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THE METAL BOX

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By THOMAS COBB.

(Author of ¦ Faist Pretoness," Mrs. Pomeroy's Reputation, decif

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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FINAL RUNS OF "THE CIRCUS."

SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1928.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

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Sir, I wish to express to all who, aince my dear husband's unexpected death, have shown in so many ways their respect and affection for him, and their deep sympathy with my family and me, my very grateful thanks.

Pictures showing for the last time to-day are Charlie Chaplin's latest comedy, "The Circus," at the Queen's, "Drusilla with a Million" at the World, and "The Little Irish Girl at the Star. "The Circus," which has been running since Sun- day, has drawn record houses, a fact which proves that Caplin is as Charlie plays popular as over. the part of a wandering tramp who is mixed up in a series of hilarious It would be impossible to en- adventures, chases, arguments and lighten the Inspector without drag-ovations that land him into the not hope to reply to them all just ging in Theresa's name. At pro circus a handyman, Merns now. sent he was trying to believe that Kennedy, who is his leading lady the affair was still in the melting has never before appeared on the not. On leaving Treadwell Man-creen, and docs splendid work as sion last Tuesday he had been con- the daughter of the circus vinced that she and her confederato were a pair of crooks, but now his hopes had been to a certain degree revived by Monica Railton.

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They have filled me with a sense of pride, in the love which my husband was able to inspire in fellow countrymen and women, which lightens the burden of my grief as nothing else could do..

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FOSTER MARKWELL. who traveis periodfently as ship's doctor admires THERESA meets and FEVERSHAM, niece of an Ameri- can millionaire newspaper pro- prietor. MISS CROOM, without telling him of the contents, asks Foster, her nephew, to take charge of a metal box containing precious Jowels. A few days later she is

Even though Theresa was as bad murdered. Theresa's attitude to- wards Foster changes guddenly, as he had imagined at the worst, and she is obviously "shing" for even though she had been cognisant Information about the jewels. She of his aunt's murder, even an ac- persuades him to bring the box to cessory before the fact (to make her fint, where he is ordered, at the fan extreme and inconceivable pro point of a revolver, to surrender it position) Foster would not. move a to a smart, red-headed young man, finger to bring her to justies. On It, however, contains no jewels, contrary, he would do anything they being safely deposited in the in his power to save her. bank. Foster receives a visit from If he were to tell Inspector Pow MONICA RAILTON, a young what had happened at her flat, no friend of Miss Croom. She tells doubt both she and the red headed him of a man named Hillyard who man might be arrested and that wan at one time n lover of Miss must not on any account ba risked. Croom's, and whom Miss Croom metaker, at least to restore the geme again about two years before her to their lawful. owner, Foster set death. One night he sent the box forth on Monday morning to Little to her, asking that she should keep Oakham Street, and on inquiring it until he asked for it, giving it to of a stout woman with a black eye who was leaning against the palings outside Number 19, he learnt that Redpath had just gone out.

Making up his mind to return She certainly had! He had counted on the frensure as his own later in the day, Foster walked whereas now he knew that he lindway, remembering that he had a luncheon engagement at Whitehall no claim to it. He stood precisely

"Two Arabian Knights," where he had done before he heard Court, with some people whom he of the existence of the confounded had met aboard the "Exerin." It

"Two Arabian Knights," which

The honour paid to the life and box. He wished he had never seen was on leaving the building at half it. The important question, how-past three that he met with another will be screened at the Queen's character of my dear husband by ever, was this: How did Monien surprise. Walking along Northum Theatre on Wednesday next by the clergy and ministers of the amusing Churches, and especially by those Railton's revelation affect Theresa?berland Avenue, he suddenly came general request, is an

Was it conceivable that in some to a standstill outside the Capital comedy of two goldiers who escape who officiated at the funeral services.

war prison camp and in London and in Scotland, have mysterious way she had learnt the Hatch In one of the large wicker from a gems had been stolen? If so, would chairs in the entrance hall, the only eventually land in Arabia. The touched and comforted me. It was it not show her conduct in an en-one that was occupied at the leading roles are filled by Louis by his expressed wish that my hus- tirely different aspect? In that moment, sat. Theresa, gazing at the Wolheim, who played the original hand has been laid to rest in Scot THREE-EYED MONSTER.

part of Captain Fingg in "Whattish soil, close to the home of his event, also, his own story of his passers-by.

His wish alone was my Foster walked on again, stopped Price Glory" as a stag play, William fathers. grandfather must have appeared as a barefaced invention, and while he the next instant, and raised his Boyd, a popular screen star, and reason for refusing on his behalf- was eriticising her so severely, she hat. He could not resist the temp- Mary Astor, who played opposite the great honour of burial in St. FOSSIL A HUNDRED MILLION very descriptions transarted.

Paul's Cathedral. I feel that no Lation to speak, especially since Douglas Fairbanka in "Don Q," believed he was lying.

he had fatened to Monica Railton.

one who knew his love. for the land Miss Railton was a persistent As he stood before her chair, she had time to reply, however, he that bore him will grudge him the A new specimen of a prehistorie young woman. She had no inten- she learned back, with only the noticed an expression of consterna-realisation of his desire. tion to let Foster off till she had faintest sign of embarrassment, ton on her face as she started to hers of the Press for their aftidies Natural History Museum.

I am most grateful to the mem-beast has been acquired by the hoard the full account of his con- and looked up into his face,.

her feet. Following the direction nexion with the jewels and by dint

"Dr. Markwell," she said, "I hate of her eyes, he saw a man of middle and memoirs, and also for their con- A workman's pick recently turn- of eager questions, she soon master-you!" But still she smiled. ed all the details, including his on- "Are you staying here?" he ask-age in the act of paying the driver sideration towards myself in this ed up a three-eyed Plesiosaurus in counter at Trendwell Mansions, fed, taking no notice of her assertion down outside the hotel.,

the Red Triangle Quarries at Har- of a taxi, which had just set him time of grief.

My husband's personal friends

bury, Warwickshire. Professor the visit of the red-haired young

"For my sins," she retorted. A noticeably short man with a and mine will not need any assurw. E. Swinton, of the Department man to Baynton Crescent,

"I understood you had taken the slender, compact figure and ance from me to convince them of "He couldn't have been Mr. Hill-Ant at Chelsea for three months."shoulders which only an American my gratitude for their sympathy in of Geology at the Natural History nONGKONG OFFIOD: 11, QUEEN'S BOAD,

Museum, is now, examining the "Well, I had," she explained. tailor or congenital deformity could a sorrow which they share. "But uncle Elins took me by sur- have made so high. There seemed those who sent wreaths and flow-timated at between 100,000,000 and

Finally, I thank from my heart new find, the age of which is es Authorised Dapital Guliders IEC,600.098 prise on Saturday. He insisted something exotic about his grey the place was not fit to live in and morning cont and his felt hat, about ers and all members of the 200,000,000 years.

"The Red Triangle Plesiosaurus dragged me away there and then." bis gluten, allow face, with dine, general public who in London,

Foster, as he looked down at her

a remarkably Edinburgh and elsewhere met to- the old man who brought it to bewitching face, wondered whether regular features and a remarked gether to honour my husband. is a rare example," said Professor Banton Craunt is the hot but she was telling the truth. This the revolving door, Theresa rested Particularly do I thank them for Swinton, "in that the head was at- Then I might learn something about judgment was in suspense con

a hand imploringly on Foster's arm, having chosen as emblem of their tached. Generally the head is BRANCHE-Dandfarmasin. its owner."

cerning her and he had persuaded "That oughtn't to be very dif-Himself that she had no connexion think I deserve it, she entreated. Poppy which is

"Do be good, though you mayn't mourning that same Flanders missing from auch finds. One sacred to the theory in that raving Dinosaura, ficult," Monica surprised him with Elias Faversham,

old comrades who were carnivorous but rather Haying. It must have been about possible she had taken the flat for felt bewildered as

Was it "Please, don't give me away." He memory of those

stupid hunters, used to eat, dead two months after I left Miss his special benefit, and that nowUncle Elias, this is Dr. Markwell,

she continued, whose ranks he has re-joined.

To the members of the British or dying saurians they found, and Croom's. I went to see her one there was some other nefarious He was the doctor on board the Legion would give, besides my generally detached and lost the Sunday and she shower! ma a beg scheme on

hand? Or had he Egerin, you know. Mr. Elins thanks, a message which is in truth heads. ging letter, signed W. Redpath, wronged her from first to last?

my husband's message, for by it he

The Plesiosaurus' head is He said his daughter was paralysed,

Foster had An and starving. Though Miss Croom

suspicion that he was looking like

unpleasant lived and died.

Carry on with the work of the triangular, and has a third eye on was one of the kindest women in the

a fool. He was taken at a disad- Legion. Hold fast to the objectives top of the skull. The vestige of world," Monica continued, "the

He had made up his mind embodied in its Charter. The work this remains in man in the form of hated to be imposed upon, and 1

not yet ended... the pineal gland. offered to investigate."

that her relationship to Elias so well begun is

"When this fossil was found the false name, but husband, secking till life's very end head was stained red. So well she had given a here stood the man, looking his part the ideals he sought to leach.

May his memory inspire us to preserved is the fossil that It has and holding out his small hand with

follow his example and to cherish as all its teeth. It is sixteen feet great cordiality.. #

"Doctor," he said, "I am very faithfully as he did the same simple, long, an unusual size, for the ma- true and honest virtues-good will, jority found have been only six pleased to meet you."

good fellowship, good citizenship, feet long. loyalty to King and Country, pat- riotism, pride in the high traditions of our race and land, and above all, comradeship Yours, etc.

DOROTHY HAIG..

yard," Monica insisted. "Of course

he was much older, and besides, Miss Croom would have given him

his box at once."

"Anyhow," said Foster, "what 1

want to do is le get into touch with

"I sincerely hoped I should never see you again," she added, "but as we were doomed to meet, I feel bound to congratulate you."

Ieversham."

vantage.

!

Foster could imagine that she valuable possession in the world Feveraham was an invention, that Carry it on stendfastly as did my..

"What about?" asked Foster. "Isn't a sense of humour the most she continued. "Yours must be so wonderfully developed! How you

was fond of putting her finger into other persons' pies.

"The address," she said, "was 19,

must have enjoyed--the joke, 1 Little Oakham Street, Lisson Grove. A terribly squalid place. Mr. Red-suppose you would call it, the other path came down from the top of the ring. 1 could almost hear you house, and I recognised him as Mr. laughing, as you thought of our

opening that detestable box."

Hillyard's messenger at once, "Still," urged Foster, "there was "Oh! the loss of your shoe trees,

a serious side...”

"Are you making a long visit?" asked Foster, feeling that Theresa was anxiously watching him. though he didn't know me.. When

"Well, that's on the knees of Miss Croom heard who he was, she

the gods," answered Mr. Fevers sent him a pound note at once, and if you go to Little Oakham Street, By the by they are lying about hums. "But, anyhow, I hope. I It's possible you may be able to? Somewhere at the flat, if you would shun't have to go back till you've

trace him, or he may be living in the same house' still,

"I'll have a shot at it, anyhow," answered Foster promptly,

That

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"The Plesiosaurus, which be- longs to the lizard family, lived on fish. It has a long neck, short tall, and four paddles. This,

Alexandria specimen, which was dug out of Batavia bed of lower lias clay, was lying Bombay on Its stomach. It may have died em when England was at the bottom canton Mana

Changasan Nagmaald of the sea, or when it formed a seashore on

Daire (Delay) Nagoya which the reptile tien

(Molded) crawled out to die."

Hambary Hankow

That I was a pretty considerable

Theresa looked imploringly into ans," Foster interrupted.

his face again but he shook his head "Goodness only knows what you with a slight smile. As she was "Of course," suggested Monica, must think of me," she murmured, indubitably. Mr. Feversham's niece, "If Mr. Hillyard really went to still reclining in the chair, while he why in the world had the mixed America, he may have met your stood looking down into her slightly herself Miss

Faversham

up with the conspiracy? thero.

Ayr. United are now right away flushed face. "But something en-For whatever the ultimate motive would explain a great deal."

tirely wrong" she added, "Well," said Foster, as she reso

had been, whether to restore some- the footpath on to the road, saying: with the Second Division Scottish' from her chair, "there's a good deal better than to be convinced of that," came more difficult than ever to un- there."

"Nothing on earth would be boy's stolen property or not, it be "If you want to talk, talk out League championship being nine When I asked what his points ahead of their nearest that requires explanation We Foster protested,

derstand what she had been doing authority was he said: "This side-rivals. shall see what I can discover at "How patronising," she cried. In that gallery. There remained walk is military land."

I and my friend then went to the road as order-

Little Oakham Street."

"I shall be tremendously curious to hear," answered Monica, "but there's no doubt about one thing, Dr. Markwell."

"What is that?" he asked. "You ought to go to Scotland Yard at once. You should not lose a moment. If you don't mind my saying so, you ought to have gone before."

CHAPTER X.

"But I deserve it. I am not even something to be cleared up, the going to attempt an explanation sooner the better, and he had no on for one reason, you wouldn't be mind to refuse the invitation. dered, but I would like to lieve me, any more than 1 belloved

Thank you very much," said Inquire, Sir, whether this public your ingenious story of the Indian Foster, bringing a 'frown to footpath on a public street is really grandfather."

Theresa's face.

military land and whether this "So gind," she murmured. "I soldier was empowered to order us will write to name an evening-on to the road.

"You have me there," he admitted "Still, I hadn't a doubt of its truth at the time."

"Have you now?" she demanded, sitting more upright.

"Great Scott"" cried Mr. Fevers- I should mention that there were

A CHINESE Hongkong, Mar. 9th, 1928.

ham. "Can't you name it now?" no other people standing there at "I really must look through my the time, and there was, therefore, "Yes, I've become wiser since." engagements," she said sweetly, but no question of obstruction. "How?" she said.

Foster went away a quarter of an-Yours, etc., A SURPRISE VISIT.

After their last interview it seem-hour later without the slightest ex- Foster was inclined to agree with ed strange enough to be talking to pectation of hearing from her, turn- Monica Railton. It would have her so that any spectator would ing in the direction of Little Oak- been better if he had gone to see have seen nothing to raise a doubt ham Street for the second time that Inspector Pow earlier. If he had of their friendliness. Foster told day... known how the metal box had come her of his 'visit from Monica Rail- into his aunt's hands, no doubt heton, explaining who that young would have gone to Scotland Yard, woman was, and repeating her ac- entirely imaginary and as reference but he could not go now. That count of the coming of the metal to living persons is intended.) was out of the question.

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