"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1933.
mun, the prodded it with a stick were now loss than the illuminat- Bodds of perspiration stood out water-lino." He paused, and add- the same stick which, they picked portione, for as the moon rose of his forehead. He eyes were ed, reflectively, "I'd like to see ed up, still moist, from the ground, higher, the shadows grew shorter.wild, and his lips twitched convul- it."
"Don't see any bodies floating about," sald Napoleon, cheerfully, "But, of course, they weight 'em with etones, don't they?"
They made their way towards the alvoly.. spot where they had boarded the ship, and say no sign of the man they were sacking. Leonard was just concluding that he had gone below again by some other hatch way when a sharp cry resounded from somewhere below the deck:
Thon, abruptly, ho stopped deal, "Aren't we sooing enough? I and stared at Leonard and Napo- think I am. Where's your door?” leon.
"What's the matter?" asked Leonard, sharply.
The man did not reply. He con- no though this tinued to stare,
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"A little way ahead there. The passage bogine again beyond, and the door's on the right. I think) I spot It. Now steady."".
(Continued from Page 3.) But the admonition was kindly. "It has been known," answered Leonard was quito appreciative of Leonard. "Well-we've not done his companion's quaint observa-much good by coming here. I tions, although he never allowed think we must find our man again,
They advanced again, and roach- ed the door. It was open. them to divert him from his pur-and have a real heart-to-heart A fow seconds Inter, while they now development had quite num
talk with him."
were hurrying forward, the board-bed his mind,
"Pull yourself together!" ox- They made what speed they "That will be lovely," respondeded man came leaping into view,
"Whew" murmured Napoleon with a shivor. "I-I thought you could, but the water's edge could Napoleon. "Lead on, MacDuff." for all the world as though he had claimed Leonard. "What's hop
pening down there?". only be reached by careful stages, They reascended the ladder, and leapt straight out of a hole.
Agitated though he had appear- He took a stop forward, and the fit was locked?" the last stage. being a descont on reaching the upper deck they
"It was." answered Leonard, down an iron ladder. Like the noticed that the moon's brilliance cd before, his condition now was movement awoke the man from hearded man, they stared into the had increased even during these that of a man in a frenzy. He his stupor. He leapt aside, duck-quietly, and entered. water; and also like the bearded sew short minutes. The shadows looked on the verge of collapse..ing as Leonard made a grab at him.
pose.
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and the next instant was vaulting On the ground lay a body.' It over the deck with almost in-was the body of the well-dressed credible swiftness.
man.
They starod at it without sponk-
"After him!" criod Leonard, and they got chase. But they were no match for this human antelope,ng for awhile. Then Napoleon who not only beat them in agill laughed.
ty, but who also appeared to have "What's funny?" asked Leon- the advantage of knowing the ard. goography of the ship. Ho dod.
"Nothing," replied Napoleon,
ged and ducked, and finally dle-"That's why I had to laugh." appeared round a deck-house,
"Quite right," nodded Leonard, "Confound the fellow!" panted]"Trench logic. We must keep Leonard.
000l."
"Talk about bols," gasped Napo- ne stared again at the body, and tried to reconstruct its grim journey from the foot of the gap to this spot. But all at once he realised that this was not the moment for conjecture-that it was time, to be back again. on deck.
leon,
Vell, as we can't got anything out of him, let's go below. He shot out of the unpleasant hole I, went down this afternoon~~
"You mean the place where you found that locked door?"
"Yes. I wonder if I've been a fool! Perhaps we ought to have gone there first....
"We must return to that luna- tic," he, exclaimed. "The whole thing's too hopelessly confusing, and we've simply got to catch him, and to get him to talk."
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An unpleasant damp smell as salled them as they descended. Reaching the bottom of the little
"Then we'll have to hurry, atairway, Leonard directed his responded Napoleon, as they turn- light along the passage ahead, ed. "It wouldn't surprise me to which was now revealed to his and that he's chucked himself eyes for the Fat time. On his into the son. I say, Sefton-do|P previous visit, ho and Bery! you suppose he's had a hand in- Haines had haul to grope their way in that?" through utter darkness.
They were in a part of the ship which, from its appearance, soɛm-
"Who can say? But there are two things in his favour."
"What?"
ed to have been chiefly davoted "First, we heard him shrick.
to cargo, though it was difficult to conceive that order had ever
Murderers don't shriek. Their victims do. He may havo come
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Aage, which was acutely sloped, "He's wearing a dark grey suit. they noticed that the damp smell The man we're looking for has n was Increasing, and when, the blue serge cont with a bit torn out, passage widened Into a large, and a gold button missing." empty chamber, they saw the Moonlight gleamed above them. They hastened up the steps, and The left side of the chamber, glanced anxiously around the tilted downwards, was full of deck. There was not a algn of water, and only a comparatively life.
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small space on the righthand side "It's going to be a devil of a was high and dry. Leonard won-search," grunted Leonard. dered how it was that he and "Particularly if he has jumped Beryl had escaped stumbling into over the side," added Napoleon. tho water when they had had no "What about having a look?" Aash-lamp to guide thom.
They ran to the side of the ship, and looked over. Napoleon gave a shout,
"What a smash up!" muttered Napolcon, soborly,
"Pretty fearful," replied Leon- "My hat!" he gasped. "Our ard. "I'll bet there's a big hole in boat's gone!"
(To be Continued.) the side of the ship below that
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