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BEGIN HERE TODAY Captain John Hewitt, Commissioner of Police at Jeseelton. British North Borneo, asks relp from Chal-Hun. influential Chinese, in the recovery of jewels stolen from Lady Stornaway while she 1 a g-uest at the commissioner's home. Peter Pennington, known as "Chinese" Pennington, because of his slant eyes, is hired by the government to run to earth The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits. Monica Viney. beautiful widow, is living with her brother. Captain Hewitt. NOW GO OS WITH THE STORY Monica gasped. "The well of oriental cunning knows no bottom," continued Pennington, "ajid yet I flatter myself I’ve learnt to probe into it deeply.” "I have been working quietly but steadily on this rather unusual Jewel robbery. "I found no difficulty in running the original thief to earth. I was on the point of closing with him when a singular complication occurred: As I lay on my ‘tummy’ in the undergrowth, he was knifed —completely and effectively—before my eyes!" Hewitt bent forward suddenly. “Good Lord!” "I collared the assassin low and we fought like wild cats. He had the strength of a bison and, if he hadn’t left his knife in the back of his victim, I shouldn’t be here now. Anyhow he broke away and got clear, leaving me with this." He held the torn half of a yellow strip of pasteboard before the commissioner’s astonished eyes. For a second Hewitt seemed deprived of the power of speech, and It was Monica's voice that launched the question. “But, Mr. Pennington, if he were • confederate —why did he kill his friend?” "Because," suggested her brother, "once having got the pendant, he decided to keep it." "No." said Pennington with conviction, “I fancy you’re wrong there. The assassin didn’t trouble to search) the dead man, but I went over him very thoroughly. The booty had passed from his hands long before I overtook him.” Monica drew in a deep breath. "I still don't see ” “I believe our friend was guilty of a serious indiscretion in leaving behind the token that had been entrusted tp him —the yellow seven.” “I don’t see that we’re much forra'der,” declared Hewitt moodily. "What do you suggest doing?” "Turning in for a spell," said Pennington. "In the meantime watch every port, search every one who tries to embark—every one, you understand, Cheerio!"

HE only fired once He made his way toward the back es the house, leaving Monica bubbling over with curiosity. Hewitt anticipated the question that was forming itself on her lips. “That’s about the most remarkable feller in eastern waters.” he told her. " ‘Chinese Pennington’ they call him. You saw his eyes? His pedigree’s faultless, but some extraordinary freak of fortune—or birth, if you like, decreed he should go through life—looking like that. I fancy locality has a big effect on appearance. Pennington’s people have been merchants in Shanghai for generations. Anyhow, there It is! To all Intents and purposes he’s as white as you or me, hut there’s no getting away from the fact that he has the eyes of an Oriental. He knows Chinese character Inside out. He can talk like them. He can get himself up to look like ’em. He holds a sort of roving commission. He’s streets ahead of the ordinary native detective. The queer thing Is that the natives know of Pennington, but they’ve never managed to nail him. They regard him as something almost superhuman.

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They call his ‘he who sees in the dark.’ " "How delightfully thrilling!” commented Monica. “He must be frightfully brave.” The commissioner smiled grimly. "Pennlngton’d tackle the devil incarnate.” The presence of a young, beautiful and undeniably attractive widow is bound to cause something more than a mild sensation in any quarter of the globe where there happens to be a preponderance of unattached males. It was perfectly natural, therefore, that Monica Viney, at such times when her brother was occupied with his affairs, was rarely at a loss for a caviller to accompany her on her habitual excursions in search of knowledge, after the sun was down. At these times, however, Pennington was never available. He came and went and yet she had never witnessed either his arrival or departure. It was during one of those evening walks that she peisuaded Dawson — a local district officer —to take her to a gambling den. They had been strolling leisurely through the native quarter, stopping at Innumerable stores and purchasing an inordinate quantity of perfectly useless articles. They halted presently before a long building from which, at Intervals, came bursts of guttural chattering. At one end a door stood half open, a patch of yellow light falling" on the roadway. She caught his arm impulsively and tried to drag him toward the entrance, but Dawson, cautious and immovable as granite, waited until there was a lull in the stream of devotees. He guided her through the doorway and into a narrow cubicle screened from the entrance hall by a heavy curtain. An elderly Chinaman, humpbacked and wizened, left the stool on which he had been seated, nodded to Dawson and went out. Her escort placed the stool in front of a narrow slit cut in the woodwork. Monica peered cautiously through. There was a long table running the whole length of the hall, a ’round dozen of smaller ones, and the entire walls seemed to be covered with crudely colored pictures without frames. The whole atmosphere throbbed with feverish activity, the rattling of dice and spasmodic, inarticulate grunts that she could not decide whether Intended for signs of pleasure or despair. There were clerks in white duck, native overseers in greasy suits, coolies with broad-brimmed hats of plaited cane and wearing only loin cloths. A Chinaman, wearing enormous horn-rimmed spectacles, sat at the far end of a big table before what appeared to be the inverted halves of cocoanut shells. Whenever these were lifted, there arose a repetition of the discordant bable she had heard as they approached. All along both sides. Orientals of every class and distinction thronged the rocking forms. Every now and then a man rose, seemingly emotionless, ,and left the table.

Monica, the novelty of this strange scene holding her enthralled, allowed her gaze to wander round the room. Presently it fell upon the form of an Oriental in a suit of greasy blue whose face seemed peculiarly familiar. Every time a player from the top vacated his seat, this enthusiastic gambler moved Into It, In this manner getting gradually nearer to the man with the horn-rimmed spectacles who manipulated the shells. Presently he looked up at the swinging oil lamp—and Monica uttered a little cry. In spite of the elaborate disguise, there was something in the set of the mobile mouth, something in the poise of the shoulders that betrayed him. She found her lips forming the words — ‘‘Chinese Pennington.” A moment later and he had reached the apparent zenith of his desire. Ills elbow touched the sleeve of the man who presided, but his eyes were staring straight before him at an euormous Chinaman who sat ,opposite, both hands resting on the table, the Angers slightly closed. For some reason that sue could not quite define, a mental picture began forming in her mind; a picture that the vividness of Pennington’s description had impressed on her memory. She saw a glade in the night-shrouded jungle wastes, a huddled form with a long knife protruding from between hunched-up shoulder blades—and "he who sees In the dark” struggling for dear life In the matted undergrowth. Her vivid Imagination had already i established the identity of the man ■ who now faced the hero of her roj mance. Behind her she heard Dawson strike a match and puff strenuously at his pipe. And then, through the nebulous smoke-haze, the three principal figures at the top end of the long table stood out in bold relief from the surging background of negligible supers. In a moment of time the thing happened. The man opposite Pennington slid a yellow' hand toward the Chinaman In the horn spectacles, as If trying to pass him the something over which the powerful fin-

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THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

The Kokomo telephone directory now contains 300 names. Paul Karnstedt, Michigan City, was fatally Injured at the H. & B. plant of the Puliman company. Hiram Dedwan, 60, miner, Petersburg. was killed when he was caught beneath falling slate. The body of P. L. Sames, Chicago, was found hanging from ,a tree near Greencastle. He was temporarily insane, the coroner stated. County agents of the Tenth district are attending a poultry culling school at the home of Claude Davis, New Albany. Sixty-six live, snakes were taken from the body of a large snake killed by Willie Selpie of near Corydon. St. Joseph Valley Masonic Association awarded a contract for erection of a $1,000,000 temple at South Bend. "In all my experience I have never seen a divorce case on the docket where the rnan and woman both at tended church,” declax-ed Judge Will side. She was wondering whether Permington had fought clear, whether it had actually been Lady Stornaway’s diamond pendant contained in the queer package the transit of which the Englishman had striven to intercept. Our Next Issue)

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