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W^^'^W^'WW- •-♦-»«'«â- '♦-♦«•««-*-«-< Gems of Peril liy HAZEL ROSS HAILEY, â-ºâ™¦-•-♦â- Â»â™¦â™¦ ♦-♦- •â-º-• â- Â«â- Â«â- â€¢â- â™¦Â» « « f KYNor.SIS. The tlilcf who roXm uiid kills rich old lira. JuplttT UurltiK ilio iiiRagfiiicnt party kho Kuvo for hir Hecritary, Mury tlarkticMH, fulla to Ket the faiiunis Ju- piter nei-kliice. r<ill.c lieliave MaryB brother. I'^ldie. guilty. Kddiu Is run down by u cur as he kopm to im-et Mary. liuwrn, pullce reporter for The Slur, dlacoverH that Eddlu owed inotiey lo .\ racetiui.k nook culled The Fly. Mary .'i nance. Dirk Ituythcr, forbUlM her to In- veatlRate further. TJiey pliiii to marry L*. once. Miiry meets Itoweii In a speuk- e;.iiy where The Fly In hiding. Dirk on hla wav to lock up the Jupiter necklace. comeM Vy to take ilary hotne. Dirk r.nd Mary are followed hut Bowen stops the thlcvra by turnUiB his car In front of theirs. Dirk atlll pooh-poohs the exl.st- •nca of The Fly and Mary rocs with Bowen. I'.ruce Jupiter returns from Kurope with a woman friend. Mr. Jupl- ler ordera hia aon out. The Fly dls- appeure. CHAPTER XXIV. "I'm all right," Mary murmured politely. Jupiter cleared his throat explosive- ly, and set his melon a.side untasted. "Don't know rs this is the time io •peak of it, but I talked to Ruyther about that matter this morning." His voice was still hoarse with emotion. "It's all settled. Makes you my heir. Bruce will be taken care of â€" enough for a man that lives the rattle-brained life he does. ]}ut none o' them Krenoh hus.sios will get my money! I've got no son, but there's no law that says I can't have a daughter!" As the whole import of this sudden announcement made itself Clear to her, Mary threw out her hand.s in- voluntarily. "Oh, no!" she crie<l. "You musn't do that! You musn't!" "Eh? Why not?" Apparently he bad never dreamed that his ofTer could be refused. His stare of amaze- ment was almost a glare. Not in many years had anyone crossed him in any major re;:pcct; he was utterly Uiken aback. "That isn't fair to Bruce!" Even as she was protesting the injustice of â- uch an arrangement, Mary's heart be^n to pound dizzily. To be the Jupiter heiress! She could o;'ly dim- ly apprehend '.s yet what it would mean to bo mistress of so many mil- lions, to have the world to play in, to bo free forever of the poverty that had put her at the mercy of Cornelia Tabors of the world these l.-.st few years. To be free to choose Dirk for a husband as he had chosen her, and not to feel like a beggar-maid who must always lie humbly grateful to her King C>>phetua! To receive the un- willing dcfere;ice of I .nily Ann Ruy- ther, who, like mo.sl .-nobs, usually found it difficult to be uncivil to a great deal of money. Mary ft it us if PAI N relieved instantly Aspirin will dispel any pain. No doubt about that. Ono tablet will prove It. Swallow It. The palu Is fone. Relief is as simple as that. No harmful after-effects from As- pirin. It never depresses the heart, and you need never hesitate to make aso of these tablets. So It Is needless to suffer from head- ache, toothache or neuralgia. The paius ot Bclatk-a, lumbago, rheuma- iiam or neurltia can bo banished com- pletely In a few moments. Periodical suffering ot women can bo soothed away; the discomfort of colds can be avoided. Aspirin tablets have other Import- ant usesâ€" all described by the proven directions In each box. Look for that name Aspirin on the boxâ€" every time you buy these tablets â€" and be safe. Don't accept substitute.". "Aspirin" Is a trade-mark registered In Canada. . had been taken up into a high place and .shown the kingdoms of the world. Had she really the strength to refuse them? The old man was growlin,? apo- plettically in hi.< throat, moving the .silver about agitatedly. When he had calme<l him.xelf, he said: "•We'll say no more about Bruce. I have the two greatest griefs to bear that can come to a man â€" my wife and my soil are dead." He was almost weeping. Feiir for him, in hiri presL'nt highly emotional state, tied the girl's tongue. II seemed foolish to try tA> convince him by the usual plat'tudcs that this violent rcpercus.<ion was only natural, that a little familiarity between fa- ther and son would smooth I'.way the sharp edges of their differences, Iring them back together again. Shu forsook the subject of Bruce for the time being. "Very well," she said quietly. "If you're sure you want to do that. You've always been kind to me, but this seems â€" too much, .somehow. I've never done anything to deserve so much. I've no right to it, really. If you change your mind â€" " "It's all settled. And it ain't so much. Not half of what people think," he Hashed warily. "And time the taxes are paid and all, you won't be so riuh you'll bend your back carrying it." 'This was pure swank, Mary knew, but she let him say it. If it pleased him to belittle his wealth, it was a pleasure he could afford. "I ask only one thing," she said soberly. "That nothing be said about it just yet. No one must know." lie was obviou.sly disappointed but he agreed, grudgingly. It would have been infinitely soothing to that long- festering wound to his pride and his affections which his son's way of life had dealt him to let the world know that Bruce was to be punished. In his own peculiar self-sufficiency, Bruce had always evailed him. This was the only way the father could hurt him. Mary knew that Mr. Jupiter was heartsick over the oi)en break with Bruce from the listless tone with which he spoke of his yacht, for the "Gypsy" was the dearest toy he owned. "I've got Hendricks," he said, "and he won't take on anybody I wouldn't. Good man. Good navigator, good pil- ot. And a damn gootl mechanic. Don't often find that in a .seagoing man. We'll got away the first of the week." Go away from New York, leave Dirk â€" ? Mary's heart cried out that she couldn't, no matter how unfairly he had behaved toward her. "You make up a party," the old man persisted, with force<l cheerful- ; esa. "Ask anybody you like. We've got cabins for 15. Maybe Steve Ruy- ther and his wife can get away; do him good. Shut you up a few weeks with that wife of his and maybe you'll decide you don't want to get married, eh?" He .squinted at her, in a feeble attempt at humor. "Maybe I won't â€" get married, any- way," Mary .said. "Well, plenty of time. You're young. Little absence won't do any harm. You get ready and we'll stop off in Miami and see some other young folksâ€"" Miami! Mary's indifference van- ished. She sat up, electrified by the thought that came to her. Miami was Florida, and Hialeah must be .somewhere about. The Fly would be at Hialeah! "When can we start?" she asked eagerly. "Will we be in Miami by th© 16th?" Her sudden enthusiasm puzzled Ju- piter, hut he was pleasc<l to see that he had succeeded in perking her up." "I reckon .so," he answered. "Why? Somebody down there you want to see?" She laughed excitedly. "I should say so! How long will wo stay?" "Why, long as you like, two â€" three weeks, I suppose. Dangod if I'll open the house, though, .\lways hated the thing â€" looks like an oil station. No vacation for me â€" go all the way to Miami and live in an oil station! We'll live on the 'Gypsy'." He was avoiding the jialatial Span- ish "cottage" which had been Mrs. Jupiter's favorite among her various homes because her memory was too CROWN BRAND CORN SYRUP (jittriflintfcost TW CANiD* rTAICH 00 . Llmrir^ MomuAi 'ike most Nouriskinqmd Delicious Food Devil's Food Layer Cako % cup butter i;i cupt lugar 3 eggs 1 cup milk 2}i cupi pastry (lour (or i cup* and 3 t«ble- â- poons of bread flour) U teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons Magic Buking Powder 1 teaspoon va- nilla extract 3 aq. unsweetened chocolate, melted Cream butter thoroughly; add sugar slowly. Add beaten yolks; mix thor- oughly. Add flour sifted with baking powder and salt, alternately with milk; add vanilla and melted choc- olate. Fold in atiffly beaten egg whites. Put into 3 greased layer cake tins and bake in moderate oven at 350* F. about 30 minutes. Whea cool, put together and cover thickly with Chocolate or White Icing (rec- ipes are in the Magic Cook Book). Miss Gertrude Dutton tells why she makes her Devils Food Layer Cake with Mogic Baking Powder "I know from experience," says the cookery ex- pert of Western Home Monthly, " that Magic makes most baked dishes look and taste better. Its uniform leavening quality gives dependallt baking results." And Miss Dutton's praise of Magic is seconded by the majority of dietitians and cookery experts throughout the Dominion. They use Magic exclusively because they know it is pure, and always uni- form. Canadian hou,<;ewives, too, pre- fer Ma[;ic. In fact. Magic outsells all other baking powders combined. For luscious layer cakes, light, tender biscuits, delicious pastry â€" follow Miss Dutton's advice. Use Magic Baking Powder. FREE COOK BOOKâ€" When you bake .it lioiiu', the new Mafiic Cook Hook will give you dozens of recipes for delicious baked foods. Write to Standard lirands Ltd., Fraser Ave. and Liberty St., Toronto, Ontario. . about The Fly. It was not m conclu- sive show of evidence, but it was strong. It needed a final link to make it impregnable that final link could only be i'he Fly's confession. There was still the chance â€" she did not admit it, but it was there â€" that though it had been the Kly's gun with which Mrs. Jupiter was shot, Eddie'- hand had fired it. If that were true, she wanted to know it, but she did not want other jicople to know it if it could be helped. .So they must do without the police. For notoriety fol- lowed when one dealt with the police â€" she had found that out. And in that one respect, at least, she meant to respect Dirk's wishes. His name v.'ould always be coupled with her.i since the official announcement of their engagement, even if â€" her mind refused to follow up than painful "if." She would not drag him into this if she could po.ssibly avoid it. All this she had to make clear to Mr. Jupiter, as well as her plan to capture The Fly. When she had fin- ished, he asked: "You sure he'll be there?" "It's almost a certainty, Bowen thinks. Superb Quality . . Always ALAUli Ml TEA„ "Fresh from the Gardens Rubber From Dandelions Latest Finding of Scientists Vast Store of Mineral Wealth in D^d Seaâ€" Air Tires Added to Tractor â€" Vitamins Battle Colds News comes from Moscow that a variety of dandelion has been discov- ered in the Crimea which contains a His hor.se races at Hialeah , milk from which rubber can be made, on the IGth. He'll show up, all right Thus another chapter is added to the â€"he doesn't take the law seriously, j Soviet quest ot rubber diatelaimhditMte ^h<tUl0_tttt ^^agatint >" "Coatalos no alum." This state- ment on every tin is your guarantee that Maair Baklofl r»«ttler U free from alum or any harm- ful laltredlcut* A COMPLETE COURSE in Cookery for only 50c postpaid The new lurlty Cook lliuik Is the most ocniph^to and iiopular work of Its kind. Took two yenr.H to edit and oo.st many thoiLsaiiilH of dollars. Coiilnliis 743 test- ed famll.v recipes â€" bread, pustry, cukes, tncuts, KnladH, dcsaer's â€" evorythlngi Now, step-hy-stpp . ethod asstirea o- I'f.ss In LdokliiB mid baking. Clear typo. Kniiseproiif eovi-r, opens lat at Hiiv pagf. Well worth Jli.OO. Rent I sipaid for noc. Addro.'is: Western Canada Flour .Mills Co., Limited. Dcpt. 107. Toronto, Ont. you know. He's been arrested many times, but they've had to let him go. He's careful. Bowen says he's the smartest crook unhung. Maybe that's why they call him The Fly. He's so hard to swat." Jupiter grunted. "If the police can't swat him, how- do you e.xpect to?" "By avoiding their methods, and using my own! He can't be taken in an open chase, that's been tried too many times. Very well. We'll emu- late a spider, sjiread our web and wait for him! He'll come. The neck- lace will bring him. He is the only one who knows the truth about Eddie. He must be made to tell, that's all. If you want to do something for me, do that! It's the one thing I want, more than anything â€" " He was silent a long time. Mary could not read his thoughts. Every- thing hung on his answerâ€" she almost prayed. "If I thought you two youngsters were right â€" that that man was the one â€" I'd never rest, while he was alH)ve ground! Every cent I've got would go to see him hung!" Spots of red burned in the bloodless cheeks; Mary had not seem him so galvanized with life since the first few hopef'il days of the police search for his wife's murderer. The thirst for revenge gave him an unexpected zest in life. It might he a better thing for him in the end, than the ciHldling Dr. Jor- dan had enforced on him. (To be continued.) Canada's Canned Foods Canned foods are finding a stead- ily broadened market iu the Domin- ion itself, while Canadian canned foods are winning for themselves a large market in outside countries. The three main groups of canued and preserved foods jiroduced iu the Dominion are fish, milk products and vegetables and fruits. The canned fish production of the Dominion is largely in excess ot home demand and its chief market is in other hand, the output of milk preparations and of canned and preserved fruits and vegetables is largely consumed In tho Dominion, alihouKh both lines, and particularly milk products, also find a market abroad. Canned fruits and vegetables form the largest branch ot the canned foods indus- tries and account for approximately S5 per cent, of the total production. The fruit and vegetable prepara- tions Industry has made rapid strides in recent years. Since 1921 the num- ber of plants In operation had in- creased by the year 1931 . .•om 270 to 27S, the capital inve led from $23,- 558,689 to $48,152,32,5, the number ot employees from 3,577 to C,329. sal- arlc:! and wages from $3,150,564 to $4,5(19,377, materials iised fi-om $12,- 003,946 to $18,668,100, and the value ot products from $20,967,476 to $32,- 572,580. Dnrin.i; the period 1923-31 tho volume of fruit and vegetable pre- parations Increased by 95 per cent. This growth Is particularly remark- able, as It represents a correspond- ing increase In the home demand for these products, foreign trade being relatively small compared with home production. Imports In 1931 were I valued al $4,315,979 and exports at ($2,651,722. Aecordlng to these figures . the industry supplied over 95 per I cent, of tho domestic requirements. vivid there, Mary knew. But she did not care; the "(iypsy" suited her pur- poses even better. A plan of almo.st diabolical cunning had occurred to her! As she rapidly thought out its ilctails she knew that she must speak to Mr. Jupiter about it now, for cer- tain preparati.irs would have to be made before hand, to insure .safety all round â€" for herself, for tho necklace when it was in her posses.sion, and possibly for the old man himself. She might take chances herself but she would never .'.gain take chances on behalf of anyone elseâ€" the load of responsibility siic already bore was heavy enough. At her earnest request, they left the almost untouched meal and ad- journed to the lilnary, .«afc from the avid ears of the scrvant.s. There, n> clearly as she could, Mary set forlii the facts she and Bowen had gathered Autumn Notes Summer is gone â- igaiii. The dying leaf .Makes one last gesture, colorful and brief. Within the orchard sounds the fitful knell Ot fruit fast falling like a muted belt. Where stalwart oornstalks lifted pointed leaves I.leR barren stubble and collected sheaves. In other la'.itudes the Journe) .ig sun Ilaa moved to\.'ard a summer new begun. â-  Donald Page, In the New York Sun. Early in the year Moscow announced that chemists had discovered. In what was called "towsagls" In the news dispatches, a plant which yielded a rubber-milk. It may be that the Crimean dandelion and towagis belong to the same family of plants. In conducting liis Investigations for a cheap source of rubber, PJdison reach 1 th" conclusion that there are at least 1,500 plants that can be milk- ed profitably. The milkweed, a rela- tive of the Madagascar rubber vine, seemed to him ot most industrial im- portance, although he conducted much research with goldenrod. Jlilkweed is now acclimated on a small scale in the gardens of California, New Mex- ico. Texas. Florida, South Carolina, Panama ar : Hawaii by experimenters who have followed in Edison's foot- steps. It may be that neither the new va- riety of landelion nor tow.sagis -i -1 give the Russians what they wan'. They are more likely to turn to syn- thetic chemistry to meet their indus- trial loquirements. Before we ever heard of a Kive-Year Plan th;j Soviet Union offered a first prize ot $50,000 and a second of $25,000 for a commer- cial synt'.ietio rubber process, the con- test to close early in 192S. AIt;nu_,h nothing apparently came of this effort at arousing interest, it is known th„t the Russian laboratories are contin •- ing their work in synthetic rubber chemistr.v. There is no reason why they should not ultimately succeed In obtaining what they want. In fact, German, American and English chem- ists are prepared to pUico synthetic rubber on the market whenever the natural product rises to what would be considered a prohibitive price. When ho speaks of synthetic rubber the chemist does not have in mind a compound of precisely the same chemical constitution as a .'specific natural rubber. Rayon is not the act chemical and physical equivalent of natural silk, nor need it be. k synthetic rubber of acceptable chemi- cal and mechanical properties is good enough â€" all the more reason why the Russians should succeed in their in- vestigations. Potash From the Dead Sea In December, 1917, General Allenby captured Jerusalem. I.,ike every well- informed British officer, he kept be- fore him tho needs of the Empire. Borne one whispered the magical word "potash" to him. He had Major T. G. Tulloch, a competent engineer, sent to •urvey the possibilities of the Dead Sea. Dr. Novomeysky, a Russian mining engineer, confirmed the dis- covery ot riches that eclipse those ot a South African diamond mine, v.^i- some 30,000 years the sacred, muddy Jordan has been pouring millions of tons of potash, bromides and chlor- ides Into the Dead Sea. After lengthy negotiations and de- bates in Parliament a concession was finally granted on Jan. 1, 1930, to r. company financed by British and .\merican capital. On April 1, 19J0, the Work ot extracting potash and chlorides began. Brine from the Dead Sea Is pumped into extensive shallow pan; covering about 500 acres, and the sun does the rest. Pour-tenths ot an inch a day is the rate of evaporation iu Summer; halt of that in Winter. According to Tho Oil, Drug and Paint Reporter, from 2,000 to 2.500 tons of pure potash were thus extract- ed during 1931. It the quantity seems small. It Is because production was limited in order to maintain prices in th» world market. This year from 3,000 to 4.000 tons of potash will be produced. Recently iOO tons reached Baltimore, Md., In the form of muriatt of potash, packed in 4,465 bags. Th© resources ot the Dead Sea art enormous. Its waters contain 6,000,t 000,000 tons ot calcium chloride, ll,i 000,000,000 sons of common salt, 9S0,( 000,000 tons of magnevia bromide, 22/ 000,000,00 tons of Magnesia chloridi and 2,000,000,000 tons of uriate of pot< ash. Twelve hundred billion dollars, a sum 300 times greatei than the debl ot Great Britain and the United States, Is the cash value of the Dei Sea. There is no more precious bod;^ ot water on earth. Pneumatic Tires for Tractors Even tire manufacturers were a lit tie startled to hear Burgess Darrow toll them at the transportation meet- ing of the Society of Automotive En- gineers, held recently in Toronto, that farm tractors are now being equipped with what are called "airwheels"â€" pneumatic tires much like those de- velopetl for airplanes, except that a non-skid tread is added. A hard-rid- ing bumpy steel-wheel machine is thus converted into an almost luxurious conveyance. The cushioning that attends an in- flation pressure of three to five pounds is the result of some bold thinking. According to Mr. Darrow the orange growers wanted a tractor that could be used In sand. Steel tires were objectionable because they cut through roots. Golf courses needed tractors, too, but steel tires were for-* bidden because they sank into soft ar.l muddy fields. Pneumatic tires were the solution "The drawijar pull that can be ex- erted by the tractor with such tires is astonishing," says Mr Darrow. "In most cases it exceed that obtainJd with steel. Where the steel-lug tire sometimes digs itself in and sticks, the airwheel stays on to^ of the ground." At first there were puuctu.'c â- . enough. Thick rubber liners now en- able tho airwheel to cope with the roughest field. Airwheels for tractors are expensive in the sizes required. What is needed is an intermediate size which can be produced at low cost and which will retain the advantages of the full air-' wheel, .\kron companies are now tuni- ng their attention to the development of the new market that has been open- ed. Vitamins Reduce Colds It is estimated tliat 36,000,000 wage earners in tho United States are ab-, sent from their work on account of IU-' ness at least 250,000,000 working days each year. According to a report pub- lished by tho American Chemical So- ciety, vitamins can materially reduce this form of economic waste if dis- coveries made by Arthur D. Holmes and Madeline 0. Pigott of V. .;ton and William Allrcd Sawyer and Laura Comstock ot Rochester, N.Y., are ap- plied. One tabkspoonl'ul of cod-liver oil was fed daily for lour months to 115 women and 70 men engaged in a variety of tasks such as office light machine and heavy macliine work. For the purpose of comparison. SS women and 40 men. as nearly identical as pos- sible with the subjects in age,' weight and occupation, served as coniru'.s. One hundred and two members, or 55.1 per cent., of the cod-liver oil group, and 42 members, or 32.8 per cent, of the control group did not de- velop colds during the experiment. Xinety-six members, or 51.9 per cent., ot the cod-l!vor oil group, and 52 members, of 40.6 per cent, of tha control group, lost no time. The num- ber of jumrs ot absence per person wa.'! 12.S*jr Iho codliver oil group and 25.1 for the control group. During the previ.^us year, when the diet was not supplemented with cod- liver oil, the hours ot absenc Acre 20.4 for the cod-liver oil group and J7.4 for the control group.â€" Waldemr Kaempffert in The N.Y. Times. ( Wounds and hardships provoke our coura.ge, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at Ihf he.at - (T>arron. ISSUE No. 47- "32 Sterling Great Bear Syndicate Capital $35,000.00 Holding valuable properties In the rich Radium Area of Great Bear Lake and also Important ai -eage In the new sensational Swayze Gold Camp. Shares in adjoining companies have doubled and trebled In the last few months. Wo are offering a limited number of Units to Ontario Invcitore at $15. Each unit will be exchangeable for 200 shares ot $1.00 par value stock in a company to be formed. STSHLXNa OBEAT BEA& SYMOICATB, ,, . . 408 Canada Permantst anildlnr, Toxosto. , . ',) " Please send me full i>artleular» regarding your for further sjiidlcnte. particulars. .>^.. ,^^ _ .\cldrcss