The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-01-24

almost fanatical love OF truth which
we knew to be his.
Couldn't DR.. Addison have been
Mistaken" Evelyn asked.
1T is possible, Of course" an
swered. yet Cameron's face and fig
ure are not Of a common type. Be-
sides, | don't believe in doublev.
have heard Of so-called wonderful like
nesses, bl have never seen any that
would deceive a friend OF twenty
years standing"
A little later she inquired whether
the detective engaged to shadow PHI
letus Murphy had furnished a report.
EYES," l told her, ut came in my
mornings mail. Murphy is still at
Cos Cob He didn't leave his bunga-
low all day yesterday. and he had
no callers"
I'm crazy to know what you learn
tonight from Yup Sing" she went on.
eagerly. "Oh, how do hope 1t will
give us some hintl 1t seems terrible
to think OF Uncle Robert in the hands
Of those unconscionable Cinnamon.
And, Philip, don't you think you had
better take some one with you?
suppose Mr.. Yup is to be trusted. bUt
at tho same time, you must remember
you are going into the enemy's camp,
and you should be careful"
But laughed at the notion Of TAX
ing a body-guard.
I'm to meet him at nine o'clock"
told her. "in public restaurant. Be-
sides, therell be a crowd Of those
Seeing New York people down there
about that time, and Chinatown will
be on its best behavior. So never fear,
little girl. Do you want me to tele-
phone you when get uptown? You
know I'm going to stop tonight at my
rooms in the Loyalton."
"Of course / want you to telephone
me-" she returned, emphatically. ut
shouldn't take you very long to hear
what Mr.. Yup has to tell, should It?
l shall be expecting you to call me up
! between ten and half-past, or by elev'
en- at the latest; so don't dare to go
fer curPcr Grzt."
"As If ] could think of supper" l
said. looking at her in a way L had,
when l might be hearing your
voice!"
Could 1 have foreseen what the
night was to bring forth 1 certainly
should have discouraged her waiting
for my message. But the power OF pre-
vision is given to few Of US, and or
those few l am not one.
| Assuredly l had no misglvings as,
after dining at the University club
that evening, l stepped into an cleo
trio hanson and gave the driver the
address of the Doyers street restau-
rant. Whatever 1t may have been In
the past, believed the Chinatown OF
the present to be, outwardly at least, a
reasonably law-abiding section Of the
borough of Manhattan. And was not
that night the guest OF one OF Its
most honored citizens? What, there
fore, had to fear?
On the contrary, as We turned from
the Bowery into that little semicircu-
lar thoroughfare which is perhaps the
most characteristic of Chinatown's
three principal streets, was pleas
antly~ interested. This was quite a
different place from that which l had
visited the afternoon before. Then. a
sort of brooding quiet reigned over
what was so ordinary as to be scarce
ly distinctive; for that part Of Mott
street on which the Yup Sing estab-
lishment is located, have since learn
ed. is merely one OF the gates OF the
real Chinatown, Of which Doyers
street is the heart and center-and
which awakens only after nightfall.
Now the place was alive and alight.
Narrow roadway and still narrower
sidewalks were thronged with COM
bination of denizens and sightseers.
Shop fronts and upper windows glow
ed with varying degrees Of brightness.
From the Chinese theater on the left
came a bedlam Of tnharmonious
sounds: the brazen crash Of cymbals,
the squeaking of raucous stringed In
struments, the resounding clangor Of a
gong. Voices high-pitched and voices
cultural, mingled with hoarse and
strident laughter, echoed from wall to
wall of the streets encroaching
squalid buildings.
Before the least unpretentious Of all
these structures, my hanson stopped,
and as / stepped to the curb I got a
glimpse of its banner and lantern
strung balcony, giving to the street
a touch OF color that helped to lift It
into an atmosphere which, If not
Oriental, was at least vividly un.Amer-
lean.
Finding now that had anticipated
my appointment by something like ten
u. L.. LII u.