Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-15

tives do all they can to ferret the
rascals out. but what can you do
chief Offenders? It's the foreign drug
gists that are really to blame. Sir
Rollins, and"'-he looked toward his
guest most signifcantly-"you'll par
don my saying II. but Rollins & Co.
are not above suspicion"
after all my efforts Of years to BAN
.ish opium from this community my
own firm are supposed to be actually
selling It to the natives? Impossible!
mot impossible at all; the illegal
.traffic is going on right under your
enough to catch them. Why. only a
few days ago. ! found patient here
taking some of your new cough lozen-
ges for his throat. and when exam
hlled with the choicest and most en-
ss s2' to that. sh Sp''' "Aa' ~ you
ns1S h sse O. s ss BY yr ell that At
thas as sryk ana sne Hns
lishman-shall not only be instantly
discharged, but I will hand him over
to- the police without any mercy"
7 sincerely hope you will. sir, and
not only help us in the crusade, but
also redeem the good name Of your
Arm: for my Chinese nurses tell me
that there is always some way OF get
ting 1t at your establishment. II they
only know the secret. or have q pull
us the American doctors say"
There was q grand shake-up in the
leading drug store Of Hongkong the
following day and the police made one
Of the cleverest hauls Of opi1m that
the papers had ever recorded. Padre
Madero, the trusted Portuguese clerk
Gin charge of the native department)
somehow nfh0r 0nf WfnH NJ ~ and
disappeared for parts unknown just
before the officers reached his resi-
dence. Hundreds Of dollars worth Of
the golden earth, as the Chinese
covered under various DISCUSSES.
Boxes Of cough lozenges, quinine,
headache powders. tonic pills and a
dozen other popular articles sold to
Chinese customers were found to have
been carefully cut open. filled with
lection. The entire foreign and ma
tive staff were summoned before the
hrm and given a lecture, accompanied
with threats Of dismissal. which
ought to have been effective in for
ever after preventing a dram of the
poison from being sold over their
counters. Sir Rollins received a fiat
tering compliment for this in the pa
pers and was personally congratulate
ed as Q public benefactor by his ex-
In less than three weeks from the
above occurrence an anonymous let
ter. postmarked Canton, was laid
upon Sir Rollins plate at breakfast.
He tore 1t hastily open and read as
made most conscientious efforts to rid
this community of the opium curse by
trying to prevent the sale of 1t
through your clerks. but the mission
aries OF this district have positive evil
dence through their native converts
that you have been thoroughly hood
winked and that the Importation and
sale Of the drug is still going on,
though In way that you cannot de-
tect. Consult the man OF mystery
i nnd perhaps ,ndn Is. ne WIN throw little
Sir William Rollins was furious.
he rose and paced the floor. He
crumpled the letter up and threw
It into the waste basket and then,
after few moments thought. picked
IT carefully in his wallet.
boy" he cried. "catchee my chair
cnop-chop, my wantchee go city hall
Arrived at the city Offices, he sought
= private interview with the chief
inspector and, laying the letter on
his desk, sat down and said: "Well,
What do you police chaps say to
Ihe inspector read 1t over slowly
And carefully and. after a few mo-
ments' hemming and having. replied:
rather imagine that the willy one
~ the only man in the colony that
can really get at the bottom Of It,"
.,.. And md, who is this Willy one,' as
wang Foo. the Mysterious Haven't
you heard Of him%
do you mean the native detective
that recovered the governors lew
els"
'The same, but he wouldn't care to
be known as a native detective. He
is gentleman of means who takes
. special pleasure in ferreting out
criminals in the interests Of what he
calls the Confucian standard of JUS
tice. He won't accept any pay-just
does 1t for the sake Of the cause,
don't you know-and must say that
he Is the cleverest one Of his kind
ever came across"
'Tf you know where he lives send
for him and ask him to do me the
honor OF dining with me at the hong
this very night"
The inspector touched a bell and
gave orders to his deputy to seek
cat Wang Foo and invite him to