THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1933.
"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"
A Summer Mystery
BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
17"
course, it might. And we'll havo | With that momentary glimpso to hunt for it, I haven't much tantalising their minde, they uwalt- hope, but...
ed further developments." There
CAVA
. He stopped speaking' abruptly, was a long pause. The footsteps and switched out his light. were resumed, their soft plop now. "Damn," thought Napoleon changing to a more gritty, metal- "And I was just beginning to eelle trend as heavy boots met the CHAPTER XIII
olly.
"Ah, that's truo," agreed Napo happy again".
harder substance of tlio cavo's Yes, I see it. You'd think it loon, struggling to introduce the "Concerning a Cove" was a pretty bunch of flowers, the requisite note of depression into sounded outside the cave. Thore
They listened.Faint footsteps floor. Unless you are in a sentimental way you talk. And, by the way, his too-blithe voice,
Three stridos, and allenca fall mood, beaches are not leo things don't forget what I told you about
ware slow, quiet, and stealthy. As again. The intruder was evidently "Nor is the fact that the ownor the stops draw nearer, pausing standing just Inside the en pitch dark nights. You know giving mo warning when you hike has taken his boat as natural as every now and then for a few Napoleon saflously considered the that behind you is a cliff, which me from one thing to another." you suggest," want on Leonard. moments and then resuming, Leon project of yelling "Boo," because in daylight is full of cheerful "Sorry,' said Leonard, "but it's a bit dark for a journey, isn'tard put his hand on his companion's no situation could arleo, he re- colour, and that before you is n
Jahoulder and drew him back into frosted, which could be more try- sen, which in daylight sparkles joy you'll get used to it. ously, but when the sun has de-
"I expect so. I shall got to love "In fact, I'm not only wondering en angle of the cave. At first, ing than the present one. Any parted and the moon has not inkon it, and I'll refuse to spend any more what you and I are going to do Napoleon gently resisted. The an change must be for the botter, Its place, behind you and before nights at home. Well, there's one without that boat, Truelove," and glo of the cave did not appeal to But he resisted the temptation, and you and on all aldes of you are thing about that light. It'll help Leonard. "I'm wondering Just as him any more than the outside of in about a minute the footsteps rrent black spacos filled with un- us to locate our ship. How on earth much what the owner of the boat the cave. But his resistance yicid-sounded again. This time, how- comfortable possibilities.
did you reckon to make the ship is doing with it.".
ed precipitately when a shadowy over, they grew softer instead of Dark benches may not perhaps otherwise? Throw the dice and "I wouldn't worry, old chop,"figure suddenly made a blot on the louder; and, before long, they appoal to all people in precisely this gucas?"
answered Napoleon. "He's pro- dimness which vaguely differen- ceased altogether. way, but this was the way in which
"I, also, may be an ass, but I'm bably havin' a lovely time-just astiated the space at the entrance "Good rid-". began Napoleon, the beach at Cravorley appealed to not a silly ass," responded Leonard, we were going to. But look here, from the more opaque blackness of and stopped in obedience to a gen- Napoleon Truelove when he and "I've taken my bearings--and I've I say why shouldn't he have just the cave's Interior walls.
tle punch. Leonard Sefton descended to it, got a compass.”
moved the boat?"
Leonard did not have to pull The blackened-out clifts, Instead "Hooray," muttered Napoleon, "You mean it might be on an-Napoleon Into the angle then. of having occasional caves dotted disappointedly. Then we won't other part of the beach? Yes, of Napolean now pushed to get there.. about at pleasant intervals, became be able to miss it." full of caves, and in, each covorn
They wore walking now towards lurked some disturbing thing. Yet, the cavo in which Loonard had die- If one turned to face the potential covered the boat. It was one of danger, as golf-protective instinct the first caves ha had searched, and Inclined one to do, the sea came was one of the fow he had come slipping mysteriously behind one, upon largo enough to serve as boat- bearing its flotsam and jetsam of house. They plodded across unreasoned and unreasonable fore Band for a couple of minutes, bodings. But the forebodings, in Leonard flashing his light on the Napoleon's case, could not strictly base of the cliffs at intervals while be called unreasonable for ag ho they walked, and he was just be-i stood for a moment and watched ginning to wonder whether he had the sheets of softly gliding white made a mistake and passed the sweeping towards him and away cave when he saw ita Black opon- from him-right on him one in-Ing a little way ahead. stant, receding far from him the next, flouting perspective he knew that in a very few minutes he would be riding across those waves tó- wards a dead ship he could not see, on a mission the outcome of which be could not fathom.
"Damned dark, isn't it?" he murmured. "Whore's our little pleasure steamer, and how are we going to find it?"
tho
"Ah, there it is," he exclaimed. "Queer how distance always con- fuses one at night."
"Don't see your boat," answered Napoleon. "Pretty snugly tucked away, isn't it?"
Leonard did not answer Immadl-) ately. Walking up to the cave en- trance, he directed the ray of his nah-lamp towards the Interior.
"The boat's not there," he said.
a few
"The boat's beached in a large-"Somebody's taken it." sized cave, answered Leonard. There was silence for
"It's a little way along the cliff to moments, while the two men con- our right. I came upon it while Isidered the position. One of the was searching for that disappear Ing corpse."
"And got permission to use it, Just when you liked ?"
men, at least, found some fragment
of consolation in their disappoint- ment
"After all, it's not so surprisin"," "No, I'm not asking permission observed this one, as he followed from anybody this trip. Come, the other into the cave. "If the along, we'd better be. moving, bont had been ours, we would have Hallo Bee it?"
had a right to kick up a shindy.
"Eh? See what?" Jerked Napo- Tho owner's just taken his blessed leon, twisting his head round gal-boat away, that's all." vanically,
"It's not all," replied Leonard, "The light. Ovor there,"
shortly. "It leaves us without a Nanolaon atheed. rather grum-boat."
"Oh-you mean he may be walt-
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