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Canon Guy Rogers, 1he King's Chaplain, who has just returned to England from visit to USA, in the interests of International pance.

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1932.

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WeB Then wher This was a new state of affairs, Somebody else on the Flyle trail?) Who could it be?

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father servem hip out and wake Mary is yes," she heir, fiture are to butt Stary who be

thinks in a guld-diastre,

Mary Birk quarrel heenase Dirk in to.de was arrest The Ply and when frukos of Iwwer and refuses to be to the existance of The Fly, Dark gone mbrot ngxin with his formet wärthern, Cornells Tabor,, who in trying to win him fouk

CHAPTER XXVI

The "Gypsy" was made ready to mall on Tuesday

Mary had a telephone call from Dirk. He had just received her letter, he said.

"Did you want to see me?** asked formally

"Why, yes," Mary replied. Don't you want to see me?

the police came down the place; Bowen Jumped tis the cnnelusion--“

"He does a good deal of that, I'm Binking." Dirk connuented drily.

Mary was in no mund to resent anything Dirk might say ngalist. the absent Howen. She was too | mystified too buggy speculating.

Who do you think it could have| he, been?" he asked.

"He's probably got a dozen rack- rts," Dirk replied. "The cops migh be after him for ny one of them. There was a short wait before her it might be for some foul thing Answered, "Of course, Shall I come like parking overtime. He ran,; over?" He w setting a distance like they all do. They don't like a between them but then it was he pinch, even for a minor uitence- whose feelings had been injured. it's bad for their rackets," They would talk it swer and it Considerable wind had been taken would be all right.

Jout of Mary's sails by this dise Mary dressed without any paycovery but she was none the less ticular enthusinsin. Dirk was com regretful that it had taken place. |- ing now but tomorrow she would be The Fly was gone and what assur gone. It was a rather hollow sortance had she that she could find! of happiness she felt, lant it washim again? Nothing but Bowen's ! better than not seeing Birk at all.gives-and Bowen could be wrong.

When he came, he sat down be-as this slip-up showed. side her casually, but nude un move i For a moment she felt panicky--| to touch her, Mary felt the least she was committed to so much, just bit rebuffed. He looked worried on the strength of that chance that and strained, and her heart, went The Fly would show up at the track 1 to him.

"I'm sorry I left you like thai,' she said gently.

"know," he said. "That's all

*right."

Another allence fell.

"I had to know about

when his horse ran her big ruce. If:

Our photo shows Min Mary Tomkinson, who has two little Jambi. Their mother died at birth and they have come to re- cognise Mary's nursing bottle. Pictura was taken on an Oxford- shire farm.

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An unusual picture of the bull ring, this shows Carmelo Perez, a noted Mexican matador, caught napping when tackling a bull before a Spanish audience, outside Mardrid. The matodor mar- rowly escaped with his life.

Dirk jerked his hand away.

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ready hagged it. J. J. worked him-i Mary was coldly furious. "That's he were really frightened he might "My God, you're not going to self into such a fury nt Bruce that, a likely story of Con's-I don't be- stay away. Although he would take that-that--animal on board? out of spite as much us anything|lieve a word of it," she exclaimed probably feel himself safe enough. Associate with him? Why, he's felse, he made a new will.........” angrily. ""She Just wanted to get Unless the offence were a serious scum! If he's no more than a

you there." Jong, extradition from Florida would gigolo, he's not the sort you ought|

"You're crazy," Dirk` rejoined Dirk stared. "So that's what the thes. be more than the New York police to be seen with! I'd trust him no fingerprints. Whether they wer Would tronble with.

more then I'd trust a snake. For old boy was doing in the office mildly. "No, it was true enough, The Fly's, she explained.,

The idea that the Fly's arrest all you know he may be a bank bright and early Saturday morn-It was that count chap Ethel met in the speukensy. She's been chia- couldn't wait. Haven't you ever had been sought by Inspector Kane robber-a thief an imposter of the ing felt that way?"

occurred to her bat was instantly worst order—“

Didn't your father telling him ragged. Finally she got him to say he'd came for the week- He shrugged. "I suppose you dismissed. In her last interview "A murderer," Mary supplied you?" were anxious, of course," he said, with him he had been so emphati- gently.

He seemed strangely dis-end. He made Connie tell him who "What did you find out?"

eally distinterested in following up "Even a murderer." Dirk agreed comfited. "But then I haven't the gucats were to be. She had to They were his, The Bertillon the case, that such a decided change hotly. "I won't have him around seen him alone since. I left while read. the list to him before he'd men at police headquarters checked in his point of view seemed un-you! By George, I thought ollJupiter was there.

say he'd come. Rotten little' snob. them."

likely. Kane had been "bought Jupiter had some sense, but—”

"Yes, I know. Your father said Can you beat it?"

Yes.

"No."

bor's tennis court.

Dirk cleared his throat. You off," and he would stay that way, "You talk," she interrupted, "as you'd gone away-for the week- "Well, why didn't he come, then? understand, don't you, that the she was sure. He was the sort of if I were going to be the only one end." She felt again the stab of Did the Vanderbilts steal him or gun's being his docan't prove con- bootlicker to do just that.

on the boat. There'll be Bruce. Jealousy that had gone through her what?" She wasn't really inter- | clusively that it was the Fly who fired it? It

Well, she was sailing in the morn- and the Countess, besides Mr. Jupi-at sight of Bruce on Cornelia sa-ested, but she wanted to believe was the murder ing, probably on a wild-goose chase, ter and the crew"

well of both Dirk and Connie if she gun, of course; I've had it in the but she couldn't back out now. How "The Countess? Who's she?" Dirk looked at her cautiously but could. This crazy jealousy that hands of ballistic experts, and would she feel, though, once she "My chaperon, darling. And if said nothing. Mary tried to keep flamed up whenever she saw the there's no doubt about that part. had spread this elaborate web she you don't think that's funny you her manner casual, her tone light- two together or heard Dirk speak Bat-I don't mean to hurt your was spinning, and seated herself in should know her. She's a friend "Did you have a good time? I'm Connie's name was like a painful feelings again--but how can you the centre of it with the gleaming of Bruce's. I mustn't tell you all terribly jealous, of course. You sickness. She wanted to be inocu- prove to a jury that it was The Fly Jupiter rubies as bait, if The Fly I surmise about her or you'l think know that," she said banteringly. lated against it if possible. And who was the murderer, rather than falled to appear? She nimost 'in as

a capri- bad as that Town Tattle Dirk fished for a cigarette, lean-perhaps it was true. -than someone elso?"

wished she had not embarked on chap...gossiping away withouted back. "You needn't be," he re- cious house-guest like Ethel "We can't. We're not even try-such an insane adventure. Much anything to prove it.

"It wasn't n

and Con- But I do turned Indifferently.

an manless emergency ing to. Fly himself will do better to remain safely at home think she's the reason Bruce has pleasure trip. It was stern duty." nie always had depended on Dirk that for

where women belonged and have no stayed in Europe one of the reater of her. "It was your duty to wre no guile there..

"Duty?" Indignation got the betilke a brother. Perhaps there thoughts of one's own-then one sons. She hates Now York "If we're lucky. And if we play could not be mistaken, and desery Americana. She only came over to play tennis with Cornelia Tabor?" "She should have naked me, too, our cards just right. But the lenat edly laughed at.

protect her property-to see that no Apparently it did not surprise though," she was thinking retel silp the least word-and it's all

Dirk put his hand on hers, looked smart young debutante grabbed up him much that she know where he Hously. apolled. It's possible that's hur earnestly into her face.

her Brucey-boy and ran off with had been.

"Oh, he's out of little Ethel's life pened already. You aren't very

"Why not forget it?" he begged him to the altar. So far he's had

"Not, that, exactly. But the rest for good," Dirk explained. "Called popular with Goorge Bowen Just "Wish

could," she murmurod sense enough not to marry her. But of it was. Politeness sentenced me home to Argentina to settle hla now. The Fly's left town, you unhappily. "But-wo've made so how she hates me!"

to two days at hard labour, nothing estate or something. Sho'll never know.".

many plane--you've no idea what: Mary made a wry face

loss. Con called me--she was dos see him again, and a darn good Dirk looked at her in bewilder-proparations have been marie. "Good Lord," said Bruce, in dieperate and I pretty well had to go. thing. Con's mother was worried ment. "I'm not popular? What've There's even a dictagraph in his taste, why should she hate you?" Some flame, of Ethel's had disapnick for fear Ethel would elope with

cabin the cabin we're keeping "She thinks I'm after the Jupiter pointed her at the last minute and him."

money. Worse she thinks I've al she had to have another man."

(Continued on Page 11.).

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"Didn't you go back to Shay'a|for him—”

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