Part 28 (1/2)

”Call Alice!” ordered the old detective. ”We want to find out about the treasure while we have so good a chance.”

Alice came. The princess almost fell over herself in her delight, chattering eagerly in Chinese.

”Well?” demanded the old detective. ”Well?”

”Oh, he got the treasure all right,” said Alice. ”It is in here.”

She led the way into the front room, which was fitted up with a bar and upon this stood an old dress-suit case.

”That's it!” cried Alice. ”They have but just finished their work.

Garshaski was going to drown her and make off with the money. The princess says that he found it under the hearth stone and that there is a lot of it.”

Leggett now burst into the roam.

”That launch is full of c.h.i.n.ks!” he said, ”but they have shoved off. I think they saw Mr. Brady's big hat and were scared away.”

Perhaps it was so, for they did not return.

The suit-case, being opened, was found stuffed with yellow-backs with some gold.

When counted later the amount proved to be a little over $75,000.

Garshaski was rounded up in San Francisco jail, later going to a hospital.

The Princess Skeep Hup was turned over to the Lung Brothers with the treasure. Some weeks later she married Ah Lung, who made a quick recovery.

That night the Bradys with Leggett and other Secret Service men returned to the abandoned beach.

Here they went into hiding, waiting for the opium smugglers.

And again it proved a foggy night, which greatly aided them in their work.