Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-13

shoulder peered his assistant, his beady eyes
blinking at the beauty of the prisoner.
Slowly Zudora returned to the world. This
faces looking down at her were sulacient
She gave a cry And this cry Storm heard.
Instantly Chang and his assistant seized he's
and bound and gagged her Then the oreR
tai tried to throw her back into the trancej
but he failed, for Zudora was not taken un-
awares this time. She was bewlldered anl
could not dream what had happened since
that moment she had started for the rope
which hung from her boudoir window. The
two wills fought for minute, and then Wa
Chang stepped back, signing. He had wasted
too much power that night. The girls mind
was now free, however well her body was
bound.
So he left her for the night. At dawn she
would be on the high seas. The sooner the
better, so far as he was concerned When
that liner drew out Of her slip Hassam All
would place in his hands one thousand shin-
ing disks of gold. But the answer TO tele-
phone call at dawn dismayed WI Chang
The liner would not sail until 4 in the after.
noon, Ships do not always sail on scheduled
time.
AS for Storm, he did not take his clotheG
off at nll, and he was something Of a wreck
when he ate a meager breakfast He had
heard Zudora call for help as plainly as iG
he had seen her He thought and thought.
and finally, recalling certain curious features
In Wu Chang's house, fell upon what he he
,ieyed to be the true solution. A secret room,
behind that olcove, from whence the voice
had come! He seized the telephone and
routed out half dozen grumbling detectives.
Storm was coming power turn Of tha
wheel might lit him to the position Of dis.
trict attorney, aud The detectives wnnted-s1
be.on the right side Of him in That event.
There was a bit Of bluff in his declaration
that he had been mystcrousIy apprised of tho
fact that there was hidden room IN WI
Chaug's house aud that Zudora waH thcre,
The detectives were still skeptical.
To return to zudora. She was still az
Chang had left her bound, gagged, helplcs>
There was only one bit of consolation: her
mind was her own. Through small, high
window-oulwarly giving the appearance oH
belonging to the next house-the sun poured
in brightly and warmly, She gazed about
eagerly, endeavoring yainly to find something
sharp upon which she could saw her bonds,
The room had been (and evidently still was)
a kind of sccluson for WI Chang when he
desired to pursue his modes of culture. There
was a table upon which stood readers
m0gnfying glass attached to a fraMA
Quickly Zudora calculated the rays Of tnS
sun as the inspiration came to her. She was
quite ohlivious TO the sudden sounds coming
family through the wall. II she could bM
reach that tablet Fortunately she was N.
bound to the chair, She rose slowly and
took short little jumps, balancing herstp
nicely. II she stumbled and fell, gooj-bI
liberty or the chance Of It.
II took three minutes to reach the tabla
With her elbow she hltched the glass so thai
the sun fell full upon It, Instantly the bool
beneath emitted bit of smoke, zudora
turned about so that this burning ray be
came focused upon the hempen cords, shS
felt the smart and sting Of lamO upon he,'
wrists But that was nothing. The ray wai
shrivelng the rope she could smell III She
strained suddenly at her wrists-and was
freel II took but a moment to untwist thu
rope and tear away the bandage,
Pistol shotsl
She listened, pounding began to take
place against the wall outside. Her lover had
found her
Storm and the detectives had entered un.
tremendously this time, and fine bit Of war
fare cnsued. Chang lost his temper and 10
doing so lost his liberty He drew knife and
sprang at Storm with all that deadly fury Of
an angry Chinaman. A lucky bullet from ona
OF the detectives sayed Storms life. Selling
handy object, Storm began to beat in tn,
wall Of the alcoye, even while the desperlts
battle between the detectives and the China
men ragged aercely about him
When the battle was over and Chang wa,
In irons they got into zudora's prison. And
they found trap under mat, and below
they found the source OF MIR WI chong's for
tune-thousands OF cans OK opium, And stE
further below big room half filed with the
deyotccs Of the drug
Later Hassam All sat in his mystic room
and heard from her own lips Zudoras remark
able adventure.
Ny child, you bad better give up the ftrug
gle, In some manner Chang has heard Of
your fortune and kidnapped you for ransom
Wait until YOU are q You will stl ba
young enough TO marry Storm"
have concluded to 20 to the end. ! am
determined to solve these twenty riddles, he.
cuusc-well, because begin to find these ad.
ventures the most fascinating things IN the