The San Francisco call., 1913-08-17

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and contain liquid which smells like.
bananas They use them, I believe,
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 it. She doubted that it
was an amyl at all, though it was put
up in the same fashion.
Miss Clement has never seen one on
then," Evelyn continued, "but somef
of the Chinese have told her of them,
and of the wonders that they perform.
The effect is seemingly TO make invis-
ible'the person who uses them Really,
they don't do anything of the sort; for
they are nothing more nor less than
capsules, flied with IAN .anesthetic so
quick and powerful in its action that
the victim falls into insensibility with
out warning, and energies, after an in
interval of 10 or II minutes, without
knowledge that he lost consciousness
or that more than a single second has
elapsed"
The idea seems ingenious" I re-
turned. But how is it that the anes-.
thctizcr is not anesthetizcd HIMSELF"
~Oh, he doesn't break the pearls
under his own nose" Evelyn ex-
planned He casts them, and every
one within a certain radius instantly
drops into a temporary trance"
And the swine before whom the
pearls are cast do they drop to the
ground to rise again when the 10 or
II minutes are eoncinded?" I ridi-
culed
"Oh, not at all Your muscles are
not relaxed. You stand or sit as if
turned suddenly to stone" She was
very much in earnest, and tried to per-
suade me that, aided by these pearls,
it would be very easy matter to COM
NIT all three of the depredatory acts
which had so amazed and shocked us.
Eyes, Evelyn" said, toierantly, 1T
is worth considering. and at the first
opportunity | shall look into it. But
just now there must be more import
ant 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 bIazed.
Il asked her to see him, and she
did was the answer. "He told her
that you had failed to keep an engage
ment with him. He insinuated that
you had come to Chinatown intent
upon making trouble and ended by de F.
claring that he had no time to answer
the conundrums of such a harebrained
American as you had proved yourself.
Did you ever hear of such impertf-
nence?"
] smiled at her indignation. after
all" said, '.'he isn't so much to blame.
| must have cut a rather undignihed
figure chasing Mr.. Johnson through
Doyers street, and then falling down
cellar stairs. When I am able to get
out again shall go to Mr., Yup and
apologize
But before / was able to get out !.
again / changed my mind. To be quite
definite, changed it that same even
ing, when, in reading the reports of.
O'Hara, the detective who for nearly
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 /:
company, remaining until 6:42, when
he came out with tall, thin, we'll
dressed Chinese, said to be Yup
Sing himself. Together they went to
Ching Wung's restaurant on Doyers
street. From there a Chinese
known as>Mak Chuen returncd with
Murphy to Cos Cob
And the date of this occurrence was
the day following my Chinatown mis-
adventure
The reports from O'Hara came each
morning with unvarying regularity
and equally unvarying lack of import
The artist. after his visit to Yur Sing,
had returned to his Cos Cob hermit
age, accompanied by =. successor to his
former unfortunate Chinese servant,
and now rarely left his own grounds.
His appearance in Chinatown after all
might possibly bear no more vital sig
ni6canee than the quest of a cook
Nevertheless I rsIinquished none Of
my suspicious regarding Murphy, but
continued the detectives surveillance
with fresh injunction to vigilance.
And did not apologize to Yup Sing.
Miss Clement, to whom ] believe .
owe my life, visited me at my request.
Our interview gave me my strongest
insight into her exceptionally worthy
character. Absolutely unselhsh, she
joyed in q life before which even =
religious fanatic might we'll have