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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

"SHADOWS BY THE SEA"

A Summer Mystery BY 1. JEFFERSON FARJEON.

CHAPTER XXXIII

"The Shadows Dissolve"

"I say whero's old Sefton ?" exclaimed Napoleon Truelove, want to tell him!"

Ho was pacing the beach with Beryl Haines, and his condition was emotional. Beryl Inugned.

"You're in a hurry, aren't you, Nappy 7" she replied.

Of course, I'm in a hurry!" he ratorted. "Who wouldn't.be? I've told Miss Fyne, and she's promised to pass it on to her father, I've told Morley, and I've told Guy, I've told your parents, I've told the boots and the parlour maid, and if I don't go on telling people, I'll burst. Where to Seiton? I've not soon him slneo lunch."

there's

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1933.

the past few hours were over for theni, and the shadows tnnt hnd risen from tao zen had supped back, Evon too wreck itself appeared no longer tugubrious, but koomed up, us they neared it, in almost genini welcome.

dark spot? There, to the left. below the water-ime??

"I was wondering whether any of you would notice it," answered Leonard, aming. That's whero our friend burrulineau hid his lattic packet-tno pucket nu. Was conung to collect when ho met the captain "I wonder the captain didn't spol poreon, peering

"He's no fool!"

If you can strike the Heroic Mo-

my evil is spent," it secried to "No, but'a got a spark of decency" ment. It probably surprised old Buy. in him. He had that necklace Griddle when I chucked the jeweis what now sancita 390 cavuse.” when you and the police came at han. And the sun was risin', Lucy and Hut Beu Leonasu on it," lumantu along to the cottage, and he didn't you remember. You know-abour; and the diu hụt come to j down. try to get off with it.”

that sort of thing." He broke of greet them as they even up to "It was dark," Leonard reminded lla explained that," answered suddenly. "But, dash it all gnd to deCK. 1 au nub Luke Luem him, "and the water ony drops as Beryl, slowly. "He said you had hang it all, let's chuck all this lung to track mm, however, no low as this during the spring tides. given it in the hope-how did he lugubrious stuff. I'm feelin' was down below, sitting on an un-Then we must allow for Mirron- might be officially regarded as an fish. I've got to tell Sefton-hallo, pues that may outside the enamer 11sh It out; you remember, and to of it thoroughly and disgustingly sel- comfortable ringe ogivid the deep neau's artiumess. Ho managed to put it that his return

act of grace"

Miss Fyne. Hi Miss which, JOW nours earlier, nad hído it somewhere elsó afterwards.". "Well remembered!”!

Fyno! How's your father? And contained a dent body.

"That's true," nouded Napoleon. "Be quiet! I've not Anished!~ | do you know Bory! and I are going

"But what does it all matter now, But that he did not expect the, to marry each other?"

Then the pool had been in dark- anyway? Wo haven't come to talk police to regard as an act of grace "Yes, 1. have heard the howaries, and a revered its pri- about dull things like that. Have the return of goods which he could once or twice, smiled Jessies, as soned surtaco only won an erec- wo. Beryl? We've come to tell you not possibly got away with." she approached. I think every-trie toren nad been switched on it, about a most marvellous and as- one's heard it. Even father has Now it gommered with sunugat, tonishing thing. Boryl and I aro now-

which enteita rom the west going to be married." "Then he's going along well?" through a gaping hole. Above the

"Hipotay " cried Leonard, jump- exclaimed Beryl. He must be, if water-line, ou other side of the ing up and taking their hands. you've told him—”

aperture, wood and metal Worg "I congratulate you both. Though, "Doesn't follow," murmured Na- moist for several feet, marking the of course, I'm not surprised." polcon. "If a fellow's dying, this falling tide; below distorted, were Beryl. "I'm

areas affected by the rising and "Well, you ought to be," retorted is the kind of news that will save the ship's ribs. And Leonard Set-have been most circumspect. Come sure Nappy and I his life. But I hope your father a going along well, Miss Fyno?ton was gazing at tno rios so in-along, Mr. Truclove. Let's go on he added.

tently that he did

not notice the deck. I can't stop down in this "Yes," she answered. "The nurse approaching trio, until Napoleon stuffy hole any longer." Inslated that I could take an hour gently cougned. or two off..

"No accounting for tastes," he murmured. "inven't you enough of this old huik?"

"He's gone back to the wreck," said Beryl, turning her eyes sen- wards. "I think it exercises à magnetic influence

him. After all, it was the wreck that brought him down here, wasn't | fi?” it 7"

ovar

Napoleon nodded, and became a little more sohor,

"Yes, that's true," he remarked. "Rum business, wasn't it?" Fancy his being attached to the Company that insured that old hulk: Well -the Company won't have to pay out anything now, will it?"

"I don't suppose so," answered Beryl, thoughtfully, "If you make a hole in a ship with the idea of sinking, her, that lets the Company out, doesn't it?”

"Yea-and it lets the water in. Ha, ha, rather good, that?"

way, we

can leave that

“Never mind what he said," re- torted Napolcon. "I say that he might have made a dash, if he'd lked-I gave him the chance and that he refused because he wasn't going to leave Luigi in the lurch. Now, that would prove he had a spark of good in him, wouldn't "It certainly would," agreed Beryl, and don't think I'm trying to quench that apark, Nappy. I can't help wondering a bit, though, whether our opinions aren't being influenced by our own happiness." "Then what about a little trip "Good Lord," murmured Napo-to the wreck?" cried Napoleon. leon. "You don't really mean to "That is, if you could stick us7 say you're happy?"

We're not the mushy kind, you "I'm as happy as you are, idiott know? And Sefton's there." And when one's happy, one tries "I'm going to marry an idiot," to think the best of everybody else. righed iseryl, "but I suppose it can't There's one thing I'm wondering, be helped. Do come, Miss Fyne. Sappy. When you gave that neck-That wreck is such a dismal place nce to Mr. Griddle, did you think that I'm positively longing to "Yes, it is charming," Leonard

went on. breathe a little happiness into it."

had

"Thus, subtly, the lovers de- parted," sald Napoleon, as they faded away.

Jessica looked after them, a little Leonard looked up, and smiled. anxiously. She turned, however, by enough, but not quite. Do you

"Hallo," he said, "Yea, very near-when Leonard spoke to her.

"Well, they seem happy enough, notice how low the water's drop-don't they?" observed Leonard. ping it gives quite a nice view "They do," answered Jessica, of the hole, doesn't it?"

"It's a happy ending for all of us." "Charming," said Napoleon.

(The End)

he would make a bolt for it?”

"At any rate, I'm sure "But, after all, Nappy, It was the

FOR THE POOR "I didn't," he answered.

"Yes, I'd love to," answered Jes-my Company will think it so. You storm that wrecked the ship. It "Well-did you hope he would?" sien. "I was really going to see, though the top portion of the

CONTRIBUTIONS TO ST. didn't sink because of the hole." "Do you know, Sherlock Holmes, suggest it."

hola is quite jagged, there's a

VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY "There's no knowin', my child, I almost did," he admitted, half-

streten of benutiķui curve that no how that hole affected the ques- ashamedly. "But don't draw con they began their journey across them not a snip-building expert, but Paul acknowledges with grateful

The tide was nearly low, and ns rock could possibly have achieved.

The Society of St. Vincent de tion," responded Napoleon. "Any clusions, my child. Little Napo-gently ruffled water, the wreck if the executors of the estate of Mr. thanks the following donations to the leon Truelove knows his littlo duty.stoud out with more than usual dis- W. T. Nycrott, deceased, Imagine and gifts to the Foto on Decem- lawyers and meanwhile, poor old and I wouldn't have handed the tinctness, and its rusty keel glowed that anything is due there for this ber 3, 1933, Nycroft in beyond gettin' anything necklace to old Griddle if I hadn't yellow in the sun. Napoleon re-ship, we'll call that expert in. But Little Flower Club out of it—and Captain Smith has bulloved in him.”

marked that the wreck seemed to don't think it will be necessary Mr. Ho Kom-tong lost his last throw, too." He

"A little late, wasn't it, to start have grown in height, but Jessica frowned. "Queer, Beryl, isn't it,believing in him?" mused Beryl, replied that this

They stared at the 'gap and at was due to the the water, which had now reached Mr. Li Ping how-how some people are going i through hell while others-like "I've a theory that it's never

"No, ma'am," returned Napoleon, spring tide, and that the water was its lowest mark. Suddenly Jessica Mr. Lo Cheung-ahla...

too falling to its lowest point. Then abeut forward, and exclaimed:

Mr. J. M. C. de Castro Basto you and me are going through late to start belleving in anybody, happy silence fell. heaven ?"

The terrors of "Mr. Sefton, what is that little Jimmy's Kitchen 1 Case

Pork & Beans.

"Very queer," she murmured. "I'd thought of that, too, Nappy." "Fyne's all right now, thank God the Nurse said he was going along aplendidly Inst time I -nw her--and so Miss Fyne's O.K., ton, So are we. But I can't help thinkin', you know, of those two rascals, and all that lies before 'em. And of Luigi-poor dovil—("

"Yes, but he behaved rottenly,' interposed Bery), fighting against her sympathy.

"

"Oh, yes. And you can't say too much for the Froggy, elther or.. of old Griddle. Bitt-dash it all— why doesn't one bate those three as one hetes the other two?"

"Perhaps it's because-oh, 'I' don't know just because, although they're bad, they're not, so bad."

"Of course, that's it. Luiz! nnd Mirronnent are just a couple of fools, and Griddle

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