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A Working Housewife

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 20г, 1912.

THE PATH OF A HUNDRED DEATHS.

BY

- GUY THORNE,

(Author of When It Was Dark,"

Lost Cause, etc.).

CHAPTER THI

ON BOARD THE < SEAMEW."

knew the secret, Arthur Hughes had slept soundly. He had been given some beef ten by the

and after ng doctor aboard the yacht, a sleeping draught, so when A evening inther painted robes, like a shy novice about to take the veil of night, had fallen over the sea, he at last awoke, thy little cabin, which was almost entirely taken up by the bed upon which he lay, was full of faint grey light. There was All day long the white Seamer rode the yacht was at sen, and he heard the a slight movement which told him that at anchor on the sapphire and untroub throbbing, and felt the faint vibration ed waters of Zerran Cove. Boats went mckwards and forwards to the shore, the of the powerful tarbine engine amidship. little village pursued the even tenor He lay upon his back with a sense of of its life, the sun beat down with mid-est and peace, which he had not known summer radiance and the sickle pinioned sea birds swept leisurely round the fish- ing boats and the graceful yacht.

Mr. John Saltus, the owner of the Seamere, was a short, fat, clean-shaven man of some fifty years of age, his hair was iron grey, his face, when in repose, not unlike that of the first Napoleon, though the eyes were not so keen, nor the expression se alert,

He was drowsy still, but with a pleasant so it seemed to him-for many years.

and comfortable drowsiness. He thought either of the past nor of the future in this moment of intense physical and mental relief. He only felt very hungry. door of his cabin quietly slid aside, and It was about half-past eight when the Mr. Saltus entered, and turned up the electric lidt.

The little man sat down upon the bed, and patted Arthur affectionately upon the arm.

Mr. Saltus was a very wealthy man indeed, a bachelor, well-known in London society. He had a certain celebrity, part-

"All is well,” he said. As far as we ly owing to his collection of antique know, not the slightest suspicion of your vases which was unsurpassed by anywhereabouts is in the mind of the authori other private collector in Europe printies. We are in constant touch with Corn- cipally owing to his wonderful know-wall, and everything has gone off without Pledge of eating and drinking Mr. Saltus a single bitch. I have friends everywhere was a gourmet and a gourmand. His in the prison district Cypher telegrams chef, Antonio Pozzi, was renowned in have been despatched to London from two hemispheres. His little diners were various parts every hour since your feasts which would not have shamedpe. They have been sent back to the Lacullus. The shades of Vatel, Soyer Marconi station at Poldhu, and we are and Carema were said to haunt his picking them up here constantly by our kitchen.

wireless telegraphy installation on board About twelve o'clock in the morning, the yacht. You can make your mind neatly dressed in a blue serge coat and quite easy, the first stage, the first act waistcont, irreproachable white ducks, in the drama, is over,' and a yachting cap. Mr. Saltas was strolling through the village towards the villa occupied by Mrs. Morduant, and her mele, dhe Rev. Hildebrand Finch.

He had come up to the house, when from the front door, their hats in their hands, and their faces suffused with pleased good unions, came two men in the uniform of prison warders. Mr. Finch, the grey bearded old clergyman, and his nice, Mrs. Morduant, stood upon the steps for a moment, talking to. the men. Mr. Saltus walked up the little drive, and saluted his friends.

My dear John," said the clergyman, Whatever do you think has happen ed?-these two gentlemen have just fold us that a convict has escaped from the prison at Marshmoor."

Arthur caught him by the hand. "Sir," hy said,1 have no words in which ta thank you. Words do not cour easily to

after my jong solitude at Marshmoor. I shall be able to thank you by and by, I know that you and my father, my poor dear father, were old friends, aml, of course, I have met you at his house, and once or twice I have had the honour of dining with you in Berkeley Square, but how many friends would have done this, exposed themselves to such enormions risks

Never mind, never mind, Artbuy,” M. Saltus answered in a soothing voice as if he were speaking to a child, "When you are a little stronger and better-- later to-night perhaps there is very

much that yon must hear and know. said just now that the curtain had fallen Good gracious Mr. Saltus replied, pou the first act of the drama. It must looking with a surprised face at these again Arthur, upon other facts, and apon a drama which is as strange and warders. That is a very rare occur- terrible, which promises to be as sterri renee, surely ?"

and mysterious as anything the human It is, sir," one of the men said, "andinind can conceire. It is owing to this the curious thing is the conviet has not left fact that for many months I have been a trace. We are scouring all the country; perfecting dee vast and secret organiza I have just been telling his Reverence and Lion which has been necessary for your the lady how it happened. It was at the release Your friend Jim Morduant and station when a gang were being entrained his wife, old Mr. Finch, and various for Parkhurst Prison, to where they were other devoted helpers, have been working Fearlessly to this tel. The mintest details have been studied; large sums have been spent, but all this has been with the greatest pride and gladness, and it is all a means towards an ead so vakt and important that even your release, my dear boy, is only a part in it-though the most integral part of all. I am going to send someone to you now whom you

to be removed.

"Yes," Mre. Morduant broke in, and you knew, John, the exciting thing is that I actually saw them--the convicts, I mean-and so did Ungle. It was when we went to see Reggie Fairfax off at the station. It seems that some confeder ute or other lit some gunpowder or some thing, and made a great smoke, under. cover of which the man got away. Curi have already met. The little foreign- onsly, as we drove off from the station looking gentleman who made you ap as you are now, a swarthy seaman, whe pro- in the motor, we thought we heard a bang, a noise like an explosion, as we vided the wonderful wig and beard, which turned into the Moor Road, but I thought of my friends wore at the station, it was simply something to do with this

soldiers in the manœuvres.'

"Then it only happened a few hours ngo?" Mr. Saltus said enquiringly to the

warders,

That is all, sir," they replied. "Well, I must say," Mr. Baltus said with a smile, you do not lose any time Have, you any reason to expect he is way where round here ?"..

Oh, no, sir," one of the warders ye plied, that is not possible. It is iwelve. miles from Marshmoor Station to here. and he would have had to have passed the prison and the quarries, unless he made a detour over the Moor of nearly twenty miles. No, we have simply come to warn the coast-guards to be on the lookout and the inhabitants of the village. If the man is not recaptured at ence, he very likely may try and strike this part of the const. We have just been detailed to warn all the fishermen."

"Quite so," said Mr. Baltus, "I ace. Well, I am sure everyone will be on the alert. Where are you going next?"

To Porthedwin, sir," the warder au- swered.. "It is the next fishing village, about five miles over the Moor."

and which were put apou you in the snoke, is no other than Mr. "Willy him- self!?

Arthur started. In common with all

the rest of the world, the name of thes famous pérignier and theatrical costu

irr of Leicester Square was familiar to him. He realised, perhaps more from that single fact than from any other, how complete were the arrangements of his

friend.

* Mr. Willy," Mr. Gallus continued, will take off this beard nnd stain upon your skin. When you are yourself again he will shave you, and help you to dress. in clothes that are provided, which you will wear for the next two or three days, until your arrival in London."

London ?" Arthur said with eyes starting from his head.

Yes, London," Mr. Saltus replied, bat you will again be a different person in appearance when you reach London, and commence with me the great work of your own rehabilitation, bringing to justice a person who, it is out too much tony, is, perhaps, the most criminal, the most dangerous and cunning brain of our modern life. But I am anticipat-

It will be a very hot walk for you," You will change and restore your self to your comforts as I say, and then Mr. Saltus answered.

I have arranged that you and Muriel

"It will, indeed, sir," they replied rur-shall dine alone together, for you will have fully.

Look here, then," said the yachtsman, I will tell you what I will do if you like. I am going aboard my yacht again now. and I will send the motor boat ashore, and it will take you to Porthed win in half an hour by sea, and save the wulk I am not weighing anchor till this evening.

The little man's face beamed with good humour, and the warders accepted the offer with profuse thanks.

"Right O" said Mr. Saltas, turning

away,

rauch to say to each other.

"AL midnight, when all is still, and we are far out at sea, for we are now steaming slowly in the direction of Cape Finistere, you and I will go on deck, and there, under the moon, away from all prying cars, I will tell you such a story as will make your blood run cold, and your heart leap with eagerness for the work you have to do,"

At a little after nine, bathed, the prison serub removed from lips and chin, in a'u

I will see to it at once it you'rdinary suit of evening clothes, and a dinner jacket-bow good it was to wear

be down at the beach in five minutes, and the clothes of a free man and a gentle.

In ten minutes more. Mr. Saltus was aboard the motor boat, it had kicked its way from the yacht to the beach, the warders had entered it, and the long speedy boat was cutting through the waters towards the west, leaving a long trail of foam behind it.

I do not suppose that if you find a few man agam-Arthur sat at a little table bottles of beer. off the ice in the stern of in the saloon with Muriel. She was a the boat that, you will refuse to open tall girl with a heavy mass of dark red them ""

hair coiled in a thining coronet round her sinal! oval face. The head was beauti- fully poised upon a slender neck, round which hung a single row of pearls-a gift of Arthur's in the old happy days. the deep blue eyes under the Gnely pen- cilled brows of black were twin wells of Love and Sympathy, the perfect bow It was about seven o'clock that evening, shaped lips were parted, and trembled when long shafts of gold and crimson a little, as, in broken tones, the lean, painted the still floor of the sea with worn, young man told her of the past splendour, that the anchor chain of the horrors of his life. For the first time. Seamer rattled on the little steant she heard of the long days of menial winch, the siren hooted like a brazen bull,teaks and scanty food, the harsh orders, and startled a hundred shrieking sea the degrading dress, the black and lonely birde from the cliffs, and the graceful midnights of the cell. And she knew- boat moved away, out into the broad, even in her pain, her heart thrilled with golden path of the sunset.

joy to hear it she knew that not for The whole day long, in a tiny cabin, one moment she was absent from her un- which opened out of the saloon, through happy lover's thoughts, and she, and she door in the panelling, which was alone, was the one star in the blackness absolutely concealed from the ordinary of his night. eye, and of which only one or two people

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