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Chal-Hun?, influential Chinese, calls at the home of John Hewitt. Commissioner of Police at Jesselton. British North Borneo, to tell of The death of Mr. Allison, victim of a gang murder. Peter Pennington is detailed by the government to run to earth The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits. Monica Viney lives with her brother. Captain Hewitt. Pennington suspects ChaiHung of hieing leader of the bandits. Hewitt procures a warrant for the arrest of Chai-Hung. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “Chai-Hung called here this afternoon.” Hewitt started. “This afternoon!” he echoed incredulously. She nodded. “He asked if you were in—and said he was going away for some:time. Mr. Pennington yeas here, too. He'll tell you all about it.” The commissioner passed a weary hand over his black hair. “Where Is Pennington now?” “I haven’t eeen him since tea." A sudden movement in the wild garden outside attracted her attention. She stepped ’close up to the rail and peered into the bt&ckness. Standing half in the shadow of a stunted palm, she saw a tall, gaunt figure, wearing a loose costume of pale blue material. Monica caught her brother's sleeve and pulled him forward. “There’s a man out there. Jack,” she told him softly. The commissioner looked. “It’s Pennington, I suppose,” he growled presently. “What the devil's he want to hang about the house like that for!” At that moment, the scarecrow raised an arm and beckoned. “How are we for time?” She consulted her wrist-watch. “You’ve twenty minutes before dinner. Don’t stop out too long.”

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THE SERVANT WAS FLUNG LIKE A SACK INTO THE OFFICE. Hewitt looked at Monica. Thirty seconds later he had passed down the steps, making his way tow'ard the tree. Mr. Viney went in to dress for dinner. The deep-toned Ducun gong, reverberating in the stillness of the night, brought her back to the veranda. Her brother was nowhere to be seen. She hurried down the passage to his room, tapped on the door, then, getting no response, looked In. The room was Mnptv and a glance sufficed to tell her It had not hpen there since his return. The neatly piled clean clothes were stijl where the servant had put them. Her mind slightly troubled, she invaded his office. As she stepped toward the writing table, a grim sense of impending disaster swept over her. She thrust it from her resolutely, and pressed onward. Both hands resting on the wooden surface, she ‘gazed horror-stricken before her at a dagger ■with a gilt handle that stuck upright in the table, its thin steel blade impaling a heap of torn paper fragments. Dimly, as her powers of reasoning stole back to her, she realized that the tattered document was the warrant for the arrest of ChaiHung. and that the yellow handle of the knife bore seven distinct black dots on the side that was turned tow'ard her—four on the upper half and three below. Suddenly she became aware that Pennington—serene, immaculate —was at her elbow. She swung round on him fielcely. “Mr. Pennington, what does all this mean? Where is Jack? What have you done with him?” Pennington was frankly puzzled.

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“Jack? Captain, Hewitt? I haven’t seen him. Isn’t he back yet?” Monica caught her breath. “Somebody beckoned to him from the garden,” she raced on wildly. "We both thought it w'as you. Jack went out. He hasn’t dressed for makan, and there’s that on his table. For God’s sake, tell me what it all means?’’ Pennington guided her to a chair, then bent over the dagger. A second later, he had rushed from the room toward the kitchen-quarters. She heard the voluble tones of the cook-boy, a yell of pain, the dragging of a heavy body along the floor and the servant was flung like a sack into I the office, still clinging to a flimsy box with a metai handle—the only luggage he had brought with him when he arrived. Pennington slammed the door and leant against it. “Get up, you sw'ine!” he said sternly. “Get up and find your tongue or, by heaven! I’ll flay you alive!” The boy scrambled to his feet and stood sullenly In the center of the bare room. “You wall lead me to Chai-Hung!” hissed Pennington. At the very sound of the name the Oriental trembled visibly. The Englishman caught him by both shoulders and shook him violently. A volume of inarticulate grunts followed. Pennington plucked the knife from the woorwork. “Mrs. Viney,” he said over his shoulder, .‘.‘do you mind waiting for me in the dining-room?” At the entrance she looked back. “What are you going to do?” she demanded fearfully. He shrugged his shoulders helplessly- “ Please go,” he whispered. ”I’ve got to use every method I know to enable me to get on the track of your brother —before it’s too late." Collecting herself with an effort, she crept from the room, closing the door after her. In the grim half-hour that followed she lost all sense_of time. She looked up suddenly to see Pennington before her. “I’m just off,” he said quietly. "Then you know —?” “He has told me as much as I wanted to know.” She regarded him doubtfully. “It all sounds so utterly hopeless,” she declared. Pennington was leaning against the table, eating bread and cheese alternately. “You must remember. Mrs. Viney,” he told her between the mouthfulls, “that I have made it my business to study the movements of our archbandit. It would be impossible for me to know all his hiding-places, but I have discovered a good few of them, sufficient, I feel convinced, to assist me in sifting fact from fiction. Wong-See—the Intelligent youth I collared in the act of making a hurried exit —is a poor sort of creature, when brought face to face with the serious problems of his life. By dint cf dire threats and much patience, I gathered he was on the point of proceeding to Chai-Hung’s lair, to the place where your brother has been taken. In effect, we have arrived at a delightful compromise. WongSee is between Scylla and Charybdis: If he fails to join Chai-Hung—the vengeance of that gentleman will fall upon him, swiftly and 3urely, whether he seek refuge In China or any old island in the archipelago. Tile remaining horn of the dilemma is—” He stuck his tongue in his cheek. ” death by the most horrible torture imaginable—at the hands of ‘he who sees in the dark.’ otherwise—myself! Now comes the compromise. He is to proceed to Chai Hung’s hiding-place, as he had originally Intended, only with Pennington in his immediate rear. In this manner, he stands a sporting chance of dodging a horrible end at the hands of either.” He reached for his hat. Monica slipped between him and the door. “You’re not going alone?” “Most certainly.” She stamped hr foot impatiently. “You mustn’t do that!” she cried. “It’s positively absurd. Supposing there are others waiting for WongSee in the jungle?’’ “I’ve been in tight corners before, Mrs. Viney,” he reminded her gently, “and I’ve managed to squirm out of ’em, somehow. If I attempt to start out with a crowd of native soldiers, the information will be tapped out on some native telegraph system almost before the men have left the barracks. Hewitt will be spirited away and the chances of rescue will become a thousand times more remote.” “One more couldn't possibly do any harm,” proetsted Monica. “I’m not taking any chances,” said Pennington. “Take me!” said the girl, flushed to the roots of her hair. “You!” “Why not? I shall be at my wits’ end if you leave me here alone.” Her voice broke. “If Chai-Hung is plotting against one of us. why shouldn’t he send for me while you are away, looking for Jack?” Pennington glanced hurriedly at his watch and Monica realized that her argument had gone home. She seized his jacket impulsively with both hands. Pennington’s one weakness lay in his utter inexperience of the opposite sex. “Come on, then,” he said, with a gruffness that was new to her. “There’s an electric torch in the right-hand drawer of your brother’s desk. We may want it.” Trembling with excitement, she hurried in search of it, joining him a few seconds later at the foot of the veranda steps. Almost at the exact spot where she had seen the man who had impersonated Pennington, the cook-boy awaited the order to proceed. Soon they had left the beaten track and were threading their way through tangled undergrowth, under branches so closely Interwoven as to exclude the stars, the humming of countless legions of insects in their ears, the bright light of the electric torch describing an illuminated circle on the back of Wong-See. The night air blew suddenly chill and a slight shiver ran through Monica. ,

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Her companion brought his head almost to a level with hers. “Cold?” he demanded softly. She smiled up at him. “Not really. Actually, I’m supremely content.” They relapsed into silence again, and Pennington, conscious of a smoldering. inconsumable Are within, glanced covertly at the trim figure of the attractive widow who kept pace with him, and was glad that he had let her come. He quickened his step, until Monica found herself compelled to run to keep up with him. (Continued in Our Next Issue) FAVORS COLORED STAFF Rev. Williams Objects to Change of Tuskeegee Personnel. Insisting that the fight to place colored personnel in charge of the Government hospital at Tuskeegee, Ala., should be carried to President Harding, Dr. Charles Sumner Williams, pastor of the Bethel African M. E. Church, Vermont and Toledo Sts., scored efforts to displace colored officials now connected with the institution. Dr. Williams, addressing members of the church’s board Monday night, said the Government should establish a 100 per cent, colored personnel at the hospital. Tool Thief Still Active William Jackson, 35 W. Ohio St., today told the police a thief a room at 40 W. Ohio h:s> chest of tools,

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