New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-26


,, ronor,e that q traitor was among them;
that important secrets had more than once been
given away and that if not located ana dealt
with the traitor would soon accomplish the rum
Of the society.
All this came to a head one night, when the
most important meeting Of the year was held'
For more than an hour the rooms OF the secIe'
society had been filed with an omlnousy quIe'
crowd Of Cinnamon who were waiting In perfect
stiffness the return Of one OF the ofhclaIS "ho
had gone to fetch their erstwhile head' oihs
Iov For the first time in twenty -one year"
no had failed to appear at the meeting oi '"e
society. and, more than that all the p'IF"'
records and documents Of the Sons Of the SILVER
Land" had been stolen. No wonder there was
perfect stiffness in the secret rooms anu '',a'
over in the corner one Chinaman waited ho'N
ing q huge razor edged sword. These thlhsS
orc dealt with quickly among Chinese guldS'
Tbev brought him in presently, the COUSIN anu
another society member carrying hlih lol NV
honorable head was too much overcome WIN .'e
mixture of opium and bad cognac to walk VI MS
own accord. He was dropped Imply ''''
corner where the Chinaman and his SWORD W az
cd and TO a Indignantly quiet SET OF Hie"'e'
the cousin showed the precious papers anu l'
ords that he had just taken from 9Hls ~"
iil,o, vest The man had been found deao
Id IN q Iovv cantina i'm the Mexican part OF
the town. while the society papers ana reco'"
had access to only by two men, the cousin am
Sing Low hmsef-were dropping uhhee'e' u"
.ho cantira floor to be seen there Of all VINO
might care to read. And but for the COUSIN WHO
hod fourd thom in time the papers would nave
been distributed far and wide before 'he SCI
ting Of to-morrow's sun, and the society," sums
Of the Silver Land" with all its important -
crcts would have been ruined, ana many u ~
members implicated in all sorts OF CRIMES anu
given up to prison cells or perhaps the E"''o"''
The sin of Sing Low had been tremendous
one for which no atonement could De maui anu
there was but one thing to do, so far as MS pun
ishmcnt was concerned -,
The meeting lasted a long time, and many
Sine Low was released from the hands OF ms
torturere far more dead than alive his III ulN'"
s,uror had lasted but short time under thelr
hands and in frenzy OF terror, ne a"al'eu
what ne knew was still to come The room was
still now. and you could have heard pm
drop as the wretched man was placed on MS
knees lust in front Of the masked Chlnanan'
who held in both hands the great sharp sword
Another MAJ the cousin of Sing Low hhe''
quietly in front of him, and drew his barred head
and noel, doun and forward 50 as to meet the
nplifted sword Then there was deathy quiet aS
tho hinge blade assembled 1t made a circle and a
,bistIing sweep in the air before it descended
elov.Iv and touch ID the neck of the condemned
There # STONED No blood came, and there was
no cry or moan from Sing Low, for the reason
that the blade had just touched his hesh anu
no more Then the cousin stood up racing the
Judge and the eXecutoner did likewise holulhS
the sword erect as he announced, soiemnIy'
"Honorable Judge. this man is dead
Five minutes later the Cinnamon were all
hurrying from the hall. Sing Low had peeh
dragged still on his knees, from the room, ana
flung into the na.TOw, weed choked street out
side He had endeavored to beg mercy, put MS
lips were stiff and dumb. Then he had chung TO
the judges knees, jabbering hystericaIly only
to be cast aside like a truly dead thing, for
Chinaman lost to caste and his secret society is
worse than dead. He had moaned and begged
at the feet of his cousin, but he too, had passed
relentlessly on. paying no attention to a dead
mans speech And so at last. they had all gone
among the crowd Sing Lows own clerks and
employes-and the dead crouched, alone and
deserted Of all. in the darkness OF night.
In the early dawn Sing Low stumbled drunken
ly homeward-not to the house in which he lived
with his Mexican wife, but to Chinatown. for at
the last, whether in JOY, sorrow, death OF us
grace the heart of even an Oriental turns to his
own people, such as they may be. And Sing
Low had thought for Felipa, much as he
had loved her even for his restaurant, with
its American sign that had brought him so
much money The Americans or the MeXicans
would take him in surely for had he not money?
His own people had cast him out, yet to them he
turned.
Posted up in front OF the opium den owned by
him was large bill. setting forth his execution