Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-10-03
CHAPTER ~.
Lucille Takes Up the Story.

Mr.. Gordon Glace has asked me to
take up the story of those strange
events which took place during the
day when that wonderful man, Semi
Dual, fought the secret power of one
of the most vicious bands of organized
evil, and carry it on from that point
where he ceased to be an eye witness
until he comes into the action again.
l shall try to set down each impor-
tant incident as nearly as it occurred,
though, of course, not being writer,
shall probably not do it justice.
All my life, until l took up police
work, lived in San Francisco.
knew my city, and may add that
in a sense knew my Chinese.
Much of my first work was in my
home city, among the people l was
now fighting again. AS a result felt
competent to begin the search for this
highcaste Oriental who might hold the
life of the captured man in his hands,
if Connel were correct.
My knowledge of the Chinese GUS
toms and ethics, II one may call them
so-told me that man Of that type
would be the last on earth to forget
such a service as McKabe seened to
have rendered, the more so since the
child he had saved was an heir, ar
rived after it was well-nigh despaired
of by its father.
There was one queer thing which
made me decided upon the step took
in leaving Mr.. Glace to go back to the
hotel with his report alone.
Shortly after we had left Connel,
and while l was debating the likeli.
hood of Kim Lees granting a request
for aid, it seemed as though something
began urging me to act at once. 1t was
as if something actually led me to do
what did.
I / know some people scotf at tele-
pathic communication, but l have
come to believe in it myself, and l
know Mr.. Dual says that it can be ac-
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 telepathic
direction that morning. In view of all
that happened, l would be the last one
on earth to doubt.
Therefore, after becoming assured
| that it was the best l could do, l told
| Mr.. Glace of my determination, over
ruled his objections, and left the taxi
on the corner of Grant and Geary.
l stood for Il moment until / saw
him go 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 ac
| tually 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 or
errands of their own forming. stooc
for still another moment watching.
1t seemed hard TO realize even ther
that few blocks north from here
would plunge me into a maelstrom o
foreign life-a totally different atmos
phere of life-where the current o
living flowed with sluggish surface
which masked seething passion o
intrigue and plotting too deep to b.
discovered by any casual glance.
| And it seemed doubly hard to be
lieve that man had been snatche'
from his every day round last night
and now lay Shut in some secre
dungeon awaiting fast approaching
doom.
| That last thought set my feet il
motion.
/ don't know whether at that time
loved Danny McKabe or not. ! al
sure that the mans personality ha
taken a strong hold upon me the nigh
before.
At first had regarded him only Il
the ordinary city detective. 1t wa
only later, when we had won our poir
and were back at the Hall OF Justic
and I saw him Strengthened from h!
assumed stoop. and met the full III
of his exultant eyes. that ethin
walked in my heart and answered h
look, in a way ] had never know
before.
Also ! knew that when ! heard ,
his capture, for just moment fe
dizzy and feared would fall.
And from that time until saw hi
] again, am sure he was never full