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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1933.

"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"

A Summer Mystery

CHAPTER XXV ·

"The Coltage by the River" For a few seconds they stared at the black spot where once a light had glimmered. Then Napoleon turned to his companion and said:

BY J. JEFFERSON. FARJEON

They cropt a little closer, and three discovered Un' the morning, now the voices grew more distinct, blown to hita,—I suppono there'll The window of the room in which be a law fragments" left-isit the speakers were standing was likely the police will look any fare avídently open a crack.

thor for the responsible party'-- for awhile, at any rate,”

"I knew it wasn't anything!"

"Only a very vaguo one, A bit would have been a tess-up, and, growled a deep voice. "Just the

of an outline. you know, of his hend.

"What sort of an outline?" "Oh, I don't know. He seemed to be wearing a sort of merchant servios cap or something

nois would hav secondly, any brought those two aut egun-und you support they'd nave been on my sider it was a sort of three cornoted atrair, with me the only one that stood for law and order. A merchant service cap?" in-t wasn't one to one, it was torce "Hadn't you bottor finish your terposed Napoleon, and groaned to one, and I decided to bunk for story, old chup and in double- softly. "Oh, my God! This le got- quick time? You've brought melting almost too lovely to bear here, but you've not told mo why What do you mean? Do you even yet. Have wo got to storm know the fellow?" the Jolly old cottage-or what?"

"I don't know what we ought to do." muttered Guy, But I'll tell you the position-or, at least, what the position was when I left it- and then wo..can" deciple."

"Not yot. And I don't want to. Well, proceed. This gentlo, amfa- blo, blue-eyed seaman stood at the door-?"

Wind."

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"Ay, mobbo you're right," came another voice, also doep and gruff. The wind's getting up-and that'll suit us, I'm thinking."

"How?" demanded the first voice. "It'll mean a rough trip-and I ain't a good sailor.”

"But it'll deaden wound, Joe," nap, on my way back i met Luigi.anid the second volca. "And that's Goodness knows how long I spent what we want, isn't it?" chasing nim, or what he was up to. Thon wo bumped into you-and here we are."

henda if we turned tall now-and

Thoro was a silence. Then Jos growted, savagely...

"It's a hell of a business. I've always kept out of this sort of thing before, and I didn't bargain for it"

"Nor did I bargain that Nycroft would como poking his nose into it," retorted the skippor. "That's what queered the pitch. He was getting too inquisitive. He'd have wanted his alico."

"Yes, there'll be the hell of a: sound," grunted the speaker ad-

"And he could have had it, for Here we are," agreed Napoleon right about the oven yet, ekipper."

dressed as Joe. "I'm sure you're me."

"Well, he couldn't, for mo! It "Though where we soon snbi DO 18

"Oh, for God's saka, you're not would have been too big a slice! quite another matter, I suppose "And then he went In again, and we'd batter go on, en? it's two to going to begin that all over again, You don't know Nycroft. He'd the quarrel recommenced.. I did three now, instead of one to three. 40 you?" exclaimed the speaker have grabbed the lot, and found. addressed as skipper. Have you some way of getting us hauled up "I wish Softon were here," re-hear a sentence or two thon. Noth-Or, if one of the three has been

for the other matter. Ho's a dovll plied Napoleon. "He can work ing I could pieco together, though. murdered, as is very probable, it'll got a better plan

"Can't Bay I have-thanks to or, rather, was." The speakor these things-out, but I'm no more One of om shouted, I tell you, It's be two all-er, rather, two against your darned bungun

chuckled suddenly and sardonical- good at them than you are. What got to end to-night-wa've got to two and a hatchot. Come along,

"Shut up! We're both in this. ly. "And now, Joe-I wouldn't se the position?" All, at anos he settle the thing before sunrise." Guy, let's get it over, I don't and we've got to stand by each wonder if Nycroft doesn't get sad- seized Guy's arm, and pulled him "The sun will rise in about an suppose we could ever hold up our other. The one thing that won't died with all the blame. It's really towards a buak. "If they've put hour," muttored Napoleon. out their light to try and got a "And then another thing I heard 've got to hold up my head. We help us is another quarrel. Any rathor pretty, when you think of at all a bad look at us," he whispered, "we'd was, 'You've bungled it! That was must go and stop the bloodshedway, it's a chance, and we've got it. No-it wasn't

to take it. It will divert auspicion idea ycroft falling over the cliff." better not give 'em a chanco," another volco. "You've bungled it. even if it's only our own."

"Oh, woll, that's done. It's these "They couldn't see all this dis-Even if we do, what are we going Cautiously they left the pleasant from us-for a bit, anyhow, till we tance," returned Guy. "Still, you're to do with I lost the rest of It, concealment of the bush, and fol can clear off. And the only alter- others I'm worrying about now.". native is to wait till things are dis-- "All right, Joo. We'll let 'em cight--we've got to be careful, but I thought I heard the word lowed the track to the river bank covered and to hold-out our wrists stay, ch. And when Fyne and When that lunatic chap reached upstairs. Then this mud fellow The cottage stood on the further for the hand-cffe"

Mirreneau return to their aensos the cottage, he didn't go in, but! crept up to the front-door and tried bank, and the river barely more

"It may come to that," observed and tell their stories to the police, crouched down outside. So I crou-[it, but it was locked. He seemed than a creck, was traversed by a

it'll be all bright and shining for ched, down, too. There were voices quito doments. Instead of re- small bridge. They felt distinctly Joe, grimly

"But it, may not," retorted the you and me, chi" There was an- Insido. I couldn't hear what they turning, he crept on round the unhappy as they crept over the other. To hell with your gloom other short silence, and a shadow saldI wasn't close enough. But place, as though he were looking bridge, bat evidently they had not invest. D'you suppose. I couldn't appeared on the blind, as though the other fellow seemed to hear far something."

been seen, and a few moments later have been gloomy myself all this one of the speakers had made a bits here and there, for every now "And you crept after him?"

movement. "You're a fool to start and then he muttered, and shook "I did. He poked about, and at low hedge that enclosed the cottage time, and given it up

"I wish to God you had!" thinking at the eleventh hour, Joo. his fist, and did all the melodrama- last entered a sort of bara or out-grounds. Through a gap in the

"Bah!

Wishing's no good. 1There are times when one mustn't tle stuff. Then the volcas grow building."

hedge, they saw a dark figure crou-i louder, and a fine old quarrel scemer "And you followed him in?"? ching. Ita outline was faint, but didn't, so thore's an end of it. The think. Let's get upstairs now and "No, thanka I waited under a unmistakable. So was the outline prize was too big. Damn it all, see how things are going. This of something which the figure held you wont into this with your eyes delay's been a confounded nuisance, In his hand.

open, didn't you? You were going and we daren't delay any longer. "History repeats Itself!".

Then the voices ceased, the "Shut up intorrupting, I waited "He's got some patience," whis-to get your share. And who

know-- His voice grew.enger. [shadow disappeared from the blind, No need to confine it to the past till he came out, and--and when he pered Guy. "Shall wa pounce upon We may be lucky, even yet!" and the speakers evidently loft the tense," murmured Napoleon. came out." The speaker, shud- him?",

"No, not for a minuto," Nape-:

The figure crouching under the room." "The volcca stopped as soon as dered slightly. "when he came

Napoleon and Guy turned to each the madman exclaimed, and yes, out he was carrying a hatchet." leon whispered back, as low voices wall raised his hatchet, and shook

other. I'd forgotten that the light was "Good Lord," grunted Napoleon, rose from the cottage, and the light it.

"You know, you don't give me "Fyno be's In there!" whis put out suddenly, just as it is now."And-or-do you suppose he's suddenly reappeared again. "I'd

"God, what devils!" muttered I dare say they peeped out of the still wandering about with the hat-like to hear a bit of that conversa-any credit," continued the skipper, pored Guy. window, but both the mad chap and chet?"

tion going on in there before we "Nycroft is on board, and so is

Mirronneau." The figure under Napoleon. interrupt it.

the wall again quivered. "And in "What shall we do? Rush the a couple of minutes, Fyne will be place?" as quiet as they are-and we'll have "No-weit. I've an idea our him on board. When they're all (Continued on Page 7.)

to be developing, The madman got excited, too, and once gave an ex-bush clamation of raga. I tell you, it was most uncanny-"

I squeezed ourselves away so they "Don't ask mo! It was clear he couldn't spot us. And then some- wanted to get inside with the hat- one came to the front door, and chet," looked out.".

"Then it was clear you should

"Not a bit. Firstly, the result

"Did you get a view of him?" have stopped him." naked Napoleon.

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