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OUR SERIAL STO Y.

THE MOATED GRANGE.

By KATHARINE TYNAN. Author of "A Mad Marriage," The Itodro of Doom," "Denys the Dreamer."

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS.

CHAPTER II.

The boy

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

ground of a lit hall, against tapestry and suite of armour, look ing out at them as they stood at the foot of the steps.

"You came to see the house?” he said, peering at them.

He spoke in a flat, expressionless voice; and his face was the "pale, whiskered face of the respectable man-sorvant.

rooms."

old

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1927.

THE ARMED ROBBER

MENACE.

SHANGHAI ELECTRIC ALARM SYSTEM.

INTERESTING DEVICE..

ALLEGED HOSPITAL

THEFTS.

CONTRACTOR'S COOLIE DISCHARGED.

A charge of larceny of seven basin plugs and a small glass pump, the property of the General Hospital (Diocesan Boya! School), contrac- was brought against a tor's coclio before Mr. W. Scho- field, at the Kowloon Magistracy, this morning.

The defendant was according- ly discharged.

LOCAL MOTOR. ACCIDENT.

CHILD KILLED; MOTHER INJURED.

A motor accident took place

morning," near the Bowrington yesterday, at 10 o'clock in the

Canal.

"If you please," said Beata, and gave her mother a reassuring squeeze of the arm. It was some- The first official demonstration thing she always did when they of the newest method in Shanghal embarked on a new adventure or to cope with the over-increasing reached any new stage of one. It armed robber problem, was given meant that she, Beata, was there last week in Sinza police station in

The defendant pleaded that he to take care of her, and that they the presence of Mr. S. Fessen- The glance was at once shy and were going to see the thing, what-den, Chairman of the Municipal had found the articles lying about MRS. DE BURCH, an Irish mirthful Then he was protestag ever it might be, through to Council, Captain E. 1. M. Barrett, and was taking them back to the

to his mother. "Please don't ras gether. Perhaps there was more Commissioner of Police, Captain hospital,, widow, and

A Chinese watchman, in evi- any more, darling,-not now; at than that in it. She had a queer, Floro, Chief of the French Police, BEATA, her only daughter, all events.".

feeling of aversion for the man, of They caught sight of the party fear of the House which she could Captain W. G. Clarke, Director of dence, said he saw the defendant the in-approaching him from the direc- Criminal Intelligence,. young novelist, having seen an ad-

wayside not have explained. Not for vertisement relating to an old again alighting at a

her spectors and detectives in charge tion of the contractor's matsheds. country house, decide to inspect it station. The tall boy and his worlds would she have let

of the police stations, and a large On being searched, the articles aether were received by a brown mother know her folly.

found in the defendant's faced, pleasant-looking gentleman

"Won't you please come in?" number of other detectives and in-were

After hearing the evidence, his The West wind got up in the father. The two little boys had a closing the door behind them when police.

who was obviously the husband and said the man, and led the way,terested municipal and French pockets.

had entered. "If you will!. The apparatus is an electric burg-Worship said there was insufficient night and cried in the chimney and through the keyholes. The comfortable-looking lady wrapped they

by the Oriental Electric Protective dant intended to steal the things. next morning there was not a trace up in furs to meet them and a foot-wait a moment I shall light up the lar device, which is being installed evidence to show that the defen- of the fog, and Beata and her man to receive their luggage. The

"Electric light?" "rald Beata, Association wherein every house He could easily have hidden them, which subscribes to the system instead of carrying them about in mother were full of anticipation all boy said something to the little

electrical connexion his pockets. of seeing clean country once again, boys,, while the elders it seemed with a business-like air,

ridiculous to call the beautiful The man, she thought, smiled has direct

with the nearest police station. when they had left the monstrous!

"elder"were greeting faintly, mother town. behind.

"Our master woukin't hear of The police department hus given official sanction to the service, and The sky had clouded over, and itch other. He made a feint of was raining by the time they left banging the two little sleek, oiled

house like this. He'd like candles will provide adequate space in Liverpool Street, but the rain and heads together, but it was done it," he answered. "Not an

very gently,

all the time, would Sir Hilary. various stations for the installa-. cloud did not damp Benta's rosy

Then he was receiving the "wild

They'd prove expensive these tion of the neccessary units within

the police stations. anticipation, nor her mother's;

times." Mra. de Burgh was, as someone had caresses of a spaniel who evidently

Sir Hilary! So that was the

Demonstration at Sinza. discovered, in many ways the bad just escaped from somebody's younger of the two. They were custody since he trailed a bit of ama, or part of the name, of the

"The adequacy of the system owner of the Moated Grange. quite sure that the Moaled Grangering after him. was going to be all they could head, as he bent it to the dog in Sir Hilary what?. Her mother was was amply demonstrated at the while they test. Officers in the station, with the light of the station-lamp, had asking delightedly hope for.

"Some discerning people like Lady the same wave in it as the spaniel's waited in the hall if Beata did not the exception of Chief Inspector found it oddly cont; only, of course, it was cut think him the rent English butler, Aiers, did not know from which Lambert had

A messenger pathetic the way Beata took care of short that the wave was hardly his flat, slightly whiskered face, house or at what time the alarm

and the thin sandy hair parted in would be given.

designated place, her mather. It was almost as perceptible.

Just as the train began to move the middle: "I am quite sure he went to "the

It appears that mator car No. though the positions had been re-

up and caught walks flat-footed. I wonder what pressed a button, and roused the versed, Beata was wont to say the boy looked that she had had her mother on her Beatn's eyes upon him. She did he'd think of Terry, who used to station. The station force turned 266, in an attempt to avoid a mind since she was four years old. not attempt to draw back. That argue everything out before he'd ent er masse, and within two passenger who alighted from There had been Tom de Burgh's ok friendship with many boys, take an order, and join in the con- minutes they were at the dwelling tramear, swerved sharply and ran long illness and his wife's devoted sad to think of now, had left her versation at the table! Do you in Myburgh Road. Had armed into a sampan woman, who was

her very unself-conscious where the remember how Terry laughed when robbers actually been inside, they carrying a child on her back.

The woman and the child were attendance upon him, and

knocked over and received serious close confinement to the sick-room, other sex was concerned.

The boy coloured, and then very your cousin Nigel stayed with us would have met with more trouble which sometimes had made her

The apparatus is simple enough injuries, the "child dying. soon! pale and a little weary. Her little hyly lifted his hat. Then the old such rattling rood than they had expected.

"Sir Hilary what?" Beata kept as far as the subscriber is con-afterward. The woman was later girl, worshipping the mother's train went off.

"He must have seen that we asking herself. It had not occur-cerned. The company supplies removed to the Government Civil beauty and softness, had had an

were amused," said Mrs. de Burgh, red to her to consider the owner as many push buttons as he may Hospital, where her condition is

desire, and will install them at still serious. in a flutter. "What nice people shin of the Moated Grange. they looked wonder if they live

The man came back soft-footed convenient points-at the head of The passenger on the tramear, caused the motor car to and ushered them into a lit room, the bed, under a counter, along who It was Beata who had taken her far from the Moated Grange."

"You are thinking that we might It was a very pratt room, walled side the cash box, near the door, swerve, was also struck and was mother away from Glen Assaroc, and not altogether because the know them," said Beata, looking in books, with carpet and curtains etc. Company engineers will seal thrown into a ditch, but his in- country was in so disturbed a state at her mother's glowing face of pink damask in which pleasant windows or doors in such a man- juries were such that he was not

"But, darling these things don't colour the chairs and the sofa by ner that, should they be opened, removed to hospital. and houses being raided every-

must the fire were also covered. The

The chauffeur of the motor car "where, and many of the people happen in England. You

come with introductions, and we fireplace had fine brass hobs and the circuit will be broken, by who had been kind and friendly shall be only birds of massage if a basket rate, and it was lined which process the station at once concerned in the accident Is atļ So Badly changed.

take the Moated Grange. I with old blue Dutch tiles-alto- will be roused by the ringing of a present detained by the police.

gong in the charge-room. Once It was her mother's face is she wo

BIG HAUL OF OPIUM. "looked down at her hands with agree with you that we shall pro-gether a very pleasant interior.

"Oh, but this is charming!"the plant has been used a repre- bewildered air as though she saw bably be forestalled. It squnda emptiness, her obvious incapacity such a very tempting proposition cried. Mrs.. de Burgh, oblivious of sentative of the company will make to fill the days which Tom de even though the nearest railway the worldly wisdom which her proper connexions again in the Burgh and his needs had kept busy station is afteen miles away. That daughter had often inculcated upon house. The mechanism is not de- car. her, without possessing it herself.pendent upon Municipal electricity, from morning till night. There would be nothing to a

Americans

storage cells, which pre constantly had been no weariness, no languor should think lots of

she wanted to acquire. hor

recharged. she discouraged of love because of that long strain. would be after a Moated Grange" of not praising too much the thing for the company installs its own

She whispered into Beata's car They had gone to Italy and While they had spent more money thun mother from being tea, hopeful, as they followed the man across a they had calculated upon. Italy she was conscious of a great de- little corridor that he did walk not satisfied aire that they might have those fat-footed as a butler should: it and Austria had them, and for the time being, pleasant people for neighbours and was all just perfect. friends had stuck it cut, Ireland, fairy-tale, but fairy-tales some though a good many of their friends. Of course, it would be the changed Ireland, was no place times happened in real life, and those nice people did not look as for two lonely women. So they had made up their minds, or rather though they would be very unap

proachable. Beata had made up hers, that a

The chauffeur who drove them quiet few months in the country, from the King's Arms at Dunlo not too far distant from London,

She had had not driven any other appli- would be best for them. begun to write and to get publish cant.

So far they were in luck.

unchildish apprehension of the real sadness of her mother's life, and had grieved over it passionately.

ed. The Moated Grange Bounded "They comes and they goes," ideal for literary work. Mrs. de Burgh could go back to her garden- he said to Beata, who had taken ing, which she had learnt to love the steering wheel from him for during the years of her husband's bit. "It's a rare pretty place in illness, when it had been her way Summer, when the water-illies be I don't of getting air and a certain amount out all over the moat,

fancy it myself. Winter or Suramer. In hearing of the bell by the sick I'd like to be where I could see the man's bed which he rang when he pictures." 'needed her,

of exercise while remaining with

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sitories?"

"Or a great cat," Beata said in her own mind, and noticed that even on the polished floors of the corridor the man's tread was soundless He must have india rubber soles to his shoes.

The dining-room was low, brown and panelled, with a glint of china and glass in its wall-cupboards. Like the library, it struck chill, but that was to be expected in fireless rooms at this period of the

year.

Quick Alarms Needed.

OVER 200 TINS IN SACK.

A sack containing 200 taels of

recovered? prepared opium was from the water under the Tla Ching Wharf, at Tai Kok Taul early on Saturday morning, and, It long has been recognized in on the application of a Chinese police circles that armed robbers detective, before Mr. W. Schofield could efficiently be dealt with were at the Kowloon Magistracy this. the station but informed at the morning, the drug was ordered to time, instead, as sometimes is the be confiscated." case, several hours later. The In making the application, the gallant deeds tast month of Sgt. detective said that, acting on ir- Henton in West Hongkew and Sgt formation, he went to the Tin Read in Sinza, have proved this,Ching Wharf at 12.30 am. they say. By the method just des- cribed residents and shopkeeper will be able to inform them in mediately anything goes wrong.

LITERARY TREASURES

SOLD.

£2,000 PAID FOR LETTER

WRITTEN BY BURNS...

London, Dec. 16.

The drawing-room was equally charming with the other rooms. The white carpet, deep and soft, the heavy white curtains against the three long windows, the white walls, were relieved by the rose- colour of rugs and cushlons and "Are there pictures in Dunlo?" the loose covers of the chairs and At Liverpool Street, while they Beata asked, in some surprise, sofas, that looked thoroughly com- waited for their train, their eyes They had found Danio fast asleep fortable. Obviously the Moated

the shops shuttered, and a Grange was very old, but it had An autographed letter by Butan, were attracted to a little group of al three naval cadets and one very black cat curled about in the been modernised so far as com containing the song "My Love is charming lady. She Was ahcentre of the roadway. Their car, fort went, and modernised with Like a Red. Red Rose," was sold at thens they passed over the cobbles, care and taste. With fires on the Sotheby's to-day for £2,000 to 4, viously the mother of

terrible hearth' nothing could be more London dealer. tall boy,

be had seemed to make a who might

clatter.

of Rudyard Kipling's A copy charming. Everywhere there were eighteen, and was apparently

"Pictures? Two picture Jouses, precious bits of crystal, of china "Schoolboy Lyrics," which fetched very much in love with his beauti And a travellin' circus now and and glass. In the gilt panelling £700 at Sotheby's, is destinel for ful mother. The other two boys

the walls were oval water- America. were much younger, and to judge again. You should see Dunlo on e by their neat kit were travelling market-day. It is lively then. colour portraits of ladies. Above

Lots o' people about."

the fireplace a portrait dominated home for their Christmas holidays They had taken quité a time to the room. It was in oils, and by

Io let the cutrain fall over the with the older boy to look after

a lunch at the King's its vividness the water-colour Indies picture, and going to what seemed them.

Arns, and had waited afterwards looked faded. The charming lady was very

a part of the panciled wall he touch. The lady, leaning forward a freakish, to the intense joy of the for the car which was out. It was two little sailor boys, who rolled going to be darkish by the time little, with bunches of ringlets by something, and a dark space about in a highly hilarious fashion-hey arrived at the Moated Grange her ears and a long-waisted bluepened in the wall. while she chaffed her tall son Denta was sorry they could not see, satin Victorian frock, watched have suspected a door..

He held the lamp high, over, hin the house by daylight. Sheher, with bright roguish eyes that about his ties and socks, all the

head. little vanities of his wardrobe. It wanted so much to see the garden followed her wherever she moved:

"Lady Agatha's room," he cald. was subversive of all discipline, and the paddock and the lake and It was a living and speaking par- This yere's a bedroom. A very

surrounding country. The trait. the of course, but to the infatuated son lake sounded like Glen Assaroe "Sir Hilary's

grandmother," pretty room, but it do strike cold." the lovely mother could evidently

Yes: it did strike cold. Beata After all, when they arrived the said the man, folowing her gaze peeped in under the man's arm. do no wrong.

Beata drew her mother to ob-rain had ceased and a long streak and Sir Hilary himself."

of pale light in the Western sky. serve the incident in high delight. revealed the house, which was more curtain which covered a plettre on the dull glint of a looking glass on He whisked aside the little She saw what seemed to her a very pretty room Indeed, She caught "He will have to punch those imposing than they had expected. an easel. little boys' heads before he gets The house stood dark against a them back to the proper frame of pale sky behind. A double line of ed Mrs. de Burgh, as the picture bed. As the man moved the lamp "What a handsome man!" aigh a mahogany.dressing-fable, saw the chintz curtains. of a four-poster mind towards him if they are windows caught the watery gleam came in. view. going to be together next term," of the sun. At one corner of the

Sir Hilary had his grandmother's about she saw a big mahogany

procure

dark

One would not

wardrobe and deep comfortable

Bald Beata, who was an authority house was a small square tower. colouring, the grey eyes, on boys and their ways. All the They drove across

a bridge that lashed, the close dark hair, the airs. But she had no desire to

"A bit o'fire do make a lot of dif-

A little boys of the country side, bespanned the moat, under an arch fine distinguished features.

But explore further. The room was icy fore the calamity caught them and way, into a

cold, square courtyard. where her expression was guy, and dashed them to pieces or saved Perhaps there had once been a innocently roguish, her grandference," said the man, and there them only for future bitter disportcullis. At one corner a flight son's

Was pensive. His hand Illusionment, had been Tenta's of steps ascended to the house propped his cheek as he looked side-pressionless voice, as he closed the friends and adorers. She had been door. A wing facing them as they ways out of the picture.

happy mixture of the feminine entered WDA apparently the "Twere done," said the man-ser- girl and the girl who could do the kitchen wing.

vant, in his dull expressionless

things a boy could do as well or

even better than be.

The tall boy glanced at Benta as though he knew what she had said.

was a shade of apology in the ex-

door.

It was as though they had re-

Midsummer,

While they looked about them. voice, the year after Master Hugh, turned from the Arctic regions to light showed in the fanlight above were killed in the war. Her lady-

(To be continued.)

the hall-door; the door opened. A ship died that Midsummer.

man eervant stood against the back-

DA

Saturday last and after dredging the water under the pler, a sack attached to an anchor was re- covered. In this sack was the oplum, contained in 214 tins.

HARBOUR STRIKE IN CALCUTTA.

1,600 COOLIES DEMAND HIGHER WAGES.

Calcutio, Dec. 12, Fifteen hundred coolies employ. ed on the Calcutta Jetties, who went on strike during the week- end for higher wages have not! yet resumed.

Interviewed by the Associated Press, the Chairman of the Port Commissioners sald that he had no. fear that the strike would cause serious inconvenience.

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