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OUR NEW SERIAL
THE HOUSE OF SIN.
CHAPTER XVIII.
By ALLEN UPWARD.
(Author of "The Yellow Hand,"
"The Ordbal of Fire," etc.).-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
+++nounced absolutely free from sus-|
++++++ her mistress, although she had shrunk from carrying out her The Investigator ignored Cap-Instructions to their full extent taln Theobalda and Lady Rosa's when it came to impeaching her
mistress's atepdaughter, agitation.
And now the false witness was "Hear me, out, please. There
in dead. lying slain by the same various circumstances which one man may kill another. weapon as Montacute, almost cer- act may btainly wielded by the same hand. justified, even in the eye of the In whose interest was it that she
In other cases
It may had been so swiftly and terribly involve Bttle moral blame, and silenced with Her ghastly lie in
her throat? only a nominal punishment.
thoughts were Lady Rosa's had a strong suspicion that such was the ease here. I considered widently following on the same It possible that your betrothed track as his, and she was the first
to speak.
Sometimes the
law.
I
"Don't call him that, please. All that is over," interrupted Roya
"He was so then," returned the "Dr. Tarleton. what is the con- dactor. "I considered it possible nexion between all this and that he had carried into execution Mademoiselle's suicide? Or is it the anwritten law, and that you
were somehow aware of it. You remember that I met you on the very spot where Montacute's body "had been found."
"What!"
"Rosa!"
really a suicide, as they pretend?"
picion. It is open to anyone, even to your friends, to suppose that you yourself thought it a duty to rid the earth of a man who was! attempting to blackmail a woman who had claims on your protec tion."
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1927.
A FAMOUS FILM."
"THE FOUR HORSEMEN"
NEXT WEEK.
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Cinema-goers will welcome the
Lady Rosa turned red and white return of Rex Ingram's famous under the stress of this plain! film "The Four Horsemen of the
young language. The
officer Apocalypse," which will be screen- stamped his foot on the ground.
"After what you have just said, ed at the Queen's Theatre from sir. I shall insist on submitting Wednesday to Saturday of acxt myself to the same test as my week, according to a special ad- this issue. in |black servant. And I shall expect
everyone else in the house to do vertisement
Rudolph Valentins and Alice the same."
Terry in this picture head one of "Your example will be the beat the strongest and the most dis- means of inducing them," sai tinguished east ever assembled for Tarleton, rising to his feet. The any picture in the history of the best thing we can do is to go to sereen. Every player was select- the Duke at once, and naked because of special ability, in authority to carry out the test."
enact the part,
Lady Rosa followed the two men with a frightened look as they "I shall expect the Duke to sub- went out of the room. mit to the test himself," muttered the Captain in his companion's ear.
The latter gave him a startled glance, but merely answered that he would support the demand f necessary.
They found his Grace in the library with his usual confidant, Burrowes. He had evidently been awaiting Dr. Tarleton with im patience.
The expert shook his head. "The difficulty is to think of any one who could have had a motive "or removing both the victims," "We are faced he pointed out. with the fact that Pregut had denounced Captain The two exelamations broke out practically together, and both sounded equal-Theobald's man as the author of in interest The girl's face the first crime, and therefore be ly Rennine,
obvious became overspread by a dark flash bad an while her lover regarded her with silencing her. The Duke is cer- ain to take that view of it, and reproachful wonder.
The consultant continued with the average English jury will be the unshrinking firmness of a sur-likely to credit a native of Nigeria with crimes committed by means of a Nigerian weation."
geon probing a wound.
"You told Burrowes that you were looking for, something, thought it not impossible that you had found it, and vegreted it in order to save the man you loved."
The story opens in the Argen- fine, the land of the tango, where the hero, Julio, played by Rudolph Valentino, learns the dance which- Paris. Then comes the war and later makes him the idol of their interest of the story reaches fever point.
Dramatic incidents follow each n logical in rapid succession to
conclusion, vividly presenting the drama of life against the back-
world in arĪTIS,
Writ-
ground of Ibanez, "The Four Horsemen of ten by the popular novelist, Blusco the Apocalyse" is one of the most famous productions of the screen notable event. and its return to Hongkong. Is a
..
"You have taken your time, doctor. Well, now do you admit I was right about this wretched
Owing to the length of the film,*** negro?" And he. glared angrily
That is the very question cinema-goers should note that at his wife's kinaman. have just been discussing with special starting times have been With your arranged for "The Four Horse- Captain Theobali. permission I will send for the man men of the Apocalypse," namely the permission Tarleton went for- picture begins immediately after here. And without waiting for 2.30. 5.00. 7.15 and 90. and the ward and rang the bell.
The Duke of Altringham lonked as if he did not know whether to be pleased or offended.
I "I will answer for Falai as I would for myself," protested his "I spoke to him myself
"Is it necessary for me to bel muster. last night, and I am certain he The expression of both his hadn't the faintest idea of the troubled?" he asked, with a touch! "Unfortunately." pursued the teners assured the speaker that his existence of such a man as Monof ducal pride.
When I warned him that
Theobal "Captain suspicion had been wide of the tacute. mark. Yot Lady Hesa volun-he might be accused of his murder specialist, ignoring his Grace's tells me he let his man know yes. teered no explanation of her real he at once offered to submit to question.
terday that the woman Pregut bod motive for that early morning the ordeal." descent, nor did elther of the two
practically charged him, with men venture to question her.
"I never dreamt anything like this," she murmured. "Killed! here, in this house! Why, then he must have come secretly, after the Duchess"
She interrupted licrself to ques tion Dr. Tarleton with a look. He felt himself to be en delicate ground.
investigator The "Indeed!" looked interested. "What ordeal to you mean?"
the overture.
TO-DAY'S FILMS.
"DON JUAN" AT QUEEN'S THEATRE.
three principal. murder. Consequently, appear
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Saturday finds the Colony's cinemas each showing a big picture made by * famous star. At the Queen's Theatre there is "Don Juan," with foremost romantic
Oh, it is a common form of lances are against him as regards
Theobald scratched his head as America's trial among the natives. When a her death, at all events." committed, has been crime whether it is theft or murder or he heard this unexpected obser- nctor, John Barryshore in the lead- anything else. everybody who can vation. The entrance of a fosting role, at the World Theatre possibly be suspected of it is can man in answer, to his ring caused there is Harold Lloyd's famous pelled to chew and swallow a the doctor to turn to the Duke comedy "For Heaven's Sake," and mouthful of grain, guineacorn or who signified his acquiescence by at the Star Theatre there is Syd a Nurse." These "You see now why I was anxious rice or Something of that solta nod. The man was despatched Chaplin's equally famous comedy being three pictures are all lly. to know why he had ceased They believe that the criminal will in search of the negre according "Oh! What
screened for the last time to-day. House choke in the attempt." Trafford come to
You referred me to The soldier spoke rather scorn-
make his openly.
anfully, but his listener seemed to
and each is so entertaining, that the cinema-goor, can choice with full confidence of stepmother for your. explanation. The Duke has since the struck.
"There is more in that than you
spending à pleasant time. told me that she found out he bil
he commented. The aspirations after your hand, and you may think,' although he was her relation is really a nerve test.
"What's that?" cried out the man who knows himself to he young officer, "I never knew thus guilty is very likely to have a nervous contraetion of the thrant, before." A sudden fight scemet to burst on his mind. "Why, good due to fear, just as some people to heavens, duetor, he must have have when they try to swallow a
pill. 1. should be inclined "You forget that Pregut con-accept the negro's offer."
"Why, you don't think him fessed that she was the object of
come to the house to see her!"
his visits." returned the investige-gailty?"
"It is difficult to speak positive- for smoothly, sennning the face.
ly, I am not so convinced as you. each of his companions in turn,
Theobald bit his tip. Doubtle**
instrument in the hands of some he realised that it was not for hime that he may not have been an However, it is not a one else. to asperse his own consin, whose guest he still was. Hut the girl' question of my opinion. We have face hardened perceptibly.
"Do you think it will be possible to keep this new catastrophe out of the papers?" his Grace naked, while they were waiting.
"That depends very much on you, Duke," the adviser to the
"He demanda that everyone. Home Office replied. "If you are
undergo the And he the house shall willing to adopt a rather novel procedure I think the case may be
"Everyone." disposed of privately." manded by Falai. proceeded to explain the test de ordeal," the Captain interpreted.
The Duke was taken by the bait
"Does that menn me?" demand-
"It means even the Duchess. I'm afraid."
of privacy. As ever, his sole coned his Grace. sideration was the preservation ofj the family name from scandal. He had hardly given his cordial
evidently! appeared. The
13H negro assent to the proposal when Falai
frightened. It was only natural
"Impossible! I shouldn't hear of it!"
Dr.
Tarleton
nodded
with:
"It's very strange that shto satisfy the Dake and the that he should be, exposed to such apparent approval. "I am rati er
should have donevaled the rela-
public"
The Duke of Altringham gáve way at the word police, just as Burrowes appeared in the door.
an accusation in a strange land glad you take that view, Duke. "But Falai will expect, accord- whose laws were unknown to him. After all, it will be much more
his master, to whom he turned to the police at ance." tionship from everybody," she sailing to his ideas, that everyond cheHis sole reliance was clearly on satisfactory to hand this man ever deliberately. "As it is, I don't see shall undergo the same test."
"Well, I see no harm in that. Jappealing looks.
A few questions and answers why I shouldn't tell you, doctor that at the time I thought the The ordeal can be carried cut Duchess was jealous of me, and quite privately, and no one natsid: passed between them in the native that, that was why she interfered Trafford House need know the re-dialect. Then Theobald interpret
sult. Of course, it won't be ed.
"He says he is innocent of both between us."
murders. He demands to be tried according to the custom, of his own country."
way.
"Let the entire household b summoned here," he orderd.
At last! The investigator drew evidence in an English court of a long breath. The Duchess of law."
And within a few minutes every Dr. Tarleton Spoke with grave Altringham's step-daughter had
The Duke nodded curtly. "Tel inmate of Trafford House, from dared to voice the suspicion which emphasis,
This is a case, as I was saying
to the datest joined had slowly germinated in his own
ham down mind almost from the beginning. just now, in which what looks like him I consent to that. Burrowesher Grace the Duchess of Altring- The steward's departure on his acullery-maid, was being made Yesterday's scene in her Grace's crime may have been committed fun and get some rice."
The errand was followed by another aware of the Duke's purpose. bedroom had left him in little real from motives which were innocent-
(To be Continued.) doubt that the woman Pregat had and been bribed and drugged into a consequence is that no one in any brief interchunge in the negro's false confession in order to screen way connected with it can be pro-dialect.
even
praiseworthy.
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