Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 77, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1923 — Page 8

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©NEa stuvict* mciqts BEGIN HERE TODAY Captain John Hewitt is Commiasione* ol Police at Jeasel ton. British North Borneo. rils beautiful sister, Monica Viney, is engaged to marry Peter Pennington, detective. Pennington is detailed by the government to apprehend Chai-Hung. leader of The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits. Pennington goes to visit James Varney in his bungalow at the he3d of the Tembakut River. Varney receives a threatening message from The Yellow Seven. Pennington warns Varney to be careful. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORI ENJCINGTON produced a rubber pouch and began rolling a cigarette. “I don’t know what to think. All I can say is that, by every rule of the game, the arch-bandit ought to bs dead.” "I rather gather,” said Varney slowly, ‘‘that Chai-Hung is a little out of the ordinary.” Pennington clasped both hands over his knee and looked hard at the wall. “He is,” he admitted. “There's something horribly uncanny about the merchant, and I only hope the Commissioner realizes It as much as I do.” “How long a time would you consider sufficient to presume him dead?” Pennington grinned. “Not long,” hb announced more cheerfully. “You see, Chai-Hung—to give the devil his due —has a decided sense of humor; not the refined, harmless article that you or I lay claim to, I admit, but still a sense of humor! I flatter myself that I know enough of the gentleman to be certain that he won’t be able to resist for long the desire to let me know that he’s eluded me."

AN INCH OF STEEL PROTRUDED UPWARD BETWEEN HIS SHOULDERS. Varney lifted the siphon from the table and thoughtfully sprayed a large spider that was in the act of crossing the floor. “By the bve.” he said, “you didn't by any chance tell anybody you were coming here?” “Good heavens, yes! I told Monica and the others my probable plans, for one thing; and, for another, I instructed my men to follow me on here if they wanted anything or gleaned anything of importance they thought I ought to know.” "That accounts for It'” “Accounts for what'”' The trader dived a hand into his tunic and produced Hewitt’s letter folded round the piece of card. “Here’s your evidence right enough,” he told him. "It floated in from the darkness barely half an hour ago.” Chinese Pennington spread the document out on the table and surveyed the Yellow Seven as a man might survey a long-lost brother. “Great snakes!” he murmured presently, looking up into the other’s eyes. “I fancy it was meant for me, all right!” Varney appeared relieved. “There happened to be a message with that bit of cardboard. It was given to my servant, verbally, to the effect that if I admitted you or helped you in any way—my number was up!” Pennington’s jaw dropped. “Have you any idea where your boy put my things?” Varney took his guest by both shoulders and forced him back into the chair. “Whatever damage there’s likely to be is done already, and if you fancy I’m going to allow a pack of dirty thieves to dictate to me what guests I entertain —you’re very much mistaken. I merely told you as a matter of interest. Chai-Hung, it appears, is at large."

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EOHOKJD SNfcU.. hvovtimtcd b y “Very much so! My dear old Varney, what an . unholy mess-up! Do you realize that every blessed Chinaman on the island belongs to that gang of cut-throats?” “Actively?” "Either that o passiveiy. That’s exactly where Chai-Hung's trjength lies. However loyal an Oriental may be to his white master, he daren’t refuse to comply with any request the bandit may make. He 'wouldn’t live a week if he did.” As the trader reached over to take his glass, Pennington caught sight of the tattooed tiger. “I know one man, at least, who’d mourn your loss if Chai-Hung carried out his threat,” he said quietly. “And that is—” “Zara-Khan. He’d lament the loss of both a generous client and a walking picture gallery of his art!” At that moment Chong-Hee appeared at the doorway to announce that the baths were ready. • • * 'he rusted hands of the veranda c ck pointed to a little after 1 o’clock when Varney stretched his tattooed arms and yawned. “Time for bed, old son.” Pennington,' who was leaning on the rail, glanced back over his shoulder. "Tired?” The other nodded. “Taken all round. It’s been a rather trying day. You won't be In too much of a hurry to get away in the morning?” “Can’t say. It depends on circumstances —and Mr. Chai-Hung. You won’t mind if I hang about here for a spell? I know- where to find my room.” Varney smiled.

“Do just as you like, of course. I’m not going to suggest that you're feeling uneasy about recent events: but, in any case, Chang would raise Cain long before any outsider could reach the house.” He bent down and patted the creature’s shaggy head. Pennington held out his hand. “Good-night, Varney. It’s done me a world of good seeing you so fit and flourishing. I never worry; it wastes so much time. But I try to imatgine I can think better when half the world’s asleep.” He stopped there —rolling and smoking interminable cigarettes, and each time he struck a fresh match the hound that was cuHed in a cans chair Jerked up its head. Presently Pennington extinguished the lamp. As he came back to his original position a sudden sound attracted his attention. The moon, sailing gaily toward a cloud-bank, threw sufficient light to enable him to see that Varney's dog had not stirred. The sound came again, this time from the patch of blackness that indicated the opening to the passage. Pennington loosened the button of his hip-pocket and walked deliberately toward the patch. His keen ear accustomed to the slightest noise, all his senses alert, he gathered that someone was retreating softly as he advanced. Ha stepped a couple of paces backward and looked at the dog. The animal blinked friendly up at him, squirmed into a more comfortable position—and resumed Its slumbers. Pennington winked ominously at the night, lit the cigarette he had just made, and strode whistling to his room. He closed the dqor careslessly after him and turned the key. Presently he was moving about the room, humming softly to himself, with a hurricane-lamp burning merrily on a table by the bed. To a chance listener, it would have appeared that “he who sees in the dark” had at last succumbed to fatigue and was in the act of undressing; but in reality Pennington was indulging in the amusing pastime of picking perfectly useless things up in one part of the room and putting them down in another. He removed his boots and, knocking out the light, stretched himself at full length in his clothes behind the mosquito-curtains.

Varney's spare room contained no window, obtaining its ventilation from the space between where the partition walls finished and the rafters began, and Pennington, tying the curtains at the head end of the bed in a knot behind him, focused his eyes upon a narrow batten that served to finish-off the rough edges of timbering of the wall immediately at his side. This was the wall dividing the room from the passage. There were two outer partitions that rose higher than the rest, and the fourth was the one that backed on the room in which the trader himself was sleeping. He had been in that position for roughly half an hour when he knew rather than heard that something was moving stealthily about the building. Presently the movement ceased altogether, and the man on the bed caught the sound of measured breathing that seemed to come from somewhere close at his side. Something passed softly along the woodwork, strained upon it, scratch e<T its surface faintly—and the breathing sounded more rapidly In the region of the roof. Most things are a question of habit. Happenings such as these—which might have held others helpless, paralyzed with fear—acted upon Chinese Pennington like a tonic. Accordingly, while a black shadow—the slightest degree blacker than the wall itself—slid slowly downward, Pennington did not trouble to move a muscle until its lower extremity came well within reach. And then—one arm shot out with surprising suddenness, his fingers fastened upon a brown ankle —and the owner of the limb collapsed in a heap on the floor. "Chong-Hee,” said Pennington softly. "I have been waiting for you for many hours!” He had slipped from the bed and was groping for the electric torch he habitually carried. The form ovei which he knelt moved convulsively and flattened out. nearly causing him to pitch forward on to his face. Pennington found the torch. The bulb displayed a faint glimmer which dropped immediately into a dull, red glow. He swore softly under his breath and shifting hts knees until they rested upon either arm of the oriental, struck a match. A afecond later he was upon his feet

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tugging up the chimney of the hurricane lamp. The flame flickered and shot up and he snapped the glass back into place. Chong-Hee lay spreadeagled on the wooden floor—an inch of steel point protruding upward between his shoul-der-blades, impaled upon the knife with which ho had thought to destroy the enemy of the Yellow Seven! “Hullo!” came the sleepy voice of the trader from the other side of the partition. “That you, Penn.?” Pennington unlocked the door. (Continued in Our Next Issue) Investigation Unauthorized County prosecutors have ro uthorlty to employ special inve. stors for working up criminal cases, Attorney General U. S. Lesh has ruled in an opinion submitted to the State board of accounts. The ruling is said to have particular significance In Marion County, where Claude M. Worley, former police captain, has been employed as Investigator in the office of William P. Evans, county prosecutor.

Meetings Here Saturday Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Luncheon. Seventh floor. C. of C. Altrusa Club. Luncheon. Lincoln. Beta. Luncheon. Board of Trade.

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

For the school year ending July 31 South Bend school enumeration show an Increase of 725 pupils. School au thoritles are finding It hard to mee the Increased demand for building* Oscar Selss of Tipton County ha.been elected president of the Expert Swine Judges of Indiana. He head an organization formed to enable per Bons to properly judge swine. Anew twenty-eight ton vault door, said to be the largest in southern In diana, has recently been Installed at the Union Trust Company Bank at Columbus. The Elizabethtown Chautauqua will begin Sunday and continue for three days. Authorities at Shelbyville have sta.rted war on speeding and opening cut-outs. They say tourists are the worst violators. The Culver Union Hospital wilj receive SIO,OOO by the will of the late Mrs. Sarah G. Wilson of Crawfordsville. Charles Mathes, blind musician of Timiccara, Roumania, has opened a music academy in South Bend Mathes plays the piano and pipe organ. has studied in Budapest and Vienna and has appeared before royal courts of Europe. Rhiel Vandiver and George R. Hunt of Franklin Wfewe -"cMved a patent on

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railroad crossing safety gate device. It is operated on a gravity or an elec.ic system, The gates closing at the approach of a train. There were twenty-five deaths In Hancock County during July and only seventeen births. The annual Jackson County Teachers’ Institute will be held at Browns* town, Aug. 23-27, Inclusive. The Lafayette city council has passed an ordinanace making it unlawful for any person under 16 to

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wear a mask on the street at any time, not excepting Hallowe'en. A Linton gardener has realized $2,200 an acre on a crop of tomateos. Charles S. Niblick, recently reelected president of the Adams County Bank, the first in the County, has served forty four years with that institution. Suicide Attempt Fails Mrs. Edith Carrell, 21, of 2029 Laurel St., today was recovering from poison taken at her home Thursday night. Patrolman Keeley Investigated. Harvey' E. Carrell said Mrs. Carrell had been ill.

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

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QUOTA NEARLY RAISED Michigan City Prepares for American Legion State Convention. Bu Times 3 pedal MICHIGAN CITY, Aug. 10.—The citizens of Michigan City have almost completed the task of raising SIO,OOO for the entertainment of the thousands of legionaires who are coming to the State convention of the American Legion to be held in this city Sept. 10. 11 and 12. Among the many attractions will be the water carnival, which will feature practically • all of the United States Navy vessels on the Great Lakes and exhibitions by coast guard crews. The aeronautical division of the United States Army expects to send twenty-five planes from the Army flying field at Rantoul, 111., which will give exhibitions and will hover the convention city for three days. Michigan City’s invitation reads: “A thousand charms await you at Michigan City, Legionaires.” CLUB GRANTED~CHARTER Business Men Form Thirteenth Luncheon So^ety. Charter members of the American Business Club today were forming plans for extension of activities, following granting of the charter by the National Association of American Business Clubs at the Severin Thu’sday. A membership committee headed by H. L Peterson has been named by

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Solon J. Carter, president. Membership is restricted to business men under 35 years of age. The local club is the first to be granted a charter north of the MasonDixon line. It is the thirteenth luncheon club of the city, and will meet every Thursday at the Severin. A civic affairs committee will be appointed to cooperate with other clubs. fiitp Dont be | ‘ left out of 1 things ARE you unpopular because of a clogged rough blotchy skin? There is no need of enduring such embarrassment or discomfort because, unless it is due to some serious internal condition Resinol Ointment is almost sure to clear the trouble away —promptly easily and at little expense. Retinol Soap, in most cases, should be used to prepare the akin to receive the Reainol medication. It is a delightful aoap ior the toile', bath and shampoo. Your druggist sell* ths Resinol Products. “ Always call Afr Resinol ** Resinol