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â-ºâ™¦-•â- â€¢Â«â™¦Â»Â«Â«-•♦-•-•< Gems of Peril By HAZEL ROSS UAILEY. â-ºâ™¦Â» » » »â- Â»â€¢*•> CHAPTKll MAIL It was I.ouis<? who finally cleared it »H up for thc-ni. Uruce was not there, but that was ju^ •« ^ell, for he must have been hurt horribly by the wvelation that th« woman he loved had ne^•er love;! him at all. He had been only a rich man's son to her, while the scape- grace De Luma â€" who, as Mary sus- pected, had neglected to divorce her â€" had been the real and only love of her life. l>o Ix>ma was not u count, of course, nor even a true Spaniard. Ju.it a youth of mixed bloo<l and ob.scure heritage, bom in the little country town on the Dixie Highway where Batfs had encountered him, starin}; at the courthou.se steeple in such pe- culiar fashion. That wa.« an odd thing, but easily understood when you knew what the tragedy of his ill-starred life had been. Even a.s a limber-legped youth, he had had a-^piration.s â€" to be a hu- man fly! More daring than the others, he had enjoye<i impressing them with his reckless agility, and before long he had become a professional, travel- in'g about with a manager who talked stores into paying him to carry their advertising signs on his back as he climbed public buildings. Enrique Dc Loma wa.s too much of a n8n;£ for the tyi)ographers, liow- ever, and le.ss musical â€" his manager believed â€" than the English version of bus name. Thus he became "Harry HiH, the Human Fly" on all the pos- ters. Afterwani when he branched out into other professions he often used the name as an alias. This ac- tounted for Bowen's inability to un- tover his jx^lice record. But what. Bates interrupted at Ihis point, had the village courthouse to do with all this? Was it nK'rely â- entiment that carried him back to B^aze up(m it years afterward? "He fell, you see," Ijouise explain- ed. Apparently she saw nothing funny in her lover's choice of occupa- tion; it was all bitterly real to her. "He â€" possibly he tried toâ€" how do you say it? show off a little, for tha benefit of the home folks. But the sun was in his eyes, and he missed his step. Ho was badly hu-rt â€" his bones were broken in many places. But he got well. He did not mind the broken bones, but it made him horribly sad that ho could no longer be the gi-eatest 'Human Fly' in the world. For you see, he had lost hi.-! nerve. "I alone knew and I pitied him. Ht wanted to prove his courage to me, to show me he was not altogether a coward. Ho did daring things-he became a gamblor and a thief. He had to be brave for he could not entei- by the window, as some do â€" he had to bluff his way in, and people might see and identify him. But they never did. He was supi-emly cle\'er, or he â- would never have evaded the police so long. They knew all about him but they c<iuld not prove anything â€" really. "As a matter of fact, he was cred- ited with many jolw that he did not do. If he entered a house it was by a ruse, never by the upstairs window! He would have die<l first." At the wiord "died" a spa-sm of pain crossed her face and she Ix'gan to cry. "1 can not tell any more," she sobbe<l. "Ho left you?" BaU-s proddeil. liouise wiped her eyes and nodded. "He knew what my work was. He nhould have believed that I did not have any love for the men I duped. iStupid fo<jlRl Again and again I told him what donkeys they were, to let thfins«'lv<s Ik' fleeced liy a clevei' wom- an. He (lid not always U'lievc me. There was one man, who kept coming to see me even aft<M- he knew- what I was after •his'money. I kept these vicritA secret from FInrique to stop his Jealou.sy. He found out and believed I had Ix'en unfaithful to him. He â€" beat nie. Then he went away. Send for M/s FREE OK DOFiS your baby cry at niglit and wake you? Flow much â- hould he weigh? When thould he walk? flow miurh food ahould he take? Wh.it rlotht'!i Aoidd he wear? These and many other vital qiiesliuns annvered in our new edition of "Baby'a Wel- fare." mEE for the aakinR. 110 IWrlu Ih* D*r4*B C.a., I.lnillr.1. IsrdUy II*«««, T«r*alo. Addr,., Eagle Brand CONDE^JSEO MllK^ ISSUE No. 19â€" '33 "I saw him again, several times, but he never came back to me. When 1 saw him again at the hotel I knew I loved him still. I gave him nwney when he askeil for it. How could I help it?" "And the bracelet? You didn't trust him much, did you?" "I trusted him not at all," she re- plied calmly. "Love is one thing, and money is another. Is it not so?" "Did ho tell you anything about the Jupiter robbery, and where he got the bracelet?" "He told me, but not whose houje it was ho robbed. That partner of his waited under the balcoi.y and he threw the jewels down to him. He thought he might be stoppe<l going out, but he wiusn't. Walked right out and into his car and drove away. He was frightene<l of going out by the window. That was -why he didn't get the necklace â€" the woman rushed to the balcony, and he was afraid to follow her. "Ho got nothing but the bracelet, really. His partner took the rest and fled â€" after they ran down the boy." She rolled her eyes in Mary's di- rection. "Mon Dieu, was he angry when • he learned who had got the bracelet! I would hang him, he said, by my stupidity. But he was wrong. It was not I. It was she â€" !" They were nearing Key West now. The tug had put a line aboard the "Gypsiy" and in a moment haule<l her free from the reef with no appre- ciable damage to her bottom. Mary had sent a radiogram to George Bow^ en in care of his friend on the Miami paper, telling him of The Fly's con- fession, and ending: "Have minister at dock. You're to be best man." Just after sunset they put to along- side the pier at Key West, and the first man aboard was Bowen, looking for all the world like the cat that ate the cream. "How in the world did you get hero so soon?" Mai-y asked, as he wrung her hand and greeted Dirk effusively. "The paper sent me down in a plane," he explained. "Paper? What pai)cr?" "One of the l>est. When you dc- serte<l, 1 had to get a job (juick â€" no 1 money, no meat â€" so I bulled them in- to putting me on the af tern<x>n paper down there. -Man can't take a job I on a morning paper when he's mar ricd. Let the young bloods do that." Mary gaspe<l. "Married? You She protended dismay. "Ami just yesterday I thought I wa.s the lucky maiden!" He flushed a trifle under her good- humored gibe, but quickly re<'overed hi.s poise. If it hurt to remember his unrealized hope.s, he quickly hid it. "Thought I'd give the minister something to do on the w"ay down," he said. "Bella came along and we were nuuTied in the plane. Only time we had' â€" no time for a honey- moon even. Pair of lucky kids, you are! I suppose you'll be Uiking your honeymoon on this neat packet, and don't I envy you you? Oh, well, some gets the bone and some gets the gravy -that's life!" He was chatti'ring to put himself at ea.se. "Thanks for those clippings," Mary told him. "They saved the day lx>uisc simply wiHe<l when they were shown to her. Threw Bruce overWard like an old sh<H', and trie<l to salvage everything she could out of the wreck of her plans." "What are you going to do with the Mci-klace?" Mary smiled bitterly. "I'll give it to you foi- a wedding present. Want it?" "Not in my famiily, thank you! I'll have (roubles onougli without it." He held his hami about a foot fn>ni the floor, then iai.se<i it to two fe<'t, then three. Bowen ro.w abruptly in the rtiidst of this foolery and demand- ed, "Can a man iininrli lils thirst on this .ship?" "Hi, .Stewarci!' Dirk called, and made various requisitions which thai ^orthy f rotted off rapidly to fill. â-  "I got a by-lined story of youi- radiogram," Bowen confided. "Would- n't be surpriswl if I'm city editor by this time, (ioing to stay down here and raisi' <iranges and a little hell on I he side no more New York for me! 1 .suppos*' you'll be going l)ack to "(ueen it in sassiety, Mrs. Huythev?" Mary blushed at the nnexi)ecte(l use iif her soon-to-l)e name. •'I think I'd like to settle down M>mewh<'re and just live quietly for a while," she laughed. "I've had enough fxritement f(>r a while. Do you ihinl. your wife will give our wedding a nice little story in your paj)er? If -he will, she can have the first and last story we'll ever give to thtt pre«.s." "No fooling? That's nice of you! It'll he quite a little feather in her cap, honest. She's over at the hotel iMvr. You'd like her," he addett with -odden irrelevance. "I do like h<ir," Maiy atfirmed. Anil ll.cn, aware that things were growing a little strained h<'tween them, ;the « Noujed herwlf and left Diik and hU best man-to-be to finish their drinks together. Preparations were being made to remove Bruce to a hospital, and while they waited for the ambulance to ar- rive Mary was allowed to see him for a minute. He was a changed man, she saw instantly, in more ways than one. "Ix>uise has gone ashore," she told him diflfidently. His face darkened but he did not look unhappy. "That's ail over," he said. "I meant to tell her so, but if she's gone, so miK-h the 1 tter. Tell me about De I./onia. Did Iâ€" is heâ€" dead?" "He's dead. But you didn't kill him. It was the fall that did that. Where did you get your gun?" He looked surprised. "Why, your young man gave it to me the night we left Miami. He wasn't able to protect you himself i.n<l he swore me in as deputy," he smiled wryly. "He was pretty V)adly worried about you. hut too stubborn to tell you. â€" guess â€" between us â€" we've thought .some pretty hard things about you â€" and none of them true." "Thanks." Mary gave him her hand, and a smile of complete friend- liness. "Anyway, I'll be leaving soxii." Bruce did not release her hand as quickly as he might have done. He seemed to be hanging on to his cour- age, trying to say something that cost hirn an effort. Finally he man- aged to blurt it out: "I'll be taking care of Dad from now on. You needn't worry about that. I wanted you to know," he en<led lamely, badly embarrassed by this lapse into .sentiment, but in dead- ly earnest neverthek-ss. He looked up as his father entered the room, radiant with pride and happiness. "Mary, my girl â€" " he began, and his voice broke.. Mary turned away, unable to speak. He stopped her. held her chin tightly between his thumb and finger, while he forced the gray eyes to look into his. "Take the 'Gypsy' for your honey- moon, if you want her," he said. "And when you're through gypsying around, I want you to bring your husband and â€" come home." Mary kissed him swiftly, and ran, tears blinding her. She found Dirk and Bowen .seated where : he had left them, glasses in hand. Dirk, the prospective bridegroom, frowne<i .seriously at Bowen the bride- groom, and held out a hand that shook with a highly realistic imitation of pal.sy. The ice in hi.<i gl.'iss rattle<l furiously. "Like that? Is that the way it gets you?"' he asked. ''.A.nd what do you do rf you forget the ring?" Bowen's imitation of a bored man of the world wat highly unconvincing. "Oh, you get usetl to it," he drawl- ed. "Now, when I was married the first time â€" " >Ie saw Mary and stop- pod, grinning impi.shly. "Doe:! your wife know whore you are?'' she denK'.nded, shaking her linger at him shrewishly. "Oh, I'm going! I'm g<nng!" he whined. And went. THE END. He who would be singular In his ap- parel had need have something super- lative to balanco that affectation.â€" Felfham. Lieut.-Coloncl Hassan Hilal, of the Egyptian Army, was riding a mule across the desert. Suddenly there was a deafening explosion. The of- ficer escaped and the mule dropped dead. The mule's foot had detonated a shell buried in the sand since the war. May Flowers Whalebone Is not bone at all, but an elastic substance found iii the mouths of whales. Tho world's total of motor-bicycles is placed at 2,750,000, eighty-five per cent, of them being in Kurope. Dy lighting and heatin;; a beehive by electricity the output of honey has been increased by ; s much as 17 lbs. The extra day's pay due to last year being Leap Year cost the United King- dom £50,000 for the Uoyal Air Force alone. Travellers on board Hritisli ships run so little risk of death from fire that it works out at less than .OUU03 per cent. Last year's output of films was the lowest for twenty years; there was, however, an Increase in the number of British films. Smokeless fuel, motor spirit, and heavy oils can be obtained from any suitable kind of coal by the use of a brick retort of a new type. We are said to be acquiring gradual- ly the power of shutting our ears to noise; this is Nature's response to the increased noise of modern life. Swordsticks, consisting of smart malacca and other canes containing a slim steel blade, are becoming increas- ingly popular in Gt. Britain. It is claimed that no film rejected by the British Board of Film Censors but afterwards passed by a local auth- ority, has ever proved a financial suc- cess. Private flying Is increasing In the United Kingdom. There are now over 400 private aeroplanes on the British" Register, while sixteen light-aeroplane clubs receive the subsidy. Lunches can be served at the rate of 2,000 a day from tho £40,000 kitchen installed in the new Bank of England. It is said to be the largest and most costly staff kitchen in London. Charts are being made for the first time of the dangerous coasts of Labra- dor by Challenger, the survey ship of the British Navy. 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