San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-26
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The Yellow Seven
THE HUT IN THE CLEARING
Copyright 1928, NEA Service By EDMUND SMELL
By EDMUND SMELL

, the office still clinging to a flimsy
box with q metal handle-the only
luggage he had brought with him
when he arrived.
Pennington slammed the door and
leaned against it.
sect up, you swine!" he said stern
ly. SECT up and find your tongue
or. by heaven! I'll flay you alive!"
The boy scrambled to his feet and
stood sullenly in the center of the
bare room.
"You will lead me to Chai-Hung I"
Kissed Pennington.
At the very sound of the name the
Oriental trembled visibly.
The Englishman caught him by
both shoulders and shook him vio-
lently. A volume of inarticulate
grunts followed. Pennington plucked
the knife from the woodwork.
"Mrs. Whey" he said over his
shoulder. "do you mind waiting for
me in the dining-room
At the entrance she looked back.
"What are you going to do?" she
demanded fearfully.
He shrugged his shoulders help
lessly.
"Please Co." he whispered. "I've
got TO use every, method know to
enable me to get on the track of
your brother-before it's too late"
Collecting herself with an effort,
she crept from the room, closing the
door after her.
In the grim half-hour that fol-
lowed she lost all sense of time. She
looked up\ suddenly to see Penning-
ton before her.
"I'm just off," he said quietly.
"Then you know"
ale has told me as much as !
to know"
-. She regarded him doubtfully.
at all sounds so utterly hopeless"
she declared.
Pennington was leaning against |
he table, eating bread and cheese
"You must remember. Mrs. Whey"
he told her between the mouthfuls,
that / have hade it my business to
tudy the movements of our arch
'andit. 1t would be impossible for
ne to know all his hiding places. but
have discovered good few of
hem. sufficient. / feel convinced. to
ssist me in sitting fact from fiction.
Wong See--the intelligent youth
ollared in the act of making a hur-
led exits q poor sort of creature,
then brought face to face with the
erious problems of this life. BY
int of dire threats and much pa
fence, gathered he was on the
oint of proceeding to- Chai-Hung's
lir, to the place where your broth
as been taken. In effect, we have
rrived at delightful compromise.
vong-See is between Scylla and
harybdis: If he fails to join Chat
[ung-the vengeance of that gentle.
IAN will fall upon him, swiftly and
rely, whether he seek refuge in
hiSQ or any old island in the archi-
rlago. The remaining horn of the
lemma is" He stuck his tongue
his cheek. - death by the most
,rrible torture imaginable-at the
ands of he who sees in the dark
herwise-myself! Now comes the I
He Use to proceed to
hai-Hpngs hiding place, as he had $
'iginaHy intended, only with Pen
ingtOn in his immediate rear. In
lis manner, he stands sporting !
lance of dodging horrible end at
le hands of either"
He reached for his hat.
you're not going alone?"
"Most certainly"
She stamped her foot impatiently.
you mustn't do that" she cried.
It's positively absurd. Surprising r
ere are others waiting for Wong
re IN the ;ungle?"
1--WE been in tight corners before,
rs. Whey" he reminded her gently. n
Ind I've managed to squirm out Of
m somehow. If I attempt to start h
It with crowd of native soldiers. n
e information will be tapped out y
| some native telegraph system al '
ost before the men have left the .
tracks. Hewitt will be spirited y
way and the chances of rescue will d
come a thousand times more re- b
ote." n
"One more couldn't possibly do q
ly HARM" protested Monica. +
"1'm not taking any chances" said o
Il
take met" said the girl, flushed n
the roots of her hair. a
"You!" fe
"why not? shall be at my wits \