The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-23

through the door-there was only one
conclusion, namely: he had vanished
through the window!
But he was too weak TO walk" said
the surgeon to his assistant, ito say
nothing of attempting to climb out Of
a window"
Yes" was the reply of the Chinese
deputy. with the blandest of smiles. but
you see it is getting near the Chinese
New Year season now AMI all the pa
tents friends want them back home
and. If they can't come themselves. why
their friends and relations just come
and bring them. that's is ALL Every
hospital in China has the same expe-
rience. Shall we enter him as Dis
charged and cured?"
mo. sir" replied the American. rather
irritated at the question, I'VE will enter
him simply as Vanished. I will enter
myself as Cured, and II this thing oc-
ours again when you are on duty. you
will enter yourself as Discharged"
That afternoon DIR. Evanstone met
Mr.. Wang Foo strolling through the
English Garden. The latter greeted him
with:
well. Doctor. how is our poor I'M
ilial friend today?"
''Oh. he is getting on nicely, but the
chap in the next bed to him-a mys-
FERROUS poison case that I was most
anxious to treat and watch-1umped
out the window last night and took
French leave. The nurses tell me he
went home for New Years. Isn't 1t
little early in the season for that sort
Of thing. Mr.. Wang?"
well, yes, unless he came from
distance and they all like to get home
early, you know. What was the case?
Opium. as usual. suppose"
mo. not at all, some drug or other
that he had taken that turned him
yellow as gold. We couldn't get a
word out Of him. so had to make all
my diagnosis by dead reckoning. as the
sailors say"
TOO bad that you couldn't go on
with the case, wasn't It? Well, per-
haps he will turn up again. They some
times come back after New Years, II
they think the hospital has been good
to them. Would you know him again
II he did?"
yes, could spot him out Of thou
sand"
How so? The foreigners usually say
that their native patients all look go
much alike that they can hardly tell
one from the other"
We'll, this chap had a string OF scars
across his chest. They looked as If they
had been made with old copper cash by
some native doctor. They were so reg
ular that I nick-named him at once
old Necklace and know could pick
him out anywhere"
You don't remember who brought
him to the hospital. do your"
mo. it's impossible for me to remenn-
Der these things without referring TO
| the Record Book-but, now that you
speak Of 1t, believe he was picked up
in the street very early in the morn
ing, quite unconscious and with a piece
OF paper pinned on to his gown which
said, Please take me to the foreign
hospital"
well. his coming, then, was about as
mysterious as his going. wasn't it?" re-
marked Wang Foo with a smile. as he
babe the surgeon goodnight and con-
tinued his walk through the park.
The lamp was burning low in the
inner chamber of the Tao Tafs
Yamen in old Shanghai. where two~of
Gals were leaning over a table and
carefully scrutinizing a number OF
papers unrolled before them.
"Your Excellency," remarked the
Secretary, these letters show that sc
far nothing has been found in the up
river cities, although most careful
search has everywhere been made. Here
are reports also from Hang Chow and
500 Chow and they are all to the same
effect I still believe that he will be
found hiding somewhere in Shanghai
for, as you know, they think they are
safer here than anywhere else in the
country. They are lost in the mixed
multitude here and can easily escape
detection"
How long has Wang Foo been al
work here now?"
He arrived on the third day of the
moon, this is the seventeenth, exactly
two weeks tonight"
well, what Is his latest idea? Has
he any definite clue?"
Nothing that he has given out. SC
far, but, as your Excellency knows, he
is a man of few words and very reti-
cent and doesn't as rule commit him.
self until he is very sure Of his whole
position"
Have the European police made q
thorough search through all the pawn
shops and rooheries in the Settlement
for the stolen beads?"
Yes, but the difficulty Is that no one
is able to give them an accurate de-
scription. for no one has ever seer
them"
True, that adds to the mystery. We
must Wait few days more and see Il
anything further develops"
The above conversation between tht
! Tao Tai and his Secretary had refer