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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1933.

'SHADOWS BY

BY THE SEA"

A Summer Mystery BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON

CHAPTER XXVIL

"Inside the Cottage." "Mirronneau!! murmare, Icon. "He's outside again. strike that match, Guy 1"

wide with amazement, which quick-beastly lonely place, old chap. Bit ly changed to horror, Turting, no nerve-racking, zh, staying hore wit atved buck through the room irom na follow in that condition--and Napo-Which he had come, and taat was p'r'aps. those beasts coming back Don't the last they saw of him.

again. I don't much care to think But they heard him scrambling of you staying here. out through the window.

"And I don't much care to think "Oh, my God!" murmured Napo-of you staying hero," hon saintly. "I think I was born Napoleon. "Go back and report to

"Why not?? twifspored Guy, un easily. "We've got to see and Fyne's bore somewhere."

to scare that chap!"

retorted

your beautiful afster, and then

The wind moaned diamally, and heated a kettle of water and made little white gleams spoke or troubled some tam. · He took a cup into tho waters. With eatustaction Napo- naut and hold it to Mr. Fyno's lips, feon noticed that, towards, the east, out there was no response or move- a faint tinge of groyness now layment, and he did not know how to upon the horizon. It was very uminister it, or even whether it the less. The dark night would down. He drank it himself, thoro- Zaint, but it boro ita incasago none would be wise to try and forca it soon be over, and the cold grey hour fore, instead. of dawn was at hand.

Suddenly Napoleon shivered, turned, and re-entered the cottage.

The minutos crawled by. Ho performed one gruesome task effec- Voly. He managed to lift Mr.

le closed and bolted the door, and Fyne from the floor to a sofa in then went into the little sitting-the sitting-room. Even this did they had efected their original on, stupor, and he lay on the sofa in- room through the window of which not disturb the drugged man's An exclamation from Guy drow turn with a doctor and a thousandcrance. The window was still widert, like a log. Napoleon ant on a thinkin' Grat. What's going to be up againat it was a silent, motion-I can hold out, I'll barriendo the He not only closed it, bút locked it,bours of the past hours began to et buck, "but let's do a bit of his attention to the wall. Propped policemon, if you hurry, I expect open, and how Napoleon closed It. chair by his side and watched him. More minulas crawled by. The less tigure...

place, and won't let anybody in who and pulled the blind down. "Fynel" he gasped. -.`

doesn't know the password.”

The password

"Yes, I know," Napole n whisper.

that Frenchman's attitude, if he hears us or seen our fight?"!

“Oh, yes—there's "that" to con- sider," muttered Guy. "But he's got do grudge against us, has he?" Napoleon laid his hand on Guy's shoulder and withdrew him from the direction of the front door where they could converso a little more freely.

"Waterloo," said Napoleon. 'No, no-1 lost that. - Make it Baryl.".

"And you expect to win that?" smiled Guy. "Well, if I can give you n leg up towards that victory, I'm all for it." -

To declare that I'm happy would tell on him. Forhaps the ton, too, The discovery of Mr. Fyne was

be absurd," he rellected. "I will bad its offect. He stopped listen- ing for noises, and the form on the not unexpected, yet it proved to be

examine the athor windows." 30 grew vague and dim and die. one of the most unnerving of all

Taking the lamp from the hall, tant. Now it was here, now It was the experiences through which

he toured the whole of the lower

gone. At one moment it was vital, Napoleon Truelove had passed

floor, and ascertained that the win at the next meaningless. Napolcon Hore was the man who had been

down and the door wore as they Truelove was growing drowsy missing for a week, and who had

should be. Then he went over the

Ho slept. Not very peaceably. Alled their minds ceaselessly during "God bless you." beamed Napo-upper floor in the same way, en- A girl's face tantalized him. Every pli that period. When last they leon. "May I call you brother 7" during Immediate unpleasantacaa time he tried to ace the face, some had acon him, he had been genlai Guy had not underrated the un- for the sake of future security. figure 7 Jod between pollczman, and amiling, as full of life and pleasantness of remaining behind. Its received several small shocks, a sca ćuptain, an inquisitivo old energy us any of them. Now, he Despite his outward levity. Napo-onco nearly jumping out of his skin man, a raving lunatic. And, then, reclined, like a mummy, against a leon did not fool in the least joyful st sight of his own reflection in a there was a throbbing in his head. dingy cottage wall-alive, they be as he cautiously opened the front mirror; but when the tour was That was dug, he decided, to his loved, but showing no outward sign door and as Guy even more cauti- over, and he was back in the lower fall in the wood, when he had struck of it. What had happened to this ously walked out of it. The gravel ball again, he told himself that he the tr20 stump. Throb-throb, tragle figure during the past seven scrunched under Guy's feat with was repaid for his terrors, for now throb-throb. Yes, of course, it was days? Through what had he disconcerting loudness, but no sign ao ono could enter the cottage the tree-trunk. But acon

theory grew unsatisfactory. Ho condition?

ears than their own, and there was In the kitchen, he found a "I don't think I'll mind what sort no interference.

oll-ntove. He also found tea and a fe ant bolt upright, with a start of punishment in dealt out to thoa Napoleon watetrul his companion) tin half-filled with preserved milk. | Through the cold groyness of the two fellows," muttered Napoleon, go, and then stared out across the Partly because the idea of tea dawn come the muffled throbbing of Jaa he bent down beside the im-sea into which, just on his right, seemed good to him, and partly be-n motor-boat. "Why would he skednddlo?" mobile figure. "Pretty first-class the littlo river raй.

cause he wanted an occupation, he

(To be Continued.) "Suppose you were waiting out-bluckguards, aren't they alde a cottage with a doped manB Jove, they are," answerźd inside, and nobody else and sud-Guy. "I say you don't think he's denly the doped man started making dead, do you?"**

"It's quite true that Mirronneau hasn't any grudge against us," admitted Napoleon, in a low voler, "but we're not quite inside his mind, all the same. He's is a dangerous mood-hair-crazy with dope and emotion and, don't for get, he's got some game on of his own. You and I represent law and order, after all, so he's not likely

klas us!"

"I've got an idea,” replied Guy. "Let's light up and move about the place. He'll think it's Fyne; and ekcdaddle."

this

to throw his arms round us and phased before reaching this pitiable came that it was heard by other without giving him warning: mall tried to hold on to it. It alld away.

a noise. Wouldn't you think it a "No, Ire's not dead-his heart's ghost, or something, and alted-beating," said Napoleon, applying his ent. "Do you know anything about First Aid, Gay?"

addle 7"

"I might," agreed Napoleon, smiling grimly. "In fact, if some- one had not given me hope of a Higher Life, I'm Buro I would But although Mirronnan has no hope of a Higher Life, ho's gone too far down towards the Lower Life to do the dependable, coward- ly thing. And besides, Guy, do we want Mirronneau to akedaddle?"

“Don't wa?"

"No."

"Nor do 1. What dolts we are, eh? I shall lenra, after this.

I haven't the ghost of a notion what we ought to do with him." raised his, volce, and called, "Hallo! Mr. Fyne! Hallo!"

He

flicker of an eyelid. Guy atruck There was no response, not the another match, and, discovering a small temp on a bracket, lit it. “The feeble light hardly added to the galety of the pluce.

"Well, I'm not sure. You know, this game sort of gets hold of one. There's lots of policemen abroad

"What had we better do?" naked to-night. It would be rather love- ly. wouldn't it, if we could keep Guy, helplessly. "Shall I rummage Mirianneau here until they came about and try and make a cup of along and spotted him. I'm sorry ten??

respectable

for the chap, and all that, but, hangj "Not a bad notion," replied Nupo- it all, one must, be

leun. "But a tot of whlaky might Then all I can say is you're be more useful. Those brutes are respectable idiot," retorted Guy."sure to have had some."

“And you needn't think I'm going But all they found was an empty

to stay here in the dark

bottle. any'

longer. Why, damn it, man, Fyne's

"Or tourse, the first thing wo lying around here somewhere-aught to do is to get back to the perhaps within two Inches of us" hotel and tell Miss Fyne that we've That's true," nodded Napoleon, found her father," exclaimed. Guy, "Yes of course-we must do some- suddenly. thing."

He thought hard. "Should. "Yea, and also tell your sister we parley with the enemy, do you that we've found you," added Napo- think?"

leon. "But-can we leave him?"

He pointed to the figure againsta the wall, and Guy shook his head. "Sweet notion. But look here, I

"Don't Rue how

we can," 12 say, there's two of us. What about frowned. "Heaven knows what that little dissertation on bravery might happen here during our ab tve had inst night? If two English-sence: Those fellows may come men are afraid of one Frenchman back-"

"He's more likely to parley with hla hatchet!"

and one hatchet, they'd better not "And we don't know how far old make any more five shilling bets "Frenchy has fled." interposed Napo

"Oh, you've WON your five leon, grimly. "While I'm here, all ahillings, old chap, I'll grant that," I've got to do is to show him my murmured Guy. "Only Good Lord mug, and off he bounces hey presto. -someone's moving?”

But, if I go, he may return and "My hat," muttered Napoleon. get funny. Oh, damn! Have we Soft stops were coming towards got to stay hers till them. "Fyne" thought Napoleon.fetched?"

we're

But Fyno was lying somewhere "One of us could go," proposed doped. At least, he ought to bo; Guy

after all, they had not seen him yet." "Which one?" enquired Napoleon, They might be wrong. Perhaps "I don't mind. We could toss for there was someone eiso-someone it. You see, we ought to get a not doped Perlaps they had doctor, too. Poor old Fyne may drawn conclusions too hastily. The come round all by himself, but It's Ateps drew closer, and suddenly a bit of a riak to count on." Napoleon blurted out:

**Match!"

"Yes, you've got some brains, Gay, after all," nodded Napoleon. There was a scratch and a splut-"One of us has got to sally forth, ter. The next moment, Napoleon Are you game?" found Mirronneau's burning eyes upon him.

Napoleon had an odd sensation that all this had happened yenis before. As a matter of fact, it had practically happened only a fow hours before. As Mirronneau stared at Napoleon, his eyes grew

Guy looked at his companion doubtfully.

"Yes, I'm game." he answered. "But-won't the chap who stays here have the nastiest Job?"

"Neither of the jobs is exactly. oprightly," abserved Napoleon.

"They're not. But this is

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