Evening star., 1913-12-07

II~ TT the mist Nayiand smith,
~ 1t seemed very unreal"
~ Il wish it had been!'
o that, Weymouth. But your
brother a gallant finish Kidding the world OF
fu-Manehu the only good deed to his credit his lie
SPENT
James Weymouth. OF wel-known Scot
land Yard man. smoked while in thoughtful silence
Though but and a miles souh-southeast of ST
PauIs quaint cottage. its rustic garden
shadowed by the tall which had lined the village
street before motor spot as peacetui
and secluded in broad England But another
shadow today-ching. fearful An incarnate
evil had the dim east. and in its dying ma
levolence had touched this home.
There things i don't understand about it.
sir continued Weymouth. What was the meaning u
horrible which police heard In the
log: And where the bodies?''
The girl seated beside me shuddered a words
Smith. whose granted him little repose
paused in his aness wanderinss about the room anu
In these days his Augean labors purge
England Of the unclean thing which had fastened upon
he~. friend lean and nervous looking than
had before known him TO be- His long residence
IN Burma had rendered him and bad burned his
naturally dar! skin to d hue: but his gray
had grown feverishiy bright and his face lean
appear positively emaciated
LADY may be o your question:
lie said brother-were time in ths
household Fu-Manchu. fact. Mr.. Wey-
mouth. karamaneh as her name implies was siave
Weymouth glanced the beautiful. troubled face,
with scarcely veiled
You don't look though had come from China.
miss he said with a OF unwilling admiration.
Il China" replied Karamaneh. MY
faFher Bedoun. But history does not
natter tAt times there something imperious in
this accent added force)
When brave brother. Inspector Weymouth. and
Doctor Flu Manchu swallowed by the river Fu-
Manchu held needle his hand The laughter
meant that the needle had done its work. four brother
had become mad
Weymouth turned aside to hide his emotion
What needle?" he asked huskiy.
mo hcr n0rodfvO tho
Of kind adder" she answered 1T produces
madness, but always DEATH
He would have had chance Smith,
even had he been in complete OF his
Al the time of the encounter must have been some
considerable distance from shore. the fog
penetrabe'
the bodies has recoveredT-
.Ryman of the river police. tells persons
lost that point always recoyered-or until
a considerable. time later"
There room above. The
9f 3 nt sa out In sa mist upon the
1s, Mhs ad 1 & sf end Sas this Doctor % He
into tod the and @s: s ss m Mss
was hey.
n,aneh 'i'' VIRUS ''~'i - onn'i nai % Nara
ea tine the 5
as $ oce9rs M but in many He
ssvolu.onzed science There superstition in some
send!t1ons proximity deserted burial
body Of M ass M o ay sntsl ,sa. se
Even 1 of as sn Rs
me IN this But have sometimes thought that he
me peculiar conditions mentioned prevailed at his
shortly and ause Ss looks of laughed
:, Poor old weymouth!' he 5erked 4 suppose my
nut in s M %
ntss ga was the M reply she has lain in
e5 sa bsn s sa rsns hs S So At one time afraid
spun around on weymousS n tn nave 0eius''ns-
The other Paiied nerSoasis aissa at ran'G ns ustacne
and o he with a.t tire. he
aew on has ass sfa nssns Sa At the n
An eyes turned in the dir direction asH indicated
we nay fr9 9osnfy the ya5
Ma Mary o ives rs Ssnderns Wa in her mind But
she was wide awake at haf-pa 'e'' AA0
Nayland Smith standing before him. alert. bright.
She it. too,'
but that int tine ra1s s sitting
hsF hs hsnd wDon Hap Tne hand in
o s ss' b 5s 'sFs EGF M
cas-! speh as many ssS has fought
she afraid to move-afraid look from the win
Ny s,sstss 6sna tsrnsS and ssares hard
aat a II wife IS Ss so ses in sssa ass 16s
a. e in s s.ss,s.
of the Chinese doctor. the formi-
dable group had fallen alive into hands Dreadful
crimes had marked Fu-Manchus passage through the
land Not onehalf of the truth the
developmens) had been made public. Nayland Smiths
authority sufficient to control press.
In the absence of such panic must
have seized the entire
ming more than humanly evii-existed in midst
Always -Manchus had centered
about the great waterway There O. poetic
in his end the Thames MIN VINO
long had used the stream highway for the pas
10 and fro for his secret forces
sl,ow men who had been the Instruments his evil
Will the giant intellect had controIed
9hc complex murder machine karamaneh. bea uty
lie had a and
her smile would tempt death-that her brother
might live. .-
Many there are. doubt not. who regard tho
girl with horror /
l regarded her quite differently. No having
could have condemned her unheard. MANY. hav
cooked lovely they therev
have forgiven her crime
That she valued human life but
or Her nationaly-her hstory-furnshe3 ado
luatc i'm I'm
.1pean equally cultured.
indeed let confess that natura
heus0le The 81
closed ed
eyes body exquisite
beauty of kind that 10 the
rhapsoiies Her eyeS~held cha
ienge wholly oriental in appeal: her
taunt And herein east is is
her uriI lite tho