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BEGIN HERE TODAY ■ Captain John Hewitt. Commissioner of Picioe at Jeseelton, British North Borneo, has a widowed sister, Monica Ylncy. Peter Pennington is detailed by the government do apprehend ChatHung, leader of ■he Yellow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits. Chai-Hung captures Captain Hewitt and tells him that he means to kill him. Hewitt is held prisoner while Chai-Hung goes to call on Monica. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY r~— l HAI-HUNG appeared to reflec\. I He stepped presently aside as t she walked her pony past him, his piercing eyes never leaving her face. She stared hard at a leaf that gleamed white in a truant ray of tropical sunshine that had amanged to piece the interwoven screen of foliage above, but a force, greater than any she had yet encountered, seemed to be tugging at her. A drowsy feeling crept over her and she awoke, as if from a dream, to find herself looking down into orbs that glowed like wells of fire. The flabby fingers of the bandit had closed round the bridle and the Bajau pony was browsing on the soft herbage that fringed the forest track. “One is never in a hurry in Borneo,” he was saying. “I should like you to come and see me sometimes.” “I’m afraid that would be impossible,” Manica hastened to assure him. “It must be perfectly obvious to you, Mr. Chai-Hung, that, under existing circumstances, a visit such as you suggest is entirely out of the question.” Her cheeks had gone suddenly pale and two bright spots of crimson glowed beneath her eyes. ‘Please let go my bridle.”
THE METAL CASE LAY OPEN, DISPLAYING THE WRITHING BODY OF A SNAKE. ' The Oriental did not appear to have heard. “I admire you Immensely,” he continued with an oily smoothness that filled the girl with utter loathing. “I do not presume to imagine you have given credence to the exaggerated fairy-tales that have been spread concerning my supposed exploits. Neither wotold you be prepared to condemn me without a trial. You will hardly believe me, perhaps, when I tell you that I was actually on my way to see you when I had the good fortune to meet you face to face. 1 was coming to leave my card.” In spite of herself. Mrs. Viney could not restrain a smile. * t “Mr. Chai-Hung," she protested. “You have seen fit to credit me with a certain amountof intelligence. I feel highly flattered, I assure you—until you deliberately proceed to insult it. Now, will you be good enough to let me go?” An ugly light shone in Chai-Hung's ejrgs and he raised his voice to a pitch that sent a chill sensation passing down her spine. “I was going to tell you where I now live. Are you —afraid to come •nd see me, Mrs. Viney?” “Afraid! Os course not. "Why should I be afraid?” “Are you afraid of—that?” He held the thing before her face —so closely that she started back, momentarily Incapable of visualizing it. Suddenly she clutched at the saddle and uttered a wild piercing scream that set a colony of monkeys shrieking and gibbering in chorus. She was staring as if fascinated at a long, narrow strip of pasteboard, yellow and shiny with seven black dots marked clearly on the surface. A second later and the Chinaman had uttered a peculiar, guttural cry —and footsteps began pattering down the glade behind her. Chai-
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Hung reached up as if to pull her from the paddle. The pony that had been peacefully feeding brought up its head with sudden jerk, causing Chai-Hung to slip sideways, losing his balance; and Monica, the shock bringing her to her senses, found herself raining blows from her riding-stock at the yellow horror at her side. Before the ring of Chai-Hung’s men could encircle her, she had pricked the pony's flanks and ridden wildly down the forest path, her aureole of soft curls blowing in the breeze. She had a dim memory of the familiar outline of Dawson’s bungalow, of a cook-boy taking the reins from her trembling fingers, and then she knew that she was lying, face-down-ward, in a long cane chair, sobbing as if her heart would break. Centuries seemed to pass before she could muster up the courage to shout for the servant. “Where Is the ‘Tuan Hewitt?’ she inquired huskily. “He went out before makan—and has not yet returned.” “Not back yet?” she echoed ly“And the Tuan Dawson?” “The Tuan-Hakim eats the air also.” “Bi-la,” she said in a tone that signified dismissal. And still the cook-boy hesitated. “Will the mem-sahib take tea?” “Yes, I ■will have tea as soon as possible. I am very tired,” she added, as if an excuse were necessary. The boy had almost "disappeared through the doorway when she called after him. “Will you send one of the TuanHakim’s orderlies. I wish to speak to him.” “The master has taken them all. A messenger came to him, an hour ago, with an important paper. Ho was in a great hurry, for he did not stop to tell me when he would be back.” Dawsoi. servant, entering noiselessly, set he tray on the table In front of her. She glanced up wearily to see the Oriental fall to his hands on the boards, flattering himself abjectly. his teeth chattering together like a man with the ague. Following the direction of his frightened eyes, she became aware that a broad shadow had fallen across the floor. The color left her cheeks and her hand shook so that some of the amber fluid fell from the spout on the lacquer tray. x Chai-Hung stood on the threshold, his hands clasped in front of him, beaming amiably in spite of a certain shortness of breath. Behind him, on the wooden stairway, a hump backed coolie, a red paper ♦umbrella stuck under one arm. carried between his two hands a thing that resembled a tiscult-box. shaped like a barrel, with a knob at one side and a handle at the top, the existence of which did not appear to have occurred to him. “I trust I am not intruding, Mrs. Viney?” He dropped uninvited into a chair. “I have hastened to proffer rnv apologies for my conduct this afternoon. I have not been very well, and the remains of a fever from which I had been suffering went to my head.
“You see—l have brought my own tea,” pursued the bandit cheerfully, taking the metal box from the dwarf —who promptly effaced himself. "It 13 one of our customs' which must appear rather strange to you, Mrs. Vlney. In ancient times which fortunately, perhaps, are past—nobody could tell who were one's friends — and who were enemies. Avery favorite method of dispatching one’s enemies was by poison. Hence this quaint portable tea-pot. It was invented many centuries before your vacuum flask and yet it possesses certain of its qualities. Here we have the outer sheath —a metal container simply, with a hinged flap to cover the spout. If I were to show you the inside —you would find a china pet with a padding all round it of horse-hair sewn into silk.” Monica. her interest* suddenly aroused, looked up at him. He was holding the thing as his servant had done —and not by the metal handle in the lid. He leant easily forward and placed it on the table before her, just clear of the tray. "Don't imagine for one instant that I brought R here because I believed you would poison me,” he observed with the innocent smile of a child. "It caught my eye as I left, and I fancied that it might serve to amuse you.” With a deft movement, he tilted up the cap. "Observe the spout!” i Monica carried away by the excitement of the afternoon, by the flood of apparently inconsequent chatter that flowed easily from the intruder’s lips, forced an exclamation of delight. A voice within her kept repeating itself over and over again, warning her to be on her guard. Dawson’s servant had crawled to his kitchenquarters, and she sat alone at tea with the most dreaded desperado in Eastern waters. There was no trace, however, beneath the mask of affability he now wore, of the hideous idol that had frightened her in the forest. As Chai-Hung had so accurately pronounced—Monica was inordinately curious. Her fingers itched to explore further and presently they hovered over the handle. "May I?” she demanded sweetly. "By all means,” said the bandit, his head thrust forward. Tmust explain one thing. You 'will find our tea a little different to that to which you are accustomed.” "I remember,” broke in Mrs. Viney, gaining courage. “You told us about it once, in my brother’s bungalow in Jesselton. Don’t you remember? You said that we had treated the beverage shamefully, diluting it with milk and spoiling it with sugar.” She grasped the handle and lifted the lid slightly. The difficulty she had anticipated was not there. It came away quite easily. Suddenly, as she bent down to look inside, a door at her elbow swung open and a tall figure, plunging headlong through the aperture, whirled the pot from her nands, sending it spinning right into Chai-Hung’s lap. She sprang to her feet, her eyes blazing indignation, the lid of the
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but the newcomer swept her uncere moniously aside and stood, his shoulders stooping, the blue barrel of an automatic flashing in the sunshine. "Sit perfectly still, Mr. Chai-Hung,” came the cool tones of Chinese Pennington. "It may interest you to know that I suddenly decided to alter my plans for your capture and rounded up your people this afternoon. There were no casualties on our side, my friend!” But the bandit was not looking at Pennington’s weapon. The metal case lay open on his knees, displaying only a\white spout to which no pot was attached —and the writhing, sinuous body of a snake that was slwftly uncoiling itself, its head drawn back to strike! “The Passing of Zara-Khan,” the next episode of this gripping series, will start in our next issue. i M. L. Gould ftonored M. L. Gould, president of the Linton Coal Company, with offices in the Traction Terminal Bldg., has been named by John C. Brydon, president of the National Coal Association, as a member of the finance of that organization, according to advices from Washington. This committee i3 composed of seven of the leading bituminous mine operators of the country. Farmer Killed By Fall By Times Special VERNON, Ind., Aug. 8. —As the result of a fall from a second-story porch at the home of hi* brother-in-law, Charles Ross, Henry Hoffman, 70,
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