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THE JADE SIM STREET, Experience of an American Who Went Through It. By CLARISSA MACKIE. ICopyrlght, J310, by American Press Asso ciuilon. Granville lazily rolled another ciga rette. "Why is It culled 'the Jade Stone street?" " be questioned. JSeal Scoit did not remove his gaze from the busy Shanghai thoroughfare outside the club room windows. . "I don't know." he said. A boy approached with a tray of tlDkllng glasses, and Scott bent his bead over the tray as If to bide the concern In his eyes, Granville waited until the boy had departed and then tossed his cigarette away and stiffened in his chair. "I'm going into the old city tomorrow, and 1 intend to find ut why it Is called the Jade Stone street." "A foolish quest," returned Scott iligbtly. "Once before a man went Into the city to find that out, and he never came back." "I shall find out nevertheless," said Granville stubbornly, "or I'll never come back either." "I'll go with you, then." Scott's voice .was matter of fact now. "Xot if there is a risk. This Is my wn funeral." objected the other. "As your most intimate friend it is xay duty to attend upon your obse quies, then," retorted Scott, rising and stretching his lean form lazily. The conversation turned to other matters, but later before parting for the night they agreed to meet early the next morning and go into the na tive city upon Granville's "asinine quest," as Scott chose to call it, which they did. Almost before they knew it they were approaching one of the dark, cavernous gates of the old city. "Got a gun?" asked Scott suddenly, f Granville smiled sheepishly. "Yep. EX VXKB.D NOT TUBJI HIS HEAD. Thought I might need it after what you said." r Tfca other nodded approval and touched his own hip significantly. ' "There are many more fascinating streets than the on you are seeking, said Scott after long silence. There hwas a trace of uneasiness In his voice 'that Granville noted with a lurking smile. "There is the Street of the Brilliant Eye' or 'the Thousand Bella' dozen others far more suggestive than this one." "The Jade Stone street for mine!" aid Granville emphatically. Scott and Granville approached it from the lower end. and once in the shadow of the swinging signs, with nothing save thick mud beneath their feet. Granville's interest waned. His quest seemed an ldjptic one. and be marveled at Scott's patience In ac companying him. Nevertheless he tried not to show his Indifference and look ed about for some means of obtaining lis information. A carver in Ivory and Jade peered out from his niche in the wall, and Granville stopied abruptly. "Will you act as my interpreter, Neal? I'll ques tion this old duffer. lie's the oldest Chinaman I ever saw." The Jnde cutter's wheel had ceased i'js whirrins revolutions, and the old wan watched the Americans from his twilight niche as seme brazen god hi Sts shrine might have done. There "was the fame impassivity of counte nance. Kren the eyes, like bits of jxilished Jet, were motionless. ' Then stillness fell upon the street. ! ?ave for the shuflling of padded shoes there was silence profound. Granville j cleared his throat noisily atid then Marted at the sound of his own voice. Jle turned to his companion. "You've iiiado me as nervous as a witeb. Neal." he complained. "Just BFk the old tienr why this is called the Jade Stone Mreet and pet It over .with." Scott rut the question In the vernac ular, and the yellow lips moved in an swer. "Says he doesn't know; always been rnlled that." There was a malicious j:! en m lu Scott's blue eyes. GrsDville stared resentfully at the pleanilng black eyes, so fathomless to his problug question, and turned iiway. With his movement the street seemed to sink into a twilight obscurity, from which shadowy forms melted hm If by mugiu and left the narrow pavements untenanted. The sun had drawn be hind a heavy black cloud, and a low mutter of thunder vibrated the build ings. "Where have they gone?" he ques tioned, wondering. Scott shrugged his broad shoulders. "I'm afraid we'll find out in a min ute," he growled. "I was a fool to humor you, Granville. We're in a dev il's mess." "I don't understand now what It's all about, Neal. What harm have we done merely asking a few questions?" Granville's voice took on an injured tone. "I told you it was foolhardy to med dle in things that do not concern us. We'll have to run the gantlet of some thing, as we must do now!" Scott spoke in a low tone, but his voice was acute with restrained feeling. "Run the gautJet:"' echoed Granville faintly. The other pointed up the gray tun nel of the street, where a patch of lighter gray shone lke a window In high wall. "See that?" he asked, "Yes." "That's the end of the street, the top of the wall. The gray spot Is our goal now. Give me your gun. Dirk. I'll understand when to give it back to you. never fear! There! Follow me. nun lor your lire toward that gray square of light at the top of the wall Remember, there are a thousand yel low faces behind doors and windows and lurking in alleywavs. Our safetv depends upon our speed! Ready go!' Like arrows from the how the two men shot forward. Scott leading by bare twelve inches. Granville's face was quite palp, and he tried not to see the peering faces even as Scott had described them. He heard long hiss. ing breaths, and strange shrill cries broke behind him as he ran. They passed through an empty street, yet as they passed If ' was peopled behind them with padding trit-trot of feet and low cries and shrill cackles. Scott's long, white clad form covered the distance with amazing agility. To Granville's tired eyes he seemed mere ly a white streak which he must fol low or be struck in the back. Time and again he felt that some assassin hand hovered over him. yet he dared not turn his bead lest the hand make the downward stroke. He panted up the Incline In Scott's wake, with starting eyes glaring at the gray patch of light growing larger every moment. Behind bim sharp cries mingled with the pushing crowd. Afterward he never beard that shrill cry of the Chinese. "Hal yah!" with out the same feeling of blind terror that pursued him up the incline of the Jade Stone street to the very parapet of the wall, where he fell breathless beside his friend. It was several moments before he realized that they were safe at the end of the street. Several white clad forms troopd along the wall from the river gate and, sitting on the parapet, stared inquisitively at Granville. "Feel better, old chap?" they asked In chorus. ' "Haven't got all my wind back." ad mltted Granville dazedly. He wonder ed vaguely why these chaps from the club should have appeared at the very moment when. the. danger over, be and Scott had reached a zone of safety at the top of the hill. Their smiling faces under white sun bats and the general air of hilarity that prevailed during the lighting of cigarettes seem ed strangely out of place after bis race with death. He shuddered slightly and turned to Scott. That gentleman bad Joined tbe oth ers on the wall and seemed more in tent on tbe flight of a carrion crow drifting black against tbe gray clouds than on the recent exciting events. "Why is it called the Jade Stone street. Granville?" snickered Beats from the end of the row. Granville stared, at first uncompre hending and at last with growing light He got upon bis feet and scraped the mud from bis white shoes. "Was it a plant?' he demanded. Their roars of laughter answered bis question. He turned and looked down the street and into the Jostling, shifting crowd. A shrill "hal yah" pierced the air. and be felt the hair crinkle along his forehead and turned back swiftly to hide bis agitation. "Initiation, I suppose." be grunted, half angry, wholly relieved for the moment Scott's mirthful face sobered, and he reached out a hand and pulled Gran ville down beside him. "We've all beeu through the mill, Dick." he ex plained. "It's the only way to teach a newcomer to keep away from the native city if he has any idea of pry- ins around. We run the new chaps through this street. So many of us have run the gantlet that the natives catch on in a minute when they see a couple of u: drawing near and one a stranger. They lend themselves un consciously to the little farce and dis appear. But It mislit become a trag edy at ar.y moment If bad men from any other street should be on band, say a few river pirates spending their money In the city! As It Is. the Jade Stone street Is the most peaceful thor oughfare In Shanghai. The denizens are harmless. Industrious workmen, even as the old carver of Jade whom you questioned. 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