San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-30
Begin Here Today.

Peter Pennington, detective, is de
tailed by the government to run t.
earth The Yellow Seven, gang o.
Chinese bandits. He suspects Chat
Hung, influential Chinese, of bein,
their leader. Monica Whey is the
sister of Captain John Hewitt. Com.
missioner of Police at Jesselton, Brit.
ish North Borneo. Penningt..i goes to
ketatan after receiving n letter from
a rubber planter named Brabazon. The
daughter of Chai-Hung lures Brabazon
into the garden of her fathers home
in ketatan. Now go on with the
STORY.
a girl came suddenly down the path
"a slim, youthful figure in light blue.
bordered with bands of black, apd,
entering the shrine, fell PROSTATE be-
fore the altar.
The man who had scaled the wall ex-
tinguished his cigaret and crept into
a clump of bushes where he lay prone.
For space of many minutes Suey-
Koo-the daughter of Chai-Hung-
bowed her head before the bronze
vases. Presently she came slowly to
her feet. at the same time drawing a
narrow. black cylinder from a volumin-
Gus sleeve. The head of the watcher
in the bushes jerked upward and the
Chinaman's eye fell upon naked
blade, flashing even in, the diffused
light of the little joss-house. n knife
that the Misunderstanding cylinder had
concealed.
A whistle came from the darkness
beyond the pallisade. and Suey hoo
slipped the dagger out of sight. She
passed the bush so closely that faint
Whit of alluring perfume waited to
the nostrils of the intruder. One of
the smaller gates swung open and an
Englishman with a broad. handsome
face stepped through. He took the
tiny hands of the Chinese girl and bent
over them. then salutcd her--in the
manner of the Westerners-full on the
lips.
From his hiding place, the man in
greasy black heard the soft, cooling
laughter of the girl. the deep, easy
tones of the Englishman as he spoke
to her The moon stole between the
palm trees, as they walked together
toward the screen of oiled paper and
woven cane that served to keen the evil
spirits from the house of Chai-Hung
and then. as they paused in the center
Of the flower-bordered path. a thing
happened that perplexed the uns"-' on
locker strangely. The man in white
duck slipped both arms round the girl.
her to him: A truant ray OF
silver light fell across her flushed
checks as through lids half-closed she
looked mp into her lovers face. Sud.
denly she pushed him violently from
her. her slim right hand cropping in the
depths of her sleeve. With queer
half-cry. half-sob. she disongaged the
knife that nestled in its glossy sheath
and threw it with all the strength
she could command into the under
growth. A moment later she lay weep
strange freak of chance. the weapon
struck n branch and dropped within
couple of yards from where the China
man lay.
With weird. twisted smile. the man
stretched ont long. lean arm and Sc
cured it. He looked up to see that
hidden panel in the screen had been
drawn aside. revealing the face of
nldeOuSiy distorted untll
it resembled that of n CHASTITY idol.
The panel closed. the lovers moved on
toward the building. and the mysteri
Gus interloper rose noiselessly and
,rept after them.
The Englishman and the girl dis
beyond the screen and. as if
ut given signal, the deem tones of n
native gong rang out suddenly in the
blackness. The Chinaman dropped in
'tinctively. flattening out until nothing
was to be seen above the lank grass
INTO which he had fallen. and the whole
enclosure within the pallisade burst
suddenly into life. pattering with the
noise of bare and sandaled feet.
The Yellow Seven had called-and
he legions of the great Chai-Hung con-
verged on the trap into which the
white man had fallen. eager for the
sacrifice. Shadowy forms swept on
10 the path and vanished beyond the
building. and presently piercing
scream broke upon the night.
The Chinaman sprang erect and
lived behind the screen. In his left
hand he held an automatic pistol, but