Show 5 2 YUA RHEE SEE n V V V by SAX ROHMER 0 copyright by sax rohmer I 1 service T OK n tibo oft 1 ft i Q CHAPTER XII continued 14 E leen looted 1001 ed swiftly about her there was no substitute for a gar ment in the place taking a swift step forward and conquering a nausea she struck the hesitating buyer on his fat bacel once she struck twice 1 he ile le fe colled A third time and this with mith her fist I 1 hassan es suk clutched her in his sinewy old hinds with her knee she kid klel ed him viciously in the stomach he ile released her she kid MCI ed I 1 im again but tl Is spurt of strength which had flared up under the sense of outrage now deserted her she staggered swayed forward followed an inter val of complete unconsciousness and then a voice tl e vo ce of the arab again hat could I 1 do effen dim said brought her to me how was I 1 to know ste sl e was reserved here A was as a famous jewel and money Is money but she struck AH all mahmoud in the bacel and he be had offered my heart bleeds one thousand english pounds for heri herl lie ile withdrew his offer I 1 presume immediately effen dim she has ruined me also the american pigs know she Is here at any moment the cafe may be raided forget this fear hassan I 1 had thought the chief eunuch of the prince a wiser man but my money Is as good as his and I 1 also collect fair women twelve hundred pounds eng ung lish hassan your share will be a big one eileen opened her eyes she still lay lo 10 that dark stuffy saloon the villainous old arab was there the other mans man s features were In distin gui gul because of bandages but through these bandages dark eyes watched her greedily A silken coverlet had been thrown over her she grasped this and drew it up to her shoulders lou ion have nothing to fear from me my child said the tall egyptian although you just offered to buy me del I 1 you miserable cowardly dog I 1 do you think you or any other man could buy me A door at the further end of the saloon opened softly yu an hee see came down the steps the egyptian stared at the chinaman as though hell hells s gates had opened and satan had stepped forth yu yuan an hee see stood still for a while hissing softly so this la Is the story my friend he said the quiver ing flure notes sounding unlike any i thing human I 1 passed through the tall end of the sandstorm which forced you down in the desert it delayed your journey but not mine A tor for dunate accident aswani for me not for you always always I 1 suspected but last night or very late this morn ing I 1 forced the truth from our little orange blossom aswani forced the truth you understand he ile began to laugh and it was dreadful laughter laughter which for years afterwards haunted elleene dreams aswani pasha seemed to be choking come my ray friend said yuan hee tee checking his laughter al 1 I have matters to discuss with you which I 1 do not des re this lady to overhear he fixed his slanting e eyes yes on the rigid figure of old hassan es suk carry this lady through to the cage room he ordered find clothing bar your doors and return I 1 shall have work for you elleen eileen tell fell back sick and faint upon the divin the opiate earlier placed laced in her coffee overcame her again she felt herself lifted carried there was a dull crash a stifled stiffed gurgling cry 0 a in a it sort of canteen yu an hee see s rogues were gathered doctor bestler was addressing scotsman I 1 tell you mac he said what sou ou suggest Is madness ha madness when you consider that we have no millions of minted money not unloaded from the dhow ha where Is your good sense to suggest that the chief has deserted us why should he desert us ha just when we have accomplish so great a success macales who was dead sober he hid had touched nothing for twenty four I 1 ours fixed bleary eyes upon the tile speaker I 1 say he replied tha life is more voluble than gold the cl 0 let lef has gone and so has mr king N nd ti tidies ei e s a Bree tish warship nosing lot t d tie e island IN e a 1 I 1 now that I 1 I 1 c e can put a land ng party ashore t is off on tl e east and they cou v tl Is place to breens in ts its I 1 isten to wl a the lads are I 1 I 1 I 1 it t vis is apparent ai al parent enough i t thins in the canteen were i let laih il it 0 e tie it e clamor I 1 r I 1 i ind ng I 1 ot about der sha share re out dis it iss I 1 ask I 1 ot of about der share out they dinna ken the truth said gaelles Some something things s gone agley and we wee v e been left to face the music its true we have the money but we well 11 never live ilie to spend it unless we do wha I 1 suggest lou ion see mac doctor bestler inter ejected it Is pretty clear that we vie had a spy amongst us ha the chief has gone to head him off ha head him off 7 if ir the other has gone also why the stua s situation tion Is bad I 1 think bad but we me should wa t ha tor for instruct dons lou think so im not macales ban banned ed his hand upon the table to emphasize his words iso no harm can be done by hid ing the baubles there theres s only one place me e can hide them and hide our sel set if me e re to be raided I 1 do not think she will carry it not also with a full crew said doctor bestler leave tha to me said the scots man truculent truculently ij stick to your ain aln I 1 lovince doctor if I 1 say she can carry it he be can carry it he stood up boys he said ive I 1 ve cad ca d for or ders because there s no one else here to gl e them there s something wrong I 1 canna tell what it Is but our course Is plain im for transshipping the gold to the sul marine and standing by wl 1 I all hands to submerge at the falast loot 0 danger now who chos s wl me A general roar indicated that all were ere with him its it s only us of the crew have any thing to be afraid of I 1 e continued but when the chief if he does he can only thank us there s a Bree tish v warship airship his ills words dramatically were ter by the sound of a distant gun shot macales looked down at doctor he was on his knees beside a pathetic white figure bestler whose face suddenly had grown very white the panther he said calmly shell be putting a boat ashore a a 4 the establishments controlled by yuan hee see wherever they might be had one notable characteristic there was a secret entrance and exit in the case of the cafe magrabi there were two such entrances and exits one opened upon a narrow lane at the back into an old house which adjoined d the establishment of hassan and while british and american agents had watched the cafe eileen was taken into this house and offered for sale I 1 when at about two clock dawson haig arrived the dingy shutters of the cafe magrabi were closed the party accompanying halg haig had these shutters down in a trice halg haig leading hey they dashed into the dirty cafe where there had been a matting curtain leading to the short corridor beyond a stout wooden door now showed they broke it down this was the sound that mingled with a gurgling stir ek had formed eileen s last waking memories halg haig dashed down three wooden steps eileen I 1 he cried he ile was on his knees beside a pa white figure half draped by a dirty coverlet his ills teeth clenched in furious anger he drev arev it more closely over her and eagerly bent his head thank godi god I 1 he whispered thank god godl haig gave one last glance at the girl girls s pale face before racing up the steps upon the other side of the room the door was barred the sergeant hurled himself at it and the first im pact of his two hundred pounds did the job dawson halg haig entered a smaller room with an iron barred window it was empty there was a narrow staircase leading out of it the very staircase up which old hassan had run not five minutes before there was an open door a disguised door very cunningly con low down in one wall below brick steps upstairs sergeant I 1 take three meal men send three more after met me halg haig ducking his head raced down into the short tunnel which led to the house of the potter he ile found himself in an empty lobby ran up a wide staircase and into a saloon with mith shut windows one lamp burned aboe abone that divan upon which eileen had been submitted to the judgment of the chief eunuch of hig his serene highness he crossed to a door or approached pro ached by steps and pushed 1 11 feka cautiously on the threshold of the room be yond he fell bad bael A man lay upon the floor in a pool of blood his throat torn as though by the fangs of a wild animal I 1 this was how poor Nori norwich ilch died I 1 the thing I 1 saw in london Is here somewhere I 1 but the was empty from moldy decaying roof to stinking eel cel lars larsi I 1 the only person other than aileen found on the premises was aswani pasha his jugular pierced by curving teeth his blood pumping out from those ghastly wounds and halg thought he detected a faint smell of musk a in along a long low hangar which from above from an airplane for example resembled no more than a mound in the desert the german germain bought for breaking up purposes by an agent of yu an hee see three years before and lost owing to the parting of a tow rope on her way from the australian yards lay under flood lights suspended from the roof two streams of negroes poured like black ants up and down her gang nay may the upstream laden with small heavy boxes the downstream empty handed two million pounds in mint ed money was thus transferred from the dhow at anchor in the nearby banbor to the hidden submarine on the light flooded wharf doctor bestler excited by many glasses of champagne grasped the arm of maclies as the scot came down the gang way I 1 tell you mac mae said the doctor hoarsely she is overloaded overload edl iia ha gaelles broke away from the de kalning hand shut your mouth he replied roughly ehly dinna sail wl me if ye ha doubts but the austrian physician was not without supporters len chow second in comman command d of the U boat stood by him 1 I agree with the doctor he said in his monotonous tones that only two tons should be shipped go to h 1 11 I 1 he brushed len chow aside and passed on an arab boy came running A launch from the gunboat was headed for the belty there goes the last five thousand said the wasp and raising his voice all aboard I 1 he cried do ye sail macbet asked doctor bestler the austrian thought money opens many doors ha there was no escape if he remained ashore the marquis and the pasha plainly had deserted the sinking ship and the dan ger must have been great ha since they had left two millions of minted money behind them thern doctor bestler nodded briefly and walked up the gangway followed by gaelles and len chow they slipped out to the open sea bestler from the forward conning tower saw the threat ening gray lines of 11 al S panther lying half a mile outside the reef len chow gave the order to sut submerge merge only through the periscope did that shape remain visible they sank lower doctor bestler ran down a cramped iron ladder lie he stumbled and clutched it seemed to be strangely tilted they can never see the periscope 1 he cried 11 by do we submerge so deep the whole fabric of the underwater craft shook suddenly and quivered mac mael bestler screamed desper abely chow I 1 gott I 1 we re aground I 1 the scotsman stopped his engines other voices came dimly at first then raised to shouting pitch doc doe tor for bestler Oest ler said gaelles mr len chow ye were right la in a ye said I 1 were we re overloaded there theres s five fathoms between us and god gods s sunshine and no human power can raise us to it we re buried under the sea wl two million pounds and a our sins I 1 the iron framed doorway was crowd ed with ghastly faces macales sprang to his feet dropped to his knees and raised his head and his locked hands 0 1 ford ord I 1 he tie cried for MIS oi no t wee nce deed in a sinful life spire me a grain 0 mercy 1 0 a the inhabitants of that nameless tonn town n dominated by the palace of I 1 u an hee see willing servants of the mis mas ter on the hill had flown at the mo ment that the battleship hid showed her nose over the horizon the palace surpassed anything w litch lieutenant markham had seen or im 1 agines the female inhabitants hud died in cushioned comers corners were star ing wide eyed at the intruders lieutenant markham pressed on through more and more extravagant apartments and suddenly found muscular arms about his neck and tearful dark eyes looking up into his own I 1 oh thank god I 1 see you youl I 1 cried celeste but tell me quickly is she safe Is she safe the little girl elleen who was here beret I 1 she means miss kearney sir said one of the party the american lady who disappeared in port said lieutenant markham looking in into to the quivering face suddenly under stood I 1 am sorry he said sald truly sorry but I 1 have no news of her but I 1 think as the woman wom ms s mas sive figure seemed to become limp she Is safe one of the right sort sir said the former speaker she could give us a few tips I 1 can give you no tip my friend celeste replied sorrowfully all I 1 know Is what happen inside these walls she waved eloquent hands bands but in that room there she point ed dramatically to a narrow door paneled in dull gold in that room there this morning something aing happen I 1 think a good thing when the locked door was broken down a hor horrified rIfled group stood on the threshold of a room entirely paneled in gold lacquer lyl lying across a divan covered with black cushions delicate ivory body gleaming through the fine texture of a silken sillen robe lay orange blossom her downward hung head ghastly because of the blood which had drenched it good G d sir I 1 came a hoarse whisper some wild animal haa has been at her look at her throat 1 darling I 1 dawson halg whispered oh my darling I 1 thank god I 1 I 1 eileen opened her blue eyes and looked up at him wondering then with a slow smile she twined her arms about his neck and drew his head down to her breast dawson hala held her tightly he ile had done much much and gained much at last he had justified his quixotic choice of a profession tie ile had fash toned a stepping stone he knew it which would carry him from the crim 1 inal trial investigation department of new scotlund Scot lind yard to the goal of his am baitlon lie he had been instrumental in breaking up a formidable organization a danger to the world 1 deneh was being combed air force pilots were watching all roads to the red sea the camel corps were at bir ambar and the secret base was in the hands of the navy what is it my dearest eileen whispered he stroked the thick waves of coppery hair nothing darling he replied but save tor for one glimpse in lon don he had never yet come within reach of the thing which tore human throats and somewhere deep down in his mind he seemed to hear the high laughter of yuan hee see ETHE THE END |