Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-03

He strobe toward the door The sharp point
of knife pricked into his throat and he stopped
One whisper, and thou shalt rot beside thy fathersp
breahed the coole that had entered first pressing the
blade
Chung Wo's yellow face turned mottled brown and
white he shvered and his hands dropped helpessy at
his sides: Another cooe drew a silken girdle from
under his blouse, and with the help of the third,
knoted the great mans hands to his hips
Come with us, and hold thy breath lest thou sicken
suddenly, the knife.wielder whispered switching his
weapon into the small OF Chung's back
hey passed through the anteroom where two
ooones were trying to stuff the bound and gagged
secretary INTO closet three sizes too small for him.
padded soles In the street Carriage with curtains
drawn and the door opened awaited them. Chung
Wo thrust in and three of his captors climbed in
with him. while the others mounted the box
Now, said the man with the knife, the
riase rolled noisy over the paving stones, where hast
thou hidden Loo FuckH Speak quickly and that
thou speak no lies lest carve thy body into fish
Chung Wo was stubborn and crafty. Hc knew they
would not take his life until he revealed the prison
of Loo Puck-and If he could gain a little time the
hatciemen would discover the secretary and come }
his rescue
Il know not OF whom ye speak where any Loo
Puck may be- he said.
The coolies flung themselves upon him and pinned
their knees into his pudgy stomach One caught the
old mans gray queue, whipped 1t around his neck and
twisted it into 'slip- knot Then he pulled it taut,
tauter stilluntl Chung Wo choked and his face
fcl forward on his breast
'Nov knowest thou OF whom speak and where
she may be found?
The iantest bobbing of the sunken head answered
them The moose was looscncd until the fat president
could catch his breath in quick gasps.
Have mercy, Q ong-hcartcd ones, he gurgled
through his returning breath. she seepeth in Suli-
van Alley, where the houses high and there
doors and the white pigs lose their way in the burrows
of the rats. Spare my miserable bones ye scourges of
the gods. and | will take ye to her.
They drove to the close, narrow mouth OF Sullivan
Alley, into which many countless crimes have
poured dark and bloody secrets Stroling as non
chany as though mission OF pleasure, the party
went half the length of the alley, slipped into Gel lar
and threaded a maize of fou-snellng passages under
meath the ground They emerged into gloomy,
crunibng old building, its hallway lighted by flicker
ing tin lamp A grimvisagc heather eyed them sus-
piclousy from shadowy doorway
Give him the proper signal or-thou knowest the
price," one of the coolies whispered in Chung Wos
He murmured word and the heather faded away
Up one fight of stairs and down another, through
corridors and winding passages where the sun never
cleaned the old man led them. There no lights
to guide them, and doors, traps and blind halls
were passed through evaded only by the old mans
keen sense of direction. Ah gladly would he have
played them false had he dared But these were, IN
Decd desperate men.
At length he paused. "She is beyond this door" he
said and the key is in this pocket