OUR NEW SERIAL:
THE HOUSE OF SIN.
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS:
Dr. Tarleton, a criminologist, who, la the confidant of the Home Ofice, receives a night call from Burrowes, a steward of the Duke of Altringham, who tells the Doctor of the dead body of an unknown man being in his (the Others in the story Duke's) house.
aptain Theobald, who is aflanced to
Duke.
Lady Roen, daughter of the Lady Agatha, another daughter, who has become an Anglican nu
CHAPTER II.
By ALLEN. UPWARD. (Author of "The Yollow Hand," **The Ordeal of Fire," eta.).
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"Yes, sir," assented the steward, rather, to his questioner's surprise.. "Captain Theobald, suggested that It was probably his first attempt, and that he had committed suicide
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Intellectual Honesty.
And is not the man in the street
making a big hole on the wall of Rome, Nov, 21. the building. The explosion, the Processions, speeches, and pa-smoke and the sound of police asking whether the Church is in- honest? Everywhere triotic songs wore features of the whistles caused the police to artellectually.
rive on the scene, but the par- to-day men and women are capable demonstrations in various provin-petrator had made himself scarce of realising that the only Institu
tion that will not revise, or restate [cial cities against so-called Yugo- and could not be traced.
Itself in the light of modern know- Slav provocation. This follows Four who were sloeping inside, ledge is the Christian Church. It scams perilous in the extreme to the Franco-Yugoslav treaty of a the building were not hurt.
suggest that religion alone among few days ago.—Reuter.
vital humun
On the sanfe night, another bomb was thrown at the Walchow Wu Koon and as a result a party of police arrived on the scene, but it was found that on-one was in
The Railway Services." There are three railwaya which connect Canton with other places. Canton-
A message of November '10 stated: After negotiations, dat ing back to March, 1926, a Franco-jured. ecause he had failed to secure the sapphires.. You may have Yugo-Slav Treaty of Friendship heard that the Altringham sap is expected to be signed in Paris phires are considered the finest in to-day. It is reported from Rome the kingdom."
So this was the theory-suicide that strong feeling has been by an amateur burglar disappoint-aroused in Italy with reference to ed of his booty. It did not sound the kind of story to go down at the Treaty, as being regarded as Satland Yard.., Eul meanwhile unfriendly to Italy, antagonistic DE Tarleton Was becoming to the League of Nations, and cal- carious about another feature of culated to make trouble in the
the case.
"You have not told me how Cape In less than a quarter of an hourtain Theobald came to be on the Dr. Tarleton rejoined the Duke's spot." messenger, carrying in one band
"
Balkans where France is now
OX-
bound to Roumania and Yugo Slavin, while the Treaty is pected to draw Italy closer Hungry and Bulgaria.
formidable rows of teeth.
Burrowes started and looked a small attache case which con-round in some alarm.
"He wasn't, sir; he was asleep tained antidotes to almost every
The poison. known
steward in his bedroom an the third floor. sprang up as he heard the doctor I had the greatest difficulty in coming, and met him in the hall, waking him."
More Dr. Tarleton's brow, wrinkled. They went down the steps to took out his watch and swung gether. The steward would have it gently to and fro. placed his passenger in the "1 don't quite understand, tonneau and taken his own scati beside the driver, but Tarleton im-What had Captain Theobald to do
with the "matter?" periously beckoned him to sit At last the steward's composure. bestie him,
"Who found the body?" he de- began to give way. His enbar-hody."
rassment was evident in his voice manded ag the ear began to move.
as well as in his face. "I did, sir."
"I required help to remove the The questioner east a suspicious body, and I thought it better to go glance at him, a glance not easily to a member of the family," evaded,, frum piercing eyes that "A cousin of the Duchess, I seemed to lie in wai under
think you said?" bristling eyebrows like a barbed!
"Yes, sirg But sind he came, wire entanglement. But the steward bore the scrutiny without the Captain has become
engaged
Lady Rosa-hie any sign of embarrassinent.
Grace's youngest daughter." "Where did you find it?"
Dr. Warleton was pretty well up Perhaps a second, certainly not in the genealogies of our great more, clapsed before the answer to families. this question.
"In a small, conservatory, a sort of recess from the main staircase."
"At what hour?"
"I should say some time between two and three o'clock." This time
there was no hesitation.
there at such an hour?"
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she can get the Duke's consent.".
1J
to
firmed with a grin, disclosing two
and more thoughtful, Tarleton followed his guide into the hall of the mansion, from which a broad staircase ascended at the back. At the top of the first flight the steward halted.
"That is where I found the
The investigator peered into
a
the
The Arst is Kowloon Railway, the Chinese section of which is running por- mally, being under the control of
the "Ironside" troops,
concerns cannot re- phrase Itself in new ways of thought. Wo cannot forget that, It is a long time since the Church consented to think through its message afresh, and that there have been vast acquistitions of BOY knowledge since it did so."
Why," say inen, should they be asked to affirm truths which the best, minds of to-day know to be
or inadequato? Men and women unproven or else scientifically false are full of questions, and the cc- The second is the Canton-Sam-clesiastical method of assuming shul Railway. Since the coup on that they were all settled finally Thursday last, the service on the many years ago fills them, and Sunday, it is reported, there was and distrust. What does not hold line has been suspended, but on rightly fills them, with impatience one passenger train for Samshui the mind will soon loes its hold from Canton, but the train that on the heart.
between Canton and flourishing city near Canton, is still suspended. On Monday, the whole service, with trains running to Samshui and Fatshan, was restored normal.
runs Fatshan
ta
"
1 believe the Anglican Com- munion has a vast opportunity, perhaps for the last time, of mak- ing an outstanding contribution to the welfare of organic Christianity.
to
I want the Anglican Communion take the great opportunity, The third line is the Canton which will lle before it at the next Suikwan Railway (which is in the Lambeth Conference, of suggest- Northern part of Kwangtung).ing a greater Christianity, and It The whole line has been effected believe that, if the leaders of
by the coup since Thursday last, Anglicanism would then forget
as a good number of Kwangsi the Interests of their own.
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sal alcove, about twelve feet section of this railway, when they of Christendom as a whole, they square, separated from the land-first heard of their chief, Wang could do things which would re- ing by a half-drawn curtain. The
Shao-hung, being routed, destroy-dound in history, and would bring walls and roof were of glass, and ed some of the track. But this has the Great Church a few flowering shrubs in pots now been repaired. On Monday world waits within the horizon of stood around the inner sides.
there was a train running on the those who long to welcome its ar- There was no sign of violence, line for the transport northwards rival. much less of bloodshed. A glance ot troops belonging to the "Iron-. through the back revealed a small sides." If it found safe for the
of the backyard surrounded by high walls, restoration
passenger and apparently offering no possible traffic, the latter will be resumed access to any trespasser from out-to-day. side the house.
י.
My longings that the Lambeth Conference of 1930 will give an outline of a new and fresher edition of Christianity by definitely plead- ing with the members of Its own- dissociate their Communion to "By his first Duchess, I think,"
On Sunday afternoon, a great Church from a multitude of tradi he ist. "There is another
A stilled ery from his companion crowd of refugees was geentional and accepted values which daughter?"
"Lady Agatha," supplied the caused Tarleton to turn round leaving Sunkai, a district which is do not really belong to the Christian stoward. "Her ladyship is very sharply. There, in the very door-not far from Canton along the faith, and by stretching out the religions; she belongs to a Sister-way, he beheld a picture that plons-Canton-Shiukwan line. The rea- the hand of fellowship to all who son for this exodus is unknown, desire the way of Love and Fel- bood, and they say that she is as much as it astonished him.
An exquisitely beautiful girl "And how did you come to be thinking of entering a convent; if not twenty years of age; robed in as at present nothing alarming has lowship to prevail.
I want that Conference to sug- The Duke's steward drew him-1 Dr. Tarleton was not interested the lightest of dressing-gowns,happened there. This crowd num-
most part of gest that certain Anglican pri- self up as though he fell und re-in Lady Agathin's aspirations. He with her bare feet peeping, out of bered to more than a thousand,
silken slippers, and her long sun-comprised for the
her children and women. It is re-vileges ahould be definiely cast sented the challenge to.. his returned to the point.
kissed hair floating over "Did you call in Captain integrity.
"It is the hour at which I usual-Theobald before notifying the Duke shoulders, stood gazing in at them called that before the coup there aside, since they breed a spirit of with an amazement equal to their were a good number of Kwangsi exclusiveness which is not Christ- ly make a round of the house, to of what had happened?"
The make sure that all is right.
"Yes, sir. It is my duty to own, and a touch of fear besides. soldiers in the Sunkat district, but like, and hinder; rather than as- , want my "Barrowes, you here! Who is they were evacuated immediately sist, the general welfare and wit- Church to emerge after the conservatory overlooks the court-space the Duke as much as pos- this her eyes travelled from the they heard of the rising of the ness of religiou. I yard at the back, by which asible in the shape of worry and doctor's dusty attire to his master- "Ironsides" in Canton,
Lambeth Conference as, at least burglar would naturally try to annoyance."
ful countenance "gentleman?". "Quite 20. But you told
Yesterday morning, most of the potentially, having nothing and enter, and therefore I always make
she concluded in a more hesitating that the Captain was a
towboats running on the West yet possessing all things in virtue: tone. a point of examining it."
The Duke's steward was unable River between Canton and Shiu. of the fact that it is ready and The specialist shrugged his arrival. From where?"
"From Nigeria." shouldera. Did this man expect
In spite of hiraself, a low whistle to do more than stummer, "I beg hing, Hokshan, Koming, Samshui glad to cast aside those spiritual and Takhing suspended their and material weights which now services, the owners fearing that so sorely oppress it. the authorities might at any moment seize their vessels for military use.
summoned to deal with a common
Was
11
me
recent
escaped the specialist's lips. The your Ladyship's pardon."
But Dr. Tarleton came to his name of Nigeria had a sigificance assistance. He had planned his campaign before leaving his own house, and his excuse was ready. "I am a specialist in sanitation. I have been asked to examine the premises."
Li Chal-sum 'Speaks.
him to believe that he was being burglar? Or was that merely the
Burrowes was! for him which official explanation which
plainly unable to understand. being prepared for the benefit of Twirling round his repeater with the police?
vehemence, the ever-increasing "Tell me exactly what you doctor became too much, absorbed found, please, Mr."
in his own thoughts to speak again
The look of fear passed away until the house was reached.
Neither the dural mansion nor from the girl's face, to be suc the great square in which it occeeded by a blush of modesty as cupied a corner site showed any she realised the character of her General Li
attire. sign of life. The chauffeur drove "I came downstairs to look for
"My name is Burrowen, sir. I found the body of a young man, between twenty-five and thirty, lying atretched out on the floor, as if he had fallen backwards.. examined him carefully. but could find no sign of violence."
the car round into the side street and pulled up at a modest green something," she observed lightly
to the steward.
And with Д
Shanghai, Nov. 21. In defending his deputy. General Wang Shao-hung, who has been routed by the "Ironsides in Canton, Chai-sum declared here on Sunday to the Press that Wang is the victim of a "Red" plot. Regarding the Canton "Leftist"
No Church that is not stamped Christian with sacrifice can. de business to-day, and it should not be beyond the wit of the Anglican leaders to discover what sacrifice their Church should now make,
Not until there is a Church like
"How did you know that he was door towards the rear of the main friendly nod to the doctor, she disallegation that Wang Shao-hung, in all are within the One Church, is
dead?"
building.
my appeared...
"I hope you will excuse "I could not be sure that he was dead when I found him. His ringing you to this entranze, sir,"
:
thing, If we can help it."
some great cathedral, in which there are a multitude of side- chapels where the one God is Worshipped in different ways by differently minded people, and yet order to further his "Bigger there any hope of Christianity pre- Kwangsi Movement" had decided to vailing. "Lady" "Rosa," whispered Bur- occupy Kwangtung for his own body was quite warm. But when Burrowes apologised, "but I am rowes in some agitation: "She aggrandizement, Li added that most... Sir Philip Blennerhasset came he afraid of arousing attention by must not be allowed to hear any of the troops of Wang Shao-hung. are now on an expedition to attack "In Lady Rosa did not Hunan and therefore it would be pronounced that he had been dead opening the front door."
The specialist contented himself about two hours."
Dr. Tarleton nodded approving. with a gruff nod, as he watched strike me as being altogether a far from the truth to say that Wang had any desire to take Burrowes, looking decidedly Kangtung from any one, since he 1. So far the stoward's replies the other inserting a key into the fool," was the enigmatical reply. had all the appearance of perfect Yale lock on the door.
"I will take you to the library, at ease, resumed the ascent to his had but a handful of troops in
room. As they approached Kwangtung. candour.
and let Sir Philip know that you own
Moreover, if the reason for the "Did you send for Sir Philip have come," the steward whisper- the threshold his nerves received
"Leftist" occupation of Canton on your own responsibility?"
The murmur of a voice, ap was solely because of Wang Shao- This time Burrowes took a littleed, as though to impress the neces- another shock. longer to frame his reply.
But Dr. Turleton suddenly as-parently engaged on some kind hung, then why should they attack of recitation, penetrated through the Whampoa Cadet College, the Ar- sumed an air of authority.
"There is no need for ceremony the closed door.
good enough "Great God!" he cjaculated, start-senal, Bocca Tigris Forts and Gen-
eral Li's residencé? in a case like this..
Li concluded that he will remain to take me straight to the body."ing back. "Someone has found the
in Shanghai for some time nwalt- The steward, who was leading body!"
Without answering. Dr. Tarletoning the fourth plenary session of the way along a narrow passage, turned round with a look of some opened the door and led the way the Kuomintang Central Executive and Supervisory Committees and dismay.
The corpse of a young man, such that he has no desire to return to "It is in my room, air, at the
as the steward had described him, Canton at an early date.. top of the house."
"Very good," was the dry relay stretched out on the bed under a white coverlet drawn up to the sponse.
"I consulted Captain Theobald, air. He is her Grace's cousin, and he helped me to move the body."
"Oh!" Dr. Tarleton's tone" ex- pressed some disapproval. you have moved the body? what ground?"
"S
On
"There is no door to the con- servatory, only a curtain. Where it lay the body might have been seen by, anybody passing up or I thought it down the stairs. better to remove it before the ser vants were about."
Again there was an expression of respect in the doctor's glance at his companion. This was indeed a man deserving of his master's confidence. Yet the steward's precaution in itself suggested that he either knew or suspected more than he was willing to admit.
"Describe this man," Tarleton snapped out suddenly. "How was he, dressed?"
Rity. for silence.
into the room.
A few days ago, when a China-
The doctor's conductor ventured chin. At the foot of the bed a On no further. objection. They small table had been arranged like reached the end of the passage an altar, with a crucifix and two bound steamer loft. Singapore for: young woman, dressed in the 40 Chinese who were banished by and found themselves in the ser-lighted candies, and beside it a Hongkong, there wote on board vants' quarter.
austere garb of some Anglican Government. Among them, 41 were kneeling with a from Singapore, 2 from Penang and sisterhood, was prayer-book in her hand, from one from Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh respectively. They were escorted as which she was reading aloud.
"Lady Agatha!" burst from the far as Hongkong by a small detach- astonished steward, "How did you ment of police in uniform under the
command of a Police Sergeant. come to know of this?"
Suddenly the investigator's quick car caught the sound of naked feet pattering across bare flags.
"What on earth is that?" he exclaimed.
Lady Agatha ceased praying, and rose to her feet.
The answer was supplied by the appearance of a gigantic. negro carrying a dish, which he nearly He was in evening dress,let drop in hla surprise at the en- counter. But this time Burrowes Burrowes answered, not very will manifested no concern. ingly. "He had a gentlemanly "It is the Captain's servant, appearance. I should describe whom he brought home with him. turning to Dr. Tarleton, she added, Road, Kowloon, and Miss Winifred himas handsome rather He always gets up at this hour striking face."
and cooke his own breakfast."
The forthcoming wedding is an- "I know more than you suppose nounced of Mr. Rupert Baldwin, of what goes on under this roof," organist at St. Andrew's Church, she responded with severity. And Kowloon, residing at No. 73. Jordan solemnly, "Let me tell you, sir, that Edith Andrews, of No. 30, High you have come into a House of Stroot, Bluetown, Bhootnag, en route to Hongkong on the da City of Lahore
A rather unusual costums for The negro scomed to understand Bin." a burglar," commented the other, the explanation, which he con-
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