The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-11

stained weapon, and always missing
1t. T~wenty-eight times he did this.
AT the twenty-ninth attempt the
gyroscope struck the sword point fair
ly; 1t trembled, and then running
straight as an arrow, it raced up the
blade along the narrow edge, reached
the hilt, dashed into the idols porce-
lain hand that held the sword, and
smashed it from the armored body.
The sword fell crashing to the ground.
its hilt toward the ironwork of the
cage. Haynes thrust his hand under
the structure, grasped the hilt, and
drew back the sword. Then he drew
back the gyroscope and shut of the
motor.
Haynes held the heavy weapon aloft
and looked at 1t. 1t was of the finest
steel, such a weapon as is used by off,
cial executioners for beheading their
victims. M%otioning to Beyers and his
daughter to stand as far back as pos
sible, Haynes swung the weapon aloft
and brought 1t down upon the MALE
able iron with all his force, denting
and cutting into it. Again and again
he swung the sword with the full force
of his arm. And at each blow the
structure trembled and bent and twist
ed, until at last he had hewn a space
in 1t through which the three might
creep.
He squeezed his body through the
cage and, standing beside the altar,
listened intently. Nobody came. If
any priest heard him he was afraid to
enter. but, more probably, all were
away, engaged in pillaging. Haynes
took the helmet from the head of the
god and placed it upon his own, pull
ing down an inner covering of chain
mail ove his face. He donned the
breast and back pieces, the greaves
and shoulder pieces; finally he stood
up, the very image of the idol, which
now lay, a poor, shattered thing of
porcelain, fallen beside its terrible al
tar. When he was fully attired Haynes
placed the gyroscope upon one foot
in such a way that he could at will,
by a motion of the other, start the
motor iuNaction. Then, hobbling as a
boy who goes IN one roller skate, he
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follow him and crept round behind the
altar.
A door barred them from without.
There was a peephole half way down
through which Haynes could perceive
the outlines of a garden, concealed by
hedges of box. Without hesitation he
unlocked it and went out; then turned
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others. When they emerged they
found themselves in a tiny close, shut
in by high box hedges, and quite de-
serted. In the midst of it was a well.
There was no water in the we'll. But
six feet down, clinging with clenched
fingers to a shelf in the broken brick
work of the wall, was a white man In
tattered Chinese garb, the body
strained in agony and the face
blanched with pain. AS Haynes stood
on the edge, welding the sword, a
fearful figure in his armor, the mans
eyes were opened and were turned
upon him, and from his mouth came a
few Chinese words.
Haynes understood nothing of it,
but he surmised that the fugitive imag-
ined him to be the e~xecutioner. He
called in English.
Come out! You are safe! We are
friends!"
The man stared up at him incredu-
lously and chung still more tightly to
the wall. Haynes saw that his suffer-
ings had paralyzed his understanding.
There's a man down here-a white
man." he called back to Beyers.
We've got to pull him out. Lie fiat
and catch me round the waist. Let
Eleanor catch you. Now-pull!"
Two minutes later the mar emerged
from the well.
He was one of the missionaries, he
said, when he recovered his wits.
There had been five men and three
In the mission, one of the lat
ter his wife, married to him only two
weeks previously. He had gone out
as an envoy to parley with the mob,
had been lured into the temple, and
had somehow contrived to secret him
self near the altar when he suspected
the priests designs, While they pur-
sued him through another door, by
which they thought he had escaped,
he had discovered the exit into the
little garden and, seeing the well, had
flung himself into 1t and had chung
there for several hours. So far as he
was aware, the mission was safe. Only
a few of the mob had firearms, and
they were too cowardly to attack,
the defenders were we'll supplied
with rifles and ammunition. Further
more, they had contrived to SEND q
messenger through the mob to seek
aid from a body of English marines,
who were supposed to have landed at
WI Chang to protect the consulate.
Rescue might arrive at any moment.
When he had left, all were unframed.
Haynes did not dare to ask II Mary
were there.
At the end OF the garden was a
door, of a height level with the
top of the hedge. Motioning to the
others to remain where they were,
Haynes opened 1t cautiously and
looked out, his body still concealed
from view by the towering branches.
In front of him was a large open
space. surrounded by small, mean
houses, and Immediately across this
square, facing him, was the mission
itself. Half way between the mission
and the pagoda were encamped a num-
Der of irregular levies. They had
no i1nA n I1Nr