The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 13, 1923, Page 11

HIE, YEO SEVEN THESE HATS WILL SERVICEABLE PROVE GAME OF CHANCE BY EDMOND SweLL, WAUSTRATED By RW SeTTERF BLD ith the exploits of a detectiva sent by his government rneo to run to earth The Yellow Seven, | Over servic incaaes This “Chinese” to British p series of stories deals Pennington, North 4 dat Ckinees bandtt 5 @ gang 0. € Fi Z 4 It was one of those gray, close, unhealthy days that Maj © Armitage came to Jesselton, B. N. B. ; He stood in a commanding position in the center of the s deck of the little Barudu—moored alongside the white jetty—a tall figure with an aristocratic stoop and a monocle that delighted all native beholders, When Capt. John Hewitt—commissioner of police—observed him thru| his binoculars from the veranda of his bungalow—the new- first-c comer appeared to be giving: orders to everybody within | hearing. | show no favoritism and maintain equal widths at all points "Jack," called Monica from her}ieave me alone with that man| raat wala dealer pane GEieA alr; “who ts it? T shall flirt with him outrag-| BY MARIAN HALE most severe models and they may be Her eget alle gyrate | eoual - N. BE. A, Service Writer draped to suit the featu and | You're y <erneneng | 0: Ee Sorry—but_ while the 4 NEW YORK, A When soften the general effect iff lite possibly nee] or ts explaining to you wh 0 | eeasit taste”. care neg toay ughts ty m a }tle ornaments of feathers, th clom i aid when he served with ‘| millinery, your eyes sight on some: | ly renembhy father’s shaving brush ike me to/ hussars, I shall not improbably be| ining tike thewe—ar am 7, tee rs rp pai es : ” Be xe py man| wandering in @ wilderness in| i.) there's somethin in » A favorite a ing ; A , 2 pe " A vad | edewae Tot? Sir, Chalten 4|_ Fer theceh something: irreds ybon cockades or the conventiona ae Diiieeelaes ‘Tree antes? ‘ot | Mbout cloche brim, It may not be |flower, flatly applied. ‘And—the re!" interpolat:| ba: winged by Ra’ Rew or 1§ may not K par | FEATHERS ed Chinese P n thru the of-/ Pilai and the activities of the Yel.| ularly excl but ft IS smart On the allwhite hat one frequent B tice window a has the eye|low Seven have been temporarily) YOU Gan put it on in the dark, or ly finds a band of cloudy white | ae of an ‘awk suspended; but wh Chal-Hung| Without a mirror or under any ad. feathers trailing the brim, or long | Penninst thru the win-| exists there's golng to t ouble| Verse circumstance, and know what | |feathers fastened to the tip of the Gow and took glasses from the|on this island, and {t's up to me|¥ou look } $ |crown with the ends dangling below F other’s hand gave a little} to stop tt." | _It co ng the univer Some ideas of moderniine vem, sometimes well below the Impatient toss to her shock of fair Where ts Chal-Hung? sally becor s there fs. In| cloche hata. houlder line, ‘This Intter style is curls, folded down the page of the} Chinese Pennington spread out| Paris the me 80 ATMA at {ts best, however, the book she had been reading and) his hands. it is ncarcely One gets the m more becoming and] iis with the awandlike neck. for it} jained them by the rail. “Vanished from the face of the/ impression of a little black straw or | smart lhas @ tendency to aubtract ree A “That,” said Pennington, pointing| earth. felt dome having been erecte of the brima are cut to Practically the only alternative of | down the is Major. James; “Lost his left hand in your last|a pretty face, practieally conce ¢ in Thw back and allowed tothe small cloche is the very large lacy Armitage—" stunt, didn't he?" queried the com-|the £ jextend out in front Ike a visor.|picture hat with little trimming, | 2 8, 0,” murmured Monica, | missioner. “Wherever he happens GUT BRIMS Others are shaved quite an short in|worn only with the rather elaborate (a 1 fancy you're wrong there. He to be Chal-Hun 1 be thirsting for] However, ur the front as in the back anda little frock, = ce i has three ribbons—almost as broad! your blood.” nek teabtinen patie ty ae ee | aed : : ‘ag they are long: One is for going} A heavenly smile spread over say ares t DP ag: roth : ce ae . sr at} But the smartest women are aj to Messina just after tho carth-| Pennington’s boyish features. | atbowersudish crachnanztinicnesid s in the smallest hats. quake, the second I don't know, I didn't do it, I only wish I Lc aeee Tea | and the third he obtained by giving) had. It was my chief of staff for’ the ‘crack up his seat in a bus to a Russian| Rabat-Pilat—who accomplished the . tha’ wlaek grand duchess!” dirty deed, He's dried the greusome THE STAR'S the bark of ¢ weapon was Ee Monica laughed. relic over the fire and carries !t the gentle crack of an alr E “The question is,” said Hewitt,| about with him.” | S jrif_e, fired from the track house, | a “what's his particular object inj “And the ring,” sald Monica! Daily hort Story| directly in the rear of starting coming here. eagerly; “the ring with the green point. The concealed marksman} “What's his particular stunt? sto was Traine ‘ake 4. “Blood and iron! resses a| “Ho wears that. I n't “THE HEAD START” stickney NEVO, aprany’ forwar,| @inner-party as if he were back on/ heart to deprive him « nee By Fairfax Downey as If he had been shot. As a mat parade with umpteenth hussara.|that the bandit robbed him of an ter of fact, ho had been. of those men who|ear and an eye on their last en ANOTHER COMPLETE SHORT STORY TOMORROW He must have covered five yards m a job sim-| por so with first ap and on 1 of him.” » retreated to her chatr and, the sixth he hit his astride, His sald Commissioner. | fol t hands over one kneo Trainer Jake Jones, whone eyes| Clay tomorrow. Got to run the| well.muscled legs pounded up and "Fou do m to know, I sup-| gazed ru palm-clad slopes to the resembled hard-boiled eggs, fixed | down like the pistons of a smoothly fi pose, what hey’ve| riband. yoed below. them on Stickney McV siving| “The neophyte seems to think,"| racing engine. . fixed him time I wish with all my heart you|that youth an uncomfortable son: | ar the “that his pres| It was a pretty race, the 100-yard| ‘Chinese could catch b Pet I hate to sation, as if he had eaten too much) ence in the meet will make some! dash the stands saw that day. If ia roling o cigar |think of you roaming about in the| &t « plenic We had not noticed that) only the ‘fleeting, thrilling ploture| “They couldn't find him a ya-| jungle with every Chinaman’s hand I've dono ri bu, Blick,” nh the past. Wo come now) could have been more lasting! The ve eancy they made a job for him./ against you; {t gets on'my nerves.”| declared Tr © worked ing.” watches caught them at only two: | He's a sort of traveling inspector, wonder if he's h that I'm| hard and earnest on you. You got vey ran fifths over 10 seconds. Cheat out,| “Oh!” gasped Monica. “You don’t} still in the land of living," mused| tho build, you got tho atrength, re and hoped! head back, Stick McVey broke the| think ‘ve sent him here to take) Pennington. “Did I ever (@#l you! You «ot the stride of a r r The event he/tape, gasping for breath. No Clay! \ Jack's place?” that Varney buried me with all due} But, Judas Prtest! you ain't got et. Four strong:| college men had better than seen} “Not on your iffe! Armitage don't] pomp and ceremony—and placed a| Setaway. Every timo you get left 8 were at the start! his heels and it was his own En-| like work. He's on the cushiest/ suitable inscription over my head.”|&t the post of overy sprint, when Stick crouched | field teammates who had crossed thing er struck—and nothing} “Peter,” Hewitt said earnestly,| “The meet tomorrow with for the start. Being equipped with/ the line at his elbows, taking second| short of an earthquake’ll Induce|"do your damndest, but for Heay-|!# about tho last chance I give you.| paddies, they Insured the continua third places and salting away | him to chuck i up. He'll inspect|en’s sake take precautions. Chal-| Try and jump the gun—Just once.| tion of the impulse and at the fin-|the most. | the barracks, parade all the native|Hung’s terrible enough under ordi-|I¢ you that, you may start on|tsh were more brethren who in-| When track men in later years,| troops, drill them himself, nose into! nary circumstances, but Chal-Hung| time after all.” Gulged in siaps of congratulation.| deferring to the respected fi barsiad| the cook-houses, waste everybody's, deprived of one hand will be like aj And with that nasty dig, Trainer | yy the Initiates did a fast|/o¢ stickney McVey, asked that fa- time—and write a stinking report | wounded wasp."* | Jake took himself away sprint to his room, locked and bar-|mous sprinter what had been the England condemning} “I know,” returned the man with} That night Stickney MoVeyawoke) ricaded the door and composed his! secret of his success as a. runner, the Chinese eyes, Ho stniled across| from a sound sleep to find his bed) weary, smarting body to alumber.|ho was won't to display watch| iney’s forehead wrinkled.|at Monica. ut he's still the| Surrounded by ainister figures in It was so funny that even the! charm containing a tiny BB shot, be rather serious?"|same de yellow-skinned| the robes and cowls of monks, By in the Enfield stands had/onco extracted from hia anatomy 2 smiled. [scoundrel whose habits I've mado a ho knew he was the h when thelr star pole| ‘That, he would admit, gave him his it'd be disastrou anybody at/lifestudy. I came here to get him Visitation from that, ped just ax first real head-start, home took Armitage seriously. AS) and, altho I've failed to do so scor honor highly coveted Id have t ———- far as 1 can make out, to be con-|of times, I've kept him on the ru «0 The lu demned by our Yejend in the mon-| There'd be the deuce to pay in 4 broke the s shion with which he crast thra| ocle is the finest recommendation| Borneo if he'd been left quietly| With, “Kind of late, aren't © bamboo c bar and the sur for promotign and increase of pay|to his own resources.” | “Lateness ty not inappropriate tn ised exprem n his face wh a police officer can hav | “And yet, said Monica, still un-|® visit to you,” the kesman de-|he iit muddenly in the pit were| leather sling carefully round the bi-| where he fs now." seemed to be malice aforethought. | event margin of points to ; poculars and consigned them to the| “No, but my men are beating the the hooded figures spoke Ini the riv team, tho debacle} eockroach-eaten case that hung/island pretty thoroly and, from Rise, base worm, gird t {te power to’ arntse eee ; from th 1 |what I gathered this morning,| Sef and come forth to trial MoVey, ste none too} PARIS, Aug.18 18._what So ag “And all this,” he complained,|they're getting warm.” Srna PenEee A scien reat aS v tio, Gas suabe-vislote Of Wadreanad st “when I'm up to my eyes in work! “This morning! But you haven't| ordeals to test od thou be wo Jot the 10 rd dash, felt many a h adeors rf eas ahekniers ts Hoth Monica'll have to entertain him,| been out!" aE bige Merce A ped Dale 08, G70. GO 5 hifi 386) WINON, | Tc cbarad a0'tHe ota WhiGhY BA | that’s all.’ | Pennington’s face wrinkled. protoste for he realized that now his col-|!# age 2 a ie one which f r “T ike that! “I'm going to let you into a state know go's hopes ot. vi on rested Inrge.| Konnt erevunte * @aladed Ahtsdeal | "I thought you would. Our visitor|/secret. Did you happen to hear a RR on him. He'd jump that gun, | Colonial Seats. = isoecre to be a perfectly harmless|Dusun gong beating between 9 and| house on fenst-days and times! ne would wh t ala he are 3 is i ae ones 2 | of idiot, altho a bit of a bore.” | 107 a a sue starter. called thans yall: \pek? | 4 Birsa bere Seve bo wees r| “Yes, sald the commissioner; ‘T| “That would have been a pilty.”| Tt would show ‘em he wasn't going isda, pare pees smanics for, hold- & monocie,” asserted Monica wisely.|had half a mind to send an orderly| returned the other, “because Tito bo Inte thig time. No more| °F Of national bonds *I warn you, Peter, that if you at-| de and have it stopped. I only|#hould have lost the interesting | traj and finishing fourth for] Pierre, his obligatory of military erst with Jack to| permit gong-beating in the vicinity| Portion of a mo breezy him nervice finished, decided to enlist for conspire “Nowe pinks” | wrote Nick \ (Ce (Copyright, 1923, by Seattle Star) tinued in Ow Sa i from tho zone of war | And then as he dug his spikes|five years more because ho could not Hewitt grabbed his hat from A) in the starting holes, Stick knew|mako a living in his native village. | ADVE NTURES per. with a horrible certainty that he|He has four years to serve and there | “The worthy major has found his) wax not going to be able to jump|!8 no way out. His fifty-franc bond | OF THE T wi NS way to our slopa. All things con-/ the gun. Not even with the gruol-|brought him a million, He's all tuned | sidered, {t would be as well per! ling training the Mu Nus had ad.| UP to spend it, but | &Y Olive Roberts Barton if I went to meet him.” ministered the night before to put| “Alles!. Hop! Oh, there, Rascalou, | “¥@i don't want mo, by &@nY| fighting spirit into him. Long-|don't think because you're a millfon- ia chance?’ inquired Pennington x tit Sead oo Vateerie. = Hol ale you. can Go any. ecldlerinee MRS. UPSEDAISY’S BABY chan ,| formed habit was strong. jaire 3 any ‘soldiering IRS. “Not unless you particularly want) knew in his heart, that just as he|around here! |to come.” | wag deciding to beat the starter’s! ‘This, at least ten times a day, from a3 eae a vee a set ane gun by @ split second, the darn] pis gous-leutenant. | commiasione 4 gained the so SEN rae oak a Ra ahead earth outside, then dived for the|tmee forward’ too late, in, the dust |, “WHY the last flve.rounds aro on asmbeway: i'm Off be sAded| oe ae eee | Raoslow. of course! e's a mail| 5 . of the field, Monaire!”: to Monica. | Before he started, he was a beat. . | “Coward? Pees This, from his regimental pals, t in the Je As a matter “Ready!” ordered the start levery time they visit a cafe. | of fact, I once took $100 from our) wight runners rose from their} Weak-kneed and huggard, Rascal- | monocled friend at poker—and he| paunches and caught their light,|lou gets back to the barracks at { doesn’t altogether cotton to me!” | sure balances with hands resting pak m. ‘Then ho gets this: A second latér and he had disap) tho cinder track “Sergeant, the jug for yours. A peared altogether. Mrs. Viney came | t set!” The crouching bodies | millic eh at makes of tho| forward to greet Mayor James Lacy] of the eight bent forward, every|nothing here. You're going just like j Armit x | muscle at its utmost tens and] tho rest.” | “Delighted,” sald the owner of = anes b sd susie Sela | the monocle | | | “Won't you sit down?" Inquired| : fate 4 ; ; Mc ta Pa ones : Cynthia Grey is taking a 10 days’ vacation. All letters “The major accepted her invitation|| sent to this department during her absence will be and deposited himself in the m answered as promptly as possible upon her return. comfortable chair within reach. \ a“ “Where can I stow my kit?” de ‘My baby has sae out of his crib” manded Artiltage,. bavitig fied |himself that nothing was missing “Please go out and count nor ald head! said Mrs, Upsedalsy. |" uyouwg ike to keep it all under sald King Snookums to Nick. a baldr® wrote Nick jyour eye, I suppose. I'll get my V4 Meals f T id D. out and count all the Pee Wees wo teeth!” sald Mra, Upsedaisy. !iyy ¢0 goo it into your room, | ero Meals ror Lorri ays And soe {f they are here, will you?" eth Cort ewaae eae See | hope you'll be with us some} Has the hot weather put you and yours oft food? Do you find 4 Sw Jour | “Round and fat," sald Mrs, Upee-| time,” ad¢ Monica, anxious to steaks, pork chops, stews, plum pudding, ete, too much these hot out went Nick with a big | daisy. satisfy her curiosity days? Wouldn't you lke the recipes for a long lst of cool dinners horn. Fat and round,” wrote Nick né major started for hot days? If you would, then fill out this bulletin and send it ‘Toot, tooty, toot!’ te blew. “Are " said Mrs, Upsedaisy indig —er—I'm rather afraid not, to the Washington bureau of The Seattle Star, 1322 New York aye. all the noses here? Will everyone , “You're getting him upside} Mrs, Viney, I've been sent here on Washington, D, C. Please to count his nose and tell me|down, He isn’t upside down |a rather important mission and | if anybody is missing? Not upside down!” wrote Nick | don't count on remaining in Borneo Suddenly Mrs. Upsedaisy rushed joodness, you must be crazy,” |for more than m few days i Washington Bureau, The Seattle Star, vs nd grabbed him, “My baby has|cried the little Pee ¥ y.| Armitage turned to the commis 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D, ©. ska | out of ‘his ert ' she | “That's no way ta find a baby." | Ahtiat une avon: Janoh i” Please send me a copy of the free bulletin, “Cool Dinners iam 4 , bess I can't coun Ny “Ie this your baby?" pies dd ae said Hewitt prompt | for Hot Days,” for which I inclose two cents in stamps for one because it went 1 him, My ng in. “Mra, Robin thought he | r mt 4 , | ot of an optimist,” ex: postage. darling Upsy Upsedaisy! He's gone! | was a bug and picked him. up by| val le Ra! 4 gee decid Kidnaped! or . plained the girl tell you the \ & ia i! Oh, what'll I do?’ And | mistake.” 9 u1 truth, we're helplessly at the NAMO...scsrcccvecrccevarervescceeseeseeeeseereeereeccccace ands ee ady wrung her ‘Oh, the horrid thing!” screamed rr crey.of our Chinese boy . Mr. Pen-| ow a awful y's mother, “How awful nington got him for us, princtpally | Street and Nov... et did k like?” asked Toot, tooty, toot!" went Nick on|pacnuae he's somehow managed to Nick, stopping his tooty tooting, |his horn as he strode back to King |<. ‘ red of the Yellow Sev and tak earn the hatred Cit deere ean dvinsiisrv¥ ea uve peyeneei cbicsvebene king out his book and lead | Snookums en—and of course he feels safer dhe waded Lad Aan 1 have to take his do| ‘All noses safe and sound!” he re-| under the roof of the commission: iy ae #0 we can look for him." | ported. "Everybody safe in Peo Wee | oy police, He's good at his work, Lt erent teeter rt Sete e eee Teeeeer ee Steerer ec ss pulckly, %"” Mld Mra. 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