1933-11-23 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1933.

"SHADOWS BY THE SEA”

A Summer Mystery

CHAPTER XXXII

"The Shadows Dissolve"

"I Bay-whore's old Softon?" exclaimed Napoleon Truelove. want to tell him!"

BY J. JEFFERSON FARJEON

"Ho's no fool!"

dark spuit. Thore, to the left-

low the water-nat

the past few hours were over for them, and the shadows that had riser from tho soa nad sapped bacx. * Was Wondering whother any of von tao wreck itavit uppoured, no [you would_notico" it,”. anaworod longer lugubrious, but womed up, | Leonard, Bintang, Thats where na they neared it, in almost-genial jour triend Burrunneau and his hittia welcome.

packoj-ing packot no was coming if you can strike the Herole Mo- "y evil is spont," it supmed toto collect when no mat tue captain “No, but's got a spark of decencyment. It probably surprised old say, "Low my nu te dont with Making ulo murkan, In him. He had that necklace Gradio when i chucked ino jeweis wist now langwa you Chouje," "I wonder the captain didn't spot when you and the polico came jat him. And the sun was risin', 'wy Blut #vý Libušnist on

Formalita Asprovalt, pooring You along to the cottage, and he didn't †you" remoniver.

know a boat an

down. ne dru, no Come to try to get off with it"

ihat sort of thang.” Ho broka oll give them as they called up to

"It was dark,” Leonard romindod "He explained that," answered suddenly. “But," dash it ali gnu tue deck. Shu Du lung He was pacing the beach with

tom him, "and-tao-water-only drops as Beryl Haines, and 'his condition Beryl, slowly. "lo.said you had hang tall, let's chuck all this to track min, nowever. to low as this during the spring itdos.

given it in the hope-how did he lugubrious stuff. I'm was emotional. Beryl laughed.

feelin' was down below, sitting on an un- Then wo muat nilow for Mirron- his return "You're in a hurry, aren't you, put it-that

of it. thoroughly and disgustingly welcomiortatis ringe suivie ind ugep | nomu'a artiumęs«. klo managed to Nappy" she roptied,

might be officially regarded as an fah, I've got tell Softon-hallo, poor that my odune Ino Enahbour 18h it out, you remember, and to

there's Miss Fyne. Misswnien, Low noura, cactive, hud | hido it somewhere else nitorwards. "Of course, I'm in a hurry 1" honet of grace" rotorted. "Who wouldn't be? I've

"Well remembered?"

Fynol How's your father? And contained a dead body.

"That a true," noaded Napoleon. 'told Misa Fyno, and she's promised

aŭ you know Boryl and 1 are going

"But what does it a matter now, Then the pool had been in dark-anyway? We haven't come to talk to pass it on to her father, Ivo

to marry each other?" told Morley, and. I've told Guy,

"Yes, I have heard the nowa Ress, and tau. Ravened its impri-abuut dull things uko that. Havo I've told your parents, I've told the

once or twice, amand Jessica, aped surface only when an e, Borst? We've come to tell you boots and the parlour maid, and if

trio toren ind, toon, switcnou on it about a most marvellous and as sho approached. "I think overy- I don't go on telling people, I'll

"Never mind what ho anid." re- one's heard it. Even father has Now it gammered with sangat, tonishing thing. Heryl and 1 are

which – Lutertu trom tno wat going to ho married." burst, Where is Selton? Pye not torted Napoleon." say that he now-"

Apoyo tou seen him since lunch."

might have mado a dash, if hot "Then he's going along well?" through a gaping hole.

"liboray" cried Laonard, Júmp- alue of the Ing up and taking their handa. "Ife's gone back to the wreck," liked-I gave him the chance and exclaimed Beryl, "He must bo, if water-kino, on either

japurture, wood and metai word" congratulate you both. Though, said Beryl, turning her eyes Boa-that he refused because he wasn't you've told him-"

"Doesn't follow," murmured Na-vint for several jeet, marking the of course, I'm not surprised.” wards, "I think It exercisca aoing to leave Luigi in the lurch.

over him. Now, that would prove he had a polcon, "If a fellow's dying, this failing tide; below misterion, we Horyl, I'm

arens nifected by tpo rising and

"Well, you ougat to do," retorted magnetic Influence After till, it was the wreek that spark of good in him, wouldn't is the kind of news that will save the soups ribs. And Leonard S01- have been most circumspect, Come sure Nappy and I brought him down hore, wasn't it?"

his life. But I hope your fathor 17

"It certainly would," agreed is going along well, Miss Fyne? Waxing at the rius so along, Mr. Truelove, Let's go on tently that no did not notice the dock. I can't stop down in this Napoleon nodded, and became a Beryl, "and don't think I'm trying he added. little more sober.

to quench that spark, Nappy. 1 "Yes," she answered. "The nurse approaching trio until Napoleon stulty hole any longor." can't help wondering a bit, though, insisted that I could take an hour renty cougnoil. ›

"No accounting for tastes," he whether our opinions aren't being or two off."

**luven't you hnet Influenced by our own happiness.”ı "Then what about a little trip, murmured.

"Good Lord," murmured Napo-to the wreek?" cried Napoleonough of this oid mile?** Icon. "You don't really mean to "That is, if you could stick us? say you're happy 7"

We're not the mushy kind,

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

"I don't suppose so," answered Beryl, thoughtfully. If you mako a hole in a ship with the idea of sinking her, that lets the Company

out, doesn't it?"

"Yes-and it lets the water in. Ha, ha, rather wood, that!"

"Bo quiet! I've not Anisheit! But that he did not expect the police to regard as an act of grace the return of goods which he could not possibly get away with."

Thun subtly, the lovers do parted," sald Napoleon, as they faded away.

I'm as happy as you are, idiot! know? And Sefton's there. You ly onungs, but not quite. Do you "Well, they noem happy enough.

And when one's happy, one trien "I'm going to marry an Idiot,”

Monnion looked after them, a littlo Leonard looked up, and smilod. anxiously. Shu turned, kowover, “Hano,” no euid, "xoa, vory:near- † when Leonard apoke to hor.

notice how low tno, water's drop-don't they?" obaorvod Leonard,

it gives quito a niẹo view "They do," answered Joslen, "It's a happy onding for all of us." “Umarmung," said Napoleon,

(The End) "Yes, it is charming?" Luonard

Yout

to think the best of everybody else, rithed Beryl, "but I suppose it can't g? There's one thing I'm wondering, be helped. Do come, Miss Fyne, or the hole, doesnt it?" Nappy. When you gave that neck-Tint wreck is such a diamol piace Ince to Mr. Griddle, did you think that I'm positively longing to be would make a holt for It?" breathe a tlo happiness into it." went on. "At any rate, I'm sure

FOR THE POOR "But, after all, Nappy, It was the

"1 didn't," he answered.

"Yes, I'd love to," answered Jesy Company will think it so. storm that wrecked the ship. It "Woll--did you hope he would?" nica. "I was really going to, though the top portion of the CONTRIBUITIONя TO ST.

kole is quito juggód, there's a didn't aink because of the hole. "Do you know, Sherlock Holmes, |auggest it.”

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

The tide was nearly low, and as rock could possibly have achieved, how that hole affected the ques ashamedly. "But don't draw con- they began their journoy across the im not a snip-building expert, but Paul acknowledgon with grateful The Secloty of St. Vincent de tion," responded Napoleon. "Any clusions, my child. Little Napo-gently ruffled water, the wrock if the executors of the catate us AI thank the following donations can leave that to the leon Truelove knows his little duty.stood out with more than usual dis-W. T. Nycroft, deconsed, imagine and gifts to the. Pete on Decem- way, we lawyers and meanwhile, poor old and I wouldn't have handed the tinctness, and its rusty keel alowed that anything is due them for this ber 3, 1993, Nyeroft is beyond gettin' anything necklace to old Griddle if I hadn't yellow in the sun. Napoleon re-nip, we'll call that expert in. But Little Flower Club out of it-and Captain Smith haabelleved in him."

marked that the wreck scomed to I don't think it will be neculanry. Mr. Ha Kom-tong loat his last throw, too." Hel

"A little late, wasn't it, to start have grown in height, but Jessica They atured at the gap and ut belleving in him?" mused Hory. replied that this was due to the the water, which had now ronched Mr. Ping

"No, mu'am," returned Napoleon, spring tide, and that the water was lie lowest mark., Suddenly Jonnica Mr. J. M. C. de Castro Basto

Mr. Lo Cheung-okių I've a theory that it's never teo falling to its lowest point. Thon a {bont-forward, and exclaimed: you and me are going through late to start believing in anybody, happy allence fell. The terrors of "Mr. Sefton, what is that little Jimmy's Kitchen heaven?"

Pork & Benna.

frowned. "Queer, Beryl, isn't it. how-how some people are going through hell while othorn-like

"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 splendidly last time I' -aw her--and so Mika Fyne's O.K., ten, So are we. But I can't help thinkin', you know, of those two rascnls, and all that lies before 'um. And of Luigl-poor devil—{" "Yes, but he behaved rottenly," Interponed Beryl, fighting against her sympathy.

+

"Oh, yes. And you can't say too much for the Froggy, either or-- or old Griddle. But-dash it all- why doesn't one hate those three as one hrtes the other two?"

I

"Perhaps it's because-oh, -don't-know-just because, although

they're bad, they're not so bad."

"Of course, that's it.. Luigi and Mirronneau are just a couple of fools, and Griddle"

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