The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-07

immediately after his Rapture. His prison
was surrounded by crowd OF soldiers of
"nohy different type from those which he
naa Deer accustomed to see during his
former stay IN the camp. These men were
tail and gauns, with swarthy compilations.
and long dropping, snaky moustaches.
inelr eyes were hideous.y oblique and
sunken, and their strong white teeth were
sharp and pointed. Their expressions
we're unspeakably cruel, and they eyed
their prisoner with looks of eager
ieTocity. A physical resemblance on
'us part OF these men to the Tarter general
convinced Haines that they were OF the
same race, and probably attached to Wo-
Lee person, perhaps as his body guard.
Al TINS situation Haines spent the greater
part OF the day. stared ct and menaced by
CROWDS OF curious and bioodthirsty SOL
aiery. He was fully aware OF the appall-
ing nature of his position. He was in the
power OF q relentless enemy, who would be
Justned, under the circumstances of his
capture as . spy, in infiicsing upon him
the most inhuman tortures. He could ex-
pect nothing but speedy and cruel
death, but 1t was not the thought of his
own fate that most tortured him. 1t was
the dread that they might search him be-
lore ms execution and find the warrant of
which he was the bearer. Strangely
enough. they had thus far neglected to
search him.
towards evening a movement on the
part OF his guards indicated the approach
OIL some person of Importance, and a mo-
ment later the atrocious face of Voice
peered savagely through the bars of his
cage. He giared at Haines long and
vlciously, fierce look of triumph in his
snaky eyes.
oh hop' no yelled at length. "He
understands French. The old Tartar gen.
erai understands French, aud he can
make love in it, too. But you-you will
make no more love. Do you hear? You
shall die by the Chi-lung, the pleasant,
voluptuous Chi-lung. Do you understand
IL viii begin tomorrow. You will suffer
ior days, perhaps week. I shall come
and watch you. You will need company,
and you shall have mine. Oh hoi No
more love making by moonlight, young
man. will attend TO that. It is l who
VIII marry Mauna. Do you hear, you pig
IL Is IL III Ir' and with these words he
assumed an expression so hendish that
flames turned away in utter horror. Wo-
LEE exchanged some words with the COM
mander OF the guard, and departed with
last look of devilish malice at his victim.
Haines' heart sank within him as the
dreadful nature OF the torture to which he
was to be subjected was announced to him.
shortly after Voices departure party OF
men arrived bearing huge barrel of per-
haps i've feet in height and several baskets
of white, fiaky substance. Haines saw
these preparations and shuddered. He was
brave and had more than once faced death
with perfect seif-possession; but the
thought of the long-drawn agonies of the
death awaiting him shook his soul to its
very depths. The higher the organism the
greater the capacity for suffering, and
Haines realized how much more his high
strung, nervous system was capable of
suffering than the coarse natures of his
jailers. The thought of the quicklime
slowly eating the flesh from his bones
while he lay for days exposed to the in
human taunts of his brutal enemies was
maddening. and his desperate eyes glanced
restlessly down the tented streets. Sud-
denly his heart leaped within him as he
saw approaching his cage the tall figure of
Chan-keo, the aide for whom he had
recently been exchanged. This officer was
walking slowly along. his eyes bent upon
the ground. as though enveloped in deep
meditation. He was approaching from a
direction which would bring him to the
cage on the side opposite to the guard, the
men OF which were now examining the bar
rel and quicklime just brought, and Jest
ing. with horrible laughs, at the torture to
which their prisoner was to be subjected
Chan-keo now reached the cage. Haines
gently drew pencil case from his pocket
and softly tossed it on the ground in front
OF him. He started and looked up. Haines
put his finger to his lip and beckoned him
to approach. Chan-Keo hesitated a mo-
ment and then cautiously approached the
cage. Haines turned his back to him, so
as TO interpose his own person between
him and the guard, and whispered over
his shoulder: II am Captain Haines, for
whom you were exchanged the other day.
/ stole into camp last night to bring word
to Ki-Tsin and Yih- Hun that their lives
are in the greatest danger. have the en-
peror's warrant for their execution hidden
on my person. / went in Wo-Lee's tent py
mistake, and he has placed ME here Hurry
to headquarters and tell them this. Ask
them TO get me out OF this at once. for
am to be executed shortly. Make haste.
as you value your masters life.
The face of the young officer paled as he
heard this mysterious message. but with
perfect GOODNESS he nodded, quietly with
drew and passed on until be had gone some
distance beyond the guard, when he
turned at a right angle and was off like an
arrow.
A half-hour passed, in which Haines was
the prey of renewed torments. Might not
another messenger have arrived with a
duplicate of the death warrant, and his
friends have been already executed? Or
might they not have been absent from the
camp? Was Chan-keo faithful, and if he
was, had not his communication with him
been observed and his return to headouar.
tiers prevented? These and a host of other
agonizing doubts and fears were a length
quieted by the heavy tread of BODY of
armed men approaching his prison,
and in a few minutes a detach-
ment of the commanders bodyguard
headed by Yih-Hun and Chan-Keo
appeared. The former demanded the pris-
oner from the commander of the guard.
who at first declined to give him up, but
upon the presentation OF the Chinese COM
mander's signet ring, which Yih-Hun dis
played as the symbol of his authority, he
finally consented, and Haines was Iiber-
ated. Yih- Hun nodded to him coldly, mo-
tioning him TO take position between two
flies of soldiers. Haines, taking the cue,
nodded CURLY in reply. and did as directed
The party moved off, and in short time
reached the army headquarters. 1t was
already growing dark. Haines noticed
that the entire body guard of the COM
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