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A Story of Japanese Plotters.
Love, Mystery and Tragedy.
(Based on the drama of that name as
played by Walker Whiteside.)
By J. W. M'CONAUGHY.
Copyright, 1912, by The New York Even
ing Journal Publfsplng Company.
‘'Hardly that!" said Tokoramo, as
quietly as if he had not caught the tone
In which Lindener had spoken of Hironarl.
"I never saw him until the afternoon of
the day the murder was committed.”
"-Ind I am given to understand that
he had reached Berlin only the day be
fore that?”
"That is what he told us and he
seemed a clean and truthful boy,” re
plied Tokoramo.
"But I can not believe It!” cried Lin
dener. "Why should he have done this
thing? If he had been in Berlin only
twenty-four hours he could not have
been the Japanese lllona teased me with.
And how did .she come to be in your
house my friend?” Lindeners lips were
dry and his eyes hard, as he fixed them
on Tokoramo's masklike face. There was
not the slightest betraying sign in look
or tone as Tokoramo replied:
"That must always be a mystery—at
least.until we hear Hironari’s story In full
detail. Os course, he knew that no one
would be here but my servant, for he
knew that all the rest of us—all the
Japanese we know in Berlin—were at the
Wallen Pension celebrating the Feast of
the Little Children. If he contemplated
anything my house would naturally have
suggested itself to him as a safe place;
besides, being a stranger in Berlin, he
would not know of other places."
"But why should he have done it? He
—practically a stranger to lllona! He
could not have known her more than a few
hours!"
Much as he expected of him as a mat
ter of course. Joshakawa. would have been
proud of his countryman had he been
there to observe the manner in which
he conducted himself under Llndener’s
insistent questionings, while in his own
heart there raged a black tempest that
made the German's emotion —the weak
grief of a weak man—seem a pitifully
childish thing.
The Explanation.
“It is not an everyday thing, my
friend," he said gravely, "but, on the
other hand, ft is not an unusual crime.
No one would have thought it strange
If the murderer had been this poor Yo
tomo whom you saw here In the company
of Joshakawa the day of the murder.
We read every day of crimes committed
by men who are temporarily as much —
more Insane—than Yotomo. It Is this
fact that should take some of the bitter
ness out of your feelings against the boy,
even if It adds to the hopelessness of
your grief.
"Hironarl Is evidently insane. He Is a
distant relative of Joshakawa and the old
man’s testimony may be of some help to
the police in reaching the motive of the
crime, Joshakawa tells me that the
branch of the family from which Hironarl
spuing has always been a hot-headed,
passionate, untrustworthy strain.”
Lindener rose with a smothered oath
"And these are the cultured people that
Bruck says we ought to welcome among
us!” he snarled.
Tokoramo fixed him with a calm gaze
"I am not to be offended by you, Herr
Lindener.” he said, quietly, “especially at
this time. I know what this woman
meant to you. You are less than just to
tne and my people. However calmly I
may speak of this, give me credit for
suffering that you can not dream of. It
is true that this revolting crime was
commit led by a Japaneses—but are your
people clean-handed in tills sort of thing.
T>o you ever see statistics on crime from
the United States where all of the na
tions of Europe have an equal opportu
nitv and a fair representation? But that
is unworthy of me!” He rose, walked
over to Lindener and held out his hand
"Will VOU accept my sympathy—my
friendship? We are sufferers together."
Lindener stood stiffly and breathed hard
for a few moment. Then his eyes sud
den!? filled and he gripped the hand of
the Japanese.
"Forgive me. my friend! ’ he begged.
"But you are right—l am far from my
self Before it is over I will either die,
or, worse, lose my mind!”
Tokoramo gently pushed him back onto
the divan and refilled his glass, murmur
ing careful phrases of sympathy to whii'Jf
Lindener shook his head.
■ th' MV friend, it is no use!” he ex
claimed bitterly. “You did not know her!
if you had. you would understand —you
would feel differently.”
"Yes” said Tokoramo. slowly. "I did
not know her. If I had I would probably |
feel -differently.” I
" \nd she came here to your house and
you never even saw her!" went on Un- |
dener. ~
"Yes, 1 never even saw her.
"You would have loved her, my friend!”
exclaimed Lindener, In a shaky voice, his
lips trembling pitifully. “You could not
have helped it! She was the sort of a
woman who would have appealed to you
as she did to me—fire and Ice. a yielding
mystery, a mind and knot of passions for;
a heart, the Ups of a Venns and the laugh
of a friend!”
Tokoramo repressed a groan of agony
an(l hem his head over Ins work again.
I can see her now!" went on Lindener.
cutting himself with knives and finding
the pain a monstrous pleasure. "I can
see her as I saw her the last time-a
warm, laughing, cold. sneering, loving
tantalizing •mddening witch—woman.
What can she have done io that boy that
; 1e should have ’robbed me of her. W hat
Cl The door of the ante-room was flung
back and a deep voice crieH out breath
leSSTokoramo! My dear friend!” the next
instant Professor Bruck, quite shocked out
of his dignified bearing hastened across
the room.
Tokoramo rose to greet the second in
truder who fairly spluttered in his ex
citement. his round, near-sighted eyes
bulging out like a beetle s.
••.My dear friend!” he. exclaimed again,
as he gripped Tokoramo's hand and
alpr ed earnestly into his face. ”1 was in
Weuphalia for a short visit lo Dr. Lin
dennann. and left an unfinished confer
ence with him to hasten home and see If
j could be of any assistance to you. You
remember Llndermann the author of
•Pauses of Decay?' A most admirable
savant, but I felt that I had to put him
right on the point of transportation. It
is the point that I make in the fourteenth
chapter of the second volume, and I was
trui? surprised that Lindermann’s re
searches had not led him to the inevita
ble conclusion that
"That none of us care about any trans
pm-lution except the shortest road to
bell and most of us have found that!”
interrupted Lindener. harshly The mo
,, sr.r wheeled With a start He had not
observed his artist-friend when ho
charged into the room and threw himself
upon Tokorami'
"My dear l.rne-'!'' he cried, in tones of
the most earnest sympathy, rushing to'
THE TYPHOON
the gloomy man with outstretched hands.
"I am overjoyed to find you here! I
stopped at your rooms and they’ told me
you had been in bed since—ever since.
When they told me how yotf were I was
afraid" — He paused, embarrassed. Lin
dener laughed bitterly’.
"Go on, my dear professor!” he urged.
“I'm not sensitive. You thought I would
follow the traditions of my people and
hang myself from a tree in Unter den
Linden. Well, I am sorry to disappoint
you. but I haven’t the energy to do it.
I will die soon enough, without there be
ing any crying necessity for helping
things along."
Tokoramo came to the aid of the stam
mering professor.
• The Missing Valet.
“Permit me to offer you what poor en
tertainment my house affords just now,”
he said, courteously. “My servant has
disappeared and I am living rather rough
ly. There is, however, still some of the
cognac which has the seal of Herr Lin
dener’s approval." v
“Thank you. thank you, friend Toko
ramo!” exclaimed the professor, taking
his arm and accompanying him to the
liqueur stand, giving the arm a grateful
pressure as he did so. "I admire the
French people most in their production of
cognac. If their thinkers were as great
as their -distillers what a wonderful peo
ple they’ would be!”
"Herr Lindener, will you not join us?”
asked the host.
Lindener rose with a heavy sigh and
came over to them.
"But, my friend!” protested Professor
Bruck, as if he had just contritely re
membered the purpose of his visit. "Is
there nothing I can do but give you my
sympathy in this terrible affair."
Tokoramo shook his head slightly.
"That is all, my friend.” he said, grave
ly.
The professor shook his head violently
and made a clucking noise with bls
tongue, which was the extent of his abil
ity to express the emotion under dis
cussion, he was sincerely dis
tressed. Lindener broke the little pause
that followed. ,
“I meant to ask you about the serv
ant, Tokoramo,” he. said. "He has com
pletely disappeared?”
"Completely. But, of course, the police
will find him eventually,” he added
"That Is very strange.” said the ar
tist, half to himself "He could hardly
have been an accomplice."
“Impossible," exclaimed Tokoramo.
"The very character of the crime elim
inates any possibility of an accomplice.
Johann was a rather stupid fellow and I
think he simply ran away in panic.”
Neither of the others commented on this
possible explanation, and Tokoramo made
as if to return to his desk.
"You will pardon me," he said apolo
getically. "But I must return to my
work.”
The professor who had fallen into a deep
muse, came out of it with a start.
"Certainly, my dear Tokoramo!" he ex
claimed and shook hands again. "If I
can help you, do not fail to call on
me."
"Come. Ernest!" the professor thrust
his hand under his coattails and marched
rapidly out of the room, followed by Toko
ramo's thanks. Lindener lingered only to
shake hands, »
"I will not annoy you any more to
day,” he said, "but I would be very grate
ful if you would allow me to cal!
again.”
"My, door is always open to you, Herr
Lindener,” returned the Japanese. "My
house and all it holds are always at your
disposal. Everything but my time —and
this is not mine but my country’s."
Lindener thanked him and withdrew,
with a firmer step and better appearance
than when he had entered.
Removing Witness.
The day after the murder Teri did not
appear at the Varieties. She was seized
with a violent attack of hysteria on leav
ing the house in the custody of the po
lice. This was the forerunner of a ner
vous breakdown and her doctor ordered
her to the country for absolute rest and
quiet for at least a month. He forbade
the police to question her until she had
fully recovered, explaining so that even
the police could understand, that if they
Insisted on examining her al length while
she was still suffering from the shock they
would have an incompetent witness at the
trial of Hironari.
Knowing that it would be impossible
for her to leave Germany without the con-
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they were so impressed with Hironari’s
story and it was so well substantiated by
the stories of his friends that they con
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"be—as only of secondary importance.
There was one vitally InteresteiT actor
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the boy in prison who did not share the
view of the police. He was Joshakawa.
He remembered seeing Teri leave the
house in company with lllona on the after
noon of the murder and he saw’ that it was
of vital importance that the police be
kept in Ignorance of Illona's frequent
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to Berlin,. called on Tokoramo several
times and got to be very friendly with him
in their mutual sorrow and neither Josha
kawa nor the police were any wiser. The
former did not learn of It until he met
the girl leaving Tokoramo's house one
night after a short call.
There could be no doubt that the young
Japanese was rapidly dying at his post
and even Teri could see it. She sympa
thized with him as the sweetheart of her
dead friend and composed rightly that
her death and the terrific strain of his
work under the circumstances were rap
idly killing him.
She came la»e that night, chiefly for
the purpose of trying to make him go to
bed. She knew that she would find him
at his desk and he looked up with a wan
smile when she entered and gave her a
friendly greeting. She returned it in an
absent-minded way and watched him as
he bent to his toil again. Some minutes
passed In silence and then she approach
led his desk.
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