The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-06

potion which WIN suspend animation for
just after he has lost consciousness.
EIGHTEENTH EPISODE
THE VENGEANCE OF WU FANG
Elaine was still In the power Of WI
Fang. Kennedy had thwarted the
Chinese master criminal in his search
for the millions amassed by the
C1utching Hand. But any Joy that he
might have derived from this success
was completely obscured by the fear
that WI might wreak some dtabolical
vengeance on Elaine.
Nor were Kennedy's fears unfounded.
WI and Long Sin had scarcely reach
ed the secret apartment when the
subtle Chinaman began to contem-
plate revenge.
Long Sin was smoking a Chinese
pipe, resting after their hurried flight,
while WI, the tireless, was seated at
q table at the other end Of the ROOM
At last WI Fang took up long Chi
nese dirk from the table before him,
looked at it, turned it over, felt It's
edge. He rose and deliberately walked
across to door leading into a back
room.
On couch lay Elaine, and with her.
as a guardian, was weepy Mary
AS WI. the Serpent. entered and
crouched back from him in deadly
fear.
Slowly he drew from under his robe
the Chinese dirk He felt the edge OF
1t again and gazed significantly at
Elaine.
1t was a critical moment
Just then Long Sin entered. One
OF the five millions waits outside; he
reported simply, with bow.
WI understood. It had been pleas
ant fiction Of his that although he did
not, Of course, absolutely control such
a stupendous organization, he could,
by his subtle power, force almost un-
limited allegiance from the simple
coolies in that district Of China from
which he came.
Out In the front room. just mo
ment before, a knock at the door had
disturbed Long Sin, and Chinese
servant had announced a visitor Long
Sin had waved to the servant to usher
him In. and poorly clad coo1te had
entered.
He bowed as Long Sin faced him,
sswhere Is the mas1er?" he had asked
Long Sin had not deigned to speak
with mere wave OF his hand he In
dicated that he would be the bearer
of the message, and had followed WI
through the door OF the back ROOM
SO, almost by chance. WI was Inter
rupted in the brutal vengeance which
had first come to his mind. He
sheathed the knife and, stin without
a word. went back into the main room.
giving nod to weepy Mary to guard
Elaine closely.
wu eyed the coone until the new
coraer could almost feel the masters
penetrating gaze, although his head
was bowed In awe Quickly the cool1e
thrust his hand under his blouse and
drew forth package With another
bow he advanced
For your enemies, o master he
said, handing the package over to
WI
The cooIie started to open the pack
age, removed the paper wrapper, and
then a silk wrapping inside Finally
he came to box, from which he drew
a leather pouch, each operation con
Quoted with greater care as it became
evident that the contents were espe-
ciauy precious IN some way Thenhe
took from the pouch a small Vial.
What is it?' demanded WI Fang,
as the coolie displayed it
The coolie draw forth now maSna-
tying glass and a glass slide Opening
the vial with great care he shook
something out on the slide, then
n1aced It under the lens.
Look" he said simply.
WI bent over and looked. Under
the lens what had formerly seemed to
be merely black speck OF dirt be
came now one of the most weird and
uncanny little creatures to be found IN
all the realm OF nature. It seemed 70
be all legs and feelers moving at once
A normal person would have looked
at the creature only with the greaeest
repugnance WI regarded 1t win
sort of unholy fascination
.And 1t fs?- he queried-
~what the white man calls the A1r1-
can tick which carries the recurrent
fever" answered the scolie deferen-
tally.
A Hash OF intense e1ultation seemed
to darken wa Fang's sinister face
wait he said to the coolie, as ne
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