The Forrest City times., 1913-05-09


 the incidents that seemed to us mex l'plicable. Did you ever hear of amyl pearls ,"
 Of course I had heard something of amyl pearls, and I said so.
 They are glass capsules" I added, and contain liquid which smells like bananas. They use them, be- lieve. In heart attacks, by crushing them in a handkerchief and inhaling the drug"
 But it was not the same drug. Eve lyn explained. Miss Clement had told her all about 1t. She doubted that 1t was an amyl. at all, though 1t was put up in the same fashion, and released In the same way, and 1t was like an amyl, in that 1t was extremely vola- tile
 Miss Clement has never seen one or them,' Evelyn continued, but some of the Chinese have told her of them. and of the wonders that they perform. She says the chemical. whatever 1t Is, is very expensive and so they are seldom used. but that in China. especially in secret govern ment enterprises. they are employed on occasion. The effect Is seemingly to make invisible the person who uses them. Really, they don't do any thing Of the sort; for they are noth- Ing more nor less than capsules, filled With a peculiarly-acting anesthetic- an anesthetic so quick and powerful In its action that the victim falls into insensibility without warning. and emerges, after an interval of ten or twelve minutes. without knowing that he lost consciousness or that more than single second has elapsed"
 The idea seems ingenious l re- turned l was interested, surely, but very far from convinced. But" l objected, how is 1t that the anaes- thetizer is not anaesthetized himself?'
 "Oh, he doesn't break the pearls un- der his own nose," Evelyn explained. He casts them. The slightest con- cusson fractures the shell, and every one within certain radius drops in stantly into temporary trance"
 And the swine before whom the pearls are cast, do they drop 10 the ground to rise again when the ten or twelve minutes are concluded?" rdiculed.
 "Oh, not at all Your muscles are not relaxed. You stand or sit as if turned suddenly to stone. If your arm is extended. for instance, it remains in that position until the effect ceases" She was very much in earn est. and tried to persuade me that aided by these pearls, 1t would be a very easy matter to commit all three of the depredatory acts which had so amazed and shocked us.
 l am the last man to regard any thing as impossible in this day of won- ders. yet I was by no means willing to accept such a solution merely on the hearsay evidence of woman who had spent decade and a half amongst the Chinese of New York City.
 Yes, Evelyn" I said. tolerantly, "it Is worth considering. and at the first opportunity I shall look into it. But just now there must be more impor- tant matters for you and me to dis cuss. Did Miss Clement, by any chance. see Yup Sing"
 At the question the girls pale cheeks flushed to her temples and her violet eyes blazed.
 T asked her to See him, and she did" was her anwer. T thought she might learn from him when and where you parted, and what led up 10 the plight in which you were found But he told her that you had failed to keep an engagement with him. He in- sinuated that you had come to China town intent upon making trouble. and ended by declaring that he had no time to devote 10 answering the CO., nundrums of such harebrained American as you had proved your self. Did you ever hear of such i'm pertinence? l wanted Miss Clement to take me to him that I might tell him what l thought of his outrageous conduct. but she refused She says he stands very high amongst his peo- pie. and that it Is not well to antag- onize him"
 l smiled at her indignation. After all" l said. he isn't so much to blame must have cut a rather undig- nified figure chasing MT. Johnson through Doyers street, and then sall- ing down cellar stairs. When I am able to get out again, shall go to Mir Yup and apologize"
 But before I was able to get out again. l changed my mind. To be quite definite l changed 1t that same evening, when. in reading the reports of O Hara. the detective who for near ly two weeks had been shadowing the red giant, Philetus Murphy, I came upon this entry:
 At 5:27 he entered the Mott street store of the Yup Sing Com. pany. remaining until 6:42, when he came out with tall, thin. well-dressed Chinaman. said to be Yup Sing, him self. Together they went to Ching Wung's restaurant on Doyers street. From there a Chinaman known as