Evening star., 1921-01-16

covered a most eficacious mirror in
an unused part of the inner court,
and he was willing TO let her have it
Con the pledge of her inviolate Sc
crecy), for about five times its normal
value. Money being no object when
the secrets of ones soul are for sale.
the purchase was promptly sealed.
Now for the mysterious disappear
ance; she had brought it safely to
Hongkong and had kept it locked
securely in one of the inside compart-
ments of her wardrobe trunk. It had
only been taken out very few times
to show to admiring friends and had
always been carefully locked away
again. About a week ago she was eX
planning il to some visitors from the
consulate and laid it carefully on the
table by the tea-tray, rolled up in its
covering of yellow silk. After her
guests were gone she turned to pick
it up, and, to her horror and utter dis
may, the yellow silk wrapper just
crumpled-up in her hand-it was alb
solutely empty. the mirror had van
!, ished.
Yes. doctor. / would rather have
had them steal all the rest of my
baggage and leave that alone Don't
try to cheer me up by telling me that
I can buy another one just as good.
| No other mirror in the world can be
to me what that one was. l hope !
am not wickedly superstitious. but
| that had become part of my inner
most life. | spoke to il and it an
swered back more clearly than the
cleyerest ouija- board-It seemed to
contain my other self and to reflect
back to me my future not only feel
lost without ii. but | am utterly bro
ken-searted and all interest in my
eastern trip is gone.
To- oh
that was always DR.. Patterson's ia
| therly way-'.we're not going to palm
| off anything else on you at all. We're
after that original mirror and were
going to get it and you are surely
! going to see your own dear self in 1t
and anything else you want to see
there-before you leave this port.
We've got the finest police in the
world here, if you know anything
about Inspector Higgins. and if he
! don't catch the thief, why. Wang Foo
will, so there you are. Now. in the
meantime, I'm going TO send you up
5000 feet into the air for a good
! change and rest see? You just leave
all YOUR trouble and worry down here
| in the settlement on the sea-leVel Tor
| ten days. and away you go this very
night up to two nice rooms that l
/ have for you and mother in the SAM
tarium on the peak.
! The two ladies promised implicit
! obedience and. after writing out a
little prescription for overwrought
nerves, the doctor bade them good
| bye.
| 'Rut who is Wang Foo that you say
will help us?" asked the patient as
the dotr stood aJar
J oh Wang Foo? Haven't you ever
I heard of him? Why he is the great
Chinese man of mystery who un-
ravsIs all tangled affairs for us What
he, cannot find isn't worth the find-
| ing"
And he is clever at catching hotel
! thieves, is he?"
why, ladies. that's his very spe-
! cialty-but you know we must give
our own officers every chance first.
otherwise it wouldn't be fair to them. "
| & X :, x
INSPECTOR HIGGINS and Deputy
Brownlow were closeted together
| at headquarters and comparing notes
| on the disappearing OF the Tucker
mirror. "Of course" began the chief.
the hotel boy who brought in the tea
| things is our first thought He seems
to have been tho only outsider who