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PAGE SIX
. [7 HAZEL
| _ROSS
HAILEY
‘w# BEGIN HERE TODAY
. Old MRS. JUPITER, wife of
. the millionaire automobile
~ manufacturer, gives an en
~_gagement dinner and dance for
. her secretary and protege,
. MARY HARKNESS, who is to
“marry DIRK RUYTHER, son
- of a blue-blooded family.
. Mary* receives a telephone
. call from her scapegrace bro
. ther, EDDIE, saying he is in
' trouble and must see her.
. The house is strictly guarded
' against “gatc.crashers” be.
- cause Mrs. Jupiter is wearing
'+ the famous Jupiter rubies.
- Mary arranges for Eddie to
"~ ‘be admitted secretly. When
: she goes upstairs to meet him
she finds Mrs. Jupiter robbed
and murdered in her room,
Running to find her fiance, she
finds him in the garden with
. CORNELIA TABOR, his child
~ hood sweetheart, ‘
" NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
; CHAPTER IIL
- Mary was too surprised to move
for an instant. What could be the
~ matter with Cornelia, that she
- should behave like that?
- Dirk growled, “Don’'t make a
i»"damn fool of yourself, Con. And
_ keep your voice down, will you?
Do you want everybody to hear?”
. “I don't care!” Cornelia subsid
~ed into childish eniffling. Just
then she looked up and saw Mary
watching them. Mary thought she
“had never seen anyone look <o
'silly in her life. Cornelia hadn’t
| expected . interruption, - that w-s
- sure, from the dumfounded look
‘on her face. |
=At Mary's call, Dirk wheeled
~about so abruptly that the clinging
_gitl toppled and almost fell. |
z:ige‘om quick, Dirk! Something%
‘terrible has happened!” Without a
backward look, Dirk came running
~and took the steps to her side in
'a single bound. -
5% “What's wrong? You look scared
"to death, honey,” he asked wor
firsedly The terror in her eyes
" stabbed him with concern. His
arm went about her protectingly.
' They drew away, out of Cornelia’s
. hearipg and lowered their voices
~ somewhat.
'~ Mary poured out her story in
an excited jumble, almost crying
with the joy of relief.
© “Do yon think it’s anything 'o
do with Eddie?” she asked anx-l
iously.
~ “Listen,” said Dirk, “who is this|
Fddie you're talking about? You
don’t mean the kid brother?”
Mary said yes, of course.
. “But what has he to do with
dt?”
. “1 dom’t know——nothing, I sup
pose. But he may have been in
the house—he was in trouble—"
. Dirk lamghed and patted her
_shoulder. In spite of herself,,
M{GH reassured. Dirk seemed |
50 . ipe-thé whole nightmare
. “That kid? Why, you're ul]l
_mixed up. This is something else.
W“"’Vgldn't hurt a fiy!” He‘
pressed her hand comfortingly and
R . k 4
they started for the house.
~ Dirk called = sharply, "Coming.l
bh’\"‘%?‘ ‘?eo»vf 7 .
~ Cornelia, still standing where Le
;P 'h:_,f:‘ moved forward con
wulsively at his command. |
l‘fi: ‘had reached the loggia
%;? "i‘bddy Doulton lumbered to-
Cward them out of the darkness,
_cursing earnostly, and seized upon
| them as an audience for his griefs.
‘% Damned idiot!” he exclaimed
fervently, “rubbing his drooping
s soulder. “Ran into me down in
| the: bushes and knocked the
) "%qti?f me. And n(l)'t a word
to excuse it—not a word!” |
?@ ?%0“ not listen. “Have you
_seen Mr. Jupiter?’ ar
St i!!’; .!\‘xp!ter.. Mary paused
‘y'e-',’lr“”pbfien him? No. Ask me
Lif T'ye: seen ‘Jack Dempsey. Yes!
i Who was the fool, anyhow. Whad
“daya ask such people for?” :
. “Who?" They could not wait for
his answer. Tt was all meaningless
“chatter ‘anyway—he was drunk
_enough to have collided with the
- side of the house.
“That fool 1 just met. Listen!”
_he cailed. plaintively, after them.
~ “You know ‘what—"
" “Keep still about Eddie” Dirk
sald té Mary in a low voice as
| they entered the house, “till wi
~ see what's’ what. No use mixing
“him up in it unless we have so.
He might have a bad time.”
" The ballroom was deserted now,
. except for ' the mausicians, who
. were packing up their instruments.
wflwflnbdued babble from the
~ dining ‘room indicated that supper
~ was still going on.
Bl other parts of the house, how
, activity was intense. Two
-in wniform pounded up the
Staircase in the wake of the but
" Jer, ereaking with _leather and
. breathing as if they had run. Po
“lice, 'in ' the sacred precincts of
. the Jupiter- mahsion! One eof
> them turned and called to a
. third who remained behind, “Don’t
* Jet anybody leave the house!”
~ Dirk sgueezed Mary’s hand re-
L assuringly. “They’ll find whoever
,_};. “These boys work fast.
' Dow't worry. It will be all dght.”
i Mary had cause to be grateful
| for the steadiness that came to
“,r magically at Dirk’'s touch, for
- there were bad moments ahead of
" her in which she needed as the
" eomposure she could ‘muster.
&t‘wafi all at once a topsy-turvy
- world. The Jupiter mansion no
“Jonger belonged (o its owner, in
‘3fect, but to Inspecior Kane and
the men who came with him from
. county police headquarters. The
_ ¢ream of Scuthampton's youngar
_set found themselves herded into
the ballroom for questicting aleg
Cwith & @eightened huddle of ser
"wApts. It was hours before the
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q{ ff“ rs, the choking breath of
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‘and fro, ceased
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“What’'s wrong? You look scar ed to death, honey,” Dirk Said.
got clear away. Search of the
grounds had failed to show any
evidence of his coming or going;
both the manner of his entrance
and of his exit were unaccounted
for, This much they gleaned from
what they could overhear. Who
ever the intruder was, he had done
a clean-cut job of it. As the check
ing of evidence went on, it began
to appear that no one except Mary
had direct evidence of any sort.
And that was pitiably little and
of*no practical use.
“l can't,”” Mary was forced to
admit, in reply to Ingpector
Kane’s earnest urging to recall the
man’s voice she had heard in the
murdered woman’s room.. ‘h
wasn't . a voice exactly—it was
just a growl, a-—ah, I can’'t ex
plain it| It was just a sound any-.
one might have made in his
throat if he were angry. You'd
say if you heard it that he was
mad enough to kill.”
“It didn’'t remind you of any
voice you ever heard before?” |
“Why, no!" Bhe was obvlously‘
startled. !
The inspector frowned thoughti
fully . ‘e v & v
“What I am getting at,” ‘he was
kind enough,tp explain to them
both, in a -lowered. tane, "is .the
possibility of ap inside job, The
butler—do yol ‘trust him'?!
“Absolutely!” It was a.reliet to
be on safe ground. - - we 4
The inspector sighed. .
“Well, ' I do, too. T'think he's on
the level when. he says he kept
everybody out’ that® bhadn’t’ been
invited. He had a real argument
with one man, he says—nearly
threw him out. But Lord, there
are a dozen loop-holes. Nobody
checked on the cars that came and
went, and there were plenty of
windows open. The doors over
there,” he indicated the ¥French
doors opening onto the loggia,
“were open when I came in, What
do we know about those black
horn-tooters? Not_a thing.” IHe
shook his head. -
If he had meant to throw Mary
off guard by this confidential mo
ment, he sycceeded, for she chang
ed color when he asked abruptly:
“What were you doing upstairs,
Miss Harkness? When you heard
the sounds you speak of, and the
shots ?"”
“Why, I-—" Panic seized her.
- “You had been dancing a mo
‘ment before, hadn’t you? Why did
‘you leave the ballroom and go
‘upstairs?" g
~ “I—went up to see how Mrs.
Jupiter was,” Mary faltered.
“Someone told me she was tired
and had gone to her room to rest.”
“Youn were—alone, up there?”’ '
“Why, ves.” What did he mean,
Mary wondered fearfully, What did
he *know? : !
But his question had had a dii
ferent meaning, she soon saw from
its effect on Dirk. He turned first
red, then white, and jumped to
his feet. He drew a deep breath.
“She certainly was alone,” he
said angrily.
“All right, all right,” the officer
returned, pacitically. “We've got to
think of everything, vyou know.
And two witneses would be better
than one.” ° - - !
“lI see no reason nor excuse,”
Dirk said stiffly, “for your think- I
ing of such a thing.” ]
The aetective was not riled.]
Mary was hiding something, he|
thought, but & w&s not a lovei
tryst. For the moment he was
ready to Sive owver questioning‘
her © further, until he heard from |
the others, who %ad been rounding}
up what evidence there was. f
“Listen, hnddy,” he told the|
glowering Dirk firmly, “strauger!
things happen every day. No use{
having tender feelings. I'm jus!|
trying to find out ‘that's what.” |
He tilted his head towaid the|
gig¢eling, milling mob of girls and !
men who . were surging about |
young officer named€ Hayes, whose .
job it was to take down their!
names and addresses before let. |
tin them 0. The indignities of|
stkrch were over. |
- “Look at that mob, Unless we|
got fingerprints, and I doubt it, we
got ‘about as much chance of find
ing the guy who did this as if it
neyer happened. The crook that
pulled this was smart. I'll say he
was. Everything set to cover up
for him. Nobody even heard the
shots, except Miss Harkness here,
and a few that didn't know what
they were when they did hear 'em,
“Anyone of them smart kids
could have pulled the trick, and
hid the gun. And how are we
gonna find out who did it?”’
“But how about the jewels?”
Mary asked. :
“We'll find 'em,” the officer said
gloomily, “We've got to. That's
every damn thing we've got to go
on, But it's going to take time,
waiting for them to show up.”
He looked like a man in the last
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threes of depression, but Mary was
not sure he was quite sincere.
His' keen eyes, roving the room,
watching the movements of his
assistants, the way he pricked up
his ears when anyoné entered,
gave an impression of alertness
that his easy-going air belied.
For all his conversational attitude
toward Dirk and Mary, he had not
let them go wvet—officially.
Detective Byrne came straight
to Kane and reported that every
car had been searched before
leaving the grounds with no re
sults.
“Any of them Lorimors?”’ Kane
asked.
Byrne snapped his fingers re
egretfully., “Damn! 1T forgot to
look for that.” He thought a mo
ment intently. “No, I'm positive
there wasn't a Lerimor in the lot.”
Inspector Kane prepared to
move off.
v'Well-—no offense, young lady?”
He got up off the gilt chair he had
been straddling. “Have a cigaret?”
He held out a crumpled pack,
which ~Mary declined. “Don’t
smoke, e¢h?’ Mary shook her
head. “Well, lotsa girl's dont.
My wife don’t.” He appeared to
be trying to cover up any awk
wardness he had caused. .
When the rush for wraps and
home-ward bound motors had
cleared the room, all that remain
ed were the group of officers,
Mary and Dirk, the housekeepar,
Mrs. Warren, and, busily speed
ing the parting guest, Spence.
Once Inspector Kane asked in a
low voice, “Where’s the old man?
Up there?’ pointing to the ceil
ing. Byrne nodded. “Let him
stay™ ;
The servants, those who re
mained, were released and sent
off to bed. The sight of their
scurrying backs momentarily con
founded Mary. She had forgotten
all about Bessie. What had Bessie
told, if anything? 3 -
As if he read her thought, In
spcetor Kane turned to one of hig
men, whose job had been quizzing
the servants. ;
“They don’'t know nothing” was
the other's disgusted report.
“They’re like a lot of sheep.”
“Get ’em all? Sure you didn’t
miss anybody?” he asked sharply.
The detective retrieved a list
from his hip pocket, where he had
just stuffed it, and scanned it.
“Two,” he said. “A maid named
Bessia and a chauffeur. Nobody
knows where they've gone.”
(To Be Continued.)
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USUAL RESULT
PHILADELPHIA .—John Matal
sky, 50, lost his life -while playing
the role of peacemaker. Interven
ing in a quarrel between Mr. and
Mrs. Zabriskie, he was stabbed
to death by the husband. :
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- Excavations at Susa, capital of
ancient Elam, probably the oldest
city on earth, show that men rode
horseback more than 5,000 years
ago. ‘
5-DAY WE.FK PLAN ]
PUT INTO EFFECT
BY WESTERN UNION
A five-day week in the execu
tive and divisional headquarters
of the Western Union Telegraph
company and in all district sup
erintendents’ offices went into
cKect Saturday, according to A, O.
Bishop, local manager.
The change to the five.day a
week plan was taken with the
approval of those affected and it
wiil be equivalent to an 8 and 1.3
percent reduction in salaries.
The rednetion will not apply to
employes who handle messages
and who constitute the majority
of Western Union ‘employes.
. . .
Highway Bond Deficit
... ® !
Cited by Rail Official
Quoting statistics furnishetl by
the U. S. Bureau of Roads, H.
D). Pollard, president of the Cen
tral of Georgia railway, declares in
a statement published today that
the zceumulating deficit on' bond
izsues for public highways is at
the rate of 87 rallion dollars a
year. He says: \
~ *Jany vebhicles are making com
mercial use of the highways with
out adequate tax or rental. In
frequent instances overloads are
destroying the roads, which the.
taxpayers mus’. rebuild and re
pair.
“According to data from the U.
S. Bureau of Roads, there was in
1923 an accumulating deficit on
rural highways of $103,000,000,
that is to say, this amount would
have to be paid by the taxpayers
on hond issues for roads then
worn out. Six years later, in
1929, this accumulating deficit had
increased 509 percent, to $627,-
000,000, or at the rate of $87,000,-
000 a year. The taxpayers of the
country, it is estimated therefore,
must pay nearly a billion dollars
for highways worn out before
they are paid for, and the amount
of the deficit is increasing rap
idly.”
Mr. Pollard states that every
taxpayer has a direct interest in
the roads, since investments for
highways have grown ' until in
many instances this makes up the
largest item in the list of expen
ditures. “For exampie,” he says,
“more than 50 cents out of every
dollar received by the state of
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Georgia is-spent on highways.” He
states further: ” -
“Many vehicles are making com
mercial use of the highways with
out adequate tax or rental. In fro
quent instances overloads are de
stroying the roads which the
taxpayers must rebuild and re
pair. The use of the highways to
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Friends can keep in ready touch
with a home that has a tele
phone. They can easily include
its members in their good times.
A telephone in the home
means ‘“‘friends wanted”’—and
encouraged.
It has been truthfully said of
the telephone that, “it is the tie
that keeps friendships alive.”
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transport goods for “hire, or Ip.
conduct private business for profit, |
is_a privilege for which the user:
'may be properly reguired to pay.
Such payment would reduce the
tax burden on the average citizen,
and public welfare requires that
this be done.”
Mr. Pollard closes with the
And that is just one of the many
advantages of a telephone in
your home. Having your name
in the telephone directory is in
itself, you will discover, a mark
of distinction,
In fact, the advantages of a
telephone in the home are so
numerous and the cost so small
that it really doesn’t pay to try
to do without it. 3
TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1932
statement that the *~Zuiation, {a.
ation and supelx;\_rj sion of transpor.
tation on the highways should e
considered from the standpoin(
‘public inetrest, “and the railroaq.
‘ask only that this be done, he say
l"and not that any unfair reguly.
tions be imposed upon their cop,.
petitors.”
By Blosser
By Martin
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