Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-10
THE YELLOW DANGER
BY NJ. P. SEIIEL.
THE STORY OF THE WORLDS GREATEST WAR.
Copyright, 1898. by R. F. Fenno & Co,

and bitter aversion to the white race.
/ He had two defects-his shortness OF
| sight. which caused him to wear spectacles
and MS inability, in speaking without eff
fort, to pronounce the word little" He
| still called 1t 'lfllee"
| On that date of 9Th January, when he
| drove westward with Brabant and Ada
| Seward. he was perhaps forty years of age
but seemed anything between sixteen. and
| sixty; hard, omniscient. cosmopolitan lit
tie man, tough as oak, dry as chips.
Yet IN that head were leayening some big
thoughts; and his heart was capable Of tre-
| xnendous passions.
In reality. could one have known 1t, as he
! Jared onward through the drizzle in the
tacies, he was the most important parsonage
| In London. or perhaps in the world
DE- Yen How was capable of anything. In
| him was the stole, and the cynic and the
tiger; with turn of the mind he could be-
come a savant, or a statesman. or a cross
ing sweeper, or general. He possessed
| this excellence: clear brain.
By one of those extraordinary freaks of
| nature for which there Is no accounting,
| this man wanted to see Ada Seward a Sec
ond time after parting with her that night.
Brabant, who had known her in her native
| town Of Cheltenham, accompanied her to
| the gate of the Pattison villa, Yen How
with them.
| AS he was leaving her, the little doctor
put his mouth to her ear, and whispered
hurriedly:
II will wait here tomorrow night at for
one lillee kiss
The girl was astounded
We'll, the idea! z" she Just gasped
Before she could proclaim her indignation
the two men turned off.
Till he reached his home In Portland
street Yen How was engaged in one long,
continuous, secret smie--a smile at his own
expense. This outburst of his in the role
of lover WIS new to him, absolutely. His
| relations with women hitherto had con-
sisted In the business OF curing their sick
Nv hat aI,x toll
psychological affinity this one particular
English girl had been able to evoke from
this particular dry Chino japanese request
for lone lillee kiss" he was unable to
divine. Such an affinity there undoubtedly
was: but its origin lay among reasons far
too abstruse for the unraveling Of Yen.
Yen How smiled that first night, but he
presently found that this was no smiling
matter.
At the next evening he was duly at the
Patt1son gate; but. alas. no Ada was to be
seen Ada, however, was there, though In
visible. She, with the Pattison cook, whom
she had brought out to enjoy the fun, was
hiding behind shrubbery, and peering
through, shaking with laughter at the futile
waiting of the little doctor.
And now Yen How, for the first time in
his life, began to suffer on account of a
woman.
He loved and in his love was the concen-
trated passion of many other men, Melted
rock Is lava-and he suffered
He used at night to hang about the house,
which was lonely at that hour. waiting.
To his patience there was no end-to his
foul, no end soc
Even in the matter Of love the eastern Is
essentially different from the western. 1t
Is impossible for us, in anything, to under
love is frequent, a l0werful mood; with
them the whole man Is involved, and love
becomes passion having all the character
istics Of ordinary fame.
One n}rht ha lt1rlro OH &c,
returning from some shopping. By this
time Yen How had become standing joke
for Ada in the kitchen and the servants
bed room. He walked to her.
"Ah," he said with sideward head. and
cajolfng smile, you are here, then? You
will give poor Yen How one Illee kiss"
The whole idea of courtship possessed by
this clownish and Impractical lover con-
sisted In asking for one little kiss. Ada
Stewards views of the matter were more
elaborate. She despised his strong sim
plicity.
Perhaps you are not aware whom it is
you are talking to- she said
Yen was aware; he could have shut his
eyes and drawn an exact picture of her
face.
"Ah,'' he said, mot even one lillee-"
"I'l give you one lillee box of soap to
wash your face. if you like," she cried, run
ming and looking back. The house was
near; he could not overtake her.
Perhaps it would have been impossible for
Miss Seward to utter words more calculated
to drive Yen to madness than this reference
to soap" If his suit was hopeless, it was
now borne in upon him that it was hopeless
on account of his race. The girl did not
listen to him, and reject him; she rejected
him without taking him into consideration
at ALL 1t was as though a mule, or a cat
had asked her to be his.
But his persistence did not fail. He flung
his other pursuits to the wind, and the
Pattison villa became for him the center of
the world. Sometimes he caught bright
in he mat har
in the street, and once again she over
whelmed him with jeers. So passed jan
uary, February and March.
To Yen How, the bourgeois, the thought
never at all occurred that the girl was be-
low the bourgeois class. He was great
man, and merely saw in Ada the eternal
woman. Dukes marry duchesses, but the
Goethes, the Mahomets, wed cooks and
water carriers. On that very plan was built
Yen How.
AT the beginning of April he stood one
night outside the Pattison gate, when he
saw her. 1t was II o'clock; she was coming
from the theater, leaning on the arm of
Private Brabant. Brabant, since their meet
ing IN the bus, had several times been
out with her.
AS the two approached. Ada saw the 1T
tie doctor.
There's that little Chinaman again,
john" she said, pressing Brabant's arm.
It's getting too much of good thing now,
"Confound the little rat" said Brabant;
she wants his nut cracked, 1 should think,
doesn't hep
The doctor trdpped up to them, smiling
neryously. Before he could speak, Brabant,
who had had a glass, said:
Come, come Mr.. Yen Hoy, get out of
this. Can't you see the young lady doesn't
want you fooltng round her?'
"Well-but-my soldier friend said Yen,
there is no harm done"
Come, get out of it!'' said Brabant more
roughly.
mo. no, you go too fast. you see," began
Yen apologetically
Are you going-yes or mol! said Brabant,
now flushing angriiy.
go away, why don't you?" put in Ada.
"Ah! II am here to see my lillee girl, -
hazarded Yen.
"Oh, don't be stupid little goose of a
Chinaman! Just fancyi" she said.
This was the most unlSindest cut of all for
Yen. He WINGED. touched with anger.
Are you going or not?" said Brabant, an
ultimatum In his tone.
NO." said Yen; then. more decidedly.
mo, nor
| Brabant put out his arm and pushed him
on the shoulder.
| It was not violent push, but in an in
| slant the Doctors face was almost black
with rage He had in his hand stout
| bamboo stick, which he at once lifted and