THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY: OCTOBER 18, 1933.
"SHADOWS BY THE SEA'
A Summer Mystery BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
SYNOPSIS.
Casort of. Graverley to And, the residenta
prietor of the Mermaid Hotel, w mats and
on the beach doirs little detective werk
A mysterious stearmer Klas Appenze,
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
CHAPTER II.
brings you to these parts?"
"At the Mermaid Hotel.”. Miss Jessica Fyne, manageress and (it now appeared) proprietress of the Mermaid Hotel, looked up from her ledger and saw a pleasant young man atanding before her. For a moment she forgot her led- "Aftor toa? Yog, I'd-cr-like ger. It may have been because he It," murmured Morley, and looked looked so particularly pleasant; vaguely towards Mias Fyno,
door,
Yos, and I'll go on sponking to hin about tennie," returned Leonard.. "Why should he have given notice? Why should any of them?"
Leonard, briskly, “Look here, Miss Fyne, I'm keeping you from your duties, but can you give mo Ove minutes moro and tell me just what happoned on the day your father disappeared? A week ago, wasn't it?"
"Yes. August 13th.":
"Right. Was he li or any thing? Please let me hear the whole story."
"Well--it's not been very happy "My permission? Of course here during the past few days. LEONARD BEFTON arrives at the anaside "Hallo, Morloy,” replied Leo-] not.”-
I've done my best to keep choor- "Good Only I thought--from| ful- exsited by the disappearanes of the aard, holding out his hand. "I
heard there was a first-class ten- Mr. Morley's attitudo that there "Yes, I can see, that!” Fang, Mons of the spot, have left wingnis lawn at this hotel, and was might be some rule of the sort.". to the scandal. Sefton mate the "bool drawn as a moth to a candle--and
but it's not been easy, and, There isn't much to tell," be- now I find you here, I'm bang in with intorest for her reply.
He spoke carelessly, but waited of course, everything's changed, gan Mies Fyne. "No, Father It's dimoult to be in a holiday wasn't ill. He was in splendid the flame How's your game? "No-that wasn't his reason," mood when policemen, and, As good as in the Cambridge sho murmured, and opened the tectives are constantly coming as usual and his manner wasn't de-health. Ho went through the day days?"
and then I can't make them un-any different when he said good- "It's-er-pretty fnir," res- No. Seven was certainly a wonderstand that I want them to act night to me and went up to his ponded Merley, "How's yours?"derful room. It had lately been just as usual when I'm about." room At Tenst-ao,. I don't
"A shado on the rusty side, old occupied by a rich old gentlemen chap. What about a knock-up and his neurasthenic wife, whoy, "Some of them would be a bit
Leonard nodded, sympathetical-think it was any different." after toa? I can see, I'll keep had left in rather a hurry. There nervy, naturally," he observed,
"That means you do," commen-. you busy during the next few days. was so much space that the large but what beate me is why 50 night he have been a little le- tod Leonard. "In what way I'm just off to book my room."... double bed was hardly noticed as many of them have gone."
one entered, and one's eye was immediately carried to the wide French windows which opened on he was certainly trying to. But "You know I don't mind," shoto a balcony overlooking the mala ...the moment passed, and her mind | said. "I want you to go on Just grounds. The deep bluc 30
roverted speedily to facts and as usual,”
sparkled in the western sun. Ono figures, and to the purely commer- Morley hesitated, suddenly nod-aido of the wreck, a little to the cial hope that this man and como ded, called "See you later, then," cast of the point, gleamed like a to book a room, and not merely to to Leonard, and want out into the sheet of gold, its grim story gilded grounds. He had been on the temporarily out of the spectator's' point of giving notice, and going mind, like the hidden history of an to Scarborough. The place was unhappy girl who cheats your getting on his nerves. But per- knowledge with a smile, Leonard haps, with a little hard tennis, it gavo a sigh of satisfaction as he might be worth while hanging on advanced into the room. Behind for a bit. He'd rather like to see him, the girl's voice made him what Sefton would make of his turn... now American service...
have tea,
His first words proved that he had come with the former object, and in reply to his enquiry she said that she had a room, and would show it to him; "t
"Do you know how long you will be requiring it for?" she asked, in a business-like volce,
"I think I ought to tell you the Leonard Sefton sat upon an in- Miss Fyne turned, and preceded reason, before you decide," she sane impulse to reply, "Until we her now guest up the wide, soft-aid, have found your father," and re-carpeted staircase, Leonard no- "It's not necessary, because-I've marked that he was not sure. ticed many little touches about already decided," responded
"Probably a week, at doust," he the place-pretty pale bluo cur- Leonard, "And, besides I n| ald. "I suppose you can let me tains framing the windows, water-ready know the reason." She have one with a sea view?" colours on the walls, a generous looked at him quickly, while ha "All the rooms have sen views," hanging basket of flowers-which, went on, "Good Lord, Mias Fyne, she answered, with a little smile. he felt convinced, were not due why on earth should people start "We are on the point, you see.to Miss Fyne's father; and he paid leaving your hotel because of your I could let you have one of our his tribute to the straight back misfortune? I agree with your best rooms overlooking the ten-ahead of him. All women like staunch little boots, whom 1 met ais lawn-it's just been vacated." charming things, but not all wo-on the sands Just now. Nica "Sounds exactly what I'd like," men know how to gather them to-little fellow, that. He's quite an- nodded Leonard. "You're most gether, and to display them. gry with your visitors for deser delightfully situated here."
Suddenly just as they were ting you, just when you most need renching Room No. Seven, Mias em to stay."
She took a key, numbered "Seven," off a hook, and emerged from her little office. As she did so, a rather glum-looking man
Fyne asked, over her shoulder, "Yes, I've got one good friend,” ""How did you know the tennis-answored Miss Fyne, smiling lawn was a first-class one?".. faintly,
camo down the wide, stair-case, "I guessed it," replied Leonard. "Perhaps you've got two," re- and approached. Leonard nos-"A hotel as good as this couldn't torted Leonard, looking at her sessed a keen sense of observa-have a bad tennis-lawn."
squarely, "Can you think of any tion, which this afternoon was par- "You're making up your mind way I can help?"2" ticularly alert, and he did not quickly about the hotel," she said, miss the glance of apprehension as she inserted the key, with which Miss Fyne watched "That's habit of mine," he ane- the glam man draw near; but, all wered. "I nearly always make at once, the glumness vanished, up my mind quickly. By the way, and a smile took its place. do we have to get your permission "It's Sefton, lan't it? exclaimed to use the lawn? What is the the no longer glum one. "What arrangemont hore?"
Sho turned away for a moment, then swung back again, angry with herself for having been on the point of breaking down.
"You have helped me already," she said. "I'm sure Mr. Morley, was about to give notice when he met you and you spoke about ten
either," answered Misa Fyne "I don't' understand that, slowly. It almost scoms-"
"It almost poema what?" he encouraged her, as she hesitated. thing else
"As though there were some
the bottom of It, exclaimed! "Well, if there is, we'll get to
ferent?"
examiner," she smiled, flushing a little. "But one mustn't make the mistake of making things appear important when they really aren't. I mean that-afterwarda-one thinks of all sorts of little points. (Continued on Page 12.)
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