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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1931.

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Gems of Peril

CHAPTER IV

faspetor Kate xtured at the young detective wait wrath that was almost apoplectic.

"Gone?" he bellowed. "What ako You mean, gone? I left orders ne- body was to leave the premises till they had permission. How the hell could they be gone?"

Spence cum wourily into the room and was hailed by the deter- tiver.

HAZEL

TROSS HAILEY

hold, No, I'll stay here. Eddie will cail, and I don't want to miss him."

"Of course I understand. But you'l be all right? You won't worry?""

Elan Collage boys, members of the Q.T.C. passing Windsor Castle on their way to Windsor Great Park, headed by the pipe band of the 2nd Scots Guards.

"I'm dead.. I'll sleep like a log." To change the current of her thoughts, and for ather reasons purely his own. he drew her to him and kissed her. "Hey!" he demanded "You know Something still lay between them anything about this?"

to be explained, though they had Before the butler could reply, Mr. | both nit but forgotten it in the ex- Jupitor appeared in the doorway,citement of the last few hours. But leaning heavily on his stick.. He might come to her mind again, things made it so the prominence to answer it, almost stumbling in were an old firm, and well establish- was an upright, sturdy man of an when she was alone; and she had and wealth of the Jupiter family, her eagerness. But it was only Mrs. ed, but they were not fashionable, amazing vigor and youthfulness for enough to worry her, poor giri, her and the halflinge nature of the crime Ruyther, anxious about Dirk. or money-makers. Stephen Ruyther

tis yeara, which were nearly 70. lover thought, fumbling for the itself.

"He hasn't come in yet, and I'm was conservative; he held what he But now his shoulders were bent a right words with which to smooth

A cordon of police kept the curi- nearly frantic la he there, by any had and risked nothing, after the little, hia jaw more laxly set, the difficulty away.

pus away from the house, which chance?"

Holid manner of the Dutch. Mary Otherwise he seemed much the

"He's not here, but I'm sure it's loved him for it, for he was very "I'm glad it was something really was set far back from the street important that kept you," he said and protected from view by a high all right," Mary told her. "lic-he like Dirk. "Oh, Mr. Jupiter," Inspector at Inst, with

stone wall and tall shrubbery. But, had some business that couldn't | Kane sald, dropping his voice re-

"Kept merim humour.

carly in the day the street was wait." spectfully. "We muy be on the "You said you'd be right back, clogged with automobiles neverthe track of something. I hear one of but it seerned like hours. I thought less, and one traffic officer's sole your girls has disappeared, and a I was stuck with Connie on my date was to keep them moving. chauffeur with her."

hands for life."

When Mary

came down after breakfast in her room the house seemed to be swarming with

men had arrived on the segne short- le after daybreak and Mr. Jupiter immediately ordered that they be given the ran of the house.

same.

.

The millionaire stared about the "So did I" Then, as the scene in brilliant almost empty room, curl- the lower garden came back to her,

Mr. Jupiter sat crouched over the library table, his arms catflung "Well!" Mrs. Ruyther expelled upon it, staring at the pupers Ruy an outraged breath. "It must have ther shaffled in his hands. been pressing!" Mary began to an- "Mary, my dear," he said, coming ticipate what it would be like to be out of his daze long enough to married to an only child.

notice her, "is Kane still about.. Dirk had gone immediately to have you noticed? Is there any-

now 7" Dirk-he'd be dead for sleep. But The

Qualy: then made an obvious ut- "What on earth were you doing to strangers. Hordes of newspaper look for Eddie, then. Crazy, lovable thing istress in her face answered

tempt to focus his mind on what į her, anyway?"

"I wasn't doing anything to her!" "Then what was she screaming about?"

ul once.

the other man was saying,

"One of the girls, eh?" His voice was flat and weak; to Mary the sound was almost unbearably shock- "Ah," his voice held the disgust Mary, meeting him in the hall, ing. A man's grief is not pretty to of a male for all females and their was amazed at the new vigor that There were papers of Mrs. Jupi- Hoe or to hear. "You looking for incomprehensible ways. She said seemed to have come to him. His ter's to be gone over. Mary, sort Begic? He cleared his throat; his she was going to throw herself into eyes glittered naturally AN heing them as she turned them over voice seemed a little strange. the pool. Two feet deep, and she stamped about, now and then pound to her future father-in-law's in- sent her out with Tom over an hour knows it." He looked down at his ing the floor resoundingly with his spection, net itis solicitous glance age, to send a cable. My son, you rumpled tie. "She got me all cane. Mr. Ruyther, Sr., was with with a wan smile. know," he explained. "He's in Eu-mussed up. For two cents I'd have him, and horrified beyond words at

he knew what would still her wor him; he looked ill. Suddenly he ry, and had gone straight after It brushed the papers out of the law-

yer's hands recklessly.

"Put them up! Put them up! We won't bother with them. Ruylber, do you realize it'e been hours, now, and there's nothing nothing"

He lifted his doubled fists and shook them toward the ceiling, his face working with grief. Then ho bustness, my child, bad seemed to collapse into his chair, be said, shaking his and at breathing heavily. One fist acting as guide around his head.

his own

beat the table slowly; the knuckles run-premises for a flock of

Why don't you and that boy of "preasmen."

were white and tense. "J. J. I beg you to let me at mine take the car, and go away for T that man is found, I've got tend to this?" Mary heard him ap- the day? They'll be putting your something to live for," he jurked spoil-pealing. "I'll have this pack out pleture in the paper next!" Mary out. "Pil never rest till I meet

sail-of here in no time. Do you realize knew his objection to that

was him, if it takes the rest of my life what they'll make of this? 11 be more on his wife's account than his and every nickel I've got!" plastered on tlie front page of every! own.

Outside in the hall, the telephono yellow sheet in the land?"

rang.

rope. I wanted to let him know. pushed her in and saved her all the finding his old friend occupied in what are you here for?)

They ought to be back by now."

Kane was obviously displeased,

trouble."

Mary

hughed at that, and but it was pinin he had no taste for pled his hair. reproving the old man. In spite of "She must love you a lot." the fact that he had just come from "She loves herself. She's a the room where his dead wife layed brat. Well, anyhow, she's

"I hope she's seanick."

the drowns,"

hope

he seemed to be looking and listening to Florida soon.”, ing for her. His eyes roved dully about the room; his nervous hand clasped and unclasped on the handle They grinned at each other. But

his cand

Mary's smile soon faded. There "That's O. K., guvnor," the in-was too much on her mind.

growked. Make a note of spector

"Oli. Dirk," she said, gripping that, Hayes, and get their stories his shoulder tensely. "I feel so tomorrow. Everybody get to bed guilty! I feel as if I'm to blame now and I'll be hagic tomorrow and for it all!"

turns

They have already," she smiled. But the millionaire was obdurate. "Didn't you see that angelic pose "It's all neerssary. All neces of me in all the afternoon papers

," was all he would say,

yesterday?" "Necessary? Who says it's neces. "What's that? My Gud, we must sury?

*?" the old lawyer demanded. keep you out of this!" His alarm Inspector Kane. And I belleve blocked her. She hastened to re- him. Ah, you don't know how I mind him that the pictures in ques-] feel, Ruyther! Give them all the tion had been captioned, "To Marry help we can, Kane says, and in turn Rising Young Barrister in May."

L

(To be Continued).

CABINET RESIGNS.

SPANISH APPOINTMENT COMPLETES TASK.

Madrid, Dor. 12.

pick up the loose ends. Anything "Nonsense! You mustn't feel that

aran up in the meantime, you'll be way!" Informed."

I knew where Eddie was "they'll do their beat to help us. You "Oh, Oh. That's different." I The Azana cabinet has resigned, A alight man wearing glasses

Morning would tell-and it was never know, they may turn up some relief was profound. murmurod something in the in-imant morning. With Dirk's as- thing that will be Just the clue spoetor's ear, and he turned to re-surance that he would go himself we need."

*

of mind.

the considering of its task having But the Incident unnerved her. been completed by the Installa More than ever she know that ao-tion of. Sener Zamora as President crecy was necessary--that she must of the, Republic.Router.

mind them. "You'll all be called and try to solve the mystery of Nonsense. They'll just trample for the Inquest. Probably Saturday Eddie's disappearance as soon as the place till there won't be any be on her guard. morning in the coroner's office. he had had some sleep, the went off clues loft. They'll tell everything Mrs. Ruyther had never been too Don't forget.""

to bed in a somewhat calmer frame we know and a great dent we don't conlial to her. A daughter-in-law know, and the criminal will know without a penny's dowry was no They were all gone, and Mary

every move that's being made to catch for Dirk. No doubt she had and-Dirk stood together at the By 9 o'clock next morning the find him."

thought it all settled that it was to bottom of the stairs, his arms fold-tolephone had begun shrilling.

"You're a lawyer, Pete. Kane be Cornella; had accustomed her- Cor. ed about her, his check against Newspapers, florists, men about the knows best. He and his men were self to the thought of what

funeral

money, Cornella's arrangements, perfect here at sun-up this morning, going nella's "I can't go up thera! I can't!" strangers sure they had the mur- over the grounds with a fine-tooth nexion's, could do for her son's Mary: shuddered.

derer under observation, frightened comb. Whatever, he's found, he'll career. Dirk himself had admitted parents of last night's guentskoop his own counsel until he's that he always expected to marry 3. Cornata, some day. - The Raythars

berni

***** "You don't have to. Como home

with me

mustn't young your house

The Jupiter murder was sure to ready to give ou ran were not rich. Rupther and Ruyther be a seven days workler. Twp -The telephone again, j

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