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OUR NEW SERIAL

THE VANISHING VENGEANCE

By DOUGLAS NEWTON. Author of "Double Cround," "Low Ondlings,”

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. OTTO RIGG, an immensely' rich man, leader and 'master force of

"Green Ladion" đe,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WITNESS CHANGES,

NAME.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Outlining the defence, Mr. Jen kin submitted that ho had no caso to answer. Mr. E. D. Shank had admitted that, unless the sketch plans" were approved he would ave no warrant or authority to do the work for which he was claim Jug. Then he was not able to produce a written authority or sketch plan because the latter was Maker, who showed a decided re-lost. He hnd not called Lum, the luctance for going "home,

interpreter who was supposed to have interpreted regarding the plans, and had failed to bring prove of the sketch plans.

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With his wife away on a visit, and his house, therefore, empty of a band of five wealthy men kawan cave servants, perhaps he had as "The Old Consolidateds," the! other members being Hugo Shanty, excuse for clinging to company

at this critical time. Henry Maker, James Fedden and↑ However, he did go about nine SEWARD GAMLIN, whose sud-o'clock, and by half-pant nine even den death-whether by suicide or Ouo Rigg had exhausted all his murder-has strangely agitated

excuses for keeping her near him. I the other four, who appear to be

For all that he was watching her, in terror of

and when she locked up her little anilice and went out into the hall she felt it was not, niere capee that brought him out of his study door at exactly the same time: JOYCE ALLEYN, a' pour rela- "Ah, Joyce, child," he said, with tion and private secretary to Otto out a touch of feeling, Poir for a Rigg, whom she distrusts and fears. few minutes. quiet and rest at

CHAPTER VI. There was no doubt about it,

m off to my bedroom," she there was something underneath All this, and something that dis- "Ah, Fe, por girl, you've had turbed and frightened that group a most exacting day. Heat well, of rich friends known as the "Old

my dear." Consolidated:"

MARTIN STANNARD, absconding director of Consolidated Exploitations, who is rumoured to have returned,.

All the afternoon they were in conference in Otto Rigg's study, and the sound of their volcés in

'dicated that theff consultation was

one of anxiety.

Strouch, the agent, case, and was closeted with them; but it was apparent from the angry note that cmte out of the study that Stronch was not helping them, and that meant that he had not found Mar tla Stannard; the stranger,

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said.

If Joyce felt she was being a hypocrite, she also felt that hers was a mere nothing beside the cold and coning hypocrisy of Otto Rigg She went straight to her room, and turned the key in the lock with san unmistakable sound. She changed her clothes into a more serviceable walking rostune, and put a walking shoes.

She switched out the light, and, after a few minutes, stepped out on to the little baleriny outside her

It seemed more and more certain window, and gained the ground by to Joyce that this Martin Stan-mean of the steps that led to the nard was the stranger. The grey-rden. oyed man had shown an intimacy.

with Grevalayle, and particularly She did not go round by the front with Seward Gamlin' habits and of the house at all, but struck his house, which argued some length straight across Otto Rigg's estate of residence. And yet she had to a point where it brought hör never seen him shout Creethayle. out on the Common near the borders

Martin Stannard was in Green-of Huge Shanly's land.

The 1925 Interview.

His Lordship pointed out that there was the interview in March 1926 when the working plans were produced. He did not quite see how he could say there was no case for Mr. Jenkin to answer. He could not stop the case at that

juncture.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

CHEER 'O Y. M. C. A..

TO MOVE TO CITY HALL SHORTLY,

An Intimation has been asked by Mr. J. L. McPherson, Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Naval and Mill- tary Committee, that the City Hall Committee has made available to the Naval and Military Y. M. C. A. certain rooms at the City Hall and that the Cheer 'O Y.M.C.A. will be removed, to those rooms as soon as the necessary arrangementă can be made. The Committee of Management is asking the Ladies' Committee to continue its service, as now rendered, until the re- moval to the new premises, after which the following arrangement is considered desirable:

The entering for.meals and re- freshments will be placed in the hands of a compradore, who will be required to enter into a con- tract covering quality of goods and tariffs.

The Ladies' Committee will be naked if it will supply two or more Continuing with his outline of ladies daily from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. the defence Mr. Jenkin said sketch to take charge of the library and plans were admittedly important to give general supervision to the documents, and the defendant's premises, also to assist in arrang case was that they were not sub-ing and taking part in the social mitted to him by Lum The latter and entertainment programme of wás a friend of the defendant and the Association. This programme- had been for some years and by is still in the making and sugges- virtue of that friendship the de- tions will be welcomed. fendant was introduced to

The Naval and

Military Shank.

Y.M.C.A. Committee adds that it The defendant anid he wanted na deeply appreciative of all the single staircase for every two Indies have done at the Cheer 'O houses and called for a re-sub- Branch, believing that its un- mission of the plans. They were doubted success is largely due to never submitted to him and he saw thoir presence and effort no others.

Mr.

The next reference to plans was when the working plans were taken, round two months later by Lum." The defendant refused to have anything to do with them because he had not seen the re vised sketch plan......

His Lordship-When he saw the working plans he could whether attention had been paid to his desires?

Mr. JenkinQuite, My Lord. Defendant. Consistent. Continuing, counsel said that the

hayle, apparently, and had never She walked freely, feeling certain defendant had been consistent in been seen, and could not be found she was alone on this empty Com-that he had rejected the working accounts Bret. Halfway across,

charge and when the now, even by the cunning Stroach, mon at If the angry voices meant anything.owever, she.had a queer sensation were sent in had paid the conver-

ston charge but had refused' to- Joyce wondered whether he had that she was being followed..

the searched the "Dark House" and She wheeled about, but saw no-have anything to do with drawn blank. She wondered ifbody behind her. She listened and charge for the plans.

Defendant dented absolutely the she had made a mistake when she heard no sound. She went on

interview of March-1925 in which folt the stranger was going towards again, but the feeling persisted. the "Dark House" on the Common Again she put the matter to, the it was alleged there was some last night.

Last. Wheeling suddenly about on lalk of a reduction of fee. No doubt at all that this Martin the top of a rise, she turned sharp His Lordship pointed out that Stannard was the clue to this dis-eyes on the Common beneath, show-counsel had to face the issue tint turbance. In spite of Otto Rigg'sg bare and white" in the moon- Mr. Foster Turner and Mr. C. B. attempt to make her believe that light. She saw nothing. Her Shank spoke definitely of the inter- It was only Seward Gamlin who pursuer, if there was one, might was afraid of Stannard (for the Dave dropped into a hollow, but nun he had hinted at in his absurd she did not think so. She felt that story about a woman could be no her sudden turn would have caught other), she felt they were all afraid him napping, and revealed him.. of him.

So certain was she that she had They were all under threat from proved her nerves wrong that she him. They all wanted to find him went straight ahead, and, indeed, and deal with him. Yet they the feeling did not come back to all wanted to keep his name from her.

Soon she reached the police.

It was for this reason, obviously, would give her that Otto Rigg did, not want any practically all approaches to the difficulties about Seward Gamlin's "Dark House," which loomed up death to arise at the inquest. He spectral, and lightless beyond the did not wish to have Stannard's great angle of bushes and trees same brought to light,

dit made its, neglected grounds.

It was for this reason, too, that Otto Rigg had misled the pressman about Seward Gamlin's gift to the Public Trustee. He did not want that gift to be connected with the suicide, for if it was it would force

A point that command of

It was a desolate and lonely spot, fit place for hiding, Joyce thought, but not a good place to live in. As she sat and waited, Joyce speculated upon the reasons for Mr. Sandes living there.

the police to examine the matter

She knew Mrs. Sondes by sight, more deeply and disclose the name one knew every one in Green- of Stannard.

nayle. She was a slim, dignified Always Stannard the mysterious, woman of about fifty-five, who still the hidden, came up as the signi- retained a great deal of whit once ficant figure behind this mystery,st have been considerable beauty Who was Stanaard? What was his and individuality. Meaning? Where was he?

the nume.

Joyce had been able to observe Joyee had no means of answering is neeldentally one day in a shop, these questions. Otto Rigg and or Mra, Sondes usually went about his companions would tell her very heavily veiled, us, if she did nothing, und, indeed, she felt no couri recognition. that there might be danger to her-f And her manner fitted in too. self even to show that she knew Mrs. Sondes, for all her year and mord of residence in Greenhayle, But such was Jayce's anxiety was an unknown quantity. She about this matter, such was her keenness to clear it up, and prove that she was not, after all, an accessory to some terrible crime the netusi murder of Seward Gamlin, in fact that she deter mined to find out what she could for herself.

view. They gave details of it and there could be no mistake about it one way or the other.

Lord.

Mr. Jenkin:--None whatever, my,

The case is proceeding,

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

Here is the solution to the puzzle on another page.

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too long, and that, having missed the stranger, there was no use in her waiting.

She had just decided that it was hopeless to expect him when, look- ing up in a direction she had rather never mixed in the social life of neglected, that is in the direction idenhayle, never spoke to the in- that led to Henry Maker's house, habitants. Indeed, she, kept them she saw the stranger coming.

arm's length. Mrs. Sondes, in She watched the easy-striding ct, was a mystery.

figure coming towards her, and her

Joyce thought much of her with-heart began to beat rapidly. There aut finding any solution, and her was no mistake about that well- thoughts were presently distracted set-up body or the quick cleannESS She resolved to discover they be sound of a motorcar travel- of the movement. He came, nearer stranger herself, speak with him,ing furiously in the distance. She and nearer, moving lithely, and

istened to it intently, wondering apparently with get the truth from him.

Directly she thought of that she whether It was coming cross the jubilation and no sense of fear

Common; but it 'tore away from whatever.

!

felt easier. It was not; after B, a matter of immense dialty. She, anyhow, did know something about the stranger who was ap parently Martin Stannard.

She knew that he went out by night. She guessed that be retuer ed to some hiding place near the Common, and that he took the road by the "Dark House" to reach it. She would wait for him by that! road.

It was not easy to get away Otto Rigg, she felt, purposely kept her in the house, as though he wish-

Bome sense

of

her direction, and presently its roar It was not until he was close to dwindled along the London-road, her that she sprang up and con- making for town, she thought.

fronted him.

She would not have noticed it but She expected him to start a little, for the remarkable speed it was and ire did-but very little. The making, and also from the fact loan purposeful face and the steady, that it seemed to have started out grey eyes were Indicative of a omewhere from the neighbourhood character not easily thrown off, its of Henry Maker's house.

balance. And that character show-

"It's almost," she mused, "as If ed. Henry's never powerful nerve.had A deelded pause. Then: "The racked under the strain and lie had little lady of last night," he said,

with a half laugh. decided to bolt from his worries."

It was an amusing thought, be- "Yes," she answered, and she ed to keep her well under observa-cause she did not like Henry Maker would have said more, but there tion, at least until the inquest, and his jovial pomposities. He was suddenly the rush of heavy which had been fixed for the next vas just the type of man one liked feet across the turf. A thick-set day, and its deciding verdict, see jolted out of his self-com-body hurled itself towards them;

placency.

a torch flashed out full.on the face silenced her.

But ovon her amusement did not of the stranger, and— He was nided, perhaps con all out all the time, she had to walt, "Martin Stannard, by heavens!" sciously or unconsciously, by his

and presently it began to by cer shouted the excited volco of Streach. companions, particularly Henry lain to her that she had been here

(To be continued.)

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