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Gems of Peril

HEN HERE TODAY.

HAZEL

The thief whe robe and kite rich at M. ROSS HAILEY

Jupiter "during the engagement party whe

awer for her necrotary. Mary Harkness, falls

in get the famous Jupiter peekisem Poltre could be refused. His droj tip ease, beltering Bary's

make gore In moel Mary,

stare of

Ohr photo shows the gyroplane, said to be capable of 145 miles an hour. It is said that it combines the advantages of the auto-giro with the ordinary machine, and that it can take off in

10 feet and clear a 100 foot object in 150 feet. In landing or taking off the upper wing rotatus.

won't be so rich you'll Bend your eagerly. "Will we be in Miami by dealt with the police--she had Lark carrying it. This was pure the 16th?"

Tourul that out. And-in that one swank, Mary knew, but she let him

Her sudden enthusiasm puzzled respect, at least, she meant to re say it. If it plessed him to belittle Jupiter, but he was pleased to see speet Dirk's wishes. His his wealth, it was a piensure he that he had succeeded in “perking would always be coupled with hers could afford.

her up."

since the ofleinl announcement of "I ask only one thing." she said reckon 90," he answered, their engagement, even if-her soberly. "That nothing he said "Why? Somebody down there you mind refused to follow up that pain- as she was protesting the injustice about it just yet. No one must want to see?"

ful "if." She would not drag him Marg's dances Dick Ruyter, forbids her of such an arrangement. Mary's know."

She laughed excitedly. "I should | into this if nshe enuld possibly avoid

Bowen, pollen reporter for Che Star,

Fddle, guilty. Full in run dows by amazement was almost a glare. Not in many years had anyone crossed savers Pulled many to excetrack im in any major respect; he was

utterly taken aback.

"That isn't fair to Bruce?" Even

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oner, Mary meets huwen in a bakery heart began to pound dizzily. To He was obviously disappointed say se! How long will we stay?" it. where Hawn ways The Fly is afting. Dirk, be the Jupiter heiress! She could but he agreed, grudgingly. It

comed by tu take Mary base. He pro

"Why, long as you like, two- | All this she had to make clear to

sin trim way to link in the Jouiter herkin, nly dimaly apprehend as yet what would have been infinitely sooth-three weeks, I suppose. Danged if Mr. Jupiter, as well as her plan to The Fly lent there. Birk and Mary we would mean to be mistress of so ing to that long-fostering whand to I'll open the house, though. Always capture the Fly. When she had fin followed by men in the same make of car any millions, to have the world to his pride and his affections which hated the thing-tuoks like an ellished, he asked:

that killed Etile. Bowen elope the thieven

by trains his war in front of theim, ik play in, to be free forever of the his son's way of life had dealt him station. No vacation for me--go

still pomb-puolin the existence of The Fly and

turn from Europe with a westban felem!,

the mercy of

Mr. Juziter orders his past. The leappears.

CHAPTER XXIV

have told the tale, even if the to quacious Della had not.

"You're looking a litle peaked," Jupiter ventured. "Beller cone along to Bermuda with me next week."

Mary raised stricken eyes at the

"Bermuda." "I'm all right;" she murmured,

"You sure he'll be there?"

Alary in with Bruce Jupiter ne poverty that had put her at the to let the world know that Bruce all the way to Miami and live in an "It's almost a certainty, Bowen

world these last few years,

Cornelia Tabors of the was to be punished. In his own oil station! We'll live on the thinks. His horse races at Hialeah

| peculiar self-sufficiency, Bruce had “Gypsy""

on the 16th. He'll show up, all To be free to choose Dirk for always evaded him. This was, the

right-he doesn't take the law seri- husband as he had chosen her, and only way the father could hurt him.j He was avoiding the palatialously, you know. He's been arrest- not to feel like a beggar-maid who Mary knew that Mr. Jupiter was Spanish "cottage" which had been ed many times, but they've had Two utterly miserable people must always be humbly grateful to heartsick over the open break with Mrs. Jupiter's favourite among her to let him go. He's careful.Bowen Faced each other down the her King Cophetua! To receive Bruce from the listless tone with various homes because her memory says he's the smartest crook un length of the great Jacobean din The unwilling deference of Emilly which he spoke of his yacht, for the was too vivid there, Mary knew. hung. Maybe that's why they call ner-table that night... that night Ann Ruyther, who, like most moba, "Gypsy was the dearest tay he But she did not care: the "Gypsy him The Fly. He's so hard to which should have held particular sually found it difficult to be un-owned.

uited her purposes even better. A swat." happiness for both of them. civil to a great deal of money. Mury

I've got Hendricks." he said, plan of almost diabolical eunring Each was heroically resolved to felt as if she had been taken up into and he won't take on anybody had occurred to her! As she rupid.

Jupiter grunted, keep his troubles from the other high place and shown the king-wouldn't. Good man. Good navily thought out its details, she knew do you expect to?"

"If the police can't swat him, how but their woebegone fees would tons of the world. Had she really gator, good pllot. And a damn that she must ecriain prepara-using my own! He can't be taken

the strength to refuse them?

speak to Mr. Jupiter By avoiding their methods, and good mechanic. Don't often find about it now, The old man was growling apo-that in a seagoing man. We'll get tions would have to be made before-in an open chase, that's been tried plectically in his throat, moving the away the first of the week." hand, to insure safety all round-too many times. Very well. We'll sliver about agitatedly. When he

Go away from New York, leave for herself, for the necklace when emulate a spider, sprend our web had calmed himself, he said:

Dirk-7 Mary's heart cried out it was in her possession, and possi-and wait for him! He'll come. The "We'll any no more about Bruce. have the two greatest grit's to that she couldn't no matter how bly for the old man hiniself.

necklace will bring him. He is the unfairly he had behaved toward She might take chances herself only one who knows the truth about her.

but she would never again take Eddie. He must be made to tell, "You make up a party," the old chances on behalf of anyone else that's all. If you want to do some man persisted, with forted cheer the land of responsibility she al-thing for me, do that! It's the one fulness. We've got cabins for 15. Maybe

"Ask anybody you like. ready bore was heavy enough. thing I want, more than anything

At her earnest request, they left | D Steve Ruyther and his wife can get the almost untouched meal and ad- to speak of it but I talked to Ruy try to convince him by the usual way; do him good. Shut you up jurned to the library, safe from He was silent a long time. Mory ther about that matter his morn-platitudes, that this violent reper few weeks with that, wife of his the avid cars of the servants. could not read his thoughts. Every- His voice was still hourse cussion was only natural. that and maybe you'll decide you don't There, as clearly as she could, Mary thing hang on his answer-she

He sat forth the facta ale and Bowen almost prayed. with emotion. "It's all settled.little familiarity between father want to get married, ch?"

It Makes you my heir. Bruce will be and son would smooth away the squinted at her, in a feeble attempt had gathered about The Fly.

"If I thought you two youngsters taken care of enough for a man sharp edges of their differences, at humour.

was not a conclusive show of ovi- were

right that that man was the "Maybe I won't get married,dence, but it was strong. It needed one I'd never rest, while he was that lives the rattle-brained life he bring them back together again. docs. But none of them French Sho fornook the subject of Bruce anyway," Mary said.

final lluk to make it impregnable above ground! Every cont I've got "Well, hussies will get my mother's ve Very well," she said quietly. "If young. Little absence won't do any Fly's confessio

boing.

plenty of time. You're that final link could only be The would go to see him hung!" Spots: got no son, but by God, no

of red burned in the bloodless inw that says I can't have a duugh- younways been kind to me, but stop off in Miami and Bee Home) did not admlt It, but it was theraalvanized with life since the first)

You get ready, and we'll There was still the chance-sho

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bear that can come to a ma-my wife and my son are dead." He was nimost weeping.

and set his melon aside un- Fear for bin, in his present

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As the whole import of this sul- this seems--too much, somehow. other young folks—”

that though it had been the Fly's few hopeful days of the police den announcement mndo itself I've never done anything to deserve Miami! Mary's indifference van-gun with which Mrs. Jupiter was acarch for his wife's murderer. The clear to her, Mury throw out her so much. I've no right to it, really.ished. She sat up, electrifled by shot, Eddie's hand had fired it. If thirst for rovengo gave him an un hands involuntarily,

If you change your mind-" the thought that came to her. Miami that wore true, she wanted know expected zest in life. It might be a

"Oh, no!" she had cried. "You "It's all settled. And it isn't so was Florida, and Hialeah must be it, but she did not want other peo-better thing for him, In the end, mustn't do that! You mustn't!" much. Not half of what people somewhore about. The Fly would ple to know it if it could be helped, than the coddling Dr. Jordan had

Eh? Why not?" Apparently he think," he flashed wardly. "And be at Hialea} |

So they must do without the police. enforced on him, had never dreamed that his offer time the taxes are paid and all, you "When can we start?” she asked For notoriety followed when one (Continued on Page 11.)

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