THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1933.
"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"
Summer Mystery BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
CHAPTER 1 "Into the Darkness"
So he changed his mannor, nodded, and observed genially...
"All right, sonny, It's your "What on earth is that boy star-business, not mino-but I really ing at?" thought Leonard Sefton, thought you were staring at some- as he rounded a rocky promontory thing interesting. Will you tell and came into view of Craverley me if that building on the point Point.
over there is an hotel?"
The boy's mood underwent an instantaneous transformation. His gaze lost its vague animosity, and a curious eagerness entered his oyo.
"Yossir, that's a 'otel," ho piped. "Mermaid 'Otel." After a second's pause. he added, with a tiny touch of pride, "I works there,"
uncomfortablo?" retorted the boy.ashoro and they'd 'ave to keep a "I s'pose It's waitin' for the body look out for it, wouldn't they? to be washed up's what does it." 'Corse. So I slipa, down 'ere when * "Stendy, stendy 1" exclaimed Loo-l'as chance, and. I looks at orl the nard. “Aren't you rather rushing now footmarks afore the tide mattors? Is tho Idea, then, that washes 'cm, yus, and I got 'em orl ho's drowned ?”.
down in a book," keen for me to go there?".
"Well, sir, wo` orl. 'as dif'rent "Good Lord!" murmured Leo The boy hesitated. Five shill-Ideas," responded the boy earnestly, nard, blinking a little as he array- inga was a lot. But he wasn't as bis mind harped back to kitchen ed all these gruesome details. discussions. "Some thinks 'o nin't "And was that a footmark you were taking any chances.
drowned, some thinks 'e is drowned, staring at when I came upon you?! and-and come thinks as 'o was drownded."
"Oh! And which do you think?" promise.
"I see 'e was drownded, cos if 'e'd drownded "Iself 'in body'd 'ave some ashore next mornin' with 'iamy size, and mark it 'Innocent' 1" "Then, for goodness' sake, take boat."
"I expect
"You'll go there, fost the simet" he demanded, suddenly...
"Jest the sime," Leonard assured him gravely. "It's a Forge ahead. Do you get a per- contage on all the guests you bring along, or what?"
"It ain't that, sir," said the boy, seriously. "It's jest that the Ildy what runs the 'obel now-well; she's a bit down on 'er luck-
"And you're trying to help ber build it up again, eh?" Interposed Leonard. "Well done! But what's happened to the lady's luck?"
"Well, air-it's arter what's 'appened."
There were shells on the beach of Craverloy, and, so said the local guldo-book, cornellan; but neither shells nor cornellan could account for the tense and earnest gazo with which a small, freckled, snub-nosed youth was boring the flat sand. The only object apparent to justify such strango Intensity was a battered wrock, clawed down by un- "Good! Thon we may meet soen rocks a mile out at sen. This again," exclaimed Leonard, smiling object however was behind the "That is, if you think I can get a small boy's head, and was clearly room for the night."", powerlcas to compete against "You'll git a room all right, sir," the mysterious counter-attraction. answered the boy, with such quick Lower and. tower went the small and odd assurance that Leonard soon, any ow, so I don't s'pose it boy's head, till nono and beach al-glance at him sharply. This ap-mikes any diffrence, me tellin' most met: and more and moro peared to abash him a little, and yer." He lowered his voice slight- ourious grew Leonard Softon. ho corrected himself. "I think you by, and a tinge of irrepressible
The boy was too engrossed to will, sir,” he said.
melodrama entered into it.. "'Er notice the now comer's approach, "It looks such a nice hotel that I father walked orf a week ago, and but the head came up with a fork as hope I will," remarked Leonard, 'e ain't come back." soon as it was addressed.
watching the boy with interest. "By Jove, that's bad," said Leo- "What's the excitement, young "Most hotels are packed in August.nard. ster?" enquired Leonard. "Sand's Isn't yours?"
"Yossit, Orf 'o walked, inter cheap,"
"Doin' all right, murmured the the darkness, and that's the last The boy did not reply immediate-boy, suggesting a truthful nature we seed of 'im."
What has happened?" "Well," air--you'd 'ave knowd
I
suppose?"
j
"Yeaalr."
ly. He was not in mental condition by the und way he lied. "Very "The police have beon on the job, to appreciate subtlatles, and it took pop'lar, the Mermaid is." Sudden him a few moments to recoverly noticing the athletic. qualities of from the surprise interruption. his interrogator, he. added the in- While he was recovering, Leonard formation. "Got a tennis lawn continued,
sir."
"I thought it was a purse with n "Then it'll suit mo. down to the thousand pounds in. It, at least. It ground," said Leonard, and all at even occurred to me it might be once burst into. laughter. "Look King John's crown. But I can't here, young man. Let's do a deal, Sven B00 a winkle, you know! you and me. Five shillings, if What were you looking at?" you'll tell me all about it?”
Then the youth replied, un- "Orl about what?" faltered the satisfactorily, "Nothin'," and Lao-boy, his heart thumping financially, nard was about to suggest that in it.
Everything.
"And that's had a depressing effect upon business, ch? Mado some of the visitors get anxious, and go?"
"Yessir. Yer see, it ain't so- so comfortable like as it was, though Miss Fyne, she goes on jest sime." Sudden, indignation the surged through his juvenile breast, "They all orter atay, that's what I see, to 'oip 'or."
Why you "Unfortunately, people don't al ways do what they ought to do,"
this case his bent position, must) were staring so hard at the sand have been due to a sudden attack of just now? Why your hotel, with frowned Leonard. "I can under- fuvenile lumbago, when it occurred its wonderful sea views and its stand that some of the visitors to him that perhaps he was not tonnis lawn, isn't full up in would feel uncomfortable," taking the lad seriously enough. August? And why you're so dend
"What about Misa Fyns feelin'
"Yessir," answered the boy, "Yer aco, It was a new un. Not one of our guesta, it wasn't, 'cos I knows orl them. I'm the boats."
"I BBC. He went out in a bont." exclaimed Leonard, "Yessir." "When?"
Nobody
"In the night it wna. saw 'im go. And next mornin' the boat's washed up with nobody in it. But if somebody did 'im in, they'd try and 'ide the body, and it wouldn't come ashore not for some timo, till it alipped from where they'd put it, and then it'd come
you'll find my footmarks' many times on these sahde. Did you say Miss Fyno. was the name of the lady who runs the hotel?"
"Yessir."
"Thank you. Then I think TH go and interview her. Here's your five shillings-you'vo wall earned the money. Perhaps, if I book a
(Continued on. Pago 10.)...
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