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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"

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Summer Mystery BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON

CHAPTEN XXXI.

"Listen!" exclaimed Mr. Griddle.j Root's whistla shrilled from the dopthe.a

"Hurry!" ahouted Mr. Griddlo, "There's a big war on down there,

Yes, but where are you golar?" Ma! I'm sixty, and have been depatut to mind the motor-boat," "Well, I reckon I'll mind that |said the man, a

"One Half of the Story." For an old man, Mr. Griddlo was distinctly active; when he desired, too, he could bo distinctly cat-like. None of his three companions, con-demanded the man." cealed with him behind the angie, bad heard him slip from tacir, side, and neither the captain nor the marshman knew that no had follow- ed them out. But unfortunately or perhaps fortunately; it made little difference to Mr. Griddle he had trodden on a loose board as he had hurried along the passage, and it was the sound of the loose

board that had a sent the captain and the marshman back into the chamber and into the arms of the police.

"Ähl" exclaimed the form. "Qulekt" replied Mr. Griddle. "They've got 'em you're wanted

"Well, I reckon you won't," retorted Mr. Griddle; and the next moment the man was on his back, counting many, more stars than the sky could show.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1933.

the ground, and held a flask to his lips. The Frenchman, opened his eyes..

I of

bitter, wisappointment.

ho

wo'd bettor come along here and ace whether we could find out any- thing"

"I wis' I know zat,” Interposed the Frenchman, "If I know zat, it mako alize difference, You were 'ere a week ago-xo day Mr.

"Good—good!” godded Mr. Grid- die, encouragingly.) “kunta Buties

Heurist you fut om niirioumbau BUBOK ... his kead A strange alation entered Mr. Griddle's breast, party due to the year. Grical stifled a Fyne disappear?' physical reactions of the moment, isut, an instant sater, nope revived.

“No, 1 came just after. 'And so did Barotti. 1 was an ordinary and party of the mental comfort of

"in xero," murmured mirronneau. guest at the hotel. Baretti turned activity after days of waiting and

"What!" whispered Mr. Griddie. himself into a waiter and a damn inaction the ought to hurt on "Do you mean-they're in the bad one! He's a bungier, that fel- to the bottom half-a-dozen times, costago?" Arronneau nodded. low. Looks to me as if he'll swing He did not know the rocks. All "Then, for God's sake, man--į””

Mirronneau haid up his nand, [for murder."... he know was how to handle a motor- not called his

a minute," "I tell you-

"Murder!" gasped the French- boat. Fate had name yet, however, and in a few murmured. It is not good to go man, and look fearfully towards the house. "Etry to kill Mr. minutes he was clear of that parzere till tell you. My cad, it spin. ticular danger, and was wrestling

In one minute." He closed his Fyn-1" eyes. “Zen you say what to do.” "No, no! But it was necessary with the spray.

"Very well, vory well," agreed to arrange a little accident for the the old man, curbing his impatience, waiter aiready in possession, and There was a pause. Then the Luigi-Barotti, that is— arranged too big an accident. The other Frenchman spoke again.

you come 'ere?" he naked, fellow's died." He paused, and added, with almost childlike sim- plicity. "That was a pity, Mir "I'll tell you my story, while you ronneau. I've indulged in my little pull yourself together," replied Mr. hobby for a good many years, and Griddie, frowning. "But we've not up till now it's been a clean re got much time, you know. I'd cord."

Whore will I be to-morrow?" ha naked the spray, as it stopped the And, while be counted the stars, side of his boat and drenched him. Mr. Griddle sild over the side and "Will you be tossing me about, ch? landed in the motor-boat. A few Or will I be answering questions seconds later, a little boat that could in a police-station? Or will I be weakly. "It is too ard, all is move left the side of a big ship as I am now and with fifty thou-too 'ard to understand." that could not.

sand in my pocket?"

Then man who had been counting stars staggered up to his feet.

He knew,, vaguely, where the river mouth was. He had passed the marshman's cottage during his rambles. Away towards the east grey began to appear. Dawn was at hand.

Booner"

a rather

Mr. Griddle galhared what had happened, though 'he did not stop to make enquiries. He was in no mood to loiter. When he heard the "HI" he shouted, ineffectively.

"Oh, vor! clean," muttered Mir- police whistle, his impressions were "HI to you," Mr. Griddle shouted

"No--you téll," insisted theronneau. confirmed, and he slipped along at back; and again he smiled, although

Frenchman, almost fretfully, "My Mr. Griddle shrugged his shoul- an oven greater paco, As he ren-death dogged him on all sides, and

Alded by the grey, he ateored end-I mus know. I will not be ders. Wo take, but we do not ched the ladder that led out of the lay beneath him in the form of

his course. The breeze was too fool any longer. "Ow do I know-7" kill," he observed. "You did not stifling interior, out into the clean, cruel, jagged teeth. Awest air, and liberty, a form sud-

"All right, all right," interposed | kill la Comtesse a month ago. You But Mr. Griddle did not worry, fresh for comfort, yet it comforted. donly rone before him,

As he had said, he was sixty, and him. He knew that, whatever Mr. Griddle, deciding to humour merely caused her the trifling in- having taken risks at twenty, when difculties he was encountering, him. "When you didn't turn up, convenience of losing

before him, he was they were less than would be on Baretti and I grew anxious. We valuable pearl necklace. And the all life lay even more ready to take them at countered by any beats following read about the wreck, of course, wreck of the boat on which you sixty, when most of his life lay him from the wreck. Provided he but we thought you'd saved your wore bringing the necklace over to at your best speed, constable

river mouth, he skin, like the others. Even though us caused us similar inconvenience. "Right!" responded the constable, behind, him. He'd be caught any could reach the

advantage of at there was talk of one man missing, Well, we three have done pretty and hurried on.

way, some time. Who wasn't reckoned on an

we didn't dream it was you-and well in the past, so I suppose one Mr. Griddle smiled. Even when Why not a rock, or a white-capped least half-an-hour.

Presently, as the blackness mel nobody was washed up."."

mustn't complain." companioned by anxiety, he could wave? They wero no crueller thanted, he saw the point he was making smile. He ascended the ladder, and a bed, met two more figures.

The mystery of life and death for, and slightly altered his course. "Down with you!" he, shouted swept through him the fascina. In five minutes, he was entering the "Down with the lot of you. ting mystery, the fearful mystery, river mouth. In two more, the "They've got the rascals, but they're the staggering mystery. Death boat was moored, and he had putting up a fight-p"

the great blackness into which, he jumped ashore. "Right!" said the constables; and was dashing: life, the little laugh- raced down, with others after thein.ing gleams of foam that came and Mr. Griddin engaged in only one went brilliant and proud and con- more conversation on the wreck quering for an instant, but the Ho had reached the side, when a next Instant gone to be succeeded man's hand shot out and gripped by countless others. Which was

"Mfrronneau!" he called again. hii.

the final victor, the darkness or the

A figure rose from the ground, **Bad guesa 1" laughed Mr. Grid-light? That was the mystery that dle. "My namn's Griddle. The kept one guessing, the mystery staggered towards him, and crump- inspector wants you below." beste which all lesser mysteries led into his arms.

The man hesitated.

paled. -

す

He looked towards the cottage. It was in darkness.

Mirronneeu," he called, softly. He walked towards the cottage, slowly, cautiously. Nothing alir- red.

"Hey-whit's this?" exclaimed the old man. "Mirronneau- it's Griddle Griddla!" Mirronneau made no verbal response, but stir- red slightly. "Hold on "muttered Mr. Griddle. "I'll give you a drop of something."

He lowered the Frenchman to

"No-I was not wash_up," mur- mured Mirronneau, grimly.

"However, I decided at last that

“Ze wreck!” murmured Mir- ronnenu. "Ave you boan zero?"

(Continued on Pago 5;)

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