THE EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD
fiems of Peril
HAZEL ROSS HAIL9Y
1931 BYNCA
SERVICE INC
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
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1 ..ii toun man tood anyiv
9tU - aniithrn Tolce
L ,, ju.,iter sent me to fetch
l h? ww- ,H ha OTr(-n is
,D!L h...k .nd roadv to go
' '.'m ,,r. .lie thought to aak,
Dial uv" - - , - , ,,
iA Mr- J"P'ter , A.
K Wt know tlrnt, ma am, ine
E man reipnnded regretfully.
F "f.Jrt Just Mist' Jupiter,
Ung old " ilarj aaked. "De-
B-.U lie's getting on, but he a
!... fnr an old man. yea sub!"
f,'rVlaugbed. "I gueea it a all
'-"'.SI,.' mvbodv with him?
he EV T0U " icJr,a what he
-ed to see me '
L .nd thought. It did seem
F. I.i.i ,i.t l r. JuDiter Bhould
out from the hotel without bav
" i. effort to ee her, nod
.,i.'i, that an inter-
Ms neffssary. Something must
a. iiafpeneu
E,.,. ,u i,r hisself." the stranger
I -Speras like he left his pnrty and
I .k.r en'a hi. V,lllfl hni'P
It on llfctT mm ... -
h-irate conversation with you
El iml if vou don't mind hurr.v-
Lh'e wa in a powerful hurry,
ha a i ou (u i "'
Ite tot into the front seat of a
fr ' : lit, la iMir )ipk1ci
r. nomu-ev-iir
tall young man, and thought ot
rug but keeping her seat and
nc to her floipy sunhat while
tore at a breakneck speed out
mast road and along the shore.
fce Hilltop Tnn was not imposing
in fart, it was nouilllg niuru limn
riftod quick-lunch stand, sur-
fcied on all sides ny a oroaa
pned veranann on wjiil-u ncro unic
den tables and enairs. At one or,
e before she climbed out of the
Marr caught sight of tho stout,
p-clad but slightly wilted figure
J! Mr. Jupiler, impatiently ninp-
hi brow. What joyful relief that
b'! . .
v all-fired hot to bring you all
way out here, Mary," tho old man
Ini-iied. "but I got some- things
lor mind that I've Just naturally
Itn tllt over with tou. Don't seem
If we get much chance lately."
pi was putting it rauuiy, Mary
;M. nnere are tne otnerar
told 'em to let me out and go
H mnrmpri his Hflmn hrow.
had about enough of this Flor
! rlimate for one day. But that
al it. I wanted to get back to
E and have a word with you. We
bed this here feller going in the
Lsite direction, and he said he'd
i me back to the hotel, so they
a on Bruce and Bates, and her-
Now, here's the first thing; you
r anything about that De Loma
that we met last night?"
lentv," Mary said grimly. "Why?"
Boil don't have, to tell me he's a
one. the old man growled. "I
lived to be nearly 70 without
kving a rotten egg when I smell
lou Know what 1 think. It would
sumrise me none if De Ioma
p't the guy we're looking for!"
I cold chill crent down the girl's
le at this nncanny perception. It
i almost supernatural I tier eyes
Irt'd with quick tears for a aeo-
L ThPV tTinncht ha TT-a a httlr
Iber, did they? Well either It was
raculoits sort of prescience that
arnd the old man of the pres
1 of hii enemy or a simple cannl
that waa more awesome still.
With this siisnirinn in hi, mlnri.
bad itill acted the senile innocent,
looien everybody. Khe wanted to
him for rprv srlmtrntinn
fie Is The Fly." she said. "We're
-re ot it as we can possibly be.
hFn WflnHnP In t.tlt anrl
I!1! tO. It's awflll. whn Tnn fhlnlr
kt it that there he sits he has
audacity to eat and drink and
pd breathe oh!"
i.alter elesred his throat. "Now
a another thin ' h ; tA.n.
Ms elbows on tho tbl mnA la-.
itke Index fi
f' palm if his left. He was mak
hard and very successful effort
to b practical and not glr way to
emotion at thia time, though tho girl
could not guest that. Sba marveled
at bla calmness.
"You know," he began, "or-rather,
yon don t know, because they don't
anybody know but just me and one
or two others, that there'a t Lorimor
car belongs to me."
Mary'a eyes widened at this rerela
tion. It was the very thing she wanted
most to know about, but she had
choked on the question whenever op
portunity arose to ask it.
"I had Tom buy It for me. I kept
it secret. Bound to he talk if I bought
any car not put out by the Jupiter
Motor Company, and I thought It
just aa well not to let the Lorimor
people lie able to aay I had to buy
one of their cars to get any place.
"But the fact Is." he hesitated,
and Slary fairly twitched with Imps
tience, "the fact la now, you keep
thia to youraelf, Mary but the Lori
mor car it a darn goor' car and it's
been cutting Into our sales to the
point where It's not funny anr more.
Now, I know all about the Lorimor
car. They haven't go so much aa a
washer on it that we haven't got. or
can't put on a Jupiter. But I'm
damned if a lot of people don't pre
fer it to the Jupiter. Now wbyf
"I says to myself. I'm going to
find out. So I gave Tom $3,000 cash
to buy a brand-new Lorimor. You've
heard me say Tom's, the best mechan
ic alive, and he is. That's why I keep
him. He ain't so trustworthy in all
ways. I've found that out. But
I'd rather have him on my cars than
some honest lunkhead. And if he
wasn't lacking somewhere he'd be
down at the plant getting $'.'0,000 a
year, instead of wearing my livery
and Bleeping over a garage.
Breathless aa she was with eager
ness for him to get on to the point
of the story, Mary could not help
recognizing that the faults of Tom
were a real heartache to the old man,
so hMily did he esteem the man'a me
chanical genius.
"Well. I rode out In It this morn
ing. Nobody likely to ace me down
here, nobody that knows me, that is.
Sitting back thero with nobody to
talk to but this Louise I got to look
ing around at the finish and poking
the upholstery and ao on, and look
what 1 found!"
He held unt a folded sheet of paper,
hfa baud trembling uutil it waa bard
for her to see it,
Mary unfolded It, read In Eddie's
familiar handwriting:
"I. O. U. $15,000.
Edward Harkness, Junior."
"Take it. easy. now. Don't get up
set." Jupiter warned her, aa the
whiteness of her face began to fright
en him. She pulled herself together.
-now aid tnis get in trie car,
I wonder?" she asked levellr hold.
ing the sheet of paper which was like
a message from Eddie himself.
"Well it was a second-hand car.
Looks like It might be the car that
The Fly used coming and going, and
maybe ItUr on the one that ran your
orotner down, Jupiter ottered.
Mary's dated eyes sought the pa
per ngain.
"Tom swears there's been nobody
in thia back seat till this morning,"
went, on Jupiter. "Tom's no hand for
joyriding, I'll say that for him."
When they got back to town, driv
en by the obliging young man in
whose pocket now reposed the first
SM) bill- he had ever seen, none of
tne motoring party nan returned, rsot
until she entered the lobby did It
enter Mary's mind that she had not
telephoned Bowenl
Hastily she called the number he
had given her, but he was not there.
No one knew whether he had been
there or how long ago he had gone.
Well, she had been gone nearly three
hours. No wonder he had grow Im
patient. No sooner had she gained her room
however, than the telephone began
to trill madly. It was Bowen. He was
almost incoherent with relief at find
ing her In.
"Listen." he aald. "I'm at Hilltop
Inn. Nobody here but me, now. But
they've been here. Bruce and the
Countess. And what a fight! I hid
behind a catsup bottle and got an ear
ful. Listen, did Mrs. Jupiter have
a diamond b acelet?"
"Tes." Marv said, "she did."
"Would yon know It?"
"T think so."
"Well. look on the countess arm
when she comes in. And she'll come
In alone!"
(To Be Continued)
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