THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1033.
"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 aurprise of both him and the man armed with the hatchet, Mirronneau made no movement, An abrupt calm hnd settled on him. "It is ze Fate," he observed, appen. Zia man will be 'ere when I die."
"Don't talk nonsense!" cried Mr. Griddle: "No one'n going to die. What's the meaning of this, Mr. Truelove1"
in certain ugly mug called Joe weraj 'ole-yes, I know it, because it was
about to give us a litto call. near ke juce Weio prie Mirronneau drew into the porch, entis-alo it was make in where he could stay nicely concealed | sun of ze saip, and it was with his little hatchet. But—well, | cnptnin 'oo make it
"For me, blackness. Someaingoon. "You dropped them into
me. Ze boat or to captain, 3. never know. Zo captain, ver' likely When I awake, I am not on ka ship I am in a little bedroom, and I find Am lock In. Zere is ze window o towards the cottage.
e bedroom, he added, and pointed
frowned Napoleon. "I don't won "They Imprisoned you, gh? der you looked for n hatchet!
pose the captain was afraid you'd tell on him?** sack to a wreck and fine zo neck **E was. And ‘e want me to p lace. But, when zey come, I said stuff, and keep"me"Forë.”* ́`
"Swine! But how did you get
another pool of water, where you.. could got them out more cantly, and a where the captain would not think. of looking for them. Yes. I can seo by your expression I'ni right, but don't be so antonished haven't second sight. I saw tou before you left the ship-in our taring into that second pool short- hont, you remember-and I expect that was about the time you dipped n and shed the necklaca out." wolemnly. "And ant is za lot."
"It in so," replied Mirranunu, Napoleon looked at the miserablo- creature, and shook his head sadly, greed, he thought. Then he turn changed. A faint aniilo played across his features na ho watchat Mr. Griddle poking about the the Frenchman's story, but he had ground. Mr. Griddle. had hoard not wasted time,
calmly. "What will 'nppen, will į with Mirronneau first, and trenį was plug up when I 'jdp zo ́necklac, 4gain. "Nol' Ant key give me What a price ong could pay for cho'n
**NO—it was.not zo enuse of sy
dashed
never find It. Don't you think con salih sympathetically. "You'll you'd bettor make hay while the sun shines-or, to be more accurate, before it shinca? I'll be up in fow minutes."
Napoleon fixedly. Mr. Griddle turned, and regard-
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dislike the rough stuff as much. The captain made a hole in his as you do, Mr. Griddle, and so I own anape“, exclaimed Napoleon, thought I'd try and stop it. Be- "Whatever shong the idiot do that really-I thought I might deal beat sides-to show you I've no wings, for?"
"Ah, zat is what I ask. Ze ole with the others afterwards, Yes, first, but now it was hot pipy up.) chet. It gives a chap such an ad- and ze water come in fast. I did want to get hold of that hate mug was knock out by rocks on the wreck at inst? We lounted his head. and his expression nntage, doesn't it *******
“You mean, taat was the cause you there, you know.** "It appears to admitted Mr. of the wreck?" demanded Napoleon. Mirronneau winted at the men "Well, I've Just learned half the ful to people with auch soft hearts
Griddle. "Though its use is doubt in astonishment.
ory. Ila knew. meaning of it," answered Napoleon,
"Once I escape," he muttored meekly, "and I'm now walling to
Es yours and mine, Mr. Truelove." wreck," responded the Frenchman. "My mind, It is a blank. Hut on hear the other half. Go on, Mir-ed Napoleon, or you'll make me iniunted his pale face. "But it was wreck.mits go tere. Hu
"Be careful, Mr. Griddle," wara- and au tronic amilo suddeny itiu-sing is in it. Ze Wreck--ze wreaBad luck, Mr. Griddle," Napol ronneau-what was the captain like you, and that would be dis meant to be ze cause of ze wreck." after?"
I am weak. Ant. I 'avo ne boat Mr. Griddle was not often non-fectly rotten on duty. Anyway, to bit," said Napoleon,
astrous to my duty. And I'm por- "I don't get you, not one little So I talk to a man I'weet- it plussed, but the situation now boat achieve my end-if I may be torkd
Mr. Fyne and I tell 'im about e him: He looked at his fellow guest opened the door bing, popped I see zo captain and find out a m
"But I get upset, oh, yes, when captain and asm to go zore win with anger, Impotence, and humilia-out, gave Mirronneau the third mind. Ze storm made ze wreck, tion. Napoleon had something he scare of his young life, and we. Ze storm zat enne too quick, and spirited Mr. Fydo away," exclalnieced
"So you were the merchant why wanted-something he wanted very cloned, badly. But could it be secured, won, if I hadn't played the dirty to ze rocks. U ze storm ad not And did you tell him about the
Mirronneau might have freni ze boat out of re deep water Napoleon. "Well, I'm without considerable damage?
"Try not to worry, Mr. Griddio," there it fa, won. The necklace some time-to ze bottom, yes, and
on him. It wasn't cricket. Sti, come, ze ship would 'ave gone down necklace, too?" and Napoleon, in an oddiy sym- fell out of his pocket in the tussle, too deep for ze divers to find out x shook his head.
Mirronneau smiled faintly, and pathetic voice. "You really are and I bogged the lot." first-class rotter, you know, and all
cntiae. But now to cause might be
"Oh, no. "Do you mean to any, Mirron- found out, and ze captain, oh, 'e ket ze pearls while 'o look at ze Not yet. Per'sps 1 that muck, but while I've been neau," exclaimed Mr. Griddle, "that was ver" un'appy." learning of your perfidy, I've also you had the case in your pocket
ole. I wait to see. But on ze discovered that you have a soft when you came to this cottage?"
wish you'd explain." com-wreck we found ze captain and 'ia heart, and it wouldn't surprise me
plained, Napoleon. Why on friend-" You forget his condition, Na-oarth to learn that, like Captain Hook,poleon answered for him. "One's
"Of course you might have you love little children. So you see condition-bath
"Ma fola You 'nve zo thick guessed that," Interposed Napoleon. -although that necklace in so well emotionally does make a differ- ver thick 'end. Ze boat was in-were waiting for you, I suppose?" medically and end," retorted Mirronneau. "Zo"Where else would they be? They hidden that you've no earthly ence. But he's not got it in his sured, would it not be? Zo boat chance of discovering it before the pocket now, anyway, so why worry was no good. Ze Insurance money try and make ze 'ole an no one woul "Per'aps. Or per'npa they go t police arrive-you mightn't find me about it? What's for more such a bad sport If you're kind to terestin is what he was going to 'olo fa discover, it is poor look out often, ze captain. And zo owner, in was ver good. But, if zo 'round guess what zo captain done. E g me, and let our friend here tell me tell us when I rashly came out of for Captain Smith and zo owner. that other half. After all, your my bush.
'o get Impatient, and to write- half being told, the other half can't know. Do tell us what the darling Napoleon. "What a foul business! sing.
About the captain, you "Well, I'm damned," murmared car zem talking-Blow up zo dam hurt you."
captain was after?"
And you mean to say, Mirronneau, "Why didn't. ho that he told you all this?"
blow it up?" "Ze pearls would blow up, too. Zo caplain 'o want ze pearls frat. And now 'e shut me up on ze ship, and 'e come every day and try to make me show 'im ze place, and i is dom stuff." search when I will not, and give me
"What about Mr. Fyne?"
Mr. Griddle looked at Napolcom, and at the hatchet; and all at once ho smiled.
"I expect you're right," he un- swored. "It takes fivo minutes to hide what may take five days to discover. But may I ask how, exactly, you came to possess the necklace?"
Mirronnean looked at Mr. Grid. dle, and Mr. Griddle shrugged hla shoulders.
Mr. Griddle. "Why not?"
"Go ahead, Mirronnenu," said
love," he answered. "But despite I expect you've won, Mr. Truc
coming out of your bus: like that. your hatchet-it was a bit of a risk The luck-mightn't have been yourn, you know,"
on a twig, and you'd have spotted "I only came out because I trod me," responded Napoleon, with engaging frankness. "I know I'd (Continued on Page 13.)
"Ze excitement. Wo. forget ourselves. We find each ozzer, and 'e challenge me, and I challengo im. Zo boat rock, ze storm rage, crash, glanced around-at the cottage, at out, We are afraid, we are mad, He moved away a little, and bang, we lose our 'end. It all come the shed near the cottage, and at all in a moment. And zen zo "You missed that out, Mirron- appeared. And, na he edged far-pearls, or I will tell about you,' and the bush from which Napoleon had captala 'say, We will shuro ze
E took 'im back to ze college." acau," sald Napolcon, glancing at ther and farther away, but always I say, 'No, no!. You ave your dam had to be kept quiet until the birds "I see. Fyne knew too much, and the Frenchman. "It happened like remaining within earshot. Mirron-insurance money, and you be good, had flown. Of all the blackguards! this, Mr. Griddle. When first the neau continued his interrupted ur I-will tell about you?"" returning motor-boat made music story,
Two prisonersona on the ship, opon our ears, we both thought-
"It must have been a preity and one locked in the cottage. Am Mirronneau outside, and me inside and the Frenchman. "A ole so as he tried to visuallso the scene.peris, were hidden?". "It was a big ole 'e was after," little quarrel," murmured Napoleon, 1 permitted to know --that a certain Captain Smith and big, ze water poured through. Ze "What was the end of it?"
whore the "I'ave tell you," replied Mirron- neau, weardly. "In ze side of ze ship, near zo 'ple. Ze water come in, and cover rem both up. But when I am alotó ön zo wreck, I dive down at zo low tide, and I find zo: pearls
"And, by Jove, I'll tell you what you did with them!" cried Napol-swastika only a few minutes before they were ordered. to take it down, They complied. (Plana: Naws).
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