New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-08-16
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This unusual series of stories deals
with the exploits OF Chinese Pen
nington, detective sent by his gov
eminent to British North Borneo to
run to earth The Yellow Seven, a
gang of Chinese bandits.
Denis Moorhonse-district officer
at Bukit-Iban-la at fun length in
a long cane chair. In a hole in the
arm of the chair rested glass and,
a few inches distant from Moor
houses stockinged feet, reposed a
pair of muddy riding boots. A black
chow sat licking its forepaws at the
top of the steps, pausing every now
and then to raise its head and grow
at the slightest sound that waited up
ward from the night clear
ing.
Denis Moorhouse--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. amabe specimen of hui
manity with fair hair that was wear
ing thin on the crown. Function
ing as magistrate on the edge OF
beyond, where ninety-nine out of a
hundred men would have warped, be-
come morbid, or drunk themselves
into oblivion, this CHEEKY philosopher
had succeeded in steering middle
course. Moorhouse--With his black
dog at his heels-was as welcome in
a Borneo long house as in the bunga-
low of the commissioner of police.
Under normal conditions it might
not unreasonably be assumed that
Moorhouse-reclining in glorious
idleness after a strenuous day spent
in the sweltering court house-was
dreaming of home or of the white
girl whose photograph occupied
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
q 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 val
ley when the rice harN est was com
pleted: shapely, alluring female
with an Independent swing of shoul
ders and features that would har,
done credit to western beauty.
Moorhouse had been present at this
dance, showing his white teeth when
the young warriors--drunk with
san1su--urged their water buffaloes
across the open wastes and mildly ap-
plauding the crazy posturing of won
en- who danced with human heads.
Then, Just as he had made up his |
mind to pay his respects to his hosts
and depart the wonderwoman from
the forests had whirled into the fire
light. He remembered her after
ward as vision encased in a sarong
of shimmering green, with a single
bracelet of gold at either wrist, her
dark hair secured by a dagger of
which both the point and the jew
eled hilt were distinctly visible. More
still, her hands were hid
den by wonderfully fashioned gaunt-
lets of silver, each wrought to re
semble the form of the hand itself
Her dance had eliminated in sort
Of joyous stampede, she had fallen
prostrate before the semicircle OF
gaping headmen. then era wled with
the 1.-the Sinuous movements of a
snake toward the spot where the
sat. Before he could
forestall her, two warm arms had
nncircles his ankles and lustrous
eyes were fixed upon his
ace.
Great Tuan- Hakim. one of these |
Jays you may have need of me-" s
The words flowed easily from her s
ips, with the steady conviction of a |
,orccress-and il was within the
pounds of possibility that she put 4 I
pell upon Moorhouse. because she s
vas gone, leaving him without
memory OF the manner OF her going |
md a golden bangle resting in the {
olds of his white tunic. He gathered +
little later that her arrival and /
departure constituted as much
MYSTERY 10 all as to himself. S
In the solitude Of his room he had i
rrned that bangle over and over be- t
ween his sun-tanned fingers, trying to S
iscoyer some reasonable motive for t
uch a gift, b
Accordingly, with due regard to @
lie value of the bracelet and to the G
act that white magistrates in black c
are scarcely in the habit |,
I accepting gifts from fascinating
aneing- girls, Moorhouse had estab-