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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1933.

'SHADOWS BY

BY THE SEA'

A Summer Mystery BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON

BYNOFUIS, Lonard Belton, visiting, Craverley, a

Bears Cicle the Mermaet al. The story ose mag and Be Under 20 stay line mystery basory

covers - 15e 'mka over the disappearance of the proprie.or of

men'e daugnLIT, JOBBEN Fyse, intriguen Nik

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been povest mycations without known.

to a servant named: Lugt, a kopas, and "You shouldn't have come,"

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reproved.

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rundora shouldn't have opened that

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of the now gets, tasda on kulttie box that let out all too world's him. When on board they aro sarimu by, a

NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. ".

CHAPTER VII. *"Down among the Shadows." For a few seconds Leonard Sutton made no response. His oyes woro.rased, and he was staring up at the grim metal was beneath Haines which thoy hung, Miss started up, also, and then slowly lowered her eyes till they rested on her companion.

"What are you going to do?" she asked, in a low voice. "You don't think it was the guil-I can see you, don't."

"I'm not sure, Miss Ilaines," he answered, slowly. "I did think it was, at first. But-suppose It wasn't?"

"Yea! Suppose it wasn't?" "Well, we can't quite leave it like this, can wo?" he said. "So I'm going to climb on board. Do you mind hanging on to your chain for another ten minutes".

"I won't start uuck without you, if that's what you mean," respond- ed the girl. "Go ahead and net as if I wasn't here."

Wickedness but she did open it, so thero you are. Discovered any, tning 7"

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"Beams to have got jammed or bomething." He put his shoulder to it without success. Then he applied his ear.

"Do you?" she begon.. "Sh" ho interrupted, sharply. A full minute went by. Then, abruptly, Leonard left the door, and

"Yes, we are. Do you know, I've thought of poor Miss Fyne. several times on this swim-por- ing over stuffy books in her little 6co, and and with all her trous bics on hor

Pretty rough luck," Bald Leonard. Yes I've thought of her, too."

"Do you suppoad we'll be inte?" "I've no notion of the time. But the tido's with us."

"Yes, but your promise is against us.".

"My promise?" he queried. "What promise?"

Yes, there was another sound, siny by the stilo.

rear. He The suence now grow heavy and

brdezeu the retreat. Soft footsteps in B

urba ruunu quickly, and, Lound close. A they could hear were "Nothing doing," he said, "and it's time we got back. We'll have himself staring into the eyes of their own movements, soft and

stealthy. Once bery thought sue our work cut out for us, Mian Haines,

heard a clock ticking, but recognis Haines, if we're going to keep the ed to sound immediately niter notel rule that says visitors are wards, with a tinge of shame, ne expected to be punctual at meals," cr own heart, she hoped her "Yes, but don't go quite so fast,”

She laughed. "Have you for companion did not hear it, also.

exclaimed Beryl, "or you'll loss nie." gation so soon? Isn't that like a where are you?" she asked, sud- He had taken the lead, as before, nan! Why, your promise to tell and now he slackened a little me what interrupted your tennis only.

"Here," replied Leonard's voice soon. a blessed space of light this afternoon-to tell me as wa through the darkness. "Put outolinked, bluely above them. They reached shore. No dinner for me your hand."

limbed up to it, and, for un ing- until I know that?" Sno oneyed, and hor Angers toutant, Beryl almost becamo intoxi- "It may make us into," he smiled. ched his. The contact was im- ented.

"Then It'll have to make us late, measurably comforting.

"Oh, the sunlight the sunlight "Mr. Softon. I'd sooner miss threa "Walk carefully," he next com- she cried, and breathed deeply.

courses .Thord's our bay. manded. 1 nearly tripped.

"Yes, one appreciates it after the We're swinging too much to tho There's been a pretty big emashhadow, nodded Leonard, "It was sit” just here. I wish I had a flash pretty uncomfortable down there

They spoke little during the rest lamp!"

wasn't it?"

of the journey, and they reached "Yes, they ought to make bath-

They crossed to the ship'a side, their bay in less time than the out- Ing-costumes with pockets, ake the girl now taking the lead, and ward Journoy had occupied them. replied inanely. "Oh, my goodneslipped down once more into the The little strip of yellow sana was

nearly tripped, too!"

buoyant, refresling sea. As they sow comp.etcly covered, and they ntered the water, it touched them and to make their landing stage verywhere with its joyous, rip-rock. When they had clambored pling Angers, bringing back happy upon it, a volca hailed them from thoughts to their minds and the above. "Holler away," she answered.

freely-flowing currents of life. "Hurry up!" called the voice. He shouted. It was not a joyous However the shadows may grip us, "You've only got ten minutes 1” sound. His voice echoed along un: the sunlight is even more compel- "All right, brother minel" sang soon passages and round unknowning, for no shadow on the earth can back Beryl, and then turned to angles, and come back upon them anally extinguish it.

Leonard with a smile. "It'll have from a dozen different points. "Isn't this wonderful?” exelaim- to be, only eight minutes, I'm

afraid. Now, then-tell me!"

He shook his head, and turned again towards the binck aperture own which he had been peering when she nad interrupted him. All was quiet below.

the girl.

Beastly place, this," commented

And we've got the sun on It," ne answered.

"Yes. Imagine it in that storm!" "Or to-night, when the sun's Kono down."

"Whon, Mr.Sefton," she pleaded. won't dare look at this wreck from my window when I go to bed, if you talk like that."

"You won't be able to sen this

wreck from your window when you go to bed," he responded. "There won't be any moon to see it by."

"So there won't. Good thing! well-that's the next step?"

"I was going down, to have a look round,"

"All right.”

"I'm not Bure that it is all right. You might follow me."

Why shouldn't I follow you?" "I suppose that means you're going to?"

"It does."

one

"Thanks," he auld, although he know that this was not possible.

"Very well. But I make All the same, Miss Haines's sensible stipulation, Miss Haines. From attitude relieved him somewhat the moment we begin to descend for it allowed him a little latitude into this nasty hole, you're under He gripped the chalu firmaly and orders. Will you promise that?" gave it a sudden tux, to text it.

"Yes, captain. If there's any It held. Then he began to heave himself up, while the girl, athletic trouble, you can give me my cuc, if. herself, watched him with admira-you like." tlon. Three heaves, and he had raised himself to a position from which he could clotch a broken rail.

The reat was easy.

Dend ships are grucaome at the best of times, and this was not the best of times. After clambering to his feet, Leonard stared about

A minute later, he spoke again. "Now I'm going to holler," he warned her. "It won't be exactly a joyous sound, so get ready!"

- "Hallo!" he shouted again.ed the girl, as they arew away from "Anybody about?"

the rocks and struck-out for the "Right," responded Léonard. shore.

"Ilm-the boots of our hotel- come upon a dead man at the foot (Continued on Page 2.j

"Hallo!" camo Inintly, from the distance. "Anybody about?”

He shouted a third time. Thou, on the point of turning-for there was a limit to time as well as to human capacity-his hand suddenly came against a door-handle.

"What is it?" asked Beryl, "Nothing," he answered. "Just a door.

"I expect, when, you open it, a jack-in-the-box will fly out."

"Well, if it docs, we'll hit it on the hend and make It fly back again," he retorted, and she giggled. She recalled having giggled just like that oneé at n mystery play when one of the characters had made a joke about a corpse.

As they descended out of the sunlight, a sudden coldness assalled them, and they became conscious of the inadequacy of their apparel for "Vo needn't worry about protracted investigations of this Jack-in-the-box," said Leonard, a kind. Despite herself, Beryl second later. "The door won't shivered a little, and wondered open."

our

at her temerity. But two can "I won't protend- I'm disappoin-

him with a strange, compelling sen-cross a bull-field where one would ted," replied Beryl,

sation of depression. He could not recall over having seen a mora dmary, a more ghostly sight. The ship, its funnels broken, its decky torn and scarred, its very anglo an insult to human law and order, was naked of all that one could pos- sibly desire. It abounded in vacant : spaces, meaningless flooring, pur- poseless ways, and bridges that led to nowhere. It resembled n splin- tered bong from which every scrap of ment had been picked and every drain of nourishing juice extracted. In ona deep-hole-water-lay, dank- and green, unnaturally still, presid- ed over by some evil god of im- mobility that crouched here secret- ly amid the gracious movement of the sca. An iron railing, wrenched from some other part of the ship, poked impudently down a com- panion-way, like a sword in an ill- itting scabbard. There woro boards which no dne trod, port- holes through which no one looked. Leonard Sefton had a stout heart, but he could not repress a shudder at this spectacle of desolation.

"God It must have been a storm!" he muttored.

And yet, even while he thought of the storm and tried to visualise Its nocturnal fury, an odd sense puzzled him. Did this storm that had arison in a night explain all he Bow?

But he did not waste valuable moments in fruitless conjecture. After his first brief, swift Burvey, he elimbed towards the cabin- quar- ters, and listened. He listened for a sound that was like the cry of a gull. He heard no sounds how- aver, save the lapping of the water against the ship's sides and the breaking of the waves among the shallows...

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