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Ita nutilionalb The phone shrilled again even as she hung up. She walked away ind let I ring. Three o‘clock. If she could juct keep her own counsel until then. Someâ€" kow she could not bear to face Mr. Jupiter with the knowledge of what she was holding back. "So far there #as been nothingâ€"nothing!" There was somethingâ€"not much, perhaps, but something. She would feel better when the strain of waiting was over, when Mr. Jupiter knew. She was almost fatalistic ibout it now. She knew that sooner or later someone would interrogate Bessie, if they had not already done so, and that u' M“ih- i.:r""- Lhs & 0035 Mellow, tempting | flavor from .;;old (Ihed(il.r ellei.e. Digestible as milk itself. proved by the Food ('o--l:: ® COCD OS NCO * oon Commitâ€" tee of the American Medical No wonder millions love Kraft "Well," Mary permitted herself the rare luxury of flippancy, "that‘s whai you get for it." She hung up. What a way to talkâ€"she must be getting lightheaded. Eat this fine cheese food oftener! "Yes," she told him automatically, Inspector Kane will see you here at eleven o‘clock. Mr. Jupiter will be gfim} glso,. Northye will be no r interview, &r. upiter is very tliree. and has been ordered to bed." _ "But it‘s halfâ€"past ten now," an outâ€" raged voice complained, "and I‘m 3n‘ MHackensack, New Jersey !" The telephone rang again. â€" She picked it up wearily. It was another reporter. gave place to a new and more opâ€" pressive fear. If he had had good news, or even the hope of it, he wou‘id have told her. He had meant to be comforting, but the eifect of his words was just the opposite. She was really alarmed now. | "I don‘t know that," he hedged, "1 haven‘t talked with him. Better not say anything to anybody yet. Weil, I‘m going home and get some sleep new, and I‘ll be around for you at a quarter of three, sharp. See you then." "I‘ve got word ofâ€"the person we were speaking of," he said. "I‘ll seo you at three o‘clock. Can you be ready to go with me then*" "Oh, Dirk, of course! Then it‘s atl right? Everything‘s all right?" K was Dirk‘s voiceâ€"tired, rather, but blessedly him. Mary went weak with joy. Sweetheart. wihe nto about the boy Old Mro, Jupiter, wife of <the alre automobile manufacturer, engagement dinner and dance secretary, Mary Harkness, . w marry the socially elite Dirk Mary receives a telephone c her seapegrace brother, Eddie, s 18 in trouble and must see her :n- goes uDstairs to meet Wim The Arolief M'aryr Vh'l'd"f‘eIJt‘ nnoooom,‘m’“ nsm â€"â€"] Gem By P «mm ng a y eR Tt MTE MOE Irn~iter raobbed and murdered in room.A seeklpg pirk.Aqhe finds him .« . . . apread it, slice wen hre d T 4A + + + CHAPTER v a _ ‘labor, . his . childhood Dirk advises her to keep Kiddie untitl he can Jocate sYNOPSIS. >r, wife of the miHflonâ€" manufacturer, gives an law ce‘ "e l L CTAIME PiUs) °. and dance for her Harkness, who is to y elite Dirk Ruyther. _ telephone call from ther, Eddie, saying he must see her. When to meet him she finds at first "Now, the way 1 figure it, this guy don‘t have any real rdea of the value of that necklace or he wouldn‘t have fcoled with the other stuff. Here‘s what he did: he pocketed the diaâ€" monds and made a pass at the neckâ€" lace. Now, any crook smart enough to know a ruby from an agate knows that a valuable string of ary kind don‘t depend on no catch that‘s gonna come apart with a perk. A woman ean‘t lose a necklnce nowadays. They‘ve all ogt patent catehes. This guy was new ard he was scared, for "Taking a little graft, Kane?*" somebody snickered. Kane overlooked the raillery. There was a shaking of heads. "Picâ€" tures of it," one man admitted. "Wel, then you know it doesn‘t look l‘ke so much. You‘d never think to look at it that $500,000 wouldn‘t buy it. A cool half a million! That‘s money, in any language. But just to look at, why, say, my wife‘s got a string of pearls I bought her for Christmas that knocks the spots off it for looks!" ‘ "Now! How do I know the gay was an amateur? Because first off he grabs her rings and the diamond tiâ€" ayra. Diamonds are flashy, and any fool knows what they‘re worth. But rubies," he broke off to ask, "any of you ever seen the Jupiter necklace?" There was a shaking of heads. "Picâ€" tures of it," one man admitted. i "But let‘s get on. As I say, Mrs. Jupiter‘s feet hurt and she went upâ€" stairs to her room on the third floor to give ‘om a little rest. That tallies becaus. she had on houseâ€"slippers when she was found. Her maid was downstairs looking after the women grests. The thief was either hiding in a closet, or in the next room, or. else he came in after she did. He steps out, throws a gun on her, and tells her to hand over the jewels. But the old lady was game. She wouldn‘t give them up. ’ Kane raised his voice. "Bungler, I said. And why? Because he‘ll have to take the rap for murder, that‘s why. Any jewel thief who knew the A B C of the basiness could have got those jewels and never left a mark on the old lady." Remembering the presâ€" ence of Mr. Jupiter, he lowered his voice somewhat as it to soften what he had to say. "So as I said before to you boys I‘m convinced the crook who did this was an amateur and a bungler. 1 haven‘t changed my mind." "Bungler" someone snorted sarâ€" castically. Kane jumped into the discourse. Evidently he most of it with them in fore. The newspapermen eyed her curiâ€" ously; she felt as overpowered with shyness as if she had suddenly beon thrust out on a stage alone. But they behaved toward her with the most formal ecourtesy. ‘ "Come in, will you please, Miss Harkness? We need a rose among all these thorns." NU Prrcumfiadisindadatrals 5 45. a Mr. Jupiter‘s order, were ushered into the library next. Mary would have slipped away but Inspector Kane, spying her as he greeted the men on their entrance, summoned her with a get them cut of the way,." The group of newspapermen waitâ€" ing in the dining room, where sleepy â€" eyed servants had latd a buffet supper s t on es L _ _"Dumb as an oyster," Tom shrugâ€" ged. "She don‘t know the time cof day," "All right," said Kane absently, "I‘ll get around to her after a while. Now where are those reporters? Let‘s get them cut of the way." I The group of newsbabermen wait. "Never mind," Kane said. "Tll s her presently. You talk to her la night? She say anything to you?" ‘ "All right, Tom. You can go." As an afterthought he called after him, "That maid around, the one that was with you?" Torm disclaimed all know!â€" edge of Bessie with an indifferent shrug. "Probably slecping. You want to see her?" The faint accent he placed on the word "her" indicated that in his opinion this would be a pure waste of time. i "I would. A black body with alumâ€" inum trimmings and aluminum hoed. Mr, Jupiter called our attention to it, that‘s why I noticed it. A guy was driving it, but I didn‘t see his face." "Anybody in it?" "Nobody in it that I could see." The detective mace a rapid note. "Lorimor. _ Special body." Thcl chauffeur nodded. "I‘d take my oath on it," he said, "that it was the same car. Three times it came in and went ‘round the circle, in the space of half an hour." "You‘d know it again if you saw it?" umped into the middle of his $ . Evidently he had gone over & t with them individually beâ€"| ug‘ her last I‘ll see L18 After an exhausti dressed 7,000 member the future success of ing H.LH. with six pa To enjoy happiness is a great g« but to be able to confer it also others is a greater still. ed: "How about telephoflév(';ils into the house last night, Kane? Have you traced ‘em? Only the man fronrlrt‘hâ€"o.;'Star hung back. He lo_wered his voice and as<â€" There was some talk about the exact value of the jewels, a request to phot + graph the necklace. And in a reâ€" markably short time, the newspaperâ€" men had all left the house. Kane hesitated. "Before," ted finally, One of the menâ€"he was the cete police reporter for the Starâ€"a 1 owly, "Saw him before or after shooting?" * _None so far. But I‘ve got another witness that saw him probably. Saw him plain. Can ‘dentify him. But _ tell you boys frankly that I don‘t t.ink his life would be worth a nickel it I told you who he was." "We‘ve got the story of a chap amed Doulton thai he went out througk the grounds. Matter of fact, ’ 1 ran into Doulton and nearly knockâ€" ed him down. He must have "‘:imbe4 up and come in by the balcony. There‘s footprints below. No evidence on the br.cony rail or the wall to prove it, but that‘s the most likely thing." "Doulton get a look at him*?" Kane looked disgusted. I regret :o say that Mr. Doulton was more than a trifle drunk." "Any fingerprints?" "None so far. But I‘ve got another witness that saw him probably. Saw him wlain> Can SAawkiBerv Lt © y o o mistake. ‘"The butler answered Mrs. Jupiter‘s be!! that had just rung a mirute beâ€" 10re he met Miss Harkness at the foot of the stairs. When the butler enterâ€" ed the room, it was dark. He switched on the lights himself." _ "I don‘t get you, Sergeant," someâ€" body commented. _ "Who rang the b ‘zzerâ€"Miss Harkness?" "No. He did. Th: thief did. The pushâ€"button that su.mmons the servâ€" ants is right next the light switch. in trying to turn out the lights to cover his getaway he missed the light switch e first time and rarg the buzzer by nstakat. . He watched the with obvious relish he was creating. same, cool as you please. "No, that guy had a nervous trigger Lnger. 1 might so so far as to say ke was yellow, clear through. Maybe he munkeyed with the cateca and couldn‘t open it, as the old lady lay on the floorâ€"we‘ll know when we get the fingerprint man‘s report. But the ¢ ances are he didn‘t for he didn‘t have time. Miss Harkness thinks she didn‘t scream, but sh isn‘t sure. Sne probably made a sound of some kind. Then it couldn‘t have been more than i minute before she came in and the man was gone. . When Miss Harkness came in and when she went out, the lights were on, full and bright. Sne di‘n‘t make a search, naturally, and it‘s a good thing she didn‘t, for Miss Harkness," he turned to the girl, "you can take my word for it the murderer was still in that com, all the time you were there!" ‘"He must have thought the upper floor was deserted or he wouldn‘t have been there. And if somebody did hear her scream and came in, what differâ€" ence would that make? If he‘d beuen a regular stick up that knew his job he‘d have stood them up against the‘ wall and made a getaway ijust the when the old lady refused to hand over the necklace it rattled him. He tried to snatch it and she held it up in her hands, tight. He cusses her and she runs to the balcony and he lets her have it. Now, why would he do that? mmnnemmensinentsimprsemens...... (To be continued.) 999 exhaustive tour of members . Happiness Prince Attends Farmers‘ Show ers of the Nation: of British farming pairg of gloves. a getaway just the : was the ceteran the Starâ€"asked girl‘s white face of the impression a great good he admt National Far'meu' their show on the ’ters. Last year they returned, but had hardly moved into their home when two more ducks and another drake arrived on the scene. The limitâ€" ed accommodation of the fifteenâ€"foot diameter pond sooen became evident. Loud quacks and scuffliings disturbed the peace of the whole of Lincoin s Inn. _ The original couple â€" finaliy e. tablished their right to the solitary nest and the others departed. Lawâ€" yers are hoping that there will be no iivalry this year. DUCKS DELIGHT LAWYERS. There is great delight in legal cirâ€" cles here at the appearance, in readiâ€" _ness for the nesting season, of a pair of wild ducks in the peaceful, medieval surroundings of Lincoln‘s Inn, which is set in the very heart of London, yet sheltered by beautiful mellowed stone buildings from the ceaseless rumb‘le of traffic. Benchers (senior members of the Inns of Court) had their litte pond in New Court cleaned out in hopeful anticipation. Two years ago to live in rural svrroundings. Even Brighton, the south coast resort about sixty miles away from London, is beâ€" coming a "suburb,‘ with many of its inhabitants |traveling daily to the metropolis and back, armers‘ Union at Yeovil on We see the mayor presentâ€" the metropolis into Surrey, Middlesex, Kent, Essex _ ard Hertfordshire. Speeding up of train services has made it possible ior the business man Cl City merchants and high lights of soâ€" ciety used to live in majestic mansions in central London. Today they usua‘ily occupy luxury Sats during the week, and retrect to small country houses for weekâ€"ends. Famous streets like Park Lane are changing complete!y in character. â€" Mayfair‘s big houses are being pulled down and replaced by blocks of flats and shops with seâ€" vere modern architectural lines. The census returns of last July showed that while the »opulation of Greater London had increased by more than 720,000 to 8,202,818 from 1921 to 19"1, yet the number of residents in London County, or inner London, had decreasâ€" ed by nearly 100,000 during the same peciod. Stately Georgian and ornate Victorian mansions in once fashionâ€" able streets and squares have fa,.len out of favor owing to their large rooms, numerous stairs and the necesâ€" sity for considerable domestic staffs to maintain them. ( "DISHCLOUT RoW» VANISHES, A terrace of quaint little Georgian houses, which is said to have earned the nickname of "Dishclout Row" from George III. cwing to the number of commemorative> pMques on the walls looking like cishcloths hung out‘ to dry, has disappeared from the north side of Kensington High street to nake way for new shops. This is yet another example in London of the rapid spread of business premises into traditionally _ residential â€" districts. Notes From London the Prince of Wales ad. TORONTO y |_TTCCY® i5 my good friond, to Jove truth for truth‘s rake is the priuciple part of all perfection in this world and the seedâ€"plot of all other virtues.â€" John Locke,. One day at a time! aches Knowing only too they can seem But it‘s never toâ€"day breaks upor extraction e One of the world‘s most mysterious y | substances, chlorophy}, the lifegivâ€" ;.| ing green pigment in the leaves of {| plants, is now available to science ; | and industry, Dr. Frank M. Schertb, q| of the United States Department of «¢| Agriculture has found a way to exâ€" y tract it at low cost from blue grass, y spinach and other plants and â€" has .| isolated the largest single hatch of ,| the pure compound. With plenty of chlorophyl1 available | for study experts hope to explain a long standing riddle. Sunlight falls alike on man, animals and plants, but only the plants have the power of harnessing its energy to manufacture food. The ehlorophy!1 in their green leaves, in some way stil unknown, takes carbon dioxide gas from the air and transforms its carbon into sugars and starches, yielding oxygen in reâ€" turn through the pores of the leaves. New studies of chlorophy11 may reâ€" veal the secret of this process, says Popular Science Monthly, Commercial applications also are foreseen for Dr. Schertz‘s discovery, Chlorophy11 already is used in soap manufacture _ and other industries. Medicinal pills are made from it, Hitherto Germany and Switzerland | * have furnished small quantities, exâ€" tracted at almost prohibitive â€" cost. With a cheap supply available Dr. Schertz foresees new uses. One derivâ€" ative of chlorophyl1, he says, offers great promise as a beneficial coloring matter for ice cream. £ Chlorophy!1 has been analyzed and C found a combination of carbon, hydroâ€" hn gen, oxygen, nitrogen and the metaiâ€") © lic element, magnesium. 1t loses its h green tint and becomes blue~blaci, e Uinan avieacir Believe it, It the Lifeâ€"Giving Pigment Taken From Leaves 1 | a number of streams running into the , j | Thames. The Tyburn flows benea‘h ,_ | Bond Street and the Green Park, and e |provides Buckingham Palace with its ; | ornamental water garden. Thg Fleet, ,.| which necessitated the building of p | Holborn Viaduct, passes under Fleet e | Street. The course of the Wallbrook _ | runs close to the deep foundations of p| the vaults of the Bank of England. Counter‘s Brook rises in Kensal _| Green and winds in an underground j| channel to Thamesâ€"side, while Peckâ€" _| bam took its name from a stream :a‘)â€" p|ed the Peke, which still gurgles on , | beneath tall buildings and crowded ; | s reets. For centuries these rivers , | ard the muddy land surrounding them have called for the utmost ingenuity ;,flom the architect« and builders of | Biitain‘s capital. There have seen | periodic subterranean rebellions, t90, but these have a.ways been successâ€" | fully overcome. FISH PORTERS‘ QUEER HATS. London‘s queerest hatsâ€"those of ‘ the fish porters of Billingsgateâ€"are J made in a little shop in a steep windâ€" j , i z ulleyway called Loveâ€"lane, which runs into Billingsgate Market. Chamâ€" pion porters think nothing of carryâ€" ing 100 pounds‘ weight of fish at; a time on their heads, so their heasâ€" gear has to be substantial. It is mado of leather, with a fat top studded wita rails, and protects reck as well 2s bhead. Jt is not ~ readyâ€"mude affair, but each porter has to be special‘y fitted. Jt is carefully sewn with was tbread, and its owner‘s initials print el in nails on the crown. Although there are about 1,000 fish porters in B.llingstgate, the demand for their special hats is not very great. They last almost indefinitely, But Edward Spink, who makes them, had an inâ€" expected order recently from a woâ€" man. She did not intend becoming a porter, but wanted "the real ihing" for a fancy dress dance. gleam. Waiting for an electric train at Sloane Square Underground Station, one‘s eye is caught by what looks like an ordinary inclosed passenger bridge over the lines. Actually this bridge carries, not pedestrians, but a river. The Westbourne is only one of Lonâ€" con‘s lost rivers. 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Human â€" custom is to be obeyed when it is not against the law of God. It is amid many inconsistencies that we learn to be consistent. Humility is the foundation oft ail Life is for ing. to ‘Trre Js an oversupply of griddle cakes, and that obviously the troubio lies with the distribution. Father says that little Mary is unâ€" duly alarmed, that the kitchen is fundamentaily sound, and all will be WB When ennMiirpeseige Coll ooz Little Mary asks for A cake, as she is facin Mother replies that this there js an overâ€"supp cakes, and that obvious! Nes with the dAictelhuitL. She replies that h. a critical condition ; brink of bankruptey not press hber furth ber valuable credits her a moratorium. Father reminds indebtedness and if she wises to e should make a s ance her budget, Mother now comes down the staire and tells father not to forget to ear mark some gold for her before ho leaves the house, as she has mumMmendus obligations to be met at once Father however, points to production of sugar, and off, change it for some of little surplus butter. The children ask ijor #yrup on the cakes, and father says there should be a large stock in the warehouse ; but the cook replies that there has been a brisk movement in the comâ€" modity since the last inventory was taken and there is no longer any on the shelves., Upon hearing them, the cook emer zes from the kitchen where up to that time she had been subject to te« hnicas unemployment. They set to work to solve the probâ€" lem of disposing of surplus food proâ€" ducts by increasing the consumer deâ€" mand. Father comes up from the furnace, where he has been invigorating the bituminous coal industry, and joins the children at the table. My range of vision was perhaps fifty feet in every direction, but for all I could tell it might have been fifty feet, or fifty miles. The sun‘s rays filtered down as though through the most marvellous cathedral ever imagined â€" intangible, oblique rays which the eye coud percejve, but no lip describe. With distance, these beâ€" came more and more luminous, more wondrously brilliant, until rocks died away in a veritable purple glory. No sunset, no mist on distant mountains that 1 have seen, could compare with this. One had to sit quietly and abâ€" sorbh these beauties before one could remember to be an ichthvologist â€" William Beebe, in "The Arcturus Ad venture." | 1 walked, or halfâ€"walked, | hait |floated, toward the cliffs. The rocks "wero almost bare in this bay, tiko ‘those between tides, and the multiâ€" | tudes of desser â€" aguatic â€" creaturos were concéealed beneath them. . The water was quiet, and between surges was often perfectly clear, so that 1 'eould see plainly the cliffs, rising high in the air above that narrow straigh line which marked the diviâ€" sion between the two kingdoms. 1 went as far as my hose tether would permit, and reached a boulder on which, the day before, at low tide, I had sat comfortably in the clear, ;cool air of the upper world. Turning back, 1 saw I had becoms a Pied Piper of sorts, leading a host of fish which followed in my train. The sun was out now in full strength and unknown to me, could hold my eyes from the marvel of distance â€" Economics at Home b The World Under . Pusey‘s Maxims r action, not for condition and she is on the bg.kruptcy. so father does nds her of her previous and explains to her that to enjoy confidence she a serious effort to balâ€" that her finances are in further, but advances for another griddi« facing | Starvation not for questionâ€" »0Inls io an over and offers to ex» of little Johnany‘s and also grants is strango as by ()