The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-01-06
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Continues From Our Las, i,suel

Continued From Our las, issue
From our Chinese prisoner the
one who promised TO respond to
third degree treatment-it was
learned that from the outset Steve
matched bis cunning against Laos
tried 10 "double-crozs" him. 10
quote strubcr. Steyc'a cheekered
career in China had given him a
facility IN the use OF the language
ana an acquaintance with habits
and customs that enabled him to
misiead and clrcuuvcnt tho white
police. II not the race whose out
wArd aspects no assumed as dis
guiac.
Even vith the advantages point.
ed out. however. he could not have
Jared far. OF course. without mater
tai assistance and support. and this
vas given him by one of the numcr-
Gus secret societies. or tongz. that
infest all our Chinese communi
ties.
There was a. least one OF these
the Hop Slngs-thAi was not
wholly amGnable TO Laos author
ity. II was peculiarly fitting that
these thugs should have furnished
Steve With an asylum and lent him
their aid.
But In tho end Lao found TO
venge for the outlaws inEratitude.
hs planned. with the aid OF his
allies among the Hop Sings. the
robbery OF my safe. and Steye's
greed led him biindly into the trap.
In this connection. Il had been
members OF the Hop Sings that
helped Steve burglarize my office.
Il had been Hop Sing coufederates
% his that buTglarlzed strang's
room: but Lao and his tools had
been responsible for my enforced
automobile ride. the ransacking OF
my room. the theft OF Mrs. F'ox's
box. The Hop Sings. Il must be
Understood. wanted only the dla-
mond. while Lao Wing was
animated By n desire for Toe ring
and everything bearing the ideo-
graph.
To account for tho forego-
ing conditions. IL Is necessary
to take up the narrative OF
James Strang. otherwise Samuel
Willets.
1T was not steve trying 10 muir
der mo that made mo light out"
Strang began his story. 1t was
this way. My father was a renter
on a tract o. poor land among the
San Pedro hills abou, Los Angeles.
Steve an I'd just about reached
fryin-size when We both fell In
love with a pretty Mexican girl -
He paused and chuckled reminis-
Gently. Gosh I've even forgot
her name But at the time 1 thought
the end o. the world had come, so |
up and III ont.
II drifted 10 China. but for the
past six years Two stuck pretty
close TO the Straits Settlements.
I've made my pile. and. II do say
II myself. I'm one o the rich. IN
fluential men O. the lower PENN
sula."
His alliance with my father
came about in the most natural
way imaginable. Both men we're
young and enterprising; Strang
had knack OF digging up oppor-
tunitles for financial profit, and
he had the time. my fathers time
was pretty well taken up by his
business. but no had some capital.
which Strang lacked. Besides.
father never learned TO speak
Chinese, which. Strang told us.
Steve and picked up as easy az
swearin'."
Lao Wing Flu. the two learned
TO know thru various business deals.
For several years. while | was
making Hongkong my headauar-
ters, was still Samuel Willets.
But, like the bad penny he was.
Steve turned up. an about the
first thing he does Is land me I'm a
peck o trouble with the British
authorities. II was a matter o.
opium running that needn't go
into here more than to say II was
the first lot ! ever shipped to old
Beef HardwIck at Honolulu. He
used TO run 1t into Frisco In tho
hold OF his old schooner, the Mary
Kenton. That was good many
years ago. but see how all these
things are mixed up together. Mary
was the daughter o Beefs partner,
Anthony J. Kenton. an old-time
Frisco merchant. an she married
Beef. She was Meyer Hardwlck's
mother. Anthony J. an Beef found.
ed what is now the Kenton Hard
wick Company. Beef an old An
thongs both cashed in long ago:
but I own nearly half o. the Ken.
ton-Hardwick stock. besides looking
after the Eastern end o. the bust.
ness.
But the points this''-he
rhuckled. "Maver HarduicE's for.