Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 88, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1923 — Page 8

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This unusual series of stories deals with the exploits of “Chinese” Pennington, a detective sent out by his government to British North Borneo to run to earth The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits. ' HINESE Pennington stumbled up the steps of the commis—irfj sioner’s bungalow and threw himself at full length in a long chair. Captain Hewitt—immersed in the fourth attempt to bring to a sucessful ■ conclusion a game of patience—swept the cards into a jumbled heap. “That you, Penn?" The man with the Chinese eyes moved restlessly. “It’s me all right!—l’m dead beat.” The commissioner crossed to where a lacquered tray rested on a table and measured out what he knew to be Pennington’s habitual totPennington reached out for the tumbler. “Hewitt, old son, I’ve reconnoitered the complete coastline of British North Borneo since I saw you last. The Chat-Hung affair's nearing its final stages. The bandit tnows it and will probably make a lesperate attempt to quit the island ’together. The Commissioner yawned. He had ad a heavy day and it was ten minutes short of midnight. "He's been away before,” he reninded the younger man; “but he’s oiled up again with unfailing regularity." Pennington’s fingers groped in a •ocket, searching for his pouch and igarette papers.

HE HALTED AS IF THE LIGHT DAZZLED HIM. "Things have never been so hot for our enemy as they are at this moment. The secret society of which Chai-Hung is the head has to lie pretty low in these days, you can take it from me; the Yellow Seven’s becoming a back number; it's weeks since the yellow card with the seven /lack dots went abroad with its message of death. It's Chai-Hung’s amazng personality alone that has kept he fire smoldering that w r e’vu exerted -very effort to extinguish.” He blew out a long wreath of smoke. “It’s been a wonderful experience, Hewitt, in spite of all our set-backs. There’s -omething exhilarating in tackling a worthy enemy.” Hewitt smiled. “I'm glad you think so! For my part I’m utterly fed-up with our yellow friend.” “Os course you are. Ycro want to place Chai-Hung in a convenient cover and pigeon-hole him for evermore. You sent for me to lay him by the heels, lord knows how many weary months ago—and I'm still at' it. For sixteen solid days I’ve been acting as a sort of railway porter—slamming doors on Mr. Chai-Hung. Every planter owning an inch of coast is on the qui vive—or says he is. After so many assurances of loyalty and devotion to duty, I had to sit down in a quiet corner and consider who was the unclean hound that was letting us down. Fortunately it appears there's only one. His place Is under observation. It’s sheer assumption, of course, hut Pm prepared to swear I’m right.” The Commissioner leant forward in his chair. “Who Is it?” he demanded in a low voice. “Domberg.” “The Dutch manager of Kasihayer T WOMEfI from ~ FORTY TO FIFTY Will Belnterested in Mrs. Hooker’s Recovery by Use of Lydia E.Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound St,Paul,Minn.—“l was going through the Change of Life and suffered from iiiinilllUllfllllllllil a run ~d° wn condimmUHU tion and the troubles a woman has Em TBgSgj to go through at Jtyg that time, hot flashes, nervousi ness and headI j - aches. At times I fg|r - *|j was not able to do m — ]||| my work.butsince f l!|| taking Lydia E. lift* | Pinkham’s VegeJ table Compound tllllllll ll" 1 1 fc--- & t am gaining every day and can do my work with more ease than I have for five or six years. I owe it all to your great medicine. ” -—Martha Hooker, 114 College Ave., St. Paul, Minn. When women who are between the ages of forty-five and fifty-five are beset with such annoying symptoms as nervousness, irritability, melancholia and heat flashes, which produce headaches, dizziness, or a sense of suffocation,they should take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It is especially adapted to help women througn this crisis. It is prepared from roots and herbs and contains no harmful drugs or narcotics. Write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Cb., Lynn, Massachusetts, for a free copy of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Private Text-Book for Women.

The other nodded. “I arrived at my conclusion by a process of elimination. My first scrutiny left me with three possibles—all situated wide apart. I spent the best part of a fortnight in the immediate vicinity of each of the Kasihayer estate romped home, an easy first.” “Domberg!” murmered Hewitt—shaking his head from side to side and frowning deeply. “I’d never have thought it!” “Stranger things have happened than that. Chai-hung himself was our most respected Chinese resident at one time, if you remember. My esteemed chief-of-staff—one RabatPilai—tells me that at certain seasons there’s more cargo surreptitiously discharged at Kasih-ayer than the customs authorities ever dreamed of.” “I'll put them wise in the morning,” said the Commissioner between his teeth. Pennington’s head fell on the other's arm. “Don’t do that—or you’ll spoil everything. It won’t do to let either Domberg or Chal-Hung suspect we’ve the place under observation. Pay' em out sufficient rope and you’ll find they'll both hang themselves at Kasihayer.” “What you going to do?” “I'm going to bed,” returned Chinese Pennington, grinning inanely. _ “Damn you!’ retorted Hewitt politely. “Thanks; How's Monica, by the bye?” A voice from the other side of the partition cut into the commissioner’s reply. It was a feminine voice of an exceedingly pleasing timbre. “I was wondering when you were going to ask that! Forty-nine minutes under our hospitable roof —and never a syllable of inquiry for poor Monica! For a matter of second your fate hung in the balance.” “I know,” said Pennington. “1 felt it wobbling!” The fairest widow east of Suez—as Dawson had once termed her in an effort to be poetic—sailed on to the veranda attired in a gorgeous kimono of blue and silver. She settled herself comfortably on the arm of Pennington’s chair. “Roll me a cigarette, please—a nice fat one. You are rather a devil, aren’t you? You spend half your days wandering in the jungle wearing all sorts of unclean disguises, chasing a fat, oily Oriental. Whenever you feel you require a re*t from this absorbing occupation, you wander in here at any old hour, drink our whisky and talk shop into the everreceptive ears of my brother. Having I exhausted every possible subject of j interest, it dawns upon you that you’ve a fiancee knocking around somewhere. How’s Monica, by the bye!” She glanced down at the cigarette, now nearing completion. “As a very special honor you may moisten j the paper and stick it down.” “Duty before pleasure, you know,” I said Pennington, striking a match. ! “Besides. I thought you had gone to j bed.” “I had, but there was a mosquito; in my curtains—a particularly hun- j gry specimen—and I couldn’t sleep. I say, is Domberg really in with ChaJHung?” The two men exchanged glances. “Monica,” remonstrated j “you’ve been listening!” “My poor benighted imbecile, the j wooden walls of this luxurious man- ■ sion act like so many sounding Boards: j besides, have you ever encountered j the brand of woman that’s going to iSluff cotton-wool in her ears and dive) under the bedclothes when secret serv- i ice agents **ve broadcasting their ex-1 ploits?” Pennington screwed mb his peculiar eyes. “Brutally disillusioned! Or ail the women in the world I believed you j were the one who would.” “Who's Domberg, Jack? Isn’t he that nice old Dutchman with the gray hair we met once in Sandakan?” Hewitt stretched his long legs. “That’s the feller. I must confess I ..liked Domberg. Still, ir Peter says—” __ \ “I don’t say anything. For all I know Domberg may have no active hand in the affair at all, but the trouble’s been traced to the Kasinayer area and, theoretically, he’s respon sible for anything that goes on there.” The commissioner began counting on his fingers. “Who’s up there with him? Let’s see: Vance, Van Daulen and Whittaker. Fairy decent crowd, taking them all round.” Hewitt rose slowly and began pac ing the veranda, his hands clasped behind him. There came a thundering of hooves from the white road at the foot of the slope add, before Monica could reach the rail, a man had negotiated the path asid clambered up the steps. He halted on the threshold as if the light dazzled him, then hurled an accusing finger at Hewitt. “Look here, Cafltain Hewitt, I’m in no mood to pick my w r ords. I want to know when you’re going to put an end to this Yellow Seven business.” The Commissioner poised himself on the table. “It would simplify matters a great deal,” he said coly, “if I knew who you were.” “I’m Van Daulen—of Kasih-ayer. I’ve riden every inch of the way from there tonight.” “Did Domberg tell you to come?” demanded Pennigton. The newcomer shot a glance at the speaker. “I came here to see the Commissioner.” he returned pointedly, “but since you ask it. Domberg didn’t tell me anything: he couldn’t —he’s dead!” For fully a minute silence reigned on the broad veranda. Hewitt was the first to speak. “How did he die. Van Daulen?” The Dutchman cleared hi3 throat. “He was poisoned. Whittaker found him in his office. A fine metal point had been placed in his penholder—just where the forefinger pressed. We assume he just picked the thing up—and the poison that had been smeared on it got into his blood.” “How do you know this was the work of the Yellow Seven?” “There was a yellow patch painted on the side of the building, ornamenled with seven black smudges.”

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OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

Twelve thousand dollars for the erection of anew .grand stand at the .La Porte fair grounds Is one of the major Items in the La Porte County budget for 1924. Potato bugs are doing hundreds of dollars damage to late gardens In the vicinity of- Edinburg. On account of the wet season the bugs are present in unusually large numbers. Charles Longstreet, 11, of Adams had the tips of two fingers on his right hand cut off while assisting in chopping the bark from some logs. Randolph County will stage a historical pageant Aug. 30. Eight hun died persons will take part under the direction of Miss Ester Simon. The Marion city council is considering an appropriation of $50,000 to be spent in enlarging the fire department. The engagemen of Miss Lora Culbertson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Culbertson of Shelbyville, to Scott W. Bone, son of Scott C. Bone, overnor of Alaska, has been announced. Portland dog fanciers recently or-' ganlzed a kennel club. Several persons own kennels of German police dogs. ( William E. Jones, for three years supervisor of music in the Shelbyville public schools, has resigned to become head of themusio department in the

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of the will of the late Luther V. Shook, a resident. Several dogs have been victims o hydrophobia and many killed probable victims in a recent "mad dog” scare at Stinesville. Seymour has instituted the platoon system in Its fire department. Alternating each week, one shift is on duty at night and the other during the day. Six of the largest apple orchard ov/ners in Orange County have formed a co-operative association that will market the fruit from about 500 acres of trees. Dr. H. H. Martin, commander of the Hamon Gray post of the American Legion at La Porte, is a candidate for State commander of the Legion.

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dust treatment probably will be made by Parliament soon. The work, expected to cost $100,000.0h0, is expected" to take eight years.