Argosy All-Story Weekly, Vol. 146 No. 4 — page 93: what you’re looking at

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By RUFUS F. KING CHAPTER XX. THE MEETING. ENDRIKS entered his cabin and faced Fang Wu. “ Well,” Hendriks said, “let us lay our cards on the table.” Fang Wu smiled. “ All of them, Captain Hendriks? That will hardly be necessary—for me. [I shall merely expose a few, none of which shall be, properly speaking, a trump.” “Where have you got Miss MacTav- mr ~° Fang Wu smiled again, shrugged, and laughed a little. “Ah, you Americans, I might even say all you white men! You are so naive, so ingenuous!” He grinned fatuously. “ She is very near you. Your children, I believe, play a game This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for October. 7. 563 in which one of them is blindfolded and gropes about for the object of his search. As the object is approached, the others cry, ‘you are getting warm!’ Captain, you are warm, very warm, but im this game it ts not you, the searcher, who will be blindfolded, but Miss MacTavern, the searched. If ”— his voice snapped to a thin, metallic twang “if you raise one finger against me, if you make one step in any direction other than that which I shall dictate to you, that girl will be blinded for life!” Hendriks stood irresolute. Fang Wu continued: “ Think of my power, what I have done aboard your ship from the time when that . girl managed to evade my vigilance for a single moment and managed to get that note on deck! Working with absolute smoothness and precision, I, and my agents, comicbooks.com —