Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-15
Now Go on win the story

Now Go on With the story
1T expect everyone here to
remain in their quarters after
lights-out and I've instructed the
sentries to shoot without question at
anybody who is found prowling
around after dark. Our next move
is to get on the track of Chai-Hung
with the least possible delay. Get a
half-a-dozen picked men scouting
for traces of the assassins and re-
port to me as soon as anything def
Unite transpires."
VERY good, tuan. And you-?"
II shall remain here"
There was a fallen tree trunk at
the edge of the clearing farthest
from the squatting bearers and
Major Armitage settled himself
down at the end which appeared to
offer the most shade. The interpre-
ter glanced back owe his shoulder
twice as he crossed to the men, but
the apostle of blood and iron was
pressing tobacco from an oil-sktn
pouch into an exceedingly new-look-
ing briar and did not look up.
Pennington was frankly puzzled
and not a little ~perturbed as to the
uncomfortable proximity of the
agents of Chai-Hung. 1t was one
thing tracking down the bandit by
his own methods-and quite another
securing the country at the heels OF
so unreasonable a leader as Arml-
tage. The yellow Seven were swarm
ing somewhere close at hand, taking
advantage of the shelter the jungle
offered and picking off those who
Jagged behind. BY this method they
were reducing the strength of Armi-
tage's force.
Taking with him a native sergeant
he embarked upon a reconnaissance.
They were returning a couple OF
hours later through a narrow dehle
between rocky banks half hidden by
ferns, when a figure appeared on the
path not ten yards in front of them.
Pennington's hand swung round to
his hip pocket. but Sergeant Danu-
din caught his arm.
''Bi-la, tuan! 1t is Rabat-Pilai."
Pennington stopped dead in his
tracks. The newcomer was he to
whom the man with the Chinese eyes
was wont to refer as his chief of
staff; a short, 1.-the individual with
an Y and an ear missing and his
mouth slit on either side.
"What Is it, Rabat-Pilai?"
The creature saluted as he came
Up.
'Great taun, I have followed Chai1
Hung to this place. He has many or
his men with him-and he has taken
the white soldier with the glass eye
Pennington started.
you are sure of this?" he de-
manded.
perfectly, taun. I came from the
direction of the Tuan-Besar Varney's
house-which is by the river, be-
cause of something that a man had
told me. I found the soldiers and
The men who carried the barang;
after that I saw the white lord, who
was sitting on a tree, 1 did not enter
the clearing, but skirted by way of
the forest-and the thing happened
as I passed. A man dressed as you
are dressed spoke to the soldiers
who followed him presently into h
Jungle. The white lord had fallen
asleep with his head in his hands
and Chai-Hung came softly
How long ago was this?"
Ten minutes. perhaps, not more.
Pennington's eyes blazed.
Sergeant Danudin round up those
men and fellow. Bring all the pro-
visions you can lay your hands on.
What direction are they taking
Rabat?"
que east. tuan. There are others
who came with me who could wait
at certain points until the soldiers
found the path"
As Pennington followed upon the
heels of Rabat-Pilai. he found time
to be sorry for Major ]. Lacy Armi-
tage and the inevitable failure Of his
expedition; he was sorry, too, that
the man who preached efficiency
could not have been there at that
to appreciate the caliber of
the network he himself was fast
drawing round Chai-Hung; little,
brown, inconspicuous m%ortals each
c~herishing a special hatred for their
quarry and assisted by a jungle tele-
graph coded and adapted by Chinese
Pennington.
At a bend in the track Rabat-Pilai
touched Pennington gently.
They are not far ahead, tuan.
They are making for the house in
the rocks, for Chai-Hung is tired
and his arm pains him"
They will not have killed the
white MANI"
Rabat-PiIai shook his head.
mot yet-or they would have left
his body for us to find"
The corners of Pennington's
mouth turned down and he examin-
ed the clip of cartridges in his au-
tomato.
1.-THE Chinese, Major Armitage, are
inherent gamblers. There are few
among us, in fact, who would nc
easily be tempted to hazard then
entire fortunes at a game of chance
Chai-Hung sat bolt upright in his
high backed chair and smiled.
so 1 believe" returned the
Englishman coldly. Now that his
limbs were freed he was beginning
to get over that feeling of injured
dignity that had accompanied MI
capture. May 1 ask what you in
tend doing with me?"
1t was apparent that the bandi
was equally capable of affecting
deafness.
Hence the Yellow Seven" he con
tinued. at is l who decide upon on
victims, but the hand that carrie
out the death penalty is rarely mine
The matter is decided by a form o
lottery. The Yellow Seven Is mixe'
M with other cards and those VIII
at that moment form my bodyguar'
draw for 1t In turn. The thing
done quite openly and the sign o
u society left pinned to the vic
tim"
The MAJORS throat had gone sud
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