WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER'I9, 192? \
IM TO TOMB
8! FWffl SPEAKERS
First Session of Walker’s Tax
Commission Hears Several
Speakers at Rome
ROME, Sept 19. Northwest
Georgians favor a state income tax,
it would seem from those who ap
peared before Governor Walker’s
tax commission here.
Os the dozen or more speakers
who appeared representing various
interests, a major’ty openly advo
cated an income tax as the most
equitable of all forms of taxation.
It was pot made plain in some
cases, however, whether the speak
er would have the income tax take
the place of all other forms of l tax
ation or whether they want this
Sitrip.y as an addition?.! tax reve
nue.
There was a much larger crowd
present at the tax commission’s
session than had been expected;
The commissioners’ assembly room
in the city hall was well filled.
Quite a number of those present
came from outside Rome and
Floyd county, too, in fact almost
every county in the Seventh dis
trict was represented.
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CORDELE, Sept. 19—Walter
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one year of football experience
and he is a leader among the boys
of his age. Pye has ben trusted
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quarterback and has been directing
the play to the satisfaction of the
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Coach Mardre, formerly of Au
burn is guiding the football des
tiny of the institution. A large
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year are on hand as nucleus around
which the eleven will built.
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This unusual series of stories
deals with the exploits of ’“Chi
nese” Pennington, a detective
sent by his government to Bri
tish North Borneo to run to earth
The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chi
nese bandits.
Enid Bromley—dark, small-fea
turted and effective , dropped her
racket on to the grass and sank into
a chair byHewitt’s side.
“I’m afraid I gave you an awful
let-down in the last set,” she mur
mured. ‘‘l’m frightfully sorry.”
Captain John Hewitt—Commis
sioner of Police at Jesselton, B. N.
8., —passed a hand through his
dark hair.
“Not at all,” he returned gal
lantly.
“Just fancy,” put in Monica. “She
says she hasn’t touched a racket for
18 months. You look tired, Mr.
Dawson.” She smiled toward a
stout red-faced man who blinked at
her through a sea of'perspiration.
“Pm not tired, Mrs. Viney,” de
clared Dawson, “I’m hot!” He set
tled himself down on the turf at
their feet.
“You’d scarcely credit it, Miss
Bromley, but I’ve been spending
the best part of three weeks grovel
ing on my tummy, wriggling like
some jolly old serpent after a Chi
nese brigand with a fancy name.”
“It sounds thrilling.”
“It wasn’t half so thrilling as it
sounds! Mrs. Viney—-the charming
widow on my left—has snaffled the
affection of the only man on the
island who can wriggle gracefully
and effectively—and that’s Chinese
Pennington.”
“Did you catch your bandit?”
Dawson had turned again and was
gazing down the slope toward the
palm-clad shores of the bay.
“Not altogether,” he confessed.
Enid looked puzzled.
“rfawson’s endeavoring to ac
hieve the impossible,” broke in the
Commissioner. “He’s trying to
appear deep! Taken on the whole
Borneo’s a nice comfortable little
placed but for some time past
we’ve been having trouble with an
Oriental who calls himself Chai-
Hung. Pennington and Dawson
set out together to round up the
Yellow Seven—that’s the some
what picturesque title of the gang.
Chai-Hung was to clever for them
but, in the sort of general mix-up,
his second-in-command was put out
of his immediate bodyguard. To
all intents and purposes, Chai-
Hung controls the movements of
every Chinaman on the islahd.”
“Isn’t that rMher serious? I be
lieve father said that all his coolies
were Chinese.”
“The majority of managers em
ploy Chinese labor. The allegi
ance of the more scattered mem
bers of the organization is for
tunately passive, but so great is
their fear of the bandit himself
and the little yellow card with the
seven black dots, that they would
•think twice before disobeying his
commands.”
“Jack,” said Monica, touching
her brother’s sleeve, “when you’ve
finished frightening Miss Bromley
with tales of your brigand, do you
think you could muster up energj
to order something with ice in it?”
The Commissioner- started to his
feet. •
“By Jove! I’m fearfully sorry.
Come along, Dawson.’
The two men mounted the wood
en stairs together and passed
through an open doorway, making
their way toward the general room
in which the bar was situated.
Hewitt had just completed the
order for his sister and Enid Brom
ley and was turning in search of
Dawson, when his eye lit upon two
long legs protruding from the low
er portion of a long chair. H'e
crossed the intervening space on
tip-toe. The occupant of the chair
beamed up at him.
“Hullo, old son! I was wonder
ing when you were going to turn
up.
“Peter’,” returned the Commis
sioner reproachfully, “if you have
lost every shred of respect for reg
gulations—and myself, ypu might
at least have had the decency to re
port your arrival to Monica!”
The man with the Chinese eyes
remained unmoved.
“I called at the bungalow—but
your ordery informed me you were
eating the air! I came on here to
find Jou absorbed in a game of
tennis.”
“Hullo, you old devil!” greeted
Dawson.
Pennington rose wearily.
“Jack; whos’ the lady?”
They converged around a bam
boo table and a Chinese boy set
a tray in front of them.
Hewitt rubbed his hands togeth
er.
“What d’you think of her? Not
bad, eh?”
“She’s not bad,” conceded Pen
nington. “But on the thin side!
Not feeling smitten, I hope?”
Hewitt changed the subject ab
ruptly.
“How’s the Yellow Seven affair
proceeding?’*
“You know: we settled Nyi-Hau
—the feller responsible for looting
a train?”
The Commissioner moved rest
lessly.
Dawson told me. I gather
Moorhouse had a narrow squeak.
Chai-Hung escaped by a window—
and you followed. What happened
then?”
Peter Pennington crossed his
legs and stared pensively through
the doorway.
. “I set my jungle-telegraph buz
zing, rounded up my little crowd
of brown-skinned agents and suc
ceeded in roping in the young men
of a local village. We got going
and fell upon the bandit’s body
guard hip and thigh. Chai-Hun,*
wormed his way out of the charm
ed circle, headed for the river •
and left the island in a tong-kong,
disguised as cargo of some sort or
other.”
Hewitt sprang to his feet.
“You don’t mean to tell me he’s
left Borneo?”
The other nodded.
“It’s even whispered that he
spent a couple of nights in Singa
pore ; but,” e added reassuringly,
“he’s sneaked back again and suc
ceded in making a landing at Ru
dat—under the eyes of our own
people.”
Dawson whistled softly.
“Know where he is?”
“Within limits—yes. There’s
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something- afoot, however, that I
don’t exactly understand. My chief
of staff—Rabat-Pilai knocked
across a prominent member of the
Yellow Seven the night before last.
I haven’t inquired too closely into
the exact methods employed to ex
tort the information, but the
blighter went as far to admit the
posibility of a gigantic coup.”
“Where is this feller now?” ask
ed Dawson.
A far-away expression had come
into Pennington’s eyes.
“It turned out that he was the
man who held Rabat-Pilai’s arms
while Chai-Hung tortured him.”
Hewitt shuddered.
“I don’t think you need tell us
any more.”
“I shall be going up-country
again tomorrow. To tell you the
truth, I’ve been having a pretty
tough time of it. I just ached for
a suit of decent clothes, a smell of
the sea and a look at you all.”
The steward approached them.
His tray held two empty glasses
from which straws protruded—and
a leaf torn from Monica’s note
book. Hewitt glanced at it.
Te girls have gone on home,”
he announced. “Dawson, old, son,
we’re counting on you for makan.”
H'e looked at Pennington. You’ll
d ! ne with us, of course?”
“Thanks. I’m still in ignorance
as to the identity of your charm
ing partner at tehnis.”
Dawson grinned, ? 1
“The lady with the blue-black
tresses in a certain Er id Bromley
—daugter of Chard Bromley, new
manager of the Baniak-Baniak rub
ber estate. Sheltering himself be
hind the plausible excuse that the
late manager was assassinated by
the Yellow Seven and that the dis
trict wasn’t any too healthy for a
white girl, our scheming superior
has arranged for Miss Enid to oc
cupy a spare room in his bungalow
and keep Mi's. Viney company.”
“Shut up, Dawson! The point
chat ought to interest you, Peter,
is that Bromerly’s London direc
tors are offering a reward of SIOOO
for the arrest of Chai-Hung.”
“Are they, by Jove? A new man
ager at Baniak-Baniak, too! That
accounts for the activity I notic
ed when I passed through.”
“What sort of activity?”
“They’re tackling that new area
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got a crowd of natives hewing the
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in search of somebody then
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The man with the extraordinary
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you doing here?”
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voice.
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Sinagpore, so they thought I’d lixe
the trip. I caught sight of Ghai-
Hung for a couple of seconds out
side Raffles, tracked him to La
buan—and then lost the trail alto
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“Good man! Hewitt, this is
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nne! Mr. Gwynne—Mr. Dawsoip"
He sat down again.
“So you actually saw Chafc-
Hung?” said the Commissioner
presently.
Gwynne nodded. He was a short
sturdy youth, square-headed and
fair-headed. •
“Just before the trouble began
out here, I met Chai-Hung at Joh
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