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MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1931

TIENTSIN RIOTS: BATTLE OF YSER VETERANS: NEW U.S. CRUISER.

A scene in Tiantain, where rioting naar the foreign settlement brought a bombardment of the city by Japanese troops. This view showa wasithy Chinese hastily moving into the the Concession arena.

The light cruiser' Indianapolis taking the water after launch- ing ceremonies. When she is turned over to the navy next summer she will carry nine sight inch guns, sight five inch anti- aircraft guns, and two torpedo tubes.

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Gems of Peril

CHAPTER X.

HAZEL

TROSS HAILEY

Suventans yours ago, an exhausted but triumphant Belgian army, led by its King, watched enemy forces retreat after two weeks of fierce fighting at the batile-of the Year. And above the same leader, King Albert, is shown shaking ands with voterman of that important magage- ment during commemoration core nonias held recently in Brussels.

Jaelf how long it'd take Eddie to pay

off at that rate, even providing the guy would wait,

Why didn't he come to you for

it? Well, he knew you didn't have it. And he had some idea you'd bad him out, I expoet. Jupiter tells me the kid made him swear not to tell you he'd even usked.

Cold fury, such as she had anver dreansed she could feel assessed |

Your brether bad apstuuity, and "There was nuthing left but to Sinry at Inspector Kane's iz different words. Within a

frew the bed motive. What does it mat-take it off people that had it and hotte au mber, someon's hand fer that be never did such a thing wouldn't miss it-the guests at your had struck down the two people efore in his life? How do you party. He made it all right with

cun eith, vargje ber now he didn't? What do you know you to let him in, came and went i sweetheart, Dirk, Shs had thought out him. anyway?" Before she in the other fellow's car. Only it of the wherla of justice na printing johd answer, be added with an air wasn't in the cards that he was to

That was pure funk.

xel-up,

ture of that man. While he lived, is about a man than his sister. how coud anyone with a drop of pity in his heart. rest vantent.

aloway hit aurely towards the empat widora, "Nobody on earth knows, shoot.

"The old girl was no Unless is mother, may be." though she yelled. And that was "You think that Eddie killed Mrs, her big mistake. If she'd kept still "Everything that could be done Jupiter? Mary was shivering un-and forked over, she'd be alive to has been on Kane said, "If the controlladly. She sat stiffly, fight day. He knew he had to silence her jeweln ever turn up or if we finding for self-control, cold fingers or have it all come out and spoil the car, we'll have positive ori-gripping tightly the gloves lying in your party, not to mention your dence. Nothing to do but wait, her Jap.

life, so he shot her."

Mary suffered a treling of vast disillusionment

"He may not have meant to kill

Mary listened with fascinated the If he cried she would make a concerning

frol of herself,

manattention as the liuks fell into and this processes of justice and that great

of prob institution known as "the Pouce." and his stupidity must be fought place. forming a chain

than that, ability so plausible that for the She had believed in "the Law" as with other

weapons she had believed in God, and in In-While she struggled to stop the moment she was benumbed into see- spector Kane as its prophet. And tears that squeezed out and ran, ing the thing through his eyes, here he was, helpless, like any other wetly down the sides of her nose,

er, i don't know," Kane centinued. her. mortal.

Kane went on "ranking his cure."

The gun went off right in my She did not realise it, but in "Eddie had to get his hands 021 that moment was born the great $15,000 and do it in a hurry. We hand. God, I've heard 'em say it plugged scheme that was later to take pos- know that much. I had those boys a thousand times! But ho session of her. The idea of seek-in. those roommates of his. One's her just the same, even if it was ing personal vengeance on her as elevator boy in an office build-just a nervous twitch of the finger, brother's killer, who, she was sure. ing. He was the one Fot your Instinct of self-preservation, they

brother in the

way of following call it. I call it funk." was Mrs. Jupiter's murderer, too,

"If," anid Mary, "all this should beta

ance.

Fire that broke out at « Hoboken; N. J., dock was on. dangering a trana Atlantic liner, smaller shipping and scares of waterfront structures when this picture was taken of the blaze. While all available apparatus was rushed to the scene, a heavy pall of smoke was swept over the Hudson toward New York. The steamer Statenda was tował from kan mooring and the

fire aboard bar extinguish

came later in all its details. But the

the races. He used to place het be true, why don't you arrest the the genesis of it was right there, in for "clients' in the building. Ed other man--this hard cookie' you the chilling discovery that in deep made a little pile and was feeling

to make time up a side-That was a sore spot with him, extremity the only one to be de, rich, so he went down to the tracks speak of? Eddie was just a boy. tryin'

didn't know his street, beating the lights at a apparently, und would remain so. pended upon in one's self.

and started playing the sport. He Nineteen. He

по сар. "Oh, please! I've explained Perhaps Kane felt her criticism, met some big shots, and the boys way around, and that man did. He's corner where there was for his affability gave way to griev-didn't see quite so much of him for to blame, as much an Eddie-more Might a been a Rolls or a mer that so many times!"

"I know. That boy friend of while. But it wasn't long before so. Why don't you arrest him?" cedca-any of them big cars. It

"I'm wining." Kane said, surdon happened to be a Lorimor, that was yours told you to keep still. He'll "Police work is not so simple as he was back. He'd got hold of the some people think, Miss Harkness." long end of a 16-to-1 shot, and Ically. "Why don't you tell mall. There wha à uniformed driver, get too big for his boots some day.

ke they all have. Pure where he is? "It's hard enough at couldn't pay off.

cainel Withholding evidence. You know, I "It must have surprised him some Mary perceived that this was hu-dence, Miss Harkness."

the district át- uppose, he went bost, and when people put stum-when the chap, whoever bo was, mour, but she was not amused.

torney and asked him not to make "Surely, the car.”

It had looked so damningly clear a special investigation. The family It you'd been frank with us about demanded his money. That's the

"There's

handred Lorimora like to her before the cars being the was satisfied, he said, to let the your brother coming to the house trouble with a kid like that playing that night, we could have had the for big stakes. When he loses, he's that in this part of the country, same, that deadly swerve, just as matter drop,"

Dirk of 'em parked in garges vou Eddie was crossing the street to

dild that 7. Why, story out of him at once--and the be a woman-he wants to wiggle most to have an engraved, Rold-spank to her, to tell her the whole wouldn't do such a thing!""

It's too inte now. We out of it. Every man

hates a

No it seemed a dim im- "Wouldn't ho? He and his father knew more than that if he didn't heory is the man's a scelety blood..

he told her.

bling blocks in our way-well-

case settled.

he

nothing but let the matter welsher. Eddle know that and ho edged invitation to get into. My staten theory. And she could represent Jupiter, you know. And.

he said. He made a restless mave- ¦ meet obligations of his own. Maybe kill the murderer wanted Eddig herself. Tho'nbaurdity of this flerco!

help

can do drop."

Slowly the implication of his come through quick, he was due Lorimar was purked in seme Park never prove it, now. Eddie's lips Jupiter wants the whole inquiry words came home to the girl. for a good beating-up, at lenat. Avenue garage right this minute, were sealed. Only one man knew quashed. Told me not to go any

"What do you mean by that?"They've pot funny ideas around the and the man that owns it dining at the man in the Lorimor car.

She would find that man and make farther with it, and refused further she naked, "you mean you think race-tracks about taking bigger the Bitz." Eddie came in and kill

"It was a Lorimar that brought him talk.

Mary gasped, "Why, I heard him killed!! oon asian vali can lon to lose.

She would get from him Kane looked at her keenly.

"Evidently the chap Eddie wicked whoever came to rob the house the true story, somehow. If no say he'd never be satisfied unt!! he "I meant only what is self-evi-up with was a hard cookie. Maybe that night, too. Doesn't that look one else would do it, she would do it found the man who killed his wifel" "Maybe he thinks as I do,' In dent from the facts in the case, he needed the money in a hurry to as. If

resolve did not occur. to her.. Sho spector Kane said. ment of dismissal. "I don't think he was just sore and wanted to give that. But it don't tie

"Yeah. I know. We thought of was too grimly serious.

(To Be Continued) wo'll get anywhere threshing this the led a lesson. Anyway, he put

up. Look Oh. if only Eddie wern horo-

tears, out any further. Miss Harkness. it up to the kid to come through, here. If anybody was trying to Her eyes filled with tarot there

kill your brother to keep his mouth You come in and see me again any | "r— time you like. If I have anything

It always seems to be "In desperation. Eddle went to thut, would he take

A chance

on sooner! to report, I'll be glad to tell you rear employer and asked for a laan. knocking him down with a rart It my fault. My carelessness. I'm to

Mary said, "Tell me what you faniter don't Be kids much, dons would have taken perfect timing to blame for it alt 1"

Kane chose her moment of weak. moant implacably.

be? I guera he'd had his hands be at that particular spot at that "Well, what do you think?" be with that wild one of his own, particular time. No, the kid was ness to grow pompous. burst out: "What are the facta?" Anyhow he offered him a ich at $35 t'led and got hit, that's all. It's

"Oh, if only.

"Not that, Mies Harkness, but

were."

He held up two massive fingers wok learning the automobile, them big cars that shoot through you certainly might have boon and ticked them off, one at a time business. You can figure out your-like that some Wall Street guy. franker with us than you

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