ing. "I feel you ought to know
Besides watching and protect-Russians would have found them-tated that the man was arrested phop.
He had made three calls in the this. I am glad I have told you
when he attempted to throw some- hope of catching a glimpse of her, happier because I feel that the ings there is the unfailing routine selves comfortably well off for the for hawking without a licence, but Efforts are now being made by thing away the detective noticed but on each occasion she was out. girl's interests are safe in your of drill and discipline, varied with rest of their lives. Once she had gone with Mrs, Cara- hands. That is the thing that was such things as signal exercises,
or 7 days' hard labour In defaulti wood to a concert; once, he learned, worrying me--the possibility that involving the exchange of mesthe police to locate the other mem that it was opium. A fine of $4, for hawking without a licence, to- to his intense annoyance, that poor little Marie might, through
gether with $75, or six weeks' hard labour for posscasion of the drug, Julian had taken her to his couno fault of her own, be irretrieva-sages between war-ships and iner-bers of the gang. dine to tea. He loathed Julian bly hurt. I should not have for that in the first three months of
was imposed by his Worship. with a ferocity beyond understand given myself if that had happen this year the highest percentages ing. He was little less thun a All that afternoon John Morlay in the signalling returns came! criminal, he thought, in his sordid struggled with the new problem from the China station. H.M.S. pursuit of the girl.
John Morlay was sitting with which had been set him: a problem Keppel and the Third Destroyer
THE WINTER LIST. been dismissed after 3 second's exereises, and H.MS. Bruce and his head in his hands, his work which a week before, would have Flotilla carried out 155 successful neglected, when the aged clerk thought; and, at the end of his the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla were
The following is the list of lec- announced a visitor."
self-cxamination, he reached only second with 97 successful ex- "A monk?" said John, in amazone conclusion that, whoever was ercises. Danger is wonderful tures so far arranged by the incentive to make merchant ves- Hongkong Lodge of the Theong- ment. "What the dickens does he hurt, Marie must be saved. want? Show him in."
His mind was occupied by the sels keep in touch with the pro-phical Society, to take place in As the Visitor came through the thoughts of her when the telephonetecting war-ships. door he had a dim idea that he bell rang and her fresh voice hailed had met this grey-bearded figure in him.. the rough habit of a
"Guardian angel, I want you to arder, a rope girdle about his take me to ten."
He almost flew down the stairs waist, his head and his feet 'bare save for sandals. And then he to obey her summons.
(To be Continued). remembered.
religious
ed."
Surgeon Captain P. M. May with the exception of cricket, writes to the Times: As a medi-being inexpensive, hygienic, leav ing the lower extremities free and
vigilance.
chant vessels. It is significant
THEOSOPHICAL LECTURES.
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The work of the Navy in China Voeux Road, on Sunday Evening
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WIS
Sept. 25th-The Theosophical
of all concerned. The extremes Society, Mr. J. Russell.
Oct. 2nd-Buddhism, Mr. Wei of weather are remarkable. At Nanking in December the tem- Tat, B.A. perature
14
Oct. 9th-The Ancient Wisdom, degrees Fahrenheit, and in June it had Mr. H. E. Lanepart. '.
Oct. 16-Reincarnation, Mr. J. soared up to 120! Such varia-
Power of Oct. 23rd-The tion would be trying on large and Russell. comfortable ships: in destroyers
cal officer of some considerable unencumbered by tubes of cloth they are devastating. There are Thought, Mr. H. E. Lanepart.
Oct. 30th-Confucianism, Mr. experience, and also as one of the or flannel, and, to my mind, It is no double awainga, ventilation is early wearers of this useful article artistic. "Shorts" are eminently inadequate, and even the drink-Wei Tat, B.A.
Nov. 6th-Cause and Effect of clothing, I have difficulty la suitable for walking, which very ing water is lukewarm. To add understanding why "shorts" are excellent exercise seems to be on to all the other discomforts, there (Karma), Mr. J. Russell...
Nov. 13-The Guardians of es the verge of disappearing, and are swarms of mosquitoes and not more universally worn, pecially in schools. I believe I also for cycling. I adopt this rigies of quite special persistence Humanity, Mr. H. E. Lahepart
destroyer Nov. 20th-Taoism, Mr. Wel am correct in stating that they are invariably on my holidays, but and venom. When a worn all the year round at I fear I am looked upon as being chugging up river atops at a Tat, B.A.
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