Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-04-26

mously deformed, bumped, grotesque
long arms and disproportionately
large hands. But the head THE head,
| glimpsed for a moment in the lobby
light!
Nausea swept over him at sight of
that small malignant head, that near
ly hairless head, like the skull of an
infant. The brow was no more than
an inch and half high, and the nose
upon a small, dark face, was repre-
sented by two distended nostrils The
chin retreated into the neck, but the
upper lip below those flattened nostrils
protruded inhumanly.
The creature turned it's little sunken
eyes upon him. He saw two enormous
teeth, exaggerated CANNES, curved
| downward over the lower lip-white,
and cleaning.
| For one instant, sort of supernat-
| ural dread held him spellbound Then.
sword in hand, he leaped.
But. quickly as he eaped, the Thing
was quicker. Like shadow, the white.
fanged horror sprang through the bed
] room door.
Haig lunged wildly. The blade of the
Japanese sword passed completely
| through lower panel as the abnor-
| mally active fugitive crashed the door
fast behind him. Haig threw himself
| against 1t, and as 1t swung open he
crashed forward, face downward upon
| the bedroom carpet.
| 10 In
| to the light switch. The room was
empty! The window was more widely
open, and, racing across, he craned
out, looking down the face of the
| building into the shadowy court below
Something that looked like big
cat was moving twenty feet under
meath Even as he looked, it had gone
fading, had disappeared. He
would have been prepared to stake all
he possessed upon the impossibility of
any human being climbing down the
face of the building at that point. Yet,
he had seen it accomplished
He thought of the creatures sunken.
| blazing eyes. 1t had been under the
| influence of drugs-was, for the time
| being, Observation-Disclosures, probably
| by some preparation of Indian hemp
with supernatural daring and agility
Running back to Kearney's writing
table, he pulled up, fists clenched
The memo book had disappeared
|
Absolute silence prevailed in the Of
| flee of 10 Lung. The woman smoked
| cigarettes ceaselessly one after an.
other. Yuan paced the carpet with his
heavy yet cat-llke tread Suddenly:
I'VE shall be trapped" the woman
said "Why are we waiting? Ali-or
| the Adder--may be caught as they re.
turn"
Yuan glanced at the speaker through
slit-like eyes. Then silently he extend
| ed plump yellow hand in the direc-
ton of the wall behind the desk In
one of the openings of the switchboard
glowed a tiny speck of light
"The blue lights are on" he re-
| turned contemptuously. "Eyen If we
were surrounded-neither would be
| taken"
| bell.
Yuan stepped quickly to the table
| and took up the receiver "Yes?" he
said
Something Is afoot," Polodos re-
| ported. Shan announces that the party
which set out from Leman street is
now leaving Limehouse-bound In this
| direction. What are your orders?"
LAS already arranged" the high,
| piping voice replied. II am now going
| to join 10 Lung. There will be no sea
| tonight, so we shall cross in the
cruiser"
where do you wish me to join
you?"
"At Trieste on Thursday morning
the usual place"
Yuan replaced the receiver
1.-The police | knew it!'' cried the
woman. sprlnging up
He faced her. with YOU" he said
softly, in Chinese, "the police are like
an evil dream. One would think Or
ange Blossom, that you feared them.
This is not tattering to me-"
| His voice rose very high on the last
note. The woman called Orange Bios
som summoned all her natural AFRO.
gance to confront him, but that cloak
of high disdain which she wore so
gracefully somehow had slipped from
her.
AS the portly Chlnaman moved
slowly in her direction, she shrank
back nearer to the door. With a curl.
ing smile of arched red lips he turned
aside, slipped off his blue house gar
ment, which he hung in a cupboard and
resumed his heavy overcoat taking up
the broad-brimmed black hat from the
table. Then
Come he said, 1--WE are going 10
Lung waits for us"
Inspector Eddy Of Leman Street had
placed his men with care. 1t would
have been difficult for a rat to enter
the premises of 10 Lung without at
tracing the attention of one of them.