The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-02

the image, which I had brought the
Master, and which stood as the andIron,
now so immensely enlarged, was Eegin-
ming again to speak. The thin metallic
sound seemed to splinter against the
dense silence, as it went forward in
the ritual prescribed.
"But the Master had already decided;
he stood now on the great marble hearth
with his papers crushed together. And
as I looked on, through the crevice under
the doorslll he put out his free hand and
with his finger touched the woman
gently. The flesh under his finger
yielded, and stopping over. he put the
formula into the fire"
Like one who has come to the end
of his story, the huge Oriental stopped
He remained for some moments silent.
Then he continued in an even, mo-
notonous voice:
"I got up from the floor then' ana
purified myself with water. And after
that l went into an upper 0n nnd sa+
opened the window to the east, ana sat
down to write my report to the broth
erhood. For the thing which 1 mad been
sent to do was finished
He put his hand somewhere into RE
loose folds of his Oriental garment and
brought out a roll of thin, vellum-like
onion skin, painted in Chinese charac-
ters. 1t was of immense length buE on
account of the thinness Of the Vellum.
the roll wound on a tiny cylinder OF
wood was not above two inches In
thickness.
"Excellency," he said, IT have cara
fully concealed this report through the
misfortunes that have attended me. 1t
| is not certain that I shall be able 10
deliver it, VIII you give 1t for me the
| ewel-rnerchant Vanderdick, in ANS
terdam? He will send it to Mahadal In
Bombay, and it will go north with the
caravans"
nut the scroll into my pocket and
went out for motor-car had come INTO
the park, and I knew that Jonquelle had
arrived.
I met JonqueHe and the superintendent
IN the long corridor; they had been
looking in at my interview through the
elevated grating.
r,-bt to cut short the criminal trial
and issue a lunacy warrant. This
creature is the maddest lunauc in this
whole asylum. The human mind is
canable of any absurdity."
Jonuuelle looked at me with
queer. ironical smile.
.spnrbans," he shrugged, there Is
.or1e exnlanation in the report in your
r,ocl,at to the Monastc Head II
NV a theory, you know.
oil ~ smiled, showing his white even
teeth. ,,o,,r,+erdan+,s
roorn and sat down by smoioeF!hs
fira If Goals in the CRATE hahoeo
TanoHella the roll of vellum. 1t was
j., ono If the Shan dialects. He read
g. a1ond with the addition Of certain
ForroeI expressions, 1t contained pre-
I 49, 80 49,, 6riental's testimony before the
court and no more. , T.,
"Ahl' he said in his curlousIy IN
Elected voice. 49,
And he held the scrool out to the
heat of the fire The Vellum baked
slowly. and as it baked. the black
Chinese characters faded out and faint
blue ones began to appear.
Jonquelle read the secret message IN
his emotionless drawl:
The American is destroyed, and
his accursed work is destroyed with
him. Send the news to Bangkok and
west to Burma The treasures of In
dfa are saved"
I cried out in establishment.
"An assassin. The creature was an
assassin. He killed Rodman simply by
crushing him in his arms"
Jonquelle's drawl heightened.
"It's Lal Gupta," he said. the
cIayerest Oriental in the whole of
Asia. The. jeweI-traders sent him to
watch Rodman, and to kill him if he