Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 177, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1931 — Page 15

DEC. 3, 1931

(Roms of Peril

~ BEGIN HERE TODAY MARY HAHKNE3S plot* to ensnare Wt. ho "frsmrd" her brother. EDDIE, with the murder of MRS JUPITER and ran him down to keep him from telling. She 1* aided bv MR JUPITER and BOWEN, reporter of the Star. Marv’a fiance. DIRK RUYTHER. believe* Eddie Rulltv and breaks with Mary when she will not Rive up the Investigation. Mary sail* for Miami on the Jupiter yacht to follow The Fly. BRUCE JUPITER _ and a Questionable friend. COUNTESS LOUISE, ro along. They vow to rout Marv. who they consider a jtold-dlßger. trying to steal Bruce's inheritance. Bruce Quarrels with Louise over a diamond bracelet she says belonßS to Mary. Do Loma gave It to her. as security for a loan. Bruce makes her Rive up the bracelet to Marv, who discovers It was stolen from Mrs. Jupiter the night *he was killed. Louise Introduces the party to COUNT DE LOMA, who Marv learns Is The Fly. Using the Jupiter necklace as bait. Marv dances with him. He gets the necklace from her by a ruse. then kisses her. Dirk knocks him down. Injured and unconscious. Dirk Is taken on hoard the vacht the Gypsy." The Flv goes along and tries again to steal the necklace. Bowen gives Mary Froof that the countess Is an advenuress. The Gypsy sails with all on board. The Fly realizes he has walked Into a trap. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER FORTY-THREE (Continued) By putting her ear to the wall, Mary caught a few words. Gradually the voices lifted again. “You’d better get out of here before that sap of a Bruce finds you here,” De Loma warned her. “Maybe he is a sap,” the woman snapped, "but the rest of the family Isn’t so foolish. I tell you it’s a trap ” De Loma’s “Aaah!” was a snarl of unbelief. ‘‘You'll find out!” a tt a DIRK stirred and Mary held her breath lest he should waken and speak to her. He relaxed and slept on, however, and presently she heard the door of De Loma’s room close and footsteps retreat along the deck. When she thought it was safe to appear she went out, leaving Dirk sleeping soundly. On the forward deck, under an awning, to her intense surprise she saw Mr. Jupiter and De Loma, side by side in deck chairs. What had brought about this amazing juxtaposition, she wondered? ' Sensing that Mr. Jupiter must wish to be rid of the man, she joined the tete-a-tete, hoping it would give him an opportunity. But Mr. Jupiter scarcely looked up. He was talking about fishing and he seemed to be enjoying himself hugely. De Loma was silent, brooding, not paying attention to what the old man was saying—yet somehow more acutely observant of him than he ever had been before. He had never seemed more than faintly aware of the old man’s shadowy presence in the group, seeming to dismiss him as a senile old fool unworthy of attention. Now, though the subject was game fishing, in which he could have no interest whatever, Mary noted that he was rigidly attentive to every word the old man had to ?ay. “No, sir,” the garrulous old voice rambled on, as Mary seated herself. “I used to hate to gaff 'em—thought it was cruel, and all that. But I changed my mind. You do, when you get older and see more of the world. “A killer's a killer, the world around—and that’s what a barracuda is,” he insisted, snapping his head about to nod it emphatically at the immobile face of the man Reside him. “Yes, sir, a barracuda Is a cold-blooded murderer—nothing else! “They ain’t no use feeling pity for that kind of a varmint. They’re put in this world for sport, and for no other reason. For a man to try his wits against. Lord, there's nothing like the thrill of bagging one of those fellows!” a a a HE lapsed into silence, which remained unbroken for several minutes. Mary, in her chair, with her head leaning against the back, could not see De Loma’s face. Why, it was a parable Mr. Jupiter was speaking to The Fly, nothing less. Had The Fly the brains tc understand it? Apparently he had. He got up suddenly, and with no more than a nod to excuse himself, walked away. He had a fine air cf nonchalance,

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I stopping at the rail to peer at pass- : ing ship, lighting a cigaret, ambling off. Mary breathed. “You made me shiver when you talked like that!” Mr. JupiteT smoked in silence. An uneasy something that had been lying in the back of her mind for days came to the fore now. “Is it true what Mr. Bates Intimated to me,” she asked, “that you want him to make a break for it, so you can—shoot him down? You i wouldn’t really do that, would you?” Mr. Jupiter took his pipe out of his mouth, rubbed a nobby forefinger across his nose, but said nothing. Mary shuddered. “I didn’t know you meant to go—that far,” she whispered fearfully. “Got any objections?” Jupiter | growled harshly. When she didn’t ( answer he knocked out his pipe and ! began refilling it, jabbing tobacco dotfn with a fierce forefinger. "Oh, a man’s blood cools . . I don’t know ... a man don’t know what he'd do, given the chance—but I’m having my fun. Don’t you go interferin’ with it!” 1 “I won’t. After all,” she smiled bitterly, “he’s your first. What’s left belongs to me.” a tt DINNER was a silent meal, except for Mr. Jupiter, w .o insisted on talking of tomorrow’s fishing expedition, in spite of the utter indifference of his listeners. Bates showed up for that meal, but the Fly was conspicuously absent. He chose to eat in his room, but from the comings and goings of his steward, and the contents of their trays, he seemed more occupied in drinking than in eating. The yacht had “turned the corner” at Key West about 6 o’clock, ! and they now were steaming steadi ily westward along the keys. In the deepening night the flashing beam of Dry Tortugas light already could be seen off on the horizon as they came on deck, its gleam more and more brightly against a little bank of clouds in the southwest. When Mary went to her stateroom—she had heard more than enough talk of fishing for one day —she found Louise there before her. “It is now tomorrow,” that lady be .an directly. “I wish my bracelet, please.” Mary could hardly mask her surprise. She had just heard Louise confessing to De Loma that she did not have it—could not get it. “I’m afraid it’s still in the Ambassador safe,” she replied with some annoyance. “Can’t you wait?” • How long?” Mary thought of the press clippings now reposing in Mr. Jupiter’s safe, and of all they confirmed about this predatory creature and her ways. Why keep up the pretense?” “I'm afraid it must stay there for some time,” she answered shortly. The other nodded to herself sev- ! eral timr then spoke in a grating I voice. Bruce, then, is right when he says you are what-you-call—a gold-digger, eh?” “Quite right! There is no more to be said. Now go, please.” tt ft a THE countess turned and walked slowly to the porthole and stood looking out. “I did not come to ask about that, really,” she said, and there was infinite weariness in her voice. “But about the other. “You made me an astounding offer, if you remember. The ruby | necklace—if I went away and left you Bruce. I was furious. That was because you accompanied your offer with an insult which no one could receive without anger. "But I have changed my mind. Perhaps you are right I should not make a good wife. Perhaps it is ! best that he finds an American girl—” she hesitated, “like you ” The unreadable eyes came to rest on Mary's amazed face. “I give you Bruce for the necklace, when you like.” The girl stared. “May I ask what caused you to change your mind? You certainly didn’t feel this way I yesterday!” Louise turned away, fiercely impatient at the questioning. “What i do you care? Isn’t it enough? I love i him more than I ever loved any

man. But I give him up. It is better so. Isn’t it enough?” tt a a SURELY she looked the emotionwracked heroine—the lowered eyes, the heaving shoulders, the handkerchief twisted and bitten. It was all there—all the time-worn histrionics. All there except the emotion itself—and that was lacking. “I love him more than I ever loved any other man”—hadn’t she told Bruce that it was De Loma who was the love of her life? Certainly he had been her husband—so much seemed conclusive, from the identity of the surname, and from a curious loyalty which drove her to help him out of his difficulties, even though his character must be all too well known to her. “He was a brute.” She had said that of him once, and then given him every cent she had when he asked for it. No, Mary was not taken in, but try as she would she could not place her finger on the underlying reason for this change of heart. Would Louise accept the necklace even though it was reputed to be worth hundreds of thousands, unless she had lost hope of gaining millions? Not likely. “Perhaps,” Mary mused aloud, “Bruce no longer loves you?” Louise was the tiger-cat again instantly. “Not love me? What are you saying? Bruce will not let me go, if he knows it? If he flinds out he will kill you! That is how much he loves me!” She snapped her fingers under Mary’s very nose—whirling away again to look out the porthole. a a tt ALL at once Mary knew—the clippings! Mr. Jupiter must have faced her with them. Much could have happened in the long afternoon hours. That demoniac old man and his “fun!” This was no doubt part of it. Mary laughed outright. “The offer is no longer open,” she said. When Louise had stormed out Mary went up on deck to find Mr. Jupiter and verify her suspicion. But only Bates was there. . As they leaned on the rail and Mary related what had happened, one of the Florida keys came into view on the port rail. A glance to starboard revealed another. “Say, we’re right in the middle of things here,” Bates spoke uneasily. “I hope the captain knows what he : s doing. There must be reefs in here.” He yawned. “Well, I guess he knows his business. Guess I’ll turn in. Back to my picture puzzle. Got some of it put together, and you know what I think it is? picture of Rudolph Valentino!” He laughed. “No wonder De Loma tore it down.” Suddenly the ship shuddered, seemed to jolt along its bottom for a moment and then stopped, engines stilled. From the forecastle a voice boomed to the man on the bridge, “She’s hard aground, sir!” From the bridge there came a fervent curse. (To Be Continued) Man Sues “In-Laws” Bp Timex Special BEDFORD, Ind., Dec. 3.—Opal Erwin, living - near Mitchell, is plaintiff in a SIO,OOO alienation of affections suit against his mother-in-law, Mrs. Sallie A. McCullough, and her sister, Frances Compton, alleging they induced his wife to leave him. Erwin has a divorce suit pending in which she asks custody of two scs, 2 and 3 years old.

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And so Tarzan shook his head, and his lips, which were turned away from Avan, formed the word “wait!” As the Red Flower of Zoram disappeared in the dark cavern of the Clovians the chief addressed the ape-man. “As for you, man of another country, until the council decides your fate you are a prisoner. Into the cavern with you!” The ape-man hesitated. A bold dash for freedom might carry him beyond the fey warriors who lolled idly about, expecting no emergency..

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Tarzan felt certain the voice of the council would doom him to death. Then he would be surrounded by all the warriors of Clovi, alert and ready to prevent his escape. It was now—or never. But Tarzan of the Apes made no break for liberty. Instead he turned and strode toward the entrance of the cavern. For the Red Flower of Zoram had appealed to him for aid and he could not desert the sister of Thoay and the friend of Jason In her time of need.

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