have discovered the treasure at all, if our pursuit of Wu and Long
Sin the night before had not literally forced us into doing so.

Nor were Kennedy's fears unfounded. Wu and Long Sin had scarcely
reached the secret apartment back of the deceptive exterior of the
Chinatown tenement, when the subtle Chinaman began to contemplate
his revenge.

Long Sin was smoking a Chinese pipe, resting after their hurried
flight, while Wu, the tireless, was seated at a table at the other
end of the room. At last Wu Fang took up a long Chinese dirk from
the table before him, looked at it, turned it over, felt its edge.
It was keen and the point was sharp. He rose and deliberately
walked across to a door leading into a back room.

On a couch lay Elaine and with her, as a guardian, was Weepy Mary
whom the Clutching Hand had used to lure her to the church where
the faked record of her father's marriage was supposed to be.
Indeed, though Wu had lost the Clutching Hand's millions, he had
seen his chance and had fallen heir to what was left of Bennett's
criminal organization.

As Wu, the Serpent, entered and advanced slowly towards Elaine,
she crouched back from him in deadly fear. He stopped before her
without a word and his menacing eye seemed to read her very
thoughts.

Slowly he drew from under his robe the Chinese dirk. He felt the
edge of it again and gazed significantly at Elaine. She shrank
back even further, as far as the divan would permit.