Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-07

ening himself out after the fracas, I'll
stay here with the prisoners. Go gel
the police"
/ hurried out and rushed down the
street seeking an officer
Up in the den, WI Fang, silent, stood
with his back to the wall, scowlins
sullenly. Close beside him hung q
sort of bell cord, just out of reach
Kennedy. revolver in hand, was exam
lining the writing table to discover
whatever evidence he could. Slowly
imperceptibly, inch by inch. WI
moved toward the bell cord. He was
reaching out with his manacled hands
to seize it when Kennedy, alert
| turned, saw him, and instantly shot
WI literally crumpled up and dropped
to the floor as Craig bounded over
| to him.
BY this time / had found a police
man and he had summoned the wagon
from the Elizabeth street station. g
few blocks away AS we drove up be
fore the den, / leaped out and the pc
lice followed.
Imagine my surprise at seeing WI
stretched on the floor; Kennedy had
tried to stanch the flow of blood
from wound on Wu's shoulder with a
handkerchief and now was making a
temporary bandage which he bound or
| him.
How are you, sergeant" nodded
Kennedy. well, / guess you'll admit
l made good this time"
Common humanity dictated that we
take WI first of all TO a hospital and
| get him fixed up, and to hospital we
| went Kennedy and l entered with
our prisoners, closely guarded by the
police
Craig handed WI over to two young
doctors and 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 when a
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. He was. as we found out
later, dressed almost precisely like
different cap. In build and size as
well as features he was a 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 bandage, keeping one
eye on the bandaging of WI. Then
he placed the Dandage over his left
that he saw the doctors doing with
WI.
They had finished with WI, and one
of the doctors moved over to the door
way to call the sergeant. 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 few feet from the operating ia
BILE, the secreted Chinaman stepped
out. Quickly he 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 WI. 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-
lieye 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-
element. 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.
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-
envy was safely landed in the hands of
the police, Kennedy and had left the
hospital and were fastening to Elaine
with the news. We stopped at the
laboratory only long enough to get the
torpedo from the safe and at a toy
store where Craig bought fine little
clockwork battleship.
We found Elaine and Aunt Joseph
inc in the conservatory and quickly
Kennedy related how we had captured
WI.
But, like all inventors, his pet was
the torpedo, and while We were alb
sorbed in his demonstration of it as