THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"
A Summer Mystery BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
CHAPTER XV
"Behind the Deor." As they fastened their boat to
the chains to which Leonard Set- ton and Bory) Haines had clung some seven hours earlier, a faint glow Illuminated the castorn horizon, and by the time the two men had climbed on dock the
of the 823.
moon's yellow disc was rising out If the wreck's battered deck had looked grim in the late afternoon simlight, it looked doubly grim now. The sun had permitted it to retain its rusty hues, but the moon repainted it. in black and allvor, picking out Its outlines in ahndows and ghostly light. The broken spars and funnels" wore mere dark shapes, and while some portions of the flooring wore daz- zling patches, other portions were Impenetrable enigmis, springle: with traps for the unwary-some of them death-traps,
On the verge of speaking, Leon- ard auddenly desisted and laid his hand swiftly on his companion's urm. Something was moving on the opposite side of the deck, and moving quickly. They saw it us it flashed across a moonlit patch and then it was swallowed up In the shadows beyond.
"Whew!" murmured Napoleon, straining his eyes. "That was a nasty sight, wasn't it?"
"Could you make it out?" naked Leonard.
"It looked like a quadruped of Romo Bort."
"I think it was a man."
"A man on all fours? That's worse than a quadruped!"
"No, he was crouching. We'd better go after him. Stick close behind me marked the spot where he vanished.""
"You bet I'll stick close behind you," murmured Napoleon. "Steady! Not too fant! We'll break our necks!"
They made their way across the deck, and as they entered the shadow area which had swallowed up their quarry, the figure emer- ged again in another little oasis of light
Here it paused. Its attitude suggested indecision. Silhouetted against the rising moonlight, it revealed no characteristics beyond a tall, lanky frame, a beard, and an apparent dislike of standing up straight.
Suddenly it turned, and came gliding back. The two watchers stood still, with held breath. But the figure did not see them, though it passed so close that they could hear its laboured brea- thing. As it drew abreast, it swerved abruptly towards the middle of the deck; and was lost once more.
Then the match went out and, with it, this odd picture,
"Thon we'll be soon."
1933.
"I can't help that. It may be time for introductions.”.
The bearded man was no longer
But a second match was struck, Napoleon nodded. Just as well and the pictures again grow out to come to grips, he thought, and of the darkness. The man bent gut the gruesome buginces over,... | "Shall I shout to it?" whispered, glowed also on the oily black sur down and, picking up a stick, f.conard switched on his torch, and Napoleon.?
Ince of the water he was gazing prodded the water with it. He played it on the water. "No, that would divert it from into. Leonard thought he rowent on prodding till the match- its purposo," replied Leonard.cognised the water. He had no lune reached his fingers and he watching it. He had vanished
"Good thing, I should any !" ticed it on his first visit to the dropped the spent match with a again,
," -
That chap seems to know his "Perhaps, but I want to know ship as it lay, dank and green, in sharp cry.
No third match was struck. The what its purpose is. Come along! a hole.
ed Napoleon, I wonder what his "What on earth's he starlat at, watchers walled a fall minute: way about this old hulk," mutter- We'll move again. This way-onl
whispered Napoleon. "Think he's Then Leonard said: mind that gap!"
"Get ready for things to hap-game is?" They walked a few steps, and goin' for a swim?" then suddenly," from somewhere Leonard did not answer. The pen. I'm going down there."
"Know the way?" asked Napo- low them, a tiny jet of light man's wrapt attitude fascinated
"We'll have to use the flash glowed. It was the light of a him. What did he see in the leon. match, and it glowed on the board water? Did he want to see any
fear to see lump." of the man they were chasing. It thing? Or did he
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"Our job is to find out "Praps he's dropped his purse in the water,"
"Don't 'bo; un af”
(Continued on Payo.5.)
A colossal task of reconstruction faces hurricane-stricken Tampico, with scores of buildings in ruins and the flooded Panuco river hampering work of rescue and revival. This important Mexican port is an appalling scene of ruin, with wreckage of buildings Boating on the torrents rushing through its principal streets. This aerial view depicts the havoc wrought by barricane and flood. Many bodies are believed to be beneath shattered buildings. Boats shown in the streets in the picture are the only means of transportation for relief
SUZANNÉ TEACHES LONDON-Mile. Susanne Longlen, the famous French tonais ace, has got an appointment at a well-known London store Our picture shows for giving demonstrations how to keep fit for the courts.
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ON THE WAY TO WORK-Our picture shows the first working-stall on 700 workers on their way to the place of work for the construction of the large Reich-motor way in Germany,
Watch the tropical hurzitana AFTER THE HURRICANES-Our-ploture shows a vis w from the South
“awupt through the country', the works was nearly entirely demolished.
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