Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07

pathic communication, but | have
come to believe in it myself, and |
know Mr.. Dual says that it can be &C.
complished by those who know the
proper methods, or by any one -uncon.
sciously-under the stress of some
driving circumstance or emotion.
And Mr.. Dual has since told me
frankly that he sent me a telepathic
direction that morning In view of all
that happened, ] would be the last one
on earth to doubt.
Therefore. after becoming assured
4 that it was the best | could do, told
Mr.. Glace of my determination, over.
ruled his objections, and left the taxi
on the corner of Grant and Geary.
stood for moment until | saw
him 90 up toward Union Square and
the hotel, and then turned to the long
slope at the top of which Chinatown
began
1t was beautiful day. soft, and &C.
tdally warm for San Francisco. All
! about me were the crowds of the busy
city-people like myself, hurrying this
way and that
Girls and women passed me in
street costume. wearing great punches
of violets and carnations and little
baby" roses, from the flower markets
down on Kearny and Market.
Men of my own race pushed by on
errands of their own forming. | stood
for still another moment watching
1t seemed hard to realize even then
that few blocks north from here
would plunge me into maelstrtm of
foreign life-a totally different atmos.
phere of life-where the current of
living flowed with a sluggish surface.
which masked seething passion of
intrigue and plotting too deep to be
discovered by any casual glance.
And it seemed doubly hard to be-
lieve that man had been snatched
from his every day round last night,
and now lay shut in some secret
dungeon awaiting fast approaching
doom.
That last thought set my feet in
motion.
don't know whether at that time |
loved Danny McKabe or not. am
sure that the mans personality had
taken strong hold upon me the night
before.
AT first had regarded him Vly as
the ordinary city detective. 1t was
only later, when we had won our point
and were back at the Hall of Justice
and | saw him Strengthened from his
assumed stoop, and met the full fire
OF his exultant eyes, that something
walked in my heart and answered his
look, in a way | had never known
before.
Also | knew that when I heard OF
his capture. for just moment | felt
DIZZY and feared | would fall.
And from that time until | saw him
again, am sure he was never fully
out Of my mind
And then, when l saw him-as
saw him knew-that there would |
never be any other man who would |
mean what he did to me, and that
whether he cared or not it would be
the same with me, in my heart, and |
would never be quite the same woman
again. unless he did care as | wanted
him to.
Anyway, began to walk up the
slope of Grant street, toward CLAW and
The great emporium of Oriental goods.
which Connel had said was owned
by Kim Lee.
| didn't hurry, for the simple rea.
son that did not wish to attract at.
ention.
There was every probability, knew
nat some agent Of the people who
lad captured Danny would be keeping
IN eye upon the movements of Semi
Dual and those with him. They would
hardly neglect so obvious point.
kept purposely in the most crowd.
"a part OF the street, therefore, and
Tipped along without any apparent
purpose, acting more as though wait.
ng for some one to meet me than any.
hing else.
Yet all the time was keeping a ?
zen outlook, as | had learned to do.
o see II l could detect any one who
eemed interested in my movements.
! felt sure that our visit to Connel
'ould be known. They would Ger.
ainly keep the Hall of Justice under
But had left there with Glace in
he taxi, and had left It quickly of
urpose. | hoped that il 1t had been
ept under surveillance my move.
rents might have escaped detection.
l went on up the hill, crossing street
tier street, losing little by little the
ouch of Occidental life. and coming
radually into the fringe where the
NO edges Of east and west met and
ingled.
Then all at once, as |! seemed the
ices on the sidewalks took ON a vol.