The Monticellonian., 1915-09-02

1 land sound the very day after Ken nedys little affair with him in the laboratory and the day before the letter from Washington arrived.
 There on the rocky shore, he sat gazing out at the waves waiting, when suddenly. from around the prom ontory. came q boat rowed by two stalwart sailors. It carried as pas sengers two rk-compleXioned, dark haired men, foreigners evidently though carefully dressed so as ,o con eeal both their identity and national itv.
 As the boat came up to strip of l sandy beach among the rocks. the sail CTS held 1t while their two passengers jumped out. Then they rowed away as quickly as they had come. The two mysterious strangers salut- ed Wu We are under orders from i the intelligence office, introduced one who seemed to be the leader, to get this American, Kennedy
 Information has just come to us" 1 the stranger went on. that Kennedy has invented q new wireless auto matic torpedo. Already a letter is on it's way informing him that it has been accepted by the navy"
 The other man, who had been draw ing a eigar-shaped outline on the wet sand, looked up. We must get those models" he put in, adding, both of them-the one he has and that the government has Can it be done?'
 T can get them" answered Wu sin isterly.
 And so, while Kennedy was drawing near together the net about Wu, that willy criminal had already planned an attack on him in an unexpected quar- ter.
 Down in Washington the very morn ing that our pursuit of Wu came to a head the officials of the navy depart ment. both naval and civil. were hay ing the final conference at which they were to accept officially Kennedy's marvellous invention, which it was con fdently believed, would ultimately make war impossible.
 Seated about long table in one of lIe DOdIu IOOIuS Ntl . HOi OulS llt OHl- cers but the officials of the department whose sanction was necessary for the final step. By a window sat woman stenographer, who was transcribing the notes of the momentous meeting.
 They had just completed the exami- nation of the torpedo and laid it on the end of the table scarcely an arms length from the stenographer As she finished a page of notes she glanced quickly at a watch on her wrist. It was exactly three o'clock.
 Hastily she reached over for the tor pedo and with one swift, silent move ment tossed it out of the window
 Down below, in a clump of rhodo- dendrons, for several moments had been crouching one of the men who had borne the orders to Wu Fang at the strange meeting on the promon- tory.
 His eyes seemed riyeted at the win dow above him. Suddenly the supreme moment for which this dastardly plot had been timed came. AS the torpedo model dropped from the window, he darted forward, caught it, turned and in an instant he was gone
 Wu Fang himself had returned after setting in motion the forces which he found necessary to call to aid the for eign agents in their plots against Ken nedys torpedo.
 As Wu approached the door of his den and was about to enter. his eyes fell on our outpost, the blind beggar. Instantly his suspicious were aroused. He looked the beggar over, with a frown, thought a moment, then turned and instead of entering went up the street
 He made the circuit of the block and now came to an alley on the next street that led back to the building in which he had his den. Still frowning, he gazed about, saw that he was not followed, and entered doorway.
 Up the stairs he made his way until he came to an empty loft Quickly he went over to the blank wall and began feeling cautiously about as if for a secret spring hidden in the plaster.
 4N0 OBt III Nilt hdth lOOliA, oSlld Kennedy, rejoining me in the den itself with the prisoner. Hes out, all right"
 Before Craig was a mirror AS he looked into it, at an angle he could see a part of the decorations of the wall behind him actually open out For an instant the evil face of Wu Fang appeared.
 Without a word, Craig walked into the back room. As he did so, Wu Fang knife in hand. stealthily opened the sliding panel its full length and noiselessly entered the room behind me. With knife upraised for instant action, he moved closer and closer to me. He had almost reached me and paused to gloat as he poised the knife ready to strike, when heard shout from Kennedy and a scuffle. Craig had leaped out from behind a screen near the doorway to the back room where he had hidden to lure Wu on. With a powerful grasp he twisted the knife from Wu's hand and it fell with a chatter on the floor. I was at Wu myself an instant later. He was powerful fighter, but We managed to snap the handcuffs on him finally. also. Walter panted Kennedy, straight 1 structive mental activity. In time the race acquired the fixation of these lev I