OUR "SERIAL," STOPY.
THE MOATED GRANGE.
CHAPTER XXIV.
By KATHARINE TYNAN,' Author of A Mad Marriage," "The Hous
of Doom.""Denys the Dreamer"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
·STANDS" SCOTLAND WHERE IT DID?
RHINELANDERS FIND IT IN
SUSSEX.
An amusing blunder is, perpé- trated by an important dally news- paper published at Essen, Ger- many In recording the passage of an army of brown rats on the outskirts of London.
"An army of many thousands of brown rats," says the article, "driven out of their homes by the overflowing River Len, was seen
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1928.
BEET EFFLUENT-
POLLUTION.
EXPERIMENTS FAIL TO PURIFY IT.
X RIVER MENACE.
HANKOW ROBBERY
EPIDEMIC.
(Continged from Page 7.)
treasure boxes. Upon these boing given up the three employees were also forced to join the policeman, Following on the conviction of who had also been augmented by a beetsugar firm, the efluent from whose factory polluted the waters the cook in the manager's room. of the River Trent, and the cam- One of the robbers remained at the paign against threatened pollution door covering them. of the River Wye by similar mean
"Oh, mumsie," she said, with an
to travel from Edmonton to the extensive experiments have been His companions lost no time in air of immense relief. "I was not
carried out for some months with a getting busy and opening the safe Mrs. de Burgh remembered how it was you coming till Dush Forest of Epping, in Wales.
"The rats completely covered view -to Anding a mtisfactory
gathered together Dash had howled in the night, bay- thumped his, tail for you. I was the streets. Cyclists were com-system for the purification of the and boxes, ing the moon, as she had brought.very lonely for you when I woke pelted to dismount. Only heavy effluent.
$7,500 in silver, $2,000 in Shanghai She had not been able to keep him
up."
These experiments, however, notes and $1,000 in foreign notes quiet. He must have known when
"The house is very gloomy," said lorries could make any progress,"
The last time a giant migra- have been attended with little or
with one shoo of sycé » equi- she did not that all was not well Mr. de Burgh. "I can imaginetion like this tock place was in no success, according to a report with Beata Yet her maternal how it is that those old unoccupied 1809, when, also owing to floods, made on December 21st, to the valent to $60. However, in love ought to have warned her be nouses rot so quickly. You remem- many hundreds of thousands of Trent Flahery Board by its clerk, their search the band overlooked a. „fore the dog.
ber the convent in Picardy from The wind was on the front of which the nuns had been expelled. rats travelled from London inte Mr. F. H. Heald.
West Sussex (presumably in Scot the house. It was a hurly-burly. it had been empty only two years.
land)." Outalde the branches were lashing yet it was dreadful, death and together and the slender trees. decay taking, back all that had been writhing in the blast. Windows a bravely held for hundreds of were rattling in their sockets and years," the doors straiting on their hinges. Somewhere in the interior of the house doors banged.
"I remember, Beata suld, with little shudder.
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? details
The following are the replies to to-day's questions:-
1. A song of praise, written to a dener measure, commonly used of the nurses rele brauing the Christinas fratival. 2. No: the rest expands the water to the vipes and
The report contains lotters from box which they thought was empty. the representatives of the two beetand in this there was $1,300 silver sugar companies who discharge and 48 shoes sycee valued at effluent into the Trent, in which $2,400. There was also in the are given of extensive safe $8.000 worth of Central China measures taken And processes Bank notes but these the robbers adopted to purify the effluent.deliberately left behind scattered One company drew attention to the about in the safe. great expense involved, and ex- Ransacked in Fifteen Minutes. pressed the hope that the Fishery Board would be appreciative of the company's efforts,
"Mrs. Crunch is gone out. She Glancing into their old quarters, left a note on the kitchen table to
While the three armed men were she thought the rooms looked colay she was going."
In this weather?" Beata ask- and neglected, although they had
working downstairs another two burnt them, but the damage does not become been occupied only yesterday.ed, turning on her pillow to look
Mr. Heald, however, following went up to the first floor which is napsest actil the thaw. 3. Places of bacte There was certainly something at the wild. sky,
"Yes" Mrs. de Burgh hesitated fixed to the soles of lots, ron sates came these, letters, states that soon after occupied by the Tai Kee Commis-
ta England from otimni In the seventeenth strange upon the house; so soon
1. Twilight: ht: began in Octalier complaints arose up those found on the premises sadness and desolation had de as to whether or not she shoulderntury, 4 Preservatives, will not be allowed the manufacture of sugar again sion Agents. Here they rounded scended upon it.
slow Beata the letter" she finally butter ur cream.
estuarial creek; fil; with, witamalle hawk The kitchen was empty when she decided against it for the time, St. Francis of Assist. The kings at from many sources that there was comprising two employees and two France, frum Hugh Conset, 9NT. H. The part again to be seen in the river "over boys and herded them in at the being. renched it The fire, was made up "She has left us everything for firitia), Honduras and the six invipendent the greater part of its course be-point of a pistol into a bed room. in the grale, and a kettle was nearlyur meals," she went on. Even gratia, Costa Rica, and l'apama 9.4.10 (a distance of 40 miles) evidence Salvador, Honduras, tween Colwick and Gainsborough pubiles, Guatemala, boiling. On the table stood a row the lamb is ready, and there is a
The search upstairs petted in of the development of the slimy $450 in notes and silver. The of covered dishes, and a tray was supply of coals. We need not go neatly arranged with cups
matter" which had caused the pre-robbery was very expeditiously foraging for ourselves."....
vious complaints.
carried out for both floors were saucers for tea.
What Samples Revealed. ansacked within fifteen minutes. "It should be nted," Mr. Heald, No Shot was fired during the comments, "that these conditions proceedings and then the have arisen in spite of the fact carried out a hasty withdrawal,
and
She looked at these preparations
In amazement. Then she noticed,
"We are alone in the housè?" Again Beata's eyes were dilated. "She will be back again. I think
lying between Mexico and Colombia, compris
10. Memahamálin, square yards.
11. The Punic Wars. 12. The pudding ahol brou
a Areproof dish a Baner Bill. Dot
Was
Uper or a match, should be ed to thi IL.
one. 1
LETTER GOLF SOLUTION,
that the kitchen slate stood among she thought you wanted a doctor, the other things. On it was and went in search of written in a large, illiterate hand-would have prevented her if I had writing
known; it is not safe for anyone, to You must not sleep here an be out in this weather. She was other night. I am goin' for help." game when I went downstairs."
So, they had the douse to them- She did not ask any questions selves. She was not sure that about what had frightened her girl. it was altogether pleasurable. Retter let it alone till Benta was She looked over her should-ready to talk,
Per as the laid down the slate. She moved about the room tidy-
All
Here is the solution to the pouka sa kanther page.
SINS
TINS those empty, rooms and the tag it, replenishing the fire till it
cellars, and nothing living in any turnt up brightly, setting a white one of them except herself and the cloth on the table, talking about poor helpless child upstairs. She the plenic they were going to have, felt that she musty run back to a though Beata was still a picnic- Beata and lock the door upon the two of them and not venture forth again.
loving little girl. The simple, homely things steadied her nerves as they steadied Beata's.
"Mumsie," said Benta, watching her from her pillow, “If a ductor
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that during the greater part of the with the plunder they had acquir. HAWAII TOURIST BUREAU
past three months, almost constant ed. inormal high water conditions [have prevailed."
Samples of water were taken. from the process-water ditch above the outfall, the wash-water pool near the outfall, and the joint, effluent below the drain bridge of the first company. These were ex- jamined by experts, whose reports Show that the remedial measures
TINT undertaken by the first company
TLT
TILL TELL HELL
Poor Mrs. Crosch! What help did she propose to seek? It was a long way to any habitation. And, should come I don't suppose Mrs. poor soul! it was not safe in this Cronch will be able to get one, but gale. The trees would be down-it she should--he will come in a It had come on to pour with rain.motorcar. Do you think we could It would be heavy and dangerous ask him to take us back to Dunlo, walking, and Mrs. Cronch was short or somewhere we could be taken of breath and heavily built.
It in?
I don't want to sleep here an- would be the end of the snow. other night." With the snow gone the kindly "Why, surely!" Mrs. de Burgh with you. How dark it is grow- neighbours would come to their responded, "We can, just take ing! The wind and the sails of help. They could escape from this whatever we can carry in a suit- the windmill were making such house, the terrors of which seemed case, and send for the rest of our roise. I wish the storm would die to be closing in about them.
luggage when we get settled in down." *
"Then we needn't come back
Benta's face brightened per
have not been successful.
CLAIM AGAINST
· MILLINER.
(Continued from Page 7.)
His Lordship:oods received in mistake?
Mr. Armstrong:-Yes. Extracts from the reports on the
Continuing, Mr. Armstrong said three samples, which are highly technical, state that in the case of the goods were received through a bona fide. mistake and they were the first sample "this is an extremely crude effluent;" in the certainly not liable for damages second, this is also a very bad above the cost price. They also efluent, and its entry into a river said, with regard to the counter- in more than negligible quantity claim, that the goods intended for would, in my opinion, be serious the defendant, which were sold to pollution;" and in the third, pre-arriving at about the same time as her by an agent in London and
cisely the same comment.
This report is signed by Dr. J. B. Firth, D.Sc., F. I. G.
Another report on similar sam plea is given by Dr. H. S. Holden,
the first lot of goods, were received by the plaintiff, not by mis- was that the defendant received. take, but intentionally. The result the plaintiff's goods and the plaint-
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D. Sc., F. R. S. E., F. 1, S., Director tiff received the defendant's goods. of the Department of Industrial in the former case it was a bona Bacteriology at University College, "It will go on till morning," said Nottingham. Dr. Holden conduct fide mistake and in the latter an Mrs. de Burgh, her hand on the ed interesting experiments with intentional mistake:" door-handle. She was looking at live fish, noting their behaviour
Settlement Refused. in the suspected water. Beata
She had told her story of her
Doomed 'Fish.
Shortly after the writ was Ilast night's experiences, shakingIn the "Process-water ditch" issued, an offer was made by the and weeping as she told it, and her sample, "a 4inch roach made a few defendant to the effect that it was eyes yet kept the dilation of fear, convulsive durts round the tank, a mistake and she asked to settle of someone who sees in anticpation, then turned on its elde. It was it by the difference of invoice dreadful things.
dead in four minutes. Post prices. That offer was refused mortem and chemical examination and as a result they were compell- showed that the causes of death ed to come to Court, much against were .... lack of oxygen in the the will of Madame Sarrault,
"You must not leap hear. an-somewhere." other night."
What did Mrs. Cronch mean by here any more." that? Was it likely, in the cir. cumstances that they should sleep veptibly. anywhere but here? Pour Mrs. That is for you to choose. Cronch! It would be terrible if don't think we shall come back." any mishap befell her, the poor, After they had had lunch and kind, faithful creature! What de washed up Mrs. de Burgh had a votion to go put into such weather thought. to serve them. And why should "We ought to light the house they not sleep there? Did Mrs. before dark," she said, "else we Crench know any reason? She shall not like going down through
eituent and active poisoning due with the dark house to open the door
would have defended them
They had taken some time te the lighting of the house, and while they stood there the sun dropped behind the purple cloud.
"It was the sun shining through the windmill," Mra, de Burgh said. suw it like that once, and thought it was firelight, till the sun fell and the fire went out with it." "Come and sye," Beata
her life if needs be. Had she anywhen the doctor comes, and Dush knowledge or conjecture as to what ought to have a run. The court had befallen Reata?
yard will he screened from the wind, As she went back through the Do you feel like the expulition, house, where the wind was whist- Beata ?** - Hing and crying cerily in a strange Yes, Beata did feel like the ex- chorus of noises, she saw through peditie. She shuddered and turn-dragging at her hand. a window that the wils of the id a little white as they went past windmill were, loose and revolving the rooms from which the faint at a great rate, "The old mill would sickly amell came as though some break itself to pieces ong of these king dead lay there. days, The wind must have l
The courtyard, sheltered as it tremendous violence, to judge by was, was littered with branches and the motion of the anilk.
leaves. Everything was wild and As she looked there was a scream, desolate and sadden with the rains.
to the presence of sulphuretted hydrogen."
A similar fish, introduced into a sample of effluent diluted with twice its volume of tap water said."showed evidence of disturbance
... turned belly upwards in fif teen minutes, and died in 25 minutes."
order
to satisfy the plaintiff' lain, which they would endeavour to show was not really justified. and was not made bona fide. BESSIEL@1015;0PAREMOR
Madame Sarrault said the five parcels were addresed to "Madame Sarrault, Hongkong." She had no idea that the gouds were not in- tended for her, so she put them in her stack, and had sold some of them
They looked from the window of the drawing-room. There was cer- Lainly something that seemed, like In the second sumple a similar light showing between the sails fish died in the undiluted effluent the windmill, blurred and broken
ід seven mintues, and in the Replying to Mr. Hugh Jones, by the streams of rain.
diluted sample "in 40 minutes. fo Madame Sarrault said the majority the third case the fish died re of the goods had been sold. She spectively in 9 and 32 minutes had received other goods from the
Experiments were also carried agent. out with freshwater shrimps, and
"I am sorry I ran back." said Beata, in a humble voice fought do have seen if anyone needed help,
I am ashamed of myself."
at While they fumbled Jock of the ball door, 4 difficult One that sometimes
the
a scream ns of someone in agony. The snow had all but disappeared, The wind, of 'ccurse. Want Beata insisted on going out with hideous sounds it made! what Dash despite her mother's alarm, tortures it counterfeited.
(suying that she must breathe, and On a second thought she went that she would rather havo the would not open at ore, they heard and 20 minutes, and 2 and "11 back to the kitchen, gathered a storm than the house. However,
number of things she would need, she came back almost before, her sweeter than any music.
2 welcome, wonderful sound,
creature.
It was
skin and sou-wester-the doutor: Behind him came Anthony Napier.
woman
in the same circumstances these fish died in 11⁄2 and 7 minutes,
minutes.
"Serious Menace.” "In my opinion," the report con-
that previously Mr. Backhouse had rendant said she did not know.
ordered goods in the name of Rolande Sarrauit. She herself was the only buyer.
Mr. Hugh Jones commented that
The agent of Messrs. Thos.. Townend and Co., London, said ast when the goods were ordered his firm gave credit to Madame Sarrault personally,
and carried them upstairs. She mother had time to be anxious. the hooting of a motor horn. It cludes, these effluents constitute Madame Sarrault was a partner noticed that the lamp was s t ready She kept looking back fearfully was in the courtyard before they a most serious menace not only to in the business, and although she for lighting on a table outside her over her shoulder as she came,could open the door. A man ran door, and that there were two full running. scuttles of coul. Mrs. Crunch had "Let us go in, darling," she said. up the steps in a streaming oil-fish life but to their natural food knew that a dissolution was pen
Even when diluted they are ing, yet she apparently ordered looked to their comfort before ne in a flurried voice. "I will tell you
such a nature that their effect the goods in her own name. went out on her wild expedition, wint has happened when we are Poor Mrs. Cronch! She prayed safely inside."
" have brought Dr. Vowles," he is continuously toxic over a con-
siderable period." nothing might befall the poor-kind Her breath came jerkily as she said. "Your sertant came to me
con a couple of hours ago.
Similar experiments were I came as spoke, and she pushed to the hall soon na I could get away and find ducted with samples taken from Somehow, she was afraid of door behind them with a clang.
points .in the the doctor. Now what has happen-appropriate the house. It was strangely dark There is a light in the wind-ed? It is a relief to see you both apparatus of the second company. for the hour of day. The shadows mill," she said. "in that upper sound and well. The
The results were similar, except of the clouds, lashed by the wind, window between the sails. There frightened us.”
that death took place after a
Replying to Mr. Hugh Jones, scurried up the walls as though was the most horrible groaning as
witness said that he held himself "Something has happened out slightly longer time in each case
and they were the shadows of living though somebody had been hurt. there, by the windmill," Beata said. The freshwater shrimp was used responsible for the goods thinge, feeting from pursuit. 1 ran back because I was afraid. "I was out a little while ago, and in the experiments in addition to guaranteed payment. The drafts
She was glad to get back to her But I know we ought to go and see heard Ladyship's Wing and to the safe if anybody is there needing help.'
groaning, I'm the larger fish as it is one of the had not been met and they were. "shelter of her own room. She had "You did not go near enough to to my mother. But we were just roach, gudgeon, &c.
afraid I was a coward. I ran back natural foods of the river fish looking to Madame Sarrault for payment. He knew that Mr. Back- "locked the door of communication, sce?"
going back
"From these reports," Mr. Heald, house had nothing to do with the had turned the key on the outside "No. I was a coward and ran
*agaln arrived."
concludes, "It would appear to be goods. of all the doors that opened on the back, though I think Dach 'wanted
There is a light in the wind- obvious that the measures which His Lordship remarked that 25 corridor. When they were safely me to go on. Oh, mumsie, I know mill," said Mrs. de Burgh. "It is have been adopted have been of per cent. on the invoice' prices locked in she felt as pleased as awe must go and see. I have been very mysterious."
little or no value in the direction seemed to be fair. He gave judg- child who imagines his bed a trying to remember all the great "Let us, see who is hurt," said of effluent purification, and it is ment for the plaintiff for $1,000, stronghold round about which the deeds I have ever heard of to give the doctor. "We can take one of respectfully submitted that in with costs, on the claim, and for jungle roars,
me courage, but I am a
The ladies neither case does it appear that the defendant on the counter-claim coward. the lamps from the car. Beata, looking very pale but And there was the mewing of a had better not come in this storm there has been a real attempt to for $223.50 and costs concurrent much more herself, smiled at her cat. That frightened me, too. bravely when she came in.
ly. But I think I can face It now
The two men went out together. deal with the pollution of the
(To be continued.)
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