The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-30
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| eIeT remington, OetectlVc, Is
detailed by the government to rur
to earth The Yellow Seven, gant
Of Chinese bandits. He suspect:
| being their leader. Monica Whey i.
the sister Of Captain John Hewitt
Commissioner Of Police at Jesselton
British North Borneo. Pennington
goes to Ketatan after receiving :
letter from rubber planter nance
Brabazon. The daughter of Chat.
Hung lures Brabazon into the gar
! den Of her fathers nome in Ketatan
NOW GO WITH THE STORY
A girl came suddenly down the
path slim, youthful figure in
light blue, bordered with bands OF
black, and, entering the shrine, fell
PROSTATE before the altar.
The man who had scaled the wall
eXtinguished his cigaret and crept
into clump of bushes where he Law
prone. For space of many minutes
Suey-koO--the daughter of Chat
Hung-bowed her head before the
bronze vases. Presently she came
slowly to her feet, at the same time
drawing narrow, black cylinder
from a voluminous sleeve. The head
OF the watcher in the bushes jerked
upward and the Chinaman's eve fell
upon a naked blade, flashing even in
the diffused light of the little loss.
house. knife that the harmless
looking cylinder had concealed.
A whistle came from the darkness
beyond the pallisade, and Suey-Koo
slipped the dagger out of sight. She
passed the bush so closely that a
faint whiff of alluring perfume watt
ed 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 saluted
her--in the manner of the Western
ers-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
paim-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 Chat
hung and then, as they passed in
the center of the flower-bordered
path. thing happened that per-
picked the unseen onlooker strange
~. The man in white duck slipped
both arms round the girl, drawing
her to him: A truant ray of silver
light fell across her flushed cheeks
as through lids half closed she looked
up into her lovers face. Suddenly
she pushed him violently from her.
her slim right hand cropping in the
depths of her sleeve. With a queer
haif-cry, half-sob, she disengaged 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 Law
weeping in the Englishman's arms.
BY strange freak of chance, the
weapon struck branch and dropped
within couple of yards from where
the Chinaman lay
With a weird, twisted smile, the
man stretched out a long, lean arm
and secured it. He looked up to see
that hidden panel lin the screen
had been drawn aside, revealing the
face of Chai-Hung, hideously dis.
torted until it resembled that of a
chastity idol. The panel closed, the
lovers moved on toward the building.
and the mysterious interloper rose
noiselessly and crept after them.
The Englishman and the girl dis
beyond the screen and, as
Il at given signal, the deep tones
of native gong rang out suddenly
IN the blackness. The Chinaman
iropped instinctively, flattening out
until nothing was to be seen above
he lank grass into which he had
fallen, and the whole enclosure with
n the pallisade burst suddenly into
life, pattering with the noise of bare
md sandaled feet.
The Yellow Seven had called-and
he legions of the great Chai-Hung
'onverged o1 the trap into which
he white man had fallen, eager for
he sacrifice! Shadowy forms swept
IN to the path and vanished beyond
he building. and presently pierre
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The Chinaman sprang erect and
lived behind the screen. In his left
land he held an automatic pistol,
tut the weapon with which he 81
enced the sentry at the door was
he knife in the glossy black sheath
hat he had first seen in the joss
'ouse in the fair hand of Suey-Koo.
To Brabazon--confident that the
Commissioner had driven the re-
oubtable Chai- Hung into the jungle
there was something delightfully."-
intimate in this invitation to drink
ea-in true Chinese fashion, sitting
n severe, high-backed chairs before
Lakewood table. Suey-Koo drew
i'm gently to an inner room. Sud-
emily, a scream Of terror from the
irl at his side, caused him to glance
harply round. He stared in amaze