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®NtA Sfcttvnct* wc.rtts _ BEGIN' HERE TODAY Peter Pennington, detective, is detailed by the government to capture the leader ol The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits. Capt. John Hewitt, commissioner of Police at Jesselton, British North Borneo, procures a warrant for the arrest of Chai-Hung. nifluential Chinese. Hewitt is captured by The Yellow Seven and Pennington goes to hunt for him. He is accompanied by Hewitt's beautiful sister. Monica Viney. Pennington learns that Hewitt’s cook boy is a member of The Yellow Seven. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY SHE tripped over a root that crossed the ill-marked path, and stumbled against him, gasping for breath. “I’m so—sorry,” she panted. "I—simply—can’t—do it!” Pennington steadied her with his arm, apologizing profusely. He looked up and saw that the guide had disappeared. This was the first serious hitch that had occurred. Swearing softly to himself, he carried her thirty yards, rested her against a tree, and flashed his torch like a search-light, sweeping it in all directions. Suddenly he plunged forward and caught the delinquent cowering behind a thorn-bush. He drew the shivering Wong-See from his hiding place, then kicked him with astonishing accuracy. The remedy proved efficacious, for, throughout the final phases of the nocturnal expedition, Wong-See made no further attempt to elude his captor! • • • The guide stopped abruptly, dropping to his hands and knees, and Pennington, creeping up to him, extinguished the torch. Monica, her hands torn and bleeding, her neck and wrists and ankles so many itching zones where the thirsty bloodsuckers of the Jungle had taken their toll, felt herself forced from the main track by the sudden pressure of her companion’s left arm. Ahead of them twenty paces distant —a ’ight flickered for a moment and then went out. Pennington’s lips, pressed against her ear, breathed two words: "Chai-Hung 3entry!”

A LONG BLADE FLASHED IN THE LAMPLIGHT. Pennington’s hand had left Monica’s arm and a subdued, restless, yet constant something was going on at her side. Presently she felt a solid mass press against her and found that she was gripping the torch that Pennington had thrust toward her. She groped wildly in the darkness with her free hand. For a matter of seconds her heart stood still, for in the space where she had believed Pennington to be —there was nothing. Her fingers dropped suddenly to a warm, motionless body that lay prostrate at her side. She withdrew her hand, shuddering inwardly, and somehow the torch flashed in the blackness, sending a bar of brilliant light straight down the track that stretched before her. She saw a huddled form, seated on what might have been a fallen trunk and then, before the creature—surprised by the illumination —could bestir itself, a white-clad figure had sprung like a panther from the trees —and overwhelmed it. She saw no more, for her thumb had found the switch and pushed it Into place. She knew now that the form she had touched was that of the miserable Wong-See, who was effectively gagged and bound. “Come on,” said the voice of Pennington in her ear. "I fancy I’ve cleared the path.” She was beginning to understand the reason for her brother’s deeprooted confidence in this amazing man, with the strength and cunning of a primeval savage—and the tablemanners of a prince!

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sy SKtLU. ILYOSTRATtP by RmaSaotiht \bO So cautious- were their movements after this that Monica felt prompted to cry aloud, to laugh, anything to relieve the appalling monotony. A broad, squat shadow loomed presently in front of them, a tumble-down wooden erection from which issued the sound of subdued voices. Pennington drew her along with him toward a spot where a slight showed between the rotting timbers. Crouching in the weeds that rose waist-high in the clearing, she peered through. In the center of the apartmeitt, around a broad stone slab, she counted seven orientals. His back to her, clad in a gorgeous wide-sleeved jacket or dark blue silk on which was embroidered a many-hekded dragon, sat an elderly Chinaman whose enormous proportions could belong to no other man she had yet seen than the arch-criminal whom Pennington sought to secure red-handed. On the stone slab, like so many sponge-fingers, Chinese playing cards were spread face-downward and, even as the gir,l bent forward, a yellow hqnd began passing to and fro over the surface of the Improvised table, sweeping the cords into a shapeless mass.

Each drew a card except the man whose back was toward her, who sat motionless as a carved figure, silept and watchful as the sphynx. She saw the cards turned so that they formed the nucleus of seven packs, their converging circles of black and red showing clearly in the light of a hurricane lamp that hung, askew, from a beam. The light flickered and an arm shot up from the huddled group and raised the wick. For a moment it flared to the roof, illuminating every corner of the building, and Monica gasped. Half-hidden behind a log, his arms stretched out beyond his head, the wrists secured by leathern thongs, his knees drawn up almost to his chest, lay the commissioner of police. The head came slowly round and the protrate man gazed inquiringly toward the squatting circle. As If realizing that she had seen, Pennington's fingers closed on her arm and, at that Instant, she realized the significance of those seven, ever-increasing piles of greasy cards. They M*ere drawing for the Yellow Seven! She closed her eyes to still the throbbing of her fevered brain. She opened them again, and, acting on a suddenc impulse, glanced up at Pennington. He was kneeliqg on the soft earth, one eye to the narrower portion of the chink that served as a spy-hole, while the barrel of his automatic was thrust partly thro h the wider extremity of the aperture, caught something of the infection it the calm that seemed to pervade his being, and looked back into the hut in time to see a tall Chinaman in black rise to his full length, a hideous grin illuminating his swarthy features, the Yellow Seven held aloft. The guttural chattering began again, the cards were swept into a neat pack, disappearing Into the capacious sleeve of the man who had originailly spread them out, and the hand of the Oriental who held the Yellow Seven slipped to his waist. Every head was turned toward the commis-.oner as a long blade flashed In the lamp-light, and the Chinamen, still gesticulating, rose one by one, spreading themselves out along the walls; but the figure in the mandarin jacket, embroidered with a manyheaded dragon, remained in precisely the same position as that in which Monica had first seen him.

The tall Oriental in black drew back his sleeve and tested the blade with a grimy thumb. A sudden hush fell upon the entire assembly and the girl, cramped und trembling became aware of the ticking of the watch at her wrist: In all this ghastly nightmare, these ceaseless, regular pulsations rang out as the sole links with the normal existence she had left behind her, She tried to think of the bungalow on the hill, the long cane chairs with their many cushions, the winding path that led, ribbon-like to the road, the wooden jetty where the coasting-steamers yal at anchor; but these phantom creatures refused to materialize and her eyes sore and tingling, gazed straight before her, fixed, because she was powerless to withdraw them. Puon whom the lot had fallen to destroy her brother. Someone came forward and threw aside the lag, and the hand that held the knife swung suddenly aloft. Pennington’s pistol broke upon the stillness. The man with the dagger spun around awkwardly— and collapsed in a heap. Cries of terror resounded on every side, and a hand reaching upward, plunged the building in darkness. Monica and Pennington rose si multaneously. "Stop where you are," he called back to her. "Lie close up to the wall. They’ll be too scared to look for you there.”

He raced on toward the entrance and Monica, too dazed to catch the meaning of his words, followed in his wake. As she stumbled through the undergrowth she remembered that she still carried the torch. Vague shawowy forms slithered past her. stampeding as if surprised by a regiment of soldiers, rather than by one white man and a girl. She heard them crashing away into the distance and somewhere a man screamed in mortal terror as he ran, as if featrful I that th© friend who strove to keep pace with him were the avenging Englishman seeking his life. As their footsteps died away, Monica switched on the torch. The door of the building stood wide open before her and she let the light travel from left to right, from Pennington kneeling over something on the floor to the huddled heap that sprawled awkwardly within a foot of where her brother lay. She ran forward with a little cry and fell on her knees at his side. She was reaching out for the knife the Chinaman had let fajl when Pennington fired, when a voice called to oher from the darkness. "Monica!—er—Mrs. Vlney!—Just rfwlrch that light over here a second. There’s something I don’t quite understand.” The commissioner stirred and his eyes blinked up at her. With shaking hands, she steered the nairow ray until It concentrated on thef disgusted features of Pennington, who was slowly rising to his feet from

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the thing over which he had been kneeling. She saw a preposterous effigy, a cunningly contrived figure of straw, with china mask and hands, over which a coat of blue embroidered with a many-headed dragon wa? still drawn! "The Daughter of Chai-Hung,” the next episode of this gripping series, will start in our next issue. Thief Uses Wire Cutters A thief, armed with a pair of wire cutters, took a pay telephone from the poolroom of James Zakours, 602 E. Washington St. Zakours said there was about 60 cents in the telephone cash box.

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THE OLD HO]ME TOWN—By STANLEY

Tipton County farmers do not wish to feel like beggars and have very little interest in various plans for farm loans, according to a report. * Huntington has made plans for a five-day Chautauqua which will probably be held there late in August. The seventh annual reunion of the Baker-Yost families will bo held at Marion, Saturday, Aug. 25. Workers at Kokomo are nearing the end of a drive for $250,000 for a mod

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ern hospital for Howard County. The drive was launched June 18 and will close today. More than $200,000 has been subscribed. Citizens of Ft. Wayne have voiced their approval of a tentative plan for a municipal golf links and several have offered to make donations for the project. Charles Tqylor, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor is suffering from a broken leg which he received when he was run over by a truck his father was driving. Convicted for the second time in three weeks, Kenneth Ball, 18, a high school student of Ft. Wayne received t ten day jail sentence. He appealed and was fined $lO and coots. President William H. Settle and Secretary Perry H. Crane of the Indiana Farm Bureau Association are ; making an effort to complete organization of the Indiana farm bureau onion exchange. This is the Indiana farmer’s first attemupt at cooperative marketing of onions. Crane states. A soy bean oil extractions plant is hoped to be ready for operation Sept. 1 at Crothersville. The plapt will have a capacity of 200 bushels a day. r* ' j While-sleeping in some weeds and tall grass on his father’s farm, Orvil Entrslmelr of Osceola was run

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over by a mowing machine driven by the lad’s sister, 14. His left arm was almost severed at the shoulder. Charged with being a deserter fiom the United States Navy, James Wallin, 18, of Columbus, is held In the county jail. The boy deserted his ship April 12, according to Information in 1 the hands of local authorities. The third annal reunion of the John-son-Gardner families will be held in the Ora Thurston grove, one mile south of Llnwood, Sunday, Aug. 19. In a spectacular blaze Sunday morning the Robert Baumstein junk yard at Clinton was destroyed. No insurance was carried on a loss estimated at $3,300. AUTO OWNERS REPORT ACCESSORIES MISSING Tire and Tools Taken From Stolen Car. C. C. Scott, 876 W- Twenty-Ninth St., today told police license plate No. 181-065 was missing from his car. H. H. Aufderhide, 623 Tecumseh St., reported license plate No. 408-202 missing. A seat was stolen from the automobile of D. L. Wright, 2348 Bellefontaine St., while it was parked in the rear yard. Joe F. Brooks, 2002 Hovey St., said a thief took the battery out of his car. When Daniel O’Donnell, 334 Douglass St. recovered his automobile, j stolen Monday, he discow, r rd a tire ! and tools missing.

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

DOINGS OF THE DUFFS-By ALLMAN

VALPARAISO AGAIN FACES DIFFICULTIES * New Lease Is Filed on University Property, By Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., July 25.—Valparaiso University again faced financial difficulties when the Cook laboratories of Chicago filed a lease on the building and ground of the institution Tuesday. The lease was granted by the Valparaiso Realty Company, which owns the university, and extends for seven years from Aug. 20, 1923. Lately the university fell into financial difficulties and became behind in Its rentals to the J. F. Wild Company of Indianapolis who backed the realty holding company for $125,000 worth of stock. The Wild company served Bites-stings Apply wet baking soda or household ammonia, followedby Vicks VAR© Rua Omt 17 Million Jan Umd Ymarfy

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notice that the lease was terminated and through the Valparaiso Realty Company leased the property to the Cook laboratories. The university trustees met the payment to the Wild company and now contend the new lease Is worthless. th ® digestive aad U eliminative aystem, ■ JuWHPRS-Little fcßa B and adult*. ■