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Over 10 years old,
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER SOTH, 1918.
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A VISION OF THE NIGHT.
BEATRICE HERON-MAXWELL.
(Author of "The Adventures of a Lady Pearl Broker," etc.).
(Mr. Clande Leigh is a normal English- maa, lending on ordinary life between his Chambers in formyn Street, his Club fè' Piccadilly, and his official work in Whitehall: Yet this is the account he gives of the recent mysterious occurrence at Ridd Castlej.
I suppose, overyone has some method of varying the monotony of a routine life, and mine is a very harmless one. Instead of spending the small hours in Bridge, I like to wander sometimes in unknown streets and let my imagination create for me a different world to the one I live in.
Mild adventures of various sorts have come, and I have learnt also a few useful lessons from the sordid stories of the night, bat sothing so startling and inexplicable, as experience has my recent
before occurred to me.
ever
Coming out from Lady Marchmain's party; in Grosvenor Square, I found the night air refreshing and decided to go for one of my prowls before turning in.
I was just pleasantly tired and my brain, occupying itself with the trifles of the oven- Ing. was not alert enough for me to notice the names of the equares and streets I passed through as I drifted on Chelseawards.
Therefore I have no idea where I was when the thing happened. I only know that I had crossed a main road, turned down a side street, and, coming into a quiet square, was just slanting to the opposite side when a hansun caure swiftly round the corner.
At the same instant, a picce of newspaper, lifted by the wind, caracoled along the carb like a sentient being, and the horse taking fright, skied violently and came down in spreadeagic fashion; his forelegs striking me nad throwing me backwards.
I fell heavily on to my head and for a few moments was stunned; then, conscious but still dazed, I picked himself up in time to see the horse regain its feet, assisted by the (cabman.
Don't worry about me," I called out to him, and he turned with a shamefaced smile. I'm sorry, sir," he said. "I was coming to see after you when I'd got the horse up. 1 couldn't leave him like that."
Where's your fare?" I asked:
Gone!" he answered. The lady said she wouldn't drive another jard in the cab and they just cleared out-never troubled about you, or the horse, or nothing,"
I retained only a diur impression of the face I had seen is the cab swerved; that of aman, with a dark moustache, in evening dress.
Well, when am 1 to look to for my doctor's bill I continued. "I'm a good deal hurt. I think. It was a nasty spill."
The cabman, reassured in spite of my No hores broke, I words, smiled again. hope, Governor?" he said. "You won't be 1134-10 kard on me I know. Let me drive you back,
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sir. Is it far?)
"What's your road home? I queried.
Putney, he replied. "But that's no. matter, sir, if the horse can manage it."
I told him no horse should have its hend turned away from its stable at that time of night for my pleasure; and refused his Further offer to drop me in the King's Road.
So when he drove off, I followed in that direction also and went on slowly, feeling a little shaken and queer,
There was a dark lonely street round the next corner, approached by five steps, which seemed to offer me a short cut, and it was as I descended the stone Right that I was seized with dizziness, and had to cling for support to the iron railings, or I should have fallon.
A curious numbness crept over me," and I lest all sensation-for bow long 3 cannot tell —until suddenly full consciousness returned with the sound of a long and agonised sereain-the ery of a woman in mortal pain or distres.
In an instant my brain cleared, and run- ning a few yards up the street, in the direction from which the sound came, I searched the horses for a sign that should lacnte it.
The windows were all dark, with one exception; a row of three, opening on to a balcony filled with flower-boses and brightly, i
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For an instant I stared distraught and almost paralysed; then I know what I must do.
I stared up at them, uncertain what to do,verywhere under the soft light from many rose shaded candles; and, amongst the and the cry, fainter and broken-off sharply glittering silver covering the dressing-table, I fled from the room and down the stairs, as though stifled, came again. So desperate one object stood out clearly to my senses—-a out into the street; and all the time, as I was the appeal that I had no besitation in large panel portrait of a man.
went, the echo of s pursuing footstep dogged making-for-tho-doorway-andy to-my-surprise,
The Ince was handsome and insolent, theme, though whether in faney or reality I as I felt for the boil, the door, which was attitude tint of command; and the features cannot tell. My thought was to find a doctor unlatched, pered and admitted me to
and take him to that room, and up the street seemed vaguely-familiar to me. dark square hall. On either side were closed the whole room at a glance, and empty as it
I ran, straight to the steps, but as I reached doors, aud, facing me, a fight of stairs; I
them the dizziness came again and I fell gathered, as I ran up them, that the build-was, 1 felt a curious sensation of some
headlong and insensible. presence there. ing consisted of flats, and when I reached the second door I saw a bright gleam.
A further door led out into the passage, through a fanlight, which guided me to the sud, as I passed through it, I saw that there more room in the at-a door I wanted. I felt no misgiving in was only one trying to gain an entrance, for the anguish dining-room with a supper-table laid for two. of the ery haunted me, and when I turned disconcerted and alarmed me, for, in spite of The stillness and silence of the whole place the handle the door yielded to my Inside was a short passage, and, opposite, ait, I had this extraordinary feeling that I door, ajar.
was not alone. A lurking shadow seemed to move wherever I went to listen at each door, to glide behind each curtain, to linger in every corner of the rooms, as I passed through them once more, searching every woman's voice had, or had not, come from where for some proof that the cry in the
touch.
I knocked at it twice, following this up by saying: "Is there anyone here?"!
There was no answer, and I went in.
thore,
It was dawn when I came to myself and found a policeman supporting mo on either fide. One of them whistled for a cab, and, as it drove up, I could hear him reading out had evidently found in my pocket. my name and address from the card case he
They put me in a cab and took me home and my doctor was sent fer. By the time he came, I was in a stupor, but at the first moment that I became awake and rational, the memory of my experience at the. Eat returned to me and I poured out my story for the constables who had found me, and eagerly to him, and implored him to send
set them on the track of the murderer,
He looked doubtfully at me as I came to the end of my recital.
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And, acting on the advice of my dostar, I endeavoured to dismiss the whole subject from my mind; to which ond 1 accepted an invitation from Lady Laverton; to spend a fortnight at Ridd Castle, hoping that the whirr of a pheasant's wing would banish a recollection that clung to my waking thoughts and sleeping visions.
I was feeling almost restored in mind and body on the day I travelled down there.
I had heard that the Ridd shooting was excellent, though, this was my first experi ence of it, and I was looking forward to seeing Lady Laverton, between whom and myself a very warm friendship had sprung up during the season.
I found in her the interest and sympathy that, given by a bright, intelligent attractive woman of a certain age, to a man who can accopt it without taking an egotistic advantage, is one of the best things in life. Her welcome left me in no doubt as to the sincerity of her feelings, and as we drore towards the Castle for she had come to
'meot "me" berseli-I felt the Inst trace of my illness disappear.
We were entering the drive when we saw o group of grans entering from the plants- tion, and she told me who composed her. house-party at the moment, adding at the end of the string of names, some known and some unknown to me: "Then there are the bride and bridegroom, Prince and Frincess George de Verouay-they are new acquain- tances to me. Laverton mot them when he was abroad recently and they showed him some hospitality. She is such a pretty girl, and very charming.
The room was empty. Beautiful pictures, all glowing scenes of life and colour, hung, parels of white wood; curtains of rose-red sith veiled the windows and half hid the folding-doors of an inner room; and arm-
At last as I stood in the bedroom,. listening choirs of the BANG vivid hue were intently, I caught, in the corner of my eye, interspersed with tables and cabinets of a movement in the direction of a cupboard "There has been no murder of that kind ialsid wood. Everywhere great clusters of door, a white wood placard, such as yon in the papers," he said, and it is now three red and white roses nestled in bowls and find in French houses, let into a slight recess days since your accident. I think you were vases, amongst costly ornaments of china and at one side of the fireplace, Stepping feeling queer when you fainted on the steps argenterie.
closer, I say that a thin stream of something and you had a sort of dream. Buch things| The scene photographed itself on my mind dark and red was running slowly down the do happen sometimes. as I stared round, uncertain what to do; and crevice of the opening and stealing out from I argued hotly against this theory, and to -in-addition-I-notical one detail Noar a underneath, across the polish. boards. calm me, he allowed the to get up and drive couch, over the end of which trailed a gausy For a moment my heart seemed to stop to the place where I was found. scarf, lay a fan, broken in pieces, and an beating, then with a desperate effort of will I started from the steps and walked slowly. overturned Venetian goblet, the flowers it I seized the handle, pulling the cupboard down the street, staring up at every house, And as I did so, the body All the second-floor rooms had balconies filled had hold lying disordered in a pool of water, door towards mo.
The sight of these quickened my apprehen- of a woman stayed forwards and fell into my with fewers, and the glearn of rose-coloured curtains came from the windows of several. sion again and I said once more: "Is anyone arms. there? Did anyone call for help?”.
I think my senses left me for a moment
I insisted on making enquiries at more But the same unbroken silenco answered after I carried her to the sofa and laid her than one house, and on entering one of I haven't met her."?!! me; indeed there seemed to be a deathliko down; but the lace of her bodice caught in which I seemed to recognise the hall and stillans oven in the room beyond..
my sleeve-link and as I wrenched myself free staircase. The result was decisive, I stepped scross to the folding doors, I realised what had happened. I was alone, knooked again, paused, and opened them. in a stranger's fat, at the dead of the night,
A chair, tilted up against the white with a murdered woman.. draperies of the bed, suggested that someone passing had brushed violently against it; but there was no other sign of disarrange ment in the exquisito order of the bedrooms.
She was a beautiful woman, beautifully dressed, and she was quite dead; the knife that had stabbed her still resting in the wound just over her heart.
No tragedy had occurred in any of the flats, the proprietor assured me, and the particular oue which I singled out as the sceny of my adventure had been shut up for some time, the owner being abroad.
Baffled at every turn, I had to abandon the quest, and own myself beaten.
44 French 1; asked
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English," Lady Laverton answered, "one of the Leighs of Suffolk.”
"A connection of my own then," rer arked. I belong to Suffolk. But 1· don't know which branch she belongs to;
"Her people have been living abroad for years," she said "at Nice, I think." father's, Colonel Eustace Leigh, had gone to the South of France on returning from the Indian Army; I had heard my father speak of him.
I remembered that a second cousin of my
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