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

a case for the shrewd Wong Chez and
he started to. rise and so and seek him.
Then he sank back. for he feared what
might happen while he should be away,
and that Wong Chez might come too
late. Whatever was to be done must
be done by him alone. The heartsick-
ening fear that followed this thought
seemed TO give him strength that was
not from himself. He rose, laid off the
Chinese shoes that he wore. listened in
tently again, and then put his hand
. cautiously on the door knob. No sound
had come from the house while he had
lain there, and he felt assured that the
Three Brothers were elsewhere than in
the hall. 1t was his fear that the door
was locked, but to his surprise and re-
lief it yielded as he turned the knob
and no sound followed as inch by inch
he opened it. He drew his knife from
his blouse and listened again; then he
Slipped through the narrow opening
and closed the door without sound.
The darkness of the street was as the
light of day to the darkness of the hall
when the door was closed; yet it gave
him courage, for he could not see,
neither could he be seen, unless the
Brothers had the gift of the devils to
see in the dark. He stood for a min
ute. Then a murmuring sound that
came from overhead confirmed him in
and their victim were up the stair. A
cTepuscular glow, the very ghost Of
light, came 10 his eyes from above, and
he OWNED that there lay the ascent.
His fears asked him if one of the
Brothers did not lie between him and
the source of that light. But reasoning
that the grip of death would by then
Brothers had been on the watch, he
staked his life on the desperate trust
that the crime for which they had come
had taken the attention of the Three,
and that none was left on guard.
So he moved forward step by step,
and almost inch by inch, the fingers Of
the lett hand touching the wall as his
guide, his right hand gripping the knife
and eye and ear strained to catch the
faintest hint that his presence was sus-
pected. Thus noiselessly he came to
the head OF the stair, and saw that Il
middle room was aliSht, ana that no
one stood outside. The door was but an
( inch or two ajar, and An Kim crept to
il with noiseleSs progress, though the
murmur of voices, Of which he could
catch word now and then, would have
covered his steps had he proceeded
boldly.
When he looked within the room he
shook with establishment as well as ter
ror, for not only did he see the white
doctor, with arms and feet bound,
stand between the Tall Brother and
the Stout Brother. but on the floor.
tied with ropes and bleeding from the
head, lay a Chinese, and the face Of
that Chinese was the face of the
shrewd Wong Chez. Between wonder
that so wise q man should have been
taken by the Brothers, fear lest his
friend was dead, and the lack of a plan
by which to rescue the two from the
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until Wong Chez stirred and groaned
that the words that were spoken came
to his understanding. Then he OBJ
served that the Small Brother with the
lame leg stood before the doctor,
grinned evily and spoke i'll English.
while the Stout Brother, with the
Ratchet, and 1he Tall Brother, with 81
running moose, held to the captive,
made silent threats of death.
You will be hanged" he heard the
doctor say.
IF they catch us" said the Small
Brother. showing his teeth.
That is easy" said the doctor THE
police have only to find out the man
who rented this house and they will lay
hands on you at once.
The house not rented" returned the
Small Brother, with his evil grin more
pronounced than before.
why, how are you here, then?"
asked the doctor.
"One man ne go one time, he get
key" said the Small Brother, with
silent laugh that was terrible to see. We
make key all same this key. Then same
man he take key back. He not like
house. That long time ago. We have
key. We come here in dark tonight. No
man see us come. No man see us 60
You not do all same We tell you, we
leave you heah." And the Small
Brother pointed to the floor and made
suggestive gestures as though the body
OF the doctor lay there dead.
But the police will find me, and
they will know that it is murder ar
gued the doctor.
police no catch us" replied the
Small Brother, with pride and scorn
mingled in his voice. Some day catch
you this place; catch Wong Chez that