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THURSDAY, DECEMBER. 24, 1931.
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Gems of Peril
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.
Bich vid Mrs. Jupiter
robbed anst
nurdered during the engagement party the
HAZEL TROSS HAILEY
ziven fur Bereshet. Eddie, is sued for you at home, you know.
sury BATRELE,
Mary's mentegreer
to have been upstairs at the murder hour, your boy-friend, and all.
Unity Mary know til,
Mary inner. Birk Kurther, navires her to keep still about having arranged to admit Fabile scerely unit han locate the bar. Bowen busy preventa Amand from Selflag
at Are Star about the knowga sinkter. Dirk wlephones that he bike hadi k call from
With
He'd
Father have 1 shushed, I under- stand."
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How much did he know? Mary
Veldle and will take Mary to mee I wondered with a sinking heart!
Afleincon.
how public her affairs had become.
Dirk overalempa and Bowen driven Mney | She looked down at the coat over to the remlezvous. Ellie in killed by a ekr
hechen the zirent, He mumbles about her arm. "Do you honestly think ay before he dies, Weeks pa and Inspector Kann drop die rase, bellarine Edd, there's any use?"
the murderer. When Mary protein, Kanel " de. By the way, something's
the same.
racetrack
Leta ber bath Mr. Juster and Dirk believe been tickling my mind ever since you mentioned this being your brother's coat. What was it he said here in the ambulance? Make him
Bowen tells Mary there is wambier and crook called The Fly to whom her brother owed a large sum of lie given Mary cont
found
Juplier house the night of the murder. It give me my coat!' Wasn't that it?
her brother's.
CHAPTER XIḤ
Look bere, I'll bet a cookle that coat was a plant! No thief goes around leaving his overcoat, you know-it's not being done.
There was no doubt that it was Eddie Harkness' cout. Mary That's how I came to pick it up ran investigating fingers under the in the first place. I was the Inst collar, and found the small black man upstairs that night, and com- tape, lettered in red, with his ini-jing down I saw this cont hanging tinks, "E. J. H."
un the stair rail in the upper hail. Well," and Bowen flatly, this I know I'd be seeing all the poler shows me up for what I am---benu- reporters next day and I took it tiful but dumb. I thought sure alone to turn over to the owner. that cont belonged to bue of the re- None of them minimed it, though. porters. Never entered my mind Then I thought it must belong to it could be--Boy, if Kane ever some, defective, but I'd wasted hears of this! Well, well, -well!" enough time on it, so I hung it up Obviously he was readjusting his in my locker and left it there, ideas to lit this new development. Nothing in the pockets to identity
“Then-he did cone, after all."lit_by."
Mary stroked the coat with gentle He saw that she was not listen- fingers, as if it had been a humanling. Her mind was on her brother, He could so that even her faith
think.
"Looks like A.“ Bowen agreed. I was shaken. He stopped short. "But that doesn't prove he did R. Mary held up the cont. "What you know," he offered by way of fought we to do with it? Take it comfort.
there?" She motioned toward the "He was there," Mary repeated | police-station. dully. "Perhaps-Kane was right. |
"Take it home. It's yours. You'd
Perhaps they're all-right, and only give Kane one more excuse to
say 'I told you so,'”
I'm
with Kane,"
I'm not convinced!" Bo-
but in this district. He's a stuffed
kid from shunty-town when he went
on
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ship' of some of these rich birds to face Mr. Jupiter again, ka-began to feel like a truent child i
"You've been awfully kind. I'll wen said stoutly.
nover forget it," Mary told him "Really?" Mary lifted grateful, seriously. "Goodbye, and good luck.” hopeful суса "Really, don't you "I let you know what turne think so?"
up," he replied. "Keep your nerve! down Emily Ann Ruyther's patri- pricking her. Now it all came back so much in love Don't you?- "Listen, what did Kane tell you?" | Remember it's all in a lifetime." cinn back! But which was more with a rusk-every cutting, two Why don't you think a07" Then Mary retalled their conversation It came to him as he stood watch important-justice or a stiff-necked edged word that had been turned shrieks of mirth, subsiding into with as little bitterness the ing the shiny black bus enrry her old woman's pride?
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toward her, every blank and guard-giggles. "Oh, it's too funny-the could.. "That's what i thought," away, that he had just stripped him.
ed look, awkward moments that family skeleton walking out and Buwen commented. One look at wit of his last dollar in her behalf. Bowling along in the big, shiny she now realized would have been rattling Just at this time-every the girl's dejected face set his He had not so much as mentioned bus between exquisitely land- definite snubs if the snubbers had family has one, they say my dear, tongue to wagging in an effort to the information he had to his pa-scaped private parks, studded here dared. What had stopped them? not the Ruythers! Can you imag divert her mind.
pr realizing that it was far too and there with the vine-shrouded The power of the Ruyther name! Ine u Ruyther walking around in I'l Leli You what's the matter slim a probability to impress a homes of the ultra rich, all that Not even the Jupiter money was so his house?" More shrieks, more
he said. "He'd be bar-headed city editor. What kind had just occurred in the village wonder-working ns that,
giggles. With a sudden was he becoming anyhow? seemed unreal. George Bowen and
rush of under- good man if he were anywhere else' of a nap Bowen heaved some-his scheme Bremed fantastic, com- atanding and pity, she knew that!
Mr. George
Mary turned hot and cold, and shirt, a boof-llcker. He was a poor thing that was very like a sigh. mon. Had she really been in that Dirk must have been having a bad shrank down further to avoid any Mary, Burging the damp coat horrible place, eating impossible time at home. No doubt he had chance of being Been. Or were the force, and when they pro-and staring out at the vivid green rond, with a foul-smelling waiter au to light for even the semblance they doing it for her benefit? Sho noted him and put him out here, of the trees and hedges as they and a hare-brained "crimo re- of surface ease. With only one son couldn't tell. Thank goodness, they it went to his head. He's got the rolled along the road to the Point, portar" for companions? Looking to marry off, Mra. Ruyther would would get off presently. Mary was dollar sign in front of his eyes un- gradually inst the optimism that back at herself through the cold have liked to ace him marry "to relloved to see the big Tabor house til he can't see anything else. Bowen's loquacious enthusiasms had blue eyes of Mrs. Ruyther, she.be- advantage." She had
accepted loom up on the hill aboad. "Money talks with most people, roused in her. She was going home gan to think she was losing her Mary without enthusiasm, because Just then Cornelia looked around, but with Kane, It positively shouts, to the Jupiter house reluctantly, for mind.
there was nothing she could say whether guiltily or not Mary He's so afraid of losing the Triend- the first time, How could she bear What on earth would Dirk say7 against her. But now, good heav-couldn't decide.
She should have consulted him. She ens!
"Oh, my dear!" she shrilled "I that wouldn't use him for door-what ho thought? She
She felt
Suddenly she wanted to see Dirk didn't see you there!" She popped mat, that he wouldn't cross them from those who had been closest lagging schoolward.
terribly. She wished the bus up and came back, followed by the if they said black was white." And dearest to her. They bad Well, it was past. If George would hurry. It was only three or other girl, and sat down opposite.
"I've always played a lone game, shiolded her, or tried to; but they Bowen rang up the house she so, but he might come early.
"Hows the
murder coming ever since I've been on this job, had kept their real thoughts from would not even talk to him. No The bus ground to a stop to take along?" Cornelia seemed deter All Kane ever hands out is a line ter na if she were a child or an in-doubt his schemes were just an ex-on, two passengers, who turned out mined to blot out the memory of of bull. He'd have chased this guy becile. It frightened her, and made cuse to print Heaven-know-what to be Cornelia Tabor and another her former tearfulness by being un- to hell and
"Dirk's and strung him her feel small and young and in-about her! She shuddered at the girl, a little blonde flatt named Ethel usually vivacious.
a beast. by the thune,
to please Jupiter experienced.
thought of tomorrow's Star and Somebody, who was visiting Cor Ho juet Bays it's ali settled, and he In fact, he was all set to make a She was almost tempted to relax what it might contain.
nelia from Boston. Mary had seen won't tell me
a thing more about name for himself by capturing the and rest against that love of theirs, It was Thursday and she was her picture in the society section it. How can a murder be settled if murderer single-handed.
Then word enme down from on high, "iny out consulting her own red with dining at the Ruythers. Well, she They collapsat breathlessly in a the murderer isn't in fall?"
wishes in the would do all she could to make it front sent, without looking back. Mary merely shrugged. So Dirk off and he luy right down at his matter. But at the same time, nn to Ditk. The truth, dimly felt Mary was leanizig her head against had seen Carnella, had he? He master's feet and wagged his tali. That's the kind of a pup he is
thine prodded her uncomfort before, now revealed itself to her the cool window, and sat slumped hadn't mentioned it. ably forward. It was not their busi- bit by bit, ns on an carolling scroll down in the
seat so that they Cornella's gaze rested curiously Mis old hardy have seen her any-In man's topcoat lying across,
y the Tape re- Butteron ny him already, are you
not Dirk's, is It? Two up what we can. When we've got All this cansational publicity There was something they had to their voices enough to make a case, we'll put it about the murder of Mrs. Jupiter ashamed of, that they
' my brother'a.” Mary said? before the District Attorney. He'll, and Eddio's
Cornella gasped. "Oh, my dear, death no one called apologize for. It had all passed un- audible. ham to act.
“Rotten for Dirk, but I don't nup- ! r'd forgotten about your brother. that murder, she noticed bitterly noticed, except as background. She "But are you sure you want it? of course it was unpleasant. No had been so absorbed that their pose bo realizes It-mon in love are You must forgive me. So sorry." It might make things pretty merey wonder the chills had crept up and suspicions; had glanced off without so stupid Oh, I don't think he'r (Continued on Page 10.)
the that
"But there's still you and me, ehtes; it was hers, and Eddie's. Dirk's worried logetic air how the bus topped a rise and be 1: "Th
How about it? If you word, we'll go right ahead and sontment in her heart.
Ruyther's
became dlatinctiv
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