The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-03-27

Moran fed from Picking after this
encounter, not knowing whether his
enemy were dead or alive, and for
awhile. l believe, laid very low as
they say. In spite of all the efforts
Of the combined Chinese organiza-
lions, McNish, warned now of his con-
slant danger, eluded their search, but
at length Soy himself succeeded in
tracing him to Canada and thence to
Buffalo. There Moran came, post
haste, and once more there was a
encounter. Mora4 was arrest
ed, and McNish charged him with as
sault with intent to kill. The result
was that Moran was convicted and
sent to prison for a term of years;
and once again the earth seemed to
close ove McNish."
i The discrepancies between Miss
Clements narrative and that Of Yup
Sing l did not regard as sufficiently
vital to raise a question over, yet I
must admit that I could hardly fore
see a conclusion without a much
graver antagonism of facts as I knew
them.
The missionary having paused to
sip her tea, DR.. Addison asked permits
sion to smoke a cigarette, which she
readily granted.
"On Moran's release from prison."
Miss Clement continued, fortified by
the fragrant Oolong, "he appears for
the first time to have considered the
~Pdvisability Of adopting some sort Of
an i%ncognito. Prior to this time he
had, Soy told me, been carefully clean
shaven and close-cropped. Now he
grew a beard and wore his hair long,
and, in addition, he doctored it with
henna until it became a fiery red. He
also changed his name from Moran to
Murphy, and instead Of frequenting
the busy marts of men, he retired to
an isolated country place on the Cos
Cob river and posed as an artist. He
employed always a Chinese servant,
and at least once a week, without fail
he visited Chinatown. keeping always
In touch with the powers there, which
were still ~unrelenting in their efforts
to trace McN1sh."
: She came now to Murphy's so-called
chance meeting with Cameron on the
Fourth of July, of which Cameron
himself had already told me-. l would
have saved her this recital, but it was
new to DR.. Addison and so l allowed
her to proceed.
1T was plainly evident to Moran"
she pursued, chat McNish-or at
least the gentleman he supposed was
.McNish-did not recognize him, and
his delight at this discovery was I'M
bounded; for it gave him opportunity.
quite unexpectedly, to arrange all his
plans for a most ingenious campaixn
OF torture. What that campaign con-
sisted of, Of course, you already know.
Mr.. Clyde, and I presume DR.. Addison
does, too"
eyes," l replied, 81 have told the
doctor"
What you don't know, though" she
added, lis how it was managed"
I'VE have been told something about
amyl pearls" 1 suggested.
"Amyl pearls?" queried DR.. Addison,
curiously.
With as much clearness as possible
l explained to him what I meant by
using this admittedly inaccurate term.
"I%ncredible!" he exclaimed. "Can 1t
be possible that there is such an an
aesthetic as this, and we have never
even heard Of it before?"
'"There can be no doubt about it's
existence" l answered. II myself have
experienced its effects, though I have
never actually seer 1t put In opera
tion."
But it was Miss Clement who was
most convincing.
Il have never seen either 1t or its
effects, Doctor" she said, "but l am
willing to believe even more marvel.
lous things than that wheB the Chi.
nese are concerned. You must nemem.
Der that as a race they are most jeas
lous of their knowledge as we'll as
their possessions. Just now, after all
their many centuries of a civilization
greater in m respects than our
own, we are beginning to learn some
thing of them and their ways, and ]
should not be at all surprised to dis
cover that in chemistry, in medicine
even, they have forgotten more thar
we know. Soy assured me that not
only for days, but for weeks, he him
self came and went about MI. Cam
eron's-or, as he called 1t, McNish's-
country place without being either
een or heard. simply by using this
ether Of invisibility. It was he who
delivered the three letters. It was he
who cut the head from the portrait
and it was he who broke the mirror;
and yet no one saw him on the
grounds or in the house, and indeed
there were very few who saw him IL
the vicinity. Again and again, he as
sured me, he could have taken his vic
TINS life but that he was intent on
infiicting a punishment more 'protract
eddy horrible than mere sudden death
who wrote the letters?" I asked.
Moran"
81 thought SO. And Moran killed
the Chinaman who worked for him."
"No; there you are wrong, Mr.
Clyde"
@Then who did,"
"SOv himse1f Ho Harmed ~ har