Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-30
THEYELLOW DANGER
THE STORY OF THE WORLDS GREATEST WAR.
BY vi. P. SE1IEL.
Copyright by B &
BY NJ. P. STIIEL.
HE STORY OF THE WORLDS GREATEST WAR.
Copyright. 1893. by B. F. Fsnno Co.,

energies of his country for many a long
day to come.
And so it happened that with the next
morning s Hght-for at last something re-
semeling sun was seen. in spite of a fl,-
rious gale of wind now blowing from the
northwest strange new spectacle some
where rather south OF the latitude of Har-
wich, was seen-an immense multitude of
ships covering the entire circle of sea.
crawling painfully northward each one
trailing behind her a long line of barees
crowded with men
Hardy had the twenty millions in tow.
Not one had landed. 70 this diversion
from their purpose they had roada nrac-
hcaiiy no resistance. II n Chinaman fired
at the tug which came TO secure his barge
the barge was promptly sunk by WAY of
stern example. Most We're unarmed with
firearms
For many hours during the afternoon
and night OF the battle they toiled by the
AID OF Searchlights. the ships having rem
devious at the n Foreland where at
about midnight, they congregated.
ANA now began the long, toilsorue VOYAGE
northwari - 20
What made the sUfferings of both whites
ana chinese worse. was the fact that from
the Hrst bleak sunrise TO the last, a heavy
wet sea was running in the direction of the
gale, and the creaking and Iaborip.y sbins
continually drenChed their length in sDrav
shipped over the dipping bows 4 rnonoto-
nous, light rain fell from the dark gray and
wing
stale sea water rolled down stretches of
roaming Sea-spue, as though the sea sea
SICK or Itself. spumed the vomit OF its bit
ter old unrest adoHn its own weary bosom
through the cordage skiried in many tones
the gale; and salt was in the weird "a ora
that 1t skirled, and salt on the firenrbed
decks, and salt in the wet sea and tbs
world was made of winds and brine
Ever ana again ship staggered through
eFegg timber ana stopped, tugged from be
ard Fx-iv,
Following. Then on, crawling. again
Here the tail led the dog
Ever ana again pop would go a stout
naWser, and away would go drifting to TIE
of Cinnamon
Northward, northward in vast funerea.
procession. And far yonder in the van OF
ali-the HirosaH. shattered-loolling but.
Ing puikliy at the pillows, as one who has
seen worse things-and come throyg h them
In her cabin, which is crowded with wound.
ed men, sits Hardy; and near him. in long
coloquy, man named Henrlck Riornsom
q Norwegian sea captain, who can shout
broken English. What Hardv's deaf pays
cannot make out the man writes
NorthWard crawls the unspeakabla nro.
Ce9Sioh' II crosses the latitude Of Hun oil
Edinburgh; it approaches the N0rway
coast IL IS at Bergen, at Chrissiansund
Always IL crawls rorthward and the lIiro-
SAX, ike the Pied Piper leads
On the Tuesday foreday the HIroyalxi II
iatiuGe oi 4S, siackened speed and while
the dawning was still gray and ineffab!S
oie2k' the stragglers of the fleet came in.
Hardy had req ched the graye-siIe now
ne siqe OF the one grave which Europe of.
Iefed him for the burial of his dead
iiefs ana now very great stress and
sound OF stormy winds was abroad. strug.
gilhS FOR the held-On hat, blowing long rib
bonS OF rope, and rolling before it biIlows
of the sea. ''-Ao "
The HiirosaA trumpeted a scml-circuIa,
torma ton and this for about an hour from
snip 10 snip. went trumpeted. til IT reached
the outermost rings Of ships ten nilee
away. and in another hour and a half The
and southwest, that had ever hean saa -,
an eye-the horns looking like tiny TOYS t.
the center. and invisible to each other-la,
assembled, slowly steaming or sailing close
hauled. Ni'SS
ITO be continued tomorrow)