CONCLUSION.
Old King Brady thought that Harry was dead.
They carried him out of the secret door only with the greatest
difficulty.
The worst was when it came to getting Harry up the narrow stairs, but
even this was managed and they landed him in the ambulance at last.
The young doctor in charge lent them little encouragement.
"He is certainly gone, Mr. Brady," he said as he looked Harry over. "I
wish I could hold out more hope to you, but I can't."
Alice, who was in the ambulance, suddenly turned to the old detective
and said:
"Really, Mr. Brady, it is useless to take Harry to the hospital. If he
is not dead now he will die before he gets there. The only possible
chance to save him is to get a Chinese doctor."
"Nonsense!" mused the ambulance surgeon. "What do Chinese doctors know?
They are the worst kind of quacks."
"Why, no."
"Don't be in such a hurry to pronounce on what you don't understand.
Alice, your suggestion is a good one. Doctor, we will take my partner to
No. ---- Chatham Square."
The place to which Old King Brady prepared to take Harry was Quong Lee's
opium joint.
This is located in a basement on Chatham Square.
Quong Lee, who is a man advanced in years, reckons himself a particular
friend of the old detective.
Alice went in first and saw Quong Lee, coming out with word that they
were to bring Harry right in.
"I am going for the doctor," she said. "He has given me the address."
She hurried away, leaving Old King Brady to assist in carrying Harry
down the stone steps.
Quong Lee was on hand at the foot. "Bling him to my loom," he said and
he led the way.
And once again poor Harry had to be dragged up a flight of narrow
stairs.
When they got him on Quong Lee's bed and loosened up his clothes the old
divekeeper made a personal examination.
"What do you think, Quong?" demanded Old King Brady when at last he
pulled away.
"Him velly bad," was the reply. "Me muchee flaid, Blady."
"You consider him dead?"
Quong Lee nodded.
It was despairing, but as the old detective had already come to the same
conclusion he said nothing and at last the Chinese doctor came.
Instead of being the old man they had expected to see, he was quite a
youthful looking proposition.
Moreover, he wore American clothes and spoke perfect English.
His name was High Lung, he informed Old King Brady.
"There's your patient, Doctor," said the old detective. "He has been
drugged by some of your people. To me he seems dead. Save him if you can
and I'll write you a check for a thousand dollars."
High Lung made no answer but proceeded to examine Harry.
He took a long time about it, too. Old King Brady began to think he
never would let up.
At last Dr. High Lung pulled away.
"He is not dead," he said, quietly. "I can save him."
"Good!" cried Old King Brady. "Go ahead."
High Lung then ordered Alice from the room and Harry was stripped.
The Chinese doctor's treatment certainly was peculiar at the start.
He climbed in the bed and lay down flat on top of Harry, breathing in
his mouth and at the same time kneading his back with his hands.
The ambulance surgeon looked on with no attempt to conceal his disgust.
At last the Chinaman got off the bed and began opening a bag which he
had brought along.
"Examine him now, Doctor," he said.
The surgeon did so.
"Upon my word it is a fact that he is breathing," he admitted. "I
wouldn't have believed it."
The Chinese doctor then produced just such another box and vial as the
old detective had seen the Chinamen handling in the secret den.
Calling for a cup he put into it a portion of a grayish powder out of
the box and poured a bright blue liquid upon it out of the vial.
The mixture immediately foamed up.
"Doctor, do you know the drug which has been used on my partner?" asked
Old King Brady.
"Perfectly well," replied the doctor.
"Does it act on the heart?" demanded the surgeon.
"Both on the heart and lungs," was the reply, and this was all they
could get out of High Lung, who now proceeded to administer the mixture
to Harry.
It promptly did its work. Within ten minutes Young King Brady opened
his eyes.
"Oh! I have had such queer dreams!" he muttered.
"Dream some more," said High Lung; and taking Old King Brady aside he
said:
"They gave him an overdose. He was almost gone. He must not be moved out
of here under two days. I shall want to see him twice again."
"The case is yours," said Old King Brady. "I shall stay right here with
him."
But he did not.
Harry here spoke again.
"Governor," he said, "you want to get right up to that pier. Never mind
me. I dreamed that I saw you there and that you got--you know what. Go
now."
And Harry was so earnest about it that Old King Brady went, leaving him
in charge of Alice and Quong Lee.
It was well towards midnight before Old King Brady again found himself
approaching the old fertilizer factory.
He was not alone.
Feeling that he might need help he confided the details of his case to
Wardman Connors and took him along.
"I don't see a soul," remarked Connors as they approached the pier. "I
am afraid it is all Harry's imagination."
They started down the pier and had gone but a short distance before they
made a discovery.
It was a Chinaman lying gagged and bound upon the pier.
"Why, I know this Chink!" exclaimed Connors. "He is a notorious Pell
street highbinder. Name is Tom Quee."
The imprisoned Chinaman was regarding him with a disgusted stare.
They set him free at once and Connors started to question him.
"Know Dock Hing?" said Tom Quee. "Well, he did it. He's hanging around
here somewhere in a boat along with another fellow."
"Why?" demanded Old King Brady.
"I don't know," retorted Tom Quee. "We had a quarrel--that's all."
They started across the pier thinking that Tom Quee would follow them.
Suddenly they heard the patter of feet and looking back saw the Chinaman
on the run.
They went on the stringpiece then, making as little noise as possible.
Looking down they saw a boat at some distance ahead in which sat two
Chinamen.
They were looking down into the water.
"Sure enough they are the men now!" muttered Old King Brady. "Connors,
these are the ones we want. Upon my soul I believe that boy is diving
for them now."
He was right.
At the same moment up came Ed out of the water.
He was empty-handed.
One of the Chinamen seized an oar and would have struck at him but Old
King Brady raised a shout.
The Chinamen looking up and seeing the detectives, instantly pulled
their boat in under the pier.
"That you, Ed Butler?" cried Old King Brady, hurrying forward. "Oh, Mr.
Brady! I'm so thankful you have come!" Ed cried. "I've had such a time
of it since I parted with you."
"There go the Chinks!" exclaimed Connors, pointing to the boat which was
pulling away from the pier.
"I found two metal cases down there. One last night those Chinamen
opened. There was nothing in it but a lot of papers," said Ed.
"And the other?"
"That I got to-night, and oh, Mr. Brady, I have had the time of my life
to keep it out of the hands of those Chinamen."
"But where is it now?" demanded the old detective impatiently.
"I tied it to the lowest rung of that ladder under the water," said Ed.
"Go for it!" cried the old detective. "Don't keep us any longer in
suspense."
Ed instantly took a header into the water.
Ed's head came popping up in a minute.
He raised a hand out of the water and it held a square tin case, with a
rope attached.
"It's the duplicate of the one I fetched up last night," he said. "I
don't know what's in it, I'm sure."
"Bring it up here and we'll soon find out," called Old King Brady.
Ed came up with his prize, but it was not so easy settling the all
important question after all.
Old King Brady had all kinds of trouble opening the thing, but at last
the lid was pried back, and sure enough money was revealed.
It proved to be the Albany pension money and the Government got it.
Old King Brady saw to it that Ed came in for a share of the reward. The
boy went back to Albany but his mother and Ethel failed to return. The
last Ed heard of them they were in San Francisco, where the misguided
girl had married another Chinaman.
Harry was under the weather for a week but he entirely recovered and
wants nothing more to do with the secret dens of Pell street.
And thus the case was rushed to a successful finish the night following
up the Brady's Chinese Clew.
THE END.
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Read "THE BRADYS IN A FOG; OR, TRACKING A GANG OF FORGERS," which will
be the next number (605) of "Secret Service."
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Mrs. Guy Wood went for a row on Keuka Lake, N. Y., the other day and
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In Sumatra the wind decides the length of time a widow should remain
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A cat belonging to Sampson Alleman, of Tallyho, W. Va., killed a large
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A student of Columbia University was living with his mother at one of
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Nothing is more wonderful to investigators than the display of strength
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fifty times as heavy as themselves. The beetle can move a weight one
hundred and twelve times his own weight. The house-fly gives six hundred
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of thirty-five feet. Probably the most wonderful of all is the
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or move backward or sideways without changing the position of its body.
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"Well, my little man," inquired a visitor pleasantly, "who are you?"
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The Lady--I want a hat for my husband, please, but I've no idea what
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In an outward-bound Boston car the other evening there was not a seat
left. A woman entered and not a man noticed her standing, apparently.
Finally one man rose from his seat and offered it to the woman. She
thanked him, adding: "You are the only gentleman in the car." She was
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The druggist danced and chortled till the bottles danced on the shelves.
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"No," gurgled the dope dispenser ecstatically. "But do you remember when
your water pipes were frozen last winter?" "Yes; but what--" "The
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Mrs. McGuire--Is your old man any better since he wint to th' doctor's,
Mrs. Finegan? Mrs. Finegan--Not wan bit, Mrs. McGuire; it's worse th'
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how to follow th' doctor's directions. Mrs. McGuire--An' what are th'
directions, Mrs. Finegan? Mrs. Finegan--Sure, they do be to take wan
powder six toimes a day, Mrs. McGuire.
A man went into the ticket office of the Colorado Midland Railway, at
Seventeenth and California streets, recently, and said to Mr. Whitley,
the ticket agent: "I want to get a ticket to Lame Water, Col." "To what
place?" asked the perplexed ticket man. "Lame Water--It's a mining
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