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> * « «â- Â»â- â€¢â- >« > « « ^â- ^^ Gems of Peril By HAZEL ROSS HAILEY. >••♦« » » «â- Â«-«â- < BEOIN HEKi: TODAY. MAKY IIAUK.NKS.S |>lo(H to ensi.arr The Fly. who â- friimtd ' her br.illier 1CI>- Dli;, with Ih. iiuiKliT of MUS. JIIl'lTI';il Mild ruh hlrii down to keep him fi-<»Mi tellliiK. She iH Hided by Mil. JUl'ITKK und IH)\VKN of (he StHr. Mary'H flaixe, DIHK UUYTIIKK. believes i;ddle »{ulllv und breiiKx with Muiy when she will not sive U|> the^ Investig^tllon. Miiry siiilH for Miiinil on the Jui>lter yacht to follow The Kly. HUrCK jriM- TKK nnd OirNTlCS;; l.OI'ISl-;. iiu-s- tlonuble friend, go ulotiff. They vow to rout Mury, who they i'oii«ldei' u gold- dlKKCr. l.oulse Inlroilui-es the iMirly to COUNT DK I.OMA, who Mury letiruH Is Th<^ Kly. l!8lnK the Jupller ne< klace n« bait, Mary diin< ex with him. He gets It from her by a ruse then klunes ' -r. Dirk knorkH him down. Injured and unoonsrious T)lrk Im taken on bojird the yrn-ht. the â- (lypsy." The Fly KoeH along niul IrlOH ni;ain to Hteal the iieckl/ne. Ilowen Klve» .Mary proof thai the countesn is nn adven- turcsM. The clypwy" Hall.'f with all '}n board. The Kly realizes li.- h.i.s walked Into a trap. Th>- •â- i;\|iHy" Roew iiKrouii.l on u rief. KOW QO ON WITH TKE STORY. CHAPTER XLV, Mary Kl'''n<'"<l "t Mr. Jupiler and wa-s iuitoun(U'il at the look of uncon- cern. If it was a a ruse on his part to doceivf Ix' Ix>ina into thinking the necklace wa.s irretrievably lost, she realized that he had failed. The Fly narrowetl his eyes for one moment then continued to upbraid Mary for her carelessness. She tried to carr>' ou'. the deception by spreading her hands out and moanli g "What have I done !" That night everyone was silent ami glum during dinner and Mary wor- ried over Dirk and apprehensive of the next move of Mr. Jupiter in his plan of badgering The Fly. A rain starting softly at first then increasing in volume deepened the gloom of all aboard the Gypsy. Meanwhile the Kly, reviewing the day, realized that he was cornered and that the only thing to save him fi-o:n gO'ing mad was to make a last mad attempt to obtain the necklace. The heat, monotony and the continued sight of old Fort Jeffer.son finally crystallized his method of attack. Questioning Mary during the after- noon as to how Dirk was progressing he learnt that the Captain had given him an opiate. If he remcinljcred ribhUy there was a bottle of chloro- form in Dirk's c^iMn that would suit hi.s purpose. After the heat of the day, Mary found the ri.in soothing and took a. few tums on deck before turning in. Refreshed, she made one la.st trip along the dock. As she neared Mr. Jupite-r's cabin she heard a shufflin.:,' noise, then The Fly appeared for a moment, t<x»k a glance up and down the deck, then ie-entere<l Jupiter's cabin. Mary breathed a .sigli of relief â€" ^he had not seen her. She dashed down to get Bruce, who crossly a-sked her what she wais doing prowlintc around his father's cabin at night. Mary at last convinced him that the matter was scriou.s. Bruce departed, Mary following slowly. As she reach- ed the <l<x;k, .shots sounded from Jupi- ter's cabin. A wild, unrcai-cning fear gripped Mary's heart, and she fainted aiway. Mary came back to consciousness to find the cold rain dashing on her face. She had slumped down in the doorway,, and now someone was help- ing her to her feet. She knew, by the smell of tobacco in the rough tweed shoulder that was supporting her that it must be Henry Bates. "Txavo me alone, I'm all right," Bhe gasped, «TambIitig to her feet and feeling ashamed of her tempor- ary weakness. But the other, with an exclamation of alarm, Ivad already discovered the etill form of Bruce lying o'.'.t on deck. So deathly whit* and still his face looked in the unreal light of the occa- 1,-ional lightning flashes, that even Bates was rattled. "By George!" he kept repeating. "By George! This is bad business! Now what's happened here?" rx>uisc, wrappe<l in a heavy ulster, rushoti out. "Where is he? Oh, mon Dieu, they have killed him!" .she sobbe<l, throw- ing herself ui)on the deck beside Bruce, almost kn<x*king Hales over in Ker anxiety to reach tl.e injured man. When she iwiw who it was, however, ihe drew back sharply. "Bruce! But where is Lnrique?" "That's what W( 'd like to know," Bates growled, looking about sharply. Mr. Jupiter's door st<H)d o]X'n, but he lad not api»cared. liCaviiig Bi uce lying R'here he was â€" the soaking he was fettitur would bring him !<• if anything RTould - Bates rushed into the old nan's ro<.»m, calling his name sharply. V curious snu'll iK-iva'U'd the air. There was no re.ih. The two wom- en outside heard sounds of stumbling, of chairs l>eing overturned as Bates fumW«(d for the electric liglit switch. Suthlenly the lights came on blinding- ly. There on the bed lay Mr. Jupiter, over his face a folded pocket-hand- kerchief. Bates snatched it away. "Chloroform!" Hf whirled and fiiceti Captain Hendricks^ just coming in the door. "Get your men out and search the ship, quick, captain! De Loma's done this! My God, 1 wond.-r if heâ€"" He tiimed quickly to the safe, which stood as usual, apparently untouched. If it had l)een opened, the job had beeii done by someone who knew th<^ combination. Bates picke<l up the old man's clothes, usually laid neatly across the back of a ch.dr, but now tumbled in a heap just inside the door. He rum- maged through the pockets quickly. "It's gone â€" if that's where it was!' The s.ot.s and the storm had roused the .ship, apparently, for the deck ! : ace outside the old man's d<.x)r, from which yellow light streamed into the pitch darkness outside, was jammed now with excited members of the crew. Strong arms carried the recumbent, fonn of Bruce to his bunk and left him with Capla.n Hendricks, thci rushed off to join the .search. Mary stayed with Mr. Jupiter, who rou.se<l almost immediately. Evidently the chloroform-soaked rag had not been in place long. He was as confused about what had taken place as the rest. He had lain down to rest with is clothes on, weary from the unaccustomed amount of e.x- ercise he was getting in '.lis daily bouts with the kingfish. He had roused at the fi:rst crash of the stoi-m, taken off his clothes and hung them up, almost without wakening, and fallen asleep again immediately. The necklace? Had he locked it up Ix'fore going to IxhI? No, he didn't think he had. No, he ha<ln't. It was tiero, in his coat pocket. Well, if it wasn't, then The Fly had t.ken it. Mary groaned. "Ix't him have it!" Jupiter growled. "He won', get far with it in this weather." "But why did you carry it alwut .so carelessly?" Mary could not help a.sking. "See what's come of it â€" Bruce .shot â€" " The old man sat bolt upright. "Eh? Bruce? Where is he?" 'There was a depth of terror in his voice such as she ha<l never hoard there. He snatch- ed up a robe and slipped his feet into slippers. Before she could restrain him he had jerked the door open and rushed into the storm, stagg(ring a little. Mary hurried after him, fear- ful that he might not be able to make it on the slippery deck. Bruce's stateroom opened on the l-a.Svsageway betnieon the two build- ings and was sheltered somewhat from thei stomi. Mai-y was whirled around the corner by the beating rain ju.st as Bates dashed up, breathless, and leaned against the forward bulk- head out of the wind. Sheets of rain were driving past on either side, but here they were fairly out of it. "He's gone â€" taken the dinghy and beat it!" Bates shouted in her ear. "Fool! He'll capsize, and that'll be tho end of hi.n! Goo<i riddance. But damn it, he's got the necklace on him!" Captain Hendricks came out of the door of BTuce's stateroom, opposite, and heard Bates' report with interest. "Get in out of the rain, you!" he command«Kl Mary, with rough tender- ness. "How many sick people do you think I want on my hands?" "How is he?" Mary asked. "Hurt bad," the captain replied, shaking his head. "Shot through the shoulder. Too close to the heart for comft*rt. He's got to have expert at- tention and hav ; it quick. I'm n pretty goo<l cobbler on the human frame for ordinary ills, but this is out of my ran^. "How are you going to get him to a doctor?" Bates deman<led. That dawn snake has taken the boat!" "De Ix)nia? Why, the fool -that's suicide in a high sea like this! An>l if I'm any judge, he doesn't know one e ,<i of a boat fr<.m another!" "Is there anything I can do to h<rlp? With Bruce, I mean?" Mary askej. Where's that woman of his. Do her good to have a little woirk t<i do! No, if Paine needs any help (Paine was tl.e steward) I'll let you know. You run on to Ir^I, child. You're soake<l through." Hendricks iurne<l and yelled at a ( a.ssing figure who turned out to be the quarterma.ster. "Where's Sparks? Get him up nnd Chicago's New Mayor Swayze-Cree Lake Gold Syndicate SUITE 210. McKINNON BUILDING, TORONTO, CAN. Telephone WAverley 2422 'JAI'ITAIJZATION: 3,500 L'NITS AT $10 EACH Th!i Syndicate wa» formed to acquire and develop a group of twelve clilnis on Cree Lake, in Swayzo Township. Main vein ten to nfteen feet w'de. with assay of $7 in gold I'^r ton. Full inforniHtion, including engineer's report, on request. Tlio new mayor of Chicago goes Dn the air. Hero's Edward J. Kelly, newly-appointed mayor ot the windy city replacing Joseph Cermak, assassinated In Florida. at that radio ;.gain. Tell him it's got to be fixed by daylight or he'.s got no more job with me. It's life and death, tell him!" He turned back to Bates. "If wc can't get the radio working by day- I'ght, I'll send two men in the life- boat, but it's a long i ull." The cap- tain left, muttering excitedly, and they heard him tramping around up above in the chart-room. "Gone up to fix it himself," Bates guessed. Good idea. That kid's been tinkering with it for da)^, and it's still blooey." "Tell me about De Ix>ma â€" wheie i.s he now?" "Doubt if you can see him now. The lightning showed him to me, but now it's settled down to rain you can't see your hand before your face. Grab a slicker and we'll t:ike a look. L( rd, I never expectsd this! I'll bet the old man didn't either. He like<l to devil De U^nia. Ix)oks like he dev- iled him too far." Wrapped in oil.skins hastily borrow- ed, they took a tole.scopc and went ; -ounil to the port 1m>w. The first crashing thunder and sky-splitting electrical flashes had given place to a light, steady rain that fl.attcned the water. Ptolonged bursts of ro.sy lightning played over the scene, mak- ing it light as day for two or three seconds at a time. With the glass they searched the .surface of the water in the diroction of Fort Jefferson without catt-hing a glimp.se of the dinghy. They had al- most decided De Loma must have landed, if he had not drowned, when off to the right Mary caught sigrht of a flash of whitt. He had stripped t» his shirt and appa'rently was rowintt toward Bird Key. The glass showed this wi>.s what he was trying to do â€" at least he looked over his shoulder frequently in that direction. There is a little house on Bird Key, for what purpose Mnry did not know. De Ixjma's idea evidently wiis to tie up there and seek shelter until the storm passeil, before setting out for Key West. It was a daring scheme, and one which only a truly desperate man would have attempted. The rain had gradnally subsided li...; they could see him more clearly now; the dinghy was not making much headway agfainst thj high waves, which were being lashed ever higher by a furious wind. Sometimes for minutes they lost sight of Le Ix)ma and believed him drowned. Then the white speck ri>se ttriumphantly again out of the t»x>ugh of the wave. There was neither direction nor headway in his aimless rowing now. It was impossible to keep to a cc»urse. The sea seemed to be throwing him nearer and nearer to Fort Jefferson, and no doubt he was too confused by the ixjughness of the wate'r and the difficulty of holding to his oars to l.row where ho was heading. ^ (To Be ('ontinued.) "I thought you •â- Id you'd never { â- peak to Jack again a« long at you lived?- "So I did, but he cut me dead the next time we met, eo I started all over aaaln." c â€" â€" ; Effect on Car Lubrical'ton Experts decl.Mc that when ntmos , pheric temperatures are highest that! wear has worst effect upon efficiency ' o lubrication of the c«r. $8,075,000 ViUage To Replace "Lung Block" Infamous Tenements of Old New York to Disappear â€" Average Rental to be $12.50 per Room The Infamous "lung block" on the lower east side. New York Is to go. A new village is to sprin? up in its pl-ice. Plenty of air, sunlight ;u:d elbow room and no more little cnsumplives to l>e carried oft to free wards. '•LiiiiK lilock" Is the name given to New Yolk's wornt sijuare of squalor by Ernest Poole when lie was living at the L'liiveislty Settlement in llie days when tftnemeiit-house reform was i talk. Thirty-three years ago the Tcne- 1 meiit House Committee condemned It I as the "worst" in the city. Now, in 1933, they are to be demol- ished, thanks to the enterprise of the Fred !•'. Krench Company and the aid of the R. V. C., which loaned $8,075,000 for the clean-up and the building of Knickerbocker Village on the site. It consummates a dream Mr. Krench had when he was recuperating in a hospital (our years ago. liut, he says, "it was the President and the Secretary ot the Treasury who finally put it over. Pre.'jident Roosevelt is very enthusiaatic about it." When Mr. French made his appli- cation to the R.F.C. he was supported also by the State Housing Board, the Emergency Public Works Commission and former Governor .\itred E. Smith. These rookeries, as Mr. Smith calls them, house close to 3,000 men, women and children. They will be replaced by twelve-storey and basement fire- proof apartments of steel and concrete construction. They will contain 1,662 apartments and 6,030 rooms at an av- erage rental of $12.50 a room per month. â- \Vork will begin in the first part of May, and, according to a published statement by Mr. French: Offers Work to 10,000. "It will provide immediate unem- ployment relief, 2.0000 men will be engaged actually on tlie site, another 8,000 in shops, foundries, factories, mines, lumber camps, etc. About $8,- 000,000 will be distributed among about 10,000 people, averaging about ?800 per person per year. "It will encourage the revival of business lu a broad sense, and may lead to other like developments in other cities. "It doflnitely will give to the fam- ilies and their children, 1,600 of them who will live in this development, a new type ot living which will stand as a model for the country at large." "Here," comments The Times, "is a genuine venture in slum clearance, not on so large a scale as might be desirable, but at least directed at the right point." "It is," says The World- Telegram, "one ot the most hearten- ing thing:, that have happened in New York City during the depression." But with The Herald Tribune it Is still a cpiestion whether any large number of such ijrojects could be suc- cessfully undertaken. "A rebuilding project covering, say, the whole of the lower East Side," it thinks, "would raise possibly insoluble problems in economics, taxation, finance, city plan and social requirements, not the least ot which would be the problem of housing those who now live in tho 'lung blocks,' since the $12.50 a-room rental in the new con.struction is con- siderably above the minimum rentals now paid by the poorest classes. In other words, the single new apart- ment will not permit us to assume that the housing problem la solved, fine though the project la in Itself." Gt. Britain Cleaning Up. A massed attack oir all slums is taking place in Great Britain, where they have been a problem for many generations. In moving the third reading ot a new housing bill lu the House of Commons, Sir Hilton Young, Minister ot Health, declared : "Too long have the slums acted as radiat- ing centres ot disease ot the body, mind and social order. The clear- ance work must bo done, and the Ciovernment means to see il through." According to the London News Chronicle, the Uovorninent would pro- vide the essential finance in the form of a subsidy, and such financial pro- vision as might be required In order that the work may be carried on with the greatcsl possible speed and efll- dency. "In an age ot electricity and chro- mium plating," writes H. V. Morton in the Ijnborite London Daily Her- ald, "milllona of people are living in surroundings us barbaric &n those ot nur Saxon forefathers. TUey are ac- tually worse, for In the old days the serf, no matter how hard his life, was a kind of poor relation, whereas Ihe modern slumdwellcr is uu outcast." Mr. Morton has made a tour ot the slum districts of the great Industrial cities of Kngland. They have appal- led him, and he declared emphatical- ly: "The slum.s of Uritaln, that moun- tain of bad living, arc a cancer in our national life. â- â- .\ country is happy and fortunate (uily in proportion lo the well being ORANGE PEKOE BLEND "SALADiC TEA Tresli \tnm iVv Giirdens ••We have clearly reached the end I France and Russia Arrange of an epoch. Our first task Is to bring Exchange of Army Observcrj ourselves up to date. Wc can not ....,_ * u. mlk about Progress and Civili7.ation Paris.-Military observers are to b« while millions of our people are still [ exchanged by France and Russia aa bogged in the nineteenth century." Novelist Would Ban Honeymoon Prominent English Women Take Issue With Mary Borden's Conclusions The suggestion in Mary Borden's new novel, "The Technique of Mar- riage," In which the idea is expatiat- ed on that time has come to abolish the honeymoon, has been followed by a deluge of remonstrances from read- ers of the London paper which first ^ dragged that idea from her pages to • its own columns. First on the list of pro-honeymoon believers is her fel- low-novelist, Margaret Kennedy, fol- lowed by Mrs. J. B. Clynes, wife ot the British Home Secretary in the last Labor Government. Then comes Miss Elinor Glyn, who dissents from their views. Mrs. Clynes writes: "Any attempt to abolish the honey- moon would be doomed to failure and would be viewed as fantastic. It is part ot the established ritual, and cus- tom is often finer than law. There are, of course, cases where I'ae honeymoon is overdone by too much travel and needless expense and the leading of a strenuous life." This from Miss Kennedy: "The average person cannot afford to take a long honeymoon, and in most cases when it comes it is taken in conjunction with the ordinary holiday from work. It is great fun, and a glori- ously happy time, and over all too soon for most people. I disagree, too, that marriage should be harder and divorce easier. It is hard enough to get married nowadays, especially for people who are not too well off. But it should not be too easy to div- orce." And from the exotic author of "Three Weeks": "The honeymoon is a.i anachronism, which should be abolished. How? I have not had time to consider, but I am in entire agreement with Miss Bor- den that marriage should be made harder and divorce should certainly be easier to get. I believe t^at before marriage people should submit to an examination ot character to see if they are really suited to each other â€" oil will not mix with water, you know. There is only one point on which I am averse to easy divorce, and that is where it would bring harm to chil- i dren." the next step in the program of rap- prochement between the two countries. This is in keepii. with a concilia- tion movement with the Soviets which he French have been pressing, sinoa nationalism began to show strength in Germany and Central Europe rea.:ted unfavorably to German demands for revision of the Versaules treaty. A military idliance, however, is nd< envisaged, the Foreign Office an- nounced. Two French army officers, Colonel Edniond Mendras and Major A. Si- mon, will go to Moscow as military attaches and two Russians will L . at-' tached to the Soviet Embassy vi Paris. Health Hen Fails To Make Appearance New York. â€" The famous heath hen of Martha's Vineyard Island, generally accepted by ornithologists as the last ot her species, apparently is extinct, the More Game Birds Foundation an- nounces. The conclusion is based on a report to the foundation by Prof. Alfred O. Gross of Bowdoln College, who has Just completed a long investigation at the Island in behalf of the Massa- chusetts division of fisheries and game. "The last authentic appearance ot tho lone bird was March 11, 1932, when it was seen at the James Green farm near West Tlsbury," Professor Gross reported. In passing into extinction the heath hen Joins the great auk, Labrador duck, Eskimo curlew and passenger pigeon. French Jurists Shun Overwork Paris. â€" French Judges are not over- worked, says a Chamber of Deputies report on the budget ot the Minister of Justice. The report shows that two provincial courts average only one sit- ting a month and a dozen others only two a month. Phonograph Disc Output of Russia The proletariat must have Its music, so the gramophone record factory at Aprtdevka, Russia, largest lu tho Soviet Union, is being enlarged to an annual production ot 30,000.000 discs. 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