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â-º-♦♦-•«♦»• ♦♦-♦^ â- < Gems of Peril By HAZEL ROSS IIAILEY. â-º >â- â™¦Â» » « *â- *•*•< IJKUIN HEHE TODAY. Wnry Harkneas iilom tr oiiHiarc Tlie Fly, who ''friinu'd' her brother, Kddle. with the murder of Mth. Jupiter and later killed hliii. Mr. Jupiter aide her. as does Doweii of the Star. l>lik Huyther. Wary'a flanre. forhlda her to invesIlgatH further, llruce Jupiter and a yuestlon- alile friend, CnunteKh l.uulae, try to rout Mary, beIte\lnK ahe is .1 crdddlg- »er. They follow Tho Fly to Miami. Hruce quarrel* with I.oulse over :i diamond bracelet (tlven her by The Fly. She aaya It Is Mary'B. Mary dlaiovera it waa Ktolen from Mrs. Jupiter the niKbt she waa killed. AVcurlng the fumoua Jupiter neeklaco. Mary dances with The Fly, who (set.t It away from her. lie klaaea her and Dirk knocks him down. Dirk twists his ankle and falnlH. The Fly gets away with the hamlbag but Is friKhleiied back by a pollicman ami returns It and the neck- lace. Mary has Dirk taken on board the yacht, th<! â- fiypsy." liowen sup- plie.s .Mary with proof that the Countess l» an adventuress. The "GypHy" sails with all on board. Th* Fly begins to r*Kll»« he has walked into a trap. SOW GO ON WITH THK .STDHY. CHAPTER XLI.â€" (Cont'd.) Whatever it was, it was plain that he had lost his taste for red-haired young 'women with promises in their eye.s and no intention of keeping them. Well, let him go. He would not be unol>serve<l, wherever ht went, even though the excellent Bates was in his cabin, getting a little long-deferred sleep. He was a prisoner with every man on the yacht his jailor. Did he know it yet? Mary could not tell. ''May I inquire why you brought that man aboard?" Bruce demanded annfily as soon as De lioma had de- parted. "And what does thi.s sudden sailing mean?" With Ixjuisc present, naturally "t was impossible to tell him of the night's events. Mary looked doubt- fully at Mr. Jupiter, before replying. "Your father hopes to do a little fish- ing, I think," she answered. "If he can get the right bait." Bruce looked from the girl to his father and back again, sensing a double meaning in the words. "But why take De Loma of all people?" he asked, puzzled. • • « Mr. Jupiter cleared his throat and made his first contribution to the conversation. He continued to look •with innocent, bland eyes at the water <lecanter in the centre of the table, OS he .spoke. "Posisibly as a companion for the Countess here," he said. He turned to her with elaborate courtesy. "The man is an old friend of yours, 1 be- lieve you told us?" The Countess' eyes flasheil. She did not reply. It was not i>ossible for her to be longer deceived by the lamblike exterior he had shown her. The "sweet child" was not so guile- less as she had believed. .She was be- pnning to have real qualms. She was a lady not without experience, and she had read such signs before. Ner- ousness, combinc<l with mal de iner, unmanned her for the time being. She ro.se and rushed from the room, Bruce followin hastily, hurl- ing a savage look at his parent as he did so. "Brute! To harass a helpless wom- anl" the look said. Mr. Jupittr chew- ed industriously. His eye glinted h«- morou.sly in Mary's direction. "Taki back everything yoa've ever eaid about newspaper reporters," Mary told him, "or I won't give you what I've got upstai.a." "And whafs that?" "The ("ountess' history â€" or part of it. All down in black and white. Newspaper clippings. And George Bowen is the man you have to ihank for it." "Is that so?" Delight made itself evident in the old man's face. "Well, now, if we get rid of that hussy, we'll have to make that bov a little pres- <..A." "Wedding present it will be, I think." Why did she flush as she said it? Ceorge Bowen was nothing to her. It surprised her to find thai she niis.-!- ed the faithful lad'.-; adoration, now that it was focu.s.sed on the attractive Mi«! Brown. Wanting only Dirk, she still would have found it pleasant to keej) Bowen at her chariot -wheels, t4>o. What a little cat she was! It am- r.zed her to discover this about her- self. Was thatâ€" could it be â€" how Dirk felt about Cornelia's dogged pursuit? Was it merely human vanity in both of them? She began to see things in a clearer light. Remembering Dirk sent her hurry- ing below to see how he v as. The first cloud fell on her day as she opened the door and saw him lying, staring with wide, pained eyes, at n come- of the empty cabin. Her heart turned over with pity for him. He looked gentler, somehow. I»neliness and helplcssnes.s can do that to the n.ost stubborn of us. She went softly forward, and be- fore he could object, put her arms about him and kissed him on the lips. NEIGHBORS TALK "[ am employed In a theatre and it Is a problem to make ends meet, as I help support my moiher and sisters. I liko to dres^s well but Iiaven't very much to spend on clothes. To give the appearance of variety to my slender wardrobe I change the colur u( u dress or stockinKH as soon a;f the Ihings lic- e.ome faded. I always use Diamond Dyes for the workâ€" iisliig them as dyes for dresses and as tints jor slockjiigs. I have always gotten sTich perTect re- sults thai our neiKhhovH talk about the great number of new things I have. "I learned about Diamond Dyes from our wardrobe mlstresi. She says she has tried all the dye.s on the market but none do such splendid work and are so ca.sy to use as Diamond Dyes. I under.stand llioy are tiie world's most popular dyes and Ihev deserve to be." J.. IV, Montreal ISSUE No. 14â€"33 I CHAPTER XLII. After the first moment of surprise, in which he had re.«ponded to her kiss as of old. Dirk drew away and regard- ed her steadily. The sconi in his eyes made the blood mount hotly to Mary's cheeks. "What are >x>u doing here?" he a.sked roughly. "What do you want?" "Let mo do something for you â€" isn't there anything I can do?" "Yes. Put me ashore." The old surlinees was in his voice. "It seems to be your yacht, so of course I can only ask â€" " "Dirk, please!" She threw out her hands to ward off the unkindness. "You can't think that of me, still!" "I don't think of you at all." "That's a lie!" she flared at him. "You were thinking of me as I came in." "All right. Shall 1 tell you what 1 thought of you?" "No, for it's all too plain!" She bit her lip and tried to get her anger under control. After all, he was ill and he neede<i rest and quiet. "I'm going to sit here until you go to sleep," she told him firmly, and sat down with a magazine in a near- by chair. Minutes ticke<l away in silence. Dirk had turned his face to tJie wall, after bidding her to do as she pleased. She stole glances at his averted face as he slept, or preten<lo<l to sleep. He looked so ill that sud- denly she was frightemnl. Was a sprained ankle as seriou^â-  aij all that? In a remarkably short time he was really asleep. She rose an<l wiis about to tiptoe from the room, when voices in the next state-room attracted her attention. What stateroom had she pL't The Fly in the night befoiv, she womlered? Was it three? It must have been, for it was his voice she heard. "None of your damn bu.siness where I got it," he was saying. "I want it, that's all." There was mum- ble<l I'esponse, and then his voice K udly again^ â€" he iiiust be staiwling veiy near the oj)en poi-thole. "What do you mean you haven't it?" he haJf-,shouted. I/ouise, in a strident undertone, countered with a question of her own. ".Say, whose bracelet i.s ihat, any- way? Why is it so imixvi'tant? And how did you come by it, may 1 ask?" "Do you think I'<1 be fool enough ti> tell you? Give it to me!" "And what if I tell you I haven't got it? I can't get it, either. She's got it!" "WHAT I' It was like the roar >r a chai'ging bull. .^fter that there was the .sound of the )>()rthole being clo.sed ; caution made tbeni lower their voices until M;iry ha<I to .strain to hear them. She C( uld not caU'h what they said. Evi (lently they telieved the stateroom next to them to t>e empty. By i)utting her ear to the wall, Mary caught a few word.s. Gradu- ally the voices lifte<l again. "You'd better get out of here be- fore that sap of Bruce finds you here," De IjOma warned her. ".Maybe he is a sap," the woman snapped, "hut the est of the family isn't so foolish. I tell you it's a trap- " De lyonia's "Aaab!" was . snarl of uiilNlief. ••You'll find out!" Off To The Junk Yard .â- \fter more thuu a million miles in the transcontinental mail ser- vice the old 400 is Junked. Major Bishop, Allan Winslow, Clare Vance and other wxarld-famous pilots have flown it. saying â€" yet somehow more acutely observant of him than he had ever been before. He had never seeiiied more than faintly aware of the old man's shadowy presence in the gi'oup, seeming to dismi.ss him as a senile old fool unworthy of ivttentioru Now, though the subject was game fishing, in which he could have no interest whatever, Mai^ nole<l that he was rigidly attentive to every word the old man had to say. "No, s-ir," the garrulous voice rambled on, as Mary seated ht^iself, "I used U> hate to gaff 'em â€" thought it was cruel, and all that. But I chang- ed my mind. You do, when you get older anil see nwre of the worltl. "A killer's a killer, the \vx>rld around â€" and that's what a biirra- cud.i is," he insisted, snapping his head about to nod it emphatically at the immobile face of the man beside him. "Yes, sir, a barracudw is a cold- blooded murderer â€" nothing else! They ain't no use feeling pity for that kind of a varmint. They're put in this world for sport, and for no other rea- son. For a man to try his wits against. Lord, there's nothing like the thrill of bagging one of those fellows!" He lapsed into silence, which re- mained unbroken for several min- ut(i.s. Mary, in her chair, with her hea/l leaning again.st the back, could no*, see De lx)ma's face. Why, it was a j)arable Mr. Jupiter was speaking to The Fly, nothing less. Had The Fly the brains to understand it? Apparently he had. He got U]> suddenly, and with no more than n nod to excuse himself, walked away. He had a fine air of nonchalencc, stopping at the rail to peer at a pass- ing .s-hip, lighting a cigaret, ambling off. Mary breathed "You made me shiv- er v.hi'n you talked like that!"' (To be continued.) Dirk stirred and Mary heltl her; breath le.«t he should waken an J' speak to her. lie relaxed and sleiil | on, however, ami presently she heard, the door of De Loma's roi>m close and foot<steps retreat along tjie tieck. When .she thougl.l it wa.« l<afe U> â-  apii'.ar .'he went t>ut, leaving Dirk! sleeping .'y>untlly. On the forw aril 1 deck, uiid^" an a wning, U)_her inten.se 1 siTTivrise she saw Mr. .Tupiter and De jjoma, side by side in deck chair.-t.l What had hroUKht about thi.' ania-i ing juxtaposition, she wondert-<l? Sensing that Mr. .lupiter niiisl wi.sh to be rid of the man, she joined the lete-n-tete, hoping il would give him an opportunity. But Mr. Jupiter .-â- carcely looke<l up. He wa.« talking atuMit fishing, and he sef-metl to be enjoying himself hugely. De lx>m'i «a» silent, bnxwling. not paying at- tention to what the old man vsa-" Modern Office Typewriter Sixty Years Old Tho typewriter, whcli tor years has been so important an adjunct to every buslnes.s ofilce, has just passed its COth brthday. The event was celebrated by a New York women's or(,'anizatii)ii, and very properly so, for perhaps noth- ing in modeni life has tended to bring more women and girls into business lite than this device. With this anni- versary the age-old argument is re- vived as to whether we should cele- brate the birth of the idea or the com- pletion and placing on the market of the instrument .wluli is the embodi- ment of the Idea. British pi^ople cherish the know- ledge that Henry Mill, a London eu- gineer, was the first who applied for a patent for a writing machine. This was in JTl-l, but the inventor left no ilrawing or description of his device. 11 was, however, on March 28, 187S, that the S<'holcs and (iUdden ma- chines, known as typewriters, were placed on the United States market. Four liiindred of them sold the follow- ing year. It was an invention of Charles Scholfis and .Samuel Soule anil Carlos CJIidden, Iliree .Vinericans, and was fovpred by a patent, registered five years previously. The intervening years had witnessed other inventions of this nanirc by .\inericaiis, French- riieu and Knglisbmt-n, but none of ihem were marketed. .Ml were in- tended for the henelil of ibe blind, and had raised or embossed letiers.-- Toi onto Mail and Bmpire. He does not undoistand the value of wisdom and {rlendshlp that does not know a wise friend to be ihe noblest of presents. The sole eii.l for which mankind are warranted, individually or collcctivel.v, in interfering with the liberty ot ac tlon It any kind of their number, is self protection,- John Stuart Mill. Women of Arctic Circle Demand 1933 Styles Manufr.clurers in the Norwegian boot and shoe trade report that wo- men are fastidious about ftwtwear however far from civilizatio: : they lay be. At Hamerfest, nearly 300 miles beyond the Arctic Circle, it has ben found impossible to st>ll them a |.air of shoes in last yea-'s style. They f<dlow the fashions, it is said, almost incietiibly closely in all colors and de.ngns. There is no cheating them and he is ill-advi.wd wht thinks to Work off a surplus of tho previou-j .'reason's models in the .Arctic Circle- ORANGE PEKOE BLEND "SALAD" TEik„ "Fresh from th^ Gardens* Plant That Drills Through Ice The strange mechanism by which a plan' may drill its way through solid Ice, 80 that thick beds of blue blos- soms appear to be rooted In ice, is des- cribed by Dr. Casey A, Wood, associ- ate of the TI,S. National Museum, in a recent publication ot the Smithsonian Institution. The plant, we are told in a press re- lease from the Smithsonian, is the blue Soldanella alpina of the Swiss Alps. Says Dr. Wood, in the Smith- sonian Annual Report; "In the autumn the soldanella de- velops thick, leathery leaves, well pro- vided with fuel, such as starch and protoplasm, for the coming winter. These II- flat upon the ground, ex- pectant ot the snow and ice sheet which may cover them to a depth ot several feet. "When the spring arrives and the hot sun melts most ot the snow and some of the ice, water trickles down the rootlets and arouses growth in the sleeping plant, "Internal combustion ensues within the floral tissues. Tho resulting heat melts the ice about the uprising flow- er buds, and the stem pushes its way upward. More water flows to the roots, ••Increased activity is induced, ami linally, after several setbacks, the plant, esi)ecially if its race is run along the margin of the Ice-sheet, soon tun- nels a passage to the air and sunshine, '•So long as the heat given off from the growing stem and the buds Is suf- Ucienl to prevent actual solid freezing of the parts, the soldanella is Indiffer- ent to tho surroundlpK ice-cold tem- perature. It undergoes the usual trans- formations, is fertilized by early bees, and forms many hundreds of wonder- ful blue flower groups that crowd the margins ot the neve, some of which look for all the world as if they were beds of bloom actually rooted in and growing out of a thick layer of trans- parent ice, "If one now examines the leaves of the plant it will be noted that they are no kmger thick and fleshy, but are thin and papery. They have yielded up their carbon compounds as fuel to melt a tunnel in the ice, and tlie production ot buds and blossoms, on the flower stem above the ice nianilc" Why Haystacks Burst Into Flames Haystacks sometimes catch Are through spontaneous ignition. The reason was recently explained to chemists attending the American Association for the Advancement of Science by Dr. C. A. Browne ot the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. Says The Science News Letter, a Science Service publication (Washing- ton ) : "Hay losses from this cause In the United States run into big money; ap- proximately $20,000,000 a year. Dr. Browne said. ' "Ths Is enough to endow a big uni- versity or build a couple of flrst-class cruisers. Research that may eventuate In the repeal of this unauthorized tax Is therefore judged very much worth conducting. "Many chemists for many years have observed, experimented, and speculated over the question of how a haystack can make itself hot enough to catch fire. A part of the answer was easy enough, once It was demon- strated that the life processes ot plants generate heat no less than do those ot animals. The digestive fer- ments in half-cured hay will raise its temperature appreciably; but even more Important than this is the fer- mentive action of bacteria and other micro-organisms, which carr_y on the process to an even higher tempera- ture. "Nevertheless, the major jiart of the riddle remained unsolved, for the high- est temperatures attainable by living bacteria are still many degrees short of the ignition temperature ot hay. Bacteria alone can make hay hot, but they can not set it afire. They are killed by their own self-generated heat before the hay even chars, let alone bursts Into flame. "The puzzling temperature gap can be bridged. Dr. Browne is convinced, by examining the decompositon pro- ducts given off by the action of the bacteria on the haj'. The first thing that happens is the conversion of part of the starches and celluloses into sugar, wlilch then proceeds to fer ment. Buried deep in the haystack, without access to the outside air, ths fermentaton takes place under oxygen- deficient conditions and does not pro- ceed to the normal end-point. Instead ot the complete chemical breakdown into carbon dioxld and water, the fer> menting process produces complej gases rich in carbon and hydrogen but lacking in oxygen. At the same time the surrounding layer of hay acts aa a heat insulator, driving the tempera- ture higher. "The gases generated by the Imper- fect fermentation have an avid hunger for oxygen. If a little reaches them, they absorb it eagerly, generating still more heat. If they are kept blanketed in until a large supply of air suddenly has access to them, they are very apt to react with the oxygen so energetl- iraily as to produce actual flame." Professor â€" "Man belongs to the highest order of animals. What Is the next lower order that always comes after man?" Stolid Pupilâ€" "Woman." 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