THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1931. LORD MAYOR'S SHOW IN LONDON: SPRINGBOKS IN ACTION.
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Gems of Peril
CHAPTER 1.
Mary Harkness,
dancing with!
HAZEL ROHAZELEY
Dirk Buyther's arm abeat her,ut any except Dirk, and didn't¦ thought she had never been afiki in the least. happy in her life. Not even that, "It's a grand party," Mary re- night in the garden a short while marked with a deep sigh of con- ago when she and Dirk had first:tentment. known they layed one another. Not fact that anybody I know has ever The grandest party in Lonight at dinner with d her had. Mrs. Jupiter must be Santa friends grouped about the Bowers Claus, to have done all this for me." banked, fable. Mr. Jupiter pro...) Dirk smiled, but he was not ton posing a toast. Everyone's eyes pleased; he was in that atage of apon them, merry and mocking, and love in which he was jealous even trying to appear surprised.
jof her gratitude. If people were to Not even yesterday when she had do things for her, he was the one tried on before the pierglass in her to do them. Nice of the old lady, room the first Paris dress she, bad surely; but from now on Mary was ever owned. All these were rungs, his
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The South Africans opened the scoring in their game with Cambridge University at Cambridge and our picture shows the scoring of South Africa's second try by J. MacDonald, following « scrummage merr the line. South Africa won by 21 paints to 9. (Tinea copyright).
for me
resumed his bantering fonte,
"Will you do as nich sometime?" he asked lightly.
"Of course," Mary laughed, waggling the Anger that hell her engagement ring under his nose. "Don't drag this enormous rock jaronad with me all the time though. jit
nearly wrenches my arta off?" "Den't joer. Some day I'll turn gott louse in the dime store and you can go the limit, my girl?"
fust Hen Mary caught sight of doorway; his eyes roved the ro Spence's silver thatch in the hall anxiously. Mary slipped out Dirk's arms.
of
"It's Mr. Eddie, Miss Mary. He's on the telephone."
"Eddie? You mean my brother, Eddie?" Rennte into her mind. irrelevantly, that it was after mis- night. Why should Eddie call her at such an hour?
She went toward the telephone, :
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In the ladder of her present hap-| "Yes," he agreed, after observing a strange uneasiness clutching at pluers But when you were as his hostess judicially from a dis-her heart. completely, as idiotically blissful, fance. "She looks rather like a as she was at this moment, you hud Christmas tree from here." lo do.nomething about it, and this was what she wanted to do-just dance, dance on forever with Dirk's
an
Our picture showa J. H. van der Westhuizen, the South African three-quarter back, getting through to score the first try against Cambridge University recently-(Times copyright),
had died, a suicide, and her mother and she could imagine the gem-ing to think what the trouble might a listless eye. At her side, Malooked up she saw just ahead of
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But what was odd was
that
Mary turned away from the tele-no reason for what she did during tell her what to do than his wife Mary squeezed his hand in quick phone with deep misgivings. The the next few minutes-or for what would. She knew she would find in.
few frightened, jerky sentences her she failed to do. Even to herself. him outside somewhere, roaming "Don't!" she said. Mrs, Jupiter's brother had gasped out filled her wild with regret and self-accusation, around the grounds, smoking, laten. arm about her, his dark lean face manner of dress might be showy with alarm that grew deeper the it seemed as if she might have told Ing to the music as it. filtered out close to hers, his lips at her er loven to the point of vulgarity, but more she thought about it. murmuring tender banter, while the Mary's loyalty would not let her
somebody found someone to share to him, mercifully mellowed by dis slow rhythm of the tango carried minit it, even to Dirk.
Something must be very wrong with her the awful responsibility tance. She would go out by way indeed to have upset her brother's for what came after. But at the of the terrace, and look all round them dreamily down the length of "I know you're fond of the old cool self-possession in any the great ballroom on its sensuous soul." Dirk answered reasonably, manner, if there was anything What she did seemed the only thing
such time her reasons seemed excellent, the house. Hide
"but honestly, where does she get Mr. Edward Harkness Junior had to do.
As she moved enutiously along A Paris dress! And five years at the doo-dadis? And why wear prided himself on since his prep
the wall, avoiding the heels and ago she couldn't have bought one them all at the same time?"
The door had cleared during an elbowa of the swooping couples as school days, It was his nonchalance, interval in the dancing and across best she could, ahe had to pause Fifth Avenue, not even at al Mary caught a glimpse of her "A man of the world"-that was the room she caught sight of Mrs. once to rub tenderly an ankle-bone marked-down sale. That dress, like employer's impressive coiffure with Eddie, always. What could have fupiter, magnificent in gold lame which had been the target for everything else good that had come its glittering bandeau of diamonds, agitated him eo7 lo her in the years since her father between the heads of the dancers.
and far too many jewels, seated on somebody's French heel. As she Mary sat still for a moment, try a divan, watching the dancing with soon after, had been the Jupiters' bing expanse below. It was really be. All that betting
in the corner, Dirk and Cor her. gift. She owed them everything too bad people talked about it, and races it was gambling, of course, forward progress,
on horse-noticed just in time to check her nella dancing-if they were danc- even Dirk, In
i way. If the poked fun at her. But Mary, who and against the law. Eddie had mother, a pale woman in grey at all.
Dirk's ing. They seemed hardly to move younger member of Barther and knew why she did it. felt a twinge had one or two skirmishes with the chiffon who seemed to be thinking Ruyther, Mr. Jupiter's personal of shame that attorneys, Ind not had to make so ver it, list other people could not police before for the unconventional "Ratha a nice party--but horribly Cornelis was crying. Mary could
It was not because manner in which he drove his overdone!" many visits to the hinse with she was vain or fond of show, roadster. It might be that-kie
see I even though Dirk's back was satchel of legal papers when the vid "She doesn't do it beenuse she's might have struck somebody, and once to Mrs. Jupiter and tell her curious eyes. Once he looked about It would have been easy to go at toward her, shielding the girl from gentleman's rheumatism kept him silly, or doesn't know any better," be running indoors she and Dirk might never
after him. The very Mrs. Ruyther. She was, Mary haded white and strained. have met.
it to please Dad. He gave them to thought left her sick with shame to admit to herself, a congenital Well! That was a surprise. She her, you know. Those rabies--has and fright. Or he might Just now, when it seemed that her she got them on--are simply money. She tried to think how Dirk for a son, he would never be much, enough to make a spectacle need snob, and a priggish one. Withhadn't thought Cornelin, cared that happiness had reached its crest, an inexplicable feeling of fear careless. They're heavy to wear much she had.
Eddie's of herself. and an awful responsibility. She over her. The world had dropped has to keep a contant look-out for the doorman I'm coming, anil to let Mary felt miserably that she had-go forward and let them know What in the world should she do from beneath her feet once; it thieves. But J. J. is so proud that me in. might again. Staring into the past he's rich enough to give them to She had told him to come ahendt, with the Impeccable Ruyther family was to rescue Dirk there and then. Well, what could she do? little enough to bring to her union ahe had sten? Her first impulse with tragic, unseeing eves, she put her, and all the diamonds and other but to come round to the side door; just herself and a name that had Let Cornella go and cry on some her hand to her throat, which ached things, that she wouldn't leave she would leave word that he was never been brought to shame. If body else; there with pent-up tears.
them ost for nnything in the to be admitted. He could go right that scant dowry was in danger men present who would gladly dry Dirk tightened his arm about her.
world," sensing her mood.
up to her room, and she would go Mrs. Ruyther must not know... Dirk was absorbed in watching later and see what was up.
the tears of the heiress to
so many on't cry, little gist," he gibed, Mary as she talked; earnestness.
millions. Dirk must feel on nwfal "you don't have to marry me. and the unusual animation of the mitting him to come here, to seck happy: she looked tired and uncom.
That she had done wrong in per- Mrs. Jupiter did not look any too bruto. can always jump off a bridge-orj moment, became her, His amused sanctuary in the Jupiters' house, fortable. The strain of being nice As she hesitated, Dirk evidently marry Greta Garbo,"
resolved to get Cornelia away be- estimate of the Jupiters went down without asking their consent, did to Mrs. Ruyther was telling on when't a tnetful thing to under the force of her admiration, not occur to her at the moment. It naturally jolly disposition. From horself; holding her arm firmly, he she made a complete fool of say, he realized in dismay even ns which was both sincere and deep. he said It-that about Jumping atf
was only afterward, as she sat the grimaces she made from time moved with her toward the wide bridro. How had her father done
thinking it over, that she thought to time, Mary judged with amuse-door opening on the terrace. She Looking down into the flushed, about that. it? Polson, he thought. But serious face of the girl he loved,
ment
that her shoes hurt, into the She got up and went back to the bargain.
reached the door just in time to Mary laughed her mood vanished he forgot everything for a time ballroom. She must find Mrs. as quickly ag
see them stop outside the circle of, it came. Greta except how lovely she was, and that Jupiter or her husband right away trouble to these from which that appear into the dark grounds,
No, she would not add her own light from the doorway and dis- Garbo was their name for the girl she was his.
and tell them what she had done. poor old woman was already suffer- Mary could have stamped her foot who bad never quito given Dirk up She had stoppad speaking for She did not really belleve that eithering. --Cornelis Tabor, of the silk milia some minutos before he was aware of them would mind.
♦ with annoyance-If it had not al- Tabors, who had everything money of it. He drew a deep breath and
Mr. Jupiter would be somewhere ready hurt. Bhe could not follow Afterward, there seemed to be about-he would be better able to
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