The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-06

the police"
| hurried out and rushed down the
street seeking an officer.
Up IN the den, Wu Fang, silent, stood
with his back to the wall, scowllng
sullenly. Close beside him hung a
sort of bell cord just out of reach,
Kennedy, revolver in hand, was exam
lining the writing table 20 discover
whatever evidence he could Slowly,
imperceptibly inch by inch. WI
moved toward the bell cord Ee was
reaching out with his manacled hands
to seize 1t when Kennedy alert,
turned, saw him. and instantly shot.
WI literally crumpIed up and dropped
to the floor as Craig bounded over
to him.
BY this time ! mad found a police
man and he had summoned the wagon
from the Elizabeth street station,
few blocks away. AS we drove up be-
fore the den, | leaped out and the po-
lice followed.
Imagine my surprise at seeing Wu
stretched on the floor; Kennedy had
tried to stanch the flow Of blood
from a wound on Wus shoulder with
handkerchief and now was making a
temporary bandags which he bound on
| him.
How are you SERGEANT" nodded
Kennedy. Well guess you'll admit
made good this time"
Common humanity dictated that we
take WI first of all to a hospital and
get him fixed up, and to a hospital we
went Kennedy and | entered with
our prisoners, closely guarded by the
police
Craig handed WI over to two young
doctors and a nurse By this time WI
was very weak from loss of blood.
Still he had his iron nerve and that
was carrying him through. The two
young doctors and the nurse had
scarcely begun to take off Craig's rude
bandage to replace it properly wbe=-
noise outside told us that a weeping
and gesticulating delegation of Chi
nese had arrived.
Kennedy by this time had finished
talking to the doctors and handing
WI over to them. They had taken him
| into room in the dispensary. Just
then the chattering crowd pushed in
some asking questions, others bewail-
ing the fate Of the great WI Fang
They were so insistent that at last one
of the doctors was forced to demand
that the police drive them out. They
started to push them back.
In the melee one of their number
managed to get away from the rest
and reach the doorway to the emer-
gency room. lie was, as we found out
later, dressed almost precisely like
WI, although he had on somewhat
different cap In build and size as
well as features he was veritable
Dromio.
The other Chinaman drew back be-
hind the screen which hid the door
way to the emergency room and con
cealed himself,
In the emergency room WI was
placed on an operating table and there
was bound up properly, though he was
terribly weak now.
Back OF the screen, however the
other Chinaman was hiding, able to
get an occasional glance at what was
going on There happened to be a
| table near him on which were gauze,
cotton and other things He reached
over and took the gauze and quickly
made it into a bandage, keeping one
eye on the bandagng of WI. Then
ne placed the Dandage over his left
shoulder and arm in the same way
that he saw the doctors doing with
WI
They had finished witt WI and one
of the doctors moved Jver to the door
way to call the Sc, seant. For the mo-
ment the rest had left WI alone, his
eyes apparently half closed through
weakness. Each was busy about his
own especial task
From behind the screen, which was
only a few feet from the operating ta-
BILE the secreted Chinaman stepped
out. Quickly be placed his own hat
on WI and took Wu's, then took Wu's
place on the table, while WI slipped
behind the screen.
The doctor turned toward the sup
posed Wu "Come, now" he ordered,
handing him over to the police. Here
he is at last"
The sergeant started to lead the pris-
oner out AS he did so, he looked
sharply at him. He could scarcely be-
lieve his eyes. There was something
wrong. All Cinnamon might look
alike to some people, but not to him,
That's not WI Fang!" he ex-
claimed
Instantly there was the greatest eX-
citement The doctors were astounded
as all rushed into the emergency room
again. One of them looked behind the
screen. There was an open window.
That's how he got away" he cried.
7 Meanwhile, several blocks from the
hospital, WI, still weak but more than
ever nerved up, came out of his place
of concealment, gazed up and down the
street and seeing no one following,
hurried away from the hospital as fast
as his shaky legs would bear him.
Confident that at last our arch en-
emy was safely landed in the hands of
the police, Kennedy and had left the
hospital and we're Fastening to Elaine
with the news. We stopped at the
laboratory only long enough to get the
torpedo from the safe and ait toy
store where Craig bought fine little
clockwork battleship.