OUR SERIAL STORY.
THE MOATED GRANGE.
CHAPTER XXV
By KATHARINE TYNAN, Author of "A Mad Marriage," " The Hous
of Doom," "Donys the Dreamer.
and
some considerable time to come, but nothing could have been better It was a long time before the Tag her than the change next day men came back, long enough to to the happy and bustling life. of Keep Beata and her mother in pain l'esterns.
vivacious Jekyll. Alex. to what had ful suspense as happened.
brilliant, the centre of a social "There has been a bad accident," eirèle in which she was adored, doctor, seriously. I was a tower of strength in the try: anid the want you two ladies out of the way,jing days that came after. Captain Napier will drive you over! The Moated Grange was a sensa- to the Blue Boar in Warley while tion in all the newspapers. The I and my chauffeur remain here. subject was taboo at Posterns, but Can you be ready in ten minutes? in London, to which the Jekylls Just take what you want for the bad removed, taking their guests
with them, it was impossible time being."
"We can be ready," Mrs. de escape from the posters und the cries of the boys selling the even Burgh said.
"We can leave
you some fooding newspapers.
Gruesome Find at a Lonely But the accident?"
Suffolk House.
Don't
A Dend Body Comes to Light; :
Buried in the Mont.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY,
THE NEW ORDER AT HANKOW.
AGITATORS RECEIVE RUDE
AWAKENING. -
An excellent indication of the change of policy and how the Chinese authorities in Hankow aco out to curb the terroristic tactisu of agitators who have been making a good thing out of Communistic practices was indicated in a battle which took place between two sets of coolies in Messrs, Mackenzie & Co.'s press packing works in the ex-British Coneéssion on the 11th instant.
new comers were not members of
SOME SHANGHAI TOPICS.
(Continued from Page 7.)
JANUARY 26, 1928.
TREATY REVISION QUESTION.
PEKING CO-OPERATE WITH
THE SOUTH.'
2
any
the
End of the Murder Case,
Peking, Jan.-20. In an interview with a repre- The community is not a little relieved over the outcome of the sentative of the Toho News Agency trial of Acting Lance Corporal to-day, Mr. Wong Yin-tai, the Hector Macdonald Robertson, or Minister for Foreign Affairs, said: "The movement for the unifica- the Scots Guards, who was ae- quitted by a jury of his peers,tion of diplomacy in North and without even the formality of South gradually is being realized. leaving the jury box, of the For instance, the Peking and Na- charge of shooting and killing ationalist Governments acted in Spanish Treaty. With the date of Chinese houseboy, in the China concert in abrogating the Sino- United Assurance Society's Apart-enforcing the statutory tariff in It appears that most likely ment Building.
aight, and the date of revising the It was known, of course, all treaties with Britain and Amerien through not being able to get work
certain subversive also approaching, we keenly realize some forty outside coelies made along that a bid to carry some of the bales.clements, always on the look-out the necessity for co-operation be In this they were stopped by a for opportunities of introducing tween North and South. It is a head coolie named Wong Yue-n points of friction between the fact that the Northern and South- who was out to keep the business foreign and Chinese communities, ern Governments are on their way a close one for his special set. were on the alert to use the shoot-to co-operation.
"As regards the treaties with His explanation was that as the ing incident as ammunition In the Loong Mao Employée's Unions their plan of campaign, for whilst they would not be allowed to work responsible Chinese bodies have Portugal and Italy, which expire To this the new crowd replied that by now fully appreciated how much this year, I cannot tell whether there was now no use to belong the presence of the Shanghai De-they will be abrogated or not until to any Union and without further fence Force has meant to them in after we ascertain the intention of ado Wang called his. satellites these difficult times, the mischief- those countries regarding the re- together, closed the gates of the makers have left no stone unturn-vision of the treaties. At
the fed and have gone out of their way rate, the Chinese nation strongly premises and proceeded, in
the in their eager attempt to discredit advocates the revision of any "It is your man-servant.
good old way to beat up
the defenders of the Settlement unequal treaties. ask me any more questions.. The
strangers.
"It is true that there will be a wind is going down. I thought it
Awful Death of a Man Servant. could not stand against, the tor-
Battered to Pulp by a Windmill.
The battle soon became a merry the eyes of the Chinese. aflair, but the policeman on duly The Robertson case has furnish-partial change in the personnel of A Woman Dead from Exposure. rential rain. Wrap yourselves up
effective illustration of the Cabinet after, the China New Here Year holidays. As for me, I intend warmly. The car is rather wet,
These alluring head-lines. In lead. at the end of Whacheong Rouded an I'm afraid. Bring any rugs youed type were delighting Londoners was not lung in putting a damper circumstantial evidence.
on the proceeding by reporting to was a man who was in the same to resign. Mr. Yon To-pu, have."
placed." Mrs. de Burgh had the invale-with a fine taste in horrors.
Mrs. de Burgh had had to give the S.A.D. No police station and room as a Chinese houseboy when Finance Minister, may be re- able quality, as the doctor said evidence at the inquest, but that buying out a squad of his corn the latter met, his "death from i was rades. On the arrival of these gunshot wound, and all the sur
circumstances Jater, of asking no questions. They was something that Beata were ready within ten minutes, spared. She was not told for some preservers of the peace Wang made rounding. each hooded and fur-caked, with considerable time the dreadful a hasty retreat and his followers seemingly point to the former rugs and suit-cases.
things that had happened at the also losing their enthusiasm fol-having taken the life of the dead lowed suit. The police found that man. But a British jury does not As they went down the avemie Moated Grange.
to conviet on suspicion, especially in the most urgent duty was Cronel had apparently made a passing between the temple in
MORE FLOODS AT HOME. which lay the stone collin of Thekla hiding-place of the upper chanberther up some six casualties a murder case, and a reasonable Pompiliu, four years old, and the of the windmill, which, on examing among the coolies and send the account having been given by the
London, Jan. 25. Windmill, Anthony Napier leant to- tion, proved to be full of valuable to the hospital. Meanwhile six-accused of his role in the incident,
The country has been swept! wards Beata, who was sitting be-property of one kind or another, teen of Wang's companions have the jury acquitted him, a verdict side him, intercepting her view of including a whole cellar of drinks. been gathered in by the arm f
He had apparently entered and left the law and he is being much which the presiding judge by fierce gales, accompanied by
entirely concurred.
thunderstorms, heavy rain, hail. The preconceived notions enter-sleet and snow, culminating in a "You are not coming back to the his hiding-place by a light ladder, sought after.
tained by some Chinese as to the succession of violent squalls. Moated Grunge any more," he said. the same which he had used to
guilt of Robertson were well "To-night you can sleep at the enter her Ladyship's Wing on the
A man was blown over and kill- Blue Boar at Warley, a very com-night when Beata had been nearly
exemplified in the Police Court: proceedings, when of the ed at Kingston; and another was fortable hostelry; to-morrow Rosa frightened out of her wits. They mond Jekyll will fetch you over to could only conjecture what had
Chinese witnesses referred to the killed at Leeds when a will under was sheltering was Posterns. She would have come happened. Crouch had been drink- |
accused as the man who had kill-which he
blown down. for you this afternoon, only the ing and had tried to leave the wind-
ed the houseboy." wind was too high for their big mill in the ordinary way, ignorant LITTLE HOPE THAT HE
A number of motor-cars and There is nothing like a Ford that the wind had blown down the
IS ALIVE. car.
lorries were blown over in the for such weather."
ladder. Swinging
two by his
roads around London, She had bent her head to the hands from the window sill he had
Peking, Jan. 20. wird, which was still high enough been caught by the revolving sails
There have been several Chinese to prevent much talking. The rain of the mill and had been terribly bad eased off. The drenched coun- battered before the sails let him reports in the past few days that try after the frost 'smelt deliciously; go as a dead rat is dropped by a the dead body of Lieutenant daging vs quite warm, although terrier that has shaken the life out Knowles, of the British Legation Guard, was seen lying by the road- dingingly wet. A strand of her of it hair bad got louse without her There was a little life still inside in the Western Hills, in knowing it, and lay, a wet sweet-the bruised and battered body when October, shortly after he had left across his check and about he was found, soaked in blood and the Trappist Monastery at which his neck.
sklen by the heavy downpour of the stopped for a time while he "You are glad to have left that rain.. place behind, my dear," he said, Long afterwards she was to léarr. turning to look at her where her how the attention of the doctor death cannot yet be considered that has no parallel in the annals Cheshire, and the bodies of cattle]
the windmill.
ness,
face glimmered in the darkness close to his own.
the
and Caplain Napier had been at
came near tracted as they It was the first time he had used windmill by two small green lights a caressing word, and he had con-ining in the darkness, trived to put n great deal into that simple "my dear."
am very glad," she said. " have been desperately frightened." The car was running smoothly now down a long straight road.
"Frightened my dear!" he said, with the same tender intona- tion. "What frightened you? I
should have been there. I shall
see to it that you are frightened any more."
never
She had a feeling as though he drew her close to him with warm protection, although he had moved.
When they turned their lamps on the broken body lying at the foot of the windmill, the sails of which had ceased to, revolve, a cat which had been sitting on the man's chest spat at them and fled into darkness.
MYSTERY OF LIEUT. KNOWLES..
was on leave.
The Legation declare that his
is
one
14
would
Condemned Men Who Come Back To Life. Several cases have occurred in which armed desperadoes who have been sentenced to death by
STORM HAVOC.
A ballast train" had a narrow
on the
the Provisional Court, handed over cscape near Haerlech, when a to the Chinese authorities and landslide of hundreds of tons of ostensibly excented by the latter, rock and earth crashed have subsequently returned to the line. Settlement to ply thair nefarious trade of dealing death and "des- This is one of the reasons for the truction to law-abiding citizena. prevalence of outlawry on a scale
The Thames is again full, the
running flood
bank-high for several miles in the lower reaches. Vast areas are inundated in
of the Settlement. The return of and sheep are floating on the
characters
is Mersey. these dangerous tantamount to letting loose on a Many other districts all over community a howling pack of the country are flooded-Reuter. wolves who will not fail to devour their prey if they run true to
In
officially confirmed. They are in- vestigating the reports of muleteers and others, and probably will issue a pronouncement on the subject shortly."
It has been felt for a long time
shortly afterwards that there
little hope that type...
The reason for the mysterious dying Lieutenant Kowles is alive-in
"The Bus Company recently were fact, since General Yen Hsi-shan return of these criminals like hospital. declared that he had no knowledge apparitions from the spirit world
the Chinese-controlled ordered by H.M. Supreme Court to of him and that he was not a pri- is that soner with the Shanghai armies-territory contiguous to the foreign pay substantial damages for in- ruh being made for her, in but the details of his death, like Settlement is subject to such juries sustained by a Russian field midway between Warley and that of the correspondent of. The frequent changes of authority that beauty parlour employee in can- the Monted Grange. She had up-Times, Mr, Basil Riley, may never in the interregnum between one nexion with a similar incident, parently slipped on the half-melted definitely be cleared up. Reuter, dispensation and another, yamen and since then the conductors and ice and bad braken a leg. She was
Mrs. Crench had been found, à
not discovered for many hours,
not
in-
and by that time she'was in a very ind way.
She began to tell him her credible story. Mrs. de Burgh in hospital
She had been taken to the coltage Ferrars, at Laleliam
the back of the car, her head where Beata and Mrs. de Burgh, wrapped in a motor veil, her head when they were permitted, saw her ing at her feet, caught a word now in a white bed in a ward firelit and and again-blown-back to her.
"I have written to Sir Hilary sweet with flowers. There was a very tender-faced Sister standing Exerton," Captain Napier said. by the bed, who lonked down at and told him to come home. You Mrs. Cronch as though, she were cannot imagine what a different something beautiful. place the Monted Grange was be-
"She is such a good patient,"
fore the terrible accident to poor she said. "If we could only rid Lady Exerton. He will be horri her mind of the idea that she fed to know what has befallen the place, which he loves dearly. is suffering for her sins we might should not think he ever authorised Ket on better."
those servants of his to let the house. They counted on his con- tinued absence."
man
Mrs. Cronch opened her weary eyes and looked love at her visitors. "You should never have come to "Oh!" said Beata, "and why then that place, my dear," she said, ad- did the servants let the house" dressing Mrs. de Burgh, "nor "I would not think about that, my brought her there. Not that there. said, was anything wrong with the house. young dear," the tenderly. "You must forget what only the sins of them that was in you have suffered there, and per-it."
She reached out a coarsened and haps return in happier times to
and touched realise that the house was not to roughened hand blame."
She whispered to him something "'d like to know about Cronch," her mother did not hear, which she said. "I've got it in my mind was followed by an ejaculation of he's dead. I'd be happier to know horror from the Hstener.
he was gone. He never thought
Beata's.
So Beata had not told her all. much on me, but I wouldn't like to There was yet more to be told. As leave him to maybe a worse woman she lay back, wrapped up in her than me, havin' it between us that furs, the thought persisted of the Nellle was ours."
Mrs. de Burgh turned an implor- pleasantness of the Moated Grange if it was only free of all the glooms ing gaze on the Sister, who nodded. that had gathered about it.
the
LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.
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Here is the solution to the puzzle on another page.
MOL D MIL D MILL WILL
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been nearly four months in the loneliness of the Monted Grange without anything ill befalling them. Mrs. Cranch's face had lit up as "Maybe Nelly being so white the Mrs. de Burgh spoke.. Lord would let 'Cronch and me to where she is one day, and not cast us into everlasting darkness."
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Some are in favour of disco:i- tinuing the chopping off of heads and introducing the "cát o nine tails," the bamboo and the birch red for varying degrees of offences In being more potent
criminals instilling lerror in than the prospect of death itself. Tram Terrors.
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The death of Nils Bojesen, 2 12-year-old Scandinavian boy, who was fatally injured in a tramcar tragedy enacted within a stone's throw of Traction House, the head office of the Tramway Company, throws into sharp relief the need" for reform of traffic regulations in the narrow streets of the Settle- ment in which the diversity of the most complex and at the same vehicles makes Shanghai traffic They never saw her again. She time. the most dangerous in the The boy in this case was on his manner of Cronch's death, which, had asked, no questions as to the world."
Her lips formed the words, "Tell the Sister said, was a mercy, way to the Shanghai Public School
The six miles to Warley were her."
He is at rest," she said. "You since there would have been nothing and was trying to board a crowded car when his coat is said to have splashed through quickly and with-
boldly. out mishap. The Blue Boar, which are to think of him as at rest, and for it but to lie to her hardly and seemed pretty full of people, an leave him to the Infinite Mercy
"I'm a truthful woman," she said, caught in the iron gate and he was dragged a considerable distance. old-fashioned comfortable house, of God."" seemed a very haven after In her own mind she prayed that "but I've lied before now in a good
of the ram, it appears that veriness of the Moated Grange. Crench might have been less guilty cause; and I'd be prepared to Due to the crowd on the platform The hostess, rosy and plump, had than he seerned: Had he not said swear black was white If it would neither the conductor nor the driver, noticed the mishap and the The whole gruesome tale was given them a warm welcome, and in his drunken talk that he had give case to my patients." had not even tabooed the presence never meant to kill the old man? only told to Beata after many days, car grated along dragging the shrieking boy for some distance As for his intentions regarding and then in her lover's arms. of Dosh in their bedroom.
before it finally pulled up, the lad Beata was going, to be nervy, to them-well, they must remain for
(To be continued.) jump in her sleep and cry out forever a mystery. At least, they had.
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