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BEGIN HERE TODAY Peter Pennington is detailed by the {rovernment to capture Chat-Hung, eader of The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits, Pennington is in love with Monica Viney. widowed Eister of Captain John Hwtt. Commissioner of Pclice at Jesselton. British North Borneo. Disguised as a Chinese, Peter calls on Hyde, a planter, to warn him against the bandits. Pennington meets Dora Bateson, daughter of Hyde and tells her tc beware if she receives a fan for a gift. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY urrn OT in the least,” he retorted, X smiling. “I like a woman to smoke —if she cares for it.” “And yet you're old-fashioned enough to disapprove of women riding alone?” Before Pennington could reply, the planter had hooked down his hat and was making for the steps. “I’ll leave you two to settle this interesting dispute for yourselves,” he laughed. "I’m off to see that none of my scoundrels are shirking. You’ll be here when I come back, of course? Wa can afford to have Mr. Chal-Hung keeping you on tenterhooks a little longer—so that we can keep you with us. One last word of warning, Pennington. Never let Dora draw you into an argument, if you can avoid it!” He winked broadly and went down the path to where a watchman waited with his mount. He was out of sight when the girl spoke. “I fancy I’m beginning to understand. Is it because of this ChaiHung that you didn’t want me to ride alone?” The other nodded. The boy who had come in noiselessly and was in the act of clearing away the breakfast things, dropped the tray on to the table from which he had just lifted it. ( Pennington sprang erect. “You mustn’t mind Lai-Ho,” said Dora. “He’s not been with us very long, and he's frightfully careless. “It struck me as being a little peculiar,” returned Pennington, “that he should display his clumsiness at the moment when you mentioned ChalHung.' The girl’s forehead wrinkled.

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“THE YELLOW SEVEN!” HE MUTTERED HOARSELY. “Aren’t you rather an uncomfortable sort of person to know? We’ve never had the slightest suspicion of trouble up here, before you came. Now we shall all be looking under our beds and behind the curtains — hunting for Chinese bandits! I suppose Chai-Hung does ex:st? To be perfectly frank, we’d come to the conclusion he was a myth invented by t.ie Commissioner of Police to keep us on the alert." Pennington crossed the floor and leant his back against the rail. "I’m afraid I must disillusion you, Mrs. Bateson. Chai-Hung, unfortunately, is very much in existence just at this moment. I can't exactly explain to you why your portion of this island should be so singularly immune from the attentions of his gang.” He extended a warning finger. “I want you to understand that it is more by accident than design that he has left you alone. This state of security cannot last. You're living in a fool's paradise and one of these days somebody or other’ll wake up with a nasty jar! I don’t want it to be you, Mrs. Bateson. That’s precisely why I’m up against these early morning excursions through the jungle.” Dora jammed on her sun helmet and rose from the chair. “You must run across and meet my husband,” she said. “Do you really want me to cut these rides?”

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Pennington passed a finger between his tunic-collar and his neck. “Keep within the estate boundaries for a month. I’ll try not to make it more—and keep yourteyes open.” “What am I to look for?” inquired Dora innocently. “A Chinese playing card with a yellow face upon which seven black dots are printed. If ever you should hear of these, send for me at once. If there’s nobody to send —come to nve yourself.” “Is that all?” He followed her to the top of the short flight. “Just one other thing. If a Chinaman should offer you a fan. accept i< without comment. It will be in a silk case. On no account remove that case. Bring it to me, as it is.” She held out a slim hand. “You don’t explain very clearly why a fan should be offered to me!” “It’s merely a supposition on my part, based on two things. The first being that, unless my calculations are sadly at fault, our Oriental friend has chosen this territory for his next area of operations.” The girl started. “And the second?” Pennington smiled queerly. “There have already been two recipients of these fans in Borneo,” he said, ’and both of them were singularly beautiful women!” • • • It was toward the end of the second week of Pennington’s stay at Hyde’s bungalow that he began to display signs of impatience. In desperation, he cast around for some tangible clew that might serve to assist him in his search for ChaiHung—and his eye fell upon LaiHo, the servant who had dropped the tray. There was a certain amount Qf sickness in Hyde’s coolie-linas and, for that reason. Lai-Ho had been told-off to attend to the wants of both the genial planter and his guest, an arrangement which—if it were not altogether agreeable to the Chinaman—gave Pennington ample opportunity of observing fclosely the man through whom he vaguely hoped to trace Chai-Hung. They were sitting one evening over their after-dinner cigars, when Hyde, who was groping for something in a trouser pocket, uttered a muffled exclamation and withdrew his hand. T he thing that he held between finger and thumb fluttered to the cloth and both men, springing to their feet bent in speechless amazement over a Chinese playingcard. The black back of the thing lay uppermost and Pennington turned it over with his nail. It was Hyde who broke the silence. “The Yellow Seven!” he muttered hoarsejy. "I wonder —” Before he could complete the sentence Pennington had wrenched open the door, sending Lai-Ho, who had been listening on the other side, pitching forward on his face. Something shot from the region of his \yaist and rolled to the planter’s feet. It was a knife with a long, thin blade and a handle of buffalo horn. Hyde stooped to pick it up and Pennington, his hand3 resting lightly on his hips, surveyed the prostrate Oriental with interest. “Get up. my friend,” he advised him coldly. “There are many questions I would like to ask you.” He pointed to the card, which still lay on the table. “Who gave you that Yellow Seven?” Lai-Ho scrambled to his feet and batcked toward the doorway, his eyes blazing fury. Suddenly, as Penning ton sought to intercept him, the entire expression of the swarthy features changed, and the Englishman realized that Lai 110 was looking beyond him. At the same moment a cry from Hyde brought Pennington round on his heels in time to see a bamboo pole, propelled from without, shatter the lamp-glass and plunge the room into darkness.

The faint light from a match the planter held shaded between his fingers was sufficient to assure them that Lai-Ho had disappeared. “What are you going to do?” demanded Hyde, striking two together and mounting a chair. Pennington had already reached the veranda rail and was peering into the blackness of the tropic night. "Follow, old son!” he shouted back over his shoulder. "Follow for all I’m worth!” He vaulted lightly to the soft earth below' and the planter, relinquishing his attempt to relight the lamp, joined him. “Seen anything?” The other nodded. "There were two of 'em. They were making for the bottom of the slope. Are you coming?” “Most certaintly. It's ages since i had any excitement to speak of." “I fancy I can promise you some,” returned Pennington grimlv. “Come on.” On the open ground betw’een the huts they encountered a Sikh watchman w T ho had just passed two men making for Bateson’s side of the plantation. He had noticed that they were breathless with running, and he thought one of them was the manager’s servant. Presently they were in the open padl-lands, the Incessant droning of insects in their ears, and the two fugitives clearly visible a bare quar-ter-of-a-mile distant. Pennington was forging ahead at such a pace that the planter found it difficult to keep up with him. In twenty minutes they had halved the distance that streached between them and their quarry. Half an hour later —and Hyde had recognised Lai-Ho. He saw the white patch of his face as he glanced apprehensively back, and then he lost both of them in a belt of trees that rose like an oasis in a desert of sand. Pennington made a sudden spurt forward and vanished, too. On the other side of the trees the planter emerged alone to discover nothing but moonlight and still more padi-land. Wondering greatly, he sank to a sitting position on a fallen log, and felt for his pipe. A voice came to him from the darkness. "HydPl are you?” “ir-r-e. Whew are you?” “In the p.ow- v, *l soajv returned Pennington, dropping Yr:m * Votnrti. "They’ve split company—and got clean away with it.” He squatted on tb? ground at the planter's feet.

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“Shall I tell you what, Hyde? There's something I don’t quite understand about all this. Lai-Ho could have poisoned us both at dinner, if he’d wanted.” Hyde glanced up from filling his briar. “Os course he could. He cooked the stuff. What then?” “Then why all that elaborate paraphernalia of the Yellow Seven and the knife and knockin' out the lamp?” He laughed aloud. "Hydar - old son, we've been duped!’ "Eh?” “We were meant to follow them.” The planter was struggling with a match. (Continued in Our Next Issue.) CHECK WORKER MAKES USE OF UNIQUE SCHEME Slips Printed “For Emergency” Passed on Indianapolis Persons. An alleged fraudulent check worker "put the rush act” on Edward W. Clark, printer, 119 W. Maryland St., it was learned today. He had Clark print twenty-five checks, “Just for emergency until my bankers get my checks back from their printers." The next day the stranger carried away the checks without paying. One of these checks, made o_ut for $•00 and signed “Robert Stcmple,” was given to Lloyd C. Weiss, druggist, 3402 N. Illinois St., in payment for an automobile. Another for sl3 was given to Harry P. Lindsey, Illinois and Twelfth StSy for gasoline and oil, and a third to| a fashionable hotel in payment for bcAjurd and room.

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