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â-º »♦♦♦-♦♦â- #-♦ ♦-♦♦< Gems of Peril Hy HAZEL ROSS IIAILEY. . lilut-bloodKl and personable youii>; lawyer come to the post well equipped â€" the deb with this world's goods, and \ the fianceop with more than her share' of looks. But if all Dame Kumor whis- ' pers is true, and the Ui','ky girl's elder- );â-  spons-or makes legal and binding his promise to make her his heir, thtn the scales will tilt heavily in her favor, and she will be able to match her rival , million for million, with a few extra for pood measure. | "A curious outcome, indeed, in view KYNorsis. I have picked another night for all this 'of the fact that the elderly protector's' ni.li old Mrs. jupiur Ih i..i.bitl and ronfising around, you two. Have you own wife died under mysterious cir-' murdered duiiiii; the cnKiiKt'in-ni parly i , .. i. i i i . „ ,. ;,.•>" i,„ .. .1 i> i ^. ' e "-- -"- -I' »♦„„,.,;,„ f ,i„., i,>„„>vvntt- '«'" he' cumstanccs recentl. . But Croesus will hear no ill of hi.s Cinderella, so they say." | put you down somewhere?' Mary hurled the magazine a-s far "Right here," Bowcn said. The car as she could throw it, and took a turn! .swerved to the curb, and he got out. j around the room to cool off. The im-l Mary moved over into the space he pudence of it! The cowardliness! had vacated, then, obeying a powerful How dare people publish nasty innu- impulsc, climbed out after him. She endo of that sort, and expect to escape ] stood beside him, a small mutinous punishment? A suit for libel woul: figure with hard accusing eyes. To be the very least they could expect; â- he save for her Heoni.iiy, .Mary Hark- j forgotten what day tomorrow is? ne»8. siiHiiioii.n iK.inm to Marys br, ther asked, looking at Mary, half-.'hiding, Eddie who iu killed by a cur a.s he goes â-  i» • , rp„ ti„,.. .„ i,,. o.l.io.l. to meet he. Howcn, polke repriFtcr. 1 ^lal^serlOUS. io Bowcn he added. di.scovered a ra. ctrack crook lallfd The "Mind if I put you down somewhere?' Fly to whom KdcMe owed money. Mary meet« liowen in a speakeasy where The Fly is said to be hiding.' Dirk, her flancee, comes 10 take her home. Ho la on hi* way to link up the Jupiter neck- lace In hl« office *afe. JiiM as Ulrk locks up the necklace there Io a cra.sh outsldi.-. BoH( I let» the thieve: sniaHh his car rather than tivertake Mary End Plrk. Dirk dlsbelif\r!" the cxixtenct of The Fly. CH.'^rTER XXI.â€" (Cont'd.) "You think Eddie guilty and you don't blame him," Mary .said. "Well, I think him inmx-ei-.t of everything e.<:- cept the gambling charge, but I blame him just the same. He put him.self in * position where anything â€" even this â€" could be said of him, and now he can never explain himself â€" he's dead. What if no one ever knows â€" the papers, I mean?? The police? Do you fiuppo.=« it means nothing to me that YOU think itâ€" that your fathn- and mother think it? Do you suppose it won't make a difference between up, always? It would be like living with a ghost. Some day I'd hale you â€" " * • * She huddled between them, dabbing her eyes with a small ball of hand- kerchief. If she had looked at Dirk, the hurt look that came into his eyes •t her last words might have changed her, make her weaken again. But she did not look up. Another traffic stop, and the three people sat uncomfortably silent. While they were wailing, Dirk reached into the pocket of his top- coat, lying on the shelf back of them, »nd brought out the gun Bowen had given him. He balanced it on hi.s hand in the glow of the dashlight. "Nice little gun," he said judicious- ly. "Got a permit to carry it?" .Mary, pressed against the two men by the narrowness of the car seat, distinctly felt Bowen start. She look- ed up and caught a look of embarrass- ment on hi.s face. "No â€" 0," he admitted. "It's not mine, exactly. I â€" " Dirk squinted at it critically. ".38 calibre Colt, isn't it? An old-timer, but it's in good condition. Wherc'd you pick it up?" He darted a look at Bowen, who changed color, opened his mouth to speak, gulped, and was sil- ent. Dirk nodded. "] thought .so." he eaid. Bowen burst out: "What was the use of letting Ihj kid take the rap for Sullivan law vio- lation? If he'd lived I was going to give it back to him. It slipped out of his pocket when he fell, and I palmed it. It wasn't his, though."' Dirk put it in his pocket thought- fully. "You can have it back tomor- row. I want to look it over." Bowen said "There aren't any fin- gerprints on it. I got all the good ones." "Harkness', of course." "Sure. He was carrying it. But there were others." "Whose?" "I'll tell you when we get back tj Shay's." Dirk said, "We're not going back to Shay's, now or any other lime. You can, if you like, but Mary's going home and going to lied. You might Dirk's amazed entreaty, she shook her head. "I'm getting out here, lOo," she- said. ACHES and Pains easily relieved Aspirin will r(li( ve your suffering harmlessly and in a hurry. Swallow ft tablet in a little watei-. The pain Is gone! It's as easy as that to be rid of the pain (rom an aching tooth; of head- »<-he from any cause. Muscular aches due to rheumatl.sm, lumbago; to colds or -strains, are easily ovorconio. Those unexplained pains of women are â- oothed away in an Instant The modern way to relieve pain Is with Aspirin. That Is the way that modern medical men approve. They know Aspirin is safeâ€" can do no harm It does not depress the heart. You will always find Aspirin in any drugstore, and if you read the proven directions and follow them you will al- ways get Jâ- eJie^ you will avoid lots 01 Buuering if you JuBt rememoer •hout Aspirin tablets. Be sure you Ret Aspirin and n^^ .. siiJj5tittj||: ".Aspirin'^' Is a t'ia<U mflrk PlfrLstered in r.'i. »(la. ISSUE No. 44â€" '32 CHAPTER XXII. "You shouldn't have done that," Bowen objected. "Now how'll you gat 1 jme?" "I'm iiot going home just yet," Mary said. "You're going back to Shay's and get what Hngcvprints you can. Where are the ones you got off the gun?" "In my hotel room." "I'll go there and v.ait for you. I don't feel equal to Shay's again, right now. Besides, it might be bettor if you went alone." "I'll get kicked out anyway," Bowen muttered mororely. "lx)ok," he said, "you bcttt^r not do this. Y'ou better i.iake it up with him while yo.i can, or there's liable not to be any wedding tomorrow." "There isn't going to be anyhow!" Mary flamed. "Until I find out who's right. If those fingerjjrints tally, there w be any, anyway, until that man's caught. One thing at a time, and that comes first with me. If they don't â€" if you've just been giving me a â€" a cock- and-bull story â€" " "Wh> should I do that?" "To get a sensational story." 'I haven't printed a line about you yet, have I?" "Then if that isn't the reason, Dirk said you had another â€" " she turned several shades of pink in quick suc- cession, but blurted it out neverthe- 1 j: â€" "he said you were making up excuses for sticking around becau.se â€" you we'e in love with me.' It didn't fa/.e Bowen. "I don't say I'm not," he gritted, looking straight ahead. "Oh, thenâ€"" "Every blame word l.'ve said is the truth, and you know it!" he cried bit- terly. "And I'm tii-ec: of having my word doubted! I don't have to prove it. If you want to drop the matter, we'll drop it right here and now. It's entirely up to you. I hate The Fly's gizzard, but I can let my feelings go. You're the one most concerned." Odd that it had never occurred to Dirk just that way! "I'm going with you." "Then come on." Bov/en's hotel was just around the corner in a side street, nearer Sixth than Fifth Avenue. It was not fash- ionable but clean and warm. Bowen bought Eome magazines at the lobby stand, and guided Mary gingerly by an elbow into a small, rose and gold room opening off the lobby. An old woman in a soiled uniform crippled forward. "Hello, Kate," Bowcn greeted her. "Take good care of this for me, will you? Till I come back." Kate's eyes IrKik in Mary fiom head to toe, with cynical interest. "Shure I will," she promised, with enthusiasm. Kate had executed com- missions for newspapermen before. She v/ould soon know what this beau- tiful damsel in di.stress had been up to. Shot her lover, perhaps. What- ever it was she'd been crying about, it thrilled Kate that she should know about it before it came out in to- morrow's papcr.s. Mary established lier.self on the shabby divan with Town and Tattle and fell to reading, more to escape the old woman's questicning than any- thing else. Eventually the old soul hobbled away, muttering to herself about the uppityness of some people. "When they pet you in the ju^, you'll talk, my fine girl," she threaten- ed through the wall. Mary read on, oblivious of having offended. It was rather fun making out who was meant by the people re- fe.rre>d to in those small, scandalous paragraphs in the gossip magazine. No names were mentioned, of course", hut it was usually made plain enough. This, for instance: "Why is it that we never appreciate what we have until it is another's? What child of great wealth â€" a bud of ; three .seasons ago â€" is making rather i a fool of herself over a childhood' .sweetheart whose devotion she was wont to ridicule until he took unto himself a fiancee? She is said to be; relying heavily on the fact that the: said fiancee is involved in a messy 1 family scandal ju.st- noWj V.'hjeh oniyl the immense vyealtji an3 tiolitical pull ^ f'f hef at'fi^so?' haS succeeded in| squelching. | A cold prickle began to creep over Mary, and she sat unright ojj tj)« | couch, realizing .=ud(lonIy tnat it musl be her.self who was meant! Her eyes ra.red on: "Both nspiiai.tb to the hand of the if she were a man, if she had ;. father, or a brother â€" or, she added miserably, a fiance! Old-fashioned horse-whip- ping was too good for the purveyors of such slander! The alert Katie looked in, but with- drew in affright befcre that terribiej j.>'ng face. Mary was still pacing restlessly about the room, from pic- ture to picture, staring at the ugly oil landscapes with unseeing eyes, spelling out artists' names with mov- ing lips, forgetting them as she utter- ed them. She was determined not to give way here, in this place, and add further fuel to the scandal. Bowcn should take her home at once, and the matter would be put before Mr. Jupiter. He would know what to do. "Immense wealth and political pull" indeed! If that were .50, then they should be made to feel it! But as her anger cooled she knew with sickening certainty that instead of showing it to Mr. Jupiter she must keep it from him. After all, w.'is it any more than had been common talk for week.'!? Everyone knew it was a scur-' rilous little sheet; everyone discounted its nasty little digs. She would only r.ake matters worse if she made a row about it. (To Be Continued.) Light on the Talkies In ili.scu.';:ing the (ievelopniiiii and use of talking motion pictures before the Fi-anklin Instil te H. M. Wilco.x, who has had much to do v.ith their introduction, remarked that the link- ling of keys "is aboil the highest- pitch sound that th-; ear can perceive and the rumoling of the lowest organ note the deepest it can detect, .1 rang? of about nine and a half octaves." Artill'iry fire is the loudest sound that c&n be cndjrt.l ant. the faint rustlins of leaves the faintest sound that can ht heard, "an energy ratio of about 100 ii.illion million to 1." It cannot be said 'hat any system records and reproduces satisfactorily all sounds from the lowest that are audible to the highest or from the faintest to the ;oudest. But ordinary requirements are readily met. Mr. Wilcox says that by 1925 it was pos- .-.ible to record sounds which ranged rom 200 to 9,000 vibrations a second in pitch and in volume from thirty to thirty-five decibels (a symphony orchestra has an aveiage volume of sixty-six decibels), and which might be uttered by an actor at such dis- tp.nce from a microphone that he could n ove about with some freedom. After ! that the "talkies"' win bound to some. By October, 1927, Al Jolson was pre- sented on the screen in the "Jazr, Singer," the first full-length feature picture with dialogJe. By midsum- mer of 11)28 about ".,000 men were n". work in one plant al' ne turning out equipment loi- talking motion picture theatres. Native Born "Canada Week by Week" presents some interesting figures that refute, in convincing fashion, the oft-heard statement that the country is being "over- run" by foreigners. Accordii.g to "Canada Week by Week," quoting the recent Dominion census, 77.7ii of the population of the co'.ntry were born here. Those oorn in British countries outside of Canada account for 11.41 percent and forcign- represcnt 10.8f? perci t of the resi- dent.'^. CAN YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT BABY 7 Wliy docs a baby cry at iiitilit? How much should he xvcich? When should he creepâ€" walkâ€" talk? How mucli food docs he need? What makes him too thin â€" fat? "Von will find hclpfid an'iwcrs to many nucslions about baby in "Baby 'ft'rlfare." Write today for your copy. Use coupon below. Tko Bordtn Co. Llmitei!, M Pgwcll St., VaocouicT, B.C. Ccnllrmen: PImk tud »• •«• «•»» •• bookltl •DtiUxl "B<b; Vtlfiie." JV«BI< _...â€" ..»......~.»».. Adirtsi .....â€" C.W.I* 1 Eagle Brand Latest Findings Of Science Volcanic Islands That Sudden- ly Appear Out of the Sea â€" New Silk Fabric As one result of the series of earth- quakes that have .shaken (jreccc, an ii- and is rv-p..rted to have oisappen-cl in the .'Aegean Sea. Since one chief cause of earthquakci is the sinlJng of the earth's crust to keep pace with the shrinking interior, an unsupported island might easily fall inward. Raised masses of rock sometimes slip toward adjacent lower ground. An earthquake might start such a slip. That islands come and go geolo- gists have known for generations. In fact, the process has been seen. There art islands that appear becau.se wat- ers rise or recede, and islands that owe their existence to the rising and srbsidence of land. At the deltas of huge rivers, sa:id and silt may accu- mulate to form islands that may mea- sure square miles in extent. Even along the eashore the waves may foria peninsulas and islands, although they rarely last for more than a season or two. But most of the islands that come and go are of volcanic origin. Inas- much as water covers three-quarters of the globe, it follows that there mus-t be more submarine than land erup- tions. The Mediterranean peoples have recorded the formation of more than one island by under-watcr volcanoes which have built up cones that lasted for years and ultimately acquired vegetation. Thus in 1891 a temporal y islai.d was formed three miles south- east of Sicily. More spectacular was the case of an island which is various- ly known as Graham, Guilia or Fer- dinandea, the appearance of which, in 1831, thirty miles southwest of Sicily, was heralded by a tremendous geyser of water and then of steam. The con- tinued upward thrust from below ulti- mately formed land three miles in circumference and 200 feet high. Soon the newly formed islai d began to sub- side. In a few months it had dis- appeared. Boguslov in the .\leutians, Alaska, appeared in 1796 and four years later had grown to 3,000 feet. \x\ earth- quake hanged the whole character of the region in 1899. Reefs and islands rose out o^ the water. Boguslov was \ affected. It comes and goes. The recent case of the Greek island has its counterpart in the disappear- ance of the island Anak Krakatao in the Malay .\rchipelagf) â€" a disappear- ance clearly related to the intense activity of the nearby volcano Kraka- tao, the most tremendous eruption of modern times. n January, 1925, the i:;land of Port Alexander sank, almost like a ship, off the west coa.st of Africa. A few sailors in the vicinity reported that they had been over- whelmed by a hu^e wave. When the • ater subsided the island was gone. Puzzling, too, is the case of Falcon Island in the Nomuka group, which has been appearing ard disappoarinti: ever since 1805. All this activity means simpiy that nature has not yet finished the task of molding the earth. She is busily engaged in tearing down mountains with the aid of wind and water, shak- ing continents down, wearing away peninsulas and thrusting up new land from below. Whe.i she completes hei- work and the earth is "finished," life will be extinct. NO LABKLSâ€" JUST VOICE AND SPOTLIGHT. While he was wandering about in a Chicago museum Ernest Kohler, Jr.. an electrical engineer, was struck by the fact that exhibits were mere curi- osities to most visitors. Few bothered to read the labels, and yet the labels pointed out what were really interest- ing and important about the exhibit.s. He convinced himself that a machine of some kind was needed to make in- formation attractive â€" something that would give an arresting, brief lecture. So Kohler developed a machine. A phonograph record is made by some one who speaks English pleasantly and correctly, and the record tells the story of the exhibit. If a case is filled with exhibits it becomes necessary to point out the one about which the phonograph is talking. The pointing is done by means of a spotlight. Who switches on the light and docs the pointing? The voice from the phono- graph. In electrical communication we havi- many different substitutes for human .-senses and nerves. Kohler borrowed an electrical circuit that can "hear'' only a musical note of the right pitch or the right eombinaticn of pitches. lie also adapted the well-known vac- uum tube to his purpose. The two to- other gave him a true mu.-;ical nerve 1 that hears only one note, although the human ear responds to any audib!( ' ;ound. i When the phonogi-aph finishes tali. ' ing about a peacock in a easeful oi i 1 irds and it is time t.- switch to the ! bird of paradise it so.nds a mu.-sica ) note. At once the spotlight shift.-. t>' 'he bird of paradise, and with it -liifi-; I he visitors' atter.t.tn j If it is il..sirable that the tone tlia*. twitches the musical nerve should not l.'V htfi.rd^ an electric wave Alief '•â- ' ' railed into action. 'The fl!tt.r shifts the announcer's voice from the twitch- I ing tone so th jc the tone is hea-d onl' - by the musicil n^rve. 1 Soon we shall have v.lr.dow .lb plays The Household Word For Tea "SALAM TEA„ ''Tresh from the Gardens" v.-ir.h will do away with the ril.nion.^ and strings leading from thi plate glnsE to label-'d i&ris. A suave voice will dwell hn the merits of a new oil- burner, and a mechanical or optical finger will point to the particular ;ea- ture that distinguishes the burner from all others. THE REVIVAL OF RAMIE. For years the possibilities of lamie, which looks like silk but is much stronger, have been discussed by tex- tile manufacturers. Individual ramie fibres range from fonr to six fe,;l in length, compared with a length of less than an inch for cotton. The ramie plant yields 1,500 pounds of fibre a year, but the cotton plant only 15l). Moreover, ramie can be harvested me- chanically and it is free from pests. What is the fly in this attracliv; ointment? The cost and difficulty of separating the bark from the fibre. In the Orient large quantities of the fibre are produced in carefully tended plots, harvested, purified and woven locally. Only the cheapest hand labor makes it possible for ramie to compete with other fibres in this limited fa- shion." According to the American Chemi- cal Society, the commercial prospects of ramie are bri^^hter than tliey ever were, thanks to a new chemical pro- cess developed by Professors P. M. Horton and G. L. Carter of Louisiana State University, for scutching, or debarking, the fibre. The ramie is cooked for four hours in a combination of aqua ammonia and sodium sulphite under a pressure of sixty pounds per square inch. Trade in Year 900 Copenh.-'.gen. â€" Proof that trade con- nections existed between the far North of Europe and the East 1,000 years ago is said to be provided by the discovery of a collection of coins on a farm belonging to Anton Mortensen. of Over Randlei'. Nearl; all the coin::- in question are Kuphian (old Arabic), dating back to about the yea.- 900; two are still older and hail from Pe.'sia, and one was minted in Milan at the time of the Carolingian Empire. Another is a kind of memorial coin or medal hailinp' from East Anglia, which is considered exceedingly rare, only very few speci- anens being known." So Understanding For months h-.- had been her devoted admirer. Now, at long la.rt. he had screwed up sufficient courage to a£;k her the most niomentous of all qvcs- tions. "There are quite a lot of advan- tages in being a bachelor," he began, "but there come times when one lonjs for the companionship of another be- ing â€" a being who will regard one as perfect, as an idol; whom one cai: treat as one's absolute property; who will be kind and faithful when times are hard; who will share one's joy.^ and sorrows â€" " To his delight he saw a sympathetic light appear in her eyes. Then she nodded in agreement. "So you're thinking of buying a dog?" she said. "I think it's a fine idea. Do let me help you choose one!"' To give and to lose is nothing; but to givt still, is the part oj a great mind. â€" Seneca. |iMiiiiiniiiniimnriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiittiiiniiiiiitiiiiiiitiinitiimtMniiiiii:| I How Mrs. Brown | I made old blouse j I look new j aiiiiirriiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiriiininirriiiiiiiiniriiiiniutiiitiriiiiriiiiiiimttiitiriniifi "When 1 was planning my summer wardrobe I got out all my old clothes," writes an enthusiastic lady from Tor- onto. 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