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SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1932.
Gems of Peril
BEGIN HERE TODAY.
Mary Harknes pilots to ensnare The Pir.
vho "framed her brother, Eidle, with the murder of Mr. Jupiter and ran him dową
keep Bins Train telling. Mr. Jopiser Aids her.
HAZEL ROSS HAILEY
Lense surprise she saw Me. Jupiter dows Howe of the Star. Everyone else and De Loma, side by side in deck Believes Exldie rilty, Ineluding Dirk Hurther, Sintya dance, who forbids her to Invinge | Chustra. What had brought about Further, is fully ohjects to the notorny this amazing juxtaposition,
Brute fier and questionable friend; wondered?
she
Countess Louise, try to rout Mary, telling Sensing that Mr. Jupiter must nheis
gold-digster trying lience's inheritance.
They
follow wish to be rid of the man. They to Mism. Bence, urrels with
The Fir.
winden from Mrs. Jupiter the night she WAI
Jaulas event a diamond bracelet wires her by jolted the tete-a-tele, hoping it
Max ange it is Mary's makes would give him an opportunity. But. her rive it to Starr, who discovers it waMe. Jupiter scarcely looked up. He Kill The Grazelat is forked up as weldenes. was talking about Ashing, and he Using the famous Jupiter neckisce as bait.eeemed to be enjoying himself Mary dance with The Fiy, who set it away faini tes. the kisses her and Birk knocks him, hugely. De Loma was silent, brood- 18g, not paying attention to what gets away with the treklikes in a handbag but the old man was saying-yet Rome la frightened back by policeman and how more acutely observant turns it. Mary has Bizk taken on board the
of him zachs, the firngy." The Fly goes along and
dow 21.
Dirk twist his ankle and falnia.
The Fly
than
1 he had ever been before. Не mikes another attempt to steal the backlashad never seemed more than faintly
Bowen applela Mary with proof tone the Couture in an adventure. The "Огреу"
aware of the old man's shadowy. walls with all on board. The Ply begins to presence in the group, seeming to reallar he ran walked into a trap.
CHAPTER XLII
After the first moment of
prise, in which he had responded to her kins us of old, Dirk drew away and regarded her steadily The scorn In his eyes made the Mood mount hotly to Mary's cheeks "What are you doing here?" he asked roughly. "What do you
want
dismiss him as a senile old fool un- worthy of attention. Now, though the subject was game fishing, In which he could have no interest rigidly attentive to every word the whatever. Mary noted that he was. of man had to say.
rambled on, as Mary seated herself, "No, sir" the garrulous old voice
used to hate to gaff 'em thought it was cruel, and all that. But 1 changed my mind. You do, when you get older and see more of the world.
"Let me do something for you isn't there anything I can de?"
"You Put me ashore." The old
A killers a killer, the world surliness was in his voice.
around--and that's what a barra- seems to be your yacht, so of eqursehead about to nod it emphatically cuda in," he insisted, anapping his I can only unk
"Dirk, please!" She threw out at the immobile face of the man her hands to ward off the ankind- į beside him, "Yes, sir, a barracuda "You can't think that of meing de! They ain't no use feeling is a cold-blonded murderer-noth- flic
"I don't think of you at all." pity for that kind of a varmint. "That's a lie!" she flared at him. They're put in this world for Aport, "You were thinking of me as I and for no other reason. For a came in."
man to try his wits against. Lord, there's nothing like the thrill of bagging one of those fellows!"
"All right, Shall I tell you what I thought of you?"
He lapsed into silence, which re- mained unbroken for several min-
face.
"No, for it's all too plain!" She hit her lip and tried to get her anger under control, After all, hetes, Mary, in her chair, with her was ill and he needed rest and head leaning against the back.
venild Bot nee De Loma's Why, it was a parable Mr. Jupiter was speaking to The Fly, nothing less. Had The Fly the brains to understand it?
quiet.
"I'm going to sit here until you go to sleep," she told him firmly, and sat down with a magazine in a chair nearby. Minutes ticked away Dirk had turned his free to the wall, after bidding her do as she pleased. She stole glances
in silent
Apparently be had. He got up stuhienty, and with no more than a nod to excuse himself, walked
at his averted fare as he slept, or away. He baud a tine air of non- pretended to
He looked so chalaury, stopping t the rail to
that suddenly she was frighten-peer at a passing ship, lighting, a
Wres sprained ankle anelgarette, Ambling off, serious as all that?
да
he
In a remarkably short time was really asleep. She rose
and was about to tiptoe from the room, When voices in the next stateroom attracted her attention. What state room had she put The Fly in the night
before, she wondered? Was it three? It must have been, for it was his voice she heard.
Mary breathed “You made shiver when you talked like that."
Mr. Jupiter smoked in silence. Au uneasy something that had been lying in the back of her mind for days came to the fore now.
1s je true w ut Mr. Bates inti- maled to me," she asked, "that you want him to--moke a break for it. so that you esn-shot him down? You wouldn't really do that, would
"None of your dama business where I got it," he was saying, vous?"
fore-
want it. that's all. There WILS Mr. Jupiter took his pipe out of mumbled response, and then his his mouth, rubbed a mobily vuice loudly again he must bejtinger ncross his nose, but standing very near the open port nothing. hol
"What do you mean you haven't It half-shouted,
Mury shuddered. "I didn't know you meant to go-that far," she Whispered fearfully.
"int any objections?" Jupiter
Louise, in a strident undertone.;. countered with a question of her growled harshly. When she didn't
OWN
say, abuse bracelet is that, any, way? Why is it so important? And how did you corne by it, may
ast 7"
to tell you if the fol enough
Give it to me!" "And what if I tell you I haven't get it? I can't get it, either. She's got it!"
"What!" It was like the rear of a charging bull.
After that there was the sound
*אpig
awer, he knocked out his and began refilling it, jabbing to bacce down with a fierce forefinger, "Oh, a man's blood conta don't know
man don't know
what be'd das given the chance--but I'm havin' my from. Don't you go Interferin' with it!"
"I won't. After all," she smiled bitterly, "he's yours first. What's left belongs to me."
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Dinorr was a silent meal ex- ad the porthale being elused; can-!cept for Mr. Jupiter, who in- tim made them lower their voiessisted on talking of to-morrow's until Mary had to strain to hear fishing expedition, in spite of the them. She could got catch what, utter indifference of his listeners. thee said. Evidently they believed, later showed up for that meal but the stateroom next them to be The Fly was conspicuously absent. empty.
He chose to ent in his room, but from the comings and goings his steward, and the contents their trays, he seemed more
By putting her car to the wall, Mary caught a few words. Gradu
lly
the voices lifted again.
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You'd better get out of here be-cupied in drinking than in eating. fare that sap of a Bruce finds you here," De Loma warned her.
"Maybe he is a sup," the woman snapped, "but the rest of the family isn't no foolish.
I tell you it's a trap"
The yacht had "turned the cor- ner" at Key West about six o'clock, and they were now steaming stendi- ly westward along the keys. In the despening night the flashing beam of Dry Tortugas light already could De Loma's "Aaah!" was a sparlbe seen off on the horizon as they of unbelief,
"You'll find out!"
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lenme on deck. Its gleam more and
more brightly against a little banki of clouds in the southwest.
Dirk stirted and Mary held hier When Mary went to her alate- breath lest he should waken and room-she had heard more than, speak to her. He relaxed and slept enough talk of flahing for one day on, however, and presently shoshe found Louise there before heard the door of De Loma's room her. cluse und footsteps retreat along It is now, fo-morrow," that lady the deck.
began directly. "I wish my brace When she thought it was safe to let, please." appear she went out, leaving Dirk Mary could hardly mask her sur- sleeping soundly. On the forward prise. She had just heard Louise dock, under an awning, to her in- (Continued on Page 12.)
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