Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-23
THE YELLOW DANGER
BY M. p. SEIIEL,.
He STORY OF THE WORLDS GREATEST War.
ecopyrisht. 1853. ,, r. F. F.nao a Co.,

you do not tell me your trouble that win
for me-"
All. did. though, I didg.
Ana door you would not come Can't
you see that? You do still So YOU must
open your heart to your friend"
ne looked into her eyes end they swan in
roiiaa ,s us nesd iytng back on the sofa back
1ou are good, kind girl" he said. land
Knew enat long ago. had kind of power
20 20 guess everything that was in You. why
Let me go away" No"'
No no-do not say that"
20, l,, now call you wondrously good"
divine course l am-of course. Can't you
60. You look so sad-so worn win, sue,
aering Why is that7 How is IT. An!
am am So could not tell you. But you-teiI
well w efe you; all g yopf g trouble si
Because | ask you: and because I feel
tn "a. ~ VIII do You good to tell me-"
Sne ought to have said. Because it will
that e nro sou and save you to tell me- for
ana indeed, an impulse did then rise in
: Sonn Hardy to tell to her at least that
history which he was boarding and hug
slns enormously in his breast which he
had breathed to no living soul. save in
one snort sentence to old Bobbie Mason :
the history of those long tortures-how
me scream or cat had been rent from
had cursed the deaf ears of God-how.
now. ms poor nerves tingiing in a chaos of
Janging dissonance. like the wires of some
shattered instrument of music represented
all the universe to him as a mere black
nightmare crowded with signing winds
and unutterable, dismal shapes of woe
now ABOVE all. his passion for vengeance
had settled within him into the cruel and
wicked malice of fend
lie mad the impulse to tell it all out, and
save his soul; and he said:
oil x,-;J1
near IT, You know, do you not that
went to Chfna-but no. no, no! 1 am not
child. Miss Jay! do let me get AWAY
And suddenly he had snatched his hand.
fore the cry had leapt her lips
And she, for a long time. sat staring va
cantiy at the floor, and did not go out that
evening.
During that (Tuesday) night, the Japa-
nese fleet, just arrived in Europe, ap-
peared in twos and threes along the south
east coast. On Wednesday morning Eng
land heard the news that Hastings,
Brighton, Worthing, and so on to Bognor,
had been reduced to heaps of broken
stone, some seven hundred people having
been killed. None of the Misunderstanding
district coast-defense ironclads had been
left afoat.
That was on the Tuesday On the Wed
nesday evening Hardy received a small
Hardy, England" 1t bore no stamps, and
had evidently been brought from its orr
gin by hand"
On opening it. he found a quantity of
paper stuffng; and this being removed, a
dry and shriveled but still evil-smelling
object, upon which had been stuck small
oblong piece Of paper. On the paper were
three lines of tiny, neat writing: and the
words written were these:
From Yen How to John Hardy
Heart Of His Royal Highness Price
Heinrich of Hesse.'
Prince Heinrich of Hesse, as Hardy
knew. a child of eight.
Even while Hardy sat contemplating this
object "a private detective was ushered
into his presence. He came to say that,
at last, by means of Il confession of her
brother he had been able to trace the
whereabouts of the girl Seward.
ITO be continued tomorrow