Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 83, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1923 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Peter Pennington is engaged to marry Monica Viney. sister o( Captain John Hewitt. Commissioner of Police at Jsselton. British North Borneo. Pennington is detailed by the government to apprehend Chai-Hung, leader of The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chir.se bandits. Denis Moorhouse. district offi. cer. receives a call from a dusky Dyak belle who dances before the assembled chiefs at the rice harvest. Moorhouse, attending this festival, notices that the girl wears wonderful silver gauntlets. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY A" 1 ”IND still Denis Moorhouse felt hopelessly at sea. He glanced v—J back over his shoulder toward the living room and his half-finished meal, then drew the tumbler from the arm of his chair and sent the soda hissing into the amber fluid. All the time, while he strove to establish a mental balance, he felt that the girl s eyes were fixed on him and the mock lng light that played in them made him uneasy. “I am a busy man," he protested, “and I am tired. Ido not yet understand the motive that has brought you here.” Again that intoxicating smile. She leant backward over the rail so that the tightening folds of her sarong accentuated the graceful curves of her form; the garment seemed to have become part of her, like the plumage of a bird or the down of a goregous butterfly that flutters for a brief moment in the sunlight and is gone. Moorhouse knew that she would go—knew that she must go; but a strange, uncontrollable desire was softly building itself up within him to postpone the moment of her departures

SHE CAME TOWARD HIM HESI TANTLY. "The Tuan-Hakim will remember that when 1 left the clearing I rai* quickly into the forest. I had gone but a Uttle way through the trees when something tripped me and 1 fell. One of the silver things that a chief had made for me slipped from my hand and I looked up presently to see that a great orang-China--a yellow man. tall and very fat—had picked the thing from the grass and was looking at It. I sprang at him like a tiger-cat. but a second man held my arms from behind, so that I could not move. There were other Chinamen In the jungle, for I could hear the bushes as they moved. The man who held the silver hand carried one arrfi in a black cloth and his face was very evil. After a little while he drew his arm from the cloth and thrust under my eyes the stump where a hand had been ” “Which hand was it?” Interrupted Moorhouse quickly. “The left, tuan.” “You are sure of this?” It had come back to the D. O.'s memory that Pennington had told him how one of his men had severed Chal-Hung’s left hand at the wrist. “I have reason to be sure, because the silver sheath that I lost was from my left hand. I—l who am afraid of nothing—feared this men. Black girl,' the orang-China said. ‘I have more need of this thing than you, therefore I shall keep it.’ Presently from the folds of his coat he produced a knife. ‘Bring me the head of the Englishman who sat in the clearing when you danced—and you shall have your hand.’ He walked away into the trees and it was along while before he returned. ‘Listen,’ he said again. ‘There is a white man whom the natives call He Wiio Sees In the Dark. Kill him —and I will give you hands of gold—that all other dancers may envy you.’ ” The magistrate smiled grimly. “The Chinaman said that, did he?" The girl nodded. “It Is a difficult thing,” she added

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gravely, “for unless I kill you—l lose the silver hand forever, and if I kill you, I lose a friend!” “You will also stand . a very good chance of being strung up by the neck for the crows to peck at! Did he tell you where to take the head of the white man?” “I must go to a certain house where they eat opium—and he will take me with him to the orang-China.” Moorhouse grunted. “It is not such a difficult thing, after all,’ he told her. “One day soon, when I shall tell you, I will give you a parcel to take to this Chinaman. You will say to the man at the opium house that the head of the white man is there, but you can only show It to the orange-Chlna who has the silver hand. He will take you with him and, at a little distance, I shall follow carefully. Come to me every evening until that day.—Goodnight!” She left the rail and came toward him hesitantly, her arms outstretched in front of her. “I have no home,” she said softly. "Will not the Tuan-Hakim let me stay?” '"here was a choking sensation in his throat as Moorhouse avoided her gaze. He shook his head. “It would be neither good for you nor for me, little silver hand,” he stammered. He turned abruptly toward the door_of the inner room to indicate that the palaver was at an end. Presently something clattered to the floor —and the girl was gone. He swung slowly round on his heel and the saw the thing that she had dropped. It was a knife with a long steel blade and a yellow handle ornamented with black dots. He stooped and recovered it; as he did so he recognized the grim sign of the Yellow Seven. Moorhouse was not a Uttle surpiised when, emerging from his room at shortly after seven, he caught sight of a long, youthful figure comfortably installed in the only easy chair the bungalow possessed. “Morning, Moorhouse!” The D. O. laughed. “Hullo. Pennington! When the deuce did you roll up?’’ Chinese Pennington stretcher himself and sat up. “Oh. somewhere in the early hours. Met your black chow In the garden. He was barking at the moon—and the few odd shouts he did on my account didn’t appear to make much difference.”

He moved his legs to one side and 'he magistrate sqatted dow'n on the foot-rest. “Not too bad. I had an interesting piece of news last night. I’ve struck a black girl who’s promised to guide us to Chai-Hung.” Pennington pursed up his lips. “Women are the very deuce!” he declared. I’(l like to be reasonably sure—before I embark upon this campaign—that your lady friend isn't contemplating leading us to the devil." The Oriental eyes that had somehow found their way into a purely Anglo-Saxon countenance wandered slowly round the walls. “I’m inclined to put my shiVt on this particular girl.” said Moorhouse, and told him the story of the silver hand. All through the narrative the man with the Chinese eyes kept them fixed upon his host. “So that’s youiv, heroine!” he remarked as the other concluded. The magistrate started. “Know her?” “I rather imagine I do. She’s a Dyak girl who drifted into B. from Sarawak. A rather unique I character with a touch of white blood iin her veins. As far as I remember, ! she had a billet once with the Sultan | of Brunei and possibly boned those . hands from his treasure-house when he engaged another premiere danscuse.” “Why did he fire her?” “I gather she rather a disturbing element in his household, with a marked leaning toward intrigue. Hc-witt could tell you more about her than I can. He had her name on Ms books for some time, but decided there was a screw loose somewhere—and let her go.. Guaya! She’s certainly a remarkable woman!” “Guaya?” t “That’s her name—or. rather, she says it’s’ her n^me." Moorhouse's jaw dropped. “AIJ things considered, I suppose we’d better wash her out of it altogether and try and get a smack at Chai-Wung through other channels?” Chinese Pennington sprang to his feet and began pacing the veranda. “That depends,” he jerked out suddenly. “In some respects I beleve her to be straight. She appears to have taken a’ fancy to your honest, open countenance!" The district officer grinned. Pennington halted in the center of the floor. “As I told you before, Moorhouse. women are the very devil—when they’re as clever as Guaya Is and have taken a rooted dislike to one. You can take it from me the knife's authentic enough. The only snag in the whole procedings appears to be that Chai-Hung may have intended her to bring It here with the happy notion of- enticing us , into his clutches.” “We could keep our eyes open for anything in the nature of an ambush. Frankly, Penn., I'm Inclined to give it a trial. I saw the silver hands myself; Chai-Hung had no reason to believe I was aware of his presence in my area—and he certainly would be the last to advertise it." Pennington perched himself on the edge of the table. “Good enough!" he declared. “We’ll make the experiment and rope in old Dawson into the bargain.” Moorhouse left the veranda five min utes later to complete his toilet. As he drew the comb from the leather case where it reposed in company with the brushes, his fingers touched something that was wound in between the teeth. He release! it gingerly and stepped toward the open window', iijveii in 'he dimmer recesses of the room he had understood the significant of the seven black circles

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daubed upon a yellow card the size and shape of his forefinger! • * • At the spot where two forest tracks crossed, a solitary, squat hut rose from the waist-high lal&ng. Pennington caught Moorhouse’s arm and pulled him down beside him. “Steady on, old son! Don’t take any chances.” Dawson—a short, red-faced man of uncertain age and inclined to stoutness, crafted up to them on his hands and knees. “Hanged if I like this game, Penn.! I've collected about as many thorns as a porcupine has quills.” (Continued in Our Next Issue) Man Held for Lumber Theft John H. Goos, 702 Madison Ave., today was under arrest on charges of petit larceny. Henry Hiner, 2231 Southeastern Ave., alleged he found Goos stealing lumber from anew house being erected at 4623 Brookville Rd., at 6:30 p. m., Thursday. Seven pieces of lumber Valued at $4 were found on a truck bearing license number 489-461, it was said. The truck was brought to police headquarters. Mishap Fatal to Blacksmith By Times Special LYNN, Ind„ Aug. 17.—Albert Miller, a crippled blacksmith, was killed Thursday when thrown from the wagon on which he was riding. The wheel slipped off the end of a culvert and Miller was thrown to the ground on his head,

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