Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 65, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1923 — Page 8
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BEGIN HERE TODAT Capt. John Hewitt commissioner ol polica at Jesaelton. British North Borneo. Peter Penninjrton Is detailed by the government to capture the leader of The Yellow Seven, a .rang: of Chinese bandits. Chai-Humr. influential Chinese. )s suspected by Pennington of being lender of the gang. Penningtt n warns Brabazon. a rubber planter of Ketatan, to beware of The Yellow Seven. Brabazon is an admirer of beautiful women and falls an easy victim to their charsm. NOW GO OX WITH THE STORY HE was still standing in' the same position when the boy came in with- the lamp. Brabazon, squaring his Broad shoulders, uncorked the bottle. He poured himself out a stiff tot. He was gazing at an arrow, with a fine, metal tarb. Its butt-end split to admit a long, narrow strip of pasteboard. On the side toward Brabazon was a bright yellow surface, ornamented with a series of black circles. He crossed the veranda and plucked the thing from the woodwork. The boy was slipping past him but the planter’s hand shot out and swung him round to face him- He held the symbol almost under the creature's nose. "What do you know of the Yellow F l?" he demanded roughly. ri.<> Chinaman shivered. ‘ Nothing, tuan.” he_ stammered fear-'-illy. Brabazon stuck his legs wide apart and nodded his head several times, a grin smile playing on his lips. “Bi-la,” he said present. "Clear out!" Mindful of Pennington's warning and with an uneasy feeling gripping his spine, sent a watchman with an urgent note to Wallace —one of his Juniors, requesting him to Join him immediately—and be prepared to stop the night. While waiting for the return of the messenger, he scribbled a note to Pennington and inclosed with it the Yellow Seven. “Dear Penn.,” he wrote. "I have just received the inclosed per arrowpost. I’m not particularly scared at things I understand, but thjs has come as somewhat of a shock. "CHEERIO! G. BRABAZON.” Wallace—a genial youth with sandy hair and freckled sac at the foot of the veranda steps at about nine, followed by a coolie carrying a long bamboo pole with a basket of clothes suspended at one end and a pair, of field boots at the other. He was accompanied, moreover, by a large hound, short-haired and boisterous. "•Evening, Brabazon! Don’t mind me bringing my dog, I hope? "What’s In the wind?”
‘‘l AM THE DAUGHTER OP CHAI-HUNG.” He Into a chair and deposited his hat and stick on the floor. “Help yourself to a drink.” invited Brabazon. “To tell you the truth, I’’*i glad you’ve trotted that nameless beu3t along. Some hungrv Chinaman or other purloined by* fox terrier a week ago.” He released the glass stopper of a bottle of soda water and handed it across to Wallace. "You remember the Allison affair, of course. It appears that his assassination was by no means an ordinary act of highway robbery, but the deliberately connived portion of an extensive campaign maneuvered by a secret society. It have very good reason to believe that an attempt is about to be made against myself, and that is precisely why I thought it advisable to send for you.” Wallace drew his chair closer and for more than an hour they sat talking. Almost a week dragged on. Wallace—who was blessed with considerable Inventive genius—eus-
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pended an ingenious burglar alarm from the bushes that encircled the bungalow, a network of cotton and home-made bells that the dog succeeded In agitating so often that they were compelled to tie him up! On the seventh day Brabazon awoke to find himself becoming skeptical with regard to the whole affair. That afternon nte sent Wallace back to his bungalow, dog and luggage and everything, and gave the watchman Instructions to cease his nocturnal perambulations and hand in his rifle. He would have destroyed Wallace’s burglar alarm if he had noticed it, but he didn’t, and at a few minutes after midnight it rang! Swearing softly to himself, he took the hurricane lamp and the revolver that recent occurrences had brought to light, and went out. The line of tinkling bells rang for a second time and he held the lamp wejl above his head, peering into the night. Suddenly he started back in amazement and quickened his steps in the direction of a crouching, trembling figure that shrank back from him as he approached. The hard lines of his face softened as he went, and presently he stooped and lifted the slim form of a girl to her feet. She was simp*ly clad, in a long-sleeved Jacket of light blue silk, bordered with black, and quaint trousers of the same material. It dawned upon Brabazon, as he surveyed her In wonderment, that she was of a class superior to that to which he was accustomed, that her skin was rather white than olive, and that she was possessed of a beauty he had never imagined possible in a Chinese girl. Her hands were small, and well formed. "Who are you?” he demanded in Malay. She replied to him softly. “Suey-Koo,” he thought she said. “Where do you come from?” She uttered a little nervous laugh. ’T am the daughter of Chai-Hung The police have driven my father from his ho’me. They ckme and searched the house—and I ran away. In the darkness. I saw the lights of your windows • * •” He took her cold, trembling fingers between his own and forced her, halfunwillingly, up the steps to a comfortable chair. She sat on the extrema edge, staring witfi childlike surprise at the unaccustomed surroundings. "You must have something to eat, Suey-Koo,” he said. She shook her head. "I am not hungry. I only want to go home.” He remembered that he was clad only In the sarong and slngret in which he was accustomed to sleep. “Wait Just a little while.” he told her. “and I will take you." As he changed with feverish energy into the suit of khaki drill he had so recently discarded, the wave of feeling that her coming had provoked swept like an ever-swelling stream throughout his whole being, overwhelming the voice of reason. Forgotten—in his wild eagerness for conquest of this timid, fragile creature, lovely as the lotus-flower—• were the immutable laws of east and west, the warning of Pennington* her very connection, in fact, with the bandit who controlled the dread movements of the Yellow Seven. Suey-Koo had stumbled Into the burglar alarm that Wallace had made, and yet it never occurred to Brabazon—secure in the fool’s paradise that his own frailty had built up—that the unerring finger of the great Chai-Hung was behind all this, and that this seemingly helpless girl was but another of the astute Orien tal’s cunning Instruments, Instructed to decoy the planter to her father’s lair!
A girl in Kuala Lumpur had told Pennington that Brabazon was irresistible! Whatever the significance! of Suey-Koo’s midnight mission may have been, with the homeward journey barely half completed, she found herself nestling contentedly 'within the Englishman’s encircling arm, for ail the world as if that member had the right to be where it was! “Brabazon!” From somewhere behind him. the planter heard himself called by name. He released the girl and swung around. Standing in the open space between the hutments that he had just left, he saw Wallace and the Pathan watchman. Brabazon waited until they had caught him up. “What is it, Wallace?” he demanded. “Book Brabazon, I’m sorry to butt In and all that, but isn’t this a trifle unwise? The area beyond our wire’s simply swarming with ChaiHung’s men.”
Bmbazon started. “Who told you that?” “Pennington,” returned the assistant. “I’ve Just seen him. He told me to advise you to send the watchman with Miss Chai-Hung.” “Pennington!” Brabazon’s brain reeled. “How the devil did he know?” He bit his lip. “I suppose he’s hanging around on one of his stunts. Os course Chai-Hung’s men are about. They’re looking for the girl. She’s lost.” He faced Wallace defiantly. The assistant dropped a hand on his shoulder. "Don’t go any farther—tonight. It’s too risky.” Barbazon felt for his pipe. He strode back to where the girl waited. "My watchman will see you home,” he said. / Her face fell. Her hands stole to his sleeves. The look she bestowed |on him stirred the fires within. | Trembling with an emotion that was j utterly beyond his power to suppress, |he pressed her fingers to his lips. In all this monotonous existence of which he was fast growing tired. Suey-Koo i was the brightest thing he had encountered. “You will come and see me?” she whispered presently. / “Where ?an I find you—and when?” When Brabazon again joined Wallace, the latter noticed that the cheeks of the manager were flushed beneath the tan of years. Until they parted at the spot where two paths jug. neither spoke a word. aWf *• • _ SBlbe residence of Gh
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surrounded by a high palUeade. There were three gates, set close together—a large portal with narrower entrances on either side. The tall Chinaman ip greasy black who leant against this effective screen, was rolling a cigarette with practiced skill, using tobacco which he fished from the inner recesses of a rubber pouch. He clipped off the stray ends with a pair of folding scissors, shielded the match with his hands, then reached up and swung himself over on to the other side, dropping on to the soft earth Within a bare twenty feet of a bamboo joss-house with an open front. There were tiled steps leading up to a long altar, illuminated with paper lanterns, and on the altar itself rested two bronze urns In whiflh charcoal MLs burning. UjCjoßtinued in Our Next Issue)
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ELWOOD BOY IS WINNER Represents Indiana in National $4,000 Good Roads Contest. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., July 27. John S. Grimes of Elwood is State winner of the national $4,000 good roads high school essay contest, it wfis announced here today. Grimes was one of sixty-three contestants from over the State. The essay will be entered in competition with essays from the other States of the Union, for a four years university scholarship. The contest has been given for the past three years by H. S. Firestone of Akron. Ohio. The subject this year was “The Influence of Good Roads Upon the Religious Life on My Community.” The State contest was conducted by Indiana University extension division.
‘VIGILANTS’ INCORPORATE Organization Proposes to Instruct Aliens and Promote Understanding. “To promote more intimate understanding of the United States Con stitution and to instruct aliens more thoroughly in the principles of American Government” is given by officials of the Vigilants of Indiana, incorporated Thursday, as the purpose of the new organization. James L. Nimal, 5119 Broadway, one of the incorporators, said the or-: ganization wjas not formed to combat any secret societies.
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