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Qms of Peril NAZEL ROSS UAlLPf 1931 BYNGA SERVICE INC. CHAPTER T . A; rod. rtthtr. " 1.1- fa want wflr ..IiT ill"' jmww J, tb J. v'". '.Tip,, o'clock. Can jou be FJtlawedlr hU, V . word of the person we TlS kin of." hi -W. "Til . .A with me then?" 'Ink Dirk, of course! Then It il 1ft Erervthinit'. ell right?" v fcirfft W.: .hnH. l rhut." he hedaed. I 1 with him. Better not ihta to "Jb0i - tf. iS I'll be around ,or J00 at i fu "of three, sharp. Bee you i1 - u... k.A felt at flr.t new and more on- W.'"T'. i h. hud had rood rSfe'r eYthe hone of it. he would f ' ,M I her. He had meant to he KSJStaf bt the effect of. hie fl . J"" oppo.it.. She was k.i'Jf aiarmeu nuw. . F .-l,b It at. eonld 4nst ""?.. counsel until then. '.'"'.vJi She could not bear to face ffjurit erVith the knowledge, of EtVhe" holding back. "So far In been nothing nothing!" fl.ere ..h ni. nnl much nar- ETta! something. She would feel LSp when the "train of waiting was L "when Mr. Jupiter knew. P" ' 1.-1.1 1 VniAa Ljould not ask Bessie to lie. In ..ifh ii house-maid would be iiHaune at best. Perhaps Inspector Br., was SO Dlia.T "e .w.i. rt Be5 e. But as sne passed me virr floor BU,r . " ; I...;..- and the lawrer. talking Eit i fourth mnn who naa His DncB L ,.. door. She recognized with a Cm that it was Turn, the chauffeur. ftm was shaking hii head with few! noaitiveness. r .... ...b An If 1.. malA 'It it wss the same car. Three :m it came in and went 'round the fcde. in 'he space or. nair an nour. "loufl ui oho. ... ju . 1 would. A black body with alun, iud trimminns and aluminum hood, r. Jupiter called our attention to it, nt'l WOT 1 nuiiiea iu a. puy :ri it, but I didn't see his face." invDoay in it "Nobody in it that I could see." rapid note. The chauf The detective made a Lorimor. Special body, :r noauet. The sroun of newspapermen wait b in the dining-room, where sleepy- I lervants naa iam a puner. aup- at Mr. Jupiters order, were -red into the library next. Mary rail have slipped away but In- fcrtor Kane, spring her as he greet- tie men on tueir entrance, aum- twi her with a nod. una in. will you please), miss Irknesa? We need a rose among Ittt thorns. The newspapermen eyed her curl id?: the felt as overpowered with ratal as if she had suddenly been knit out on a stage, alone. But tf bebared toward her with the tit formal courtesy. ud lumped into the middlA of his Imrse. Evidently he had cone over kit of it with them individually be- :i. t "So M I said before to yon bovs. b convinced the crook who did tHs i as amateur and a bungler. I tnnt cbanced my mind." Bungler!" someone snorted ear 'itally. IKim raised his yolce, "Bungler, I ia And why? Because he'U have uie tie rap lor murder that s it- Any jewel thief who knew the BCof the business could havn Bat fi; jewels and never left a mark lit old lady. Remembering the Pnce of Mr. Jupiter, he lowered Liwce somewiiat as if to aoften bi bad to sny. BOt bow lllll WlT (KM. ft used. t jama waved him down. "He got In, ft we'll get around to that, p i Pinkerton men looked over the x aa tney came m and there 9 'mi.ff 1. W ini n..L .1 . r: ,u lue i"'- nui luvy t at midnisht. Nobody waa ad at either door without a ticket. 1 there were plenty of windows ! ud the French doora in the -om were open. If a man could the grounds, he eould get p tae bouse. "tleta t on. A T rr. p'a feet hurt and she went up- " r room on the third floor give 'em a little rt,t. That faille. oecaus, Ei htd n,UMiIi IP'S .h- w," ,'.ound' Her maid was . ',". alter the women in a closet, or in the next room, or e se 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. .."W; Ho,w 4 1 kn,,w be guy was an amateur? Because first off he grab, her rings and the diamond i jyra. Diamonds are flashy, snd anv fool knows what they're worth. But rubies, he broke off to ask "any of you ever seen the Jupiter necklace?" There was shaking of heads. "Pic tures of it, ' one man admitted, i l?,"' then you now It doesn't look like eo much. Tou'd never think to look at it that rQ2,noo wouldn't buy It. A cool half a million! That's money. In ny language. But just to look at. why. say, my wife's got a string of pearls I bought her for Christmas that knocks the spots off It for looks!" "Taking a little graft, Ksne?" somebody snickered. Kane overlooked the raillery. "Xow. the wev T etim I euy don't have any real Idea of the value of that necklace or he wouldn't un.o iuuivu witn rn n hp Here's what he did: he pocketed the diamonds, snd made a pass at the iii-i-iUHCP. IOW. H11V ri-oolr Kmol enough to know a ruby from an agate umt a vaiuaoie string of anv Kind don t depend on no catch that's gonna come apart with a jerk. A j ", nt 1058 necklace nowa- .. iueyve ait got patent catches. IhlS CUV WRS notv nn,l l.a .. l for wlien the old lady refused 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 n.i one runs to tne Dalconv and he lets her have it. Now, why would he uv Him ; "No, that guy find a nervous trig ger finger. I misht go so far as to jjiy ne was yellow, clenr through. Mnybe he monkeyed with rh fath and couldn't open it, as the old lady lay on the floor we'll know when We get the finimrnrinf mnn. Ji i. "-'mIU-t .s are ne oipn t, for he iimni. nave time, aiiss Harkness thinks she didn't acreara 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 in and the man was gone. When Miss Hnrlcnesa ram 1.. anA when she went out, the lights were on, urn and nngnr. si1B didn t make a search, naturally, snd it's a good .uiuK our uiuu t, ior .uiss narKness,' he turned to the girl, "you can take my word for it the murderer was still in that room, all the time you were mire: He watched the girl'a white face wirn oDvious relish ot the impression ue wua creating. "The butler answered Mrs .Tnr.1. ter's bell that had just rung a minute before he met Jlisa Harkness at the foot of the stairs. When the butler eurereo ine room, it was dark. H switcned on the lights himself, I aon t get you, .sergeant." some- Dofly commented. "Who rang the Duzzer Jliss Harkness?" "No. He did. The thief did. Th push-button that summon th ser vants! is right next the light switch, In trying to turn out rhp lipht tr cover his getnway he missed the light swircn tuo tirst time and rang th' buzr.er by mistake. nnmea jjouicon tnac ne went out through the grounds. Matter of fact. he ran into Donlton and neatly Knocited him down. He must have dunned up and come In by the bal cony, 'l nere s footprints below. N evidence on the balcony rail or th wall to prove it. but that'a the most UKeiy thing." Only the man from the Star hum back, while his photographer went upstairs to shoot" the necklace. "You know, you sound to me. In spector, as if you had already made up your mind who did this. Am right, or wrong?" he asked. "And if I had." barked Kane dis concerted, "wonld I enring it to you guys? What you'll print anyhow may put him wise till I'll never be able to lay a finger on him." "Ah. the old alibi," chided the Ftar man. He lowered his voice. "How about telephone calls into the house last night? Have you traced THE EFCrEyE T? T! 0 T S T E K -fl TT 'A' R TF LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE ? The Best of the Nation's "Human-est" and Funniest Comics On This Pag Daily longer- i'mst vr5 j TOU 'ErA ( i ' Honest Al ' Wvrt to NME. 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