THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
"SHADOWS BY THE SEA'
A Summer Mystery BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
CHAPTER XXXII
"The Other Half"
Mr. Griddle sprang to his feet, but to the surprize of both him and the man armed with the hatchet, Mirronncas made no movement, An abrupt calm had settled on him. "It is zo. Fate," he observed, calmly. "What will 'appen, will 'appen. Zis man will be 'ere when I die."
"Don't talk nonsense!" cried. Mr. Griddle. "No one's going to die. What's the meaning of this, Mr. Truelove?"
a certain ugly mug called Jos wore j'olo--yes, I know it, because It was about to give us a litt.e cull.) neur za jante Whero 1 '100% Airronneau drew into the porch, poaris-20 old it was miska in z. where he could stry nicely concealed ac of za sump, and it was: ZA with his little hatchet. But-well, Captain 'co muxe It
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1933.
"For mo, blackness. Somesing it me. ze boat or zo, captain, never know. Ze captain, ver' likely When I awake, I am not on zo ship Cum in a little bedroom, and I find I am lock in. Zere is ze window o. 3 bedroom," he added, and pointed towards the cottage.
on "You dropped them Into another pool of water, where you could get them out more easily, and where the captain would not think of looking for them. Yes, I can seo by your expression I'm right, but don't be so astonished-I Inven't second sight. I saw you "They imprisoned you, eh? taring into that second pool short- frowned Napolcon. "I don't wony before you left the ship-in our Jor you looked for a hatchet! || boat, you remember and I expect juppose the captain was afraid that was about the time you dipped I dislike the rough stuff as much "The captam made a holo in his you'd tell on him?"
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n and fished the neckince out as you do, Mr. Griddio, and so I own anip excuumed kupolcón.
Ewas. And 'e want me to g
"It is so," replied" Mirronneau, Bo-waztover should toe ulatuv tack tb z1 wreck and fino ze neck thought I'd try and stop it.
sofimnly," "And zat in ze lot." aldes-to show you I've no wings for?"
· Napoleon looked at the miserable with Mirronneau frat, and then was pug up when i do ze necklace tuff, and keep me zere." really—I thought I might deal best "Ah, zat is what I ask. Ze ole lace. But, when zey come, I eald gain, 'No! And zey give m
creature, and shook his head sadly. with the others afterwards. Yes, arst, but now it was not plug up.
What a price one could pay for one's I did want to get hold of that hate plug was knock out by zo rocks,
"Swine! but how did you get greed, he thought. Then ho turn- chet. It gives chap such an ad- and ze water come in fast,"
on the wreck at last? We found his head, and his expression vantago, docan't it?"
you there, you know."
changed. A faint smile played Across his features as he watched, Mr. Griddle poking about the the Frenchman's story, but he had ground. Mr. Griddle had heard
not wasted time.
"You mean, tout was the cause of the wreck?" demanded Napoleon. in astonisumontu^am
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"Bad luck, Mr. Griddle," Napol- con sald, sympathetically. "You'll never find It Don't you think you'd better mako hay while the sun shines or, to be more accurato, before it shines? It'll be up in a few minutes."
spirited Bir. Fyne away," exclaimed Napoleon fixedly.
"So you wore the merchant whe Mr. Griddle turned, and regard- Napoleon. Well, And did you tell him about the love," he answered. "Bul-despite I'm dashed "I expect you've won, Mr. True- necklace, top?"
surronneau smiled faintly, and shook his head.
"It appears to," admitted Mr.
Mirronneau winced at the mem "Well, I've just learned half the ful to people with such soft hearts Griddle. Though its use is doubt.
-ory." He knew. ---- voit, was not ze cause of ze "Once I cacape," he muttered meaning of it," answered Napoleon, as yours and mine, Mr. Truelove." wreck," responded the Frenchman. "My mind, it is a blank. But one meekly, "and I'm now waiting to "Be careful, Mr. Griddle," warn and an ironic amile suddenly using is in at ze wreck-ze wreck hear the other half. Go on, Mir-ed Napoleon, "or you'll make me minated his pale face, "But it wasze wreck. I mug go zere, But ronneau-what tous the captain like you, and that would be dis meant to be ze cause of z3 wreck. after?"
I am weak, And I 'ave no boat nstrous to my duty. And I'm per-
"I don't get you, not one little so talk to a man I meet-- it Mr. Griddle was not often non-fectly rotten on duty. Anyway, to bit," said Napoleon.. plussed, but the situation now beat achieve my end-if I may be florid
Mr. Fyno--and 1 tell him about z him. He looked at his fellow guest opened the door bing, popped I see zo captain and find out is me".
"But I get myseif, oh, yes, when captain and asks'im to go zero wis with anger, impotence, and humilla-out, gave Mirronneau the third mind. Zo storm made za wreck. tion. Napolcon had something he scare of his young life, and we ze storm zat came too quick, and wanted something he wanted very closed. Mirronneau might have sent zo bost out of ze deep water badly. But could it be secured, won, if I hadn't played the dirty to za rocks. It re, storm ad not without considerable damage?
on him. It wasn't cricket. Stin,come, ze ship would 'ave gone down Try not to worry, Mr. Griddle,'
there it is. I won. The necklace sume time-to ze bottom, yes, ant said Napoleon, in an oddly sym-rell out of his pocket in the tusele, tuo deep lor zo divers to find out z pathetic volce. "You really are and I bagged the lot." frat-claza rotter, you know, and all
cause. But now ze cause might be "Oh, no. Not yet. Par’aps I that muck, but while I've been neau," exclaimed Mr. Griddle, "that was ver' un'appy."
"Do you mean to say, Mirron-Tound out, and ze captain, oh. ' get ze pearls while 'e look at ze learning of your perfidy, I've also you nad the case in your pocast
ure. I wait to see. But on ze discovered that you have a soft when you came to this cottage?"
"I wish you'd explain," com-¡ wreck we found ze captain and is heart, and it wouldn't surprise me
plained Napoleon. "Why on friend-" "You forget his condition," Na-earth-"' to learn that, like Captain Hook,poleon answered for him. "One's
"Of course you might have "Ma fois! You' ave ze thick guessed that," Interposed Napoleon. you love little children. So you see condition-both medically and cad," retorted Mirronneau. -although that necklace is so wall emotionally-does make a differer thick cau. Ze boat was in were waiting for you, I suppose?" "Ze "Where else would they be? They hidden that you've no earthly ence. chance of discovering it before the pocket now, anyway, so why worry,
But he's not got it in his sured, would it not be? Ze boat "Peraps. Or per❜aps tney go to police arrive-you mightn't find me about it? What's far more in
was no good. e Insurance money try and make ze 'ole so no one would such a bad sport if you're kind to terestin is what he was going to ole is discover, it is poor look out oiten, zu captain. And ze owner,
was ver' good. But, if za 'round guess what zo captain done. 'Eg me, and let our friend here tell me tell us when 1 rashly came out o. for Captain Smith and zo owner." e get impatient, and write-1 that other half. After all. your my bush. About the captain, you half, being told, the other half can't know. Do tell us what the darling Napoleon. What a foul business1 sing.""
"Well, I'm damned" murmured ear zem talking-Blow up,zo dam hurt you."
captain was after?"
And you mean to say, Mirronneau,
hat he told you all this?”
Mr. Griddle looked at Napoleon, and at the hatchet; and all it once he smiled.
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Mirronneau looked at Mr. Grid dle, and Mr. Griddle shrugged his shoulders.
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"Ze excitement. We forget "I expect you're right," he an
ournelves. We find each ozzer, and "Go ahend, Mirronneau," swered. "It takes five minutes to Mr. Griddle. "Why not?"
Balde challenge me, and I challenge 'im. hide what may take five days to
Ze boat rock, ze storm rage, crash, discover. But may
lie moved away a little, and bang, we lose our 'ead. It all come I nak how, glanced around-it the cottage, at exactly, you came to
out. We are afraid, we are mad, possess the the shed near the cottage, and at all in a moment. And zen zu necklace?"
the bush from which Napoleon had captain say, 'We will share zo "You missed that out, Mirron- appeared, And, as he edged far-pearls, or I will tell about you,' and neau," said Napoleon, glancing at ther and farther away, but always I say, 'No, no! You ave your dam the Frenchman. "It happened like remaining within earshot, Mirron Insurance money, and n be good, this, Mr. Griddle. When first the neau continued his Interrupted or I will tell about you?" "" returning motor-boat made music story.
"It must have been aprelty upon our ears, we both thought- Mirronneau cutside, and me inside anid the Frenchman, "A ole so as he tried to visualise the scene, "It was a big ole 'o was after," little quarrel," murmured Napoleon, that a certain Captain Smith and big, ze water poured through. Ze "What was the end of it???
Why didn't he blow it up?"
Z pearls would blow up, too. Ze captain 'e want ze pearls first. And now 'e shut me up on ze ship, and 'e come every day and try to make me show 'im ze place, and 'e search when I will not, and give me is d2m stuff...”
"What about Mr. Fyne?" "E took 'im back to ze cottage.” "I Bec. had to be kept quiet until the birds Fyne know too much, and had flown. Of all the blackguards! Two prisonera-one on the ship, and one locked in the cottage.
Am pearls, were hidden ?" I permitted to where
the "I avo tell you, replied Mirron-| neau, wearily. "In ze side of ze ship, near za 'ole. Zo water come in, and cover zem both up. But when I am alone on ze wreck, I dive | down at zo low. tide, and I find ze pearls. ti
your hatchet--it was a bit of a risk
coming out of your bush like that. The luck mightn't have been yours, you know.'
"I only came out because I trod on a twig, and you'd have spotted me," responded Napoleon, with engaging frankness, "I know I'd
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