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"Did you have a good Git I'm terribly jealous, of course. You know thet,". ste, stid, banteringly. “She thinks I'm after the Jupiter money. Worse-she thinks Ihre " ready bagged it. J. J. worked himself into such I fury at Bruce that, out of spite, as much as anything euse, he made a new will. . . ." Dirk stared. "So that's what the old boy was doing in the office bright and early '3ntarday morning."' "Yes. Didn't your father tell you?” "No." He seemed strangely dis- comma. "But then-U haven't seen him alone since. I left while Jupiter was there." Dirk looked " her cautiously said nothing. Mary tried to keep “any; easel, her tone light. "You talk," she interrupted, “as d I were going to be the only one on the boat. There'll be Bruce, and the Countess, besides Mr. Jupiter and the erew--" "The Countess? Who's she?" "My chaperon, darling. And if you don't think that's funny you should know her. She’s a friend of Bruce's. l mustn't tell you all I surmise about her or you'll think I'm as cad as that Town Tattle chap . . gossiping away without anything to prove it. But I do think she's the reason Bruce has stayed in Europe-one of the reasons. She hates New York and Americans. She only came over to protect her pro- perty--to see that no smart young debutante grabbed up her Brucey-boy and ran " with him to the altar. So far he's had sense enough not to marry her. But how she hates me'." Mary made a wry face. "Why should she hate you?" asked Dirk. - "o----.-------------, Dirk put his hand on hers looked earnestly into her face. "Why not forget it?" he begged. "' wish I could," she murmured un- nppily. "But---we've made so many pians---you'tre no idea what prepara- lions have been made. There's even I dictognph ht his eabin-the cabin we’re keeping for him--" . Dir. jerked his hand “way. "You're not going to tak, that--- " at animal on board? AssociaLe with him? Why, he's--scuml If he's no more than a gigolo. he's not the sort you ought to be seen with! I'd trust him no more than I'd trust a awe. For all yOu know he may be a bank robber-a thief---an impostor of the worst order--" ly “Emu a murderer," Dirk agreed hotly. “I won't have him around you.' " George, I thought. old Jupiter had s'ome sense, bat--" " sun»: . Mary “grime" undermines to may The Hy. whom she believer “fumed" her brother. Eddie. with the murder of 1mm Juplter "tad later ran eddie man an. killed Mm to ken- htm from tellinl. An bull mtte plum to nu- the humus Ju- pilar human or rubiets, which the mur- - failed to gel. She is azfdtd by a Tr reporter have». Mury'n ham-e. t th Kuylhm'. "trtectts to the "U oriety. 1iruee annrr. absent many your». re- lm'm- xrmn Eur-me with a woman triemi. Well, she was sailing in the mortr- ing, probably on a wild-goose chase. but she couldn't back out now. How would she feel. though, once she had spread this elaborue web she was spinning, and stated herseli' in the centre of it with the xiepming Jupr ter rubies as bait, if The Fly failed to 'ppear'.’ She almost wished she had not emborkeu on such an imam nd- venture. Much Letter to remain safe. ly at home where women be'onged and have no thought: of one's orrs-thea one ”Add not be mistaken, and de- servedly laughed at. "A mc rderer," Mary supplied gent- Apparently it did not surprise CHAPTER XXVI ISSUE No. 50--'32 " Gems of Peril Be Proud tet with ts.f {our Baking By HAZEL ROSS HAILEY. " __---------..---- nt'd.) but her Mary was convinced beyond any doubt that the Count Enrique De Loma whom Ethel was infatuated with was The Fly. And Cornelia Ta- bor had barely missed having him in her house as n week-end guest! It was frightful, and it was laugh- able. But most of all it opened up a new view of The Fly and his meth.. ods. So that was his trarnss-trieking silly society girls with the old, old title racket! Whether his name was really De Lorna did not matter; prob. ably it was an inas. It so, it was a Mary laughed. "And youve the brute to do it," she agreed. "But who was this other chap?” Somehow the episode did not ring entirely true . . . something about it had set her to wondering. She looked at him with earnestly puckered brow. "It eouldn't have gotten out about the new will leaving the Jupiter money to me, "When was this invitation given, Friday?” Mary pursued thoughtfully. De Luna. De Loma. Where had she heard the name? "The Miss Hark- nee: whose picture he had seen in the papers." That must have been those awful Friday stories about her and the Jupiter necklace. Suddenly she knew. . . De Loma was the name given in the racing papers as the own- er of The Fly’s horse, La Mosca! Could it be the same man". Was De Loma The Fly? "Well-no," Dirk flushed. Then he burst out, "What could I say'? That we'd had a fight? I told her you’d gone to Hot Springs for a few days to rest. That was when she asked me to till in." He looked at her apologetic- ally. "Takes somebody with a strong constitution to get along with Ethel. She has to be slugged every so often to keep her in her place." could it?" Dirk's scornful gesture didn't en- tirely reassure her. He looked down at her, smiling. "Too bad," he said. "He was so anx- ious to meet you, too." "Meet me?" Mary sat up. "Sure,' you. Ethel took me aside and told me. Connie never would have peeped. It made her furious, na- turally. Ethel said when she came ta your name on the guest list, Count What's-His-Ntune wanted to know if you were the Miss Mary Harkness whose picture he had seen in the pa- per. She said you were, and what about it, and he began to kiss his fingers to the ceiling and exclaim 'Ah, ravishing! Charmanty and all that. And right away he said he'd come. Burned Ethel up but she was glad to get him on any terms." He grinned down at her teasingly. "You've got quite a rep, kid."' Humanly, Mary smiled. It was rather delicious revenge to have had that happen to Connie. But then, Connie had had her revenge by asking Dirk. The score was even. "She didn't ask me," Mary mur- mytd,yuzzltd, "Was that why?" He was holding her hand and strok~ ing it gently with the other, just as he always did. Was it absent-minded. ness, or had his stiffness melted for good? Mary relaxed happily against the pillows and listened, with only half her mind attentive to what Dirk was saying. "0h, he's mt. of little Ethel's life for good," Dirk explained. "Called home to Argentina to settle his estate or something. She'll navel see htm again, and a darn good thing. Con's mother was worried sick for feat Ethel would elope with him." Mary was col-Hy furious. “That‘s! a likely story of Con's--1 don't believe a word of it," the exclaimed angrily. "She just wanted to get you there." "You're crazy," Dirk rejoined mild. iy. "No, it was true enough. It was! that count chap Ethel met in the| speakeasy. She's been chasing him ragged. Finally she got him to sayl he'd come for the week-end. He maclel Connie tell him who the guests were,' to be. She had to read the list to him before he'd say ne'd come. Rotten little snob. Can you beat it?" "Well, why didn't he come, then? Did the Vtuulerbilts steal him on" what l'" She wnsn't really interested,! but she wanted to believe well of bothl Dirk and Connie it she could. This trazy jealousy that flamed up when- (ver she saw the two together or heard Dirk speak Connie's name was like a painful sickness. She wanted to be inoculated against it if possible. And perhaps it was true . . . a ea- pricious house-guest like Ethel . . . a manless emergency . . . and Connie always had depended on Dirk like a brother . . . perhaps there was no guile there. "She should have asked me, too, though," she was thinking rebellious- ly. him much that she knew where he had been. "Not that, exactly. But the rest of it wns. Politeness sentenced me to two dnys " hard labor, nothing less. Con called me-she was desperate and I pretty well had to go. Some flame " Ethel's had disappointed her at the last minute and she had to have an- other man." CHAPTER XXV“. y furious. "That's on's---I don't believe , exclaimed angrily. to get you there." That's r good bit we a thousand yards, so the condition might easily be tuli111ed without pedestrians, or even motorists, being unduly worried. A saint': life in one man may be less than common honesty in another. From us, whose consciences m has reached and enlightened, God may look tor a martyr: truth, tt Chris- tian’s unworldly simplieitr, before He will place us on a level even with the average ot the exposed t1ttoetrit2. H. Thom. "-rs Another such winter is not likely '.o occur again. And even when the weather forecast predicts "tog," things mar not be quite so bed " they sound. Oincialiy, it is a tog if you can't see a house or tree agtsintrt the sky at a distance ot 1,000 metres And at sea November is one ot the clearest months ot the year-the worst time tor icean fogs is spring and sun- mer. November is the worst month of the year tor loss in Britain's big cities. Alter this month is over, the number ot logs declines gradually until the middle ot February. But at least once --in 1879-London experienced a win. ter ot almost continuous tog. It Mart. ed in the beginning of November, and lasted practically until February, 1880. As it happens, that isn't true. Fog is prevalent in the country, as well as in town, and it would still occur even it coal tires were abolished. It is caused in .. variety ot ways, one ct the most frequent being the sudden cooling or the air that is saturated with in. visible water vapour. Part ot this vapour then takes visible form, and tiny drops or particles ot water be come suspended in the air. Actually, then, a fog is a cloud that has formed on ground level, Instead of in the sky. And the water in it is quite tsufficient to blanket out the sur- roundings, without any assistance trom smoke or met. _ London's "Worst Ever" Last- ed from November to the Following February The latest achievement ot science in Soviet Russia is the manufacture of artitieial tog in a Leningrad labora- tory, writes London "Amtwerg." It is one whcitt will arouse no enthusiasm outside Russia. To Londoners fogs Dame Nature produces are enough- or rather, too much. The popular supposition Is that the banishment ot coal grates would elim- inate the tog nuisance. She dared not tell Dirk what she was thinking. He would think her utterly mad, looking for The Fly and finding him in every stranger who crossed her path. But there were some questions she simply had to ask. "Did you see him at all-De Loma?" "No." "He didn't giv.. Ethel his picture or anything?" "No." Then he added pettishly. "What do you care, anyhow? Not going to fall tor him, too, are you?" “I think she said he failed to show up and when she called his usual hang-out they told her about his fa- ther dying and his having to go home to look after the estate." He looked at her. "You think he just ran out on her? Maybe he did. But I'd go to South America myself to get away from that young catamount. No mat- ter how many millions her dad's got." (To be continued.) She looked reproof at him. But the thoughtful pucker uid not leave her brow. "When did he call up and tel: her he wasn't coming'.'" "I don't think he did," Dirk am swered after a moment's hesitation. new one, for Bowen had searched po- lice files for a record of a man by that name and found nothing. Also ---and this gave not renewed heart for the chase-it was probably the name he would continue to use. A coat of black, rough wool with putt sleeves and scarf, col- lar and mutt ot leopard is a popu- lar number in Paris. An antelope beret completes the outht. Who Wants Fog? Honesty. to be married at Strathspey, and friends on the eve of the wedding went to his house and the house of the bride. he two were stretched full length upon the floor, their feet made bare, and then smeared with soot and Hacking. Afterwards they were commanded to stand up and receive similar treat- ment to their is s." Afterwards the same ceremony was carried out with the best man and the bridesmaid. An equally old cus- tom in a Staftordittire family was for "a bridegroom to take his' young wife Again, if when dreang you place a button "into the wrong buttonhole it will bring bad luck, just as hooking the wrong eye is disastrous. Should either of these accidents occur, however, you can ward off ill-luck ly taking off the " arment and putting it on anew." Sir Charles tells us that Le came arose a curious old Scottish custom which is said to bring good luck to tt bride and bridegroom. During the present year a Scottish policeman was COURTINC BAD LUCK. Some of those who read this book will find that they have been courting bad luck all their lives. If a girl "sits on a table while talking to a man she will never be married. A girl is also running the risk of spinsterhood should she fail to look towards the north when she goes cut of the house before breakfast. It you trip when going upstairs it means a. wedding in the horse, the bride or bridegroom be. ing the next single person to follow the tripper." Again, as a contrast, Sir Charles says that he was speaking "to one of our best-known authors, a:.d he told me that for very good reasons he dreaded to see a black moth in his horse. Twice the advent of such a moth Lad preceded a death in the family." As a contra f. to Irving chere is a story of Lord Rtberts and the super- stition about Ae ill-luck that follows a dinner party of thirteen people. He mod to tell how "he and twelve brother officers dined together just before the Afghan War, and, although they fought in that campaign, all were alive eleven years afte "wards." lRVlNG AND THE PEACOCE FEATHER“. The Stage, even today, possesses all kinds of strange superstitions. Whist- ling, says Sir Charles, is barred in most dressing-rooms, and if a first night happens to be on a Friday, act- 'rs and actresses step ous of their dressing-rooms left foot that! A pea- cock’s feather ir a theatre i regard- ed with horror, "and Sir Henry Irving ome caused a sensation by sending a polite note to a lady in the stalls at the sirst. of the that act of Othello.' On 'he slip of paper he wrote' 'For God's cake take your peacock feather fan out of the tl eatre to prevent disauter.' The good lady meekly called an atiendant and handed her the fan. But the girl drew back in horror. The lady herself, rather than make a scene, IX mt to the entrance of the theatre and threu herl far into the road." l Possibly he did not know that all would have been well if he had crossed his fingers after passing under the ladder-some people say you should hep them crossed until you see a dog! This same detective told Sir Charles tr at most criminals are superstitious, and that few well-considered crimes, such as burglaries. take place on a Friday. SIR MALCOLM THE FATALIST. Sir Charles once asked Sis. Malcolm Campbell whether he was supersti- tious. Sir Malcolm said that he wasn't, but added that he believed in luck, and was a fatalist. He said that "every time he started on a speed trial he felt that Fate had already deter- mined if it should be his last. Nothing could make him swerve from the feel. ing tha his end was foretold. Nobody who has passed close to the valley of death could believe otherwise. "But I am no fool fo.talist," ue added. “When I cross the street 1 look on either side. Before driving my car l isrsonally inspect every hit, of the machinery.' " Are you superstitious? Do you, for instance, avoid walking under I lad- der? If so, do you know why it is said to be unlucky? This is the rea- son given by Sir Charles Igglesden m "Those Superstitions." "The dread of passing under a lad- der has been looked upon by many in a material sense-the avoidance of anything falling from the hands of the painter. the bricklayer, or the man with the hod when ascending the ltgdder-but the superstition arises from the fact that when the ladder leans against the wall it forms a tri- angle, and is thus symbolical of the Trinity. The ordinary layman of olden days would, therefore. consider himself debarred from passing through this sacred arch." THE SUPERSTITIUUS THlEF. A Scotland Lard detective once gave Sir Charles an extraordinary ex- ample of the ladder superstition. A thcif who was doing chased "suddenly found that he cad passed under a ladder. Although the police were close upon him he turned quick- ly, came back under the ladder, and then rushed into the road to pass in. This delay was frtal. He was caught and his remark, laconically uttered, was: 'Well, it's better .0 be copped than have bad luck all my /de.'" Superstitions? A tirtst lamp kindle: in the rain-gray night; Trees shimmer in the moist silver, misty and cool; Meadows tail-over the low root or light Patter of rain is music. quiet and beautiful. .-Catl Edwin Burklund, in "The GYPSY" Nature's cathedral filled grant balm, I feel His Presence in this -Atttttytttt Thomas, Botha, Over the rose garden the rain falls Softly; the warm rich earth tittwert, In odors ot sweettern and blossom; I bird calla, Hidden in green from slow showers. A Sabbath stillness broods o'er all the land-- The softly mistcd hills afar are blue, The sunset tires by fairy hands are tanned, The hazy marshes cold and wet with dew. A cricket chirps, a plaintive robin sings, And gleaming where the sun has sunk to rest Beneath the sombre twilight's wide gray wings, A single brilliant star shines in the west. A vague wind whispers to the ttod- ding trees [ While Night in sable robes comes‘ out the west l And like a. priestess chants on bend. ltchings in tam/us parts m the body am said to have certain sigtsitieances. L "the left lalm of the hand itches no will have to pay money. if the right, ".ou will receive money.....2f the knee itches you will aneel in a strange ehureo; if the sole of the foot you will walk r fer strange ground. . . . Here is a rhyme on the same subject: "if you nose ltches, Four mouth is in danger, You will see a fool, or .(izs a stran- get." The white specks on the ‘i..ger-nails, too, have specim meanings uessigned to them, and moles are said to mean all kinds of thing., according A. their po- sitions on the Ilcdy. gown the hand._'ail of the ancimuir: case In the hall Mood the best man, and it was his day to catch the couple in his arms and tha n slide astride r: they ended the journey A dis. astrous end of the ride shou,d the best man be a little reilis and the newly married couple somewhat 'rulky!" .ITLHINGS. l thlnk children appealed to him because he was pre-eminently a teacher. and he saw in their un- spoiled minds the best material tor him to work upon. ln later years one ot his favorite recreations was to lecture at schools on logic; he used to give personal attention to each of his pupils, and one can well imagine with what eager anticipation the children would have looked tor. ward to the visits ot a schoolmaster who knew how to tnalie even the dui. Punt very early college days be. gan 'merge that beautiful side ot Let urroll'g character which after. wams was to be, next to " tame as an author, the one tor which he was best known-his attitude to- wards children, and the strong at- traction they had for him. i shall atte'mpt to point out the various in- ttttences which led him in this direc- tion; but it I were asked for one comprehensive word wide enough to explain this tendency ot his nature, 1 would answer uuhesitatmgly-loee. . Rainy Night in the Country Her "CROWN BRjiigir CORN SXRUP olhriitneea,t-181, ed knees rosary t1 rest. Sabbath Twilight An Understanding of Children that TORONTO ao\NA“DSBuI’0 puts “Fresh from the Gardens" sweet BEE} holy calm Alberta. with day tra. to Love's Nobility For this in Love's nobility--- Not to scatter bread and gold, Goods ttttd ralment bought and sold. But to hold tut " simple sense Amt spent the spech ot innocence. For he that feeds men serveth raw; He serves all who dares be true. The worst Obstacles. which grow as one looks at them. often melt away before a determined charge upon them. A man is more often beaten by his fears than by his enemy. As tor hardships. many young people cheerfully endure, when on a camping trip or an ex- cursion. discomfort: by which they would be completely discouraged in doing church work, for example. Al. most nothing bearable is a hardship to a determined and cheerful will; and very few really unbenrbale hard. ships ever confront the average per- son. To learn these rules, and apply them will be u help toward victory. The tlrst rule applies to action. the second to thought-to a soldier- ly attitude of mind. Taken together. they equip a warrior to enter any struggle with more than a chance ot victory. They are equally valuable, so the publisher asserted, to the modern business .nan. struggling in the press ot work and worry', and they are certainly applicable to the daily dimcultias of life. The pubiiaher of a big modern magazine, who has fought his own way to success. quotes the other day two rules, which he said he has learned from an old cavalry captain and had found to be the best on guiding aphorlsms: First: "When in doubt, eharge." Second: "Admit nothing to be I hardship." Life is a battle, as every human being findt, out somewhere between the beginning and the end ot it. Every man and woman who in worth anything has fought through more than one discouraging struggle along the way. Again, children appealed to hill aesthetic faculties. tor he was I keen admirer of the beautiful in every! form. Poetry. music. the drama. nll' delighted him, but pictures more than! all put together. I remembe: his onee, showing me "The Lady with the. Lilacs." which Ar,hur Hughes heal painted tor him. and how he dweltl with intense pleasure on the exquisite, contrasts of color which it contained. Again. the reality of children an- pealed strongly to the simplicity and genuinenesa ot his own nature. 1 be lieve that he understood children even better than he understood men and women; civilization has made adult humanity very incomprehensi- ble.-FYom "The Life and Letter. ot Lewis Carroll." by Stuart Dodgson Coliingwood. lest subjects interesting and amusing. -the gold hair of I girl standing out against the purple of ”inc-blossom. But with those who tind in such things as these a complete satisfaction ot their desire tor the beautiful he had no sympathy. . . . Mr, tuttith-"Ctut't say that I have. I don't care tor pugtlism." Miss Jottetr--"Ot course, you've read 'The Mill on the Floss'!" (ii'ii?)/i.:riii'i,iji" bi 1 iii-lit LI"let!.E jil) Two Good Rules A m’t lite is an appendix to bit hurt. China. with hill: dull red or dunes bleakly white. run by us to the west. There wu never 1 sign ot lite on the coat. and, It night. never a light. We planed . lighthouse on the third "r. white and sophisticated " Inna: up in . lonely Creamland world. A nun wnved tram it. Could it he a mun? How terribly the no. must count to him! The Chung-Shin; did not touch at so 'ophiatitsated a port In Shunghal, but on. "an!“ " unmet. on 1 sea at glued crimson. the pasted the mouth ot the Yang-cu river.-. suns Benson. in "The Little World." "Arpm um.- which d.aw .helr tle. mon-traumas tram probabilities are idle. tad unless one to on one] guard min-t them they are very deceptive." -Plnto. bl “Feminine talent ls tiltogether too 1ateut."--numi. Hurst. "Turn 't no "In Ind royal road , unusual prosperity." - Thomas w, Lamont. “Mun live. only when In lives clan tetoutsly."-Sir Arthur Keith. "God In clever. but no! dishonesn Albert Einstein. “There “- no short ut to prosperity through the provision ot t,overttttteuta1 credit in huge amounts. What is new- ed priunrily in not credit but bust. neirts."-Niehouus Murray Euler. "Ch. "n is sexual virility "-Joseplt Heme-batman Nt becomes more and more clear that individual competition needs to be Iupplemented and guided by pub- lic or collective plunning."-Slr James Arthur Salter. "We any come on a new 'gulden Me' it we get tear out or the world and Bet a new economic equilibrium ennui" ed,"9ntt Drinkwater "The present is the Invisible mm " over which the achievements ot the put walk mwurd the shaping of [he undetermined tttttttV-Alfred Noyes. “I an: aura of one vlting--ttuless “a get lone step In disarmament there I: chm: attead."-Lord Astor. "Them In no ”cord In human his- wry ot I. happy philosopher: they am only In romantic 1egendtr"--H, L. Mencken. "Th, business world is no place lot a .otnan."-Auee Poole MacDougall. “One should always learn to lovu oneself tor that In the oul. lire-lung tomauee."-Galtriele trf mmnzio _ -"is, times call tor a tsoul.gearchi-r, reexamination ot our national purpmu in Iite.".9ertrert Hot -"ri"t United States had better tak: warning now trom the fate of sevurral European countries"-Roger W Bab. A conservative is a fellow lbal':5 ' one. and want: to any there "-lluey P. bong. "In New York, manage: are too short tad novel: Are too 1ong."-Paul Morand. "With the exception. of capitalism there is nothing so revolting as re voltttiott."-G'eorgas Bernard Shaw. “Wo have emerged from our mm. calm- before ind w. shall do so nun. advancing to ever higher stand- ards ot wen-being." - Charles M. Schwlb. "it II hard tor tn imaginative por- son I Kyne. "People nowadayn go around deny- ing were" anything to romance any more. They think it's fashionable m be esttieat."-Lertore Llric. -viii" "storation ot trade holds not only the economic but the ttocittl sal- vation ot the 'rorhv'-ortt D. Young. -rrrrii, put the channel there things than new tn tho right diteetion."-- lady Realm. _ - "it is an awful thing for a man io 30 mmuxh lite without developing all tho menu within himtselr."--gohn Erskine. "'“rlrrhlve no belief in inspiration William Butler Yeats. From a Chinese to be very happy."--") B. u ‘r i, _,t,",,'ii h