Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-10
THE YELLOW DANGER
THE STORY OF THE WORLDS GREATEST WAR.
BY MI P. SFfIEL
CoyHg by b.
BY NJ. P. SHIEL..
THE STORY OF THE WORLDS GREATEST WAR.
Copyright, 1899. by b. F. reunO & Co.,

upon him; and when he leapt to his box.
and put out the oar 10 shove of one ~
them. and Immediately the other took hold
OF it. A short struggle ensued One 0g
TIE Cinnamon. struck by flying bullet IN
the nape. relaxed his hold and dropped: AZ
the same time Hardy's power OF grasp
failed. and the oar slipped from him. bat
50 suddenly that the pulling Chinaman slld
on his heels and fell backward into the
surf Hardy was quick TO leap upon him,
buried his knife In his bosom. regained the
car, and the next moment had the Taku
aaoat
He hurried astern. trimmed the san, ana.
half shelterng himself under the deck, con-
tfIved to steer, making farther up the har-
Dor, where he now knew the island must be
In minute or two the boat became the
aim of the three hundred or more addi-
ttonal rifles. now arrived from the plain.
They riddled her hull and SAIL but she
Kept on her way, till there came a boom
OF big cannon from quite unexpected
quarter, and suddenly the splntered Iaku
dipped her bow and disappeared in fivs
fathoms Of water
The Chinese. apparently. had no heavy
guns mounted ready for use at the fort
for they fired none; but the English had.
ana when the sentrles reported a daring
Chinese junk approaching the island she
vas fired at; and she promptly sank, rid
| cleo by her foes. shattered by her friends.
In all the harbor of Kiao-Chau no CHI
nese craft had dared for weeks 10 appear.
Happily the outward bulge of the island
was discernible at the moment. and not
more than 800 yards distant at its nearest
point Hardy began to swim. The chi
nese, astonished at the sinking by the white
ioen OF boat containing white man,
ceased firing. though wanton shot or
two dropped about the swimmer
Painting hard. he reached the near point
OF the Island where a sparse growth Of
thin-trunked plane trees made a wood to
ire waters edge. And he had hardly
trGiled his dripping form out of the surf
fYnT raea~a
had him by the throat and he was on his
back with pistol at his temple.
Hardy said to himself:
They VIII do we'll"
And he added aloud:
Il am an Englishman."
There was scrutiny of HIS race. a
chuckle a few EXPLANATIONS, and he was
Oh his feet.
The search-light apparatus of the fort
was out of order. Till he spoke no one on
the island had had the faintest suspicion
of the truth.
In ten minutes he was in a lighted room
with nearly all the 100 gathered round
him, hands on knees. There were far more
questions than answers. Chatter. chatter
went the tongue of Jack.
But you have not told u.s. sir who you
are, said Murray.
My name is John Hardy" he replied.
and am come to China in search of my
ship, the Powerful. Can you give me any
news of her whereabouts"
soh, Lore"' cried a blue-jacket, named
Brassey. Just bark at that Powerful. IS
| It? Why. sir IL you'd as much water in
your inside tonight as the PowerfuTs go,
| tt isn't Powerfuls you would be thinking
| about, l don't think"
There has been a battleY'
That there has sir
who won?"
I'VE did
| by how many ships?'
The one we came here In, and two the
JAMS sunk
The Japs?"
"Ay"
They sunk some ships?"
They did that"
But they were our allies were they notY'
Funny allies at that"
Ihey gave you no warning of their real
intentions, I'll be bound said John Hardy
Not they, some one replied at was
bash-into-'enl. take me as-yo find-me-bovs
and no mistake. They didn't even carry a
flag"
They have broken the law of nations"
said Hardy, looking on the ground. Then,
after few seconds, as II musing he add
ed; They have violated the law of man."
And the words, taken in conjunction with
the most strange, grave face from which
they came had in them something so SOL
emn, and judicial and meaningful. that,
for minute or two. silence fell upon tho
men; and they looked al his bent form,
somehow expecting him to utter something
further of singular and momentous.
But he gazed on the ground and said
nothing.
ALREADY TINS gray-haired youth, this veE-
cradle STRIPPING. had produced a profound
impression upon them
Somebody on the outskirts of the crowd
whispered to somebody else:
What a face he's got!'
And the whisper went round And now
it was: Just look at the phiz of him. and
now 1t was: II don't think he's all uhere;"
and now 1t was: Lori look at his face"
1t was a face in which there was some-
thing thrillingiy wild; the face not merely
of judge and an avenger but of a iudga
and an avenger come back from the grave
with just that hint of the Ineffable which
makes Us shudder.
Yet he sat there simply enough looking
on the ground. with one elbow on his wet
l:nee.
Cro be continued tomorrow)