Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-27

Yen How's lips-a quarter Of an hour,
twenty minutes. Hardy was looking forth
with wrinkled. speculative brow over the
sea.
Yen How said:
Did you have anything to do with the
capture of the nine ships?"
Which nine ships?" said Hardy.
THE japanese war vessels.
60 to HI and ask me questions"
II suppose 1t was your doing, boy"
Perhaps"
What have you done with them, then 2?
II have them
Not In Europe-come now"
How do you know that?'
II have searched"
Europe is a good big place YEN"
Big, no. A green billiard table, my
with pockets
$50 you have got them-in a pocket =
really?'
II may. There Is no telling
"If you had. you would not try to make
me think that you had"
"Ah," said Hardy, of the two one fathom
the deeper
Caught in a sort of fascination, in q
feeble, faced species of mutual meSmerism
they could not leave each other. Intense
hatred and intense love are, of course, in
verse forms of the same thing, and their
manifestation is the samoan instinct for
contact. stab, kiss-these are result
ant varieties of the instinct Through "a
grating dog and a cat will maintain a
mutual watch lingeringly for hours, averse
to part. Here was something of that sort
a warfare and attraction between
whale big as ocean and an elephant.
monstrous, four-headed, big as continent.
And as all grand intensities are pri-
NAL elementary and resemblant to the
passions of childhood, so the talk
of these great was not alto
gether unlike the wrangle Between two
bitter lingering school boys, sitting on
a bench, with Jumps in their throats-fast-
cned together, unable to part.
There were few words, and a long inter-
val, and few words. and long interval.
So a dark hour passed
Hardy said:
What beast you must be, Yen, to tor
lure poor boy like that! What a sad
beast.'
''Poh, You do not know anything. 1 had
worse in store for you than that. boy.
What damned reptile for God to make!'
Abuse away. Your mind Is not really
.irst-class after all. You are the slave OF
old. popular surface ideas. A reptile is no
worse than anything else, boy. II he Is
stronger than other things, he l.; better
than them.
.lAh well. II that were SO, I should be
glad. too. YEN There is not much to choose
between us, now. in that way
What you are OF the species, too, them"
Something of that sort perhaps--if
venom makes the reptile. 1t is Your own
fault. You have made me like yourself.
BY the Lord. warn you. Yen How ar
"Poh, 1t is a question of strength. not of
venom You can be venomous you
like But what can you dor
Nothing perhaps; and perhaps some
thing"
Suppose you had fleet to beat me Mt
sea. Do you know how many ! am sending
over? All at once? You can't dream.
Twenty m!llions. What could you do with
them? 1t would take you year to shoot
them all. But suppose you did; there will
be some more hundreds OF millions left
You cannot exclude the innumeTable. What
could you do with them? Be as venomous
as you like, my SON"
"Ten good men against a hundred million
rats--I bet on the men,
''Pehi / bet on the rats"
ION the side of the men--science'
Science What sort of science?n
''The science of the gunmaker, OF the
tactieian. of the
Weir
Need ] say it?''
Yes. say it,
'Of the-chemist"
And at the word Yen How started as
though prieked by goad lie said nothing.
but. after all. you are fool, Yea.
''A.h. How so?
well, now, ! suppose you are learned
sort OF dog. You know science dare say:
you know history. and ON what trajectory
the world has run so far But II seems to
me-can 1t be that you have really never
caught glimpse of the one big. fugitive
Thing?''
s.And you. my son?'
'sYen. sometimes 1t hits me straight in