THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1991.
DANISH LANDING IN ENGLAND: PAGEANTRY ON THE EAST COAST
Our picture shows one of the "Danish_galloys" laden with fierce looking "invaders", which took part in the recent historical pageant, commmerating the landing of the Dams in England in 670 A. D. Prince George was among the hundreds of spectators~{Copyright, Proses-Photo).
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A particularly affactive picture taken during the performance of an historical play in England, dealing with the landing of the Danai. Note the queer emblem on the sail--(Copyright, Prosse-Photo, Berlin).
Gems of Peril
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY,
Uld Mrs. Jupiter, fo of the monstre Automobile manufacturer, River Nige meat dinner and duties for ber meterelary
HAZEL IROSS HAILEY
And protege, Stary Harkness, who get robbed, but she had not given up marry Dirk Ruyther, son of a hieltooded; The necklace. With her last breath
famly
Mary receives telephone call from her he bad protected it; the coll of weapegrace brother. Edite, asying his in blood-red stones between her An- trouble and must see her. The house is gera testified to her success. The
wtrictly audio *gainst "Ente-Crate! @**
me Mr. Jupiter is wearing the the thief had not been able to get it
Juplier rubin,
Mary ranges for Flatlan secretly. What she "goes upstairs him bears acceasta n thew Mr. Jagler om
CHAPTER OF
.
away from her, but his haulked met Fury had cost her fire.
"Eddie!" There was no reply,
Could it be Eddie in there What would he be doing in Mr. Jupiter's room" e balms busi ness there unless the servants
directed him there in error, or had gone in there by mistake.
thoughts.
ithe
Spectators came from all over England to witness the brilliant his torical pageant, depicting the land. ing of the Danes on the East Coast Ốur photo shows some of the landing performers in their costumes. -(Copyright, Presne Photo, Berlin).
A scream broke from the girl's
With a reproachful lift of the
he Tip, and without looking where brows Ascended. Mary.
sh was lng she backed away)
watching the matter-of-fact buck Fearfully, ie if diwan dry a mar-, from the figure on the floor and moving upward an serenely, almost Het, Mary moved slowly forward, stumbled through the first door decided she must be mistaken. Outside the closed door Me that presented itself, the tror into urders and such don't happen Jupiter's sitting room she stopy 1, Mes, Jupiter's bedroom. She closWhere I am, that respectable back and called sharply, experimentally, ed the door and leaned against it,
seemed to say. "Eddie?" Then
July, shaking, her knees searly giving
under her. She tried to collect her find Bessie,
What she wanted now was to bul Bussic proved Siguse it had been money, then, hard to find. Tracked to earth in that Eddie needed.--
butler's pantry, munching
stumbling in her haste, opening slipped quickly down off the high She ran from or to room,murons glace and stuffed olives with the impartiality, Bessic doors, eiling. There was no sign He hadn't said anything about of disturbance in the other rooms.
stool whe Was perched On and bringing someone with him, though, fier own door was open. If Eddie confronted Mary sullenly, and some other person was in there had been there, he had gone. She Mary's white face and burning -the person he had been quarrel-stood in the hall, looking from one eyes, and the quiet, precise manner ing with. Suddenly she remom blank door to another, calling Scen question, puzzlet her. bered, and the realization stunned "Eddie-bay dear, where are gon? Scenting reproof, she took quick her. Mrs. Jupiter was in that The silence seemed unnatural, Sheafront, after the manner of her room. Hadn't she gone upstairs to broke into helpless sobs.
kind. take her shoes off? I had beent Suddenly it came to her that
"And how would I know 'who Mra. Jupiter's voice she heard.what she had been thinking was came in she retorted, pertly. "I Then whose-oh, dear God-whose simply fantastic. Eddie had had suppose I've had nothing to do but hand had fired those shots?
nothing to do with this. More than listen for the doorbell, with Perhaps there hadn't been any, likely the poor boy hnd not even this racket going on?" Her unbelieving mind was milling come yet. Something had happened Bessie obviously was cut out for about desperately.
Perhaps ano delay him. She looked at her the life of the party, and her sulk automobile had back-fired in the wrist-watch. Twenty minutes had ing was not unnatural. Relief drive. But that was nonsense elapsed since his telephone call. surged up in Mary's heart: the noise had been close, plain. She
Then you didn't let anybody! ran downstairs in fevorish You couldn't hear nuise from the haste.
telephone Eddie. He outside clearly in here, in this At the foot of the stairs she col- "They let themselves in, if they flat with two or three other young great heavy-walled house with the lided with Spence, who was just came the maid anapped. "I'd nomen, and because of them she thickly shuttered windows.
coming up. She grabbed him by time to be bouncing in and out of had never visited him. His tele-
in ?"
All
The 12-storey L.
ago and claimed to be x.
the Inft, built la Chicago 47 years orld's first skyscraper, will shortly give way to a 42 storey ski
An architect's drawing of the new structure, is shown at right. The old building was the first in which skalston metal framework was used.
use,
shared a
The silence began to tear at her the shoulders and held on while the side door when you told me. Snite link she had with him,
there. I just went and unlocked phone number was the only de-
I
off
left it
they opon, Ir came, they got in all right." Mary drew a long breath. "Thank you, Beasie."
•
•
Find
talking to the chauffeurs. him and bring him here, quick."
Teddy saluted alaborately. "I hear and obey," He turned himself around and started off, nerves. Gasping with excitement, she tried to get control of her voice. is, and
but suddenly stopped and clapped alte reached out suddenly and ferk-
A hand to his head. "By the way, "Oh, Spence! Spence! Go up to ed
open
Somenne answered, but it was who IS my host?" Then he the door. The room was Mrs. Jupiter's roam, quickly. Some brightly lighted, but empty. She thing's happened. She's hurt.
not Eddie. Eddie was not there, snapped his fingers. “Ah, I re- looked about, dumbfounded, almost think she's dead!"
Find not been there for three or member.
Now don't go way, ready to believe that her senses
It was not Bessie's fault; it was four days.
sweetheart I'll be right back" The old servitor held her had tricked her.
her own, if it was anybody's. Tho "I know something is the mat- He moved off, making exaggerat sternly, inspecting her reproach. Then she looked down-and there fully.
alde door was standing open us ter," Mary told him she was sureed motions of search, fifting cush- on the floor lay the crumpled fig- You're excited and overwrought, she passed. Nearly half an hour he was lying-"but I'm his sister. ions, spanking draperies, and in- ure of Mrs. Jupiter, the white hair Miss Mary. And no wonder, with Anybody might have come in, and lo called me about half an hour specting woodwork through a away where the diamond headdress all that's goin' on hereabouts to gone out. Could it be possible ago. It's very important. Don't nonexistent magnifying glass. She had been ruthlessly snatched from night. A man can't hear his own of all those jewels. If he were
A half-crazed boy,
oy, and the sight you know where he is?"
hnd not really expected any help It was it, the geld dress twisted about her thoughts," he added tartly, na desperately in need of money-boys were as worried as she was. seemed more than she could bear. quite hopeless. The from the fool but his silliness knoes, the poor wrinkled old face extemporaneous tap-dancing, con- But he would have waited. She Eddie seemed to have disappear- haggard but strongely peaceful test broke out beling them in the had never failed to get him out ed.
Suddenly she wanted Dirk ter- ribly. He would know what to under the searching glare of the ballroom, let alone knowing what
do. lights. An old pair of felt house he'll find when he turns a corner of ad the door and lock-. She wanted to go somewhere crossed it and a babble of voices his scrapes before.. Mary put up the recolver alow-The ballroom was deserted us she covered bar foot,
Mary hands, barren now of rings.
unexpected."
His thin nostrils quivered with ed tagme hours before Spence leave the telephone. Eddie might supper was being served,
and think, but she did not like to from the dining room told that still clutched something which she disdain as his upturned unze plek- It seemed held clasped tightly between the ed out the white blur of a girl's came down, and when he did he call again at any minute, and she and Cornelia were not there.
that wanted to be there. palms, still firmly grasped together frock encircled by the black-claimed to have forgotlea
She went out on the terrace. on her breast. It was the ruby arms of her escort, half hidden in that she was still standing in the lurched into the hallway. Teddy thom, ale felt sure. As she came she lived. He seemed surprised The figure of Teddy Doulton Some dark corner would yield But it was the spot in her fore- "I tell you it's true," Mary In-me spot where he had left her. always pretended to be drunker out on the walk that led to the head, just below the hairline, from sisted. "I heard them, and I've there for?" he barked as if she "line. He faneled himself na a below her. arrested her attention. "Well! What are you standing than he was. It was part of his lower garden, the sound of voices which a slow coze of blood trickled scen hier. Her rings are gone, and had been one and ran redly down the temple into the tiara, and her forehead-oh,
of the servants.comedian. Now he halled
bor
Two figures were swaying to shouts of delight.
gether on the very lip of the lily- the mow white hair, that drew you'll see, If you'll just go on upp "Find the Master! Quick! And with Mary's horrified gaze.
Barclay!" He snapped his fingers, "We thought you'd eloped!" he pool, the woman's white dress "Well, well, we'll soo," he replied, and the second man came trotting chortled gaily. Whore' Dirk?" brightly silhouetted against the Her distended eyes took in the testily, starting forward with ob whole scene with photographic vlous reluctance. "Indeed, I was post-haste.
His puzzled guza searched the dark. clarity before she realized its enor- just going up anyhow to answer fetch Dr. Jordan, and take him got rid
"Go right across the street and dark cor of him. Mary thought sobbing. "Let go of me, you
În valu. Anything to
will! I will, too!" she, was mity. For the first time it occurr-Mra. Jupiter's bell."
brate!", ed to hor as she stared at the still, "Ball?
up to the mistress' room as fast desperately
"Liston, Ted," she said quickly, It was Cornalin, and the man dishevelled figure, that Mrs. Jupi "Mrs. Jupiter rang for me, Miss
It was impossible not to obe, will you do something for me?" whose cheat she was pounding ter was dead. “
Marv, not two minutes ago. And
the old man as he cracitted, our He was compllant; but suspicious. with her flats as he held her firm- What had happened soomed quite would she be doing that if she were commands like a dull mergeant. "Then go and find your host for ly by the shoulders, was Dirk. -olear—Mrs. Jupiter had -boon killed?"
Mary, moved off, but stopped to me. He may be out in the driyo
(To be Continued).
necklace.
a turn of the stair.
ng you can,"
Dirk
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