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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER

"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"

A Summer Mystery BY JEFFERSON FARJEON

CHAPTER XXVI

"A Meeting of The Shadows."

Frenchman for having at last Scored a point. Whatever the

'renchman's record, and it appear.!"

"It must have boan," replied Joe. "Why?" d

"There was no reason to Invent

"Well~~~~200're two men, nint wa1" responded Smith.

ad "to" bo_a_black one, the tw it. And it explains how he got watchers considered him com away" paratively spotless beside Joe and

"Ah, that's right onough," agrood. Captain Smith,

Smith. All the same, Joe, I don't Joo; in a slow velco "We've got was?" Mirronneau did not reply. "Suppose I' de twist your neck.gree there was no reason for him to hear what ho's got to tell us be "Come along what did you do you on?" threatened the captain. to invent it. Ho'd want to keep us Did you leave the room? St. "Zen no more words come from from going back to that boat, fore we begla breaking_nocka."

That's right," nodded Smith, irronncaa was silent. "Did you it, and you ear no more lies," au- wouldn't ho? Damn him. Why In spite of their resolva, It is

avored Mirronneau, blandly. But didn't he stay asleep, na ho was in- doubtful whether Napoleon and Guy and again addressed Mirronncau.

All at once, Mirronneau found his the poor fellow could not keep it up, tended?". could have retained their neutral"Now, look hero, Froggy. You're a

a shrill for a sudden pressure toüsenad nis "Are you still thinking of going attitude had not the events of the fool, ns you've always boon. You've voice. Ho broke into

tongue again, Ver good-I tell back there, Smith?" asked Joo, next few seconds occurred with never go this right, from the start, laugh...--

"I will tell you," he cried. "I you," he said, quickly. "I see two doubtfully. If his story was true Buch rapidity. As the door opened, and if you had you'd have saved a

-those two men will still be on the the waiting man drew back his arm, mint of trouble-for-the lot of us-" seo zis dead man. Mon Dieu! I men."

"Who were they?" and an instant later it shot forward "Animal Choat! Mon Dieu" run up to za deck, and-"

bloated place." ""Ow do I know? I do not know "Quiet, I say! Listen-I'm giv. But again ho hesitated, while murderously; but the Intended

nudged Guy. zem. And It is dark. At first, I victim was saved by a subconscious ing you your last chance, though Napoleon gently alertness which had been devolop-you don't deserve it. You call me a Napoleon knew what the French-sink zoy, are ghost. My mind is still black-black wis zo stuff you ed during the past few days-the cheat, boy? Well-what do you man had seen that time.

"To blazes with you!" exclaimed give me, and ze dead man shock, alertness of a man who, standing call yourself? You're the worst

"We'd better stick together, on the edge of a great precipice, is kind of cheat, because you're a fool Smith, angrily. What do you fly. Zay try to catch me, but I am constantly alive to the fact that into the bargain, and fools are a keep on stopping for? What hap too quick. Zey go below"

"The devil they did!" muttered whatever we do," growled the other. "You're getting sensible, Joe, In somebody may come along and damned nuisance in this game.pened on deck? Tell me quick, or shove him over. There was a sharp Why, of course, I'm interested in you'll get your neck twisted. What Smith. growl as the emerging figure duck-your little game! Who wouldn't happened and how did you get "Zo dovil zey did, And ze dovil' 1[your old age! We're done two took zaira boat, and ze dovil I come don't stick together. With Mir ed. The assaliant, overbalancing be? And-oven now-If you'll be away?"

ore. And to devil I try to kill you, ronneau loose again, it's a as his body shot forward and his sensible and share and share alike,

as you try to kill me. And ze devil chance we've got anyway. But swinging arm met nothing but air, it may not be too late."

I get 'old of your nose, and twist there's one thing you've overlooked. stumbled desperately, and found

We need money. And didn't some- It-501" himself embraced by two great

A cry of anger came from the thing strike you about Mirronneau captain, and for an instant his grip didn't he give you the idea that on the Frenchman relaxed. It waswell, that he'd made a bit of pro- the instant the Frenchman wanted, gress on that boat? I'd damn well and had planned for. Like a flash like to know what he did whon ho of lightning, or perhaps like the gel crawled out that first time, before which the captain had called him, he returned and saw Nycroft Ho

wouldn't tell us." he darted away.A

A FIILS.

Mirronneau grew calm, and shrugged his shoulders..

"Ver good.. 1 tell you. I go on deck and I see two man."

"That's true," nodded Joo." "You can trust us, Frenchy."

"Oh, I trust you?" cried Mirron-"God!" muttered Smith. And "Let go, you devil" ho gasped, neau, wildly. "I trust you very then snapped out auddenly, "You're

lying!"* “Likely!" barked the owner of line! I trust you to keep me on zo

"Ver good. I lio," agroed Mir- the great arms; and, while ha held boat, and to blow me up wis at on grimly, he called over his dead man. 'Oo is 'os? Nycroft, you ronneau, and shut his mouth.

"You're a fool, Smith," said Joe, shoulder, "Steady, Joo-put him down. I want you out here."

frowning, "We're got to hear "Davil, devill" sobbed the fellow

about this. Lies or no lles. Go on, on whom the tables had been turn

you," he added, to the Frenchman.

"No: I le." ed.

cail Imi I 'ear you. And to bring 'Im to me, when I lie asleep wis your dam stuff, and to make me go off my mind when I wake up!**

You ain't a bad hand at being "Oh, you saw him when you woke a devil yourself, diirronnenu," re-up, then, ah?" enquired Smith, with torted his captor. "How the the a glance at Joe. gentleman in question did you get; "Not ze firs' time, no. My mind hero?"

-it is black. If I am bad, it is not "What's the trouble Smith7" so bad like you. I wake wis ze camo Joe's voice from the interior, black mind-"

and then Joe's form appeared--n "You weren't intended to wake at great; hulking form, which case all, sonny," murmured Smith. might have rendered flabby. But "I know zat!" spat out the Joe had never enjoyed much ease, Frenchman, savagely. "You keep which possibly explained why he me just enough awake to begin- was now risking so much to obtain zose first days-but aftaire when it. "Hell" he muttered. "It's it is no good, and I do not do what that foroign Insect!"

you say I'must go to sleep for

"How did you got away from the long time. Ah, but I am not a boat, Mirronneau ?" demanded fool! I go to sleep quick on pur- Smith. Mirronnoau glared help poso, to make you stop and to give less into the rough coat against me no mere of your stuff. And, which ho was being ruthlessly when 1 wake up- Ho paused prossed. "Come along-answerabruptly. mal How did you get away?"

"Ah, I am not to get away, no!" spluttered Mirronneau. "I am to stay zero till I rot. I belong to you, la not zat 807 You can do what you like wis' me, is not zat sof Keep me days and days and days, and make me to sleep"

"Oh, shut all that!" exclaimed Smith, angrily. "Shall I do a little more to you? Break your neck, ch?"

"Go slow, skipper," interposed

up,

"Well-when

woke you Froggy?" repeated Smith, watch- ing him

The Frenchman hesitated. He looked sullen.

"You know," he said. "I see zia dead man by my side."

Again, Joc and Smith exchanged glances.

"You said you didn't see him the first time," Joe remarked. "What lid 'you do before you saw him-- the second time, whenever that!

"We don't think you're lying." "No, I li." What good to 'car mo? Twist my neck."

Napoleon again nudged Guy, and Guy nudged him back. It was a wordless appreciation of the

"Catch him!" shouted Smith, Joe blundered forward, but was too late. Mirronneau had vanished utterly.

A short allonce. fell. Then the captain barked out, "I'm game, it you are."

poor

"You mean, he might have-3" "Ho cartainly might have. And, if that's so, we may just be in time to nip in and finish the job. It's "No-let him go." exclaimed a thin chance, but it is a chanco, Smith, as Joe was about to follow. and the only one. If you and I are "We've got to do some quick think-going to get clear, Joe, we'll need

(Continued on Page 5. ing. Spose his yarn was true?"

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