New Britain herald., 1924-12-06

He burst unceremoniously into the assistants room and, at that mo- ment, the torch gave out. He crossed to the bed and felt for Millett's form with his outstretched hands. His fingers met jumbled mass of torn mosquito curtain and beyond - nothing but an empty bed.
 He found matches and lit the lamp with trembling hand. His eyes | fell upon a scene of utter chaos. The frame over the bed was broken
 in several places; chairs and tables
 lay strcwn in every direction: frag-
 ments of broken Crockery strewed
 the bare floor; the lamp itself had
 survived miraculously by reason of
 its being swung from hook in
 beam. Scarcely piece of furniture
 was whole.
 His eye fell on something which glittered almost under his feet. He 1 stopped and picked it up. It was
 murderous looking native knife, its
 blade a foot long, its handle of buf- falo horn. He tossed 1t on to the bed
 and plunged out of the room to-
 ward the kitchen, On the very
 threshold of his sleeping apartment,
 the cook-boy lay prone -- his
 throat cut from ear to ear.
 | Corrigan's brain reeled. Suddenly
 something brushed against his leg.
 The yellow dog leaped up at him. trying to lick his hand. It disap-
 peared again into the hlackress,
 barking furously, then returned to
 where he still stood, its mongrel
 form throbbing with renewed ac-
 tivity.
 Corrigan swallowed d lump in his
 throat, jerked out his broad chest ---
 and went into the house for his automatic. The dog kept close be- hind him. pantins like a steam en- zine.
 As he slipped refill into his torch and tested it critically, he : looked down at the beast he had called Panus.
 "I wonder If you cans old son?'
 l liF tll'A' 'tTlNbs II Hopl -hilti'stI lio5 z c last chance you're it,"
 As if to justify itself in Corrigan'I 8 estimation, the dog took aew patt e through the rubber, hastening bacl [ at intervals to make sure that Cor 5 rigan w1s following. In the light o l. the newly charged pocket lamp tn . planter saw that the soft eartl . showed clearly the imprint of man. c bare feet, feet that had passet !. that way only short time before [ Corrigan. SIS he hurried after tha r amazing yellow dog he had ono, |. been within an ace of destroying found, in the invaluable experience - born of long years of adventurinI t in strange places, one pretty soli Q foundation on which to base hi $ hopes of saving Millett from tn l. fate that threatened him. It Wa . the obvious intention of the Wor Q shippers Of the blue monkey { 2 sacrifice the Englishman whor It they believed 10 have robbed ther l. Of. their cherished symbol. If sue q had not been the case. Millet 0 would assuredly have shared tn l. same fate as the Chinese cook bo,
 Now. native creeds are intermngle oI with weird superstitions; sacrifice m to gods are almost invaria bly, cal ot ried out in accordance with stat at customs - and at stated times; [
 the season of the full moon; whe d the moon is new; at the falling , 'e darkness; at the rising of the SUI Is ..,. Corrigan fully realized, in tr c present circumstances, that speed rd ness In dispatching their victim "; ''' on" of the prime factors of Il US ease Relying on that strange six ne sense he had never known to ia he him, he pinned his faith on tl as dawn; and it was for this reast us that he pressed forward with eve E. ounce of strength at his comman ee making the utmost use of each mi
 ute that remained.
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