Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-11-28

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the mouth of tunnel.
"Within this tunnel McKabe and
Miss Foote are detained. These are
the main facts which this agent Of
Kim Lee has reported. 1t was to learn
this that permitted Miss Foote to be
captured today. / knew that her taking
would be used as additional pressure
on Connel, and that the people who
took her would almost surely carry
her to the same place where McKabe
was held.
II arranged to have her followed
by Kim Lees agents. You can see
how well they have done their work.
There was no one else could have
done it. because no one else was so
we'll fitted for the undertaking. They
know this district, its entrances and
its exits. They knew where to watch
and what to watch for, and they have
succeeded, as it was fated they
should"
The man had picked up his gold and
gone softly back to the reception room
while Dual was speaking.
'Then all we have to do is go get
them" | cried in relieved conviction.
II think l shall let Connel go get
them," said Dual.
i nodded.
"And you let them take Miss Foote
so these men could follow her course
as a guide" / summed up.
For that, and because unless
Venus reached her conjunction, Mr..
McKabe cannot be rescued alive" said
Dual. "She is the main agent of his
rescue, Gordon. Her presence pre-
serves his life, my friend.
He turned to Kim Lee.
Speaking of exits and entrances;
thine?" he inquired.
The Chinese nodded. He rose and
went to the door to the reception
room, spoke briefly, and came back
to his chair after drawing the cur
tains at the windows and switching
on the lights.
He spoke to Semi and was answer
ed They plunged into a conversation
in which l found no part.
1 listened, and ever was puzzled as
1 had been puzzled for the greater part
of this day. These two men, ten min
utes after learning the place where
the man they desired TO save and the
woman they had so calmly sent to
share his prison, were lying, had
plunged into a general discussion of
Eastern philosophy.
Part of the time they spoke in Eng
lish, and then | could dimly follow.
Again they fell rapidly into Kim Lees
own language, to which l could only
listen.
Why, / asked myself-why in the
name of all things in the world did
Dual not take some action toward set
ting free lose two souls he had la
bored all day to save, if was any
Judge of his actions?
After some time, Kim Lee turned in
my direction.
Your friend is a very remarkable
man, Mr.. Glace," he observed. 'In
fact, the most remarkable man have
even known. l have lived for some
years, and studied and known many
men, and | know some things, but he
seems to me to have met all men, and
to know all things in himself.
"You are fortunate to call him
friend. To man like him there is no
line of race or creed. Life is a sim
pie equation in good and evil to such
one. regret that in this wrong you
are fighting you run adverse to some
of my people-that like some of your
own, they have been lured into this
vicious traffic by love of material
wealth.
Il believe with your friend here,
that he who Injuries another incurs not
only physical debt, but debt of the
soul. Because of that, when your
friend Abdul came to me today and
told me of a soul obligation, which
stood against me, l was willing to
give the assistance he desired.
II have studied deeply of these
things. For years have kept myself
apart from the chickering's of factions,
the wars of tongs. I have sought to
make of myself man, rather than a
native of a race or a subscriber to a
creed. Yet. to do this, and maintain
my station in peace. it has been neces-
sary for me to collect a certain band
Of my own people about me.
81 have done this. But, while
used them, I have also watched over
and taken care of them as we'll, and
sought to see that they kept the law of
man., and the common good. Some Of
these men will come here ere long at
my bidding. They are the ears and
eyes your friend Abdul spoke Of. They
will go out and see and hear the
things We must know in order that we
may keep our hand ON the helm of af-
fairs and steer a true course this
night.
"One of them you heard report, and
his report was good. He did his duty
well. The man in the reception room
yonder is not one of mine. l do not
employ his sort mvself, but because
the need might arise. l called him to
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