SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
“Yes. He la a Chlnatuan.”
Itattra.v looked up with a wry
“What I A Chinaman?** Sudden face. “One of
the
Samuelson
horror gripped Eileen, "la he stout­ trumps She's seventy miles east of
ly built, with very red lipa, and a the truck, sir. Isn't there anybody
small black mustache?’’
nearer?”
“Ah I" Celeste gripped her arm
The captain shook hie head. “I
“You have seen him? He has seen have already Inquired,” he an
you? I understand. It was so with awered resignedly.
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And the course ol the It. M. 8.
me—ten years ago, cherle." Then,
to which he added a dash of soda with a swift change of tone: “Hush I Wallaroo was altered.
water. “You’re the garden watch­ hush I my child—he Is here.”
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•••••
dog,” he went on. "See?”
In the lacquered study of Yu'an
Yu'an Hee See war walking
“I don't think I do,” Haig con­ along the path towards them Ills Hee See, the marquis, spectacles
fessed.
eyes. In that smooth yellow face, ou none, bent over a note which lay
“Weil, what you got to do Is resembled oblique black silts. Fans uiatn his table. Aswaml Pasha stood
to patrol the gardens, 'specially the Ing. he bowed, smiling.
Eileen at his elbow.
'al rem garden, and watch the you clutched the French woman's hand
“it Is regrettable." said Yu'an Hee
nicks.”
See. “that such excellent business
and stood rigid.
“Unlcs 1"
“Our little American guest." came should be lost The caravans have
"Yes, Joseph, you-nlcks. They the flute voice.
“You are angry been delayed, as I ordered?"
ain’t like you an' me. They can be with me. I can see. But you do not
“As you ordered. Excellency
bought over. See. mate? If you understand, pale flower, that I have Apart from which, no woman as
pipe a cat In the garden—shoot It. saved you from grave peril. I had specified la Included In either."
Don t shoot a you-nlck or a mon
Yu'an Hee See bent again over
not meant to Intrude upon your
key or a parrot, or you're for It. promenade, but It was very pleas­ the writing. “These fellows Insist
But anything else that moves— ant for me to And a new beauty so upon white skins," he commented.
shoot Now I’ll Interduce you to In this beautiful garuen.”
"Circassians are difficult, now, and
your new pal—name of the Jackal
He bowed, smiling, and departed Eur<>|M>ans. to meet such a specifica­
—and show you round. . . .”
along a path to the right and from tion as this. . . .”
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••••••
a high, latticed window Orange
He remove«) his s|>ectacles. placed
To Eileen every day In that lac­ Blossom watched this scene, her them on the table. an«l shrugged sig
quered room was a week of suffer tiny milk-white teeth burled In her nlfleantly.
Ing, although Celeste showed a ma lower lip.
"You will notice, Excelleucy, that
ternal solicitude for the girl's com
the representativa of the Bey Is ex­
fert
With a glance of her elo­
pected at Keneh on Saturday.”
CHAPTER X
quent eyes and a shrug. Celeste con­
“I have noticed this, my friend,”
veyed the news that they were
AWSON HAiG felt like a man the Chinaman replied. "But we have
spied upon, and Eileen became
rejuvenated. He had found other fish to fry. A young and pleas­
aware that the scroll-work ventila her) How Imminent Eileen's peril ant woman whose qualities answer
tors were really hidden spy holes
might be ne could not know. But. these specifications—” he tapped a
She thought of the bathroom, re whatever the truth, he could do tapering finger on the paper—
calling an Impression of dim voices, nothing more yeL
"would be difficult to obtain In so
above, which bad disturbed her In
He had been allotted quarters tn short a time, even under the most
the bath.
A warm glow spread a palm-thatched hut. These quar­ advantageous circumstances.”
Muny other matters had been dis
over her body, and filled with a ters he shared with a sinister-look
tierce resentment she sprang up,
bands tightly clenched, and walked
THE STORY FROM THE OPENING CHAPTER
out onto the balcony.
“Cherle." Celeste said earnestly.
Matt Kearney, young American living In London. says good-by to bls
In a low voice. “It Is no good. You stater Eileen, on board the Wallaroo which Is conveying <1.000,000 In go'd
must keep yourself In hand for to Australia. Inspector Dawson Haig, ot Scotland Yard, very much In lovs
when something may be done. And with Eileen. Is on the trail of opium ho Is convinced Is concealed In Jo
we are watched. Come tn. There Lung's warehouse Ho delegates Kearney, with Detective Norwich, to visit
the place and find out what he can While there Kearney picks up and
Is a guard on the spy tower look carries away a notebook, which he turns over to Haig. Yu an Hee Hee.
leader of International thieves, is at Jo Lung's. Ho sends men after Nor­
Ing this way."
She dragged Eileen back, but not wich and Kearney, one of whom ho realises must have picked up the nolo-
book. Haig Io puuled over cryptic notes In ths book Norwich Io found
before the latter had stared across murdered While Haig Is poring over the book, a monstrous creature en­
the
unreally lovely garden to ters. seises It, and escapes llalg boards the Wallaroo at Marseilles, dis­
where, upon the high wall, a sort of guised. From radio messages ho decodes, he realises members of Yuan's
square minaret upreared. ixx>klng gang are on board, and have recognised him. A Chinaman tries to throw
llalg overboard but goes over himself At Port Raid llalg Is lured Into a
out from Its gallery was a man 'bath of feathers.' Eileen disappears llalg escapes from the trap and
who wore European dress, with s shoota Joseph, one of ths plotters Eileen, drugged, regains consciousness
in Yu'an's headquarters Yu'an Intends to capture or sink the Wallaroo.
tarbusb.
Using Joseph’s credentials, Haig makes hts way to Keneh. He begins to
“Oh. G—d!" whispered Eileen, perceive Yu'an's plot, to seise the gold on the Wallaroo, but all bls thoughts
and clutched Celeste, detaining her are centered on the rescue ot Eileen.
"Oh. G—d! It Is! It It!"
She stared and stared, choked
In« Creole, the Jackal, who apoke cussed before the Egyptian left the
down a hysterical sob, and then be
apartment of his formidable chief.
a sort of bastard French.
gan wildly waving her hand.
Ills route led him through part of
His
duties
were
simple.
Armed
The man was Dawson Haig!
the gardens. And as he passed a
with
a
knobkerry
resembling
the
“My child! Stop! Stop! What­
shady arbor, a hand lightly touched
ever you've seen, come in 1" the night club ot an American police­ his sleeve. Orange Blossom stood at
man,
and
Siauser
magazine
platol
Frenchwoman whispered urgently.
belted to hla hip, he took sea hla elbow.
Eileen nodded. The beating of
“Aswaml,” she said softly, “a
watches with the Creole, four hours
her heart seemed to be choking on and four off, patrolling the vast word with you.”
her. They re-entered the lacquered
A chill struck at the heart of the
gardens of the palkce. In short,
room.
Egyptian.
More times than he
he was employed as a killer.
“And so,” said Celeste, in a high
could remember, a mad desire for
In
one
of
the
baretu
gardens
and cheerful voice, “two good things
the delicate Ivory beauty of this
are to happen. You are to spend the Haig had seen a number of women woman had possessed him. But al­
afternoon In the garden until tea­ —orientals, languorous but con­ ways—always—
time, and I nave permission to tented. The second had proved to
He glanced about swiftly and
sleep on the divan there, if you be empty. But, on a balcony over then stepped Into the shadows with
looking
the
third,
he
had
seen
Ei
­
wish IL”
her.
“Oh. Celeste!” Eileen whispered, leen.
“Stand still,” Orange Blossom
When
the
Jackal
relieved
him
he
tears starting to her eyes, “you are
commanded, “and listen. This after­
gave
llalg
a
warning.
“
No
go
up
an angel I Whatever would have
steps of women's gardens. If see. noon you set out on a Journey. Is
become of me without you?"
It true?”
Her heart was singing. She was . . .” Significantly he drew a yel­
“It is true, lady,” said Aswaml
dying to share her knowledge with low finger acrosn hla throat . . . Pasha.
this friend unexpectedly found In
“Walk now up to the small salon
As Jack Rattray paced morosely and wait for me. Go at once.”
the enemy's camp. But well enough
she understood the need of silence up nnd down the bridge of the Wal­
Between fear nnd triumph his
laroo. footsteps on the ladder brain was a wasps' nest, tie had
Billy had found her! Billy had aroused him, and Captain Peter­ dared greatly all hla life. But this
son appeared, carrying a radio he knew was the greatest risk he
found her!
Escorted by one of the gigantic flimsy.
had ever taken. Mounting stairs
“Look at this, Rattray," he said. where none met him, he came to the
negroes, she and Celeste presently
“
We've
certainly
got
a
Jonah
on
descended stone steps to the gar­
room adjoining which was that cup-
den. The eunuch dropped back ten bon rd this trip."
board overlooking the apartments
Rattray took the message and occupied by Eileen Kearney.
paces, allowing the women to stroll
undisturbed, and In broken whis­ read:
Orange Blossom, an Ivory statu­
pers Eileen contrived to convey to
“TO COMMANDER RMS WAD ette envelo|M*d In mist, enme tn. her
the French woman that an English LAROO
MAIN
STEAM
PIPE finger raised to tier lipa. With a key
police officer, her friend, was actu­ BURST STOP CH1EF AND TWO she carried, she opened the door of
ally here.
HANDS SERIOUSLY INJURED a tiny anteroom, nnd Indicated that
“My G—d!” Celeste said, “he Is STOP CAN YOU RENDER IM he should move forward. A dimly
a brave man . i only fear—that Mr. MEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION lighted grille appeared on the level
EIGHTEEN
DEGREES of hla eyes.
King I Ahl This Is not his real STOP
“Look down. . . .’’
name—tbe man they call Excellen THIRTY-FIVE NORTH AND FOR
Eileen, wrapped In a delicnte orl
cy. who owns this bouse—the town TY-ONE DEGREES FIVE EAST
SS MOUNT JUPITER JOHN KEN ental robe, Iny upon the dlvnn smok­
—and all the country around.”
ing. Celeste, the Frenchwoman, sat
DALL MASTER. . .
“Mr. King?”
YU’AN HEE SEE
T u o T n
T C! o k F By SAX ROHMER •
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k
CHAPTER IX—Continued
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"Thanks," said Haig drily. "Have
you got a whisky and sodat*
The man grinned and dlsapiieared
Dawson Haig looked about him.
weighing his chances. This was
headquarters — Yu'an Hee See’s
base! "The girl Is safely on her
way," Joseph had said: undoubtedly
on her way here.
What was the most and the best
he could iope for?
.
to get In
touch with Eileen, and then? To
get away again and bring help.
What was the worst danger In
Sight? . . . That one of th* Hee See
group should recognize him.
The negro returned carrying a
tray, upon which was a bottle of
whisky, a siphon of soda water, and
a cut-glass tumbler. He placed this
upon a low table befoi. Haig,
grinned again, and withdrew.
Haig mixed himself a stiff drink,
took a sip, and wondered.
What action was to be looked for
from a modern and highly etUclent
pirate when, tn bls own headquar
ter*, be found himself confronted,
unexpectedly, by a detective Inspec­
tor of the Criminal department?
At that moment entered a bull-
necked, deep-chested man. wearing
a gaily colored pull-over, gray flan
nel trousers, and gymnasium shoes
His low skull was closely cropped,
and his face bore the scars of bat­
tle.
"My G—d 1“ Haig thought "1 bad
overlooked him I” This was the
man to whom be had spoke*, out­
side the Restaurant Suleiman Bey
In Paris!
No glimmer of recognition showed
Itself upon the man's brutal face.
“Hello. Mate!” was his greeting
He glanced at a slip of paper he
held in one large, muscular band.
"You’re Joseph Rasta. Got your
letter?"
"Here it lx"
“I'm the Kid." the other replied.
She
8tar»d and Stared, Choked
Down a Hysterical Sob.
“You speak good English for an
Armenian.”
“I’ve lived in England,” Haig ex­
plained.
The Kid whistled shrilly, and
the negro appeared at once. “An­
other glass,” he directed, lighted a
cigarette, and thoughtfully regard­
ed the npw arrival.
“You look pretty aseful,” he con
ceded. "The Chief’s engaged In 'Is
'alrern—so you get your orders from
me. I’m first lieutenant--see?”
The negro returned with a glass,
the Kid half filled It with whisky,
D
beside her.
“You see?" Orange Blossom wills-
pared softly. “This Is n choice treas­
ure, my friend."
Aswaml Pasha, a connoisseur,
filled his eyes with the gracious
beauty of Eileen, lie nodde«! slowly.
Blender Angers gripped hla arm
nnd drew him away. Ornnge Ilion-
aoui faced him In the room lieyond.
The woman In the lacquered room
was deliciously pretty. “Hhe In
Yu'an's new toy," he thought, "am!
thia hell cat whom I could love or
strangle with nlmost equal pleasure.
Is going to tomtit me to take the
rose girl from him. . . .”
“She Is not for sale,” said the
Chinese woman. "You understand?
But today and tonight the house
will be empty. It might bo mannged
that she should escape I”
“Escape?” The light of a new
understanding crossed the dark face
of Aswaml Pasha.
"She la beautiful—and would
grace your great house at Aswan.
Or perhaps, my friend, It is dark
eyes thnt excite you?"
He turned to her, and greatly
daring, rested his bands upon her
satin shoulders. The contact thrilled
him
“Will you help met' She smiled
voluptuously. “You don't speak,”
she whispered, swaying ever ao
slightly towards him.
"Yea! But—” in a second be
would have had her In hla arms.
“Ssh I Quick I” she hissed—and
pushed him away. "Go out by the
other door He Is coming! . .
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“No sign of her, sir," Jack Rat­
tray droppe«l the glasses back Into
their case. “1 can't make It out It's
clear, too, that her wireless has
failed." The first officer turne«, to
the commander, who sto< d upon the
bridge of the Wallaroo beside him.
It was perhaps au hour before
dusk swept down over the Red sea.
A long, low Island lay off their port
bow; an Arab dhow was creeping
out from the tail of It
Rattray, taking up the glasses,
searched again, nnxlously. He was
about to drop the glasses again,
when:
"By G—d. sir!" he said, “look­
quick . . . under our port bow I”
The conning towers of a big sub­
marine were rising above the sur­
face! A Marconi operator came
bounding onto the bridge with a
message. Rattray grabbed It. He,
the captain, and the third officer,
read It together:
"COMMANDER RMS WALLAROO
AM SENDING BOAT FOR SI R-
GEON STOP LIE TO URGENT
JOHN KENDALL MASTER 88
MOUNT JUPITER."
Captain Peterson glanced from
face to face. “What's this?” he
repeated huskily.
“It's a message we daren’t dis
obey, sir!" Rattray replied. “If any­
body else picks It up, it sounds
harmless enough.
Don't you un­
derstand?"
The mysterious vessel, now on
surface, ran along beside them, two
German quick-firers trained upon
the Wallaroo—then came the ahrlll
howl of a shell; the shattering bark
of one of the four-inch guns.
The mainmast of the Wallaroo
carrying the wireless, crashed with
Its rigging to the deck.
There were shouts—shrieks—ex­
ecrations. Captain Peterson, a very
old and haggard man, walked to th«
telegraph and Jerked It to "Stop.’'
The Wallaroo lay almost motion
less upon an oily sea. The subma
rlne, running alongside within hail
Ing distance, rang off at the same
moment, and lay there bealde the
liner.
There was a sudden büßt!« on
her deck. They were putting a boat
off. . . . The dhow drew nearer
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••••••
Dawson llalg went on duty at
noon.
The sinister Jackal would
soon be safe In a drug Induced sleep
Four hours Iny before him In which
to Justify bls foolhnrd.v enterprise
of penetrating alone to the strop­
hoid of the enemy
(TO HE CONTINUED)