White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-07-24
BY KENNETH GILBERT.

A sinister figure, the Hawk-rarell
seen but often felt leaving behind hi:
scourge few tracks and only the mys
tic fearful "k"-the mark of hi.
trade. Thrilling adventure and alb
sorbing mystery in the fastness o.
| Siberia.
Pirates, Bellew; and there's whale
| breaks"
The speaker was Jimmy Mulvane
who had been attached to the intelli
gence service at the capital when
was Washington correspondent Nov
| in distant Yokohama we had me
again; l, keeping watch of the bub
bling political pot of the Far East
and Jimmy on the mission he was con
| fiding to me.
Until he had clapped me on the bach
| that night had been brooding at {
lonely table in the dining-room of 70
kohama's most occidentalized hotel
before the earthquake which ratified
the bones of even the Ten Thousand
Gods Who Descended from the Sun
Never had Mulvane been more vel
come, or better to look upon, with hi.
six feet of Drawn, blue-gray eyes tina
had the deviltry of daring Celt IL
| them, and whose smile made friend!
of people he had never seen before.
Ever head of The Hawk?" hi
went on
l had, Of course, but had set no Sc
rious store by the rumor. One version
had him Russian; an educated, high
| ly intelligent man who had turne
scapegrace while the czar was still o.
the throne. That put him in wron
with the monarchists. When tn
soviets took charge he was still ou
lawed, for his deviltry knew no pol
tics. There was price on his hea
in the Siberian coast provinces fror
Cape Serdze to the Manchurian boz
der, but he was as elusive as he wa
vindictive. Out of the blue sky, seen
ingly, he would drop like the bandi
bird after which he was named
strike, and be gone. A small bu
heavily powered schooner; the kin
that could hide in coves, behind is
lands and up rivers along that blea
coast, was used in his forays.
He had made the hawk idea one @
terror. His sign, whether it wa
slashed on the breast of a victim
carved on the mainmast of ship
had looted, or daubed with blood o
the door of the church in some villag
he had descended upon, was the lie
ter "K," which is the mark Of tn
hawk-people, just as *" is the trac
of the OWL No one know his name
nor had the man been found VIII
would tell what The Hawk locke
like.
Another story had him an American
a deserter from ship plying out G
Seattle. A youthful buccaneer, thi
version said. Still another accoun
said he was an Englishman who ha
been banished from the British cor
cessions in China.
Pirate, raider, murderer, fiend-h
was all of these, IL one could believ
the stories-but it seemed improbabl
that he existed at all. told Mulvan
as much, and he smiled wisely
strangely enough, most of wha
you have heard is true" he said
That's why am here"
why should the United States con
Germ itself?" 1 wanted to know.
Officially 1t has not" he replied
Yet within a year at least half {
dozen American trading schooners
with their crews, have vanished north
Of here. l am on leave of absence
| IT, during that time, l should be en-
gagged privately by underwriters who
have lost more than million dollars
in claims, that would be entirely un
official, wouldn't it,"
"Those ships went down in storms,
| ventured.
Possibly" he agreed; yet, it is
odd that all Of them carried heavy
cargoes of gold and furs.
If 1t is the work of The Hawk, II
establishes one fact, which may &C
count for failure to capture him. He
has a highly efficient spy system in
these North Pacific ports, and prob
ably Yokohama is the base. That's
why started here"
We smoked over that for a mo-
ment.
What's your plan?" l asked him.
Haven't any," he confessed. 1--WE
been here but two days" favored
him with superior look, for had
just thought of the girl-Jane Knowl-
ton.
II can give you a clue" l announced