Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1923 — Page 8

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_®N€A>6RVr mc.lS£S. BEGIN HERE TODAY Peter Pennington, detective, ie detailed by the government to run to earth The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits. He suspects Chal- , Hung, influential Chinese, of being their leader. Monica Viney is the sister of Capt. John Hewitt, commissioner of police at Jesselton, British North Borneo. Pennington goes to Ketatan after receiving a letter from a rubber planter named Brabazoi. The daughter of Chai-Hung lures Brabazon into the garden of her father’s home in Ketatan. GIRL came suddenly down the path—a slim, youthful i—. figure in light blue, bordered with bands of black, and, entering the shrine, fell prostate before the altar. The man who had scaled the wall extinguished his cigaret and crept into a clump of bushes where he lay prone. For a space of many minutes Suey-Koo the daughter of ChaiHung—bowed her head before the bronze vases. Presently she came slowly to her feet, at the same time drawing a narrow, black cylinder from a voluminous sleeve. The head of the watcher in the bushes jerked upward and the Chinaman’s eye fell upon a naked blade, flashing even in the diffused light of the little josshouse, a knife that the harmlesslooking cylinder had concealed. A whistle came from the darkness beyond the pallisade, and Suey-Koo slipped the dagger out of sight. She passed the bush so closely that a faint whiff of alluring perfume wafted to the nostrils of the Intruder. One of the smaller gates swung open and an Englishman with a broad v handsome face stepped through. He took the tiny hands of the Chinese girl and bent over them, then saluted her—ln the manner of the Westerners—full on the lips.

PENNINGTON SENT CHAIHUNG HEADLONG INTO THE CHAMBER OF DEATH. From his hidiing place, the man in greasy black heard the soft, cooing laughter of the girl, the deep, easy tones of the Englishman as he spoke to her. The moon stole -between the palm-trees, as they walked together toward the screen of oiled paper and woven cane that served to keep the evil spirits from the house of ChaiHung and then, as they paused In the center of the- flower-bordered path, a thing happened that perplexed the unseen onlooker strangely. The man in white duck slipped both arms around the girl, drawing her to hilm. A truant ray of silver hght fell across her flushed cheeks as through lids half-closed she looked up into her lover's face. Suddenly she pushed him violently from her, her slim right hand groping in the depths of her sleeve. With a queer half-cry, half-sob, she disengaged the knife that nestled in its glossy sheatn —and threw it with all the strength she could command into the undergrowth. A moment later she lay weeping in the Englishman’s arms. By a strange freak of chance the weapon struck a branch and dropped within a couple of yards from where the Chinaman lay. With a weird, twisted smile, the man stretched out a long, lean arm and secured it. He looked up to see that a hidden panel in the screen had been drawn aside, revealing the face of Chai-Hung, hideously distorted until it resembled that of a ghastly Idol. The panel closed, the lovers moved on toward the building, and the mysterious interloper rose noiselessly and crept after them. The Englishman and the girl dis-

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S>yv> MOH£ SfitLU, ivtujTiuTto By A.W. t 1 appeared beyond the screen and, as if at a given signal, the deep tones of a native gong rang out suddenly In the blackness. The Chinaman dropped instinctively, flattening out until nothing was to be seen above the lank grass into which he had fallen, and the whole enclosure with in the pallisade burst suddenly into life, pattering with the noise of bare and sandaled feet. The Yellow Seven had called —and the legions of the great Chai-Hung converged on' the trap into which the white man had faJlen, eager for the sacrifice! Shadowy forms swept on to the path and vanished beyond the .building, and presently a piercng scream t>roke upon the night. The Chinaman sprang erect and dived behind the screen. In his left hand he held an automatic pistol, but the weapon with which he the sentry at the door was \he knife in the glossy black sheath that he had first seen In the josshouse in the fair hand of Suey-Koo. • • • To Brabazon —confident that the commissioner had driven the redoubtable Chai-Hung into the jungle —there was something delightfully intimate in this invitation to drink tea—in true Chinese fashion, sitting on severe, high-backed chairs before a black-wood table. Suey-Koo him gently to an inner room. Suddenly, a scream of terror from the girl at his side, caused him to glance sharply round. He stared In amazement into the evil eyes of the great Chai-Hung. Ills hands were folded over an enormous paunch, the corners of his mouth turned ominously down, and nodded his head like one of those Chinese figures Brabazon had seen in tea-shops.

"We meet again, Mr. Brabazon.” he said smoothly, “and, I can assure you, it! is for the last time!” Instinctively, but without hope* Brabazon’s hand shot to his pocket. He had not thought to come armed to meet Suey-Koo. "Your daughter was just showing hie round,” he replied, forcing a smile. It occurred to him a seoond later that it was rather an unusual hour of jthe night to call anywhere, and that, jin any case, he had no right to be on terms of acquaintance with the daughter of a wealthy Chinaman. “Ah!" commented the other. "She has not shown you everything,.. be* cause she does not know everything that there is to show. We are somewhat different in our treatment of women, Mr. Brabazon. We keep them, in many respects, uniformed We do not allow them the freedom that Western races do, we do not permit them to meet casual strangers. During my enforced absence, disciplinehas relaxed. I came back, as quickly as possible, to remedy this, I find it is beyond my powers, I see that it is too late!” Brabazon placed his hands on his hips and jerked out his chin. “I’m afraid I don’t quite follow you, Mr. Chai-Hung," he said. The gii 1 had fallen to her knees, her head buried in her arms. "After-1 leave you here—together, 1 ’ he continued in the same measured tones, tempered with a certain degree of harshness, "you will have a certain —limited time in which to reflect.” He backed suddenly toward the open door.

He remained for a second, framed' in the doorway. The door closed with a peculiar, metallic sound that suggested that it would not easily he opened again, and Brabazon, mute with astonishment, saw that there were no windows! A faint moan from the direction of the floor caused him to stoop and lift the trembling girl to her feet. She smiled faintly up at him through her tears. “It is. the end,” she whispered. Brabazon laughed aloud. “The end! What utter nonsense. It’ll have to be a damned strong place to keep me ln!” He made as if to try the door and Suey-Koo screamed again. “Look at the idol!” she implored him —and Brabazon looked. The head of the effigy was lost in a raint green vapor that was pouring from its open mouth and hideous, eightless eyes, in gusty wreaths as if it were puffed out by a hidden bellows. The girl crept up to him, encircling him with her slender arms. “It is better to die together—so, than to live forever apart." He pressed his lips to her forehead, then thrust her from him gently and began examining the walls, like a caged beast seeking for a faulty barHe came back to her presently and together they leant against the wall by the door, watching in silence as the vault above them became filled with a poisonous cloud of smoke. “There is Just one chance, little Suey-Koo,” he murmured after a long silence, trying to buoy her hopes with something he himself dared not believe. She shook her head emphatically. "There is none,” she declared. “My father is all-powerful here.” “There is just one,” he persisted. “There is ‘he who sees in the dark' — the Englishman who is your father’s shadow.” She nestled closer to him, her fingers stroking his cheeks caressingly. “He will not come,” she said. “I don’t think I want him to come. I would rather stop like this, for then I shall always have you. Out in the great world again—l should lose you forever.” He took her both shoulders and held her away from him, forcing her to look into his eyes. “Never on your life, Suey-Koo,” he cried. \ Almost at his side, the door flew open with surprising suddenness, revealing two struggling forms beyond. From a tall man in a suit of greasy black, the words rapped out like a command: / “Brabazon, get that girl out, quickly! No you don’t, you yellow swine!” This to the ponderous Oriental who strove to Wrench himself free from a grip that had fastened on him like a vice. “There’s a pistol in my left pocket. Can you get it? Keep them off for a couple of tick*—and I'm with you!” - "With a Herculean effort, Penning-

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ton sent Chai-Hung headlong into the chamber of d^th —and deliberately closed the door on him, the door that could only be opened from outside: Brabazon, still keeping Suey-Koo behind him, shot the first man that swaggered into view. The half-dozen who followed tripped over his body—and Pennington knocked out the light. Once more beyond the pallisade, the din of conflict still in their ears, Pennington turned to his friend. “You don’t mean to tell me you’ve ‘brought the girl?” he demanded, grinning broadly. “You bet your life I have,” retorted Brabazon. “What’s' more, I’m going to keep her!” Pennington looked from Brabazon to Suey-Koo and from Suey-Koo to the stars. "There’s a boat leaves for Singapore tomorrow’,” he said slowly. “It’s a bit healthier over there than here, and I’ll give you a chit to a feller I know' who’s starting Oil!" “The Bronze Jar,” the next episode of this gripping series, will start in our next issue. Graduate From Indiana U. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 28. About 100 students will receive A. B. degrees from Indiana University in October, Prof. S. E. Stout, dean of the college* of arts and sciences, announced today. Those from Indianapolis are: Abner Hadley, Katherine Eleanor O’Connor, Thurman George Short and Emily Lucile Wright.

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CUPS AWARDED IN FLOWEREXHIBITS Harry Dietz and Mrs, A, B, Mann Are Winners, The cup awarded by the Bankers Trust Company as first prize ln the gladiolus section of the flower show for amateur gardeners, held ln the lobby of the BankerssSßh-ust building, today belongs to Harry F. Dietz, 3225 Boulevard PI. Mrs. A. B, Mann, R. R. F, won the cup for the best garden flowers exhibit, offered by the Garden Flowers Society. The show is the fourth of a series which will end ln September with a dahlia exhibit. There are 114 entries. The show will be open to the public, until 8 p. m. today. Judges were A. F. J. Baur, E. E. Temperly and G. A. Fischer. Other winners: Hugo Joeston, Mrs. QJenn Douglass, J. Earl Owens, Charles G. Morris, Orville De Motte, Clyde M. Bower, Benjamin D. Hitz, Mrs. John F. White, 'Mrs. Lyman Gold, R. S. Ludlow, Miss Mary Kruse and Mrs. Carl F. Schwomeyer. Stitt Snooping Around BRUSSELS, July 28.—Several recent arrests have revealed German spies still are active at Seebrugge, according to government agents.

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