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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1933.

"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"

A Summer Mystery BY JEFFERSON FARJEON

CHAPTER I

"Into the Darkucss"

"What on earth is that boy star ing at thought Leonard Sefton, as he rounded a rocky promontory and came into view of Craverloy Point.

uncomfortablo?!; ratorted the boy, ashoro, and they'd 'ave to keep a “I n'pose it'a wattin' for the body look out for it, wouldn't they? to be washed up'a what doos 15" 'Corse. So I slips down 'ere when "Stendy, steady !'' exclaimed Loo- I'as chance, and I foots at orl the nard. "Aren't you rather rushing now footmarks. afore the tide. matters? Is the idea, then, that washes 'em, yus, and I got. 'em orl he's drowned?"

...down in a book," "Well, sir, wo or 'as dif'rent "Good Lord!" murmured Lee- shill-fdens," responded the boy caracstly; hart; blinking a little as he array

as his mind harped back to kitchen ed all these grucaome details. discussions. "Some thinks 'o ain't "And was that a footmark you were drowned, some thinks 'e is drowned, staring at when I came upon you ? and-and some thinks, as 'e was

"Yessir," answered the boy. drownded."

[So he changed his manner, nodded, keen for me to go there?"

and observed genially....

The boy hesitated. Five ings was a lot. But he wasn't taking any chances.

"All right, sonny. It's your business, not mine but I really thought you were staring at some- thing interesting. Will you tell me if that building on the point over there is an hotel?" ·

Thore wore shells on the bonch The boy's mood underwent Bu of Craverley, and, so sald the local instantaneous transformation. His guide-book, cornelian; but neither gazo lost its vaguo animosity, and shells nor cornelfan could account a curious eagerness entered his for the tense and carnest gaze with eye. which a amall, freckled, snub-nosed "Yessir, that's a "otel," he piped, youth was boring the flat sand. "Mermald 'Otol. After a recond's The only object apparent to justify pause he added, with a tiny touch such strange intensity was a of pride, "I works there.", battered wreck, clawed down by un- Good! Then we may meet soon rocks a mile out at sea. This again," exclaimed Leonard, smiling object however was behind the "That fe, if you think I can got a small boy's head, and was clearly room for the night."

to compete against powerless

"You'll git a room all right, air, the mysterious counter-attraction, answered the boy, with such quick Lower and lower went the small and odd nesurance that Leonard boy's head, till nose and beach al- glanced at him sharply. This ap most met: and more and more poared to abash him a little, and curious grow Leonard Softon. he corrected himself. "I think you

The boy was too engrossed to will, sir,” he said, notice the new comer's approach, but the head came up with a ferk as soon as it was addressed.

"It looks such a nice hotel that I hope I will," remarked Leonard, watching the boy with interest. "What's the excitement, young "Most hotels are packed in August. ster?" enquired Leonard. "Sande Isn't yours?" cheap."

"You'll go there, Jest the sime?" ho demanded; auddenly.

"Jest the sime," Leonard assured promise. him gravely. "It'an Forgo ahead. Do you get a per- centage on all the guests you bring along, or what?" -

"It alr't that, sir," said the boy, seriously. "It's jest that the Ildy what runs the 'otel now-well, she's a bit down on 'er luck—"

"And you're trying to help her build it up again, eh?". Interposed Leonard. "Well donet But what's happened to the lady's luck?".

"Well, sirit'e arter what's 'appened.”

"What has happoned?", "Well, gir-you'd lave knowd soon, ány'ow, so I don't s'pose it mikes any dif'rence, mo tellin' yer." He lowered his voice alight- ly, and a tinge of irrepressible. melodrama entered into it. *'Er father walked orf a week ago, and 'e ain't come back."

:

"By Jove, that's bad," said Leo- nard.

"Yessir. Orfe walked, Inter the darkness, and that's the last we seed of 'im."

"The police have been on the job,

"Doin' all right, murmured the The boy did not reply immediate-boy, suggesting a truthful nature ly. He was not in mental condition by the bad way he lied. "Very to appreciato subtleties, and it look póp'lar, the Mermaid is." Sudden-I suppose?" him a few moments to recoverly noticing the athletic qualities of from the surprise interruption. his interrogator, he added the in- While he was recovering, Leonard formation. "Got n tennis lawn continued,

l'air."

"Yessir."

"And that'a had a depressing effect upon business, ch? Mado some of the visitors get anxious, "I thought it was a purse with a Then It'll sult me down to the land go?"

"Yessir. Yer see, it ain't so- thousand pounds in it, at least. It ground," said Leonard, and all at even occurred to mo It might be once burst into laughter. "Look no comfortable like as it was, King John's crown. But I can't here, young man. Let's do a deal, though Miss Fyne, she goes on jest sime." Suddon indignation even see a winkle. you know you and me. Five shillings, if the What were you looking at?” you'll tell me all about it?"

surged through his juvenile breast. Then the youth repllod, un- "Orl about what?" faltered the "They all orter stay, that's what 1. satisfactorily, "Nothin'," and Leo-boy, his heart thumping financially. see, to elp 'er." nard was about to suggest, that in "It. Everything. Why you "Unfortunately, people don't al this cage bls bent position must were staring se hard at the sand ways do what they ought to do," have been due to a sudden uttack of Just now? Why, your hotel, with frowned Leonard. "I can under- - juvenile lumbago, when it occurred its wonderful son views and its stand that some of the vialtors

to him that perhaps ho was not tennis lawn, Isn't full up in would feel uncomfortable." taking the lid seriously enough. | Angust? · And why you're so dend

"What about Miss Fyne feelin'

i

"Oh! And which do you think?" "Yor see, it was a new un. Not "I see 'e was drownded, con if one of our guests, it wasn't, 'cos I 'e'd drownded 'self is body'd ave knows or them. I'm the boots." come ashore next mornin' with 'In bont."ị

"I see. He went out in a bont. "Yessir."

"When?"

Nobody

"In the night.it was. saw 'Im go. And next mornin' the boat's washed up with nobody in It. But if somebody did 'im in, they'd try and ide the body, and it wouldn't come ashore not for some time, till it slipped from where they'd put it, and then It'd come

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"Thon, for goodness sake, tako my size, and mark it Innocent' 1"

"I expect. exclaimed Leonard. You'll find my footmarks many times on these sands. Did you say Miss Fyne was the name of the

"Yessir." lady who runs the hotel?"

"Thank you. Then I think; I'n go and Interview her. Here's your fivo shillings you've well earned the money. Perhaps, if I book a (Continued on Page 10.)

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