Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-26
'THEYELLOW DANGER
BY Mp. SHIEL,.
E STORY OF THE WORLDS GREATEST WAR.
soopyrlsh., 1899. ,, a F. r.nno q Oh,


craft left Dover eastward for some time.
The natural conclusion was that Ada
Seward was still In Dover.
Nevertheless, Hardy spfed about the har-
Dor for some time among the steamboats,,
and pointed out one to blnejacket named
Brassey. who accompanied him. Brassey
was to arrange with her captain; have her
fires lit and banked: and Hardy scrubbed
note to South Front barracks, signing his
name with the initials 2. c. N s.; it was a
request for a small three-pounder and am
munition. which he instructed Brassey to
mount for'ard on the designated steamer.
He himself hurried to the Royal Ship
Hotel. followed by a train of watermen.
policemen and residents eager tot serve
him.
Nothing was so certain as that. II the girls
were there. in small place like Dover. he
would quickly know 1t. In few minutes
fifty men were dissecting the town for him.
and very soon he had the whole history of
her stay in Dover.
She had put up for two hours at the Lord
Warden Hotel. and had then left it, taking
her portmanteau in cab In the small
period of her stay she had made herself
sngularly friendly with one of the cham
bermaids of the hotel, and confided to her
the surprising secret that she was about to
set out for Dunkfrk The ca bman who took
her away was found: and he stated that
having driven for some distance east toward
st. MISUNDERSTANDING, along the highroad
his rare had ordered him to turn down by
road, leading directly to the shore. His
surprise was immense when( about a
mile from the Upper Foreland lighthouse,
which was burning all day, she again or
dered him to stop and take down her trunk.
lie did so. laid it on the sands, and was
paid. The last he saw as he drove away
was the girl sitting on the box, with lonely
outlook over the dim sea.
Was there no ship in the offing?
There might have been; he could not say.
One could not see many yards over the sea
through the dark. He was certain that
there was no ship with burning lights.
Here, then. was the last link: the chain
ending at the girl watching the drear sea
from her box the sand.
1t did not however, need a very vivid
imagination TO conjecture why she sat
there; and in half an hour after hearing
the news Hardy had the North Pier signal
light dwinding into nothingness on his
port quarter; and the Downs trotter which
pore him was painting and quivering she
had not painted for many a day. He cal
culated that the girl had. at most. an
hours start of him.
AS he passed out between the two piers,
Edrapol arrived at Priory Station and be-
gan to make inquiries for Hardy. After q
time he heard the truth but his disap-
pointment solaced by the information
that Hardy would very likely return before
morning.
those safe. but rather clumsy, Havre-Ant-
werp boats was fifteen miles or so on her
way from the English coast
Some months before this a singular adj
venture had befallen the girl
Walking along the street. she had been
accosted by a mana Yankee. as she
judged by his goat beard, his lank lounge
He nodded with cool confidence to her
and he said this:
Well young woman, 1 guess you are in
luck way this time, anyhow"
In ten minutes he had left her and leay
Ing her, insinuated TOO in Bank of England
notes In her hand. This, he explained was
only to go on with for a day or so,
on ne was not the principal. he said, but
oniy an agent-'matter of business''-iu
which, to tell the Gods truth. he did NOT
stand In so badly. But ne was not the min
clpal IN the deal; the principal she would
pee On me next evening at the hour and
place which he named
The principal was q largo niot.i1ad
sHK-dressad Chinaman-a great man in his
country. ~ III Ills
All ne wanted of Ada Seward was to be
permitted to buy her grand houses and car
TIages ana footmen and downs and luxuries
FOR THIS nothing, on his honor in ret,,rn
save that she should be under his eve ana
on " ~ nm I'm as daughter The Yankee acted
like all this. --o "ouio
So away now with Pattson's and tho
nursery; and shopping now all day for Ada
outside. waiting
she changed her name. breaking with her
pooi out proud relations, who in spite of
. uIin pr9tes1atlons believed that her foot had
siippea' Tier brother tossed back the enl5
she offered him into her face. eN
,. men came proposals from the s'nrin-
eIpdi. ADA was wanted in China whera
refused "'eu iief' She
NOW first she heard the name ne w.,
row IN the matter, and began to under.
STAND. Ihat little doctor at whom she had
Scoffed. tii "iie Htao
Then came pressure threats p,,+ oxx+
from the pressure, and the threats She
;uLueIstood now that she had sold herself
mo slavery She was subjected to a most
rigorous, unremitting surveillance ill., ~
upper-class woman in China. ana sbaN -
at bottom rather touchy indenendent
pride OF character. Add to this snrTeiI
lance the pressure, the threats and "a
tnese her uneasy consciousness of her neo
pres dlspleasure and what she did rnax ba
guessed she collected all the trinkets ahonf
9 ll' "hlch now amounted to many hun
uIeas OF pounds value and she ran away
1t was then that she set un on ber go,
account IN the Bloomsbury fat Already
she was 100 much of LADY to do without
She hid herself with such absolute ,rt
mat neither principal" nor agent nor
ior a long time the agents of Hardy nor
her brother could find her ava
II was on learning this flight tho, Van
How decided that, whatever bannanad
; eSne OF the women of England must be
Then, when the end was near whom #
was certain that England was doomed =
noble throe leapt into life within this girl
She conceived the quiXotic but subiecti.elv
me, notion of sacrificing herself for her
eool Try On condition that England was
spared, she would go to Yen.
Ard boldly breaking from her secIuston
she presented herself with this PROPOSAL he
fore the agent; and agent and nrjncinaI
in room IN Portland street. where the
principal lived now in strictest retirement
gloated over this thing
And they two, with elaborate cautions
and precautions. made two VOYAGES 10 the
Frerch coast, one with the glad messe pc
in the girls own writing from which thew
returned with Yen How's Gomez and one
to arrange minute preliminaries of the
meeting.
And thus II happened that in order to get
to France Ada Seward sat alone on her
box on the Foreland sands, and looked
across the sea.
She was genuinely confident that she was
saving something large and not very def
mite; ana, as she stepped into the boat witch
quickly made its appearance at the surf
the thought in her beating, yet bold heart
was this: What a One am T.
In order to lay his eyes once more ,,pon
this girl at the earliest moment Yen How
was ready to fling to the winds, or al least
postpone a world of affairs which no head
but his could surely organize But the mo-
mentum of events operpowered him. He
could not CO.