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| ago

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were

REPULSE BAY HOTEL ACTIVITIES.

Vaudeville Artiste Entertains.

Tha

In my presonco...I having been invited as an independent witness. Gault There was nothing on the body to would appear to have killed the Mon establish the identity of the dead man. in Grey, whose body would be found. At the inquest a verdict of Wilful Mar. It would be assumed that Gaolt had removed all means of identification der was returned against Gault. Her from it, and fed, and of Gantt was given at Repulse Bay Hotel An appreciated entertainment voy wasn't able to give much informa-

would never be traced. And so

to death; his tion about him. He had had some moustache were shaved off not too devilla artisto Fred Pierce, whose heard and last Saturday by the versatile vax business dealings 2 fow years closely, so that there would seem to performance, morked with inimit- with him, and then he bo a day's growth on his faces his able humour, was accorded a hearty

Hervey false hair

was-cut and brushed back

teeth taken out; he was dressed reception by the audience. had not seen or heard anything in old clothes that fitted the descrip. "Lincoln's" Dance Band provided more of him until he had turned up tion of the fictitious Man in Grey- the music and proved most popular. one evening at the house and asked to it could all be done easily in the time be taken in. It was not at all I conveni-that Mrs. Harvey and I

On Saturday afternoon a happy in the ent, as they were without servants, garden-and the body was taken ont

function took place when the newly but he told them a story of poverty and placed ready to be found and iden married couple, Mr. & Mra. Robert and they let him stay. He had very tiled as his own enemy. I say it was de Voos, Jr. gave a private tiffin few clothes and hardly any money, At the end of the first week they became

a good idea."

party to their friends at the hotel. suspicious that he had not told them for them to speak. At last Mrs. Her nor dance in the evening.

There was a dead silence. I waited, They were also present at the din the truth, and that he was really hid- ing from someone or something. He drew away from her husband and

atood. alone.

The Sunday Tea 'Dance was' well refused to moot

people, and would

"Doctor or wandering in the woods. Hervey him nearly ten years ago. He was a Those present at the special din Redman," she said, "the patronized, about 130 persons be apend

whole days in

room dead man was my husband. I married ing present. was even doubtful whether he hud end, a monster. When he had spent her dance Included:-.. really been abroad at

All the all my money he left me and disapear Mr. & Mrs. Robert de Voos, Jr., pofies could find was that he had stay-d, and I heard that he had died in ed for a couple of nights before be came down to the Hervey's at a small find a year afterwards I mar. Mr. Robert de Voos, Mrs. H. Warn

again, kor arms hotel in the Strand. Aft

After the verdict Hervey, "and for two years I knew

went out to ing. Mr. Berlinger & party, Mr.' there was a hue and

all,

of him was ever foundTMy, but no trace such happiness that in my misery Cook & party, Mr. & Mrs. Alexan-}}

The doctor smiled round the table, "Good

crime, wasn't it? I suppose I did? It came to you see it just ng me suddenly, as I knelt by the body of the Man in Grey, and I kept my mouth shut, because my sympathies were with Hervey and his wife.. suppose it was quite wrong, but I did It. After the Inquest I went back to the house with them.

"It's been

horrible affair," Her vey said, "I wish we'd never had Gault in the house. We ought to have realised that he was half off his head, I'm quite certain they'll never find him."

"So am I," I said.

I put just enough into the tone

of

my voice to make them both tur quickly, but neither spoke. I t my ripe

should never have believed to be pas-dar, Mrs. Peters, Mr. Balley, Mrs. sible. Then he come back," she shud- Aummelter, Miss Mackay & party,| dozed, "and told me he had wanted me Mr. & Mrs. Drouth, Dr. To, Mr. & to believe him dead, so that I might Mrs. Roxburgh, Mrs. Kerr, Mr. F. marry again, and be cou'd black-mail Neale, Mr. J. A. Morhaus, Mrs. Wil- me. He made our lives a hell untilkins, Mr. Schlomer & party, Mr. her volee broke until I was wicked enough to think of-of"

Earnshaw, Mr. Brodie,' Mr. Ronil- Hervey held her

lon, Mrs. Varela, Mrs. Pondal, Mr. thought of it," he said, "I kill & Mrs. Follet, Mr. & Mrs Cham- hima, I haven't

of remorse," He looked at me squarely bers, Mrs. Pfannenschmidt, Mrs. for a moment. "Want I should like to do Cartabitarte, Mrs. Ramirez, Mr. know. Redman," he said, "is why, If A. Zimmern & party, Mr. & Mr. you knew all this, you kept your Rait, Mr. & Mre. Stellingwerff & mouth shut, and corroborated our story party, Mrs. Scot. Mr. Sheldon & to the e police at the inquest ?

tightly.

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acrop

"Because, my friends," 1 said, " party, Mr. C. C. Blake, Mr. Webber, suspected something of what Mrs. Mr. Frost, Mias MacMerry & party, Hervey has just told me. I liked you Mr. Hanson, Mr. & Mrs. L. W. both; and I detested Gan't. Black Bush, Mr. & Mrs. Ramsey, Mrs.

"Just as certain," I told them, "anmullers deserve no morcy, and my syn Blok, Mr. Lewis Smith and Mr. & i

pathies were and are--with you

I am that he did not commit the crime."

They stared at me. I saw Mrs. Hervey's hands close over the arms of her chair.

LETTERS & RADIO.

bo condoning a crime, but 1 Mrs. Walker. can't help that. So far as I am con- corned you needn't have any fear. I've only told you I saw through it be- cause-well, it was exceedingly clever. There can't be any doubt whatever ly done, and I was rather proud of and his wife locked at each

"His fight alone is sufficient proof.

1

that he committed it," Harvey declared. Folving men he came forward and

If he had nothing to do with it, why other. should he run away?"

"I didn't with it," I replied, and nothing to do replied. "I simply said he did not commit it. But he certainly had a great deal to do with it."

A sudden stiffness seemed to come over them both.

Hervey ask

ed

E:

shook my hand.

"You're a damned good fellow, Red- man," he said, "but I'm sorry to dash your prido-yea're a pretty bad detec- tive. swaar to

you and you'll be

Addresses Which Cannot Be Traced.

POST OFFICE-LIST.

leve me because I'm going to tell you A General Post Office notifica the rest truth that the dead man was tion gives the following unclaim not Gault"

It was my turn to stare at

ed correspondence, etc, waiting,

What do you mean

I said, "that this has mean

"I was quite right," he said, "when at the Post Office and also un- been a very clever crime-vary much I told cleverer than anyone else in the coto-ul you it couldn't have been Gault claimed radio telegrams at the

were quite right when you said Radio Telegraph Omce. hat only three people out of the four

The undermentioned undeliverable

(ner's court suspected. Let us imagine that only where you went wrong registered articles are lying in the!

that we have the body of the Man In Grey lying at our feet again."

Hervey glanced at his wife, but she was looking straight at me.

"I really don't think we need talk about it any more," he said. We've had quite enough

A movement from his wife stopped i

"Go G Dr. Redman," she said quietly, "If we had it lying at our

B.I. Apear Liné steamers have excellent accommodation for feet again" 1st and 2nd class passengers,

were

in the identity of the false one. If 1 had killed GaultI should have com- mitted suicide."

"Suicide?" I echoed blankly. He nodded.

"You see I was Gan't?'

I almost jumped across the room. "You were Gault?" I shouted. He laughed.

ז'

Returned Letter Office, General Post Office, and will be returned to the senders on production of the certi ificate of posting:-

Unclaimed Telegrams,

J. J. H. Aarsen, O. A. Barnert, A. P. Blunt, Mr. D. Beacon, China "Not a bad bit of acting, eh?

Sales Corporation, Mrs. R. Cham- must have played him pretty well to "Imagins,” I said, "certain changes have made you feel as you did about berlain, Frank Curran, Miss Dun- of appearance. If, instead of having him. It didn't occur to you that you ham, Mr.-Burton Daniels, Thomas short hair brushed back, he had long had never seen us together? Gault Garmon Evan, Mr. Gandy, Mr. G. hair not brushed at all-an't EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). I am that he did not commit the had to go out before I could come in." Houx, Mrs. Halden, Mrs. H. Hule,

He put his on my

hand

shoulder. E. G. Jamieson, L S. King, Kwong Hervey was leaning forward in Bis "It was the Man In Grey who was chair, with the most extraordinary ex-real, Redman. As my wife told you, he Yuen Than, Frederic Keller, Mr. pression on his face I have ever seen.

"And if instead of being dead she was a fiend. You thought we'd Invent G. J. King, Lieut. W. H. Lambert, ed the victim, but we'd Toally invent Edgan Lewis, A. Mafied, Mr. B. ed the murderer. I made up my mind Mills, c/o C. Cook, J. Michaud, Mrs. to kill the blackguard when bo frat Nazim, Nuri, beg, Marin Ines

didn't deserve to He came back.

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van he had a beard and moustacko-

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Horvey, too, was leaning for ward in her chair gazing at me with great frightened eyes.

not! went up to town, disguised myself Santiags Lista de Correos Ochoa, "And if his faise teeth had not in a beard and all the rest of it, and A. R. Ovens, MIS P. C. been taken out it is wonderful the stayed two nights at the hotel in the Piallard, Mr. Ex W. Robert, MAK

Gault as a real person for the subse W. G. Robinson, Rax, Sul Honk Kit, quent palce, toquiries. Then I came c/o. Swatow Exporting Co. J. R. back here and played the dual role. It Stewart, Mr. E. N. Sagar, c/c Burns W18 fortunate we had no servants at Philip & Co, Ltd., Tar Kim Kwang, the time. I was purposely rude to you Miss M. Templeton, Mrs. M. West, when I first met you as Gault so that Miss Anne Yep.

Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan difference a few missing teeth

ethan Strand as Gault. That established "But then," Hervey exclaimed, with

of flerce discovery, "with the changes he might have been Gault himselt!

He might

'"In fact

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hey both seemed to we could avoid each other afterwards moment they! [be speechless with astonishment. Then to

That's all And now you see what a detective you are--God bleas {Hervey "barat into a la

doctor empiled his final Ltd., Mr. M. Burto, Chan Siu Hing. glass of 0. Festa, Mr. Fuks, Saltin Gastone,

"My dear fellow, what on

We

are

(THE END),

you talking about? How could it be Goult. It was the Man in Grey whe port, and laughed grimly.

"And that's why I think the Man in (R. C. T. Espero), Kwang Hsin-Co Inquiring for Gault My Came bare

Grey was a good grime. and 1 wife saw him in the

Morning Afternoon. saw him in the

both Identified him. You yourself recognis ed him from our description. If dead man was Gault, where

Where he always has been,” "Nowhere uttered

10

ma Hervey

Is the

HONG KONG TIDES,

(Builders Contractors), Mons Launay, Meagra. Lee San Kee, T. Muradjalian, Oversea Traders, Ltd., Mr. Francisco Salvador, Sze Hing Wine Shop Tinlywotwine Ktg. Co., Tai Chang Po, The World Awards: Diapensary, Yan Tin Chee. sharp,

or Unpaid Correspondence. is Standard, or mean The time used t Hervey Jumped up from time of the meridian of 120 den E. B. Lawrence Bradley, Guy Exter, his chair.

bastante 10h. in midnight, 12hru, fa noon. The s, C. Fulletoria, Mrs. W. B. Harris, heights are referred to the datum of Jaweliers Exporters Long & "Look here, Redman, what are you the largest scale. Admiralty chart of driving at?" MAN MAA

He took a step towards mio, but the place and should be added to the Dammarhe, Dhan Singh. looked him steadily

depths, given on the chart unless pre- No. 7741, Hong Kong Sacramen- in the face, and eded by an asterisk (*) when they to US.A he stopped...

1003 a Man in said. was sure of that when- falood with you looking at the body.

There

werd four people in the crime,

camation.

herever should be, athiwisted, from the depths. J No. 719a, Hong Kong, Hong

GTO

bat I was certain only three of them were real. The Man in Grey, was an Imaginary being

created for a special рагровол

And I know what that pur-

"Mrs. Hörvey got yo; and went her husband's "wide. 7 She vet a culatly on his art, @She was" peri ly composed. Hervey's arm alined and the two stood together

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