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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1933.

"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"

A Summer Mystery, BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON

CHAPTER XXIII "Tho Incentive of Napoleon Truelove"

perfectly lovely for anything?": lealed glad."

|| Leaving Valentino Morley to

Prapa f'll try and make you dress, or to don such raiment dashed gladder, Happy," she smil. he considered necessary, ed, and abruptly darted away.

Soon they reached a spot whore him swooped off again, and crashed the ridge they wore traversing through the trees. After it crash- turned north, following the contoured the constable,

of the coast. On one side, the sea, Napoleon sat up. He was now lay heavily, unilluminated by the alone with his feelings and his moon which seemed imprisoned in thoughts, and neither were pleasant great banks of cloud. The wreck company. Momentarily winded, he was just visiblo, but they could not was incapable of joining in the detect any small boat making for it, chinac, and by the time he had re- As a matter of fact, the inspector's gained his breath and discovered party had not yet started from the that no bones were broken, the Mr. Valentina Morley was not in Napoleon walked towards the Napoleon looked after her, and beach. On the ohor alde, trees road woods had grown allont once more, the least happy when, in obedience stairs and there recolved a thon descended the stairs slowly, thickly, forming a silent black mass and a great black door appeared to to an ungentle shaking, ha auddenly pleasant little shock-the only It occurred to him that if he which, when one gazed into it, have shut him out from the rest of opened his eyes and discovered pleasant ono ho could recali hurried, ho might pitch to the bot-appeared to be full of little move the world. Napolcon Truelove staring at him. that night. Beryl Haines, adorable tom. This would have been un-monta. Therefore one proferred}

"Heavens above!" he grunted. In a pale blue wrapper (as he wrate Tortunate both for him and for the not to gaze into it.

"Now what?" he thought. Ho might rise and flounder in the "Ion't one even permitted half a in his dlary next day), stood at the policeman waiting, with passive But our eyes are continually do-track of the chase, but he had no head of the staircase, watching resignation, at the foot of that ing what we do not want them to notion of the direction to pursus,

staircase.

do, and these allent treas fascinated and his brain was still a little "Ready, sir?" asked the police Napoleon. Ho poored at them with muddy, He thought he must have morbid curiosity, till they seemed to banged his head against a tree, them. He turned his head away Yes there was the stump. Ho take life and to walk along with stump or something when he fall." resolutely; but the hend swung felt it with his hand. back again.

"Why the deuso did you choose "Constable" he oxclaimed, aud-to grow in this particular spot, treo stump?" he grumbled. "Did you know I was coming?"

night's sleep?"

"Not on a night like this," re-him, plled Napoleon. Badly. "You're wanted, old chop."

"Who wants me?"

"The Cause of Right."

"Hallo!" he exclaimed. "Why aron't you in bed?"

"Sleep seems to be quite out of the question," replied Beryl. "A Oh, don't be an ass," growled bit too worrying, all this. So Miss Morley. "There's no Cause of Fyne's making some tea, and I'm Right that interferes with a man's going to her room to drink to the just sleep. Stop being cryptic, | dawn.". and let's hear what you've got to any. If you imagine I've engaged myself to go chasing about in my pyjamas-"

"We don't want you in your pyja mas particularly," Interposed Napo- loon. "You can put on evening clothes, if you like. But I'm going out again into the dark, dark night, so I don't see that you've any cause to complain. Props you'd like to change jobs with mo7

"No, thanka,"

"All right, then. Be thankful for small mercies. Get yourself respectable, and then shift down to the loungo hall, and keep your eyes open for horrible sights and your cors pooled for terrible shrieks. The horrible sight will probably be yours truly brought in on a stretcher, and I imagine I shall also ba responsible for the terrible shrick."

"Good Idon," nodded Napoleon. "Wouldn't mind joining you..........

"Would it be proper?".

man:

"Can't you see me straining at the "Rather," answered Napoleon. leash?"

"I beg your pardon, Sir" "Never mind that was poetry," murmured Napoleon. "What are denly. we going to do?"

"Yes, sir," answered the "We're going to make towards stable.. Readington, air."

"I saw something moving there "

"Are you sure, sir?? again! Now It's gone.".

"Yes, quito. Look, there it

con-

in

Ho got to his knees, and then-to hie fort. A longing for home Assailed him. Home! Where was that? Wasn't it a hotel, and a cup is of tea, and someone frightfully Jolly handing the cup to him and telling him he was a frightful sport? That vision stondled him; and, all at once, ho laughed.

"Wouldn't it? So it wouldn't,"

"Readington? Where's that?" · grinned Napoleon. "But strict

"To the north, round the bay. It etiquette gets a bit mixed up when lies on the other side of the river, you're chasin' murderers, Well, but there's a tidy bit of wood to go look after yourself, Beryl. And through first, and we may strike "I can't see anything, sir," said| good-night, for the twenty-seventh something there."

the constable, and paused. time."

"I sco. How jolly. And or "Nappy!" she exclaimed, laying what do we do if we strike some-All was silent around them. Noth They stared, into the blackness. har band suddenly on his sleeve. thing?" ...

ing stirred, and the trees seemed "What?" be blinked, pretending "I beg your pardon, sir?" hard that he was quite unconscious)

[to have stopped walking, "What I mean," explained. Na- of the fact that her hand was on polcon, as they left the hotel and tion,"

"Might have been your imagina- his sleeve,

scrunched across the gravel, "a shaking his head.

suggested the constable, thin, If we meet one of 'em, do

"I-I think you're rather a sport, Nappy," said Beryl.

"Of course, it might," agreed I

agreed the constable, "although, be "Well, wo might have a look

tween you and mo, sir, I don't think we're likely to strike anything this side of the river. However

He stopped abruptly. A cry rose from the woods. Napoleon grinned frozenly.

"Your head ain't so bad, Nappy," he told himself. "Just close your eyes a minute, and then open them again and then go on and find Guy."

He closed his eyes, and opened them. And, when ho opened them,

(To Be Continued).

CHOPPER ATTACK

AMERICAN WOMEN'S NIGHT

OF TERROR

Shanghai, Nov. 10. Mrs, and Miss Cheetham, Ameri- can residents here, underwent a terrifying experience in the early hours of this morning.

we clutch 'em and cry, 'Got you?" Napoleon. "But then, on the other he found Guy looking at him. "What rot," he answored, beam-ı The constable smiled. People hani, constable, it might not. In it ing. "What else could a feller do?" would have their little joke.

"It isn't rot," she responded.

not our boundon duty to investi- "What's Mr. Morlay doing?"

"No-wo'll question them, sir," gata?" ho said. "Or p'r'aps you won't "Gettin' up at this momont to mind leaving the questioning to guard the fort," Napoleon Informod me." "I say, what is all this about?" her. "He turned green with envy demanded Morley, sitting up.

"Mind? Goodness, no! It'll be when I told him what I'd been pick-a pleasure." "My dear chap, it's no good asked for, and begged on bended knee

And after they've answered the ing me," replied Napoleon. "Ours to swop-"

questions, we'll know how to act.” not to reason why But, if you "Oh, Nappy!" smiled Boryl, really want to know what the "You can't fool me ! Mr. Morley's want me to hit anyone, just give "Righto, constable. When you particular trouble is at the moment, quite satisfied to stay behind, and the glad word."

"Now we're for it!" he muttered, six people have got loose, in varying) I know perfectly well that you'd

and, adopting the principle that the stages of lunacy, and I am about rather stay hero and drink tea with ing it, sir," said the constable, was the thing you liked loast, he "If you won't mind my mention-beat thing to do in an emergency to join in the happy little search us than go out and chass horrible dropping his voice, "I think we're ran towards the woods as fast as party. As far as I can make out, people. But you're going, just the having rather too many glad words, he could. there's about half a hound to every aame, and you must let me think as it is. We want to go quiet at throo hares, so what the hares are it decent of you, if I want to." this business." running away for rather beats me. Napoleon grew thoughtful." However, off I'm going, in charge "I say, Beryl," he said, suddenly, of a nice stout bobby-"

"D'you mean all that? Or is it "What! Are the police here?" just to-to sort of cheer a fellor crled Morley, jumping up,

up, don't you know?" "Thoy are. So, all things con- aldered, you can count yourself

"Righto again, swered Napoleon. the mouBO?"

from their servants' quarters and They were awakened by cries

using a chopper on their "boy" found a coolis, who had run amok,

The constable panted after him, a bad second. As they reached the

The two American women were constable," an fringe of trees, the cry rose again

Let us emulate from the sombre interior- howl unable to get immediate local aid; of one in fear and there camo so they telephoned to the police frantic, scuffing sound,

in the meantime holding the inner "Hey " shouted a voice. "Whoa! door against the coolie and the Stopt"

boy who were struggling to gain admittance..

They walked along in silence. Napoleon tried to visualise what lay before them, but happily falled. They were bearing north-west, and

The next moment, à flying form

"I mean it, Nappy." "Well, of course," he replied, "It's lucky, old chap. All you've got to all a lot of frightful bosh, but I'm he looked towards the right, hoping shot into Napoleon, and sent him du la to keep awake and guard the most frightfully grateful, and all to see some gleam of light on the flat. ladies, and every now and then we'll that. And and if I can do any horizon. But there was no gleam swinging arma and legs, at which an unconscious state, was taken to

He had a vague vision of pop back and tell you how many of thing to help find your brother, and yet, no point of diminishing dark- he clutched unsuccessfully. us there are left. Yon't life too all that, and ao on-well, I'll be lness to mark the east.

On arrival of the police, the coolia was arrested and the boy, in

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