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BEGIN HERE TO-DAY,
Isieh vid M. Jupiter is robbed and mur dered during an engagement party she is girlag for her sentrikty, Mary Harketers,
Mary's coigrace Beuther, Eddie, sun posed to have been in the house at the mandir
hour.
HAZEL TROSS HAILEY
TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1931.
want to be overheard, perhaps. I couldn't say there was anything Dirk Ruyther, blue-blooded young lawyer, more than that in his manner. Mazy's flauer, advises hire to keep silent about Nothing very damning in that, I having arranged to meet Eddle secreth, until sheld he can orale the by. Elde Eisa dianpresred.
Fay Quite natural under "Maer preventa a mould, Benale, from telling
Tess peculiar
circumstances Bowen, punier Neporter for the Star, abaul these. 1 was Ellie's Kapored vials. Ir telephens het for an explanation when he seemed
res just about to
to ask he ha fund Eddle and will take her in see
im thai afternoon, Dirk ovarilepr anto-breme hurried, suddenly. Ewen drives Mary to the tender teke said I can't talk now,
Slow by n car my he proves the
Ita deret Mary. Dellzleus in the hospital, he
nien By.
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Sound ed rather silly. I wonder what he
meant Hy broke off sudilerily,
Edille did not recover conscious-membering that he was talking to a reporter. "Some kid stuff, probably, Very likely meant noth- 'ng at all."
Howen asked the interest this very likely. Funny. though--ho's Information had for him. Oh,
been talking about a fly in there." He nodded toward the door of the hospital room. "Mmm. Well, I' be getting along. I'll fix it with the hospital to call me if he dies. Kane's coming over, I expect?"
Dirk podded reluctantly. "Ife'n on his way. kid if there's any chance at all."
Wants to talk to the The door of the boy's room beckon- a murse
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}ls sion of the story before he died. There were hours of suspense, for he was young and dying did not come easy to him, even with a race tured skull. But he was weak--he hadn't eaten march for days, accord- T to the pr
examining docter, who was also puzzled by the presence of of latk bruises on his body. But in the therare of any other informa- ition herttributed these to his fall, Sometimes he moved restlessly and bubbled. "Maybe he's trying En tell us something." Mary sug gested. But the others did not he
of
lleve it; they were pityingly silent.net a crack, and
Bowen drew Dirk side out e. "Mr. Ruyther? Please!" Dirk hearing and let his wrath sd hurriedly inside, where Dirk blamed himself here was the sound of bushed sob- miserably for his failure to reach shitting herself and Bowen
bing. The nurse closed the door. the rendezvous at the appointært
out, time, and what the reporter had to "Where's the nearest phone?" and "He's gone," she said. Bowen suld. tell him did not make him
any boited.
It was mat F-
thone
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tell yt 1 sow It! der-pure murder! Two feet fur-Baldle's death the one thing happen- weeks that followert ther over, and they'd have got med that Mary had never dreamed
By God, to get that gay could happen. That turn this town
upside down
that Get away
nothing happened at all. The days went by as usual and there was no Clem. I tell you it was all enre-, fully ralevated to the minute. Who- news of the sort she wanted to рез раза It was look a big chance, a Day after day her hopes swinging around under
rase, only to crumble again. pillars, Just as he tarned the cor big black car had got away clean,
er he deoded the cariniretor and no one but Bowen and herself the number-plade was hidden hyparently witnessed that lightning amoke."
swerve that had killed as eatly "Bai
and deliberately as a ballet, and the speeding ear had swung around Bowen shrugged. "I've got an to look at the number.
the corner before anyone thought idea he knows something about this at all it had turned into Fifth In no time
Aveni
apparently, and in the late Saturday afternoon crush of traflic been effeyely concealest when't right or massible that such a At first Mary was incredulous. It
thing
could re Complete in- deve upset all her ideas of justice munity for such a cold-blooded mur and led her to think not quite kind- ly of a Providence that let such things he.
why should anyone want to kill the loy
fansiter
ter
killing."
Rurther looked at him sharply. "Ah, the kit didn't do it, I don't mean that," the reporter answered. "I'll bet my hat this was a profes gional job. Somebody did the Jupi- job and hung it on Eddie. And when he went to tell, they got him "Perhaps you're right," Dirk re- Joined stiffly. He did not want to talk to Bowen, but one thing both- fered him. "What time was it when and Miss Harkness reached the
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The private investigators hired by Mr. Jupiter, to study his wife's murder-they were the two nien who had been hired to protect her and had tried so dismally-were confreres,
jained by two of their But the search led nowhere. Ther were numerous Lorimors in town, een a few aluminum-fitted "special
is might have been living yet. Be jobs," but they were all in the pos- I was convinced the thing seas
accident. Newspapermen lived session of well-in-do citizens with with sensation until they saw it the most unassailable reputations, where it did not exist. If he had ear that had dealt the death been disposed to think that some-blow har vanished off the face of sne had wished Eddie's death, the the earth. Probably,
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reney the values of both imports and Merchandise $45,222,83 $442,069,993 exports of merchandise during Novem Treasure
* 3,108,138 $ 8,794,041) her recorded the highest sterling totals, Total $48,328,972 $50,864,034 since the compilation of trade statis- Decline of Japanese Imporis. FIGURES.
tics was resuined by Government in During the month the decline in April, 1930.
Importa from Japan--first evidencod The decline of imports from
The statistical Branch of the Im-, in the October trade returna became BED ASAHI
Following the example of the Japair and the effect of the appre-ports and Exports Department re-more marked; the total value of imi German Government, the Austrian ciation of sterling value in Hong-perty that Imports wore declared to ports amounting to $1.7 millions as total value of £4.1 millions as com- compared with $2.6 millions in Novem- they reck Government has decreed a political
currency are important BEER antagonism he felt for the other oned, backed in a private, garage truce forbidding, public meetings points noted in
pared with £3.6 millions in November 1930. The chief decreases were the November ber 1980, while Exports totalled £3 in the Piece Goods and Foodstuffs man made him veer to the opposite where, where it would remain and demonstrations from Decem-statistical report, issued from the lions as against £2.7 millions. view.
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the affair should have been ber 19 to January --Rruter's Imports and Exports Office yester
In terms of Hongkong currency Im- 43.3 millions to slightly less than half forgetten, whence it would emerge Special Service.
porta totalled $60.3 millions, an in- a million, and the latter from $1.5 MITSUI He could not have explained the repainted, And, unless there was a
Sterling imports and exports crease of $5.2 millions as compared millions to $88,000. stiffness that cante inlo histipoll, might go undetected alto
are the highest recorded since the with November 1030, and Exports
Taking the two months of October BUSSAN manner when talking to the news-gether. If it had been a "hot" car
April, 1930, while the slump in millions. Statistical Office was opened in $15.2 millions, 20 increase of $3.2 and November 1931, total imports KAISHA paperman but it was strongly root- that is, stolen), it would have been
from Japan amounted to a value of Imports. An found deserted. The fact that it
Japanese trade resulted in a fall LTD.
$8.4 millions, as compared with $14.7 aversion to publicity was bred in was privately owned added to the
from more than $7,000,000, to less Merchandise $80,263,576 $55,110,372 of last year, a decline of approximate- Nov. 1931. Nov. 1930. millions in the corresponding period MISENER BEET HONGKONG the conservative bones of the Ray-strength of the rapidly growing
than two millions. ther clan. And there was some-theory--now that the first flush of
On account of the appreciation in Total
$1,430,000 $1,232,465 ly 56%, the fall in November up- 101,609,642 $56,342,827 proximating 77. thing more, something about the indignation had passed that Ed way the absurd fellow's gaze fol- die's death was an accident, and lowed Mary that stirred all that not, as George Bowen of the Star, was proprietary in Dirk's love alone among the metropolitan There is a mysterious telegraph by news-writers, insistet. caused by a which men in love with the game "murder car. woman recognize each other, Ridle- ulous as the idea was, Dirk felt constrained,
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At last even Bowen Lowed to the
strength of opposite opinion, ap parently, for he stopped chiding the
"I've promised Dr. Jordan to stay until Bruce Jupiter comes home,"
he said.
Presently the daily "conferences" with the detectives stopped, and one day there were no stories in any of the papers relating to the Jupiter murder, except one small routine item. headed "Jupiter Murder Probe Lags, No New Developments Expected, Says Kane.”
Mary knit her brows over this, She resolved to go to see the in-
meant.
Bowen pursued his questioning, police department for its imbecility,spector herself, and ask him what 100 to absorbed in speculation to no-and even stopped writing any more tice the other's stiffness. Already about the case.
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None was happier Up to this time the newspaper plan was forming in his mind, at his sudden silence than Inspector stories and given the impression and if he found enough confirma-James Kane.
that the murderer was just about Lion of his suspicious, well-he
to be caught. Solution of Jupiter might be on the trail of a bigkér
Murder Mystery Near," said the story than he had thought,
headlines, and Kane Promises Quick Justice for Killer of Multi- Millionaire's Wife." This sudden change of attitude amazed her,
Kane greeted her as usual. tia; was walking up and down, looking the window, now and then paus-
Mary had fed her starving hopes on his persistently optimistic flow did you get in touch with stories. When they stopped, she Harkness, by the way do you felt alone us the champion of a lost mind telling me?" he asked cause. Mr. Jupiter was preoccupied, thoughtfully "I confess he haud living withdrawn from all contacts guilty until I except his daily consulation with Too plain to miss.'
the private detectives. said hesitating, Dirk was kindness itself; there
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he called me up this morning. He was samething a westly wrotective. ing to look at her expectantly. That really said very little. Said he had almost paternal, in his attitude to-air of his puzzled her; it had from tried to reach Mary but the line ward her nowadays that she was the beginning. He sat down on- was busy and he
could
In't wait. So deeply touched by every new posite with an air of "Wall, what he culled me
onicle
id, manifestation of his tenderness. have you to tell me?"
to
"Oh, sure," he said. - "We never a chance from the beginning. Nothing mich we can do but walt
"But you kept telling the news papers that you were about to find the murderer!" she reproached him. Disappointment made her bold. "Why did you say that, if you: her head. didn't think so?" "You don't
Kane struck the newspaper con-
Where are you? and he said 'I'll But he was trying a case in court She showed him the newspaper toll you when I see you. Then he and had no time to give to a per- article. told me to bring Mary and meet
cet nonal investigation. He was lenth him at the corner you took her to alto talk about the subject, even. His 4 o'clock sharp. If I'd been there whole intention during their brief on time! But he gulped down hours together seemed to be the fact of his mother's reapon- draw her mind away from past sibility for the tragedy=-=-"but I was grief. He wanted to abandon their
detained.
did he seem? Frightened? married at once.
plans for a formal wedding, and be Hurried? Anything queer about
Mary shook I mean?"
"Wait," counselled. "Well," Dirk considered, dis- want u weeping bride. And I can't temptuously with the back of his THERAPION NO.1 Hiking the reversal of roles in forget--Eddie-just yet." THERAPION NO.2 which he found himself. He was
He had to be content. He was no usually the interrogator himself. more successful In inducing her to
"Oh, you've got to give 'em some- THERAPION N13
On the other hand, he know that leave what Bowen's somewhat lurit | thing to chow on." he said,
"Far refractory witnesa does himself newspaper persisted in calling the as I'm concerned, the case is cloned, | no good, so he answered courteously "Murder Manaig and come to We don't know the whole story, but
enough.
stay at his mother's house until the wa know-enough."
(To be continued)
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