The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-08-17
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1T Is not such difficult thing,
after ALL" he told her zone day
soon, when ! shall tell you. 1 viii
give you n parcel 90 take TO this
Chinaman You win say 20 the man
AT the opium house that the head OF
tho white man ~ there. but You can
only show IL 20 the orang- China who
has the silver hand. lie win take
you with him and. at little distance.
! shall follow carefully Como TO
me every evening until that day
Goodnight
She LETT the rail and camo toward
him hesitatlngly. her arms out
stretched IN front OF her.
Il have no home" she said softly.
'Wlll not tho ruan- Hakim let inc
stayg"
There was ehohing sensatlon In
his troat as Moorhousc avoided her
gaze. lie shook his head
1T would be neither good for YOU
nor for me. little silver hand" he
siammered lie turned abruptly to-
ward tho door OF the inner room Go
indicate that the paiaver was az an
end.
Presently something clattcred 90
the floor and the girl was gone.
lilo swung slowly around on his
heel and saw tho thing that sho had
dropped. II was a knife with "a long
steel blade and a yellow handle or
namented with black dots He stoop-
ed and recovered q: as he did so he
recognized the grim sign OF tho yell
low Seven.
pFlscd when. emerging from his room
az shortly after seven. he caught
sight OF a long. youthful fisure COM
tortahly Installed in the only easy
chair the bungalow possessed.
Morning. Moorhousel"
Tho 10. o, laughed,
"Hulo. Pcnningtonl when the
deuce did you roll upT''
Chinese Pennington stretched him
self and sat up.
"Oh. somewhere in the early hours
Met your black chow In the garden
He was barking at the moon--and
tho few odd shouts nc did on my ac-
count didn't appear TO make much
difference"
He moved his legs 20 one side and
the magistrate sauatted down on the
foot-rcst.
Not too had had an Interesting
piece Of news last night I've struck
a black girl who's promised TO guide
US to Chal-HuuE
Pennington purssd up his lips.
Women arc tho very deuce" he
declared "I'd like 10 be reasonably
sure-heiore embark upon this
campaign--that your lady friend isn't
contemplating leading US 10 the
devil"
The Oriental eyes that had some
how found their way into n purely
Anglo Saxon countenance wandered
slowly around the walls
I'm inclined 10 put my shirt on
this particular girl said Moorhousc,
and told him the story Of the silver
hand.
All thru the narrative tho man
with the Chinese eyes kept them FIX
ed upon his host,
$50 that's your hcroine'" he re-.
marked as the other concluded
Tho magistrate started
Know herr
Il rather imagine / do She's a
Dyak girl who drifted into -. n. -.
from sarawak. A rather unique
character with touch OF white blood
In her wins As far az I remember.
she had billet once with the Sultan
of Brunei and possibly boned those
hands from HIS treasurc-housc when
he engaged another premiere dan
seuse"
why did he fire here"
Il gather she was rather disturb
ing element In his household. with
marked leaning twoard intrigue
Hewitt could tell you more about her
than can. He had her name on his
books for some time. but decided
there was a screw loose somewhere
and let her 20. Guaya! She's Ger.
tainiy a remarkable womanl"
rGuayaf"
That's her name-or. rather. she
says It's her name"
Moorhouse's jaw dropped.