where we had been standing, knocking over and breaking vases,
scattering papers and in general wrecking everything before it.

"So, that's it," whistled Craig. "You fellows can come back now.
Two of you men I'm going to leave here to watch the place and make
other arrests if you can. Come on."

With Kennedy I left the tenement while the sergeant marched the
prisoners out, and we drove off with them. Quite a crowd had
collected outside by the time we came out. Among them, naturally,
were many Chinamen, and we could not see two of them hiding behind
the rest on the outskirts, jabbering in low tones together and
making hasty plans. As we clanged away down the street they
followed more slowly on foot.

Common humanity dictated that we take Wu first of all to a
hospital and get him fixed up and to a hospital we went. Kennedy
and I entered with our prisoners, closely guarded by the police.

Craig handed Wu over to two young doctors and a nurse. By this
time Wu was very weak from loss of blood. Still he had his iron
nerve and that was carrying him through. The two young doctors and
the nurse had scarcely begun to take off Craig's rude bandage to
replace it properly, when a noise outside told us that a weeping
and gesticulating delegation of Chinese had arrived.

"Keep 'em back," called one of the doctors to an attendant. The
attendant tried to drive them away, but nothing could force them
back more than an inch or two as, in broken English, they sought
to find out how Wu was. Their importunity proved too much for only