Show The Yellow Menace e ace Louis Loui By Tracy I SYNOPSIS Thomas H. H Clark United States Slates consul at the Chinese treaty port of ot worried over the activities of ot Ali Singh who aho has succeeded in banding together the antagonistic races of at the far Feast East writes to Errol Manning confidential state department agent at Washington Ali AU Singh's niece Mlle Mile Najla is being educated educated educated edu edu- at Vassar college A riot breaks out which h is quelled by All Ali Singh who seems to bear a 3 charmed life AH All Singh sails for the United States Manning takes tales steps to prevent his entry It is re reported reported reported re- re ported that All AH Singh is drowned It later develops that this was a ruse that All Singh is In the United States He lIe threatens threat threat- ens the 1 life fe of or Banker Bronson's daughter daugh daugh- ter Margaret who Is a chum of Mme Najla May Manning and Margaret l Bronson Bron Bron- son are walking in the garden when they are rendered unconscious Margaret Bronson Bron- Bron son eon Is 15 taken to a Chinese Joint in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York where she Is held as a hostage until until until un un- til her father withdraws his support of Senator Johnstons Johnston's bill Manning and young Bronson rescue the girl Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Johnston is found dead in the library Najla saves her old friends from a similar fate She explains that Senator Johnston's Johnstons Johnstons Johnston's Johnstons Johnston's John John- ston's dearth was brought about by a poisonous Insect Harry makes violent love to Najla She is rescued from his clutches by Captain Kemp Bronson's automobile is wrecked in a chase after AH All l Singh Slug h who again escapes Senator I Stevens an advocate of or the law Is assassinated Margaret Bronson Najla and May Manning are decoyed in an auto and Banker Bronson is assassinated as as- as Najla is put on the torture rack She is saved by Harry who shuts off oft the electric current May Manning escapes but Margaret Mar aret and Najla Napa are still held prisoners In order to get the formula for a high hij explosive All Singh Single kidnaps Maxwell Judson an inventor Najla saves Hon kong Harry from death A policeman finds Margaret Bronson Bronson Bronson Bron Bron- son half demented on the street A Turk Turl emissary of All Ali Singh about to put to sea with Is overpowered the peo formula I and for dI the the formula Judson f r recovered explosive J d Ion I-Ion kong I Harry promises Najla to save Errol Manning Instead he attempts to kill anning Manning with a bomb AH All Singh and his minions steal an airship Najla saves the life UCe of HarrY From the airship Ali AU Singh wrathfully views a military tournament In N New W York May Manning and Margaret Bronson are again Manning Mannin decides to give himself him self seU up to All Ali Singh to save the girls Harrys Harry's face darkened in ina a vindictive scowl v He rose threw off oft his bis coat unfastened a collar and tie drew h his s shirt partly of off and exhibited his lacerated back to the three men Ther Theres your our answer he muttered Its plain English I guess The mans man's torn flesh offered an appalling appalling appalling ap- ap palling sight The actual wounds ca caused sed sedy by y the brutal beating he had suffered were marked by half healed scars but bu the black and purple bruises wherever t the surf ce ce of the s skin was ir unbroken looked even even more e sinister With a twinge of ot pain he slowly re replaced replaced replaced re- re placed his garments what I sot got ot because the bomb which wrecked Mr Mannings Manning's house did not kill him the at-the same same time he snarled I was sentenced to be flogged to death and would have handed in my checks cheeks long ago were it not for Najla's help I 1 owe her my life and I have come now to pa pay the debt I dont don't care I what you do to me for all that has go gone gono no before Put me prison imprison or senI sentence sentence sen sen- I tence me to the- the chair If you feel that I wa way about it it but first let pie me get even evenI with Ali AU Singh and I can do that only I l by y acting with you That fiend isn't fair fall even en to his own friends and help help- ers I 1 stuck to him through thick and thin except when he began torturing I Najla I couldn't stand for that What man could have looked on and seen seenI the woman he loved torn on a rack Yet that is Just what he threatens I now to those two young ladies ladles Trust me Mr Manning and you Mr Bronson Bronson Bronson Bron Bron- son and Ali All Singh will wUl be your prison prison- I er tomorrow n night ht I There was wag no withstanding the mans man's deadly earnestness Even the skeptical skeptical Kemp was convinced and the representatives of law and order were soon deep leep in consultation with their enemy's one time lieutenant With restored sanity came the knowledge that the interests of ot the state were paramount Every other personal consideration of course impelled impelled im im- im- im Manning not to lose a moment in rescuing Margaret Br Bronson and his sister Though the girls might not be beIn bein bein In real Jeopardy until the expiration of the time limit set by All AU Singh it was certain that their mental sufferings must be almost unbearably unbearable So it was wasa a cruel necessity which decreed that All Alf Singh ought to tobe be lulled luned into a false security If It however he was allowed to as assume assume assume as- as sume that Manning would accept his conditions and offer himself as a prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner on the following evening at 8 ocl o'clock not only would it be possible to capture All AU Singh himself and the whole of ot his gang but the authorities would be given ample time to perfect their arrangements Seldom If ever havee three men weighed every circumstance in a ticklish tick tick- lish undertaking lish-undertaking with such scrupulous care as those three gave to their project project that night After a while it be became became be- be i came abundantly clear that Hong Kong Harry had resolved to make a cle clean n breast of things Not only was he quite outspoken to Alt All as Singh's present intentions and whereabouts I but he cleared up many doubtful points connected with earlier episodes That was Kemps Kemp's way o of 01 testing him If the man told the truth about the past his Information as to current events became all aU the more reliable So they perfected a scheme which seemed almost infallible le They re reviewed reviewed reviewed re- re viewed it from every conceivable standpoint yet jet could find no flaw Double and treble safeguards were in in- in vented If AH Singh escaped this time he would have to pass through cordons cordons cordons cor cor- dons such as no mortal man had hitherto hitherto hitherto hith- hith erto met and broken t 1 None of the trio slept many hours Harry Harty still enfeebled from his wounds was sent to a bedroom and I attended medically but the others could not bring themselves to separ separate te until long after midnight when Kemp insisted that the they must snatch the I rest test urgently needed If they were to be ready for the serious fray tray planned for tor forthe forthe the succeeding evening So a new day wore slowly till the fateful hour when Manning alone and unarmed waited at the corner of Two Hundred and third Forty-third street and Broadway and admitted his identity to a short built oriental who approached with a pleasant grin on his broad face face being being in fact tact none other than Sato the aviator aviator and and said in a confide confidential al undertone You Errol Manning I tink Yes was the calm Are you Ali AU Singh's messenger At t the he sound of that name the Orientals Oriental's orientals oriental's orientals oriental's ori ori- I eyes eyes took on on a look of ot care He bowed and made an almost Imperceptible Imperceptible imperceptible Imper Imper- sign of the cre crescent cent It seemed that the confederates held All AH Singh I in such awe that they never alluded to him by name Very well said Manning calmly lead on You need not be afraid of at being foll followed wed That Thal policeman there and he nodded toward a patrolman t I standing in the middle of the road has not the least notion who either of ot us Is is Are we to walk A way said Sato whose knowledge of English had evidently improved since he began taking evia- evia tion lessons You walkee front of ot me meone meone meone one block block And he pointed west Manning obeyed instantly He looked at his watch It was then twenty-nine twenty I minutes to 8 8 In nine minutes his own fate fat and Mar Margaret aret Bronson's and his sisters sister's and All Ali Singh's might I be determined lIe He might fall fali Even I the girls were in grave danger mattered no more to AH AU Singh whether they lived or died than that the next gale should bring down a couple of withered leaves from a plane tree in front of the window They sprang up in terror when he entered but were 4 so o overwrought with mere physical distress that they collapsed collapsed collapsed col col- col- col lapsed again to the bed on which they had been seated and waited in a stupor of silence the pleasure of their Jailer Ever and anon their fascinated eyes would wander from the stolid Asiatic faces of the guar ls to the erect and domineering figure of ot the man whom they had been taught by bitter circumstances circum circum- stances to regard as the personification of evil His complete immobility and air of absorption were more affrighting than almost any words of ot threats The unknown unknown unknown un- un known when it prolongs danger is far more awe inspiring than actuality Probably neither of ot those two timid and highly strung girls could have withstood withstood withstood with with- stood the strain for long It is not surprising surprising surprising sur sur- therefore that they screamed shrilly when Manning was brought In by two other orientals His eyes were bandaged but his hands were free save in the sense that each arm was tightly held by his escort He recognized their voices of course and his expressive lips open opened eeL in a reassuring re reassuring reassuring re- re assuring smile Dont be afraid now girls he said quietly Nothing very terrible is going goIng go- go Ing to happen I am here hereof of my own free will and you will be set at liberty liberty liberty lib lib- lib lib- I gO-I erty quite soon I have Ali Singh's Singh s 's guarantee as to that and I believe the scoundrel will keep his word I AH All Singh himself listening with a agrim agrim agrim grim smile stepped in front of the captive captive cap cap- tive and tore the bandage from his eyes With a a- a gesture he indicated that the guards were to stand clear and block the doorway So at at last Errol Manning and Ali Singh came face to face To all appearance each tach was unarmed The American after a swift glance at Margaret and May as though bidding them be calm and not interfere met methis methis methis his enemy's gaze with a steady and frank trank defiance which was not without its spice of curiosity This was vas the first occasion slon that he had bad been able to scrutinize his antagonists antagonist's features at leisure That he personally was in a position of imminent peril did not weigh with him in the least It might be the Higher Ones One's intent to strike him dead then and there If It that were I so not all the resources of the United States Stated could intervene to save him But he fancied that such was not the theman's theman's theman's mans man's design It was almost a certain thing he thought that an effort would be made to extract from him some guarantee of immunity immunity- immunity even even some some pledge of f government government government gov gov- action favoring the mysterious ous cause which had converted this man into a political maniac maniac and anil if that were so it would mean a long discussion discussion discussion dis dis- dis- dis from which the girls would necessarily be excluded It was a supreme crisis because each second that passed drew ever closer a ring of steel and lead from which neither Ali All Singh nor any of his gang might hope to escape Above all else it behooved Manning not to give his enemy the slightest inkling of that which was about to Happen His expression ex expression expression ex- ex must be inquiring rather than confident He had come ostensibly to place himself in the hands of one who had sought his hie death many times and the sole consideration for this st s sacrificing act was the freedom of ot the two girls So the sense of ot overpowering curiosity curiosity curiosity curi curi- was really helpful since it enabled enabled enabled en en- him to look All Ali Singh squarely Inthe in inthe inthe the eye while his brain tried to estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate the resources of the most subtle mind which he lie had ever encountered or was ever likely to e e counter though he lived far beyond the allotted age of man All Singh on his part surveyed Manning with a smile Continued tomorrow tomorrow |