The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-08-03
CHAPTER WI.
beyond tho Veil

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beyond tho veil
Rita Twins awakening was no
awakening In the usually accepted
sense OF tho word: II did not even
represent lifting Of the veil which
cut her off from the world. She tot.
tered on the border.line which
divides sanity from madness. She
was learning what Sir Lucien had
meant when. once. long ago. In some
remote time when she had belonged
TO a living world. he had said. "a day
Ia SURE TO come" IL had come.
that day II had dawned when
she had torn tho we'll before HANNAH
and that veil had enveioped her
/ ever sincc.
Tho horror Of the moment. when
she had touched tho hands OF tho
man seated In tho big ebony chair.
was OF such kind that no subsequent
terrors had supplan,cd H. For thoa,
long. slim hands of the color OF old
ivory were cold. rigid. iifeless-the
hands Of a corpsel
Complete darkness came.
Rita uttered a wild cry, shrinking
back from the thing which aat In the
ebony chair. she CROPPED for support
but found none. and. moaning. ahe
sank down. and was unconscious Of
her full.
A voice awakened her. Some one
spoke wildly. but with a strange.
emotional reverence curblng the pas
sion In his voice.
"Rita-my Rita, what have they
done 10 your Speak 20 me-
Oh. Cod spare her TO me- ."
She felt herself being ilftsd gently.
tondcrly. And. AN though the mans
passionate entreaty had called her
back from the dead. she rccntared
into lilo and stroye to realize what
had happened
Sir Lucicn was supporting her,
and she clutehed his arm with both
hands.
"oh. Lucy she whispered. II am
% frightencd--and 80 ~
Thank Cod" he said huskiiy. -shs
In alive. Lean against mo and try
to stand up. We must set away
from here"
Rita managed TO stand upright
cilnging wildly to Sir Lucien. liz
pushed open n door and spoke rapid
ly In n language which sounded like
Spanish. Hc was answered by = per
feet torrent Of words In the sAzns
tongue.
Fsercely he cried something bae,
At the hidden SPEAKER.
A shrek Of rdUe. OF frenzy. cams
out Of the darkness Rita felt thai
CONSEQUENCES was about 20 leave hei
again She rwayed forward dlxxiiy
and . figure which seemed TO belons
to deiirium-a lithe shadow on, ol
which Eieamed pair Of Wild eycs-
ieapcd upon haz. a knife Eiitiere<
In order 10 havs rcpefied ne at
tack, SIR Lucien would have had u
release Rita. who was eilnxtng u
him. weak and tsrror-s,ricksn- In
stead. he thrvw himself before her
IL She saw tho knlfe enter hi,
shoulder.
Through absolute darkness sh,
sank down into land OF chao,is
nightmare horrors. Impish hand,
pluckcd at her garments. dragges
her hair. She was hurried this wa,
and that. bruised. torn Darkness
fell again.
A Chtnaman wns bending over her
His hands were tucked In his loos'
siecves He was strangely like Sir
sin Wa save that hc did not lari
an eye.
Rita found herreif lying IN an un
tidy bed In a room lsden with opium
fumes and dimiy lighted on a tahl'
beside her were tho remains OF 4
meal.
Rita managed to move her head y
that she could $50 morn Of the room
| on n dlyan at the other end OF IN
place. proppcd up by a number O
garlsh cushions Rita beheld Mrs
Sin. The long bamboo pipe had fal
len from her llstless fingers
In the other corner OF the divan
contemplating her from under hcavI
brows. sat HANNAH.
Chinatown WAS being watched a.
Chinatown had never been watches
before, even during the most string
cnt enforcement Of the defense o
the realm act Scotland Yard ha,
sent TO aid Chief Inspector Kerr,
every man that could be spared 4
the task. The river police. too. wer'
aflame with zeal. for every officer II
the service. whose work lay east o
London bridge. had Appropriated q
himself the stigma implied by tn
creation OF Lord Marlborough
commission.
Towards the close OF An afternoon
Of drilling rain and gloom. Chic
Inspector Kerry. carrying an irTf
table toy spaniel, came into a par
row street which runs parallel wit
the Thames.
Three times within the past /
minutes the spaniel had tried 10 bit
Kerry. Finally the ill-tempered littl
animal essaycd n fourth and success
full attempt. burying his wicke
white teeth in the chief inspector
wrist.
Kerry hooked his finger into tn
dogs collar. swung the yapping an
NAL above his head. and hurled
from him into the gloom and raj
mist
Hell take tho blasted thingr' h
shouted. I'm done with itr'
lie tenderiy sucked his wounde
wrist. and picking up his cant
which he had dropped. he locke
about him and swore savagely.
furious hatred OF the one-eyed China
man. around whom he was cor
vlnced the mystery conferred ha
grown up within his mind. He r.
garded the murder OF Sir Lucie
Pyne and the flight or abduction q
Mrs. Monte Irwin as minor incident
in a case wherein Sin Sin Wa III
800. 10.