THE METAL BOX
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By THOMAS COBB.
in Pretènces," Mra, Pomeroy's Répútation, &c.)
THE HONGKONG:
CHAPTER XIII.
TELEGRAPH.
THERESA'S APOLOGY, Scarcely knowing where to bo gin, Theresa seemed to be going. off the track, in describing Nina Francey, her first cousin, with whom she had been brought up, Nina being a year or two younger.
"She's the very loveliest girl I have ever seen," Bald Theresa. "And she is out for a good time. Of course, my aunt hasn't a very large income, but there are always plenty of men hanging around to give her what she wants."
That had beer Everard Parkin fric-son's trouble, Theresa explained. Lane While it was true that he had the prestige of Sir Joseph's shekels behind him, he was terribly short of ready money.
belleve he created so much tion that the house in Park became too hot to hold him,"
"Surely, he goes to it, cried Foster.
SYNOPSIS, FOSTER MARKWELL, who - travola periodically as ship'a doc- tor, meets and admires THERESA FEVERSHAM, plece of an Ameri-
Possibly when Sir Joseph is can millionaire newspaper pro- prietor. MISS CROOM, without out of the way. A mother's a mo- telling him of the contents, aakster, you know, Foster. I daresay Foster, her nephew, to take in spite of all his alarms and ex- charge of a metal box containing cursions, she's still proud of him. precious jewels. A few days laterne must admit he looks rather she is murdered. Theresa's atti-ice. I might be able to show tude towarda Foster changes aud-vou his photograph. He was at denly, and she is obviously "fah-Molly Dyson's wedding, and I ing" for information about the fancy the camera took him in." jewels. She persuades him to Ms. Davenport crossed the bring the box to her flat where he room and began to look through is ordered, at the point of a renumber of loose photographs in a volver, to surrender it to a smart, leather case, presently returning red-leaded young man. It, how with one of a wedding group.
ever, contains no jowels, they be ing safety deposited in the bank. Fostor receives 战 visit from
MONICA RAILTON, 11 young
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The tall run on the left is Everard Parkinson," she said. "And you must remember that he has vivid red hair.”
"Poor Everard" cried Thereas, "He was over head and cars, yet he had to stand by while his rivala made the running."
He had, it appeared, made a confidante of Theresa, bewailing his Fate, specially, when Mrs. Francey took Nina to California, where his miserable limitations prevented him from following her.
"Well, I gave him the very best advice," said Theresa, with the slight.drawl which, in Fos- ter's opinion, only added to her charm, "I told him the wisest thing he could do was to go back home and make a clean breast to Sir Joseph.. I thought his father would be so pleased at the pros-, pect of his setiling down, that he' friend of Miss Croom. She tells 'Now Foster felt satisfied. would make things smooth, but he him of a man named Hillyard who Bverard Parkinson was unques- didn't. I guess he had heard was at one time.a lover of Misstionably the "man" who had bowed something like the same tale be-. Croom's and whom Miss Croom to Theresa at the "Carlton," who fore, though of course Everard met again about two years before had held the revalver at her flat, hnsured me that. Nina was the her death. One night he sent the and no doubt it was he who met only woman he had ever loved." bax to her asking that she should | Redpath on the doorstep in Park Migsing Nina, and after There- keep it until he asked for it, giv-Jane' on. Monday morning, the sa sailed for Europe, having no ing it to no one else.
seventh, and went to Baynton one to whom he could talk freely. Hillgard's messenger was Crescent, sending in Hillyard's about her, he took this advice and named REDPATH and Foster de- Iname, ns An Introduction, and a second class passage to Sou- cides to call on him. Passing the [seeing Miss Croom the same after- | thampton,, surprising her by a Capital Hotel 'he seen Theresa and [noon,
visit a Treadwell Mansion, a speaking to her learns that her Instead of heing a crook, how-week after her own arrival. She unele is in England. She is ob ever, he had been engaged in and not seen him again, however, *viously ashamed of herself.
landible attempt to retrieve his till the day she lunched with Redpath tolls Foster that lill-mather's stolen property. Al-Poster at the "Carlton." yard stole the jewels from LADY though his-methods might not "That was the signal for the PARKINSON, but died. Then have been the wisest in the world,curtain to rise," she explained. Redpath went to Park Lane to they could not for an instant belle came to me the same even- claim the reward, but was stop-rondemned as criminal. Everardag to ask who you were ped by a “red-haired young swell" Parkinson had no thought of per- said you had been the doctor whom he supposed to be the son, sonal gain. He wanted the box on the "Egeria," and, were the who heard the story and threaten-in order to restore the contents nephew of Miss Croom, who had ed to hand him to the police, to lady Parkinson, and as
murdered he buen
Haverstock Monica tells Foster that he should was innocent, so with stronger, he told me a curious talo. go to Scotland Yard and tell reason, was Theresa. That was Two years ago, Lady Parkinson them what he knows.
the really important fact. Foster hud been robbed of her jewel case
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longed to see her again, to induce at Waterloo Station. Although a her to discuss the situation large reward had been offered FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS. frankly and make a fresh start. there was no result, till the other.
Macao Electrics, $21 At first he thought he would day, Everard in some mysterious Foster Markwell made up his wait till Tuesday afternoon before way discovered the thief was fl mind to pay Mrs. Davenport going to her hotel, but the early man named Hillyard, and that he visit that evening. She had been morning passed terribly slowly had deposited the jewels with Miss an old friend of his mother's, and fand
A half-past eleven, carried Croom. Everard," Theresa he generally paid her a visit be-away by impatience, the set forth tinued, "saw his chance at once. tween voyages, besides he was on to Northumberland Avenue.
Sir Joseph would be transported the best of terms with her son.
with delight to get them" "hack. At the bureau he learnt that He would take his son into favour, Jocelyn and her daughter, An-
she was in her room, and sending again. But before there was time nette.
He would probably not have up his name, waited anxiously to arrange a way to set to work, neglected her on the present pech to hear whether she would come Everard read of the murder, and sion but for Theresa Feversham,down to apcuk ib him. A little as nothing was said about his and now she might prove useful. later he had the gratification of mother's property, he jumped to He wished to make certain that seeing her step out of the lift, the conclusion that you had man- the man who had held the revol-wearing her fur coat and extreme-aged to take it away before the ver to his head was actually Ladyly becoming, tightly-fitting hat to police could find it. He had Parkinson's son, wherene Mrs match it, as if she were on the seen your photograph in a news, Davonport, who know most people point of going out.
paper, and was naturally Bur- worth knowing, would probably
"You wanted to see me!" she prised to recognise you with me be able to tell him.
said, without affering her hand. at the "Carlton. You had Foster would
"If you're going out," he an- the least right to the things, he not have found her at home if she had not been swered, "you might allow me to insisted. You could not help nursing a cold, otherwise she walk a part of the way,"
knowing they had been stolen. He appealed to me to help him,
would have Accompanied her After a brief hesitation, with
not
family to the Haymarket Theatre. put speaking, she stepped towards by finding out what you had done She was a pleasant-looking woman the revolving door and on rench-with them.".
to
of about fifty, but the Instant being the pavement, turned to her "I think," said Foster able entored the oppressively hot alt-right in the direction of the em-smile now, "you, did it rather ting-room, she began to reproach bankment,
badly," him.
"Well, I've made a discovery," "It was a new experience," she Though I support I ought toleried Foster, by her side. "I've returned "How I hated it! At make allowances," she said. "You learnt that the man who held mersi I positively refused, but mast have heen terribly shocked up in your flat was Everard Par-Everard pleaded so hard and he by poor Evelyn Creom's death. Ikinson, and that the jewellery declared you were no better than used to see a good deal of her you were trying to get hold of thief. But for that I might years ago. Of course I was never had been stolen from his mother."never have given way."
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CHEMIST'S VISION.
EXPLODED GASMETER.
ODED
MANCHESTER'S ACCIDENT STILL A MYSTERY.
The instant explosion of 3,000,000 cuble feet of gas by which two large gasometers wore destroyed and two others put out of commission at the Bradford-street gas works of the
A head-on crash iri Elgin-avenue, Maida Vale had a sequel at the Marylebone Police Court when Wil liam Schofield, ngéd 41, an antique dealer, of Digby-mansions, Ham- mersmith, was sentenced by Mr. H. C. A. Bingley to six weeks' impri• being drunk in charge of a motor- sonment in the second division for
car, and fined £5 with 268, coats for driving in a manner dangerous to the public. Mr. Charles George Hopton, of Great Portland-street, W., said that Schofield "zig-zagged" along the road and crashed, head on, into his car, damaging it to the ex-
HIGH ENERGY THE KEY TO HEALTH AND VITALITY,
Professor E. C. C. Baly, Pro- fessor of Inorganic Chemistry at Liverpool University, demonstrated at the Royal Institution how the mechanism by which the green leaf changes carbonic acid into sugar can be exactly imitated in the Manchester Corporation in August laboratory. He explained that the has been the subject of a Govern- tent of £75 or £100 and throwing great puzzle as to the origin of the ment inquiry at Manchester.. energy necessary to supplement the
effect of light was solved by what
him (witness) against the wind- screen. Dr. Mayberry said that
Mr. P. M. Heath, Town Clerk, Schofield was so drunk that he had
was known as a surface effect com-stated that at present the cause of no idea in which direction he was parable with that produced by the
mystery gus lighters of our child the accident was a mystery. It going. hood in which the mere presence of was true that the gasometers whith JAPANESE MOTOR SHIP "platinum black caused gas to exploded had been in use 46 or 47
burst into flame. SUNK.
years, but there were 1,500 gas- Passing to a broader issue which holders in use in England to-day | perhaps explained the principles built at the same time as these. underlying the value of vitamins, They had been constantly inspected Professor Baly contended that this and were declared, so far as the experimental Rynthcals of the sugars by light aided by the surface ironwork was concerned, to be in
good condition. effect gave the key which unlocked the door of vital chemistry, and that the chemistry of all life was be ascertained, was that
What happened, so far as could on the of high energy, ordinary afternoon of the neeldent a peculiar laboratory experience being con-noise was heard and a cloud ap fined to the chemistry of low energy, neared over No. 4 holder. This "From this viewpoint," he con- was followed by a huge flame, which cluded, "I see a wonderous vista un passed to No. 1, from which flame! fold itself, wherein new understand-also leaped, and the contents of both ing, new hopes, and new possibili-exploded. Fourteen persons were thetics reveal themselves. Health and hurt, though not verfously. There said the high energy level being main-gestion of foul play or that there you vitality inust essentially depend on was no evidence to support a sug
the tained, any lowering of that level was smoking. Professor. Dixon's leading to poor health and weak theory was that some tronwork gave vitality,
way and created a spark, which caused the disaster.
Tokyo, Mar. 8. The American freighter Weat Cadron, leaving port to-day for Portland, Oregon, ran inte sank a Japanese motor-ship. The crew of eight of the latter vessel
to bring the metal box to fat. I scarcely thought would be foolish enough," Theresa, "but I no longer felt same reluctance" ·
and one
on the same terms with your "Then the devil is not so black down intently into her face.
Foster turned abruptly, looking seems an age sined I saw her." as you painted him," she mur
"Won't you explain
a littlé Foxter sat Lalking about Missnured, waiting on the kerb for an
more fully he urged. Croom for a few minutes, then opportunity to cross the road. As
"You see," she answered, colour. came to the subject of his visit, non as they reached the farthering slightly, "I had known you on asking whether Mrs. Davenport sile, Foster looked eagerly into the Egeria. I had not formed knew Lady Parkinson of Park her face.
that opinion of you. You did not Lane.
"Don't you think," he suggested, look that sort of person. I in- She laughed on hearing the "the time has come to explain sisted that Everard was making were drowned, name quite good naturally. your own part in the affair, Ever a mistake. I would not believe "Sir Joseph,' she explained, "is since I've become so much wiser, you were capable of keeping a remarkable man. He began it seems a rather incongruous stolen property. It seemed with the proverbial half-crown part, you know.”
ridiculous." and has become & millionairo. A She did not require to be told man of the most simple personal that. She was conscious of the tastes and habits, he Rectos Lo fact every hour of the day. She like his wife to make the most admitted she had only herself to lavish display. A very good-blame for whatever he might be natured woman, but the cause of teve her to be, but though he had
"The most Important sources widespread envy. Her jewels are ceased to imagine she was a thief,'}
from which we can absorb high marvellous, and though she was no doubt the part, she had played
energy are fresh food and ultra- robbed of goodness, only knows must appear sufficiently strange.
"I didn't see how you could the necessity of the rapid distribu- violet light. From the one we learn how many thousand pounds worth some time ago, she is still smother-be also had gone up in hers. She If she had risen in his opinion,
resist," she answered. "I assum- tion of cur food supply before its ed in diamonds every evening."
"Especially when you told me you knew to whom the jewela high energy is lost; from the other Has she any children asked need no longer believe that that elaborate Arabian Night's belonged. You would not dare to we gain a real understanding of the
intended to retain property which "Only one Ron-a good handful.jhe knew to, have been stolen. And, story about your grandfather" risk our telephoning to the police. benefits of ultra-violet light therapy,|| Jocelyn brought Everard Parkin-80, walking along the embankment she admitted. "I believed you It seemed certain Everard's bluff and, more important still, of the
Foster.
"Yet you allowed Parkinson to convince you!" said Foster.
"No," she protested. "I want ed to convince myself to prove he was wrong. That was the chief reason I consented to--to pump you."
"Then, ns a matter of fact," suggested Foster, "you were dis- appointed in me."
Theresa slowly nodded.
along Bruton Street." con-
were even
"I seemed a pretty bad lot," said. Foster. "You prepared to let Parkinson shoot me--"
son here once or twice, but I'm this fine, cold morning at the end were making it up as we walked would succeed" Wafrald we were altogether too of January, with tramcárs
Lame for him. To tell you the stantly passing on their right, truth, the less my own boy has then crossing to the Houses of ed!" to do with him the better."
drangers, of its misuse,
"Then the revolver wasn't load- "You were entirely disillusion-ed?" suggested Foster.
"A vision comes to us of a new "Of course I saw to that," she yond thone, which constrain our chemistry with limits far-flung bo-| "considered you would de said. "I made him give it to me. knowledge of to-day, a chemistry Parliament, and continuing their "What's the matter with Par-way past Westminster Abbey on serve all you got," she insisted, have often carried a gun. But which will embrace and co-ordinate
the opposite side of the rond, and I expected that Everard Everard knew better than to kinson" suggested Foster,
"I mustn't tell tales out of Theresa told her story. As she would go to the police, when he shoot. He felt certain you would not only the properties of inapi- mato, matter upon this earth, not school. I dare say he's not much went on, she perceived that a heard the jewels were at your put your hands up. And he was only the wondrous mechanism of | bank But he wouldn't. Ho right. I rather wondered that the life of man in health and in worse than a good many others, wrong conclusion might easily
an amateur you gave in so quickly, but, of disease, but only he's more thorough. Sir be drawn, whereas her chief do- faneled himself as Joseph packed him off to America sire. like hle'own, was to banish detective. He wanted to moet course.. the moment the box was stupendous marvels of the birth and laat year, but he returned unex-misunderstanding and mystery at cunning with cunning. He said opened I knew."
it would be easy to persuado 'you' pectedly just before Christmas. I once and for ever.
(To be continued.)
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