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OUR SERIAL STO V

THE MOATED GRANGE:

By KATHARINE TYNAN.

·Author of “ A Mind Marriage," "The House of Doom," "Danys the Dreamer."

MRS. DE BÚRGH, an Irish widow, BEATA, her daughter, a young

novelist.

CRONCH, the sinister caretaker of the Moated Grange, let to the de Burghs,

MRS. CRONCH, his wife. ANTHONY NAPIER, a young

leave any letters they wanted to post in the basket on the hall table, Clench would see to their being posted.

.

Having finished with the lamp sha kust and attended to the fire, van.ch did not really need attention.

was as though she liked to stay. when she had got to her feet again

officer whom Beata and her mother have met in London.he stood a little in the background, DASH, a half-blind dog.

aking in a slow, monotonous voice. Would the ladies tell her of any- thing they needed to make them They would more eomfortable?.

CHAPTER VIL

The house was bright and warm

: enough to dispel any vapours. The

drawing-room was beautiful in theke hot bottles in their beds? And firelight. Cronch brought them tea morning cup of tea? When did and suggested a lamp, but they re jected the idea, saying they would sit in the firelight for a time, and he went away soft-footed, closing the door behind him.

A

me.

window

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

HOME RUGBY.

SOME LATE RESULTS.

London, Dec. 24.**. The weather "turned moist and warm to-day after the recent frosts and football in consequence was in no way hampered. The chief re- suits under the Rugby code were as follows:

Blackheath 9, Devonport Ser-

vices 0.

Swansea 36, Watsonians 3. Richmond 11, Fettes 18. Edinburgh Acads. 19, Lon. Scots

5.

Northampton 26, Old Blues, Bristol 26, Plymouth 5. Soccer: Corinthians 11, Northern

Nomads 3.

POOR RACE ENTRIES.

LINCOLNSHIRE AND COLD

CUP.

London, Dec. 24.

After

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

SHANGHAI DEATH SENTENCES.

FIVE AT ONE COURT

SESSION.

NEW RECORD 'REACHED.

SHANGHAI TOPICS.

(Continued from Page 7.).

Shanghai, aside from enjoying the somewhat unenviable distinc tion of possessing the longest bar in the world, is also blessed with scores of athletic clubs embracing every form of sport. The advent In the Provisional Court at of the greyhounds adds one more Shanghai last Thursday, Judge outdoor pastime to the long list of Wan, with whom sat Mr. C. E. recreations with which the jaded- Whitamore, Senior Consul's DeShanghailander is wont to beguile puty, established a record in pass the shining hour when he is not ing the death sentence, when he consuming liquor in club bars. Small wonder that the coming of ordered that five members of a gang should be handed over to the the canines has been heralded with Chinese authorities to be executed. anticipatory delights usually asso-

This number was exceeded by cinted with a new thrill. old Mixed Court officials; but dur ing the year that the Provisional Court has functioned, it has not been equalled. Several of the vanz had committed three crimes, the punishment for each of which is death.

Conduit, who conducted the pro- secation. Detectives attached to Louza police station arrested the vang on October 2, within a week from the time they committed the murder.

The Provisional Court at that Fur- time ordered their remand. ther investigations showed that between August 11 and October 2, they had taken part in 17 crimes of violence, the proceeds of which anunted to $15,000.

Despite the appeal made to the public by Major Duncan Campbell, who has arrived from Flome to tako Association up the position of general manager of the Greyhound (China) Ltd., not to crowd the dogs on their arrival th view of the try- ing voyage through the troples and the sudden transition of the animals into a cold climate, there was a fair- ly large muster of curious specta- tors at the wharfside when the dogs were landed from the steamer Glenogle.

The Chinese, who are such re- doubtable supporters of the turf in connexion with pony racing, are taking a particular interest in the latest venture and are awaiting with a sense of lively anticipation the time when the dogs are put into training, so as to equip them for the task of chasing their mechanical hare which will arrive in the latter quarry in the shape of the electric nart of January on hoard the Glen Lire steamer Glenamoy together with the requisite mechanism which resources of the fleet-footed onès. is enlgulated to tax all the physical.

The hounds will race as griffins and will be drawn for in due course by intending owners.

Traffic Triale.

In prosecuting the man, Inspr. Conduit pointed out that the gang As suggested in a cable dispatch- were wealthy, and had, informersed by your correspondent the other who led them to houses where day, the prolonged tramear strike age sums of money and jewellery has come to an end, and the streets were kept. The Court also order of the city are again reverberating: ed the confiscation of a pistol, 99 with the rear and clamor of clang- rounds of ammunition, and about ing bells, $370 which were found when the gang, were arrested.

'Shroff's Murder. The immediate charge of which The entries for the Spring rac-they were found guilty referred to they like their bath? If the younging handicaps are weak. There are their murder of Mr S. H, Har suty had any bits of washing to do only 45 noted for the Lincolnshire doon's shroff, the attempted mur

he would be pleased to do them none of which are French, and 26 der of the two watchmen, and the Or mending." Mrs. Cronen had for the Ascot Gold Cup, 4 of which theft of $2,000 on September 26, pleny of time, apparently. While

are French,

1027. At

hearings previous They sat by the fire enjoying she talked she stared at Benta as

evidence had been adven by eye. their tea, which was China. The though she could not take her eyes.

witnesses to the murder and state little silver jug af cream reminded if the girl's face;

Suddenly she broke out on a must be a fire there. How lavishments to the Court by Det.-Inspr., them of Glen Assurot. Mrs: Cronch sent them in delicious little tea-bumin note. It was good to have they were with fires at the Moated She Grange! They had found fires in enkes, very short and crip. with somente in the house 'again. real country butter. The blinds never was "used to the country, their bedrooms when they came and were drawn down over the windows, Cranch, was no company. He had full scuttles by the hearts with but the croaking of the frogs came nothing to say for himself. He tightly packed wood-baskets. They in so clearly that it was apparent aidu' even read her scraps out of had certainly been fortunate in com-

was open. The fire the paper. Murders and fires ing to all this generosity. burnt up briskly enough to send all and a dents, or such-like, what the plentiful life at Glen Assaroe the shadows packing into distant she was ways used to. She could it had seemed strange to have to corners of the room and round the not read herself. Something wrong buy everything they needed. She screen that stood by the door, with her glasses, she supposed: remembered and smiled over the beautiful screen of fretted and there was something came between memory of Bridget, who had as companied them to the first littls earved Moorish work lined with aher and the print.. wonderful pink broende.

"Oh," said Beatii, joyfully, “I will suburban house they bad occupied "I shall fetch my knitting," said come and read the murders to you, after the great spaces of Glen As- Bridget had a way of break- I always read the sarce. Benta, when they had finished tea, Mrs. Crouch.

and while I krit you shall play to papers to the servants at home on ing in unon them in the drawing

Were you not up-lifted, dar-Sunday afternoon. It will be like room with such exclamations ns:

"Parsley! Two pennies for pars. ling, to find a grand piano? It was old times for me."

"I will be Hike Eving to me to ley-Glory be to God! Wouldn't really a good bit of luck; don't you think?"

hear your voice, miss." said Mrs. the people be slingin' it at you in

Ireland ?" "I hope it lan't spoilt with the Crench, solemnly.

She pushed open the doar. Yes, damp here," here mother replied. She went towards the door and

it was firelight, that sweet and plea- "If it is not, it is going to be a came back again. great joy very great joy, in- I've had lonesome times in thissant light, which was flickering on "What with wall and ceiling. The room looked hours," she said.

40 Await Execution. deed."

When Beata was upstairs looking Crouch comin' up behind you so soft very pleasant a low, white room,

In this connexion it is interest for her knitting, which Mrs. Cronch you'd never hear him till he come, with watercolours in gilt frames had put away tidily in the bedroom, makin' you 'oller, and that there hanging on the walls. A pink ear-ing to note that there are 40 men which was lit only by the moon- dog that's for ever sighin' an' pet and pink and white chintzes in the Municipal Gaol, awaiting light, she heard her mother begin groanin' over the dead. It ain't any Brightly polished furniture which execution.

this this yere Moated relected the firelight, china in cup-

The Provisional Court on Thurs. to play. It was something of catch Grieg's, delicate moonlight. Grange, nnt at least for a woman boards, quantities of china more day also sentenced four men to Somewhere the moon must like me accustomed to London. fitted to a sitting-roum than a bed-12 years' imprisonment each, on be shining like that, pure and ranch he don't seem to mind. He room, showing its gilt and coloured charges of extortion, they having a little cold. Even now the mist were an old gentleman's servant surfaces through the glass doors of demanded $50,000 from a wealthy outalde was suffused by It. The and travelled all over the world with the cabinets.

The room was icy cold, When it Chinese. Detectives from Louza mista were always there, sho. sup-him, so now is ready to settle. He's

He never ought to have been cosy and warm station, commanded by Det-Inapr. bus.

Conduit, arrested them on October posed, from the stagnant waters of travelled man, Cronch. the moat and from the lake.

will call France abroad. But he's No wonder she had felt the chill, B. They were remanded for in- There, hesitting cosily by her drawing-room vestigation, and sentence' was- Her window looked towards the contented, and I'm not. lake. She stood au instant gazing wouldn't thank me for settin' you fire. Yet she did not see where it

The charges The windows-passed yesterday. that way. The mist wavered as again' the place. But I doubt ye'll could come from. though a light wind had sprung up. stay. It's croolty for a young thing latticed windows--were fastened be against two members of the gang For a moment she almost thought like you, miss, this yere desolit hind-their drawn curtains of the were dismissed.

rosy chintz. The cold seemed to Pavil Greberekoff, 16 Broadway she saw the shape of a woman in spot." it; but, of course, it was only the? "I'm coming to make friends with come from the walls and the floor. Terrace, who was found guilty of She glanced at the bed which attempted larceny of a motor horn. Dash while my mother writes her She found the rainbow silk she letter," said Beata, jumping up looked comfortably soft in the fire-in Wongknshaw Gardens, was knitting into a jumper and "You must let me cone and read the light, and wondered if anyone ever sentenced to 40 days' imprison- went downstairs, congratulating papers to you often, when Cronch slept there. Odd, that chilliness! herself that they were at the Moat-is out. There are plenty of things And yet the room did not seem ed Grange and not in London. Atjwe can. de together. You must damp; althe polished surfaces least the mist was clean here. Lon-trath me some cooking. You won't shone the furniture, the china, the don would be strangling in fog, ind it lonely with me, 1 promise steel fro-irona and the brass jambs of the fireplace. It was mysterious. She had lald aside a number of you. small things grimed by the London "My! you do talk lovely but I She hoped she had not taken a chill. There was something like an illu- atmosphere, which she was going warn you, that dog's savage, miss," to wash. She loved a bit of manual Mrs. Crunch said, solemnly. If heminated scroll above the fireplace. work now and again as a relief was goin' to attack you I couldn't She went over to it, lighting a can- He hevdle to read it: "Lady Agatha's son It would be so interfere if it was ever so. from the writing.

prays his descendants that

this satisfactory to wash the soiled a broken heart, that dog."

"C poor darling, said "Beata, room that was hers be kept as far things, such a reward to see the

dreadful! black water after the first washing "how

Why has as possible as she left it." und the pretty things gradually re- he a broken heart, Mrs. Cranch?"

"Twere his lady were drown- gaining their colour as she rinsed them in many waters.

'mist.

as

She went back to the drawing ded," said Mrs. Crouch, in a hollow room, closing to the door carefully. She ran downstairs briskly. The voice, let alone Muster, Hugh, He She wondered if the room had been mist came into the house, making were Master Hugh's dog first, as cold in Lady Agatha's day. Prob it cold. The rooms had been very"Twould give you the creeps so cold, but with the fires they were going to keep, The, chill would be routed.

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SNAKE FIGHT IN MID-AIR.

THRILLING FLYING

ADVENTURE,

was

Rangoon, Jan. 3. The occupants of the "Red Rose" had an exciting adventure with a after anake in mid-air shortly leaving Rangoon yesterday.

Those who rely on the tramcar sa their principal vehicle of convey- ance to and from office are intensely relieved at the termination of this senseless strike and have heaved a sigh of merciful release from the disagreeable experience of being converted into a human sardine in overcrowded buses on the rear plat, foral of which it was not uncom men, at the height of the strike, to see no fewer than forty persons, with fully twice or three times that number jammed in the body of the

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For the

The scandalous situation implied by the conditions above described is for the time being over. happy owners of motor cars, the temporary disappearance of the

tramcars from the streets of the Settlement was in the nature of a genuine relief since it removed their

main source of traffic obstruction, but for the legitimate users of the trams it was a most serious matter and subjected them to a degree of misery and inconvenience that only they themselves, could really appre clate.

Paris-Under the heart of Paris.

The question that naturally arises is whether the public are to be sub- jected, some time in the near or dis- tant future, to the whims or caprice of the tramway operatives as the mood seizures them," It is being urged upon the officials of the Tramway Company that they should utilise the present. breathing spell in building up the nucleus of a small though compact force of operatives on whose loyalty and devotion, in the event of a future dislocation of the service, they can place absolute A brown snake appeared beneath reliance, and it is understood that ably the water ran under Lady would, to see him a-goin to look Agatha's room; she noticed that Mrs. Keith Miller's seat and Cap-steps to that end are being taken. for her, hopeful-like, now and again some of the rooms with the latticed tain Lancaster tried to kill it by windows projected over the mout. stamping on it. He missed, how- and comin' back cast. down as

That would be the explanation. ever, and the snake wriggled fur- though he remember won't The room was kept from damp by ther into the cockpit. Mrs. Miller, are mysterious caverns, and tunnels The drawing-room was rosy in ro for, walks with Cronch. He's constant fires, but the chill ascend-most valm, took out a control lever long forgotten even by historians firelight. "Mr. de Burgh, at the too haughty that dog. Looks nt

and killed the reptile with it. until the other day, when workmen piano, lifted her hands ay Beato im ne much as to arsk him whated and had enveloped it.

Something came into her hend

were excavating for a new hotel. came in and struck the final chord. he has to go orderin' him. Sir

The machine was landed on the The caverna as she threw another jog on to the

once were stone Again Beata had the illusion of idary thinks the world o' that dog; drawing-room fire and a dame ran beach at Maunmagan where, they quarries and the openings long

standing behind

He can't her though he's left him.

since have been filled up. The new mother. She looked again: there help it neither. He just couldn't up the side and licked it with a spent the night.-Reuter

hotel will use one of them for its was no one there. It had been only side at where her Ladyship 'n purring noise and a resinous smell. It was the memory of a lively

wine cellar..: an effect of the shadow and the Master Hugh was gone out of." feminine voice in the drawing-room firelight.

Uh, poor man and poor dog! It of an old stone Keep in Ireland, Ring for the lamp, please, counds a sad story," said Mrs. de which made the centre of a big Teata, Mra. de Burgh said. "Burgh. looking up from the pad must write grime ictlers. I have upon which she was writing. "We "Is it ghosts the volcd was to thank our friend Mr. Napier for must try to win him, durling, But his wonderful kindness the other do be careful, in case he's a little ying. We have three-inore

than our share. One IN On the way from Rangoon to day, and return the money he so morose." kindly lent us."

"I'm not the kind of fool who the Clammy Hand laid on your face Tavoy, where the aeroplane has now in sleep. That is not a nice ghost. arrived, Captain Lancaster noticed "Yes, do, mumaie." Beata had rushes upon a dog without knowing A visitor of ours stretched his hand a snake in his cockpit. He was un- a sudden inexplicable feeling of him," said Beata, and went out for the matches in the darkness. able to leave the control. The warm touch with the outer world. wit Mrs. Cronch.

The box one put into his hand. snake glided into Mrs. Miller's cock- After all, the Mcated Grange way a Mrs. de Burgh wrote her letter He said he didn't mind the Clammy pit behind the pilot. "Mra. Miller, little remote. It was nice to think to Anthony Napler. He was an Hand, but he couldn't stand that. after a struggle, succeeded in bat- of pleasant people not too far away. Irish Guardsman-Captain Perhaps Anthony Napier might thony Napier, M.C. and D.3.0. He We don't use that room any longer. tering the snake to death.

Another is the Blue 'Gentleman.

someone

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house.

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Another Version.

It

London.

Mrs. Keith Miller, who is flying! to Australia with Captain Lancas- ter, has had an extraordinary ad- venture with a snake,

It is believed that the reptile'en--

come sometimes to these parts, must have done well to get his com. Larry Fairfax met him on the though his card bore only the ad-pany so young, He could hardly stairs one dark day before Christ- tered the machine while the latter dress, "Naval and Military Club, be more than twenty five. Piccadilly. He was a soldier, of She wrote one or two other let-mas ns he was coming down for an stood on the Rangoon racecourse

early breakfast. The meet was the British Wireless. course; he could have been nothing ters. Beata had not returned. other side of the county. Said.. else. In his mufti tall and fairy he When she had finished writing she Larry that evening: What a toff" had betrayed the goldler.

laid down her pad on the table your new footman is! I didn't

Nome.-Mount McKinley Na- Mrs. de Burgh rang and Mrs. which Beata had brought for her think they dressed them like that tional Park has saved big game in Cronch brought the lamp. As she and stretched her hands to the fire. nowadays. The third is just an Alaska. Caribou, sheep, moose and Bet it down and turned up the Beat There was a chilly air coming from old lady in grey, who creeps about deer seem to have learned that the the shadows left the room: it was somewhere, the open window pre- and does no one any harm. She park is an absolute game. sanctuary all softly bright. She apologised, sumably or was the door into the is an ancestress. I don't know why and is a safe breeding ground. saying that Cronch had taken some room Cronch had called Lady she walks, poor soul!".".

Those that wander out of the limits letters to the post. It was a good Agala's Room ajar? She went Lady Fitz Ulick was a woman of may be killed by hunters, who re- mile and three-quarters to the road towards the door to see. It was a very lively imagination. where the box was that was cleared slightly ajar, and a flickering light every evening. If the ladies would was visible through the slit there

⚫ (To be continued.)

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