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Gems of Peril
CHAPTER XVIII.
"Oh, waiter!"
Mike had moved on but Dirk called him back. "Where is he?"
Mike jerked a thumb toward the door at the rear of the room the one leathing into the private dining room through which Mary Bad pussed in leaving the place" that afternoon.
HAZEL ROSS HAILEY
Bowen
him now his wife's dead." was clicking a thumb-nail against his teeth and daring straight through her with bright. thoughtful
"Well, they any lightning doesn't! strike twice in the same pince,” he
"But just the same he's i taking an awful chance.
"He's the one Jack's been hid, ! muured,
Mike nodded.
asly
Suddenly he sat up and lapped! the table with his hand.
"By George!" he said. "Why not? Let him come, and be damni And while he's grabbing he necklace we'll grab him!"
to him.
"We'll have to work had," Bow Fold Mary. It was plain that hi was disconcerted by the news. Bis eyes glitter 4 on or their strepy lids and the hand that plucked n fresh cigarette and bt i trembled. As for herself, Mary know that she
Oh, no!" Mary cried, in alarm. might to feed terrified, had she did a shuddered "Why not arrest noi, She was merely trensoud
him now? Why leave him free to
back again eritrel and fill with a thud of me
and perhaps Hard Joy, Crisis was at bank!
kul "They took me through that room
Patiently h explained. "Ws this afternoon," she whispered, haven't got anything on the Fly as
There were some men in
there is.
You and I may be convinced! thon. How does he look, The Fly that he is the murderer of Mrs. Howen answered absently, "Jupiter and tindoubtedly of your don't know. God, what I'd give for brother as well. But what have we The nerve to walk through that door got to put before a jury? Not a and poke him one?” He flicked a scrap of evidence of any kind?" match away viciously.
"Those men at the track-" "Oh, don't! He'd kill you," Mary vasped
He withdrew from that glittering day-dream to smile.
"Don't worry.
"I'm no Jack the Giant-killer. If he got away, he might go gunning for Jack, squealer.
Bowen replied. "It's not necessary
是
now.action.
He relapsed into discontent
"What was it? she probed.
NE
Princess Durru Shehrar, 18 year old daughter of a former caliph of Turkey. who kas married Prince Axam" Jah, son of the Nizam of Hyderabad, re puted to be the richest man in the world.
A view from the banks of the Avon at Stratford showing the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which is rapidly nearing completion (Tines copyright).
traced a pattern on the tablecloth be old and grey before we got aders. Even if he would agree, I with his forefinger thoughtfully conviction. "Simply this: that crook would give
And I'll lay you another bet—I don't come to
don't think it would be wise.
"You're funny,” she said gently. "You Bound--wise. I hope you
Jou
are.
He put the book back in his
"I hope to tell you I am! Liston to me, girl, could you beg, borrow some time,ning"
newspapers! Called him an ama doesn't know he's under suspicion.evenge. Cupidity. Bank. etupid teur and a bungler, and said he As a matter of fact he isn't, except vanity. If we try, we can make witness," he went on. "Bookies, passing up that necklace? That you told?"
"We haven't even got a creatible pulled the biggest boner of all time by you and me and who else have him want to stick
uround. Ho won't run away. On the contrary, gamblers, touts. Can you see Mike must have got under the Fly's skin! "Mr. Jupiter. And Dirk. And we won't be able to shake him. there going on the witness stund He'd give his soul for a chance to Spence. Oh, how stupid of me! If he acts on his own initiative, and impressing a jury? They'd vote make a fool out of Kane! Give him forgot to tell you" She recounted he'll have the advantage of us. to hang him instead of the defend- another chance at that necklace and rapidly the story of the butler's en- surprise us. But if he acts when
No, we've either got to spend a on it!"
he'll jump at it. I'd bet my life counter with the mysterious "gatowe choose, we'll be ready for hira. Can't let anything nap lot of time and money digging for
crushing" stranger that night Mrs. Ever hear of strategy?" He took pen to Jack, the Newspaperman's
"But how?" Mary was all'atten-Jupiter was killed, and the strange a small dogenred dictionary from Hope." He gnawed his underlip in evidence, finding the jewels, finding tion. Bowen's enthusiasm and air coincidence of the coat.
his pocket and read: "Stratagem; frenzy of concentration.
the car, and the man who drove it, of conviction were contagious. Bowen seemed electrified at the manoeuvre designed to deceive or "You said you had an idea," Mary and maybe not getting anything "Through Mike. Or Shay, per- news,
outwit an enemy in war; hence, reminded him timidly,
conclusive after all, or getting him hapa. I can do a little discreet "An idea for flushing him when red-handed, if we can. If we get talking, after you're gone, it'll go need it!" he exclaimed gleefully. tage."
"There's hientification, when we any device for obtaining advan- we didn't know where he was," too hot on his trail-hot enough to straight to the mark. I
really get the dope on him he you'd call Shay straight but he's ly circumstantial, but the fact as they rested on him. There was suppose Of course, it would still be pure- The girl's eyes were soft, gentle, may skip the where would we be? Tied up with He couldn't keep a secret."
country and then heart and soul with these crooks. that the Fly was on the Premises something endearing about hio extradition proceedings, and a long- "Nothing must happen to excite hanging him. We've almost get a
that night-will go far toward very earnestness. "Why" he leaned forward and drawn-out legal battle. We'd both Mr. Jupiter! Thats doctor's or case! Almost!"
Mary's nerves gave way, and she "This trick isn't as dangerous as sounds awfully dangerous-" It clung to his hands in sudden panic packet with a flourish. his soul for another chance at that it sounds, either. And you've got to "With
"Oh, let's call the police! I'd feel the place surrounded? better' if he was behind bars!" necklace. 1 I know it. I'd bet on it. remember this--if we get him to Don't be silly. They'd probably nab Bowen looked at her somberly or steal that necklace for one eve-
us we can choose the him without a shot being fired. If He was silent for know who his playmates are in time and be ready for him. If he he came at all. He might smell a When he spoke again he had toyed there, but 10 to one they're hatch- comes when he pleases, we're trap-that's what we've got to look with the idea and rejected it for It took her breath away. ing some scheme to get that neck stumped.”
out for." He was already plann
planning cause.
"Oh, I don't think 801" lace right now!"
"But are you sure he'd make an- busily and Mary was beginning to it would be beat..
But perhaps, for her sake, gasped. "What for, for heaven's "Ut's locked up!" Mary interposed other try for it? I should think doubt the wisdom of telling him the
sake!" quickly.
he'd be too frightened!"
necklace's whereabouts. "When can he said. "There'd be a shoot-out,t'd be like a red flag to a bull. He "It wouldn't be easy, though," "I'd like to rub his nose in it. doubt," he answered dryly. "He's not frightened at all. That's I see the old man and put it up to and somebody would get hurt. wants it, but we've got to make him "But there are ways of getting the point! Why, do you think he's him?" he asked
briskly, "He'l around that. Of course, If it's in a hiding from the police in there?" have to pay the cops. He ought to, this state for one murder, and he's inte action before he has time to Why? Because you can burn in want it right now! Tantalize him safety deposit box there isn't much He threw buck his head and į anyway.'
got two to answer for. Even if to worry about "
Alarm widened the girls eyes.
they took him, he might stay in
plan." Why, avery cop on the beat knows Mary said, "Listen! Forget all jail and ho might
"What do you want me to do?". "It isn't."
not. He'd nevor she confessed. "It's in Shay's is a hang-out for crooks. this. It can't be done. Oh, I Mr. Jupiter's personal safe. He if Kane asked the metropolitan po- wouldn't have them know I talked knows he can bent the rap if he it where he can see it?"
confess
He'd brazen it out. He Mary naked In a small voice. "Wear wouldn't take it to the bank. No lice to bring him it's the first to you about this for anything in keeps his Bhut. And once;
He nodded. "Let him anlff blood, use locking the door after the horse place in this district they'd look, the world- I'd no idea that what he knows onto him,
Wo'd with the
and that would necklace be protected tidn't care what became of the corner. No, he's keeping out of this" thing
have to convict him in court, or let be enough. anyway. He haten the lght for another reason. thought that it was her lowels, you soos is what I figure: you know
him go, If he
got off free, you'd every step of the way. You'd have his hands despairingly. know the jewels he kave
"Good Lord! It's anfo na at. There wouldn't be anything mond. There'd be plainclothesmen that."
criminals are as vain as actors.church! Where'il you be if he comes more you could do.”
all over the place, in case anybody Bowen nodded, understandingly. They're as proud of a mood smooth when you're not looking for him? Mary began reluctantly to feel made a false move." "But that's no place for it. Some job as any sand-lot Hamlet. If That octogenarian butler'll handle the strength of his reasoning. "Oh, but that would be insane!" body will be knocking him off one, they muff a trick, they got razzed him, I suppose! And he'll come. "But he may get away anyhow," To take such a chance with that of these nights."
by the rest of the boys. And they're What's he hanging around Now she faltered..
many thousand dollars around my "I told him. Mr. Ruyther did, human-they don't like it.
York for? He hasn't been near the "Sure. Maybe. But there are neck! I'd die of worry. And too. He just says, 'Let them come.“ **Now you remember what a rag- track and his horso is racing at more powerful chaina than the what if I Inst it, or It was stolan?” He doesn't care what happens to ging Kabo gave this bird in the Belmont tomorrow. I'm positive he ones you see sometimes.
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laughed. "Don't you, believe It?
*
sho
was stolen, he said, and besides he He'd be safer standing on a street! you had in mind was anything like other way lo closed to us very and then you could run home quick
her,
one.
And a
Bowen looked dashed. He sprchave to accept the fact and Hko as big a bodyguard as. Jack Dia-
Pride.
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