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©HtA Stvct> me.ms BEGIN HERE TODAY Peter Pennington, detective, la engaged to marry Monica Viney. sister of Capt. John Hewitt, commissioner 'of police at Jesselton. British North Borneo. Pennington is detailed by the government to run to earth The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits. Peter is known as "Chinese" Pennington bcause of his slant eyes and. his ability to disguise himself and mingle with Chinese without any one suspecting his ‘identity. Pennington traces Chai-Hung to his latest hiding place. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ti p=q HE pack was gradually dimI -hushing. There were only l J thirteen cards left—l counted them as they lay in the yellow light of the lamp. There was a dramatic pause and in the grim silence, that followed only one man spoke. \lt Lai-Ho—Hyde's old servant—and he spoke so softly that I only caught one single word—my own name! And then a strange thing happened. The archbandit, who had lain still and motionless as a corpse, raised himself on one arm. His Angers, emaciated with the fever that consumed ' him, hovered over the table—then dropped on to a single card. He was too weak to take it and the thing fluttered to the floor, falling face-uppermost not a yard from where I waited.’* “The Yellow Seven!” Hewitt’s lips formed the words. Pennington Inclined his head. “The lot had fallen upon Chai-Hung himself to take my life. And ChaiHung lay Jlke a dead thing, weakened even with the sheer exertion of his effort, while his intended victim watched unseen!” At the foot of the bamboo ladder the commissioner turned to Pennington, “I thought you’d like to know that Monica insisted in coming with me on this trip. To tell you the honest truth, I hadn't the heart to refuse ter. We’re staying at Dawson’s bungalow. Why don’t you run along and see her?” • /- A look of pain crept into the other’s face. “I daren’t,” he said thickly. “I want to see this thing through first."
MONICA ENCOUNTERED CHAIHUNG NOT A QUARTER OF A MILE FROM DAWSON’S HOUSE. The other nodded sympathetically. “When are you going to collar him?" “Tonight. Come to me here at nine —and come armed." The commissioner’s form was out of sight before Pennington turned on his heel and went back to the bamboo bridge where Hewitt had first found him. * • • The sun was already at its zenith when Capt. John Hewitt—corgjnis6ioner of police—halted abruptly at a spot where two jungle paths met — and realized that he had lost his bearings. It was precisely at that moment that''he began to regret that Pennington had net offered to accompany him. Pennington had an uncanny knack of finding his way through ter : ritory that was absolutely unknown to him. It was as if that extraordinary freak of birth that had presented him with the eyes of an oriental had gifted him ajso writh the mysterious instincts of the primeval savage. The track was imperceptibly growing wider and at intervals he felt the rays of the sun that poured down on him where the trees were set farther apart. He glanced up suddenly then, white to the roots of his hair, darted behind the trunk of a jack-
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py SfttU.. AawnucTVO ay RjMSMTIKf IU.Q fruit-tree, flattening himself against the bark. He knew now that he had taken the wrong path for straight ahead of him rose a wall of rock, sheer and frowning. At the foot of the rock nestled a broad, squat hut. roofed with dried sago-leaves. Sitting tranquilly dt his ease, his fat fingers interlaced over an enormous paunch that even fever had not succeeded in reducing to any appreciable extent, was Chai-Hung. He sat alone, wrapped in a blanket acquired in one of his numerous raids, his feet crossed in front of him, hfs back resting against one of the poles that supported the building. For a matter of seconds the' commissioner of police stared in mutA fasciijation at this apparition A proscrutiny left no doubt in his mind as to the accuracy of Pennington’s statement. Chai-Hung had been ill. There were darfc rings under his eyes, his cheeks had fallen in, anff" the rolls of fat that hung from his jowl were suspended like the shapeless lines of a deflating balloon. /
The bandit rose to his feet with a sudden effort, clutching at the pole for support. Presently v he steadied himself and came slowly toward the spot where Hewitt was hiding, his beady eyes blazing with a light that was almost supernatural. The commissioner, fumbling for his hippocket. swayed sideways and broke the spell that held him. Scarcely conscious of what he was doing, he left the trees and, covering half the distance that separated them, leveled his automatic deliberately at ChaiHung. The Oriental did not flinch. He let the blanket slip from his broad shoulders and returned the other’s gaze with a placid smile. "You want to see- me, Captain Hewitt?” he inquired with that oily smoothness he could pour over the. habitual harshness of his intonation when he choose. / "I want you to put both your hands above your head, Mr. CBaiHung, and to come with me immediately.” The bandit smiled again. “May I . ask where you propose taking me?" It would be unkind perhaps to remind you that you have lost your way!” He lifted both arms as he spoke, apparently in accordance with Hewitt’s request, and at that moment the commissioner felt himself pinioned securely from behind- So suddenly and cleverly conceived was the attack that the Englishman was overpowered without a struggle, bound hand and foot ■with leathern thongs swiftly and securely knotted. And. as he lay helpless at the bandit’s feet, Chai-Hung signalled for the stool of carved blackwood that still remained outside his temporary residence. • “I am going to take you into my confidence,^ 1 Mr. Commissioner,” he said. “I am a desperate man, driven by your agents into a corner, forced tc suffer privations that do not altogether agree with a man of my habits. I am ill, as you see, but I am going to recover. My wings have been clipped, but they will grow again. The Chinese Dragon* Captain Hewitt is many-headed—and each head has a fang.” The corners of his mouth turned down. “Have yOu ever heard of a sixth sense?—a mysterious intuition that indicates when one is being spied upon?—l felt the promptings of that sense—last night. The man they call ‘He Who Sees in the Dark’ came to my house and you will understand me fully when I tell you that I returned the call. The man who brought this Pennington to me —I have dealt with- I have put out his eyes, so that he "will never see again; I have removed his fingers, so that he may never point out the way. There are only three people in existence who stand between ChaiHung and the freedom of movement he desires. You know them all, Captain Hewitt. There is Chinese Pennington. your sister —and yourself. Now, observe hotv cleverly I have separated them. You are already in my power, Pennington is awaiting for nightfalls—down by the eago-sWamp, and Mrs. Viney is alone in Dawson's bungalow—alone, because I have arranged that v Dawson shall be kept away until I think it fit for him to return.” He paused for a and a preposterously exaggerated finger-nail pointed toward i the commissioner. “Each shall perish in his turn, and each in a different manner. I am reserving you for the last, because I should like you tt> live long enough to ralize the power of ChaiHung, the Inevitable triumph of the Yellow Seven. I think I can safely assure you that you will not have to wait long!”
He reached for a branch and, pulling himself to bis feet, went slowly back to the hut, a hunchbacked "coolie following him with the stool. Hewitt, a prey to a host of unpleasant reflections, tore feebly at the thongs tnat held him. A sudden movement in his Immediate vicinity caused him to jerk his head painfully round. He saw a short, thick-set Oriental ■with a parange hung from his waist, leaning truculently against, the Jack-fruit tree. “You will remember me. oh Eng-lishman,”-said the sentry grimly. “I am Lai-Ho, that was the servant of Hyde. It would be better perhaps to remain still.” It was more than an hour before Chai-Hung returned. He was superbly clad in a mandarin jacket of blue embroidered "with silver dragons and the dwarf followed at a discreet interval. carrying a red umbrella and a Chinese teapot in a nickei case that resembled a biscuit barrel. "I am on my way to take tea with your sister. Captain Hewitt,” he maliciously. •‘■Exercising my customary caution I am taking my own teal” • • • Quite apart from the imminent risks threatened her lover, Monica—although she would never have acknowledged it, was desperately curious to know how the duel between, Pennington and Chai-Hung would end. From the moment she had left the little, ramshackle train to accompany her brother to Dawson’s bungalow, she had become haunted with a vague,
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followed. She had confided her fears to the commissioner, but Hewitt, seeing in this sudden conviction still aibother symptom of the nervous trouble he had already noticed, had not expressed surprise. . “One gets odd notions in these parts,” he told her easily. \‘lt’s that same queer restlessness you hear among the trees that gives rise to hosts of native superstitions.” The explanation had Sounded logi cal enough but, on the afternoon of the day Hewitt had started out to meet Pennington, Monica encountered Chan-Hung himself in -a narrow glade not a quarter of 'a mile from Dawson’s house. “Isn’t it delightfully cool under the trees?” she faltered as pleasantly as she knew how. She #as aware of an uncomfortable feeling that.. ChaiHung was a dang<%)us criminal with a price on his head, a celebrity, in fact, that she must deal with tactfully until she could get in touch with tne of Dawson’s men. “Do you mind letting me pass. I’m in a hurry.” (Continued in Our Next Issue) Muncie Girl Missing Sadie Shepherd, 16, is missing from her home in Muncie, Ind. Sergeant Laflin of Muncie telephoned Indianapolis police Miss Shepherd was en route in Indianapolis on an interurban. She was described as five feet tall, weighing 100 pounds, wfith light brown bobbed hair knd. blue eyes. She wore a blue silk dress and waist, white hat trimmed in pisk flowers, green shoes and stockings. She carrtej^^sm^^blac^tmvelin^bag^^^
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