Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-27
shall i've in luxury all the days Of youz

Snul i've IN luxury all the Gays OF your
life"
'.No wantee luxuly," said Yon. my
bleast makee buln, buln--you sabee7
My wantee levenge. Kung too muchee
cluel too muchee no good. He makee
tolture. ! makee tolture. Can do. My
'elpee you. you 'elpee me-"
Its bargain, Yon."
Though we We're free of the wall, we
were by no means rid of the collar and
chain. nor could we loosen them,
though we wasted full five minutes
in attempting to do 80. The collars
We're locked and so ingeniously that
without the key hammer and chisel
would be necessary to force them.
However, we wound the chains round
our bodies, fastening them to the ends
of our loose blouses. found mine a
cumbersome appendage to carry, but I
could have borne 1t gladly and lightly
had 1t been ten times its weight.
Yon next handed US each a knife, ac-
companying the gift with these words.
"Be welly caleful and don't be aflaid
to use it." Then whispering for us to
follow him he took up the brazler and
led the way from the chamber. Out
side the door stumbled over some
thing and might have fallen had not
Jim caught me. sYon turned round and
lowered the light, and saw man ly-
ing In pool of blood. and recognized
him as the wretch who had mutely
tainted me with the irons. The pres-
ence Of this body accounted for the
noise. which we had heard previous to
Yon's entrance.
I'm poor dumb blute," muttered
Yon. mo can makee ely. I'm gloan
welly small. Solly. but I'm makee top
side now. No more tlouble."
On we stole quietly along narrow
paved passage which extended for
about dozen PAGES and which ended
abruptly in flight Of steps. These
Yon mounted. hesitating just mo-
ment to listen. We followed close in
his footsteps. Jim next. bringing up
the rear. In this manner we very rap
Idly reached higher level, and then
we paused once more. Yon drew close.
Make welly caleful STEP" he whis-
pered. you 'oldee me, cap'n. Your
fiend 'oldee you. Makee knife leady.
No can tell"
We did as we were hidden and In our
bare feet stole along through the dark,
for at this point Yon had dropped the
brazier. Fortunately he knew his way.
and after creeping on for some little
time we came to further flight Of
steps which. to my joy, saw were
bathed with light. Indeed as soon as
we had reached the top of them we
We're enabled through great funnel,
as 1t were, to see the sky.
I'VE are in the pagoda?' whispered
Jim. All Yon nodded.
But how to get out7 So far we had
been fortunate in eluding the vigilance
Of any one who had been left to guard
that strange subterranean prison or
habitation, but we were not yet out
side. and even supposing that we were
we were still on Kung's island and
more or less in the power Of him and
his creatures.
looked up and around, but could sea
no way out Of the difficulty. The walls
rose sheer to the dilapidated ton. and;
even the first window was 81 feaf
above us. There was no door that /
could see. but 4 small passage led of to
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