THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1933.
"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"
A Summer Mystery BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
CHAPTER XV.
"Behind the Door." As they fastened their boat to the chains to which Leonard Sef- ton and Beryl Hainer had clung some seven hours earlier, a faint glow liminated the enater" horizon, and by the time the two
men
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"Shall I shout to it?" whispered Napoleon..
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"No, that would divert it from its purpose," replied Leonard. "Good thing, I should say !" "Perhaps, but I want to know what its purpose is. Come along We'll move again. This way--and, mind that gap!"
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Then the match wont out and, with it, this odd picture.
Then we'll be seon." "I can't help that. It may be time for Introductions.” 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. Tho man belt gut the gruesome business over. down and, picking up a stlek, Leonard switched on his torch, and glowed also on the oily black surprodded the water with it. He played it on the water. face of the water he was gazing
The bearded man was no longer into. Leonard thought he rawont on prodding till the match- cognised the water. He had no flame reached his fingers and he watching it. Ife had vanished. ticed it on his first visit to the dropped the opent match with a again.
That chap seems to know his ship as it lay, dank and green, in sharp cry
No third match was struck. The way about this old hulk," mutter- a hole.
watchera walted a full minute ed Napoleon. I wonder what his Then Leonard said:,
"What on earth'e he starin' at," whispered Napoleon. "Think he's They walked a few steps, and goin' for a swim?" had climbed on deck the
then suddenly, from somewhere moon's yellow disc was rising out to them, a tiny jet of light klowed. It was the light of a match, and It glowed on the beard of the man they were chasing. It
of the sea,
If the wreck's battered deck had looked grim in the late afternoon sunlight, it looked doubly grim now. The sun had permitted It to rotain its rusty, hues, but the moon repainted. It in black and silver, picking out Its outlines In shadows and ghostly light. The broken spars and funnels were mere 'dark shapes, and while some portions of the flooring wore daz zling patches, other portions were impenetrable enigmas, springled with traps for the unwary-some of them death-traps,
On the verge of speaking, Leon- ard suddenly desisted and ald his hand swiftly on his companion's urm. Something WOB moving i on the opposite side of the deck, and moving quickly. They saw it an it flashed across a moonlit patch and then it was swallowed up In the shadows beyond.
"Whew!" marmured Napoleon, straining his eyes. "That was a nasty sight, wasn't it?"
"Could you make it out?" asked Leonard.
"It looked like a quadruped of some sort."
"I think it was a man."
"A man on all fours? That's worse than a quadruped!"
"No, he was crouching. We'd belter go after him, Stick close behind me-I marked the spot where he vanished."
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"You bet I'll stick close behind you,"
murmured Napoleon. "Steady! Not too fast! We'll break our necks!"
They made their way across the deck, and as they entered the shadow urea which had swallowed up their quarry, the figure emer- ged again in another little ously of light.
Here it passed. Its attitude suggested indecision. Silhouetted against the rising moonlight, It revealed no characteristics beyond a tall, lanky frame, a heard, and an apparent dislike of standing up straight.
Suddenly it turned, and cane gliding back. The two watchers stood still, with held breath. But tho 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.
"Get ready for things to hap-gamo le?" Leonard did not answer! The pen. I'm going down there."
"Know the way?" naked Napo-in man's wrapt attitudeu fascinated him. What did he see in the leon.
Did he want to see any- water? thing? Or did he fear to ace | Janip.”
"We'll have to use the fashı
"Our job is to find out." "Praps ho's dropped his pursc.
the water." "Don't be an ass!"
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