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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1931.
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Gems of Peril
BEGIN HERE, TO-DAY,
11 M Inter, wife of the milionair
sulatedili muvudnehrer, give som
HAZEL IROSS HAILEY
WAR
Bul Resale lingered, unconvineed, Firm conviction that Mary about to be ejected from the house- hold in disfavour, made her bold. And jealousy of the girl who was, In her eyes, no more than a fellow- servant, but who gave barself such Fairs, sharpened her tongue for the
meal ditines and dange for ber mere1A2z spoken to you about IL last night, I thrust,
binebladed ruling lawyer,
Mary Ilarko v mity Dirk Hurther, este, only 1 trusted to your good. She shook her hend reprovingly.
Rary receives a telephone rali from her judgment to keep still." scaperetne brather, Eddie. nyit e t
podhle and must wer her. The boune
Io shouldn't ought to have come
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The frailty of this plea was ap-back like that," she said righteous-
*teletly uarded nibal centre parent to her even as she made it. y. "uot after Mr. Jupiler told him
aute Mr. Jupiter in wearing the famous Bessie's Jupiler rubles.
Mary Arrangers for Bilde to bu
retty. When win een upstairs to meet
tilane Ariela Blow, Jupiter rolled and inter- tered in her mom Hecking Dirk, she fails him with Kurmali Talor, his Phldhood swcechenzt. balak advises her, to keep allent
What Balbe mutil for en bra the Iny Bawen, reporter fur the Stur, shows untauri Interest in the ran Mary entches Heal a mald, trying So tell Bowen
Eddle airponed visit.
CHAPTER VII
There Whs time
for
су shifted away.
"I don't want the police coming į
after me," she repeated.
what he did."
"Told him? Mr. Jupiter? When was this?"
"Last week when your brother
Mary forced a laugh. "They won't. Of course it was came. You was aut, and Mr. Jupiter to see him in the wrong to leave the door open came down
is you did. Bessie. Anyone might library. And Mr. Jupiter told him
have entre in and I'm terribly he was a young smart aleck that afraid someone did. Oh, I'm not needed a lesson
4 lunch myself for not having attended to die. tray and n uap before she must it. I'd no business leaving it be ready to nicat Dirk. He had
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and he wouldn't blaming you," she held out her io a penny to pay a gambler's
debts. hand platingly as Bessie's eyes flashed resentfully. "I'ma blaming
Mary leaned weakly against the
now it? What else did they say?" was hero, and I didn't
not said so, but Mary fell that they
"I think he wanted to borrow a im-room, you know that, Miss mary!" Rat Mr. Jupiter told him he was a Oh, a lot of money. must be going to see Eddie, patience made her restless, but the girl said, secusingly. "It was
out! weariness finally put her to sleep. Barciny's place to watch the door." disgrace to his slater, and to
And he When Della woke her there "I know that." Mary agreed, and earn It like a man. just time for a quick tub and into wearily. She must not give way to bier's grave if he went on as he was told him he was headed for a gam- her clothes before Dirit was due to her fears before the girl, she re-ti doing, and not to show his face
arrive.
Sho put the little black
you place was in the dining. lot of money,
Professor Piccard, the famous balloonist, who now aspires to vis
Lo a height of 100,000 fart.
with dreas on again—it was a shamembered, und drew herself upper #guin Your brother was just of the Central Board of Finance of the Church Assembly, which proposes to restore
nad that was sultable.
But she
with a rensuring smile.
and he called him back and "Well, it's possible we've neither old. For your
going, brightened it with a beige fur of us anything to
sister's sake, I'll feel to blame inckel and toque, and pinned on for," she said. "After all, we don'i
| give you a
Bessie warmed to her subject, in- hur shoulder a few of the freshest know ther
anyone came in then. buts from last night's corsage of Not even
Mr. Eddie. In fact, Ipired by the impresston she was creating on the girl she disliked. tea-rosos, now blooming in water don't believe he came at all."
"Perhaps I shouldn't ought to tell on her dressing-table.
Dirk had had tears enough from The mald's look of interest sur-Mary faltered. "What did Eddie her and Cornelia both, she thought prised her.
fondly. Mrs. Jupiter, if she knew,
"Oh It was Mr. Eddie you were
Bay ?!
"Oh, he didn't say much-he just looked at him. And he aald, No. yes," sald Mary, wonder thank you. I might have known I felt
would not mind her brightening up/cy?" It was a mistake, you wouldn't understand."
a bit for his sake. To make up for what weeping and worry hud dorie | Ingly.
Davington Priory, near Faversham. Kant, has now come into the posERALICA
the church and scatinus the servidas. The building attached to the church was a Aunnery until the reign of Henry VIII. Our picture shows the cloister garth
(Times copyright).
things to reproach the girl. After ull, one had only to glimpse that pretty, shallow face to know that loyalty was not in her. And tech- tifcally she was perfectly in the
right.
wasn't going to have them blaming ME" Bossia repeated by way of excuse.
Mary waved her away, and with a defiant swlab of trim grey skirta she left the room.
Mr. Jupiter was having his post- luncheon nap and there was no time to see him anyway. It was nearly three by her wrist-watch and Dirk was waiting. She hurried down the stairs.
to her eyes she made her mouth but the name had slipped out before sorry for the kid, honest! He vivid with lipallek. She had just ane thought. She couldn't remem looked--sick, and he stood no stiff patted and pulled into place, onber whether she had mentioned Ed- and straight. I lot him out-it was cach check shining loops of dark, die at the time she spoke to the Spence's day off and he was at the mahogany-brown mir, and was maid last night, or not; if she had pictures. He stood outside the door looking for fresh gloves, when the the girl had probably forgotten, ja minute honest, I thought he was parlor-maid. Bossle, appeared at and now she had reminded her gonna ery, And then he went the door.
But why did the maid care? away." "Gentleman to see you, Ming Harkness,"
"Only what?"
She waited, but there was no ap- The mald lowered her voice fear-preciative response from her nu crispness and formality of the fully. "Does Mr. Jupiter know"dience. Mary was staring past girl's tone. Besalo's mouth was Mary flushed. "Why shouldn't her dazedly into the face of a deep-fire was not Dirk. it was the Star faintly malicious: hor noso www he?" sho equivocated. Ufted superelliously. With all her
the
Mary Coked around, surprised it |
Inga hing. Only
or humiliation than she had ever
effort at nonchalante, though, teli-] know you't think he'd like it, if ha(known.
tale red overspread her fontures;
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you see," the mold finished. "Eddie? But auroly-he's alwaye | "he didn't ought to have come back ale looked exactly like the cat that come to see me whenever he liked like that. I wouldn't ever have
As for it's being so late or rather, sald a word, if P'd known." had lapped up the cream.
"You'vo "You haven't been talking to that so early-he know there was
told Mr. Jupiter, then?" reporter any more, have you, Besparty and he wasn't disturbing any
"Not him. The reporter. Well, slo?" askod Mary sharply.
he asked me," she bridled virtu one
Immediately she regretted hay-ously, "and what could I say 1'!: will all be explained very shortly, ing attempted to justify her actions You might have said nothing." But you mustn't talk about it to to the sorvant. She turned away Mary thought but she was too.00- anyone just yet. I would have to bring the subject to an end. cupied with this new phase of
"They won't blame you, allly! It
But the man who rose from a half-sitting, half-reclining position
in the big armchair by the library
reporter, Bowen.
Mary turned to go, but he halted her with a word.
"Plcare. Miss Harkness-don't go. I must see you for a minute." Mary looked about uncertainly for Dirk. He must be hero some- where or was this the "gentleman to nee
noutica,u," whom Bessie had an«
5 "I'm Aorry. I can't talk to you. I'm going out. And besides, she bit her ins to still their tell-taln trembling, and her volco broke.
"I'm too upset."
Bowen had reached her side with agility remarkable in a man of his Henerally rotund appearance. Sv far as tact would permit, he had placed himself between her and the door, and cut off her retreat. If was presumption but this was a hig story and he couldn't afford to fall. know I must seem a callous brute," he said, "asking you ques tions just at this time. But in the very nature of things, you know. newa can't wait. And there's some- thing that you and no one else, can tell me
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Mary nail resignedly, "I BUD pose you mean about my brother." And could not resfat adding. " should have thought your inter- views with the sorvants would have the material you given you all need,"
"Let's get down to business, Miss Harkness. Why didn't you tell In- *pector Kane that your brother was here last night?"
Because, Mary retorted, "I don't know that ho was. And not. ther does
elsa." anyona You expected him, though?"" Yes. He telephoned, me “about” half after 18 that he was in trouble, and, must see me at dhidës “The (Continued on Pope 10.)
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