The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1919, Page 19

The Yellow Lord By Will Levington Comfort | Supreme Monarch of an Island Fortress Hidden in the Southern Seas—This Was The Yellow Lord—Read of the Coming of Bowditch, Soldier of Fortune, and the Grim War That Broke That Monarch’s lron Power. THE EVENING WORLD OFFERS A NEW SERIAL STORY EVERY TWO WEEKS. (Copyright, 1919, by Uw George H. Doran Company.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING tall ld ell and moet fu ‘daughter of Major’ Mott. Jeary Comity, keds © native rebellion, ‘and cv wer besias oo The Virgin arrives and ls fired on, but finds shelter in che babar, The case ls besieged. was too intense for listening sanely. 1 wondered that Hoy Mon did not appear, as I divided the shivering outfit into two parties, placing one at the inner side of the ruins, where an attacking party might possibly scale the low roof. Meanwhile, I bad knocked at Chireen's door again. voice was cold and slow. glad you spoke, Mt. heard l “rm Bowditeh; I Was just about to fire, “On the dot as usual," I n steps, Shiela’s rumble answered and the reply. “Are you all righ boy's voice: “I don't know. Only Shiela and I] “ghe hasn't come back! . . - bat Mikel Mr. Catten has fainted, He seems “Where's Chireen?” terribly hurt... What was the “I don't know. She went out a! firing? few minutes the explosion, I “It's back in the direction of the ¢an't fore door open.” bunk house.” Further words were| 8 “Unfasten the barred gratings here,| stopped by the screaming again, It if you can,” I said_hastil: came from the direction of the ante- “Good. Now take Mr, Catten; he's} room. Hoy Mon rushed by, halted at hurt. re of him and stay me, and caught my arm. evhere for the present... ‘ome with me, Mr. Bowditch. TH climb over into the court some-| His face was gtay. In the dark I how.” knew this—a gray, hideous lustre, I was looking through a kind of/anxiety subtle and intensified, The cold grey haze; even the thoughts in| chaos of it all came to me fiercely my mind moyed in the chill fog. Cat- from Hoy Mon's face... the ten resisted laughingly, but I shoved woman's voice fainter, This last had him through the window, 1 heard| nothing to do with Chireen Holt. Lance's steady voice: There had never been an instant of “Just as you say, Mr. Bowditch,| that fear, The door of the ante-room They've managed to get to] was open, but all was dark within the powder magazine from below." |like the rest—only the star-sheen in Of the tr we had posted | the court. around the outer windows on the| “Our Master—our Master is {Il, Mr. compound, not one was in sight, and| Bowditch, . . . Perhaps you can { had alteady traversed the’ full + + Miss Magda—Miss Iength of the castle on the eastern side. I thought the sentry door] ‘They were in the @ark, All was within the great gate to the north,| strain and low fury. I heard her fnd started there. Ordinarily the| gasp, half-stified, for help: Chinese guards on duty could not|” “Guthrie! Guthrie!” have reached the shelter of the] For long it seemed I had forgutten court unless this inner door itself Catten’s first name, I didn’t get that) phe Yellow Lord was tn the dark. had been opened far, however. Repassing that part heart . . . this and ifoy Mon's reiterated cry in my ears not to burt Tsui Tsing. His body was hot and huge bh neath me, 1 was sick from the touch | of him as on the first day—the lardy the blend of Magda Comitu’s perfume with tile doseied horror of Oriental grooming, He had lost all thought of burting me, save through @ bear-like crushing movement, more of his shoulders and upper arms than with his hands and fingers. Once 1 was pulled into his recking’ breast until the sick taint of his mouth left an ineffaceable memory, but a drive of my knuckles into his throat re- leased me. The thirg was floored and shaking for an instant—a mew- ing whimper in the air, but the minute I let go my hands the struggle was on again. 1 wanted to hurt him now. The odor of his mouth in- furiated me. Once known it became a pagt of everythings... heard f crashing out in the curt. . Even in the struggle thought of Chircen Holt and the God | or devil that kept me from her. | I called to Magda to puli back, but | she gasped that the beast still held | her ankle. I heard her begging that no light be brought. It cannot al be ld in order. There was no or der in that world. Hoy Mon’'s face was reaching down toward the writhing features of the Yellow Lord; Hoy Mon was talking in Chi- nese—a hissing voice, something the same that they frighten the big es with. He was struggling to te the ence of his I heard the a match behind me and Magda’s cry. In the flash I saw her huddling back against the wall, her clothing torn. Then there was a crash my ear and under my very hands the Yellow Lord moaned, bis shaking different —a drowsing, moaning sound from his throat, almost human, then twitches and silence. Another silence, and the quiet question, as one would ask about the result of @ chemical experiment: vid I get him?” It was Catten, sitting on the floor, his body propped against the frame of the door, a gun in his hand—all this in the light of his own single match—even the laugh on his face and the glint in his hard eyes. ‘atch of flare “If you mean the Yellow Lord— you sure did,” I answered. CHAPTER XVII. REMEMBER tho look of horror floor was no longer tortured with life. Magda had disappeared. Catten’s The Crane had not abandoned that position and sought the tunnel to| tu’s generalship. I had not played enough draw poker with old Jerry. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1919. enor rersrreereeeee=—=~"~"90”' The Ghost Garden The Latest Book By Amelie Rives (Princess Troubetskoy) In the fragrant shadows of a Haunted Garden in Old Virginia a Northern man and a Southern maid met and loved. But out from the past came the white hand of a girl to part them. the hand of a beauty of a hundred years ago, who, disembodied, but still living, has given her love also to the youth, The eternal triangle with one of its points in the spirit world! The love of a man for a ghost, & shadow woman scarcely more than a dream? This story of thrilis, exctte- ment and mystery begins in ser tal form in The Monday. Evening World next his head at my questioning understanding that I was for Chireen. “How did you get out?" T quickly, us I bent over, Catten. asked Magda hadi come to the door now. She pushed me aside and took in her arms—something he m have permitted before me been conscious. . . . I with only one thought, firing, in spite of Tsing Trading Company stood for. At the sentry door in the north gate I remembered that 1 key to get in again, simple to slip forth, clined to climb over t second time, The whole urge was to find Chireen. had though It ws I was He was still standing in t! room of the Yellow Lord's qua: ters—standing quite alone and mo- tionless, as if listening at the con- | at opened to the tunnel. fan, crete door t He seemed oid, somehow more white yene as a Cauca able, some new dimension of dignity and calm since the end of the Yellow Lord. “You would not leave the court now?" he said mildly. I was amazed at his calm “There is fighting in the house”-—— “T am aware" “It would seem our Chinese should be ng through by this sted, pointing thi bunk- to tunnel “You would think 60?” His ned faded white at joked into my mind A Chinese would hate a man at the rs for a woman's we Rusd Salter th He seemed on his knees, I felt his se ne cases more and: more ad-| bare shoulder, wet as with oll, His justed to the s 1 saw now|hand was outstretched and I fol- that the sag-|!owed the naked arm down to the ging and clenched fingers in which was crushed “tha — Chir @ woman's hand. I knew by the climbed over the rings she wore, Hooking my right Gomme che had let ty he smatier | elbow under his armpit, I twisted him Joor of the south gate. They were| back. At the first clutch and pr huddled together in the centre of the| sure of my hands his outeries began court, the instinct to get into the|—the Yellow Lord who had no tongue Shelter in spite of fire and explosion, | in our first encounter. I knew his quite as a horse runs to a burning} horror now was a reflex fram the barn. I asked the nearest if he had| solar plexus blow. Insanity and seen Miss Holt, and was answered | shock expressed in his high-pitched in many words and tones, but with-| screaming almost made me let go! ‘The tension of my mind! again, loosing strange havoc in my DECE I make a gene coatings, taken from all my figure, which is less than cost to make. This range of woolens includes a selection of styles purchased by me than present inarked values. Be Your Own Salesman and in the stores, Price as advertised. SPECAL. Overcoals —Come inentl Select your Cloth—call the during this past year at pr you will find these goods prom- ‘Then as the match died out, I saw Catten’s head bob forward. on Hoy Mon's face after a candle was lit and he per- eyes were shut. Iestill heard the steady firing from the direction of Join us in the court. All this in ten seconds after light was struck. 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Easier realize, the luni @ home or Amounts in Proportion. he fu with We al Bowditch,” he sald strangely, “It It is well to be Young philosophie words, He could not miss the red of Tage in my eyes. He drew the door te the Yellow Lord's quarters almost shut, not clicking the lock, however. Slipping his arm through mine, he said: “The first matter ‘to body of our maxter*—— m have twisted impatiently, Ah you have not reverence,” said kindly. The old yellow man was still calm. There was no tremor in his voice as he sald to me: “You will now, in the place of Mr. Catten, take charge of the work in the harbor, Mr. Bowditch, Go to the Jezebel at once. ttend is the he You need take no men from here, since the har- bor party has not been changed, and rther! 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