The Washington times., 1912-12-07
THE TIMES DAILY SERIAL STORY
ThsRADIUM TERRORS
By Albert Dorrington
4 TrsnkA Muns,y
By Albert DOrringtOn
tcopyrisht ina Frank a. Munssy company,

used II to advantage"
IN binding me-" clifford affirmed.
''It was : noble thought. Dr. Tsarka." ;.
sis His :peosiss %.SpS
lated his fiery wheel with impish dex.
tertty. Not for an instant did his eyes
wander from the crouchinE figure In
i. ssn, :s ~; AZ ne re t1:s ssns:s zen y
the ns.s sss :.SsH CLAW s,.s Ms
op:S psBss SsS n he rs. :sf wh s1es
would have shot you and your sponge
An outburst OF merriment greeted his
words. Tsarka IN his exuberance kicked
while the skin Of lis face creased like
snce. M. Renwick. It b. well that you
did not sttempt VIOLENCE" ,v,a
hatred that was gone in breath.
prison." he went on, "Horubu and my.
seIf ,tas, are taking no chan,;css .,;sn:. ,,,.s.
knife stsbs IN his temple grew less
deadly. The Japanese doctors strange
admissions pussfed him. It was seldom
that an Astatic Implicated himself vol.
snsa, Of S hs 'es orsn nd
Inconsistencies and deceits. to attribute
much importance to Tsarka's gratui-
tonus statements.
He ~. w.. not e ;assG :ss%
oil:like from the little mans lips.
hand drawn across his eyes, "Dr.
ssrks s.n let me fsnsy pay rSSss %Ssn
foreigner manages to BATTLE the COM
bined wits Of Engiand's criminal inves.
ugators. one has to nay homage"
HIS shot appeared to kindle Tsarka's
vanity: S,. :. The The little man gestured with
Of SCOTLAND Yard in regard to the
Morits case. That some OF its officers
ssu'S savs s0sSS Been M'HSss very ssVs
Englishman admitted, ito drive to the
verge Of distraction the most brilliant
men Of our time"
you men have no lima sination. They
20 to work like blacksmiths seeking to
Thtssntsns's thrsa1. ,,,.n handful OF so''amer
,apsnss aoe,s. Ssrnss ws, g Ss ss htmS, n tS
disclosures, He smoked furiously,
scarce daring to interrupt the thread
Of the little mans disclosure. With all
;nsoSses ;ense ana o Rr pTpss pIss
In the security Of his own house his
Asian vanity ieaped and cried for ap.
You English are very clever, you are
sh Sk ana So ss war
suppressed merriment-"you have no
imagination. You have not learned to
.sns .es q s..x ,'S {, children aSs sa .hnt 1ny you
daisy to you-nothing more
what would you call 1T" Renwick
DR.. Tsarka shrugged. ITO the eye Of
fairy's cap. or q drop Of gold In the eye
Of q waking elf. but It II never daisy.
We Japanese are not grown up. To us
the twelve-inch gun Is still q dragon Of
death at the enemies OF our people. And
30, when We bring our child-brain into
our schemes. he have an institution like
Scotland Yard agape at what they are
pleased to call an unfathomable mys-
CLIFFORD yawned a tribe wearily. He
tor. "The mountain rumbles and the
mouse comes FORTH" he said In his dis.
mo. a rat" Tsarka chuckled audibly.
and again the cigarette became a wheel
Of fire between his nimble thumb and
forefnger. 1T was a very small rat
London's most brilliant detectives when
they sought to eiucidate the Moritz
mystery" he continued. On the day
formed US Of the circumstance. For
more than year had followed closely
the results Of his experiments In cancer
research.
Research Society. had presented him
with the radium. Well. to be frank
with you, I wanted those six grains OF
radium to complete q little experiment
ever. to put up the sum Of money re-
quired for its purchase. The fact that
my house adjoins Moritz's. and that his
laboratory stands within twenty feet Of
might borrow the whole Of the precious
radium without his knowledge"
DR.. Tsarka paused to light another
cigarette. and the match-glow illumined
HIS eyes with peculiar metallic brill
lance.
Now. we come TO the Japanese child
Intelligence when It Is directed against
on,npsa an tso%Ss mpSssios ss'k he
one one Of Nsrcrissino's faSies-the jap.
anese poet Of the Seven Lakes. 1t was
the story Of the Dragon and the Rat.
Mentally. ! put Moritz IN the d.agon'a
Witch Witch fires s1e I 80 "1 badly I needed Tor tommy my
own experiments.
"Horubu. after much worry and ex-
pense. obtained plan Of Morit.s
house from the architect who built II.
1t enabled US to study It carefully. and
we found that It would be impossible to
enter his laboratory without killing
every member Of his household and
leaving traces Of our presence every
where around. 80 we studied his drains
and brought little Kezzio into the
game"
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