The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-29


the Cinnamon they could find, and they
!. burned their Chinatown of the face
of the earth. Many We're killed and
many hundreds were hurt, and all ran
for their lives. Do you remember
that?"
Now, at these words. the face of the
Small Brother lost something of its
look of diabolic pleasure. For even the
Three Brothers must tremble at the
name of that awful night in the south
era city, where the TAN Brother had
got his scar and the Small Brother had
acquired his limp, and the Three mad
barely escaped with their lives.
I'VE not want to kill you said the
Small Brother, with a smile that was
meant to be conciliatory, but succeeded
only in being CHASTITY. You do all the
same we say; you go home all lite"
Now the doctor knew that his fate
was sealed for the Three Brothers had
let him know too much. and must kill
him for their own safety. He saw they
but played with him to make their
pleasure; yet he bore himself as
though the Brothers but TESTED with
him.
what would you have?" asked the
doctor.
Il tell you before. The heart of Wong
Chez" answered the small brother.
I cannot take it. The man is still
alive"
He all same dead" replied the Small
Brother. White devil doctor man he
like cut up dead man; why he not like
cut up live MANI
why do you want me 20 cut up a
live MANI" asked the doctor.
I'VE like see. Sometime maybe we
like do
L cannot kill him. He has done me
no harm"
'Oh, you think him good MANI" ex-
D. ,1v,trT
ously You think him all lite? He
all same come tonight to say we get
one thousand dolla' kill Wing Lee. You
| think him good man, Ell? He no sab
! be one tong say we get two thousand
fl hund' dolla' all same kill him" And
| at this humorous situation the Small
| Brother went off into a fit of diabolic
| laughter.
Then did one tong tell you to kill
me?" asked the doctor. Il do not know
the tongs and never harmed them
The Small Brothers face took on a
| look of preternatural cunning, and he
appeared to consider what excuse to
give.
| Never one time kill white devil he
said . last. And his eyes snapped ca
| gerly. as though this had been the long
| desire of his life: and the bodies of the
| Tall Brother and the Stout Brother
bent toward the doctor, as though they
were eager to have his blood. we kin
white devil doctor now if he do not
what we say. Give us the heart of
! Wong Chez"
The Small Brothers tone at this be-
! came so menacing that the doctor gave
! himself up for a lost man. All Kim
| marveled at his GOODNESS in the face of
DEATH for though he was but a White
devil, his voice changed not a whit
Il cannot take it with bound hands,
he said.
The Three Brothers consulted in Chi
nese, for they were unwilling to loose
the hands of the doctor. 1t was true
that ne could not cut the heart from
| Wong Chee if his hands were tied, yet
if his hands were free and the surgeon 5
knife was put in them, they had to fear
| the Fashness of despair. Then the
small brother advised that the doctor
be made TO kneel before his hands
were loosed. And thereupOn All Kim
saw him forced to his knees by the
body of Wong Chee and the Tall Broth
er flung the moose about the neck of
the kneeling man, and the Stout Broth
er lifted the Ratchet, while the Small
Brother slipped the cords that bound
his arms
Now All Kim breather hard, and
gripped his knife fast, for he feared
that the life of the shrewd Wong Chee
was lost He had a wild wish TO cry
. out 10 the upClOE lAldb lilCAC was q
/ friend at hand. and that he should
make an effort for life and freedom.
yet he knew that to cry out was folly,
and would be death to him rllonS with
the shrewd Wong Chez and the good
doctor. and he had to use all his
strength to keep his teeth from chat
What was that?" suddenly asked
the Small Brother, pricking up his
Il hear nothing" said the Stout
Brother.
"A step on the stair, thought" said
the Small Brother.
II locked the door" said the Tall
Brother, with an evil smile. 1t IS
Wong Chee's devil come for his soul"
Now. at this All Kim could scarce
keep himself from sinking, for it is evil
indeed to be between the Three Broth
ers of the Hatchet and the devils that
come for the dying. And the Three
Brothers themselves lost a little of their
confident air; for even the Brothers,
who feared not the Joss, liked not TO
| think of the devils. But All Kim
smiled in the midst of his fears at the
mistake of the Tall Brother in think
ing that he had locked the door.
well, let us make haste" said the
Small Brother, that the devils may
finish their work" And with a move
he shook the bonds from the doctors
arms, and put in the dOctOES right
hand the surgeons knife.
Now cut," he said.
At this word the doctor flung his arms
about the Small Brother and dashed
him to the floor, and at the same time
| made a mighty effort TO rise.
Strike, Brother cried the Small
Brother TO the one with the Ratchet.
The Ratchet was in the air, and the
DOCTORS brains would have scattered
over the floor, but that All Kim, nerved
by the danger of the men before him
and by the noise of devils on the stair
behind him, had flung open the dool,
and with one leap buried his knife In
the throat of the Stout Brother with
the Ratchet.
The Stout Brother flung up his arms
with a scream. his blood spurted over
the bald head of the doctor, his
Ratchet fell to the floor, his knees Civ
ing way, he fell heavily against the
Tall Brother, and they went down TO-
1 gether. The moose frightened in the
hands of the Tall Brother, the doctor
was brought over with a jerk, and as
sassins and victims lay in heap, All
Kim alone standing, with bloody knife
and shaking knees, crying out in the
extremity of terror. For the brothers
struggled before him, and the noise
! of devils was De-llnu nina, ana ne STOOD
still for want of way to fly.
Then the devils burst into the room,
seized upon All Kim with an oath, and
in the maze of confused Impressions ne
thought he saw them strike the Small
Brother and the Tall Brother with clubs
till they lay still. bring the doctor to
his feet and wipe the blood from his
head: and his ears told him that they
all talked at once. And at last fr saw
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of the white devils police. and he
! narrad that he and the Tall Brother