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I^« « « «*« «♦♦-»« R f\: Gems of Peril By HAZEL ROSS HAILEY. â-º ♦••-♦â- â-ºâ™¦â€¢â™¦-•••-•••-••♦♦- >-»-»4 Ballet Revival UK'.ilN llKUi; TuUAV. Mury )laiknes8 iilots tr I'lis laie The Fly. who 'fraiiinl lier brother, l!:ililie, Willi th« murder of Mm. Jupiter and later killed him. Mr Ju|ilt«r uldK her, us dr>e« llowen nf th.' Stnr. JMrk Huythrr, Mary's Saner, fiirtiUlB her tu InvcstlKate further. liruiH Jupiter and a yueatlon- ahle friend, founleMH I.oulse, try to rout Mary, bellevliiK she lu :i gi'ld-dlK- ger. They fnllDW The Kly «o Miami. Urtice iiuarrelH with I.oulse over a diaiMoad bracelet Klven her by The Fly. Bhi- nays It l8 Mary K. Mary disrovcra It wa» stolen from .Mrs. Jupiter the niKlit she was killed. Wearing the fiimous Jupiter neeklace. Mary danreH â- with The Fly. who gets It away from her. He kluKes her and Dirk kiiooks him down, nirk twlKtH his ankle and falntn. The Klv (fetH away with the handbaK but Is frlRhtened back by a policeman and relurnK It and the ncok- lac*. Mary has UIrk taken (m board the yacht, the -(iypsy." liowen sup- plles Mary with proof that the LounleHS Is an adventuress. The "Uypay Halls with all on board. The Fly begins to realize he has walked Into a trap. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER XLIII.â€" (Cont'd.) Mr. Jupiter smoked in silence. An uneasy soiwthit.B that had been lying in tho back of Mary's mind for days came to the fore now. "Is it true what Mr. Bates intimat- ed to me," she asked, "that yf u want him to â€" make a break for it, so that you can--sh ot him down? You â- wouldn't really.do thi-t, would you?" Mr. Jjpiter took hi.s pipe ovt of h\s mouth, rubbed a nobby forefin}?er across his no.se, but .said n:>thing. Mary shudJered. "I didn't know you meant to go â€" th it far," she whis- pered fearfully. "Got any objections?" Jupiter BTowlod harsh'y. When she didn't an- swer, ho knocked^out his pii>e and be- gan refilling it, jab')ing tobacco down â- with a fierce forefii.gei . "Oh, a man's blood cooJs. . . I don't know. ... A man don't know what he'd do, given the chance â€" but I'm havin' my fun. Don't you go Interfcrin' with it!" "I A'on't. Aft^r all," .she smiled bitterly, "he's .-ours first. What's left belongs to me." Dinner was a silent meal except for Mr, Jupiter, who insisted on talk- ing of tomor-3v's fi.shing expedition, in spite of the utter indifference of hi.s li»teners. Bates showed up for that meal but The Fly was conspicu- ous!, absent. He chose to eat in his room, but from the comings and go- ings of hi.s stew;.rd, and the contents of their trays, he seer*ied more occu- pietl in drinking than in eating. Thy jacht had "turned the corner" at Key West about six o'clock, an:i tl.i-y were now steaming steadily west- ward along the Leys, In the deepen- in;; night the Hashing beam of Dry Tortuj^-is light alreatly could be .seen off on the horizon as, they came on deck, it.s gk-am more and more bright- ly against a '.ittle bank of clouds in the southwest. When Mary went to her stateroom â€" sh« ha<l heard more than enough talk of fishing for one day- â€" she found I.oui.se there before her. "It is now t<nnorrow," that lady Ih;- g:in directly. "I wish my bracelet, please." Mary could hardly mask her sur- l-rise. She had ju.s-t heard Ix)U!sc con- fessing to De loma that she did not have itrâ€" could not get it, "I'm afraid it's still in the Am- >»a.s.sador safe," she replied with some annoyance. "Can't you wait?" "How long?" Mary thought of the press clippings now reposing in Mr. Jupiter's faife, and of all they confirnu'<l about this predatory creature and her ways. Why keep \i\t the jir*tenso? "I'm afrai<t it must .stay there for some time," she answenil .>*ihort!y. Tho o',her nodded to herself several times, then si)oke in a grating voice. "Bruce, then, is right â- whtni he says -a gold-digger, you arc what-you-call eh?" "Quite rhtht! There is no more to be said. Now go, jdea.se." The Countess turned and walked slowly to the porthole, and stood hik- ing out. "I did not come to ask about that, really," she said, and there was infinite weariness in her voice. "But about the other. You made me an astounding offer, if you remember. The ruby ne<'klac«. â€" if I went away and left you Bruce. I was furiou.^. That was because you accompanied your offer with an insult which no one could receive without anger. "But I have changed my mind. Per- hai)s you are right. I should not make a gc^>d wife. Perhaps it is hest that he finds an American girl â€" " she hesi- tated, "â€"like youâ€"" The unreadable eyes came to rest on Mary's amazed fi.ce, "I give you Bruce for the neck- lace, when you like," The girl stare<!, "May I a.sk what caused you to change your mind? You certainly didn't feel this way yester- day!" I-ouisc turned away, fiercely impa- tent at the questioning. "What do you care? Lsn't it onough? I love him moro than I ever loved any man. But I give him up. It is better so. Isn't it enough?" Surely she looed the emotion- wracketl heroine â€" the lowered eyes, the heaving shouldoj-s, the handker- chief twisted and bitten. It was all there â€" all the time-worn histrionics. All there except the emotion itself â€" and that was lacking, "I love him more than I ever loved any other man"â€" hadn't she told Bruce that it was De Ix)ma who was the love of her life Certainly he had been her husbandâ€" so much seemed Conclusive, fron. the identity of the surname, and from a curious loyalty which drove her to help him out of his difficulties, even though his character mu.st be all too well known to her. "He was a brute." She had said that of him once, and then given him every cent she had when he asked for it. No, Mary was not taken in, but try as she would she could not place her finger on the underlying rea.son for this change of heart. Would I»uise accept the necklace even though it was ixputcd to be worth hundie<ls of thou.sands, unless she had lost hops of gaining millions Not likely. "Perhaps," Mary mused aloud, "Bruce no longer loves you?" Ix>uisc was the tiger-cat again in- stantly. "Not love me? W.:at are you say- ing? Bruce will not let me go, if he knows it! If he find.; out he will kill you! That is how much he loves me!' .She snapped her fingers under Mary's very nose â€" whirling away again to look out the porthole, .Ml at once Mury knew- -the clip- pings! Mr. Jupiter mu!<t have faced her with them. Much oould have hap- pened in the long afternoon hours. That demoniac old man and his "fun"! This wa.s no doubt part of it. Mary laughed outright. "The offer is no longer open," she said. When Louise had stormed out Mary went up on deck to find Mr. Jupiter and verify her suspicion. But only Bates was there. As they lean- oil on the rail and Mary relatetl what had IiapiK>ncd, one of the Florida keys ctnie into view on the port rail. A glance to starboard iwealo<l another. "Sav. we're right in the middle of tl.ings htire, Bates spoke uneasily. "I hope the captain knows what he's do- ing. There iiiust be reefs in here." Ho yawnexl. "Well, I giiess he knows his business. Guess I'll turn in. Back to my pictuixs puz7,le. Got some of it put togeth<'r, and ym know Ballet athletics at London's Old Vic. keeps dancers in form. Tho ballet is undergoing a revival In the old land. Traffic Control Aids Railways of South Australia V ''Did you say FRESH? Just try one' .Sucli crijpncss, flakiness and frfshne,s,i arc found only in C'Jiristic's Premiiun Soda Oackers. They furnish just the salty tang for soup or salad just the crijp base for cheese or jam. â- It..; Chriadie's I U\r \>>ii noticed ilui ( hristii-'i rrrmium VhIj t rjcker« arc Krvnl 111 PREMIUM SODA CRACKERS f> what ; think it is "-"icture of Rudolph Valentino!" He laughed. "No won- der De Ix>ma tore it down,' Suddenly the ship shuddered, seem- ed to jolt along its bottom for a mo- ment and then stoppe<l, engines stilled. From the foreca.stle a voice boomed to the man on the bridge, "She's hard aground, sir!" From the bridge there came a fervent curse, CHAPTER XLIV, J. J, Jupiter was the fir.st man on deck. Although it was past his usual early retiring hour, he was still dressetl. He was there when Captain Hendricks came hurrying down from the bridge, and together the two men retire<l to the port rail. Bat->s and Mary followed. "What's the matter, captain" Bates inquired, somewhat nervously. He had a landsman's inordinate fear of a'.'ident on sea, and even Mary felt a childi.sh impul.se to rush to the cap- tain and cling to his hand until tho danger was o*'or. "We're fast on a reef," Capt. Hen- dricks was explaining tt> Mr. Jupiter "She's apparently not hurt â€" the en- gineers say .she's making no water 1m;1ow â€" but she seems to be well stuck.'' "Can you get off by yourself?" Mr, Jupiter a.sketi. "We'll have a try at it tomorrow morning. I'm afraid we'll hav« to have a tug out of Key West though to give us a pull." "Do what you think best," Mr. Jupi- ter answered mildly. "1 shouldn't have come in tonight," the captain continued, "but the moon made it almo.st like day, and I've been aroun<l heiv so much I thought I could make it even in a fog. This channel isn't used except for small fishinr craft, and apparently some of the buoys have drifted over. See that mid-channel buoy there?" He i)ointe<l to what looked like an upturned funno' to Mary, It was floating almost in the .shadow the ship cast on the waliM'. "Mid-channel buoy, and it's slick- ii g right up on lop of a reef with only about five feet of water over it! For- tunately we were coming in slow, just barely turning over." "Where are we?" Bates aski<i. "Just n half mile from the old pier at Fort Jefferson whore I intended to. make fast. In another l\ve minutes we'd have been there. That's Dry Tortugas there a couple of miles off the starboard beam," They turned to look, aixl the ray of the big lain\i in its white tower swept across their faces antl off into the moonlit night. "I'm going fishing in the nuirning then," Mr. Jupiter said cheerfully. "How about it, Bates?" "Fine." "We'd better be getting a little sleep. Ought to be out by six any- way. They bite Ivtter early in the morning. K.vcrybiHly back to betl now. There's imthiiig we «'an do to help, an.l V ''d only be in the way." The day that followed "Wus one of iniutteiable tedium for those left be- liinil while the fishing party cruise»l happily al>out, Mary sat in a deck chair a liix>k in her lap, watching tho iincvcited labors of the distant fl.sher men through a telescope liianed to her by the captain. It was not very ciiter- ti.lning but it was lietter than nothing. The burning sun drove Bruce and Loui.ie downslaiis, where they playeil interminable game.^ of solitaiiv, De l.<'mn l-iowb-d the .<hip like r vaged Two- Year Teat Indicates Some Lines Must Give Way to Buses Adelaide, S. Aust. -An experiment has been tried during the past two years throughout South Australia consisting of the Government con- trol of road traffic. In 1930 a tran.s- port control board was appointed by Parliament for three years and the leglslalloo will ezpir» la about six months. Upou the board was conferred wide powers for the regulation of road traffic as the effect of motor competition was being felt seriously by the railways, particularly as many ot the main roads have been built almost parallel with the lines. I^arge losses wero being sustained by the railways department and it becan'6 a question whether some of tho routes would not have to be closed. So the experiment of rigid- ly cont roiling tlie road traffic was in- stituted. It has been conducted sufficiently long to give a thorough test but the board, in its annual re- port Just Issued, points out that it is difficult even to estimate the financial effect of the operations on the rail- ways as the revenue statements do not actually reveal the position. Idea of Diversion The board explains, however, that some idea ot the extent of the di- version of the traffic to (he railways may be formed by a consideration of the total annual mileage of dis- continued services. This aggregates approximately 2,479,958 miles, made up of 937,742 miles for passenger ser- vices, and 1,542,216 miles for goods transport. The board calculates that at least, £100,000 a year has been added to the revenue ot tho railways department by the control, or elimi- nation, of road traffic. To get a reliable idea of the effect of road control the board sent to IS .station-masters throughout South Aus- ralia the question, "what has been the general effect ot the Road and Railway Transport Act on railway traffic?" ho replies showed that the percentages of increase range from 25 to 300. In some instances the revenue has been doubled. In one case it has been quadrupled, and In many instances It is reported that the railways now handle the whole of tho local district trade. What Roads to Close The board will now devote itself to considering what unprofitable road traffic substituted. Tho de- ciding point will be what course is best in the economic interest of the State, with some relation, ot course, to ther reasonable needs of the dis- trict. The question of profit cannot be the deciding factor in all the rail- ways ot South Australia. Many of them are purely develop- mental lines and are essential to the progress ot the agricultural and pastoral Industries. Some ot them can never pay directly as they trav- erse long distances ot empty coun- try and there* Is still a demand for further facilities In areas that are opening up, With South .Australia's industries being wool and wheat no- thing will be done to hamper their expansion. In fact, tho Transport Board so far departed from Its policy ot road traffic control last season as to Institute the experiment of allow- ing motor lorries to convey wheat from railway sidings and farms 1 1 the shipping i)orts so that there should be no cessation in exporL^s. Tho board nov/ controls 49 routes representing 16H'.< mllo.s, and has paid £17,256 in compensation. The Victorian authorities are so impress- ed with what lias been accomplish- ed that an officer was cent over re- cently to repo'.-t onthe system, which Is the only one of its kind In .\ns- tralia. A Quality Which Is Incomparable SAIADA GREEK TEA «a* "Fresh from the Gardens" Jig-Saw Give me that little scrap ot tree â€" And take this bit of roof! That's grass, I guess; and this must be The off coach-horse's hoof! Now just a minute; please don't mind; T'-is fits that jag of red; And this goes thu.s â€" and so we find The landlord has a head! Just like those English supplement.; To Christmas magazines, Though I really cannot see much sense Now take those clippers wi.-g-and- wing. Or that lion by the ;;e« â€" They're really more the sort of thing That have appeal for me. No! No! Don't put that wiggly one Djwn there. . . . Like this. . . .Look here! I guess that fur.ny piece was done To represent a deer. You've nearly finished with the wall? Well, how about this tree? No, I can't find my ear at all. . . . You say I've got you" knee? You keep the 'jorses where they were I I've got that coachman now. . . . Oh, look; it's her father kissing her! , . /. . That horn goes on tho cow. . . . So, with a desperate intent, They strove from plight to plight. . . . And one who wondered what it meant Fled gibbering through the night! â€" The New Y')rker. H Electric-Clock Boom Reported in Britain It is estimated by one authority that more than 5<K),(HH) electric clwks will be sold in Great Britain this year. Tariffs ha\e given a remarkable im- petus to the clock mi.nufacturing in- dustry in Vingland, which was native to that coiiitry for many vrcneration^ until a ccrtury or so ago when for- eign-madf timepieces became the fa- shion, lie ports have fallen 1,000,000 .so far in comparison with th? figures of 11131, ,1 fact attributed to the grc>at ai d growing popularity of- the new synchroif.)US electric diH-ks which, plugged into the mains, will recorl (Jrcenwich time within a .second or xwo for years on enu. Alarm clocks arc in constant demand and already are being turnctl ou. at the rate i>t •1,1)00 a week. York Minster It as early in the evening. The sun as going down over the vale of York and the gray towers of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter rose over the flat lands. There was a wind blowing at my back or I might have heard the minster bells, whose chimes, on a still evening, go over the fields for miles. As I went on bo, ween the hedges my spirits rose, because York is the loveliest city in all England. She is England's last anchor to the Middle Ages. . . . Men v;ere driving cattle through the gates of York. There was a smell of smoke, the last .• an lay v;arm over red roof-tiles, and from within the walls came a marvelous feeling of men and women, of life, which, although present in all cities, lacks identity unless a ciiy sits cosily behind its walls like a house full of friends, . . . The ground falls away from the wall to the cathedral and the dean- ery gardens. Y'ou set York Minster through a hedge of silver-white pear blossoms. Everything is silver-white ij. the early sun. The wall itself is si.vPr-white. Tadcaster stone is washed by every ri»in, so that the Wall of York has always looked new. An . this white, enchanted ribbon twists on and ai'ound, never straight for more than twenty yards, losing itself in gi'een bowers as the tops of trees on either side aix-h themselves over the white bastions. Rooks were cawing round the west towers. The dean's gardener was bringing th^ lawn mower to a smooth lawn. A bla.'kbird with the early worm in his .saffron beak flew to an 1 p: U> tree. A '.r^sh was pouring out his heart from a high bough, the starlings, whistling, fighting, rhining and beetle-backed, flew in truculent flocks, only becoming sober to rush to the help of some enormous and ravenous fledgling .vhose shaking wings and open beak were the sole signs of infancy,â€" H. V, Morton, in "The Call of En^'land." (New York: McBride.) <• Blind Show Ability In School Exhibit New York.--.\ domonst.ation of ability tt> ri.se above seeming handi- cj.ps was given by S.') students at the New York Institute for the Edu- Sonie women hare no sense of humor, observes (he Montreal Star, but most of them have a sense of rumor.â€" tiuelph Mercury, animal. He had ri.n out of cigarettes long sii'ce, and his nerves were til a- j! .igle. He rovetl from one end of th-' shin to the other, leaning on the rail ar.d stu lying the prospwt in evevy direction. They were all very much the same, which nu.st have been dis- couraging. (To b« cor. jnued.) "THESE HARD IIMES" cation of the Blind in a two-day exhi- bition here. ! Moving freely about the stage, ti^ children put on a conference of thil nations in which they depicte<l various sports â€" bowling for England, skating for Switzerland, and Irish jig foi^ Ireland, turfibling for Japan, t dance for Holland, a drill for Germany, a gymnasium scene for Greece, tnd ap-' paratus for Sweden, with the United States in the character of presiding officer. In ?ddition the children dramatized some of the things they have been taught, including a lively scuffle be- tween a rotund teapot, a tall coffea' percolator and capable bottle of milk, who easily vanquished his two opp<v n^nts. A chorus illustrated the mu- sical activities at the school and ther* were exhibitions from the literari classes and the department of manual training, including weaving, basketry, woodworking, knitting, .sewing ana cooking. "Tlie h.ird linu's and scarcity of money makes it moro important than ever to economize. 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