The Monticellonian., 1915-08-12

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 Bring him in, ordered Wu as the servant announced that a visitor was outside. Then, as the cripple entered. spryly enough now. be added e0h-it is you Well-anything to report?"
 Red roses" was all that the ex- beggar in his awe al the fierce China man could find words to burt out
 Wu nodded. .It Is we'll will call you again when I need you. You may go" he instructed.
 No sooner had he gone than the others reappeared from behind their screens and other hiding places as si= lently as they had gone.
 You will all follow me- directed Wu. gathering together the parapher. nalia and shutting the box Here. Tom Ling, carry that box for me carefully, too"
 moment later Wu left the secret apartment. followed by his henehmen, splitting up inconspicuousiy as they made their way uptown.
 I had come into the laboratory and. not finding Kennedy, had decided to wait there for him.
 Perhaps half an hour later he came rushing in. his face clouded with thought and beads of precipitation standing out on his forehead.
 Whats the trouble?" I asked anx- iously.
 Trouble enough" he replied. fling ing off his hat and coat and throwing on his smock, as he related disjointed- ! ly between whiIes what had happened. And now I'm going to prepare for the attack, whatever 1t may be- he went on going over briskly to the lab oratory table Where's that nitrate i oh, here it Is"
 For the next few minutes he vas ] b9sily mixing several chemicals while watched him curiously in silent ad miration.
 When he had finished he poured one liquid from tube into an atomizer. then another of the liquids which he had made into a flesk.
 Walter" he asked. getting ready to go out and indicating to me to do the same, T wish you'd bring along that rug over there by my sink l placed the rug before our door and he emptied almost half of the contents of the flask on it. Then he entered the laboratory again. taking care not to step on the rug, but over it.
 
 Meanwhile Wu Fang and his lieu tenants had proceeded to the base ment of our apartment house.
 First Wu entered the dark cellar cautiously and beckoned to Long Sin and the other Chinamen to follow One of his followers carried the Big Six deteetaphone, which he placed on an old riekety table which the janitor Jensen, sometimes used.
 We opened the oak case and began to look about for a place to install the little listening ear by wires that would run up from this cellar hiding place to our apartment above.
 Ugh Look" cried one of the Chinamen. pointing toward a corner of the cellar wall.
 Wu turned. There was a rat which lldQ QI tuL OA q AAOANf l4eL1 9tCA iItlA4 and scampered quickly across the floor and away safely It interested Wu and he walked over to the rathole and examined it.
 Wait here" he ordered quickly, leaving his men on guard in the cellar
 It was not very many minutes later that Wu returned to the cellar with large cardboard box under his arm.
 No one has gone in, master re- ported one of the chinamen.
 Wu nodded and turned to another who had been engaged in enlarging the rathole in the wall.
 Does it run upstairs?" he asked.
 Yes, master" returned the other.
 Then wait here" ordered Wu, talk ing up the detectaphone transmitter, the spool of wire and the box
 He left the cellar stealthily and few minutes later reached the upper hall, which at the time happened to be deserted. Somehow he had obtained skeleton key which fitted our lock, and with it's aid he entered our apartment.
 Quickly he looked about the room. Finally his keen judgment told him that the corner by the bookcase was that nearest over the compartment in the cellar in which he had left his lieutenants with the detectaphone.
 Wu Fang had method of wiring in the detectaphone that was all his own. He went over to the corner and drew from his capaeious blouse q chisel with which he ripped back section of the baseboard. After he had removed it he made little hole in the plaster and laths on the wall.
 Next he drew on pair of thick gloves and carefully reached into the pasteboard box From it he drew a ferret.
 This ferret wore small leather har- ness around his shoulders. To this harness Wu attached one end of the wire from the spool, and made sure that the spool would unwind readily.
 Then he reached into his pocket and drew out rat As he held them. one in each hand. he let the ferret get good look and smell of the rat as it squeaked in fright,
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