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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932.

TROUGH OF BOWLAND: ENORMOUS CHRISTMAS "CARD:" DOGS OF WAR.

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Sidelights on the Sino-Japanese campaign in Manchuria. Abave, Mrs. Honje, wife of Lieut. Gen. Honjo, and Mrs. Sudzuki, wife of Maj. Gen. Sudzuki-Japanese commanders in the fold- shown at a shrine with Tokyo school children, praying for Japanese victory. Below, hospital corps men carrying wounded Japanese soldiers through the blizzard to a fold hospital.

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Gems of Peril

DEGIN HERE TO-DAY,

May Barket plots to ensure The Ph.

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Hrure Jupiter returns fanno Come with aw friend an onbered out by falter, whi che Mar

Irure YOWA DO 20s Mary, was he thinks in Angofle ker. Dira forbids Mary in at Bowen os continue the koseligion, She How To Mans on the Jupiter pecht, hoping The Fly wit be at Hindenb to see kla birge run.

hem Count De looms. The Look Ís

Hated we the owner of The Fly's or Mr. Jupiter has a ver of the sun make that band by the murderer, but he explains it was Best for gerimental potrpners.

Bowen verheum Irce and Lou

Telting Brauer the ennnot explain where die

gut diamond bracelet. Luke says State's Bruce maker her give the bracelet

to Mary, who lacus it was solers from

Mro. Jupiter the night she was killed.

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CHAPTER XXXV

HAZEL ROSS HAILEY

last if we don't get this Fly locked

up pretty spon," he said. "His arteries aren't what they used to be, if I'm any fudge. Best keel him as quiet as you can. an

might get the goods on that ronk if they're in this hotel. Leave it to me."

Mary felt univeisled, and faintly

festil it you douse it lying around | rebellious. your room tonight.

mask the quick alarm in his eyes to fust she warned him, "Wait i triest toi "We're not going to hurry things as he added "Does The Fly know and see what happens tonight. you've got that?"

"No,"

I'm not telling Mr. Jupiter, but-

I'm going to wear the ruby mork- Face

Bates stared.

Bates drew a breath. "Retter lock it up before he finds out." He turned to Jupiter, who had ro- inxed a bit but was still white as added.

"You'll be there, and Bruce. Why should I be afraid?"

abe

a sheet. "There's your case. You "Nobody would shoot into a no-b can send him up on that, and like that and he'd know

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Above is a Christmas card which could not go through the maila, It was 30 feet high, had "living angela" in it, and an amplifying system which enabled Christmas carols to be heard for a half mile. It was feature of Philadelphia's holiday observanco.

ang rate "2

Impulsively, she asked for it.

she had signed the slip, she tucked Mary walked across the half- it into her handbag carefully. It Bates considered. "Might," he empty lobby to the desk, stopping might have been better to have had conceded. "If he wants it bad at the window to ask for her mail. someone with her, she reflected a Only he's able to make Dirk had not written. She ex-tride uneasily. On the other wild grab for it and anybody perienced the old, familiar sick- hand, it might be better tactics to

crowd. I wouldn't fire

the

Hello! A grin overspread his face there, too, somewhere, she remem- you take my advice you'll do it, Bates objected. "I could put as he hung up. and not monkey around any longer, man on both exits, though-

bered. It occurred to her that this fle's liable to get ugly if he has

"Phew! He's there, all right, might be a good time to take it out. "Do it. I'm not ready to lose! And mad! You should have heard as she must do soon if she meant any suspicion you're laying for the necklace-ret. But if The what he called me!" Bates rubbed to wear it to-night. him He stopped and shipped a Fly is jittery as you say, the sight an ear tenderly. "Well, run along. fist into his open palm.

of it might stendy him, don't you You know he's not in the lobby, at and when it had been located, and Henry Bates. detective.

"Listen: It never struck me he'djthink?" stood for a moment deep in be fool enough to keep the stuff on thought. What he had just arenhim. But if he hasn't disposed of puzzled him greatly, apparently, and it yet, then maybe it's in his room. his watchers knew he would never When he's on the roof tonight with enough. rest until the meaning of those you, Miss Harkness. I'll make events was clear.

# search. If it's there, we'll wait that tried to stop him would be ness that swept over her whenever do it in the most obvious manner "Now what. "what makes The Fly act dopey like comes down. If it isn't-"

he mused aloud, right there and nab him when he at a terrible disadvantage in that she let herself stop to think of possible. The fascinating pay- gun in him, to face the avid possibilitychology of "The Purloined Letter" that? Just looking } { 8 court- "Nab him anyhow," Jupiter fin- that πιού. house steeple?". Neither Mary aorished.

I know that."

that he did not mean to write. had left its impress on her, too." Mr. Jupiter had any explanation to that bracelet, chain and ali!”

"He won't try there. Leave It "By God, I'll make him eat to

Aloud she said to the day clerk, An Instant later she was to της, What's the matter with who looked up startled at the doubt her Poe and regret that she Bates jerked himself ap. "Well," Mary suggested, "that Eddie did it

"Ife couldn't claim, could he."taking him out to the yacht 7"

depth of tragedy in the grey eyes hnd ever heard of him. "You think

For as he said briskly, "I'll

you could?"

turned to his, "I want to put some she turned about, through the open be toddling for him and turned the stuit up. I feel as if I could do the

Mary shrugged. "My blood's valuables in the safe." along. I tell you what I find over to him? I want to see him impossible tonight."

door she saw De Loma standing In here--if I find anything." He is sent up, but I don't want there to

"Will you just step around to at the desk! Apparently he had dicated the package of torn pieces be any doubt, either, about whether The prospect thrilled him, she could opencil into an office just back of looking out into the lobby. But Then go ahead. I'll play ball." indicated a door at the side which with his back half-turned away, manager's office, please?" He not seen her. He was standing of cardboard in his coat pocket.

"Bat-" he paused avain, impres killing"

it was he. or Eddie, who did the see. sively, in the doorway. "I'll say

"We'll let it stand

the desk itself. There was a door she could not be sure that he had "You'll have to take a chance on Mary told him. "You search his it stood open now. Mary saw the before she herself had turned. this way," immediately behind the desk and not turned about just an instant our jury," Baten said. "That's rooms, and whether you find the sleek head of the manager bent Why, he could not have helped them think it was Eddie, of course there. If he comes, it will mean walked around to the side door desk! The scene in the manager's all you can do. If he can make rest of the plunder or not, wait over his books. he'd beat the murder rap--"

Obediently, she seeing her if he had faced the I've failed. And if I fail with him and entered. "He Mary cried. "We can't let him ceed another time. Arrest him. If mustn't! He mustn't" to-night it's not likely I could suc

office was directly in front of his joyes. that!"

The hotel sufe was in the man- "Well, well,

he doesn't come, you'll know we've

How had he come there so quick- Down came Mr. Jupiter's stock-drawing her into the hallway, "it's a man on the roof to tell you the noticed a trifle nervously.

ager's office, in plain sight of ly, and why? Perhaps it was ingred feet.. "You think so?"

goodbye to the old man, who was In that clear?"

Perhaps he had He called a cheerful moment we leave, and you follow.she realized that this was a means call of Bates-had suspected it not likely.

Then not been fooled by that telephone pacing about, obviously excited. thing that won't go with him!" She sharply after her. "You need Laway?" no.

"Mary!" Jupiter called

"Right. Want me to go down of protection, rather than a dan was merely an attempt to locate out with

until you stow that stuff The safe was at all times him while the necklace was in held out the bracelet.

plainly visible. In fact, a light transit. "Why, that's-Mamma's!" Br. felt an impulse to laugh and cry is any danger-yet."

I don't think there was kept burning above it day and But, what to do now? If she Jupiter exclaimed hoarsely, "Where at once.

night.

reached the elevator she would did you get it?"

It was his way of thank- "Walt." He stopped into his own

Moreover, The Fly was not a hava to cross the lobby and ho ing her what she had done. Mary told. As he listened, blink-

room which was on the other side afo-cracker. It might have been would soo her. She might ask the "No."

said. "Not that I know of Mary's, and took down the re- among his random accomplish-manager to accompany her to her ing from her to the bracelet and of. 9" back again,

ceiver. light hardly

ments, but It was certainly not his room. szne "You'd better have some. came into the old man's eyes

You and can't tell what you're going to you know? No, don't ring him! I bracelet and the I. O. U. behind its ance when a second glance through Mr. De Lomn in his room, do specialty, so that in placing the Sho was about to ask his assist- spots of red burned in his faded need it for." Jupiter insisted. The merely wanted to know whether sturdy lock she was making them the doorway showed that De Loma cheeks. Te reached for the brace-embarrassment of taking it was oh, you ass! Furious, he started as safe from The Fly'a dopreda. had gone. lot and his hand shook.

somehow "Here, you don't want that, boas," prosence.

alleviated by Batos to hang up, then changed his mind tions as any place could be.

She waited a few minutes in Sho would have re and held his hand over the mouth- Batea Intercopted IL, quickly,fused, but he know that it pleased plece until a man's voice answered. lope containing her two precious manager's office, to give De Loma When she had dropped the enve- the semi-darkness just outside the .palmed it and handed it back to him to give it to her. Bates closed Mary, winking significantly as he the door and drew her away a low shouted at the top of his lungs, it, and saw. It tucked away in its took a deep breath, Ilke a swim- Then, diagulaing his voice, he objects into the metal box held for time to leave the place. Then sho did so. "You'd better put that in paces.

"Hello? Hello, Bill? Is this you, pigeonhole, Mary began to breathe mer about to plunge in, and step- the safe, slater. You're able to "That old man's not going to Bill? What? Is Bill Jones there? more freely. The necklace was in (Continued on Page 11.)

this much right now-you're not going to see much more of him around here. He's got the jitters over something. I look for him to take

a run-out on us, maybe tonight,

I'll bet if you were to go up to his room right now,

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packing his grips' find him get away w Rates soothed her, gone out to the yacht. Bettor have anyone standing at the desk, Mary morely chance.

"I do." It sounded like an oath, Mary drew a deep breath. "Well," she said resolutely, "here's one

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