New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1923, Page 18

FOE YELLOW SEVEN: THE SILVER HAND- Ouea strvice inc.azs DM SNELL, ILVSTRATED By RM.SATTERF LD B Peter Pennington Is engaged to marry Monica Viney, sister of Cap- tain John Hewitt, commissioner of police at Jesselton, British North Borneo. Pennington is detailed by the government to apprchend Chai- Hung, leader of The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits, Denis Moorhouse, distMct officer, receives a call from a dusky Dyak belle who dances before the assembled chiefs at the rice harvest. Moorhouse, at- tending this festival, notices that the girl wears wonderful silver gaunt- lets. And still Denis Moorhouse felt hopelessly at sca. He glanced back over his shoulder toward the living- room and his half-finished meal, then drew the tumbler from the arm of his chair and sent the soda hissing into the amber fluid. All the time, while he strove to establish a mental bal- ance, he felt that the girl's eyes were fixed on him and the mocking light that played in them made him un- easy. “I am a busy man,” he protested, “and I am tired. T do not yet under- stand the motive that has brought you here.” Again that intoxicating smile. She leant backward over the rail 80 that the tightening folds of her sarong accentuated the graceful curves of her form; the garment seemed to have become part of her, like the plumage of a bird or the down of a gorgeous butterfly that flutters for a brief moment in the sunlight and is gone. Moorhouse knew that she would go—knew that she must go; but a strange, uncon- trollable desire was swiftly building iteelf up within him to postpone the moment of her departure. “The Tuan-Hakim will remember that when I left the clearing I ran quickly into the forest. but a little way through the trees when something tripped me and T fell. One of the silver things that a . chief had made for me slipped from my hand and I looked up presently to see that a great orang-China—a yellow man, tall and very fat—had picked the thing from the grass and was looking at it. I sprang at him llke a tiger-cat, but a second man held my arms from behind\so that T could not move. There were other Chinamen in the jungle, for T could hear the bushes as they moved. The man who held the silver hand car- ried one arm in a black cloth and his face was evil. After a little while he drew his arm from the cioth and thrust under my eyes the stump where a hand had been—" “Which hand was it?" interrupted Moorhouse quickly. “The left, tuan.” “You are sure of this?"” 1t had come back to the D. mémory that Pennington had him how one of his men had seve Chai-Hung’s left hand at the wrist. “1 have reason to he sure, because the silver sheath that I lost was from my left hand. I—who am afraid of nothing—feared this man. ‘Black girl, the orang-China said. ‘T have more need of this thing than you, therefore I shall keep it Presently from the folds of his coat he pro- duced a knife, ‘Bring me the head of the Englishman who sat in the clearing when you danced—and you ghall have your hand’ He walked away into the trees and it was a long while before he returned. sten,” he said again. ‘There is a white man whom the natives call He Who Sees in the Dark. Kill him—and T will give you hands of gold—that all other dancers may envy you.'" The magistrate smiled grimly. “The Chinaman said that, did he?" The girl nodded. “Tt is a difficult thing, she added gravely, “for unless I kill you—I lose the silver hand forever and, if I kill you, I lose a friend!" “You will also stand a very good chance of being strung up by the neck for the crows to peck at! Did he tell you where to take the head of the white man?” “T must go to a certain house where they eat oplum—and he will take me with him to the orang- China.” Moorhouse grunted. “It is not such a difficult thing, after all,” he told her. “One day soon, when I shall tell you, I will give you a parcel to take to this Chinaman. You will say to the man at the opium-house that the head of the white man is there, but you can |4 only show it to the orang-China who bas the silver hand. He will take you with him and, at a little distance 1 shall follow carefully. Come to me every evening until that day.—Good night!"” She left the rail and came toward him hesitantly, her arms out- stretched in front of her. “I have no home,” she said softly. skin treatment If you want a remedy for skin trouble whose value has been proven by many years of successful use,—if you want a treatment that thousands of doctors and druggists are daily pre- scribing because they Anow its bene. ficial results, —you will find it in Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap. -~ Why not take the combined advice of all these wise medical men, and let Resinol make your skin well 7 At all druggists. Resinol T had. gone | “Will not the Tuan-Hakim let. me stay ?" There was a choking sensation in his throat as Moorhouse avoided her gaze. He shook his head. * “It would be neither good for you nor for me, little silver hand,” he stammered. He turned abruptly to- ward the door of the inner room to indicate that the palaver was at an end, Presently something clattered to the floor—and the girl was gone. He swung slowly round on his heel and saw the thing that she had dropped. It was a knife with a long steel blade and a yellow handle orna- mented with black dots. He stopped and recovered it; as he did so he rec- ognized the grim sign of the Yellow Seven, PR Moorhouse was not a little sur- prised when, emerging from his room at shortly after seven, he caught SHE CAME TOWARD HIM HESI- TANTLY. sight of a long, youthful figure com- fortably installed in the only -easy chair the bungalow possessed, “‘Morning, Moorhouse!” The D, O. laughed. “Hullo, Pennington! deuce did you roll up?” Chinese Pennington stretched him- self and sat up. ‘ “Oh, somewhere in the early hours. Met your black chow in the garden. He was barking at the moon—and the few odd shouts he did on my ac- count didn’t appear to make much difference,” He moved his legs to one side and the magistrate squatted down on the foot-rest, “Not too bad. I had an interesting piece of news last night. I've struck a black girl who's promised to guide us to Chai-Hung.” Pennington pursed up his lips “Women are the very douce!" he declared. “I'd ke to be reasonably sure—before I embark upon this cam- paign—that your lady friend isn't contemplating leading us to the devil,"” The Oriental eyes that had some- how found their way into a purely Anglo-Saxon countenance wandered slowly round the walls. “I'm inclined to put my shirt on this particular girl,” said Moorhouse, and told him the story of the silver hand, All through the narrative the man with the Chinese eyes kept them fixed upon his host. “So that's your heroine!" he re- marked as the other concluded. The magistrate started, “Know her?" “I rather imagine I do. She's a Dyak girl who drifted into B. N. B. from Sarawak. A rather unique character with a touch of white blood in her veins. As far as I remember, she had a hiflet once with the Sultan of Brunei and possibly boned those hands from his treasure-house when he engaged another premiere dan- seuse.” “Why did he fire her?"” “I gather she was rather a dis- turbing element .in his household, with a marked leaning toward in- trigue. Hewitt could tell you more about her than I can. He had her name on his books for some time, but decided there was a screw loose somewhere—and let her go. Guaya! She's certainly a remarkable wom- When the her name—or, rather, she says it's her name.” Moorhouse’s jaw dropped. “Al things considered, I suppose we'd better wash her out of it alto- gether and try and get a smack at Chai-Hung through other channels?” Chinese Pennington sprang to his and began pacing the veranda. 1t depends,” he jerked out sud- denly. “In some respects I believe her to be straight. $ALESMAN $AM $1800 ) oot MILN'S LIFE SPUINGS THRODGH SAMY SUGEESTION HA9_BEEN PLACED ON "9UFEAITITIONT TO WN TH' HORSE. RACE. TOMORAOW WCE BE TO SAM F WE_ LOSES " HEne 2 DIRTY WORR AHERD, FOR KONRAD KAKEETER 19 AL9O AFTER SURE. - MLN'S k HAND ’ have taken a fancy to your honest, open countenance!" The district cfficer grinned. Pennington halted in the center of the floor. “As I told you before, Moorhouse, women are the very devil—when they're as clever as Guaya is and have taken a rooted dislike to one. Yau can take it from me the knife's authentic enough. the whole proceedings appears to be e — (vorcas w THE AIR | KDEA (Westinghouse—East Pittsburgh). Friday, August 17, 1923 6:16 p. m.—Dinner concert by the The only snag in|g.anq Symphony orchestra from thel ‘gingerly that Chai-Hung may have notion of enticing us into clutches.” anything in the nature of an bush. Frankly, to give it a trial. son to believe I was aware of presence in my area—and he 1t.” edge of the table. make the experiment and old Dawson into the bargain.” Moorhouse left the case where it reposed in with the brushes, his fingers touched something that was wound in tween the teeth. and stepped open window. recesses of the room he had under- stood the significance of the seven black circles daubed upon a card the size and shape of his fore- finger! toward s At the spot where two forest tracks crossed, a solitary, squat hut rose from the waist-high lalang. Pen- nington caught Moorhouse's arm and putled him down heside him. “Steady on, old son! Don't take any chances.” Dawson—a short, . red-faced man of uncertain age and inclined to stoutness, crawled up to them on his hands and knees. “Hanged if I like this game, Penn.! I've collected about as many thorns as a porcupine has quills.” Sir Tom'’s Trophy Sir Thomas Lipton, famous British yvachtsman, has presented this trophy as an award to the winner of the fish- ermen's race to be held late in August to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Gloucester, Mass., home of deep-sea fishers, SoEZ o he success of a gown " or waist may depend upon how well it is fastened. The SO-E-Z Snap Fastener never cuts the thread or wears loose. 10cforadozen, at all notion counters. THE AUTOYRE CO. OAKVILLE, CONN, 5N FELLPS- THAT B00B SR HOW 19 GONNA RDE HUPERITITIONS TOMORROW \F WE COULD ONLY DOPE H19 HORSE. , THE OTHER FAVORITE, "AWL INN" WOULO WIN TH' KAE “It Stays Sewed!’’ She appears to } “THAT WOULD BE intended her to bring it here with the happy his “We*could keep our eyes open for am- Penn,, I'm inclined 1 saw the silver hands myself; Chai-Hung had no rea- his cer- tainly would be the last to advertise Pennington perched himself on the “Good enough!” he declared. “We'll rope in veranda five minutes later to complete his tollet. As he drew the comb from the leather company be- He released {t the Even in the dimmer yellow | *| Washburn, Grand theater, Pittsburgh. 7 p. m.—Baseball scores and con- tinuation of the dinner concert. 7:30 p. m.—Address by Frank E. 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