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CHAPTER XXIV
By R. A. J. WALLING.
(Author of "The Third Degree."
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So Mrs. Briscoe and I found ouraglyes walking back to Rosebank. after a period of decided tension.
RAHIMrs. Briscoe had sighed. "So that's that!"
"And now my dear young lady," I asked her, "what are you going 'to do?"
"I'm coming home with you," she said, calmly.
But I had got over any tendency to be surprised at anything Mr Briscoe snid or did.
"I had rather thought," said 1, "that you were going on this little trip yourself."
"Oh, no," she replied. "I never meant to. I want to see Rossiter's face when he finds that he's been aold. And, of course, there's Ber- tram: Having get him into gaol, couldn't very well leave until he's either let out or hanged, could I?"
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HOCKEY
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The match was fought out at a rapid pace, both sides displaying initiative. Both ends were visited plenty of energy and a good deal of and the respective custodians were called upon.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1927.
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Continuing their hockey match fxchanged. In a letter addressed to tures during their stay in Hongkong the Chairmen of the Shanghai the Waseda University of Japan met and defeated a team from the Navy Stock Exchange and the Shanghai at the Sharebrokers' Associations, the by three goals to U.S.R.C. ground, Kowloon, yesterday Council directs the attention of these gentlemen to their numerous afternoon.
a redoubtable The Japanese are cloven and although the Navy lost, sins of commission and omission the narrow margin reflects credit on in regard to the rules of the road and significantly concludes that, them.
in the event of continued non-com- will become necessary, in the In- pliance with the regulations, it terest of the safety and conveni The visitors were the first to find the not through Ohkubo, but before Ace of other users of the road, Cdr. Agnew The University the owners of the offending vehi-
shot from cles. again got ahead by half time, matters were levelled by to Institute proceedings against Ohkubo on the resumption after the t interval, but shortly afterwards Pay.. the equaliser Cdr. Webster scored until, with finishing time closely ap Matters remained thus for some time, 1 saw the light in your house, proaching, Hirose secured the win Mr. Franks," said Rossiter. "Ining goal for the University. hoped you would not mind being, disturbed."
I looked around. There were no reminiscences of Mrs. Briscoe in the room,
But yea! There were three soup put it in the sideboard... cups on the tray. I took one and
I went to the hall and opened the front door. The light shone out on the face of Mr. Rossiter, Behind him was another man.
"Of course not," I answered. "But what on earth brings you here at this time of night?"
"Overbury's got away with it,"
he said.
"Overbury! You mean
"I mean Overbury's escaped. I had forgotten Mr. Quance for You were at Merafeld Tower to "So," said Mrs. Briscoe, "I fixed night. I thought you might tall
picious." it all up with Mrs. Franks before-me if you saw anything sus- hand. She'll be expecting us."
"They got away very neatly," I Raid. "It was all well-timed."
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I hoped the start 1 made at this appeared to Rossiter to be a na
"What?" I cried. "But won't "Yes, Dud is a marvel, isn't he? tural expression of surprise. Worked it all out to a hair--like getting one of his beastly formulas you come inside?"
"Thanks" said Rossiter, and right. He's a frumpish old Vic- torian in some things, but really instructed his man to stay where
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I was not conscious of feeling this. It is very strange. Do you particularly Victorian or of havingmenn. to suggest that Overbury done anything very frumpish der has been at Merafeld Fewer to
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I held out Overbury's cap, Rossiter grabbed it, turned it in- had been in my hand all the
that. The learned doctor has just had "Look!" he cried. "On" "I don't mean to suggest it-side out, and peered at it.
answered.
objective illustration of his con- bury." know it," Rossiter
"Good heavens!" said I. "Is it cept to his countrymen at the Shanghai Auto-Fashion Show, at "And not only to-night, but the tabJ.W.0.-John Wilson Over-an opportunity of furnishing whole time since the murder. He
The most had accomplices to keep him there;o? Do you think so?"
"Not an atom of doubt," said which he was one of the most in- Surplus ....
terested spectators. of course, and we've got them in
Rossiter.
is the large numbers of Chinee of the clink. But he must have had
"Where's this place? Can you noteworthy fact of the exhibition accomplices to get away, and I
take me there?"
"Why, yes," said 1. "But I'm all classes which it has attracted nightly, tending to reveal that mean to have them in the clink; tee, before the trail is cold”
an automotive afraid Overbury's got away with China is slowly, almost imper-
being drawn to he, and this is his, cap, and he it for good this time. If it was ceptibly but none the less surely fell in there, not much hope for civilisation. him. Just the one place where
One dealer at the Show had a he was almost certain to bo
where the stream huge car propped up on jacks at one drowned,
and
cut end, with a mirror beneath, to has round curls
Rossiter was very angry. He way, though. Unless Mason makes fumed. He looked at me as he a bloomer, Rossiter will never find spoke with a glare of wrath. But the ducky little door and the thrill-1 knew he dare not hint at any ing staircane... But tell me how connection between me and fail- it went off, and especially why youure, even if he suspected it.
I had thought for a moment insisted on having Major Over. bury's cap."
"Oh, the cap? For the benefit of that Mason might have proved a
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'plant
"A plant! Oh, how lovely!" "And when you make a plant,'" gaid I, "if you desire to do it really well, you must do it at once. So that's why I'm going to see you
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safe at Rosebank and then go on within a hundred miles of Mera-you don't mind," said he. He 1 for better roads, it may not be long tion, Gilbert to Oosterban, caused
field Tower since he ran away somewhere elso."
"But," anid Rosaiter, "between "Let me come, too," she pleaded. three weeks ago..
und- Mason time when you But I insisted on having my own way. It was fortunate, as it hap-walked across the lawn and the pened.
've been at fault a good many time when Mason came back Over over this business, Mrs. bury get out of that place and times Briscoe, said 1, "but never more vanished. He must have had ac- than over Mason. Do you mind complices, and they must have telling me when he came into the been accomplices who knew my plans. I mean to get at the bot- secret?"
"Oh, Mason's been in from the tom of it." very first. Bertram knew that he could trust him. You know, Mason simply worships Lady Merafield. Ile was horrified by the way her husband treated her. That horrible night Bertram could went on. have done nothing without the
At Rosebank i found that it was as Mrs. Briscoe said. My wife was waiting up. She seemed to be more wonderful, than ever.
"All gone well?" she asked.
I took a yet more solemn vow that nobody should go near my wife's bedroom that night.
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With the ever widening desire tapped his foot on the carpet for before a motor car civilization con- a moment. I think we'll go trives to supplant the ricsha civi. alone. No need to have this storylization which Dr. Hu Shih so known until we are a little surer." strongly deprecates. down to the spot where I had meant to "plant" Oyerbury's cap if Rossiter had not arrived to
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When the Shanghai. journalist, Mr. Rodney Gilbert, during a hoday in England, wrote his book the "How did you guess Overbary "What's Wrong With China," he was, at Merafield Tower all the probably did not suspect time?" I asked him. "I can amount of controversy to which the Pulicatio was desus to give hardly credit it."
The rise. Now we are to have a sequel no doubt. "Oh, there's
the to his much talked of book-but "same of the footman saw him once' in been suspicious about the chauf-writer. feur chap, who was always dis- quadrangle at night, and he had not from the pen I thought you might possibly appearing and springing up from dentally, the biggest industrial or- operated by Chinese, will shortly help of Mason. He told him the have seen something over there nowhere. There's a hiding place wanisation in China owned and truth and swore him to be secret. to-night that might be, useful to somewhere
boots if Overbury wasn't there. to Mr. Gilbert's book by publishing" And the old man's been splendid me without realising its signifi- haven't found it, but I'd eat my issue from its press the corollary "No," said. "I saw nothing And he was even daring enough "What's Right With China," from all the time."
I was busy to go out to Highcliff Farm one the pen of. Mr. O. D. Rasmussen, I shall have those who, it is interesting to note, is the gentleman who coined the at Merafield Tower. brary for legal purposes. Very yokels yet!" he said, angrily. making some extracts in the li-afternoon.
"Funny that Mason should highly controversial term, the never have suspected," I ventured. "Shanghai mind," on the subject of saw and heard something after I fine library there. But I think I
.."Mason? An old fool!" said which a wordy warfare is still pro-
ceeding in the local press. "Now you must both want some left Meralleld Tower that may soup. I've kept it hot for you."
In this book, it is claimed, the There wasn't much for him to That was all. Not a question, have some bearing on your trou- Rossiter, impatiently.
"Ah Rossiter pricked up his see when we got to the bottom of author answers the trite and not an exclamation; as if the ex-
enme hackneyed criticisms of Western- the valley. The stream ecution of a, plot for the escape
'widish slope of ers who see nothing good in China: "After Mason had gone back I down through of a man accused of murder oc- curred every evening between dinner and bed-time. Even when walked straight here, and just as swampy ground into the gorge of and the Chinese. He takes the I remarked that I would not have turned into the drive I heard a Highcliff Creek, and rushed again- actual words of the critics and their merits. He tests the my soup yet; as I had one little rush of footsteps and somebody at the hillside below my house, subjects them to close scrutiny
a crash of where it had bored a deep channel.on panting, and, then
I pointed out to Rossiter that the truth of the criticisms and com- bushes." thing more to do, all she said was, j
tide had been ebbing two houra, pares them to similar conditions "Very well: Don't be longer than
"Ah!" exclaimed Rossiter. you can help. I'm getting sleepy."
"I wont back to the road and but the water at this point was in Western countries.
Mr. Rasmussen goes to the But I never did that little thing.
Where did you find the cap?" source of accepted history on Almost as I turned to leave the then distinctly heard the sounds deep and black. dining-room the bell from the of some person scrambling down
1 flashed my light round, and China to disprove the basis upon While realising front door was rung. I glanced through the copse. I latened he asked.
Marie Lohr, the Australian criticism reets. at the clock. It was ten minutes hard. Then I heard a dry and a
sound of stones clattering down it fell upon a place under the trees which a great deal of anti-Chinese to one.
"Just there," said I.
understanding between Chiness divorce from her husband, Anthony Come quietly, my dear," said and a splash. I thought there where some ground had slipped. fully the unhappy causes of mist actress, who has been suing for a
some mishap anyhow, it
He looked gloomily at the water and foreigners, the author shows Val Prinsep, has been successful that the current recrimination is in obtaining a decree nisi on the my wife to Mrs. Briscoe. "We was ahall go to my room," she added, was a bit mysterious, so I came
back here for my torch, and then swirling by.
"If Overbury fell in there," said 11-judged, badly tired and fault-ground of her husband's miscon looking at me.
he, "he'll be out to sea by this ly based. The book la being duct with Margaret Bannerman, I stood waiting while they went ran down the path to the head of
wawaited with a sense of lively anti-who is shortly leaving for Australia.. time." softly up the-stairs. Then I no- the creek. Do you know it?"
"No. Is it far?".
"Yes," I responded. "I expect cipation, not least by the man to Margaret Bannerman, the actress, -ticed that I still held in my hand
most beautiful-women- in England.. bury had flung from the deck of here. I could not find anybody Overbury's well out to son by this whose book it is intended to be the is lovely blonde, and one of the
I thought of there, but I saw something light In the Terpalchore. putting it in the sideboard cup the water, stuck on the edge of a
cars.
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Yes Bang Fat Building, Queen's Road Central.
POLAR CAKE
IT'S QUALITYS
"THAT COUNT.
THE BANK OF CHINA,
HPECIALLY AUTHORIZED DY PRESIDEN. TIAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA ON THE LIND OF NOVEMBER, 1917.
Authorised Capital.
Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund
$41,900,000.00
.$16.178,000.00
.......€ 9,453,495.34
HEAD OFFICE PEKING DONGKONG DÍLANCHES:
4, Queen's Blond Central Branches and Sub-branches all over Chios and corrispondents in Europa, America and, other parts of watm
LONDON BANKERS—
The National Provincial and Unlen Back of England Limited
The Guaranty Trust Company of New Yothe NEW YORK BRANCHES
The Irving National Banka The Egali- able Trust Company of new York.
Interit allowed on Current Accounts and
Terms on Application. ¿ Fixed Deponis
Every description of Backing - beslaan transacted.
Louns granted on approved securiti Special facilities for Home' Kuchenze
BIGE J. CHEN,
METALS
of all kinds especially for ship building and engineering work, Best Terms, Complete "stock, Immediate delivery:
SINGON & CO., ESTABLISHED A.D. 1880.
HING LUNG St. Phone Central·
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