The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-02-03

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twenty-four hours" he said. "What
has happened today that you should be
| on our sideT
Hong Kong Harry's face darkened in
vindictive scowl. He rose, threw of
his coat, unfastened collar and tie.
drew his shirt partly off and exhibited
his lacerated back to the three men.
"There's your answer" he muttered.
Its plain English, guess"
/ The mans torn flesh offered an ap-
palling sight. The actual wounds
caused by the brutal beating he had
suffered were marked by half healed
scars, but the black and purple bruises
wherever the surface of the skin was
unbroken looked even more sinister
With twinge of pain he slowly re-
placed his garments.
| That's what got because the bomb
which wrecked Mr.. Manning's house
did not kill him at the same timew he
snarled. II was sentenced to be fog
| ged to death and would have handed
I'm my checks long ago were 1t not for
Najla's help. owe her my life, and
| have come now to pay the debt.
l don't care what you do to me for all
that has gone before. Put me in pris'
on or sentence me to the chair If you
| feel that way about it, but first let me
| get even with Ali Singh, and l can
do that only by acting with you. That
flend isn't fair even to his own friends
and helpers. l stuck to him through
thick and thin, except when he began
torturing Malta. l couldn't stand for
that. What man could have looked on
| and seen the woman he loved torn on
rack? Yet that is just what he
threatens now to those two young
ladies. Trust me, Mr.. Manning, and
| you, Mr.. Bronson, ana All Singh will
| be your prisoner tomorrow night"
There was no withstanding the
mans deadly earnestness. Even the
skeptical Kemp was convinced, and
the representatives Of law and order
were soon deep In consultation with
their enemy's one time lieutenant.
With restored sanity came the knowl-
edge that the interests of the state
We're paramount. Every other person
/
Manning not to lose moment in res
cuing Margaret Bronson and his sister.
Though the girls might not be I'm real
jeopardy until the expiration of the
time limit set by Ali Singh, it was
certain that their mental sufferings
must be almost unbearable. So it was
cruel necessity which decreed that
Ali Singh ought to be lulled into n
false security.
| If, however, he was allowed to as
sumo that Manning would accept his
| conditions and offer himself as pris-
oner on the following evening at 8
o'clock, not only would It be possible
to capture All Singh himself and the
whole Of his gang, but the authorities
would be given ample time to perfect
| their arrangements.
Seldom, If ever, have three men
weighed every circumstance In tick
fish undertaking with such scrupulous
care as those three gave to their prof.
ect that night. After little while it
became abundantly clear that Hong
Kong Harry had resolved to make n
clean breast of things. Not only was
he quite outspoken as to Ali Singh's
present intentions and whereabouts,
but he cleared up many doubtful
points connected with earlier episodes.
That was Kemp's way of testing him.
| If the man told the truth about the
| past his information as to current
events became all the more reliable. :.
So they perfected scheme which
seemed almost infallible They re-
viewed 1t from every conceivable stand
| point, yet could find no flaw. Double
and treble safeguards were invented.
| If All Singh escaped this time he
would have TO pass through cordons
such as no mortal man had hitherto
met and broken.
| They realized that in Hong Kong
Harry they had an invaluable aid.
! Through him they learned many of the
daring plans of Ali Singh and how he
managed TO escape detection In his dia-
! bolical schemes.
None OF the trio slept many hours.
| Hong Kong Harry, still enfeeblcd from
| his wounds. was sent to a bedroom
and attended medically. but the 9TH
ers could not bring themselves to sep
arate until long after midnight, when
Kemp insisted that they must snatch
the rest urgently needed if they We're
| to be ready for the serious fray plan
| ned for the succeeding evening.
SO new day wore slowly till the
| fateful hour when Manning, alone and
unarmed, waited at the corner of Two
Hundred and Forty-third street and
Broadway and admitted his identity
to short, stockily built oriental who
| approached with a pleasant grin on his
broad face-being, In fact, none other
| than Sato, the aviator-and said I'm a
| confidential undertone:
you Mis'r Enrol Manning, t'inkT
YES" was the calm reply. Are
! you Ali Singh's messenger"
At the sound of that name the orr
| entails eyes took on a look of scare.
He bowed and made an almost imper-
ceptible sign Of the crescent. 1t SEEM
ed that the confederates held Ali Singh
In such awe that they never alluded
| TO him by name.
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