A SERIAL STORY
A TALE OF
MY LADY: MYSTERY.
CHAPTER XXII,
By EDGAR WALLACE. Author of "The Your Just Men," "The Booret House"&a, &c.
was
hand on the boy's shoulder with
friendly smile.
Nothing untoward
dis. "It's all right, Herman. I want covered at the inquest. By the to talk to Mrs. Carnwood about papers found on his body, Joe what happened last week," he Salter had been. granted the said. King's pardon and released from "Herman knows," she mur- Broadmoor. The doctor said that mured, and sat down quickly, for he was suffering from angina her knees seemed to be giving way pectoris, which was likely to kill beneath her.. him at any moment. Tucked Herman brought a chair for away in an inside pocket were ten John.. It was the chair in which new notes for five pounds. These Joe Salter had sat to eat his last the police were to trace to Mr. meal..
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Julian Loster, that amateur bur-" "I didn't come along and ask glar. There were evidences that questions," said John. "I saw it be had been drinking a little, in the papers, Now tell me quite enough to hurt a man in his all about It," and, when she tate of health, and the theory hesitated, he went on quietly: I was that the little phials of amyl know all about Marie, There is nitrite without which he
was only one living, member of the warned never to move a step, had Fioli family-Emilo Benito Fioli. been stolen from him, or lost They call him Father Benito in while he was drunk. He hadLondon." wandered about in the night; Mrs "You know!" she gasped, and Carawood's shop door had been John smiled. left open (here Herman admitted) "Yes; Father Benito came to that he was probably responsible), and he had strayed in, latent on plunder. had been taken ill and died before he could rouse any one to give him help. -
hear about Marie, and he was worried. He knew that his sister had died childless, Curiously enough, he knew that you had a daughter. It was easy to guess the rest, Mrs. Carawood. Now tell me."
An Intelligent jury brought in a verdict of "Death from Natural Chuses." Mrs. Carawood wen', a
Haltingly she told him the reputation for sentimentality and truth, right' up to the moment generousity that she did not want, when she went to bed that night, when she had him buried at her all the courage of her long fight, expense instead of by the parish.all the depth of her love for her
That night.
child, revealed in the faltering "He's dead-that's all that mat-sentences. ters," said Herman, and the cold- And to John Morlay, accustom- bloodedness of the youth mide ker-ed of hearing of people too wicked to wish to rise out of the mire, or They were sitting in the living too weak to rise if they wished it. room, no longer caring to remain she seemed something of a in the shop when business was miracle. As she ceased speaking. over. The gas Hissed harshlyhe turned to Horman. the electric light did not extend "And after that?" he queried. beyond the shop-Herman having turned it too high in his desire to dispel every shadow lurking in the corners.
gasp.
Mrs. Carawood shook her head. Her eyes were rêd with weeping. The neighbours, who whispered and peered about the shop, won dered to see the level-headed Mrs. Carnwood so upset about the death of a casual burglar.
"After that I told him to clear out." said Herman boldly.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
GEN. TANG: GOES TO HUNAN.
REVIEWS ARMIES IN YOCHOW AND CHANGSHA.
NANKING REGIME OPPOSED.
nanese
THURSDAY,
OCTOBER
1927.
JILTED LOVER'S VOW OF SECLUSION.
1
HERMITS GUARDED BY WILD BEES.
ESSEX FOREST ROMANCE.
For fifty years two brothers have dwelt alone, entirely secluded from the world, in an amazingly- contrived fortress in a wild part of Essex, England.
General Tang Seng-chi, accom- panied by several hundred of his bodyguards, left Hankow on the gunboat, Wen Shu, on Sunday night (Sept. 25) for Hunan to ins-
Having boen jilted, a 20-year-old pect his troops in that province. youth, in 1877, wowed that he General Tang will review the Hu- would never see A human face troops at Yochow and again. His brother, with wonder- Changsha. The various govern-ful loyalty, went into voluntary ment and party organs at Chang-exile with him. sha have wired here to the affect Their hiding place, guarded by that arrangements have been com- swamps, barbed wire, galvanised Tang. It is understood that Gen- surely one of the most remarkable pleted for the welcome of Gen. iron, and hives of wild bees, is, eral Tang will make a series of im- dwelling places on earth. In the portant speeches during his trip half-century, the recluse has seen of inspection.
and spoken to only two men, other than his brother.
The split between Hankow and Nanking seems to 'be drawing nearer and nearer, says the Hankow Herald Kuomintang leaders here are unanimous in op- posing the Special Committee at Nanking which is carrying out the functions of the Central Executive Committee, The Senang Pu (Provincial Kuomintang) and Shih Tang Pu (Hankow District Kup- mintang) have issued a joint tele- gram in which they object to the Central Special Committee fune tioning in place. of the C. E. C. declaring that some of the mem- bers of the Committee are traitors of the party, having been expelled some time ago.
Mr. Wang Ching-wei continues to be the popular leader among the Wuhan group. Telegrams have been received by him from all government and party organs are ing him to withdraw his resigna- tion..
Finance Acads Changed.
The woman in the case" celebrates her golden wedding this year.
Fifty years ago, James Mason, the sensitive, ill-treated son of a Crimean warrior, living at Great Chanfield, Essex, was Jilted.
It was a strange courtship. Ac- cording to accounts, Mason, from the solitude of his father's garden, responded to the girl's whistle, throwing notes weighted by eix- pences over a high hedge,
. But the final rejection of his suit resulted in an impulsive vow never to see a human face again. except that of his devoted brother, Thomas, who also vowed to guard James from intrusion for the rest of their lifetime. During the same afternoon the brothers pur- chased two acres of land in a wild part of Essex, and by nightfall had commenced to build a sort of jungle fortress, secure against in- tercourse with mankind-surely, the most extraordinary home in the world.
As an important development in the local political and financial
Barbed Wire Entanglements. situation, practically all the heads. A representative of the Daily of the Finance Ministry have Mail, describing his discovery of been changed by order of the the entrance to the brothers' re Finance Commission of the Wuhan treat, says: "A thousand yards Political Council. The new ap from the roadway I encountered a pointments are: Tang Tai-yi, morass, deliberately formed by Chief of the Secretariat, Teng Pin, drainage from surrounding
ive's face, but vanished at the Bureau, Teng Shou-chuen, Salt
boy's earnestness.
"And he didn't."
"No. He told me to get out, or he'd do for me.....and then he came over queer, and....and..he asked me to pass the medicine over."
"I'm sorry for him now, Her- man: and its all rather a mystery face. to me."
"There's no mystery, Mrs. Cari- wood. He's dead," said Herman. looking round nervously.
John's eyes were on the boy's
"Well?" he asked. "Well. I didn't."
There was an air of defiance "Yes, I know," she nodded.challenge. Mrs. Carawood
about the lad's words, almost of "But I mean, it's so queer how ishivering, and looked at John some people can be cruel, some fearfully.
was
Bureau.
A smile fitted over the detec-Chief of the Tax Bureau, Wang streams, and then a seven-feet Chi, Tobacco and Wine Tax high barbed wire fence interwoven among the trunks and branches of Tax Bureau, Tung Ching-chien, trees. Moveable planks provided Auditing Bureau, Liu Hung-ahu, a crossing over several streams, and then I came upon a corrugated Bureau, Government Property
surrounded by many Soong Yen-chun, Anti-Opium Tax iron hut,
years accumulation of debris..
**This was Thomas Mason's Warrants Issued For Arrest Of home, his sentry-box, from which
Communists.
he guards his brother secreted somewhere beyond. Everywhere The local government on Mon-there is barbed wire, representing day issued warrants for the arrest years of laborious effort. The of four Communist leaders who are outer defence consisted of a 12-feet connected with the recent plot hedge, liberally wired. Then I against the Nationalist regime. crawled through a brushwood tunnel, which was so dense that the sunlight could not penetrate it. "The end of the tunnel was blocked with wire. but an in- genious' catch revealed an opening two feet square. I found a similar trapdoor in another wired fence before reaching the main fortifica- tion, a palisade of corrugated iron of from eight to ten feet high. and surrounding an area 80 yards square. Each sheet of iron was deeply embedded in the ground, and they were so cleverly knitted that there was not a chink through which the interior could be seen. A person would search long to dis- cover the entrance, which was formed by one of the iron sheets swinging open on concealed hinges.
how I don't think they can mean "He said he had angina," she t. It's just that they weren't brought up properly, isn't it?
Only it's awful to think you can't
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get on in the world without wish- ing people were dead sometimes. I did wish he....that......'
"Burglar." suggested Herman.. She nodded.
"Yes that burglar-was dead. because he..." She broke off her voice choked.
"He was going to take some- thing you thought a lot of, Mrs. Carawood? He's better dead."
This time Herman glared de- fantly at the shadowy places of
ギ
whispered. "He hadn't long to live....just long enough to ruin
me, and m'lady...."
"I'd do it again, twenty times, if anyone like him came worrying you," said Herman loudly.
John sat with knitted brows, his hands clasped.
ANOTHER FLIGHT MISHAP.
GERMAN PLANE CRASHES.
Cruz.
Lisbon, Oct. 5. "If you had given him the phial"}
The Junker seaplane which was it would have been of no use, I
on a flight to America, via the should imagine," he said.
Azores, carrying as a passenger There was a moment's silence, the Viennese actress Linny Dil- Herman blinking through his lenz, fell into the sea of Santa glasses at the visitor.
"1's queer, you coming to- In response to S.O.S. signals the night," said Mrs. Carawood, after Government has despatched a war the room. If he lurked there, hea pause. "Because when he came ship, which is searching for the of the dreadful eves, here was I could think of no one that I plane.-Reuter. challenge that he might take up or leave Nothing happened.
Mrs. Carawood
touched the
boy's hand, gratefully. She was unnerved by the sleepless nights,
could go to for help but you. And now....I'm worrying............”
"About the Countess Marie
Fiolihe quered, without the suspicion of mockery in his voice
She nodded.
was,
the reaction from the horror and pain which had preceded them,
"Does anyone know his stout refusal to deplore what
"We two-and you, And Fa. had happened was almost com- ther Benito. I understand now forting.
to bed," she said. why he came to the shop. He "Let'é go "We've neither of us had much thought I was doing something
fraudulent. I suppose. I We four."
The father will not speak
will not speak. must be our secret."
John's voice was steady; the evenness of his tone brought com- fort to her sore heart.
rest these last few nights.. Thank God mlady's gone into the coun- try! I wish I could have talked the thing over with Mr. Morlay: Herman he would have understood,"
They took cach a candle and put out the gas. Mrs. Carawood had her foot on the first atair when the latch of the shop door rattled, and their eyes met in sud- den fear. She was the first recover.
to
Most Remarkable Defence.
"Inside there was
more sheet
A Berlin message yesterday. stated: "A three-engined Junker seaplane, with two pilots, Starke and Loos,, a navigator, Loewe, and iron fencing, another trapdoor mechanic, Flitther, has started on covered with wire, and then the a flight to New York, via Lisbon, final and most remarkable defence, the Azores, and Newfoundland." of all, namely, a chain of hives, emitting black swarms of wild bees. There were thousands of bees, necessitating the covering
A Chinese received very severo of the head to pass the barrage, injuries as a result of being knock-but, before the front of the her- ed down by public motor car Nomit's hot was reached, another two 418, near the Youmati Ferry wharf feet trap through an iron fence Itin Connaught Road Central, yester had to be found and opened.
day afternoon. He was removed to the Government Civil Hospital,
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"And Marie-?" "She must not know. There is no necessity."
She did not ask why. There "It's nothing," she said; "some was something else troubling her neighbour. It's early yet. Go something that she had not put in-
to words. and see who it is."
"I've been a vain, wicked wo- She stood in the doorway while hé, blowag cut his candle and put man, I suppose"-there was ting it down, went over to the stifled sob in her words-But I electric switch over the spot did it all for her. And
now where that huddled body had lain, know how badly I have treated and hurriedly put on the light. Ther. Some day she will marry-
Herman nodded. This solution Hie angers fumbled a little as he drew back the bolt and opened was the only solution." the door. With chattering teeth he, recognized the visitor.
"Can I see Mra. Carawood?" came a quiet voice, as the man walked into the shop.
She advanced to meet him, grey faced.
It was John Morlay,
"That's right, Mrs. Carawood! I told you so the night-he came here. She'll change her name.".
"Failing to get a reply at the door, I tapped at a tiny window, A match flickered inside a lantern, Two Chinese who were injured and revealed a man, with a long through being knocked down at the white beard, lying on a bunk, con- Praya East by a motor-cycle No. structed of a orange box, and 588 on Tuesday have died at the party screened by a canvas cur- Government Civil Hospital na atain. A tremulous voice said, result of their injuries. The police "Please, go away, stranger!" The have detained two men in connexion hermit refused either to talk or with this accident, for investiga tions into the circumstancen.
know? Her father..you couldn't do that, Mr. Morlay
to show himself, and Thomas later. told me that, apart from a visit by a clergyman, whom James called in when he believed that he was dying of rheumatism, and a pen- sion official, James, who is now 70 "I want to do that," he said. years of age, has seen nobody since I'd be the happiest man in the he made his vow on September 6, world if she would agree. I 1877. haven't asked her yet. 'I haven't seen her since I called at the house where she stayed-that "During his half-century night and took her in to Devon-seclusion, James has read only the shiire. She'll be back to-morrow. Bible, and a weeldy religious Can I aşk her then?"
journal, over 200 copies of which shield against the wind and rain.
urk
Her Gold Wedding.
fre. Carnwood shook her head. "Her husband must know," she began.
"He knows," said John Morlay She could not speak. The are stacked around the walls a5 a quetly, and as she raised her eyes tears were running down her tired He looked round, with his to his: "Would you mind very face.
"You won't tell her?" she whis shrewd, comprehensive glance; much, Mrs. Carawood?"
pared. "I......I had a feeling the enw the woman's red eyes,
perhaps that....some day she'd
(To Be Continued.).
"You?" she asked in wonder, lad's defensive attitude as he drew and he nodded. close to her side, and he put his
Would you...after all you call me mother.
"Never once bas he inquired or been told anything about his form er sweetheart, who will celebrate her golden wedding at Tottenham [this year?!
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