San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-29

of police at Jesselton, British NORTH
Borneo. Peter bennington is de-
tailed by the government to capture
the leader of The Yellow Seven, O
gang of Chinese bandits. Chai-Hung
influential Chinese, is suspected by
Pennington of being leader of the
gang. Pennington warns Brabazon
rubber planter of Ketatan, to be-
ware of The Yellow Seven. Braba-
ION is an admirer of beautiful women
and falls an easy victim to theiI
charms. Now go on with the story.
He was still standing in the same
position when the boy came in with
the lamp. Brabazon, squaring his
broad shoulders, uncorked the bottle.
He poured himself out a stiff tot.
He was gazing at an arrow, with
a fine metal barb, its butt-end split
to admit long, narrow strip of
pasteboard. On the side toward Bra
bacon was a bright yellow surface,
ornamented with a series of black
circles. He crossed the veranda and
| plucked the thing from the wood
work. The boy was slipping past
| him, but the planters hand shot out
a1d swung him round to face him.
| He held the symbol almost under the
creatures nose.
what do you know of the Yellow
Severn" he demanded roughly.
The Chinaman shivered.
Nothing, tuan," he stammered
fearfully.
Brabazon stuck his legs wide
apart and nodded his head several
times, 4 grim smile playing on his
lips.
out"
Mindful of Pennington's warning
and with an uneasy feeling gripping
his spine, he sent q Waterman with
an urgnt note to Wallace-one Of
his juniors. requesting him to join
him immediately-and be prepared
TO stop the night. While waiting for
the return of the messenger, he
scrubbed q note to Pennington and
enclosed with it the Yellow Seven.
Dear Penn, he wrote. II have
just received the enclosed per arrow
post. I'm not particularly scared at
things l understand, but this has come
as somewhat of a shock.
"Cheerio q. Brabazon."
Wallace genial youth with sandy
hair and freckled face--arrived at the
foot of the veranda STRIPS at about
nine, followed by a coolie carrying a
long bamboo pole with a basket OF
clothes suspended at one end and a
pair of field-boots at the other. He
was accompanied, moreover, by large
hound, short-haired and boisterous.
Evening, Brabazon Don't mini
HE bringing my dog, 1 hope? What's
in the wind?"
He droaped into a chair and de-
posted hat and stick on the floor.
Help yourself to drink" invited
Brabazon. "To tell you the truth,
I'm glad you'v. trotted that name
less beast along. Some hungry China
man or other purlioned my fox terrier
a week ago" He released the glass
stopper of a bottle of soda water and
handed it across to Wallace. "Iou
remember the Allison affair, of course.
1t appears that his assassination was
by no means an ordinary act of high
way robbery, but the deliberately con-
nived portion of an extensive cam
paign Unanswered by secret society.
have very good reason to believe
that an attempt is about TO be made
against myself. and that is precisely
why l thought it advisable to send
for YOU"
Wallace drew his chair closer and
for more than an hour they sat talk
ing.
Almost a week dragged on.
Wallace-who was blessed with con-
siderabie inventive genius-suspen3ed
an ingenious burglar-alarm from the
bushes that encircle the bungalow, a
network of cotton and homemade
bells that the dog succeeded in agitat-
ing so often that they were compelled
to tie him w.
On the seventh day, Brabazon
woke to find himself becoming ssep-
teal with regard to the whole affair.
That afternoon, he sent Wallace
back to his bungalow, dog and luggage
and everything, and gave the watch
| man instructions to cease his noe
turnal perambulations and hand in his
rifle. He would have destroyed Wal
lace's bu,glar-alarm if he had noticed
it,, but he didn't, and at few min
utes after midnight, it rang.
Swearing softly to himself, he took
the hurricane lamp and the revolver
that recent occurrences had brought
to light, and went out.
The line of tinkling bells rang for
second time and he held the lamp
well allow his head, peering into the
| night. Suddenly he started back in
amazement and quickened his steps
in the direction of crouching. tremb-
ling figure that shrank back from
him as he approached. The hard
lines of his face softened as he went,
and presently he stopped and lifted
the slim form of girl to her feet.
She was simply clad, in a long-sleeved
jacket of light blue silk, bordered with
black. and quaint trousers of the same
material. 1t dawned upon Brabazon,
as he surveyed her in wonderment,
| that she was of a class superior TO
| that TO which he was accustomed, that
her skin was rather white than olive,
and that she was possessed of beauty
he had never imagined possible in q
| Chinese girl. Her hands were small
and well-formed.
who are you?" he demanded in
Malay.
She replied to him saftly.
Suey-Koo," he thought she said,
where do you come FROM"
She uttered a little nervous laugh.
81 am the daughter of Chai-Hung.
The police have driven my father
from his home. They came and search
ed the house-and l ran away. In
the darkness, l saw the lights of your
window.
He took her cold, trembling fin
gers between his own and forced her,
half-unwillingly. up the steps to. a
comfortable chair. She sat on the
extreme edge. ~aring with childlike
surprise at the unaccustomed sur
roundings.
"You must have something ITO eat