"Here!" Standing above the quivering Jap, he harangued him in halting yet vehement Japanese, gesticulating and--after the manner of people speaking a tongue unfamiliar to them--talking at the top of his voice.

But his oration had no stimulating effect on the poor Sato.

Scarce waiting for Brice to finish speaking, the butler broke again into that monkey-like chatter of appeal and fright.

Gavin silenced him with a threatening gesture, and renewed his own harangue.

But, after perhaps a minute of it, he saw the uselessness of trying to put manhood or pluck into the groveling little Oriental.