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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1933.

"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"

A Summer Mystery BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON

CHAPTER XXIV.

then started bounding along the beach. Something had frightened

"And is the dond chap on came bounding back again, and board now?"

"You." "Whow! But, look here, how him.". did you get off"

I wonder whether, that was the

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from the hotel, including your leon. "They'd have got to' the buzz dwindles? You say you loft much good at this game. |sistor, by the way, who's bobn wor bagch at about that time, and they the hotel to find mo, eh? What-Shall I help you up??

rying horself stiff about you, used the same boat. Dear old "Not necessary," answered Na- Why didn't you leave a note or Daisy She must have got giddy, ever made you do that?"

"A vision of your dead body polcon. "Observe, I am up. Lend something? Some people don't Guy. And of myself going so. What was this extraordinary a fact." floating in on the tide," responded the way, old chap, and jaw as we deserve to have sisters, and that's goin' backwards and forwards."

"Who's Dolay?"

The bont. Voll; "Props you'd like her?" ing like an unhung murderer. I through the rest of my life feel thing that happened?"

What did you do thon?" "Why, this," replied Guy, as I jolly well would-though not

"I followed the lunatic." wont to your room to tell you not they bogan their journey. "Jolly precisely as a later. However,

"Why?" to be a blithering asa about that dark, isn't it? I wonder when this isn't business. What did that bet, and I found you'd gone. So will start getting light? I've had lunatic do when he benched the

"Can't Bay, old chap. · Ho wag acting so quearly, I thought it on I went after you, and a beastly enough night to last me a life- boat?"

might be as well.

"It might also hiye been as well

“Guy's Story." ·

Guy Halnes?" asked Napoleon, Excuse me, but in your name politely.

"Well, I'll be blowed!" replied that individual. "What-how on earth did you got hora?”.

"The amazement la mutual," murmured Napoleon. "How earth did you get here?"

time I had of it-though it's just time. What do you think? As I "Yes, he's a lunatic, all right." "That's a bit of a story," mut-ng wall I did go, as you'll see in a stood on the beach, I saw a black modded Guy, procdeding with his tered Guy, glancing uncasily to minute. I searched all over the thing come towards me across story. "Ilo was muttering to him to have found out what had frigh wards the forest. "I don't know place, and went down to the beach, the water, and It was a bontself, though I couldn't hear what toned him?" suggested Napoleon. if thero's time to tell it. I sup and even poked about in eaves Hallo, there's old Napoleon!" ho was muttering. Then he began "Then you'd have bumped. Into pose you know who it was barged.You surprise me," murmured thought, and felt Jolly pleased; creeping about the bench as though your sister and Co." into you like that?"

But then I saw only one person he was scared of something. He

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"Well, I didn't, anyhow," retor Napoleon, "I haven't an iden," answered."But it was no go. Nothing was in the boat, and that puzzled didn't seem to have any plan of ted Guy, "and in cases like this Napoleon, excepting that it was doing. So at last I returned to me. You see, I knew that Sefton action-was something like a shin you don't always do the right someone with a very pointed hond.the hotel, thinking that you'd was out, too, and thought you'd that had lost ita ruddur, if you thing. I tell you, my mind was But did you see that little episodo, probably thought better of it and taken him along with you." know what I mean. At last he all tied up in knois, with all this Guy? If so, why didn't you stop returned, too. But your room was That's right-I did, nodded dived towards the road, and I business. It was getting on my hlm 7"

I still empty, and then I get the wind Napoleon. "I think I can guess thought I'd seen the last of him, nerves. And then there was an- I had. This "I was trying to stop him, doit,"

who was in that boat!"

and I was even thinking of going other vague ides ¡up properly." retorted Guy, "I was chasing him "Jolly nice of you," said Napo "You can? Well I'm guessing, off in that boat, Napoleon, to try chap had come from the wreck, when you and that bobby cameleon: "Go on,

hadn't ho? At least, I concluded What did you do he's a lunatle! He was rowing as and find you." lumbering along. It was Luigi." next? Ring the fire alarm?" fast as he could, na though he

he had, and now you tell me I was "What, that miserable little Ita-

"No-I went to Se'ton's room. life depended upon it, and when

right. I thought that if I caught hint up I might get some news of Ian?" exclaimed Napoleon, He was out, too. Really, I thought found out it wasn't you I thought "Yes, that miserable little Ita-overybody was going loony! Any- wouldn't show myself till I did

(Continued on Pago 13.) Han," nodded Guy. "Look here" way, I couldn't get you off my know who it was. So I kept out Nappy"

mind, so out I went again, and of the way, in the shadows, and "Napoleon, please. Nappy Is arched another part of the heacht, watched him bench his boat, Out. strictly reserved."

"Oh, shut up! This isn't the and I was just about to return and he jumped, a tall follow-

"With a beard?” timo for assing about! Look give the whole thing up when here, Napoleon Bonaparte, what the dickens is happening? Why

when an extraordinary thing hap "Yes, with a beard. But do you pened. I say," he broke off, an-mean to say you've met him?" xlously. "How are you feeling? "Well, I wouldn't any wo've been ia Luigi haunting this forest, and If you think you could move, I introduced, exactly," replied Na- could tell you the rest while we're polcon, but we have sort of walking."

why le a policeman erasing him? And why are you here"

"And, once more, why are you?" interposed Napoleon. "After we all came back from the bont, we found you still missing"

"What? Have you really been to the boat, then?"

"Oh, Lord, Guy, don't you know groaned anything?"

Napoleon. "Yes, wo went to the boat, and a whole heap of things happened dead men and lunatics and tele-

Napoleon tapped his head, "The bee seems to be going," reported. "In fact, I think it's one. But where do you want us to walk to?"

Guy pointed northwards, to- wards the path along which Napo- leon and the constable had been travelling when the ery hand drawn them to the wood.

"Ovor in that direction," said phone wires cut and goodness Guy. "And the quicker we start, knows what else bealdes-and when we counted up alx absentees, the better. You know, I'm not

we thought it time to do a little "hunting. So Softon fetched the polico, and a hunting we did go. You and Luigi were two of tho six, so now there are only four left. I think I've done my whack. Did you leave the hotel to chase Luigi?"

"No, I didn't," answered Guy, again glancing towards the forest, aud then turning and storing to wards the north. "I loft the hotel to chase you

"Me?"

"Yes. You're not a bad fellow, Napoleon; bat you're a prize ass, and no mistake. I never meant you to take that allly bet serious-! ly, and you've given me a proper scaro."

"Glad to hear it," responded Napoleon. "I've had some proper ecares, too, I say, I think I'll sit down again for a jiffy. You know, I banged my head a bit."

Guy looked at-him-anxiously. "I say, old chap, are you bad?" ho asked.

"No. But a couple of minutes will just set mo on my feet again."

"Then I'm Jolly glad I turned back, and let the bobby finish the chase," Bald Guy, helping his com panion down to a grassy mound. "That better? Good. Yes, I arw you go down, though I didn't know who you wore. In the excitement, and it suddenly occured to me that I'd better come back and have a look. Good thing I did, eh? I-I wish you felt better, though. 1-fact is-I want some help."

And once more his eyes roved northwards.

"Then I'm your man," answered Napoleon, as soon as my head stops buzzing—and It's buzzing

bumped into each other. That boat he benched was our boat, Guy-that is, the boat Sefton and I rowed out to the wreck in. We found him on the wreck, and be stole our boat behind our backs, leaving us there with a dead man for company."

murmured "My hat!"

Guy, pausing. "Do you mean that? I thought you were rotting just now when you spoke about dead men and lunatics."

"Yes, I mean it."

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