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Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China By: George F. (George Frank) Worts (1892-) |
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[Frontispiece: PETER, HASTILY INSTRUCTING THE GIRL TO HOLD TWO
RICKSHAWS, LEAPED AT HIS PURSUER WITH DOUBLED FISTS]
PETER THE BRAZEN
A MYSTERY STORY OF MODERN CHINA BY GEORGE F. WORTS "A man whose heart is burning with passion
follows the undulations of a thought."
Su Tong Po.
WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY
GAYLE HOSKINS PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1919
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1919, J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
TO DR. AND MRS. W. B. A. MOORE HONG KONG
CONTENTS
PART I THE CITY OF STOLEN LIVES
PART II THE BITTER FOUNTAIN
PART III THE GREEN DEATH
PETER THE BRAZEN
PART I THE CITY OF STOLEN LIVES
CHAPTER I "How serene the joy,
when things that are made for each other meet
and are joined;
but ah,
how rarely they meet and are joined, the things
that are made for each other!"
SAO NAN.
When Peter Moore entered the static room, picked his way swiftly and
unnoticingly across the littered floor, and jerked open the frosted
glass door of the chief operator's office, the assembled operators
followed him with glances of admiration and concern. No one ever
entered the Chief's office in that fashion. One waited until called
upon. But Moore was privileged. Having "pounded brass" for five useful and
adventurous years on the worst and best of the ships which minimize the
length and breadth of the Pacific Ocean, he was favored; he had become
a person of importance. He had performed magical feats with a wireless
machine; he had had experiences. His first assignment was a fishing schooner, a dirty, unseaworthy
little tub, which ran as far north sometimes as the Aleutians; and he
had immediately gained official recognition by sticking to his
instruments for sixty eight hours recorded at fifteen minute intervals
in his log when the whaler Goblin encountered a submerged pinnacle
rock in the Island Passage and flashed the old C.Q.D. distress signal. It was brought out in the investigation that the distance at which
Peter Moore had picked up the signals of the sinking Goblin exceeded
the normal working range of either apparatus. When pressed, the young
man confessed the ownership of a pair of abnormally keen ears.
Afterward, it was demonstrated for the benefit of doubters that Moore
could "read" signals in the receivers when the ordinary operator could
detect only a far away scratching sound. Beginning his second year in the Marconi uniform, Peter Moore was
recognized as material far too valuable to waste on the fishing boats;
and he was stationed on the Sierra , which was then known in wireless
circles as a supervising ship. Her powerful apparatus could project
out a long electric arm over any part of the eastern Pacific, and the
duty of her operator was to reprimand sluggards who neglected answering
calls from ship or shore stations, and inexperienced men who violated
the strict rules governing radio intercourse. It was whispered that Peter Moore grew tired of the nagging to which
his position on the supervisor ship gave him privilege, for he shortly
made application for a berth in the China run. Now every operator on
the Pacific cherishes the hope that his fidelity will some day be
rewarded by a China run, and there are applications always on file for
those romantic berths. The Chief granted Peter Moore his whim
unhesitatingly; and Moore selected the Vandalia , perhaps the most
desirable of the transpacific fleet, because she stayed away from San
Francisco the longest. That the supersensitiveness of his ears was not waning was soon proved
by his receipt of a non relayed message, afterward verified, from the
shore station in Seattle, when the Vandalia lay at anchor in the
harbor at Hong Kong. That was a new record... Continue reading book >>
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