1933-11-08 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1933.

"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"

A Summer Mystery BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON

CHAPTER XX.

"Enter Mr. Root,”

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aftor"

And why wasn't it thought recos "You've not got very far your-¡sary to notify the police?" wolf, have you?" asked Leonard.

Leonard explained his reasons, "That's as may be. I may talk wondering how the Inspector would presently-or not. But I nover give my confidence to anyone until I've sized him up, and I don't do that all in sixty seconds."

Leonard smiled, and discovered (himself Hiking this odd mon.

"Vory well-I'll do the talking. first," he said, as he sat down in

"

disappear?"

interested In this wreck, aren't. "Exactly. If we know why, we you? And you know a good deal, might know where. For no reason don't vou? Well, for that matter,. at all, le vanishes.-Then we find a so do I know a good deal. You've murdered man-assumed to be mur bean watched pretty clonuly, and dered, that la. Why? The body there's just one thing for you to do. disappears. Why? It's taken to and one thing only, and that's to the wreck. Why? There's a make a clean breast of it." queer man on board. Why? And Luigi's behaviour why 7"

"And the cutting of the telephone

take his explanation. To his re-wires," added Leonard. llef, the inspector took it well.

"I'm not saying you were right," ho observed. "In fact, you weren't, But, in your place, I might have acted the same way-"

"No compliments, please,” said Root; and then naked, Inconsist ently, "Well, and what sort of a person do you now realise I am?"

"The sort of person whose intinct Is to help, and not to hinder. There are both sorts, you know,"

“You did." he said. Leonard smiled. "Yes, I know I did," he admitted, "but you're not suggesting I cut the telephone wires, are you?"

"No, I'm not suggesting that you did, Mr. Sefton," replied the inopes

"A clean breast of what?" killed that fellow on the bosch this "Beh! I know it was you who afternoon. That's the story I want from you, Mr. Softon."

"Shouldn't wonder," he grinned. "But it comes aff sonwtimes. Now I'm really sure of, you, and we'll get back where we were. What about Mr. Griddle for the man who cut those telephone wires?"

Leonard took out his handker- chiof and wiped his forehead.

"You must give me a faw seconds to recover," he murmured. "When you've been accused of a murder, it takes quite five."

Detective-Inspector Root was under no delusions about his capabilities. "What's the good of

"Yea, but there's no 'why about trying to size up other, fallows,"

that," interposed the Inspector ho asked, "unless you can also size

"They wanted to delay the report

There was a short silence, up yourself?! So he refused to be-

to the police."

"I say," said Leonard, quietly, love that he possessed the ability

"Then we'll substitute a 'who'"are you pulling my leg?" to attain his ambition of one day

"I'm not sure that I should have for the "why","suggested Leonard. Abruptly, the Inspector's manner. becoming the Big Noise at Scotland

acted the amme way" Interposod "Who wanted to delay the report changed Yard, while he also refused to the chair to which the inspector Leonard, suddenly deciding to to the pollco?" ignore the few definite virtuek he waved, "and I hope you'll size me introduce a personal note, "if I had

The inspector's reply was rather possessed. He was a trier, and be up favourably enough to do some realised the sort of man you were." startling, know he was a trler. Some of his talking, too. I've got some pretty worst mistakes had come from good information to exchango," ha trying too hard. He was also födded, original. This, again, had more "No, to give, not to exchange,' than onco proved his undoing-for corrected Root, also smiling. "I whatever we may think of the work on the voluntary principle. orthodox methods of the police and In this Mermaid case, now, I'm the detective force, it is usually the after helping that unfortunato "Ah," remarked the inspector, tor. "for the simple reason that best method in the long run, and the young lady and If you're after considering the diagnosis, and rubate you did." While Leonard detective with originality must be the same, why, we'll get along fine, bing his nose. Well, perhaps stared at him, he continued, "It's a "Well, they've gone, while you've an inspired genius if he is to obtain and we needn't discuss bargains. that's not so bad." Then he, too, deep game. Mr. Sefton, but I'm a been talking about them, said adopted the personal note." bit deep myself sometimes. Now Root. "Griddle could have cut "Right. Here's a bull, first go, want to get on, and you can't get suppose you tell me your story all those wires, if he'd been in a mood Root was no genius. Still, he clung Did you know that a murdered man on in my profession unless you do over again-and the real one. this to." to originality. Being a trior, he had been found at the foot of the help. Suppose you tell me your time?"

Tm inclined to think he did cut tried to be a genius, and he hoped gop near Craverley Point this whole story? Afterwards, I dare Mr. Root's vialtor began to grow those wires," agreed Leonard. that one day his originality would | afternoon?"

say I'll tell you a bit of mine. Bey,

"If he did, he's a wrong 'un," bear good fruit.

Root looked at his visitor hard, as concise as you can, because it) "I don't understand what you'ro went on the inspector. "And the decided that he was truthful, and, looks to me as if we've got some talking about," he began, but walter, we know, is a wrong 'un. clasping his big bands over his work to do. But don't leave any-stopped as the Inspector jumped to What's their game? Is it one desk, bont forward.

thing out. Shoot again."

this foot,

game-or two? If it's one game, This is getting interesting," he While the inspector mado copious

"Don't understand mo?” he cried, then something very big and vory said. "Go on. No, I didn't know." notes, Leonard Sefton related the "Olt, I expect you understand me unhealthy going on at the Mor- He was lying there for about main incidonts of the past twelve right enough-and you'll under-maid Hotel. That Guy Haines, ten minutes. The only person who hours and was not interrupted stand me better before you're many now-would he be in it? saw him was the boote at the hotol, once. At the conclusion of the nar minutes older!. You're mighty) (Continued on Page 5.)

rative, Root studied the notes for nearly five minutes, weighing theni up, considering their relative value, and striving to formulate some clear, coherent picture out of them.

better resulta than those obtained Shoot.” by the average oficial mind.

effort.

When I went down to bave a look. the body had gone."

But his greatest asset, the asset which had gained him the modest recognition that was his, was his asalduousness. He took his coat. off to everything, and worked like a nigger. None of his fallures had ever boon attributable to lack of Thus It happened that, when Leonard Sefton, after a three-miles walk, knocked up the little police. station at Craverley, he not only found Detective-Inspector Root at home, but immediately enlisted his interest. As a matter of fact, the inspector was pondering over what "The body now lies on the wreck he described as the Mermaid My-off the point--" stery when his visitor arrived. "I beg your pardon," Interposed "Got something to tell me about the inspector, his eyes beginning to that disappearing Mr. Fyne, eh?" bulge, "hut I hope I'm not going to he exclaimed, when Leonard had be disappointed in you." briefly indicated bla mission.. "I'm telling you plain facts.” "Well, I can give you all the time Then I'll do my beat to believe) you want. This is the stut I'm them. When was the body found?ed Leonard, "why did Mr. Fyne

"Really? Now,, this is getting even more interesting!" exclaimed Root, sitting up straight. "I didn't know that decomposiion reduced one to dust so quickly!"

"Motive--that's our trouble," he burst out, all at once. "Get your motive, and detalla fall into place. But here we've got a pack of In- eldents, without any apparent reason for any of 'em. Too many heident enough for three or four cases. And they all end with the query, Why »

"And the first query is," answer-

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