CHAPTER III

THE WATCHING EYE


Not a clue was left by the kidnappers when they so mysteriously
spirited Elaine away from the apartment of Wu Fang. She had
disappeared as completely as if she had vanished into the thin
air.

Kennedy was frantic. Wu and Long Sin themselves seemed to have
vanished, too. Where they held her, what had happened to her was a
sealed book. And yet, no move of ours was made, no matter how
secret, that it did not seem to be known to them. It was as though
a weird, uncanny eye glared at us, watching everything.

Craig neglected no possibility in his eager search. He even
visited the little house in the country which Elaine had given to
Aunt Tabby, and spent several hours examining the collapsed
subterranean chamber in the vain hope that it might yield a clue.
But it had not.

It was half filled with debris from above, where the pillar had
given way that night when we had all so nearly lost our lives.
Still, there was enough room in what remained of the cavern so
that we could move about.