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BECGCIN HERE TODAY
¢ Old MRS, JUPITER, wife of
the millionaire automobile
manufacturer, gives an en
gagement dinner and dance
for her secretary, MARY
HARKNESS, who is to marry
DIRK RUYTHER, blue-blood
ed young rawyer.
Mary receives a teslephone
c2ll from her scapegrace bro
ther, EDDIE, saying he is in
trouble and must see her.
The house is strictly guarded
against ‘‘gate-.crashers’” be
cause Mre. Jupiter is wearing
the famous Jupiter rubdies.
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.
Secking Dirk, she finds him
with CORNELIA TABOR, his
_ childhood sweetheart. Dirk ad
"vises her to keep silent about
Eddie until he can locate the
_ hoy.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER V.
1t 'was Dirk's voice — tired,
rather, but blessedly his. Mary
went weak with joy. |
“I've got word of—the person
we were speaking of,” he said.
“I'll see you at three o'clock. Can
you be ready to go with me
then?’
© “on, Dirk, of course! Then it's
all right? Everything's all right?”
“I don't know that,” he hedged.
“T have. t taiked with him. Better
not say anything to anybody yet.
Well, I'm going home and get
Aanle gleep now, and I'll be around
for you at a quarter of three,
sharp. See you then.”
The relief Mary'had felt at first
gave place to a new and more op
pressive fear. If he had had good
news, or even the hope of it, he
wonld have told her, He had
meant to be comforting, but the
effect of his words was just the
opposite. She was really alarmed
now.
The telephone rang again. She
picked it up wearily. It was an
* other reporter.
“Yes,” she told him automati
cally. ‘‘lnspector Kane will see
gadu here at 11 o’clock, Mr. Jupi
e will be present also. No, there
y(j_ll be no other inierview. Mr.
Jupiter is very tired and has been
ordered to bed.”
~ “But it's hlaf-past 10 now,” an
outraged voice compiained, “and
I'm in Hackensack, New Jersey.”
“Well,” Mary permitted herself
the rare luxury® of . flippancy,
“that's what you get for it.” She
hung up. What a way to talk—
she must be getting lightheaded.
.T? phone shrilled again even
‘as she hung Up. She walked away
gflu’ it ring.
Three o'clock. If she could just
- keep her own counsel until then.
~ Somehow she could not bear to
face l\fij, Jupiter with the knowl
edge,of what she was holding
back, “So far thers has been
v} ng -- nothing!” There was
= jy:lang*—not much, perhaps, but
~ something. She would feel better
when the strain of waiting was
- Over, when Mr. Jupiter knew.
- She was almost fatalistic about
it now. She knew that sooner or
~later someone would interrogate
._M if theys had not already
~ done go, and that in all probability
~ Bessie would tell frankly about the
~ side door she had left unlocked at
~§~ request. She ought to
- speak to Bessie.
~ But something held her back.
_ Pride, of a sort. She could lie her
~_gelf but she could not ask Bessie
~to lie. Intrigue with a house-maid
~ would be humiliating at best. Per
~ baps Inspector Kane was so busy
- Wd forget about Bessie, But
~as she passed the . library door
_ she saw Kane there with Mr.
~ Jupiter and the lawyer, talking
~ with a fourth man «vho had his
- back to the door. She recognized
with a start that it was Tom, the
" ¢haufreur.
- Tom was shaking his head with
grntv'p.osiuveness.
~“I'd take my oath on it,” he said,
~ “that it was the same car. Three
times it came in and went ‘round
: fie ¢ircle, in the space of half an
- Baour.”’
* "™You'd know it again if you saw
f
“I would. Black body with,
aluminum trimmings and alumi
num hood. Mr. Jupiter called our
attention to it, that's why I mo
ticed it. A guy was driving it,
~ but 1 didn't see his face.”
- “Anybody in it?”
“Nobody in it that I could see.”
The detective made a rapid note,
Lervimor. Special body.” The
chauffeur nodded. |
“All r§ght, Tom. You can go.”
As an afterthought he called after
him, “That maid around, the one
that was with you?’ Tom dis
claimed all knowledge of Bessie
with an indifferent shrug. “Prob
ably sleeping. You want to see
“her?’ The faint accent he placed
~on the word “her” indicated that
_in his opinion this would be a
,%re waste of time.
. & “Never mind,” Kane said. “I'l
- see her presently. You talk to
_s}%r Jast night? She say anything
i 40 you?”
~ “Dumb as an oyster,” Tom
~ shru gged, “She don't know the
~ time of day.”
. “All right,” said Kane absently.
:;;?;liget around to her after while,
4 ‘where are those reporters?
- Let’s get them out of the way.”
- The group of newspapermen
_ waiting in the dining-room, where
_ sleepy-eyed servants had laid a
%& supper at Mr. Jupiter's or
__der, were ushered into the library
_ mext. Mary would hvae slipped
_away but Inspector Kane, spying,
_her as he greeted the men on theirl
. entrance, summoned her with a
mnod. '
~_“Come in, will you please, Miss
. Harkness? We need a rose among
all these thorns.” |
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Kane watched the girl’s white
impression he was creating.
riously; she felt as overpowered
with shyness as if she had sud
denly been thrust out on a stage,
alone. But they behaved toward
her with the most formal cour
tesy .
Kane jumped into the middle of
his discourse, Evidently he had
gone over most of it with them
individually before,
“So-as I said before to you
boys, I'm convinced the crook who
did this was an amateur and 2
bungler, 1 haven't changed my
mind.”
“Bungler!” so‘leone snorted
sarcastically,
‘Kane raised his voice. “Bungler,
1 said. And why? Because he’ll
have to take .a rap for murder,
that’s why. Any jewel thief who
knew the A B C of the business
could have got those jewels and
never left a mark on the old lady.”
Remembering the presence of Mr,
Jupiter, he lowered his voice some
what as if to soften what he had
to say. "
“Bat how did he get in?” some
body asked.
Kane waved him down, “He got
in, didn't he? We’'ll get around to
that. Two Pinkerton men looked
over the duests as they came in
and there wasn’'t a ‘mug’ in the
lot. But they left at midnight.
Nobody was admitted at either
door without a ticket. But there
were plenty of windows open and
the French dobérs in the ballroom
were open. If a man could get
into the grounds, he could get into
the house.
“But let's get on. As I say, Mrs.
Jupiter's feet hurt and she went
upstairs to her roem on the third
floor to give ’em a little rest. That
tallies because she had on house
slippers when she was found. Her
maid was downstairs looking after
the women guests. The thief was
either hiding in a closget, or in the
next room, or else he came in after
she did. He steps out, throws a
gun on her, and tells her to hand
over the jewels. But the old lady
was game, She wouldn't give them
up- ;
“Now! "How do I know the guy
was an amateur? Because first ofr
he grabs her rings and the dia
mongd ti-ayra. Diamonds are flashy,
and any fool knows what theyro
worth. But rubies,” he broke off
to ask, “any of you ever seen the
Jupiter necklace?”
There ‘was shaking of heads.
“Pictures of it,” one man admit
ted.
“Well, then you know it doesn't
look like so mucu, You'd never
think to leok at it that $500,000
wouldn't buy-it. A cool half mil
lion! That’'s money, in any lan
guage. But just to look at, why,
say, my wife's got a string of
pearls 1 bought her for Christmas
that kuocks the spots off it for
looks!” - :
“Taking a little graft, Kane?’
somebody snickered. Kane over
looked the raillery.
“Now, the way 1 figure it, this
| BuY don't have any real idea of
ithe value of that necklace, or he
wouldn't have fooled with the
other stuff. Here's what he did:
he pocketed the ' diamonds, and
made a pass at the necklace, Now,
any crook smart enough to know
a ruby from an agate knows that
|a valuable string of any Kkind
Idon’t depend on no catch that'’s
gonna come apart with a jerk. A
woman can’t lose a necklace now
jadays. They've all got patent
| catches. This guy was new and he
was scared, for when the old lady
irefused to hand over the necklace
it rattled him. He tried to snatch
it and she held it up in her hands,
| tight. He cusses her and she runs
to the balccny and he lets her
have it. Now, why would he do
that?
““He must have thought the up
per floor was deserted er he
wouldn’t have been there. And if
{somebod_v did hear her scream
and come in, what difference
would it make? If he'd been a reg
§zx!ar stick up that knew his job
‘he’'d have stood them up against
face with obvious relish of the
the wall and made a getaway just‘
the same, cool as you please. |
“No, that guy had a nervous
trigger finger. I might go so far!
as to say he was yellow, clear
through. Maybe he monkeyed with
the catch and couldn’'t open it, as
the old lady lay on the Sfoor—
we'll know when we get the finger
print man’'s report. But the
chances are he didn't for he didn’t
have time. Miss Harkness thinks‘
she didn’t seream, but she isn’t
sure. She probably made a sound
of some kind. Then it couldn't
have been more than a minute
before she came i{n and the man
was gone. When Miss Harkness
came in and when she went out,
the lights were on, full and bright.
She didn't make a search, natu
rally, and it's » good thing she
didn’t, for Miss Harkness,” he
turned to the girl, “you can take
my word for it the murderer was
still in that room, all the time
vou were there!”’
He watched the girl's white face
with obvious relisy oi the impres
sion he was creating,’
“The butler answered Mrs. Ju
piter's bell that had just rung a
minute before he met Miss Hark
ness at the foot of the stairs.
When the butler entered the
room, it was dark. He switched
on the lights himself.”
“l don't get you, Sergeant,”
somebody commented. “Who rang
the buzzer—Miss Harkness?”’
“No. He did. The thief did. The
push-button that summons the
servants is right mnext the light
switch., In trying to turn out the
lights to cover his getaway he
missed the light switch the first
time and rang . the buzzer by mis
take.
“We've got the story of a chap
named Doulton that he went out
through the grounds. Matter of
fact, he ran ianto Doulton and
nearly knoecked him down. He
must have climbed up and come
in by the balcony. There’s foot
prints below. No evidence on the
palcony rail or the wall to prove
it, but that's the most likely
thing.”
“Doulton get a look at him?”
Kane lokoed disgusted. “I rgeret
to say that Mr. Doulton was more
than a trifle drunk.”
“Any fingerprints?” '
"““None so far. But I've got an
other witness that saw him prob
wbly. Saw him plain. Can identify
him. But I'll tell you boys frank
ly that I don't think his life
would be worth a nickel if I told
you who he was.”
One of the men-—he was the
veteran police reporter for the
Star—asked slowly, “Saw him be
fore or after the shooting?”
Kane hesitated, “Before,” he ad
mitted finally. Foa
There was some talk about the
exact value of the jewels, a re
quest to photograph the necklace.
‘And in a remarkably short time,
the newspapermen had all ieft
the house.
Only the man from the Star
hung back, while his photographer
went upstairs to “shoot’” tne neck
lace. “You know, you scund te
me, Inspector, as if you had al
ready made up your mnid who
did this. Am 1 right, or wrong?”
he asked.
“And if 1 had,” barked Kane
disconcerted, “would I spring it to
you guys? What you'll print any
how may put him wise till I'll
never he able to lay a finger on
him.”
“Ah, the old alibi,” chided the
Star man. He lowered his voice.
“How about telephone calls into
the house last night? Have you
traced ‘'em?” :
(To Be Continued.)
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HUM! MOTHER TOO
SUITOR: Do you ever peep
through the keyhole when I am
sitting in the parlor with vour sis
ter?
SMALL BROTHER (with burst
of candor): Sometimes, when
mother isn't there. 4 Hummel,
mmu‘ . 3, i R T
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Athens High Plays |
HartwellgTeamys in |
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Double Bill Here‘
Lavonia Game Transferred
To Lavonia; Maroons are
Improving Fast
By HARRY DAVIS
Hartwell High basketballers will
furnish the opposition for the M
roons of Athens High here¢ tomor
row night on the local High court
as both girls and boys teams play.
The starting hour has heen set at |
7:45 with 25 and 35 cents as i
mission.
The Saturday night geme scaed
uled with' Lavonia to be played
here has ‘heen’ transf:rred to l.a
vonia in order not to cenfliet with
the game here between Georgii l
and the world champion Celtics.
The games here against Hartwell
are expected to pack plenty of
thrills,. Hartwell will bring a
smooth working quintet here in
their boys team while the girls
have one of their best sextets inl
recent vears.
The locals have nut in a 2 week
of hard work in preparing for this
week’'s games and are expeéeting
to give both Hartwell and Lavonia
a battle, if they must bow.
Defeat Sawdust
In a practice game last night
the Maroons defeated the Sawdust
High five here by the score of
27 to 21.
The game was close all the wav
with the locals nolding a slight
lead, Starting soon after the open
ing whistle the Red and White
boys went into a lead and held it,
going out for the half on the long
end.of a 13 to 7 score.
Again it was the two midget
forwards, Yow and Tucker, who
were the hright lights in the local
attack. They covered the floor in
fine style and carried off the scor
ing honors. Epps and Foster also
turned in nice performances.
Best Form
The best form of the year was
exhibited by the Maroons in de
feating Sawdust. The passing was
better and th}\. floor work was the
Dbest to date. The bhoys are slow
1y rounding into top form and it
is expected that they will make o
good' account of themselves ere
she present season draws to a
‘close.
Schmeling-Walker
Fight is Called -
Off by Promoters
NEW YORX—(AP)—After tan
talizing the public for a couple of
weeks with disputed contracts
muddled arrangements, and delavs
for no apparent reason, the fistic
arrangers who were promoting the
Max Schmeling - Mickey Walkenr
[ight, scheduled for Miami, Fla,,
Feb. 25, finally have decided 'to
call the whole affair off.
Joe Jacobs, manager of the
heavyweight champion, explained
that @& report from his partner,
Billy MecCarney, now in Florida,
advised him there wasn’'t enough
loose money in Miami to make it
worth while.
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