Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-30
The Daily Story
A Genius-By Everett p. Clarke.
copyrighted 1914 by Associated Literary Bureau

a slumbering Chinaman. rs
growIed and sat up. Another $50 .e'as
been awakened lighted a bit !, =, - ~
mable wood and held It In NO. ,s.as
face. The latter had batter .-s
stomach and was well strr, 'a u
wires. Closing an electric KEY K. 20
Tor glasses he pulled down ovs- = Vs
shone with brilliant green. r..
the man with the torch gave a-ss
the rest, and one and all took 3. = 80
Thus did Meacham work biz 49,
ing the night toward the city. a.,
night he was directly under N.
and as luck would have IL ne., 80. -
the principal gates. A drowsv -.
standing by the portals roused H..
and there before him stood Sat-.
aglow, leering at him The spusr,e,...
eyes were red. but turned erean -
bright yellow. The sentry drop-..
on his knees and hid his "a.
the ground Meacham, without v,,r..
for him to finish his saIaan. p,.s.s
through the gate and entered ths -
Meacham, after various sdyep.r,..
found himself among the besiegsr, :
the embassies. Being a noude.e-,,.
when not plainly seen he wa. M.
ticed. When seen he had only N S,.-
a fiery circle about him with t,s a..
or put himself aglow or cause hi. h..
to stand straight upon his heas !.
send all who saw him as far 49,
from him as they could get In trv,-.
TO get into the embassy lines he cana
very near being shot. Crawling me-,
to battery; he stood up. A BAH s,,,
by his ear and he dropped. he W.,
among the besiegers, but they did M,
understand English, and he cried n.
to the embassy force, "A friendp Tb,'
changed matters, and, showing hin,ss
to the Cinnamon about him az An
devil, he scattered then
then ran into the embassy lines Of tber
enemies.
Meacham asked to be conducted !,
the American minister and told hi.
story. He was directed, IL be couN
make return, to inform the allies Tia,
the besieged Europeans had he'd o., (
as long as they were able and II heb
did not come at once they would b.
and murdered. Meachau
desiring to leave the city before day
light, departed Immediately. An Amer.
can soldier, who had done some scout
ng duty. led him to a point the be- :
,iegers had left uncovered and showed 4
him the way to the gate by which be
lad entered. The Yankee passed the
Jentries by the same means he had +
lsed in entering, and found himself
when dawn was breaking on the plain
the city.
He now had some miles to 20 by
Iaylight which rendered some Of bis II
evices useless and he was obliged 10
ely on others. He could no longer
righten the Boxers by illuminating Il
imself, and this rendered his return \
ar more perilous than his going. True
e was still Satan, but without Sat2ns Il
,rrifying methods. His route lay Il
long the road by which he had come
nd 1t would now be useless to leave
!, for he could be seen. BE went on +
II he came to an outpost They \
aught sight of him coming behind [
lem and observed him wonderingy. (
lie kept on and as he drew near some
Z the Cinnamon fed. while Others
God their ground. One more valiant
ian the rest called out something
hich Meacham took to mean an ordif
} halt. But the Yankee kept rightM
be Cinnamon raised gun, and Ma
lam, uttering a loud ''Ha. bar vhir'
his cane about his head, envelopns
mself with smoke. which came from
10 end of 1t. Since the Chinamil
,uld not see him he did not bit hin.
The cloud of smoke drove on all Du'
eir brave leader and three other Cnf
linen. The leader stood firm; tne oln'
8 fell on their faces. Meacham SUI
lvanced. The man who opposed MN
uld not shoot at him again witnou'
loading. Drawing a knife, De
fved Meacham when he came W
rusting it against his breast lnsleas
hurting his enemy he was knocS"
ok on the ground. Meacham wore
eastplate which, when the knn'
-uck Il. was charged with elecriciV'
rhe Chinaman was rising for another
tack when bis comrades chung to mn
prevent his trying to conquer W.
vii. Meacham passed them wiz
rdonic "Ha, ha." and was mol y"
we'd.
soon after this escape he came up0a
who had been killed ID
hit with a European outpost and Coz
!ded to cease personating the osA
4 turn himself into Chlnannan. ~
,priating the mans costume. ne W.
without further trouble I'LL nean
, lines he hailed a Yankee Pr,
the American lines and was aou
to camp.
feacham made his report to the ~
nder of the United States w.
, delivered to him the ambassso"
ssage, which was Forwarded
rman commander in chief
Nein Gottr exclaimed the g'
It will not these Yankees doi
II know how to pc soldiers. ou' W.
In different way"
fter the allies entered fe.-
acham returned to America
of the pioneers among avialoI'
, killed by a drop OF lo.oep 'e