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DEGIN DERE TO-DAY.

Jupiter,

Oh! Mrs.

wife of the shamir automultir magfacturer. Kiv an engages, ment durer wad de for Էյուբ merrelacy. Mary Hurkors, who

HAZEL IROSS HAILEY

Ta mntry bak delighted to deck her in that had

RayUser, Bueblooded young lawyer.

Mary recites, a telephone call from her. sempetrace bredder, Baklle, maying he be in Trunkle sist must see her, The hotter ateletly, kuwekod meninot "gatecrashuri te

Mr. Jupiter to Wendig the

Jupiter rabiem.

Mary Ans for Elite to be admitted

seen bİy. Where she won countless meet him The Aute Mr. Juplier nobled and andra

I ANIA, Siekiau Dirk, he him with Cornelia Tyler, his phildhood necets ||

brought about her death..

"Come and see me soon," Dr. Jor-

A crowd of nearly 2,000 curious spectators delayed traffic on East Seward Road Shanghai last weak, as police officers froom Wayside Station directed the removal of three victims of the Interna tional Settlement's latest ghastly murder in which a Chinese carpenter, his wife and son were backed to pieces. The room in which the crime was committed in marked.

" will: But he's so young. He.

isn't 21 yet." She hadn't thought.

dan had said to Mary, earnestly, of it before but now it came to her "I want to talk to you about whai hut whatever Eddie had been up

we must do to save him." Odd that to his punishment would be tem

he should be the one he talked to pered for him he was still a about this, But she did not have minor in the eyes of the law.

time to wonder what he meant.

"I'm sorry to see you go, now more than ever." Mr. Ju

Jupiter re-,

Phosph Dark advies her to keep silent aboɔt "Mr. Jupiter, I've mething to sumed. Eddie did not interest him

Edille will be PAT locate the boy, dowen, : tell reporter for the Star, sual interest

r ha

CHAPTER VI

she repeated.

Oh, yes." I smiled and much; he was of a different stripe roused himself. "I know you're

from his sister, and he had never going to leave us. Well,

cared much about the boy, "I'll tell pected that. But we didn't think yan, if it wast

wasn't for this Dirk of! "What do you know about tele-it would be so 2000. Tou and Dirk yours--we bad plans about you. phone calls?" Kane asked.

I just asked the Star reporter phatically, much to her own

replied. The reporlet, whose unprise. Not for a long time yet." tent she's gone and can't at- Į

"I don't know a thing, Inspector.

going

to pet married rigle off?" "No, no! Mary assured him um-

sur-

Mama

1.

don't know she'd like them carried out why,

to it herself."

In

Any-

Mary had no idea of what was coming;

comin

19 he continued, her

"We always wanted a daughter,

and

was Bowen, turned away toward the stairs. "Well, I'll just run up and looked utterly bereft: what else see how Bill's making out. I'd like tould she have said? to gol 4

look

self. No abjection?"

"Go ahead."

Mary

They bad all gene and found herself alone with Mr. Jup ter in the library. A fire crackle in the great fireplace. A dim haze of cigarette smoke filled the air. was very quiet. The tick of

He was staring into the fire amazement grew.

at that necklar my-again. His face was working, like and after Bruce went away.

that of a child who is trying hard you came, Mams used to say how not to ery. Sick with pity, Mary nice it was to live a young girl looked away,

"It's not the same without her, about a girl-you

in the house. is it, child?" he said sadly,

There's something can buy 'em Dr. Jordan's words flashed into dress! How happy she had been dresses and things." The Paris her mind. Taking a deep breath, in it, only yesterday. Mary what the plunged ahead.

her eyes to squeeze back the tears. "or course, Bruce wil marry mysume day; but then we never see for as much of Bruce as we'd like to.' me The shadow of a very real bitter

neas crossed his face. "No, that! might not happen

In our anyway

grandfather clock sounded in her "Mr. Jupiter, last night my- Pars like the voice of consetence, kad

telephone cal from pushing her forward.

brother. I haven't She got up and went over and

seen him -sat down bende Mr. Juper fuite a long time. He called

up during the party, and-"

front of the fire,

"Mr. Jupiter, there's something! must tell you".

"I

NEA

Another modern miracle has been introduced within the wall of the Vatican City. For the above portrait of Pope Pius XI was transmitted by wire directly from the Vatican, over an apparatur installed by Edoard Belin, the French inventor. This picture, the Brat sont from the papel city by telephoto, was received in Paris.

His face was turned politely to lifetime, and like as not it would!!

No, we

ward her. but she know he was be one of those foreign women he's times there hasn't lacen

Her hands were cold and her not listening

throat dry she could hardly get i

the words out but she was resolved

to go on. She could not bear the

sight of that bowed figure without doing something to help,

niways writing about.

•

He looked up vaguely, as if be- ti afraid he's in trouble, Mr.She found herself laughing and cry-his infrequent lettera, written in a

to brood if

-

"We've taken a lot of comfort in you, Mary" Mr. Jupiter continued more gently. "You may as well That 86? How's le getting on?"thought we wouldn't wait for that. He was making an effort to be in- We had you here, and liked you, him, Mary's heart was

Although she had never neen bave some of what we've got, along hardened with Bruce. The Ruythers have terested. But to her own care she and we thought we'd just adopt against him. It was plain to see got nothing. Never will have any sounded like & fearful fool, chat sad. Now, what would you have how much his parents missed him, thing. Steve's too clone. Ho tering of her own affairs at such said to that?"

how puzzled they were by his con- wouldn't plant

nickol that coming aware

wouldn't raise a of her for the first

It was like a fairy-tale come true. Unued absence. They treasured

dollar." time. Seeing the suffering in that Jupiter. I don't know what, but ing at onec.

Mary

But stunned. They loved Hined face, Mary's heart failed her. I'm afraid it's pretty bad."

patois almost unintelligible to them har enough for that to have made ("An Sho remembered with a stab of amateur bungler!" She

"It would have been wonderful and sprinkled with the names of her their own daughter, given hor fright Dr. Jordan's warning of a not think about that!)

must Perfectly wonderful!"

persons and places they knew a share in the immonee Jupiter for- few hours

"He must not be

nothing at all about.

tunol But would ho feel the same flat old replied

said, pleased as allowed we can help it. urelessly, nothing that a few led a chilie, we'll have to ceasul Now she tried to soften the blow about it, when he know?

mind will

lars won't fix, I

I guess. He'll come when all this is over. Things are for the old man. Mr. Jupiter's devotion to his wife, out all right. Faw things in the pretty bad right now.

"He may be out of town." the doctor had reminded Mary, was world that a few dollars won't fix mustn't let it worry you, or change "Well, ho's no business to be" unique even among happily mar "Oh, it isn't that! But I asked your plans a fat. Bruce'll be along him, the suggestion seemed to he snapped. Instead of soothing riod couples. He told her why; at him here--and he hasn't come.

The nurse Dr. Jordan had sent any day now. I dare any there'll ten he told what he had heard don't know where he is in. I've be an answer to my cable before angor him. The place for that came in, atarchily efficient, and "Time for Mr. How to the day's over, and when he comes young man is back in this country, Interrupted them.

and their

I'll mighty soon tell him so Jupiter to get some rest," she told he'll brighten things up a bit.” going was state village to marry Jim Jupiter. 'round and 'round the subject, and

when I

see him! If he'd been here, him firmly. Those were Dr. Jor- a pannilaan mechanic, and live in not saying what she meant to say

Mary tried to believe that this where he ought to be, at his mo- dan's orders. Bed, and his lunch- yas so but could only eficet bitter ther's side, this never would have won brought up to him. poverty, That was why he had at all.

"Faugal" The nurse recolled be ly on what she had heard of the happened I' lived lust to give her everything. "Don't do it" he barked at her. absent Bruce and his ways. Now she waS

Whether his grievance was justi- fore his election of her. "Where's taken from him. "Don't do it! It's not n woman's "Pull that bell-cord, will you?" fled or not, it was exceedingly. bit-Spence? Who told Jordan to send Brooding on the tragedy might place to worry about a man. Man's Mr. Jupiter asked, suddenly. Butter. Mary hoped for Bruce's sake a woman over hore?. You go back shake his sanity, and no wonder, place to worry about a woman Lot Sponce when he came had nothing he was managing to endure spring and tell him I said to mind file own since it was the very jewels ho had him do that!"

to report. The old mạn sank back. In Paris this year.

(Continued on Page 7.)

that Mrs. Jupiter had turned down boon-pretty worried" the richest man in small up-tell him! Hore

aho

But you

That would have been wonder- ful," she managed to say, "but tet's not think about it now.""

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