SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Ing ills flats, "I can't do It I It's
bloody murder! That's what it Is—
bloody murder!"
"You arc cons«'lence-s I r I c k «• □
again, Mr. Brown?”
The Kid turned
Aswaml Pasha
WNU 8«rvt<
stood pointing a vicious looking au
tomatic straight ut th«* Kid's stom
ach. “I have watched you with
CHAPTER X—Continued
tiiiu's cabin Aswaml Pasha pointed Ished from the submarine. ('nine
Interest for some time,” the Egyp
to where th«» wreckage of the main- the faint sound of a boll on the
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tian weut on; “In Purls and In
Burned up by impatience—not mast lay, half over the starboard Wallaroo's bridge; the ship began
Egypt, ns well ns here. I regret It
to vibrate, but:
daring to speculate about Eileen— rails.
—but I can no longer trust you."
he walked slowly toward th«» north
"You s«»e, we do not hesitate,"
"Stand by all boat stations!" th?
Aswaml Pasha pressed the trigger.
ern extremity of his patrol. And he murmured. “
"The
The dhow has captain roared. The order was
But swiftly as he acted, he never
a curious fact obtruded Itself. All reached position," the Egyptian transmitted. In dying echo«*«, from
theless noted too slowly to check
the eunuchs had disappeared I
went on. and—" glancing at a jew point to point of the ship: "Stand
thnt "Maxim silencer" left of the
And now, coming in sight of the eled wrist watch—“1 must notify by ull boat stations . . . stand by
KI<L
wall which marked the boundary on you that you now have exactly three . . . boat stations . , . boat stations
As tl««' boxer dropped. coughing, to
the north, he heard again, dimly, minutes In which to make up your
hung over the side, pumping hie
that babel of many tongues . . . mind. Captain.”
Peterson sprung to the telegraph
life's blood Into the. Red sen, As-
but outside, in the distant tree-bor
A boat, packed with negroes and and jammed "full speed ahead”—
waml I'asha temporarily passed Into
dered street which led down to the dmuned by four Arab rowers, was then leaped to the side of the bridge
forgetfulness, hie once classic nose
town. . . .
coming from the dhow. The captain and looked again.
a mere memory, . . .
At one point an old lebbekh tree exchanged glances with Jack lint
He was too late!
On the submarine, Yuan Hee Nee
overhung the great wall. Haig ran tray.
Yu’an Hee See sat In the control
gave
the order to cease firing. "It
to It, mounted to the lower-most
"No alternative, sir—none what room of the submarine. Seen through
will disturb Hie sharks,* tee ex-
branches, climbed higher, nnd could ever,” said the latter savagely. "Pas the periscope, the towering hull of
plained, lie rang on the engines to
see over the wall. A straggling pro sengers come first We daren’t risk the Wallaroo »«-etned almost to
"Dead slow abend."
cession was winding down the street It."
overhang the vicious little warship.
Ami old Maciles, raising his eyre
towards the port below I The eu
The skipper nodded, and crossing, Yu’an llee See spoke softly. "First
to the Indicator as It tinkled,
nuchs he could Identify by their liv swung open the door of a safe. He tube,” he said. And the first tor
grus|>ed the levers automatically—
eries. but there were many others handed keys to the purser.
pedo was launched against the help
and then wink hie delinuched face
who wore no distinguishing dress.
And so, from the bullion room b«*- less liner.
Into hla hands, sobbing ns only a
There had been an exodus from tween decks, two millions of minted
Frightened faces of stewards and
drunken num can sob. when, sober,
the g. cat house. Could he take ad money was removed, taken down other members of the crew, some
he looks down upon what lie hae
vantage of It? Along a path bor the ladder and transferred to the of them with war experience,
become.
dered by almond trees, he walked. dhow. It was contained in wooden peered out of portholes. Men were
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Above everything—he must keep boxes, each holding five thousand running—there was tumult—desper
coot Always Eileen camt Into the pounds, and not too heavy for one ation.
In the grent gardens of the s!d
foreground—but he knew, and his man to carry. The work was done
palace an unusual quiet reigned.
Yu’an Hee See began to laugh
conscience cried out, that even by a team of huge negroes. In a That weird, piping laughter swept
The negro«*« seemed to have disap
greater stakes were being played constant procession, coming and go around the oily little compartment
peared, to a ninn.
Evei the great
for.
Ing like magnificent black ants, they like a breeze from hell.
engine shed adjoining the garages,
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worked until all the boxes were re |
and Its annex with the tall radio
The torpedo buried Its wicked
A state of the wildest excitement moved from the Wallaroo.
masts, were d<*sert<*d. The big house
prevailed aboard the Wallaroo.
The transshipment, carried out
was still.
THE STORY FROM THE OPENING CHAPTER
What had happened?
Had war with admirable dispatch under the
ilalg strode along the path close
suddenly been declared? The un orders of Aswaml Pasha at the
under the wall which marked the
Matt Kearney, young American living In uondon. says good-by to hie southern boundary of hla patrol His
derwater craft bore no distinguish head of the ladder, was completed
ing number and flew no flag. Then. In less than a quarter of an hour. sister Eileen, on board the Wallaroo which Is conveying <2,000,000 In gold brain was racing again, and ho
to Australia. Inspector Dawson Haig, of Scotland Yard, very much In love
with Eileen. Is on the trail of opium ho Is convinced Is concealed In Jo knew that he must keep a grip on
Lung's warehouse. Ho delegates Kearney, with Detectlvo Norwich, to visit common sense.
CHAPTER XI
the place and find out what ho can. While there Kearney picks up and
llalg realized that practically h«
an Hae “
Uss.
carries away a notebook, which he turne over to llalg. Yu
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N THE control room of the sub leader of International thieves. Is at Jo Lung's. He sends man after Nor- had the run of the place; a guard
marine Yu’an Hee See received wlch and Kearney, one of whom he realises must have picked up the note- ian who was himself s prisoner.
constant messages from an un- book. Halff Is pussled over cryptic notes In the book. Norwich Is found Foolhardily he hnd thrust himself
_
_ over the book, a monstroue creature en-
named source, Len Chow, the sec murdered. While Haig Is porlns
ters, seises IL and eecapea Haig boards the Wallaroo at Marselllea dis Into the place, nnd he knew that It
ond in command, delivered them :
guised. From radio messages he decodes, he realises members of Yu an's wan not the call of duty, but a
"P A O BENDIGO INWARD gang are on board, and have recognised him. A Chinaman tries to throw mad anxiety for Ell<*en which had
TWENTY MILES SOU' SOUTH Haig overboard but goes over himself. At Port Bald llalg Is lured Into a driven him.
"bath of feathers." Eileen disappears. Haig escapes from th* trap and
EAST”
He bad seen the room In which
shoots Joseph, one of the plotters. Eileen, drugged, regnlns esnKloun«n
"BIBBY LINER OXFORDSHIRE In Yu'an'a headquarters. Yu'an Intends to capture or sink the Wallaroo. she was Imprisoned, apparently un
OUTW ARD I II TEEN MILES NOR’ Using Joseph's credentials, Haig makes his way to Keneh. He begins to der the guardianship of a woninn.
perceive Yu'an’s plot, to seise the gold on the Wallaroo, but all his thoughts
NORTHW ES I "
are centered on the rescue of Eileen. Impersonating Joseph, ho Is assigned He wondered If any of th«» eunucns
"AMERICAN FREIGHTER JOHN to guard duty outside Yu'an's mansion. The girl sees him from a window, remained on duty inside the harem
CLAY ADEN TO SUEZ TEN MILES and Is heartened. Haig also has seen her. Yu'an lures the Wallaroo from enclosure.
her course with a wireless appeal for aid.
DUE SOUTH"
Cautiously he mounted the atrps
of the first of the little watchtow
On receipt of this third message.
Yu'an Hee See spoke Into a tube. I nose—Jo Lung was clever!—square- nestled on the African const, and era. There were several women In
'There is too much delay,” he said. I ly into the engine room. There was H. M S. Panther, Captain Harwood, the garden, but Eileen was not
among them.
“Signal to All to draw off in the I a monstrous explosion which shook raced toward him.
e
e
a
e
»
e
I the submarine from stem to stern.
Passing on. he cautiously mount-
dhow.”
I Smoke and steam dropped a veil
ed
another flight of steps ... he
The
mass
of
wreckage
was
spread
He studied the scene on the Wal
I between the doomed liner and the over a great surface of the sen. saw something at which his heart
laroo. Aswaml, at the head of the
ladder, raised his hand signifying watching eyes of Yu’an nee See. The two machine guna in the sub seemed to miss a beat. One of the
I Yet he trusted the Wasp, his chief marine's conning towers crackled black eunuchs wns coming down a
that the order had already reached
him. Three negroes, carrying chests, torpedo operator. "Second tube,” Into activity, sweeping that area side path, carrying a woman’s body
I he directed.
where survivors struggled In the thrown sackwise over hla right
the last of the consignment, climbed
If the first explosion had been an flotsam of the wr«*cked liner. From shoulder.
into the boat. Aswaml followed.
One glance was «ufficlent. He was
The boat pulled off to the dhow. I enormous one. the second wns such the deck of the dhow, men armed
live or
Yu'an Hee See spoke again down as seemed to rend the very heavens. with rifles picked out more distant carrying Eileen Kearney
swimmers.
dead llalg could not tell! A tall
the tube: “All is to take both boats The second torpedo had registered
And now—darting nctlvely about and vicious looking Arab. white-
In tow without transshipping the In Number Two Hold, where twenty
Len Chow, the Second in Command, load.” This order was transmitted cases of potted Stilton for Colombo amongst tbnt marine shambles—now robed, followed.
came the fins of the sharks. .
Delivered Them.
Automatic In hand, Hajg craned
to a man forward on the deck of were stored. They had come aboard
From the deck of the dhow black over the parapet as the gigantic
In
.Marseilles
just
before
Doctor
the
submarine
and
shouted
to
As-
a smartly dressed man wearing a
'testier went ashore. They contained marksmen were making good prnc negro swung suddenly left, descend-
warn! Pasha.
tarbush had come off In her boat.
enough
high explosive to destroy a tlce. Kid Brown, hla face very Ing a flight of stone steps, and dis
Captain Peterson, bare-headed,
Up In the captain's room, Aswaml
white, fired once or twice, but wild appeared under an archway, fol
small town. . . .
gray-faced,
stood
on
the
bridge
of
Pasha stood by the desk, smiling.
Yu’an Hee See rubbed his plump ly, and never at a living target, In lowed by the Arab. ■
the Wallaroo. It all seemed unreal. I
He had boarded the Wallaroo alone,
Where did that tunnel lead to
utterly Impossible.
Even now it hands together and began to laugh his capacity as Aswiiml Pasha's
and apparently unarmed, leaving one was difficult to believe thnt the pl-1 again. Although they had drawn bodyguard, he knew that he served
HaliLheard the fiang-of a heavy dooi
man, a recognized pugilist, on duty
rates had been actually on board away from the Wallaroo, a veritable a soulless villain, but fils own rec In the sunken archway.
at the ladder head. There was some
As he stood plainly In view now
his ship—without a blow struck, had tidal wave swept them, but Yu’an ord wns far from unblemished, and
thing terrifying In the Egyptian’s removed that precious cargo under I laughed on.
At last, recovering somehow he had made terms with to anyone In the garden, h« heard
smiling audacity. Captain Peter
his elastic conscience.
himself:
hla eyes. ...
a cry' It came from the balcony
son's gray face was very grim.
"Order All to cast the boats off
Yet. had there been any alter
He knew that the German freight upon which h«> had seen Eileen!
“I carry three hundred passen native? Even if the Wallaroo had and head the dhow back,” came his er had been sunk with all hands "Uh'riel cherle! m.v baby, where
gers,” said he, "a hundred and eighty carried a gun, the fate of all these I high-pitched Instructions.
nearly two years before, but he hnd are you?” This wns the big woman
of them women and children—or. women and children below must
He glanced up to find Len Chow not been present at her nctual sink he bad seen the previous day. She
by G—d 1 I’d take you at youi have rested upon the success of one at his elbow. He took the message Ing. He bad been on the atilima- lr I looked French.
word."
shot.
| which his second in command had rlne when the Americnn yacht was
llalg sprang right up on the par
The Egyptian shrugged his shoul-
He stood listening to the pulsing brought, adjusted his spectacles, held up. Explosives had been smug
pet, waving his arms. Swiftly ce-
ders. "We are both under orders of the auxiliary engine on hoard and, «till chuckling, read:
gled Into her hold In some way, an<i oste Indicated thnt he should con
of my commander in the submarine, the dhow—watching the negroes I "NEWS OF EXPLOSION RE he had seen her go up like a Crystn
ceal himself and wait, llalg drew
and you, at the moment, under scramble onto her stern. Then the I LAYED PORT SUDAN HMS PAN palace firework display.
back, and presently she came run
mine.”
boats swung out on two lines, and THER HEADED FOR YOU."
Although no rescues were at- ning down the stone steps and along
"It appears to me, sir,” Rattray the dhow headed in for the head I
Yu’an Hee See nodded, read the tempted, there had been none of lhe garden.
•aid, turning to Captain Peterson, of that rocky Island near to which I message a second time, and began this sniping. The sniping was too
"You up there! you can near me?"
"that this thing’s an unholy great they lay. Iler decks were black with very softly to hiss.
much for his stomach. He threw she gasped.
bluff.”
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negroes.
his rifle on to the deck of the dhow.
“Yes. yes I am . . ."
Through a window of the cap-
Suddenly all signs of life van-' Jack Rattray, chief officer, who ”Gor’ blimey!” he shouted, clench
(TO BE CONTINUED)
YU’AN HEE SEE LAUGHS
By SAX ROHMER
had smi the torpedo, wits racing
for the bridge» He had Just reached
the ladder when It crashed Into til«*
engine room. Ona of the boilers
went, and he was heaved off his f«*et,
lost his hold of lhe rail, and pitched
Into the scuppers.
Dazed, temporarily confused, he
staggered up.
8omcwhere Ix-hlnd
and below there was a shambles—
shrieks which he wns never to for
gel to his dying day
lie tottered
again for the ladder and was half
way up when th«» second torpe«lo
found Its billet In the secret car
go. . . .
The whole of the Wallaroo, for-
ward of the bridge, burst upward
Ilk«* a volcano. The deck planking
b«*lll«*d upward nnd shot hliu Into
the seu as If he had been propelled
by a catapult He came to the sur
face Immediately beside a floating
d«*ck chair. Upon thia he reated hla
hnnds, for the moment content to
be alive.
The Wallaroo wan sinking fast.
Pushing the timely piece of wreck
ng«* l>efore him, he ducked hla head
nnd kicked off wildly. Then, rest
Ing on the fragile raft, he watched
The forward part of rhe' ship
broke fn*e of th«* hull, The bowels
of the Wnllaroo dropped out of her
through the guplng hole twlow ber
brldg«;—and the big shlt> dived. , . ,
Rattray, clutching his little raft.
threw one arm across the folded
wooden struts. Shaken though he
was. he knew Its presence alone
spelled salvation. And pushing It
before him. he begnn to swim slow
ly yet further out to sea. towards
where, a hundred and forty-five
miles due southw<»st. Port Sudan