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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1931.

SAND-YACHTS IN EGYPT: SCHOONER WRECKED IN ENGLISH CHANNEL.

Just before the start of a regatta held at Abu Sir, Egypt, by the Sand Yachting Club. This is a sport which I becoming increasingly popular where long stretches of sand are available.

The "grand parade" of the cand yachtsmen at Abu Sir, the Egyptian holiday resort on the Mediterraneen. The araft present, a queer spectacle, but It is said to be an exceedingly thrilling pastime.

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Gems of Peril

DEGIN HERE TODAY

Did Mrs, Jupiter, wife of the millionaire automobile manufacturer. Elven an engagement

ner And dance for her Kereskry, Mary Harker, who is to tonery Dirk Ruyter, buelded young lawyer.

Mary receives a telepone call from her

HAZEL IROSS HÄÏLEY

individually before.

"So as ( said before to you boys, I'm convinced the crook who did this wase an amateur and a bungler. I haven't changed myj mind."

*Bungler!" sarcastically.

someone snorted

Kane raised his voice. "Bung-

But something held her back. ler, I said. And why? Because Pr.de, ut a sort She could lie ho'll have to take the rap for mur-

The brother, Eidin, mylon lor f in herself but une could not ask der, that's why. Any jewel thief trouble and must we her. The house Bessie to lie. Intrigue with

trarty gourd against gatesernhece” km

who knew the A B C of the busi-

Juper rebles.

chure Mrs. Jupiter is wearing the famouse-maid would be humiliating, nese could have got those jewels Mary arranges for Eddie to be united at best. Perhaps Inspector Kane and never left a mark on the old seerely. When he stairs to meet was so busy he would forget about Indy"

him she finds Mr Jupiter rabbed and harder Boss Hut In her tum. Seeking Dirk, she finds him

with Cornelia Tabor, his chikiboak aweetheart, Darn us her to ko. silent about Eddie

incit ha enn luate the boy.

CHAPTER V.

It Wna Dirk's voice--tired, rather, hut blessedly his. Mary went weak with joy.

"I've got word of the person we were speaking of," he said. " see you at three o'clock. Can you he ready to go with

me then 7

"Oh, Dirk, of course! Then it's all right? Everything's all right? "I don't know that," he hedged,

Remembering the presence as she passed the of Mr. Jupiter, he lowered hrary door she saw Kaug there voice somewhat

his with Mr. Jupiter and the lawyer, what he had to say,

as if to Aoften talking with a fourth man who had "But how did he get in? "some- his back to the door. She re-body asked, cognized with a start that it was Lom, the chauffeur.

•

•

Kane waved him down. "Ho got:

n, didn't he? We'll get around Tom was shaking his head with to that. Two Pinkerton men look- great positiveness.

ed over the guests as they came "I'd take my oath on it," he said, in and there wasn't a 'mug' in the that it was the same car. Three lot, But they left at midnight. times it came in and went 'round Nobody was admitted at either

the circle, in the space of half an door without a ticket. But there hour."

were plenty of windows open and "You'd know it again if you saw the French doors in the ballrooin were open. If a mon could get

"I haven't talked with him. Bet-it?" tor, not say anything to anybody

I would. A black body with into the grounds, he could get into

yet. Well, I'm going home and get jaluminum trimmings and alumi- the house. some sleep now, and I'll be around um hood. Mr. Jupiter called our for you at a quarter

sharp. See you then."

"But let's get

on. As

I say,

of three. attention to it that's why I noticed Mra, Jupiter's feet hurt and she

The French schooner Staat Anne at Porthleven, Mounts Bay, Cornwall She was driven' ashore during the gala, har crew being resued by the life. paving apparatus (Times copyright),

Mina Pozy Salaman in informal attire, showing the routs of her record flight to Capetown. The society flyer covered the 7900 mile distance in 5 days and 8 hours.

The relief Mary had felt at first didn't see his face."

t: A guy was driving it, but I went upstairs to her room on the third floor to give 'em a little rest. xave place to a new and more op-

"Anybody in it?" pressive fear. If he had bad good

That tallica because she had on "Nobody in it that I could see." house-slippers when she was news, or even the hope of it, hej The detective made a rapid note, found. Her maid was downstairs would have told her. He had "Lorimer. Special body." The looking after the women guesta. meant to be comforting, but the chauffeur nodded. effect of his words was just the op-

The thief was either hiding in a "All right, Tom. ponite. She was really alarmed As an afterthought he called after he came in after she did. IIe stops rattled him. He tried to snatch it. You can go." closet, or in the next room, or else scared, for when the old lady re- fused to hand over the necklace it him. "That maid around, the one out, throws a gun on her, and tells The telephone rang again. She that was with you?" Tom dia- her to hand over the jewels. But and she held it up in her hands,

the old lady was game.

"Now! How do

now.

picked it up wearily. It was un-claimed all knowledge of pro-! wouldn't give them up.

with an indifferent sbrug.

other reporter.

"Yes," she told him automatical-bably sleeping. You want to see

I'm

tha

"Never mind," Kane said. "T' worth. But rubles." bo what difference would that make?

knew

up

No. that

tight. He cusses er and she runs to the balcony and he lets her have it. Now, why would he do I know the guy that? ly, "Inspector Kane will see you her?" The faint necent he placed was an amateur? Because first here at 11 o'clock, Mr. Jupiter on the word "her" indicated that off he grabs her rings and the dia-

"He must have thought the upper will be prosait also. No, there in his opinion this would be mond

floor was deserted or he wouldn't will be no other interview.

ti-ayra. Diamonds are Mr.

pure waste of time. Jupiter is very tired and has been

and any fool knows what have been there. And if somebody did hear her scream and caque in. ordered to bed."

see her presently. You talk to her broke off to แค

"any of you "But it's half-pust 10 now," au last night? She say anything to seen the Jupiter necklace?" If he'd been a regular stick up that outraged voice complained, "and you?"

his job he'd have stood them There was shaking

of heads, in Hackensack, New Jersey!" "Dumb as an

oyster," Tom "Pictures of it," one man admitted, getaway just the same, cool as you against the wall and made a "Well," Mary permitted herself shrugged "She don't know the "Well, then you know it doesn't

rare luxury of flippancy, time of day.",

please, "that's what you get for it."

look like so much. You'd never Sho "All right," said Kane absently. think to look at it, that $500,000 trigger finger. I might go so far hung up. What a way to talk"ll get around to her after while, wouldn't buy it. A cool half as to say he was yellow, clear guy had a nervous she must be getting lightheaded. Now where are thone reporters? million! That's money, in any through.

The phone shrilled again oven Let's get them out of the way."

Maybe language. But just to look at. with the catch and couldn't open he monkeyed As she hung up. She walked away and let it ring.

The group of newspapermen why, say, my wife's got a string it, as the old lady lay on the floor waiting in the dining-room, where of pearls I bought her for Christ- Three o'clock. If she could just sleep-eyed servants had laid

'll know when we get the in- keep her own counsel until then. buffet supper at Mr. Jupiter's or locks!"

report.

But

the Somehow she could not bear to face der, were ushered into the library

chances are he didn't, for he didn't Mr. Jupiter with the knowledge next. Mary would have slipped somebody snickered. Kano over- she didn't scream, but she fan't "Taking a little graft, Kane?" have time. Miss Harkness thinks what

she was holding back. away but inspector Kane, spying looked the raillery. So far there has been nothing her na he greeted the men on their "Now, the way I figure it, this of some kind.

sure. She probably made a sound nothing!" There was something entrance, summoned her with a guy don't have any real idea of the have been more than a minute be Then it couldn't not much, perhaps, but something.nod. She would feel better when the

value of that necklace or ho fore she came in and the man was "Gome in, will your please, Mias wouldn't have fooled with the gone. When Miss. Harkness cate atrain of waiting was over, when Harkness! We need a road among other stuff. Here's what he did: in and when she went out, the

Jupitór

know.

all these thorns.“ She was almost fatalistic about The newspapermen oyed her made a pass at the necklace. Now, ally. And it's a good thing she ho pocketed the diamonds, and lights wore on full and bright. it now. She know that sooner or curiously; she felt as overpowered any crook smart enough to know aid for Mins Harkness. he She didn't make a search, natur later someone would Interrogate with shynes as if she had sudden- a ruby from an agate knows that Bossle, if they had not already ly been thrust out on a staxe a valuabla string of any kind don't turned to the girl, "you can take donna, and that in all probability alone. But they behaved toward depend on no card he wonne my word for it the murderer wan Bosale would teli frankly about her with the most formal courtesy: como apart with lock A woman still in that room, all the time you the side door she had left untoak-Kane jumped into, the middle of can't lose necklace nowadays were there!" ed at Mary's request. She ought his discourse. Evidently he had they've all got patent catcher

of

to speak to Bessie.

amas that knocks the apots off it for!" fot man's

'NEA

Miss Douce Alionare Bonu. mont and Harry T. Jones are to be married shortly. The bride- to be is a daughter of La Dama of Sark, hereditary rular of the amallest of the English Channa! islands.

sion he was creating.

"The butler answered Mrs. Jupi- ter's bell that had just rung a minute before he met Miss Hark- aces at the foot of the stairs. When the butler entered the room, It was dark. He switched on the lights himself."

"I don't get you, Sergeant," Homebody commented. "Who rang the buzzer-Miss Harkness?"

NO.

He did. The thief did. The push-button that summons the servants is right next the light Awitch. In trying to, turn out the lighta to cover his getaway he missed the light switch the rat time and rang the buzzer by mis- tako.

we've got the story of a chap named Doulton that he went out through the grounds. Mattor of (net, he ran into Doulton and near- ly knocked him down. He must have ellanbed up, and come in by tho balcony. There's footprints below. No evidence on the bal cony rail or the wall to prove it, but that's the most likely thing." "Doulton got a look at him?" Kane looked disrusted. "I re gret to say that Mr. Doulton was

than a triflo

moro

"None so far.

other

tity

got an- witness that saw him prob

Baw him ulain.

Can iden him. But 7 tell you boya frankly that I don't think his the would be worth nickel if I told you who he was."

One of the man-ha was the vet eren police reporter for the Storm

I gone over most of it with them This guy wat new and he was with obvious relish.of the impres

He watched the girl's white face-asked slowly, "Saw him before or

after the shootin}; 7" bor

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