Pomance and Mystery.
Zora, the Invisible
By J. R. WILMOT.
(Author of "The Mooreroft Manor Mystory.") ...
CHAPTER XXIII:
been acquainted with the informa- tion that you wish to let him have
It."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928.
TESTING · EINSTEIN'S ETON HEROES OF THE JUDGE'S TEARS IN
THEORY.
MEASURING WAVE-LENGTHS OF 1,500 COLOURS.
Strong evidence in favour of Einstein's theory of relativity has just been brought forward by Dr. C. E. St. John, of Mount Wilson Observatory, one of the leading American astronomers.
LONG GLASS.
RACE TO DRINK PINT ÅND
HALF OF BEER,
The rapidity with which some of our famous men could, in their Younger days, drink a plat and a half of beer, is revealed by a the death of Mrs. Hannah Thomas, book which has come to light by
of The Tap, in the High-street;
The Shota in the Dark.
So far as is known, only three
Eton. Thank you, Madame, but you direct tests of the theory are pos Blayne turned away from the window of the room in which he will not forget to search the house. sible. Two of these concerned
All those whose feats aro ́re- thd
FAMOUS COURT.
if
"THING OF BEAUTY AND JAW FOR EVER."
FUN AT FLITCH TRIAL.
Another ideal husband has been
discovered.
He was brought to light at Ilford: recently, when the annual trial for the historie Dunmow Flitch was held.
had seen Sonia Gaynor and her I have fears that all is not well to- respectively with the path of the corded were Etonians and lover, a stränge feeling of triumph night, for out' in the darkness 1 planet Mercury and the bending drink was consumed in connexion possessing him. By the gateway communed with the Great One and of light by the sun-have already with an old custom known as Flitch trial dates back to 1107, and
were storm clouds on his pronounced in favour of the "Long Glass."
theory, but the third has, so far, brow.”
The woman opened. the door softly for him without answering, and Blayne moved forward luto darkness.
ho paused and looked back at the there house. Might it not be safer to return and challenge Dwyer now with being Zora? Better perhaps to get him while he could, for to- morrow might be too late.
narrow corridor.
2:
"Superstitious fool," murmured Then it occurred. to him that there were a great many things he Ann Morrison after she had closed did not know. If Dwyer were in-the door and retreated along the deed this, mysterious personage who, apparently, had several hun- dred fanatics at his heels, where did Montgomery Gaynor come in?
Peter Blayne decided
the fellow after all
Peter Blayne stood for nymoment in the silent darkness of the room. Then, as his eyes became more ac customed to, the gloom, he noticed
J
only led to ambiguous results, be- Long Glass is a yard of glass cause of the extreme difficulty of with a thin stem and a wide lip with a bowl at the end. It held applying it.
After one of the most accurate, a pint and a half of beer and had places of scientific measurement to be drained by each boy on ad- over performed. Dr. St. John now mission to Cellar or Comby. reports that the predictions of the theory are fulfilled in this respect.
Cellar was a kind of "banquet," | ulso.
and to be invited to join was the The effect in question is a slight indication of the achievement of increase of wavelength of light some athletic feat. emitted by substances in the at-To drink from Long Glass was
the
over the boy's face and neck.
Oarsman's Record.
The ceremony of the Dunmow
the Flitch is awarded to the couple who prove to the satisfaction of the judge and jury that during the past year they have never offended each other by word or deed or wished themselves unmarried.
Mr. William Henry Cook, of Winchelsea-road, Tottenham, and his wife were declared to have ful- Mr. Cook told the jury that he and his wife-
filled these conditions.
Married 35 years ago; Had had 16 children, of whom
Had never quarrelled or had al
Always go out together.
The scene of the trial was a mar-" quee in the Gordon Club grounds- at Ilford, to which parish it was A strict record was kept by transferred from Dunmow Im- stop-watch, of the time each mem-mediately before the war. ber took to empty the glass and the results were entered in a book which the drinker signed."
'back to "Red Gables" still in his high up on the ceiling, and though with light emitted by the same lins the beer rushed from the bowli might learn a lot more by going that two tiny crimson lamps burnedmosphere of the sun, compared not easy, for as it was lifted to 'the six are stil living: It would be easier now that he had blackness completely they did en ample, glowing hydrogen on guise of the emissary from India. they wore helpless in dispelling the substances on the earth. For ex-and much was apt to be poured cross word; and
a number of earth emits a red light, but the had a glimpse of who Zora really able him to se was. Blayne felt that there was shadowy figures seated on chairs same substance in the sun's atmos nothing so very formidable about arranged in the form of a half phere should, according to the circle in front of what appeared to
theory, emit a slightly redder is watch told him think he had Blayne to be a black-covered dais, light, the wave-length of the light
Blayne moved slowly forward only fifteen minutes to regain the
the house in marvelling at the size of the room, being responsible for its colour.
Mr. Charles The waves of light are emitted
Austin, tho grounds and enter
comedian, was a most impartial readiness for the important meet which was much bigger than he
judge, siding first with claimanta ing. It was now almost dark and had expected. Quietly he slipped atoms when they undergo eer-
The record time was 9 sec., and then with the flitch, and mean- as the young man crussed the road into a chair that stood over by the taln changes involving periodic
An atom performing taken by J. H. Gibbon, the well-while bestowing sundry winks. had come, there was no sign of the a perfect and uninterrupted alght such movements is, in fact, a sort known stroke. Lord Dalmeny's upon the ladies of the jury and the towards the field. Through which he Wall, from which he could command movements,
of clock, and the theory of best time was 13 secs.
A woman, fair Portlas at counsels' table. of both the door and the dais.
The assembled Indians began to lativity requires that n clock
the only one apparently, ever in- he had left the grounds of "Red croon slowly and softly, swaying placed near 'n very madaive bodyvited to "Cellar," took 45 sec.
backwards and forwards with an such as the sun, shall work more even rhythm, their curious incanta-slowly than a similar clock on the tions falling strangely on his un-earth. The result of this would accustomed cars. To Blayne as he be an increase in the wavelength sat there it was terribly unreal; of the light radiated. there was something grotesque about it too, but all the time his
dusky figure that had so persistent ly pursued him. from the moment
RACING MOTOR CAR MYSTERY.
Miss Buckley contended that the custom of awarding the flitch was enforced upon an unwilling public by William the Conqueror, and that there had never been a case of un- alloyed matrimonial bliss.
The jury consisted of six apina- ters and six bachelors, and there Gables."
Other Limes, shown In the book, was an imposing array of counsel, By the time he reached the house
were: C. D. Burnell, 12 seca.; W. including Mr. A. S. Comynn Carr he heard the clock in the church
Astor, 20 secs.; Lord Northland 19.G.. Mr. Tom Groves, M.P., and tower over the hill pealing out the
secs.; W. E. Guinness, 15 aces.; S. Mme. Petry for the claimants; -hour of eight. The chimes, rolled
Astounding Accuracy, C. R. Agar-Robarts ,23 secs.; Lord Mr. J. H. Hayes, M.P., Mr. C. E. pleasantly, and, easily over the still Countryside where nothing moved eyes never left the buck-draped served by any but the most refined Gerald V. Wellesley, 24 4-5 secs.
The effect is too small to be el-Ingestre, 23 secs.; Lord Brooke, Grigsby and Miss Buckley for the
flitch. 26 secs,; R. C. Pilkington, 15 seca.: and where peace had decended, as dais for a single moment.
Then he felt his body uncon-instruments, and is, moreover, peace will, among the undulating
R. Innes-Ker, 57 secs. acres of the English countryside,
"had | complicated by other нciously stiffch. Sonicone
factora There was a light burning in the crossed the platform and stood fac-which produce a similar altera- hall as he mounted the steps, his ing the assembly.
tion of wave-length. By the use hands clasped in front of him with Brothers," he began in a low of the most powerful spectra- the slim volume he had bought, be-voice, "we are indeed honoured to-graphy available, Dr. St. John has tween them. No one emerged to night, for our great Zora has come greet him and Blayne wondered among us. There are certain in whether he was too late. He portant matters about which he moved quietly across the hull in the must speak to us-grave matters direction of the room where he and concerning the happenings of the Inspector Webster had interviewed past few weeks. I pray you barken the exasperating Mrs. Morrison unto his words carefully, for they and her charming daughter, may be vital with import for all Natalie. It was in darkness--an of us—for every Son of Zora in oppressive darkness like that which this land and across the ocean. It precedes a thunderstorm. Blayne is for this purpose you have heen #tood motionless, like a statue. His gathered together. Lol the great quick eye had caught the movement Zorn comes," of one of the curtains at the far and of the room,
Blayne watched the shadow form of the man melt from the sombre platform. The Indians uttered a low, moaning sound like the eerie wind through the lem trees on, March night. He saw that they had dropped forward upon their knees, their hands upraised above their heads. Only Blayne But rigid, Waiting.
It could not have been the wind; the night was calm and unhurried. Then, like a lush, a white figure darted across the floor with the nimbleness of a gazelle. Blayne, unconscious of his danger, dashed forward to intercept it in its flight, but his hands seemed to pass through it as if it were a Then, as the other form faded, phantasmal being. A door was the apparition appeared. At first flung open and closed with a bang, it seemed like an insignificant glow Then silence.
| rising from the background in a The young man, sprang to the slow *piral, becoming door he saw blackly limed in the luminous as it arose until, in some darkness of the room. It was miraculous way, slowly i materi- locked. Suddenly the room wasalised into a ghostly white human flooded with light and turning, form sitting huddled on a chair with his hand still on the handle placed in the centre,
more
of the door, Blayne found himself An 'arm wàa; raised out of the confronted by Ann Morrison, who white fukis of the robe, and a voice Blood framed in the doorway re-said; garding him curiously..
"Well?"
"Peace be unto you, my brothers: the hour is nigh."
The
Thore spomed, to Blayne, to be a There was a murmur of appro- challenge in that single word utter-bation from the assembled throng. Fed with auch menacing culm.
who arose from their prustrations: "Madame," Blayne began. "I still muttering their incantations. fear that we have, an intruder
come to you to-night, my among us--a spy, perhapt. I had brothers, to utter a warning." just come in from the grounds, and British Government from whom it was passing this very room, when, would appear nothing can be hidden, lol someone he come in through has beconic apprised of our peace- ful activities in this land of free- the window there you see how it is even a little-I tried to catch dom, and I warn each one of you him, but he was too quick for me, to be on his guard. Let no words and he went through there. We pass your lips. Do nothing that must search the house, Madame, will lead to suspicion being direct- for I am fearful lest someone has ed against you and I-I. who know already guessed our secret. Search all things--will see that pur enemies now, Madame, search now!"
jare quickly humbled to the dust.” Blavne's voice was agitated. His Blayne listened to this meaning- hands clenched and unclenched, lesa jargon fascinated. That voice nervously, but nevertheless in spite where had he heard it before? of this clever simulation he was In spite of its rather obvious dis- shrewdly watching the face of the guise, it was vaguely 'familiar. It woman who still stood there, and might have been Osbert Dwyer or he noticed that she was apparently it might have been someone clee. impressed by his eagerness and his But of course be knew it must be sincerity.
Dwyer Dwyer with some white material around him to match the turban that concealed the hend. It as a pity that figure on the dain appeared to have no face.
Then she took a step forward
into the room.
The mystic figure was speaking again.
"The Great One, my brothers,
"That's all right, Ruma, but don't think there's need for you to distress yourself. I'll get Kasha to make a thorough search. You will come with me and I will show tells me that there is a traitor you our meeting place."
Ann Morrison took Blayne by the heart of our
among us-a traitor who strikes at the arm and led him across the hall. cima a growing murmur of anger Cause." Here Opening a small door concealed be and disapproval; a shuffling of feet, hind a long, Indian tapestry, she and then... a flash and led the way into a narrow, dark deafening report that echoed and passage dimly illuminated by a reechoed wildly through the room, small-electric lamp covered with a followed quickly by a second re- deep red shade. At the farther volver shot and a cry that mingled end Blayne saw another door before and was drowned amid, the con which they paused.
fusion and the panic.
Blayne made a leap for the back
"I have told them int you will be here," she whispered softly, "and of the room, flung' open the door, when the time comes you will be and dashed along the now complete- able to hand up your messagely darkened corridor, personally to Zora, who has already
(To be Continued.)
measured the wave-lengths of more than 1,500 colours in the solar light, with an error, if any, estimated at less than one-part in five million. ·
This degree of accuracy affords
HOW CAPT, CAMPBELL WAS,
FOILED.
a crucial test of the relativity A mysterious breakage in the theory, and the result is that he gear box of la Delage car pre- prediction of the theory is vert-vented Captain Malcolm Campbell fed with regard not waly to the from taking part in the motor existence of the effect, but also to races at Brooklands recently.
s precise amount, Einstein's theory has therefore now tizen He had entered for the Brook- justified by all the tests which canlands Gold Vase race, but when he made.
he went to take the car from its In the course of the investiga-tock-up ahed near the paddock he tion evidence was obtained also found the gear locked solid and of vertical currents of material in the vehicle unmovable. the atmosphere of the aun."
LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.
Here is the solution to puzzle on another page..
BABY
BA BE BALE BALL BOLL DOLL.
"Foul play" was the verdict of some of the motor experts who examined the car.
"It is an amazing occurrence." Captain Campbell afterwards told newspaper men,
When she referred to the "so- called joys but certain misery of married life," the judge broke down and wept copiously.
of Speaking of the "scarelly happy couples," Miss Buckley unid; "usbands are awkward things to deal with.
"Even keeping them in constant hot water does not make them ten- der. On the other hand, a woman may be a thing of beauty, but the may be a jaw for ever.
"In spite of everything, however, man is sill the hunter and girls still set their caps at men, even their kneecaps these days."
"From Fish to Pig."
At this point there were groans from the judge, and he mopped his eyes with the ends of his wig.
The first couple to enter the wit- nesebox were Mr. and Mrs. Cook, They were subjected not only to anythird degree" methods, but, as Mr. Hayes expressed it, to "fourth and fifth degree"
"I should not like to say the thing about foul play, but the breakage is one that could not possibly occur in the ordinary way, and it could not happen in driving. I have never known i happen before.
Two teeth have been stripped off the consent mesh gear. If I offered anybody £100 to do this while driving the car, they could not take leeth off the constant mesh.
"I am making a thorough umination of it to-morrow, and then we ahall know if anything has been dropped into it.
The car was all right on Thursday, and was locked up in my private garage on the course during the week-end."
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Mr. Cook, who is a fish saleman, said that in his case it had been love at first sight. "My wife was one of my customers," he said.
"So, of course, you used to give her an extra bit of fish every time she came in interrupted the judge, amid laughter,
At the request for silence the the court usher judge turned to CX-
and told him to "mind his own business," and then continued ad- dressing Mr Cook. "So you do cided to marry soon, before the fish went bad." (Laughter.) to pig?" asked Mr. Hayes,
"Why have you shifted from fish
"Because a nice smoked had- dock with a nice bit of bacon go well together," replied Mr. Cook" The other couples were Mr. and Mrs. William H. Barrett and Mr. Mim Walter G, Ward, all of Ilford. Mr. Tom Groves, who won the fitch himaclf in 1923, remarked that all three wives had bobbed hair, and added, "I submit, in spite of the argument in Parilament, that
"bobbed hair does not make a woman bad any more than whiskers make a man a saint.
"These people have proved to us that a happy married life is far more than living with each other, for they apparently live for one another, and they seem to placo more value on having a grand baby than a baby grand."
The jury unanimously awarded the first itch to Mr. and Mrs. Cook, and the second was divided between the other couples.
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