Show I Menace 1 by toy Louis Tracy SYNOPSIS H Clark United States Stalks Thomas Kankol of ot treaty port Chinese Singh t the ac acIs activities of f All AU I Over rover ver succeeded in banding together is s races of oC far East writes at state deit det de- de confidential Manning hanning i 1 Alt AU Washington ton at it t agent Mile l Najla is being being a ar edu- edu II niece I A riot breaks t college r Vt Vassar at who All Singh Quelled by Binh is a charmed life lICe A All AU Singh g gor to bear war United States Manning t takes takeso for Tor or Alito AllIs All Ali AllIs his entry Reported to o prevent drowned Later r develops that thatis Is is InI in that All AU Singh is ruse s g a life of f States He threatens threaten air I Bronson Bronson's s daughter Margaret Mile l Najla May Mannel Man Man- chum 01 of ot i ji c. c j nel Margaret Bronson are walking rendered unious un- un when they are en ten Bronson taken Dl Margaret argar Bronson is ious where she shed shed neap joint in New York ine nese e until her father tather a hostage Id d' d das as ViS support of ot Senator Johnstone's en n MIL bill Manning and young Bron- Bron scup the girl Senator Johnstone murdered All AU Singh's Manning is frustrated when kill o cO comes out ut t of th her i hyp hypnotic ri trance s him i But May Manning nar- nar escapes the trap set for hera her brother a a escapes sp spider der is is' let into the room on a aAll aAll ai i All All Singh changes his with He leaves Harry j watch thatch her until she is ready to toL I to stake advantage of ot HarrY Harry tries to take advantage L Ing ng that she frustrated rated the plot to Manning arming b by forcing attentions on She locks he herself elt rein m in her room and the police Bronson trails All AH Singh ray y p to his new rendezvous and tele- tele Manning tg Manning and two po- po la are Cn Mry try to find AH AU Singh but ut are J captives paves themselves but later esI esIn esIn es- es motorboat I In a three weeks nothing is heard of and nd Najla are t h h. L The Ing at Man Manning Manning- g a Margaret her rela re- re la false telegram saying her herK Ia a. a and Manning are Injured The The- he heare K abducted by AH All and taken en to are house Louse in New Jersey while on the theto see B Bronson and Manning An Ani ito to and i officer is s also taken prisoner into a room in the basement next n life s girls The el elder Bronson's life is while on the way to London I CHAPTER XIII IB The Torture Chamber ugh AU All Singh stopped short of to obtain his ends it Is isi i 1 t inconceivable In these days dayos any any man even a mongol fanatic the horrible expedient of ofa ing a woman Yet this is what f fiend nd did to his own niece His ess ss purpose was not to be stayed of sex or family re- re hip en n the unhappy girl was brought I the torture chamber She found ln in In a large square room devoid fly tny furniture or fittings save a aras aus aus us ras looking contrivance somewhat Ming bUng a loom which stood in the ej of oC the floor From a stout en n platform rose two heavy up- up bolted together in they the y were also attached to a perlar perlar per- per lar laI stanchion about half hal their At the back of the beams a agear Oil gear of iron bars connected I pulley which in turn was atto atto atto at- at to a horsepower 20 electric mo- mo om each end of the beams deI der de- de I r chain chai shackles and anyone d 4 seen the infernal devices used e subjugation of political pr pris s- s during the middle ages would recognised that All AU Singh had a most effective rack instead Winstead o of being dependent on un Blass dl s manipulated by hand was was Oiled by the greatest scientific known to modern man j was oras dragged forward and the s. s were fastened to her wrists and shin such wise that she was onto Into her back while the crossed ties les held her down pu u a wretched apostate he scowled rJ V Call on your Christian God prey rcy You will get none from then when the torture was beg be- be g almost unbearable a miracle ned med 3 The motor sto stopped ped For I some Inexplicable reason the electric current had failed At that instant the girl fainted All Ali Singh snarled furiously at the man in charge of the dynamo I r cannot understand what has gone wrong 0 O mighty one muttered the thug nervously The motor seems to tc tobe tobe be in perfect working order I 1 have tested all the connections and there is no fault All AU Singh worked the governing switch backward and forward but the dynamo did not respond There is a temporary breakdown in the electrical supply he growled These white devils are Incompetent even in their own achievement achieve achieve- ments ment Take that poor fool away and let her chosen friends learn from her own lips what it costs to defy me Make an occasional test of the electric supply when it returns bring her back here and the torture will proceed However she slowly came came back to life again awaking into a world of delirium de delirium delirium de- de and pain At first her eyes failed to take in her surroundings as even In normal conditions the gloom of the place rendered all objects in In- In distinct When she heard those well remembered voices and realized that she was no longer in the torture chamber chamber chamber cham cham- ber she fancied in her Innocence that All Ali Singh's resolution had given away In broken accents she told the others what had occurred She was too distraught distraught distraught dis dis- dis- dis to grasp the essential fact that the mere recital of the horror was enough to drive her hearers into a frenzy of apprehension And thus the slow hours sped for these three unhappy unhappy unhappy un un- un- un happy girls though fate was indeed kind in leading them to believe that thatAH AH AU Singh had veritably pardoned his niece whereas her respite was due solely to a mechanical defect Two people had listened to Najla's shrieks but with widely different feel feel- ings At one door of the torture chamber chamber chamber cham cham- ber had stood Katisha the odalisque her featured showing malign satisfaction satisfaction tion at the belief that she need no longer fear a beautiful rival who also threatened to become a renegade In Ina Ina Ina a neighboring passage lurked Hong Kong Harry and the mans man's betrayed the mental torture he en endured endured endured en- en dured at hearing the dying screams of the woman he loved At last apparently he could endure the strain no longer but dashed away like one possessed of a devil Running Running Running Run Run- ning to a cupboard at the end of the passage he secured a pair of rubber gloves and a strong wire cutting implement implement implement im im- im- im left there by the men who had connected the electric supply with the dynamo Then he raced out to a a. telegraph telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph pole not that nearest to the house but one well hidden among trees Athlete that he was Hong Kong Harry found no difficulty in climbing the pole Active as a monkey he was now swayed by the strongest of all human emotions emotions and and this degenerate possessed a heart though it was atrophied atrophied atrophied atro atro- by years of debauch and continued continued continued contin contin- drug the taking taking the desire to save the life of the woman the woman he held dear Climbing Climbing Climb Climb- ing with incredible swiftness he cut a wire thus bringing about a total cessation cessation cessation ces ces- of the electric current Sliding quickly to the ground he raced back to the house replaced the gloves and pincers and hurried off to toa toa toa a a room in which he knew there was wasI wasa was wa's wasa a secret telephone Making sure th that t the he had not been followed he locked I the door and nd searched hurriedly in the telephone book for a number Then j I he rang up Errol Manning Now an extraordinary state of affairs existed in Mannings Manning's house The young diplomat had persuaded Bronson to togo togo go to bed To all aU appearance nothing c could uld be done that night either to spread farther afield the almost hopeless hopeless hopeless hope hope- less search for the three girls or ascertain ascertain ascertain ascer ascer- tain the full facts as to the death of Mr Bronson senior a catastrophe so BO cruelly described in the curt words of ofa ofa I a cablegram from London Manning Himself was In an extraordinarily extraordinarily extraordinarily nervous state A wearied body craved for rest yet an excited brain refused to give in but continued Its frantic efforts to solve th the dreadful problem presented by the abduction of Margaret Bronson of his own sister and of the unhappy East Eastern rn girl who had trusted to the protection of the government of the United States The weather was fine and one of the windows in the room was open at both I top and bottom The house being anold anold an anold old one was not fitted with electricity but depended for its li lighting on Incandescent incandescent Incan incan- descent gas After a time all other the reading reading reading read read- lights lightS' were extinguished e save ing lamp ramp on th the table By sheer force of will Manning fixed his thoughts on the documents before him and in so doin unconsciously applied applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied the best of soporifics to his tired senses Once or twice he nodded in a sort of coma yet still bent over the typed pages At last nature asserted itself and he slept H He could not gu guess ss that a pair pall of almond shaped eyes gleaming from swarthy features had watched his every movement from the cover of a clump of oJ shrubs on the lawn When it was ev evident that the inmate of the room was asleep a slight active form crept closer to the window and peered in Then the lower sash was quietly drawn down and the upper one raised a a. single I proceeding which seemed to give much satisfaction to the lurking ghoul who straightway went to a basement forced small window and made mad his way a open I unheeded to the gas meter He turned off the gas waited a moment moment moment mo mo- mo- mo and turned it on again by which ment expedient he had unquestionably effective doomed Manning to death because ably lamp was no now pouring unlighted would the vapor which ch would forth a mephitic assist the vapor drowsiness already not only must polon pot pot- overcoming him but ere long paralyze his 3 brain son s on i his rr lungs and matter of a few Jn- Jn only a It was would do do its the poison would work utes thread before Manning Mannings when s 's the life liCe telephone SW literally jarred shred hue hung on a night and nd woKe awoke the theon IS of the the silence man listened fora for form butler The sleeping lee Ing as he ex- ex hear but failed to t tex cx- cx moment a m going to the tens in t rup ru- ru p his master downstairs and went t so o he ran hastily ed the receiver to be astounded as picked up foreign voice say saying ng ex- ex by a strange CI rl Manning to come at once Tell Mr comte deserted de- de o of police to 0 the e e- e with a big posse marsh marshI h house In the New Jersey which I h he visited esi esterd Never Y m mind The e who worn worn- i ien en are a e here giving you a straight Im I'm must t am that he T Tell e 11 Mr Manning story in the back fireplace force open th the leading will find a passage He par headquarters f secret I to 0 Ali Whatever SI gh's you do than dont don't one fail f life O depends de- de Jt let him knoW More I penda on this I tomorrow Continued |