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Gems of Peril
CHAPTER XXVIH
pun
Roat
HAZEL
TROSS HAILEY-
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The heir of the former heavy weight champion during the
lumber hour,
Brace treated her. Angrily, she resolved to free horaşelf of Bruce, I was a puree, having him al- ways at her heels and besides it. meant associating with the Chun-j tess, which was
more than emild stomach.
Mr. Jupiter had included the wo- man in the party, partly as a ges Lure oľ conciliation toward Bruce, partly because her nominal status as a matron gave Mary chaperon- age, ni whether he had not regretted his #sort, Mary woudreet hospitality since for that huly, with
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Jupiter said.vice.
in the huge erowl and it was mate Now if he did not write she would the lobby, the Countess beside him. I've quartant to report her fail-in" and said. "Your' party's gone
kus why.
-
As the restent Joulster along the white Florida
the bed only the day beture. toward Miami late in the afterno of October 16 Mary was tensile
She soil the cur along at bread- conscious of Biter's presence bes
neel pace, swinging past car after e on the crowded road in her side her. He still wore his cynical inrry to get back to Miami and air, but now with some reason, asach for mail at the hotel. Dirk she realized with vesation.
This visit to the Hialeah ractartyous op hoping. The party had had immediately set about winning "Well, hurry up and sank down
had out written but she had not a quick eye to her own advantage, in mock disming. track from which she had hoped 29 discarded the idea of staying on much had turned up exactly with the "Gypsy and had taken rooms
over Bruce's father with the most again. The Countess eyes glitter- Throws a front, that guy. Where'll
Oh, no.
He's In Parlor C. ing. The Fly will be there if he's at the Ambassador. Already the
unctums copietry at her command, fect for an instant but she took see you?
Well, he did not seem to be re-Bruce's arm and departed. Evident the Ambassador, need I say? I'm am not stopping at alive," George Bowen had said. any pens of society reporters had voting from it too visibly, she dey Jupiter meant to cling to his here on my own; the paper wouldn't Well, they had spent the afternoon brondienst the party's presence. looking for him and obtained not so turk had aren uteertain where in linen clad forms of the old mannens but Bates agreed cheerfully.end me, so I quit."
Ifolded, as she glimpsed the white- much as a glimpse, I was almost write luo, ho need be no longer, seated on a divan in a far corner of an impossible task to find anyone!
He was enjoying himself.
Mary said wearily. "I go, too. A Bellboy stuck his head in the Although there was ample room on he
of dust down my back." door in response to her more exasperating by the contant
"Come feel of Brore's mocking eyes újenst
that long couch, she sat closely ut her.
At the houd Mary went imme, ¡his side, heë, plump white hand are to Mr. Jupiter just then.
upstairs, Mins Harkness. They ask In self-defences Mary had kept as she turned away from the win-ng about in a bored manner. With blank headed
didly to ash for her mail and patting his arm, Bruce stood, Junk found a slip of paper, a printe
Under the door of her room shopon to join them on the roof."
Mary nodded. She told Bowen her eyes gehted to fiel-glasses dow, disapp sinted, found Bates at an effort Mary forced herself to go Beneath was written: "Call Mr. to slip away and meet him as goo
Telephone Calle.
her immediate plans, and arranged turned not upon the track, how her elbow.
forward since they were evidently ever, but upon the boxes. Satisfied | "They've gone inter the bar," he waiting for her.
Bowen at Shore 61," that her quarry was not there, shed, "Listen, have you got a eum-
So he was as possible after dinner, there! Happily she heard him an had systematically raked the stands, pa
"Ah, there you are?" the Coun.
ver her pleased tess cried as Mary and Bates came) fawor
"Hello!"
she tugged at her big tier by tier. But The Fly, if he
"Were you "You will come with us, yes?" "No. Why? Heaven knows this is She dislodged une was present, had einded her. What i
at the track this wardrobe trunk, hastily conning afternoon?" she asked. hand from
It seemed her small array of evening dreasen. her next move should be, she did no pleasure trip for me!" not know.
Jupiter's arm in pince it supplicat incredible that she could have mis- Her hand fell on the Paris dress. ne you get any and cookingly upon Bates' tweed sleeve. An sed him. Her eyes burned, her Well, if the Counters wanted If silence prevailed in the frontman's picture? I want to send it ness lighted her face, the heavy searching of faces. "Where were ways felt like a schoolgirl beside
taking that we expression of exaggerated eager blind from thut constant searching, dressed with great care.
| head ached, she was almost sun-party, she should have one. She seat, however, there was campen nck to the police department in lips were parted childishly. eating animation behind. The countess and Bates, who was a pri- where, either in the line-up or may-boon, when us
New York. I've seen her face some seemed to be asking some priceless you
Sho
that experienced lady, anyway, but vaté detective when not posing as
"Where was 17 Back in the pad- it would help some to know she was an inventor of a new form of air Surete sends over for us to look at," Mary looked away in disgust.
be on one of those posters the was merely asking him to dinner. Want to buy a horse?"
matter of fact she tock, sister, getting [11] carful looking well." craft, anxious to win Jupiter back-
When she stepped out of the clo- ing had evidently found the
"Maybe you've just seen her in "We celebrate my winnings," the
"A horse? What on earth for?"vator she found Bater- surpris forced proximity of the rumble seat the roto sections, Mary suggested other woman prattled on.
"For the price of her oats. She ingly altered Bater, resplendent in conducive to quick acquaintance, Indifferently. "She's a gort of cuddled the old man's arm within 't be much goud as a racer. De evening clothes-pang the lounge, They laughed and chatted like two minor nobility, you know. At least, her own, lowered her voice
Loma kicked hell out of her for waiting for her. children.
her husband was."
I understand. quettishly.
throwing the race, "Yes. Very minor." Bates agre-made gay
"These people must be
"That dame gives me the creeps," The countess was unduly pleased
They are very ndle must have had a wad of jack he confided in an undertone as he over her winnings on a horse which
ed
yell, how about it?" gamblers, these foolish ones--they on her. Listen, is it true you've met her. I've lailed some shady
get one, of course, if you bet process of shutting her eyes and
Mary hesitated, "What about shook his head to indicate baffle propositions in my day, but--" _ho alcepy, malicious eyes to Mary, let poking at the list of entries with a better forget the Countess and then slip over the girl insolently,
ment. "It's just like I said," he
תי
some excuse for
U
red
Sho
ahe had chosen by the simple think it worth while. But hadn't/et on the favourite!" She liftedot the knick-kninck with you?".
think of The Fly? Crook
Cffemont the ith suppressed ex-
д
She al-
pencil. The horse, u 1 to one crook, you seemed to enjoy your "One should nev-air bet on the in the hotel's dogging him for hiring already."
or no before turning to the man again. Well, he's dut. Stony. I hear added disgustedly. "They're fight-
room rent. He tried to give them "Fighting? Who?"
shot, had come home in the money-sulf with her this afternoon," she vourite to win. Monsieur Jupiter, the old racket that his title gave The countess seemed to regard her rallied him.
fen't that so?".
gret to
of
no
Ая п
know.
luck an good augury, or perhaps "Sure, I kid her along," he an she needed the money. At any rate,wered, unsmiling, "and you'd bet-
"Him and her. Young Jupiter the point social glitter. He's call- her gayety rasped Mary's nervester, too. I'll bet she's a mean baby dressing Mary had watched the little black when she's rited."
Bruce Interrupted amoothly, nd-ing himself Count De Loma. That's and the Countess. They went at it
The Laugh1. μL
hot and heavy the minute sho got Ambasundor's in particular. one Ally, La Mosca, who was touted as
"Louise proposes
in her room and he in his. Their thrown
than his. better titles a dinner-party. 1 his tr Mary did not appear to be laten-She is entranced with the Ambas
rooms are connecting, you the favourite, stumble when the tng. Inside, she felt as if she were endor roof which is all dressed up race was half won and lag home slowly turning to stone. If Dirk for tomorrow night's fete
"The Ambassador? He's hore?" He thinks she's making too much
of a
play for his father and she they haven't chucked him far in the leo. She was not super-did not write to-morrow-If he commentary upon her taste, I re the necklace out and give him a stitious, but she almost believed in didn't write at all-
out, bag and baggage. Better get says what's he always hanging around after you for, if he hates too, for the moment, Well, anyway, there it was on the ing attention. He touched her Countcas and he exchanged a quick, he'll mean
Bates saw that she was not pay-cipal say the decor consists Preflash of it, qulek. He'll leap at it. you so much. You've got her go-
red balloon" But lay your plans first, kid, foring, kid? chart"La Mosca, filly 3-year-old, arm. trainer, K. Jones, owner, H. De sharply. And when she gave him there was unfriendliness in it, but
"You listening?" he said unrendable glance. Mary was aure strikes Loma."
At least, sho huut a name her attention he added, "What I she had no interest in the love thoat, where a pulse beat choking-head walter across the room toward to go on. Had Bowen been there mean is if anybody copped her boy. spate of such a disagreeable pair,
A slim hand encircled the girl's Still amiling, the followed the today to see the race run? She friend, now, she'd shoot-get me?" "Old Man" Jupiter lifted hin stif ly. wondered where Bowen was and
the balcony table at which their Mary laughed. he had given up the chase alto-
"You've got me-rattled," she party was seated. Honda turned a frame from the divan with an gasped. "Nothing is further from my effort. "Let's go eat,"
"Come and toll mo what she passed. The room way only gether. If he had come, as he said thoughts," she waved him away, shortly.
he said, I ought to do. I hadn't dreamed half filled, owing to the early hour, ho might, she had seen nothing of Obviously he had misunderstood him as yet but the 'Gypsy had the mock gallantry with which we must dress first!" she walled, about fearfully and lowered her
he was hore Why, be may be next but within a moment after the first The Countess pouted. "Oh, but door, right now, or" She looked lackadaisical diner had looked up Continued in Page-11.).......
business whon he Mary's laugh bubbled up and
over. "Oh, that's too funny!"
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