Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-16
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This unusual series of stories deals
with the exploits of Chinese Pen
~nington, a detective sent by his gov
eminent to British North Borneo to
run to earth The yellow Seven. a
gang of Chinese bandits.
As
Denis Moorhouse - refreshed by
at Bukit-Iban-lay at full length in
a long cane chair. In a hole in the
arm of the chair rested a glass and
a few inches distant from Moor
houses stockinged feet, reposed a
pair of muddy riding-boots. A black
chow a licking its forepaws at the
top of the steps, passing every now
and then to raise its head and growl
at the slightest sound hat waited
upward from the night-shrouded
clearing.
Denis Moorehouse - refreshed by
a bath of hot water ladled over him
self from a preposterous earthen-
ware jar of native manufacture, felt
at peace with all men. He was a
tall, thin, amiabIe specimen of hui
mainly with fair hair that was ear
ing thin on the crown. Function
ing as a magistrate on the edge of
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hundred men would have warped be-
come morbid. or drunk themselves
into oblivion, this CHEEKY philosopher
had succeeded in steering a middle
course. Moorhouse-with his black
dog at his heels-was as welcome in
a Borneo log house as in the bunga-
low of the commissioner of police.
Under normal conditions, it might
not unreasonably be assumed that
MISUNDERSTANDING in glorious
idIeness after a strenuous day spent
in the sweltering court-house-was
dreaming of home or of the white
girl whose photograph occupied a
sole and prominent position on his
dressing table; but the girl in the
ebonized frame was his sister and
the district officer had no home other
than the one he now occupied. As
a matter of fact, he was thinking of
the dusky Dyak belle who had
danced before the assembled chiefs
in the Kampon at the other side of
the valley when the rice harvest was
completed; a shapely, alluring fe-
male with an independent swing of
shoulders and features that would
have done credit to a Western beau
ty. Moorhouse had been present at
this, dance, showing his white teeth
when the young warriors-drunk
with sansu-udged their water-buf-
faloes across the open wastes and
mildly applauding the crazy postum
ing of women who danced with hui
man heads.
Then, just as he had made up his
mind to pay his respects to his hosts
and depart, the wonder-woman from
the<orests had whirled into the fire.
He remembered her after
d as a vision encased In a sarong
shimmering green, with a single
acelet of gold at either wrist, her
ark hair secured by a dagger of
shich both the point and the jew
( altfvere distinctly visible. More
miraculous still, her hands were hid
den by wonderfully fashioned gaunt-
let's of silver, each wrought to re-
semble the form of the hand itself.
Her dance had eliminated in a sort
of joyous stampede, she had fallen
PROSTATE before the semicircle OF
gaping headmen, then crawled with
the 1.-THE, sinuous movements OF a
snake toward the spot where the
Englishman sat. Before he could
lOISSldA ACLf lNo vain a
encircled his ankles and lustrous.
hooking eyes were fixed upon his
face.
Great Tuan-Hakim, one of these
days you may have need of me-"
The words flowed easily from her
lips, with the steady conviction of a
sorceress-and it was within the
bounds of possibility that she put a
spell upon Moorhouse, because she
was gone, leaving him without a
memory of the n of her going,
and a golden bangle resting on the
folds of his white tunic. He gathered
a little later that h&' arrival and
departure constituted as much a
mystery to all as to himself.
In the solitude of his room he had
turned that bangle over and over
between his sun-tanned fingers. try
sig to discover some reasonable mo-
tive for such a gift.
Accordingly, with due regard TO
the value Of the bracelet and to the
fact that white magistrates in black