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>«•»«» »♦«••«â- < Gems of Peril Bv HAZEL ROSS UAILEY. â-ºÂ»>-»•»»♦> « » «â- Â«-«-< J CHAPTKR XIAI. It *e*nic<i like hours that Mary and bates watched, riiu It beg^n to app.-ni- thai The Kly was winning â€" at any rate, if he had survived thus far, it wa.« likely he could hold out until the h«iny Jieas subAitied and .^t-t his coiu'.^o again. Then they lost him. "Well, te's ifone," said Bat*'S. Mary pointed suddenly and cried, "Lwk, whal'.s that?" It waii merely a moving white spc<-k to her eye, but Bates exclainie<l: "By G*«rge, he made it! He's tyinjr up at the old pier I" To CVi.ptain Hendricks they .ook the newF. He was li.^tening to the dots and dashes of the repaire<l radio set. "It's all ri(fht," the captain told them. "He'll stay there till we get ready to go after him. Nothing there but the skeleton walls of the prison, abandoned lonK ago. Mary made her way down to the dei-k and stopper, at Bruce's door long enoufrh to see old J. J. Jupiter .seated by his son's bunk, holding his hand •8 if he had been a child. Bruce'.--, eyes were closed ; he was .sleeping peacefully. She turned back to her own room, cold, weary and feeling more than a little forlorn. Her d<x)r wa.s oi>en and in it ftood a strange figure â€" i ghostly, wild-eye<i figure in white pajamas. "Mary!" Dirk cried at sight of her, aiid reached for her. "Mary, my love, I've l)een such a fool! I heard .shots and I thought you were killed!" They sat on the edge of Mary's bed, arms about each other, grinning fool- ifhly but happily at each other. "Happy?" Di k :.sked gently. ''Terribly happy!" "It's been a long time!" It wa.s their okl joke, but instead of laugh- ing they were suddenly more serious than they had ever been with each other. Quickly, breathles.sly, they kissed and clung, as if they would never let go. '4()h, why were you so cruel?" Mary liskfd when she could manage to speak. "It w-as awfu', -I thought I conlJ.it Kve, and bear it, for you to think tho.'^c things of me â€" " Dirk put his hand over her mouth. "Don't!" he begged. "I wm.? just a Je^ilous fool! 1 never dreamed that you couJd be right about that other terrible thing. You were right, though ! I want you to know it. They then begi.n to consii'.cr gelling the in\'alid downstairs again. When this had been accomplished, with one of Dirk's arms about Mary's shoul- der and the other about Batos, they still found thentelves loath to part. "I've got to bo the pap.t here and look after you two brats," Bates de- rided. "Mary, get jilong to your room or I'll use the old slipper!" "But I couldn't sleep!" "Lie there and count sheep then. You don't want to be asleep tomorrow when we brin;; back The Fly, do you?" "Viiu're going over?" "At ?un-up." "But â€" he may shoot you!" "We'll take the chance. Thai's a horrible hole he's taken refuge in." "Where did he get the gunâ€" and the chloroform?" "The gun wa-s his own. I got it back from the Ambassador's house de- tective and have been keeping it in my room. But yesterday I persuaded Mr. Jupiter he ought to keep one handy-- he had it lying on bis table, but .some- time ytsterday it disappear 'd. Either Dc Ixjma had a ; kel"t<)ii key and walk- in and filched it, or he snagged it through the open porthole. "Anyway, Bruce has got a .:i8 slug i.n him, and the gun in question wa.s a .:18, so it's rciusonable to ruppo.se it's his oym gun De I/Oma stole." "But the chloioform?" "The chloroform came out of the captain's medicine chtsl in Bruce's room." When the I'.vers li:id finally parU-l Bates took M:iry to her room. He con- tided that the .a<.'ic had responded to Captain H-ndrick's attentions, and that he had got through ti Key Wr-i' a', last. A tug with a doctor aboard was si>e<'ding to their aid and should arrive before not>n. "I haven't seen Ixjuise ali< ut. She coDldn't have been very anxioQ.'i about Bruce or she would have stayed with him, wouldn't she?" "She's standing over by the port r«il, staring at the prison," Bates Bf.id. "She stMrt^nl crying, wanting to â-  kiwrw if he was dead, and 1 told her â- o, he'd recover. 1 thought ^he meant Bruce. She said it was De I/omu she â- ^ant. Well, you could knock me over with a featlier!" "He's her husband," .Mary told him. "She hute* him. but ?he loves him, •oo." There was little i-l'ip for anyone •n Ix.ard the Uypsy the rest of the Bighl. Dawn found them all drpsse<l and roaming the deck, watihing anxi- ously for th.> wisp of »moke on the horizon that would herald the arrival of the tag â€" and deliverance. .V.indful of VI hat had ben told her â- b<'Ut the old prison and its sorry ntnte, Mary found it impossible not to • »p<culate about The Fly and what had happened to him. I.ouine had tried to bribe a sjuioi to lower the lifeboat and lake her to the fort, but her haggard looks so al:umed him that he boiled without nr.aking any reply. Suddenly Mary heard her give a glad C17 and saw her train h'.-r glasses on the prison. The girl did likewise and saw a figure crawling along the top of the wall, -waving something while. Word spread that The Fly had been sighted and everyone rushed t . that side of the deck. Th- man had risen to his feet and was stumbling along, waving his arms frantically. To whom was he signalling? At almost the same moment the quiet voice of the sailor on watch re- ported the smoke of the approaching tug on the eastern horizon. It must appear somewhat closer to De I.«ma than U) them. It must be the tug he was signalling, unaware that it was speeding to the aid of the Gypsy. The 1 lume of smoke grew rapidly. It was like being the audience ;it a two-ring circus. The excited ones on board the yacht turned their glasses first on De Ivoma, then on the tug. Suddenly a cry went up from .several throats at once â€" "He's gone: He's fallen!" Captain Hendricks advanced the idea that, hopeless of attracting the tug's attention, De Loma had delib- erately jumped. "He knew what was ahead of him in ihe way of thirst â€" he's no strang- er to this part of the country," the captain surmised. Only one stood silent, tearless, of- fering no suggestion whatever. Louise. Slowly she put up her hands before her face, and stood with bent head. Mary, her hand fast in Dirk's as he sat beside her in a deck chair, looked away from the sight of the other woman's grief. It came to her now how she would u?' if il had been Dirk. Half an hour later the tug had come as close as possible to the strand- ed yacht and stopped just off the reef in the free chani.el. A small boat was lowered and a doctor sent over Wliile the medical man was with Bruce, Bates and a strong-armed sailor lad were dispatched in the tug's dory to brinp back The Fly, alive or dead. They rowed the half mile to Fort J< ffcrson and soon returned with the crumpled body of The Fly in the body of the boat. Mary shrank away from the night, and the sound of Bate's cheerful voice sickened her, as he bellowed up to his employer, grim and white-faced, leaning over the rail: "Here she is, sir!" Ho lekl up the ruby necklace, gleaming like drops of heart's blood in the early morning sun.- Mr. Jupiter nodded, but there was no triumph or even pleasure in his face. "Does he live?" he asked in a low voice as De Loma was carried up the deck and laid on the bed in his room. Bates nodded. "Crazy in the head," ho said softJy. "Keeps talking about tl .^ sun getting in his eyes. What does he mean by thai? The sun wasn't up till ju.st a little while ago." The doctor came out of Bruce's cabin and greeted the as.scmblage with the false cheerfulness of those who are not directly coftcerned in a tragedj. "Your son will live," he told Mr. Jupiter, "but he must be gotten to a hospital immediately. This heat .... something might happen to the wound " Mr. Jupiter looked like a man re- pi-ieved from death. "Here," he said, "here's another job {)r you," and led the rurprised doctor to De l/oma's stateroom. This time the mi-dicnl man did not even pretend to them. "The man's all broken to pieces in- side," he said. "He's got a bullet wound U'sides. What hnpiH'ned to him? If he has any people here, call them. He's Hkely to go any minute." Hut it was not Louise who was .ail- ed first. Bates, enlisting a white- lipped Mary with pad and pencil in hand to take <lown the dying man's said, 'Listen. You've forgiven me a lot of 8tupidn«8s because you love me. l>on't you th'nk Ecdie .nftight do the same for you?" (To be continued. « Flying Gains in Britain Althoug!; the membership to Brit- ish flying clubs fell off in 193'2, pre- sumably (iae to the economic depres- sion and increased taxation, they did more flying per member and used more clubowned planes than in the previous year, according to the a.'ia- tion correspondent of The Daily Tele- graph of London. The figures relate to sixteen gov- ernment-assisted clubs and seven clubs grouped under the control cf the National Flying Services. There are, however, others, such as the Household Brigade, the Royal Nava!, sind two or three new local clubs. .Most of the eliils, according to the corres- pondent, are in a sound position, but they havn been compelled to overhaul methoJs and to economize. Compar- able figures for the past two years are: 1932 1931 Membership (23 clubs). 6,320 6,711 "Flying" members 3,210 3,930 Hours in the air 28.350 28.680 Flights 63,850 71,474 Club-owned aircraft 100 78 The liondon Flying Club's airplanes each flew about 480 hours during the year, and the Hampshire Club 403 hours. These figures were exceeded by the Herts and Essex and the East- ern counties clubs, with niore than BOO hours, each machine thus flyinsj at least 50,000 miles during the year. The fact that most of the flying is tuition, and entails much wear and tear and a great number of landings, is evidence of the durable qualities of tlie British light airplane, experts say. Wishes I wish that It were really true. That I could see the good iu you, And you the good In me; That all of us would "gve a miss" To foolish, thoughtless prejudice. And practice charily. I wish thai you and 1 could learn The other cheek sometimes to turn, And good for evil give; For this we know, and know full well. That wrong can never wrong repel; 'Tls love's prerogat;.'e! 1 wish that men of ever.- hue Could share God's gifts with me and you, That all could brothers be; For scorn of but the least o! these. Though sundered by the sounding sea. Still .shames our pedigree For ot one flesh we all ;.re formed, By the same spark ot life are warmer; We live, and love, and die; And 50 I wish my wish missht prove A presage that we all shall love Each other by and by. â€"Paul Preston. '3,000 Bits of History' To Be Preserved In Gt. Britain H. M. Office of Works Care- ful Jurisdiction Will Save Famous Spots for Posterity London. â€" The new list o.' ancient monuments scheduled for preservation by IL M. Office of Work contains a re- cord of 3,000 buildings and other places of historic Interest throughout the British Isles. Curiously enough only three of these are in London â€" the Chapter House and Pyx Chai)el In Wettmnster Abbey cloisters, and the Tower of London â€" all of which are Crown property. The Comnissioners of Woi-ks also have charge ot the Banciueting Hall (Whitehall), the Horse Guards, Ken- sington Palace, Chelsea Hoyal Hospi- tal, and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Normally, buildings which are the property of the Crown are excluded from the Ancient Monuments Act and do not appear in the scheduled lists, so that the inclu.sion of the Tower of London and the Abbey chapter-house and chapel in the latest list is ot some significance. As Regent Street Crown ownership does not neces- sarily give protection to any building, as has been shown In the case ot Re- gent-street and, more I'ecently, Carlton House-terrace. Unless these Crown properties are brought under the care of the Com- missioners of Works they are just as liable as any privately-owned property to destruction by process of "commer- cial development." The Commissioners of Crown Lands merely act as estate agents charged with the duty of getting the best pos- sible revenue out ot the management of the property, whereas the Commis- sioners of Works are concerned with the pi'eservation of monuments of na- tional importance to whomsoever they may belong. 51 Buildings Fifty-one old buildings â€" castles, ab- beys, palaces, cathedrals, etc., starred as having come into the Works Com- missioners' charge as Crown property â€" are now included in tlie scheduled list and have apparently been taken over from the Crown Lands Commis- sioners for permanent protection. Among these are three castles in Kent (Deal, Dover-, and Walmer), and the Knights Templar Church, Dover. Irr Middlesex there is the old Brew- House, Bu.shey Park; and in Essex the Gateway, Tilbury, Fort; St. John's, Abbey Gate, Colchester, and Harold's Bridge, Waliham .\bhey. Gives Added Enjoyment to Meals "SALADff eREEHTCA Ml "Fresh from the Gardens" AWell-Rounded Tale A Watch I have a watch to keep And if I tail It I let work or sleep Or care prevail. And do not pause to pray to God at dawn. When at the close of day I sit and yawn, N9t only body then, but soul Is tired Because my day has not been God- inspired. â€" M.A.M. v.'ori's, was ir'ven a little time alo Half an hour later Marv wa«! white and A ih-rn advertised for a ^irl clerk, and the next morning hundreds of ap- plicants arrived. So numci-ous were they that the chief told the office boy to admit no more. Shortly after this an aggressive woman arrived, and, pushing her way p:itt the ot^.ers, ask- ed to see the chief. By this time the office boy had grown deaf to all pro- testations and had but one answer. "Not today, madam," he said. "But I'm his wife," said the woman. "Not today, madam," was the inexorable reply. _> Father, awaiting a happy family event, had foi-tified his courage at the decanter. At length the nurse ap- peared with twi... in her arms. The happy father blinked and drew him- self up pi-oudly. "What a beautif..! baby!" he exclaime.l. Cheap Sleeping Cars in France For llie first time in the histor-y of French railways, a train left Paris at 8 p.m., April 1, having among its coaches sleeping cars ("-A'agons-lils") for third-class passengers. The train was bound for the Riviera on tlie Paris, Lyons & Mediterranean Line. For days before its departure, which irraugurated the r-egular service, posi- es had told about It at the Paris sta- tion, the Gare de Lyon. One pas- sage read: "You will arrive fresh and alert and in possession of all your faculties to deal with your busi- ness. You will have gained a day and saved a night in a hotel." The additional charge for a berth between Paris and Marseilles is 75 francs, about $3. The ordinary thia-d-class faro for the Journey is a little over ?5. Two friends, one an ardent golfer, the other an equally ardent anti- golfer, wer-e in conversation. "By the way," said the player, "what's hap- pened to that parvot of yours? The one that used to swear so attractive- ly?" "Oh . . . dead, I'm sorry to say." "I'm sorry, too. What did he die of?" "Jealousy, I think." "Jeal- ousy? How could he die of jealousy?" "Well, one day he escaped from his cage, ad we found him later by the big bunker on the golf course dead." .J Woman (at identification parade to discover bag-snalcher) : "I'm afraid I shall not be much good at this. I never seem able to pick the winner i any competition." The distinguishing feature of a welT- rounded tale has been defined in var- ious ways, but the general reader need not be burdened with many definitions. Briefly, a story should be an organism. To use the words applied to the epic by Addi.son, whose artistic feeling in this kind was of the subtlest, "no- thing should go before it, be inter- mixed with it, or follow after it, that is not related to it." Tested by such considerations as these there are ob- viously many volumes of fiction re- markable, and even great, in their character-drawing, their feeling, their philosophy, which are quite second- rate in their structural quality as narratives. Instances will occur in every one's mind; but instead of dwelling upon these it is more inter- esting to name some which most near ly fulfill the conditio- s. Their few- ness is rema'Kable, and bears out the opinion expressed earlier in this essay, that the art of novel-writing is as yet in its tentative stage only. Among them "Tom Jones" is usual'.y pointed out as a near approach to perfection in this as in some other cl.tiraeter- istics; though, speaking for myself, 1 do not perceive its great superiority in artistic form over some other nov- els of lower reputation. The "Bride of Lammermoor" is an almost perfect specimen of form, which is the more remarkable in that Scott, aS a rule, depends more upon episode, dialogue, and description for e.xciting interest, than upon the well-knit interdepend- â- ence of parts. Herein lies Richardson's real if only claim to be placed on a level with Fielding: the artist spirit ihat he everywhere disp\.ys in the structural parts of his work and in the inter- action of the personages, notably those of "Clarissa H:trlowe." However cold, even ai-tificial, we may, at times, deem the heroine and her companions in the pages of that lexcellent tale, however numerous the twitches of unreality irr their movements across the scene be- s'de those in the figures animated by Fielding, we feel, nevertheless, that •ive are under the guidance of a han<l which has consummate skill in evolv- ing a graceful, well-balanced set of conjectures forming altogether one of those circumstantial wholes which when approached by events iu real life, cause the observer to pause and reflect, and say: "What a striking his- tory!" We should look generously upon his deficiency in the robustev touches of nature,"jor it ir, the defi- ciency of an autlWr whose artistic sense of form was develoi>ed at the expense of his accuracy of observa- tion as regards substance. No person who has a due perception of the con- structive ar-t shown in Gr-eek tragic drama can be blind :o the constructive art of Richardson. â€" From "Life and Art," by Thomar Hardy. <;New York: Greenbei'g.) â€"1 ^5, The concert party was third rate, ar.d visitors were reluctant to patron- ise the show â€" except one little man who had not missed a single perform- ance. His continual presence had been the only gratifying speck on the horizon, but even his support coul 1 not keep the show going. On the last night the manager stepped before the curtain. "Ladies and Gentlemen," he announced, "before taking leave of you we w-ish to thank our friend here ii. the front row for his esteemed patronage â€" he has not missed a single performance!" The little man rose and stammered his acknowledgments. "It's awfi.lly decent of you," he said, modestly, "but, as a fatter of fact, this is the only place where :ny wife has never thought of looking for me." Man's Dependence On Formaldehyde Plays Important Part in Plant Life, Says Scientist Washington. â€" Man's e.vistence on earth may depend at least in part on formaldahyde, which was pictured be- fore the .American Academy ot Science as playing an Important part in for- mation of food from the soil by plants. Another speaker told of evidence of resemblance between man and apes found in the forms ot the bodies of children between birth and adulthood. The discovery about formaldehyde was reported by Di*. Fred Allison ot Alabama Polytechnic Institute. He said formaldehyde had been detected within the cells ot algae, which are primitive forms of plants. This Is be- lieved to Indicate formation of formal- dehyde is one step In the little-under- stood progress by which plants manu- facture carbo-hydrates or food prod- ucts out of minerals in the soil. Evidence of resemblance of men and apes was described by Dr. Charles G. Davenport, of the Carnegie Instit- ution ot Washington. Human child- ren, he explained, pass through th« same stages ot development as da apes, but go on beyond the point at which development of the apes 'stop. The don was lecturing upon th« distribution of world population. He rrtnlioned that only in the West In- dies were males found to be i excess of females. "A happy state of af- airs," he said playfully; "not unlike thai state which existed in this com- n unity of ours before lady under- graduates were admitted." At this point several women students present affecting to be oft'ended, rose to lea.-c the class. "On moment, please," said tl.o lecturer. "There is no occasior to go yet. The next boat for the Wesi Indies doesn't lei'.ve for a week." with hini first, they came out. shaking. "He did il!" she sobbed, "lie killed them both!" "He made Eddie telephone nic and say he was coming over, then he put on Eddie's coat and came in his place. Kddio was Io<-ked in, with the other nian guarding him, but he got away. That was when he called you, and he hid somewhere. They looke<l for liini in the car, hut didn't see him until just as he was crossing the street to meet me." Dirk pnlt«'d her shoulder nassui ingly. When she was nuieter. Maiy |ifte<l her head and asked bashfully : "Do you think Eddie knows that we know he diln'l do it? I hojie !o! I've never been really sure until now!" Me burieil h.M head acftin fv a moment, and thic time it was tho dry, har-d sob of shame that shook her. "I'm n liar and a cheat. It wasn't the world I was proving Kddie'g inno- cence toâ€" it was myself. All the time I was blaming you, 1 wap as bad a^ you were." Duk held her hands tightly, and British Industries Fair Charge Entrance Fee For the first time In the history of Ihe show, foreign hnyer.-i are being charged an admission at the London Olympia where the British Indu.strieii Fair it in progress. In e.xchange they receive one of these badges. SLEEP WTien you can't sleep, it's because your nerscs won't let you. Don't waste time "countini; sheep." Don't lose half your needed rest in reading. Take two tablets of .Aspirin, drink a Rla.ss of water â€" aud go to sleep. This simple remedy is all that's needed to insure a nij^ht's rest. It's all you need to relieve u headache during the day â€" or to dispose of other pains. Gel these .-Vspirin tablets and you will gel imniediale relief. Aspirin dissolves immediatelyâ€" sets to work without delay. This de- sirable speed is not dangerous; it does not depress the heart. Just be sure you get Aspirin tablets. ASPIRIN Tradtmark R*g ISSUE No. 18â€" '33