The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1931, Page 4

2 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1981 ~ - The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Gstablished 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Comany, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year......$7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ... ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, three years ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ............ 1.50 Weekly by mail in Canada, year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation » per Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this news- paper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS & BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Emphasizing the Obvious President Hoover's message read to congress Tuesday emphasizes the ob- vious. It is tempered somewhat by the discouragement of defeat in the house and the dark prospect of a most unruly senate. There is an ab- sence of militancy. No clarion note or call to duty is sounded; its periods and climaxes are rather dull and humdrum. The president is never without a program. His tendency always is to blueprint our weals and our woes and seek @ cure by commission and inves- tigation. It is the mind of the great engineer and promoter at work. This, message, and a volley of new ones to} follow, is cast in the mould of dire necessity, unrelieved by any bright political expectations. It is unnecessary to discuss at, length the message which is, on the whole, a very clear statement of the economic conditions that beset the republic even if the remedies ad-, vanced fall upon a body of lawmak- ers seeking political advantage and thunder the 1932 campaign. As usfial, there is the so-called Hoove for prosperity. It is ® note that the founda- tion of his recommendations is rigid economy on the part of the federal government. There, surely, he is on Solid ground for the functions of gov- ernment have been multiplying at, such a rate that bureaucracy is hav- ing @ paralyzing effect upon business in general. There has been a partial change of front on the part of the administra- tion. President Hoover ceases to pre- dict rapid recovery. Time has damp- ened an optimism and ardor which not so long ago assured the people that “prosperity was around the cor- ner.” He knows that some very unpleas- ant readjustments must be made be- fore better times can come. He faces conditions today which, had they been met in the same spirit months ‘ago, would have been corrected by now. In such event, political pres- tige might not have slipped from his control. Increase in taxation must be faced. ‘The method of raising more revenue will be # matter of bitter conten- tion. In a very exhaustive budget, message, President Hoover has faced the situation courageously without mincing words or obscuring the facts, of @ great treasury deficit. Opportunity for great constructive service faces congress. The people of the nation will judge both parties on| tice. their records. In few national crises has the at- tention of the people been focused so intently upon Washington. Probably too much is expected of lawmakers who are powerless to create better times by fiat of law, but they can improve governmental conditions so that business can save itself if freed from some of the entanglements poli- ticians have imposed. One in Nine Henry H. Heimann, executive man- ager of the National Association of Creditmen, asserted recently that, difficult as it is to accomplish, gov- ernment will have to deflate its costs just as private industry has done in order to aid business stability in America. As proof of the burden which governihent is placing upon business, he asserts that one dollar out of every nine in the United A speaker of national renown re- cently asserted that one out of every 6.00 government to see where these re- ductions and eliminations might eas- ily be made but not everyone would agree on the subject, even though they started out with the sam2 hon- est aims. ‘What one man may regard as es- another may consider a wholly use- less expenditure and vice versa. The lack of unanimity on such details ts what makes it possible for political officeholders to retain their places even as they ignore the expressed de- mand of the people for a general re- sult. In places where public servants ac- tually tackle the problem with whole- hearted vengeance it makes their task more difficult. Orders for 75 Police and federal agents, raiding an alleged vice den in Chicago, said they found records which indicated about 75 “unfilled orders” for girls wanted in other cities. Such stories as these serve not only to recall to our minds the fact that the world is not what it might be but that it is a great deal better than it used to be. At least vice has been forced to take its shame into the dark nooks and corners of the world and no longer flaunts its face on the public streets. Cancer and Racketeers A Chicago specialist who charac- terized cancer cells as “racketeers” in the human body gave about as apt a! description of the malady for the lay- man as could well be invented. Also, when you stop to think about it, ne gave an exceedingly good description | of the racketeer. . For if the cancer cells can be de- scribed as racketeers, the racketeers of real life can very well be described as cancers. They grow and spread in the municipal body at an alarming rate, they make the municipal body very sick, and—in a good many American cities—they have made a major operation an imperative neces- sity. iy The specialist who thought of the comparison made a simile that works both ways. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other edi They are published withoess Nee! to whether they agree or with The Tribu: pot Mayor Walker’s Service (San Francisco News) To few persons in public life ever has been given a higher histrionic sense than to New York's mayor. His capacity for impressing his audiences when he stands and talks before them is supreme. His bitterest crit- ics say that about him. He possesses the rare quality of sheer drama. He brought that to bear before) Governor Rolph in California. Be- cause of his peculiar ability to focus attention on himself he focused at- tention on the Mooney-Billings case, and in that sense alone he performed @ tremendous service in the cause of, justice for men unjustly imprisoned. He added a high emotional note to @ legal issue which because it has been so long drawn out has been treated in recent years somewhat too much as one of cold fact and losic. He injected feeling. Thousands and hundreds of thousands today have read in a warmer light a story they had read and re-read before in terms only of questions and answers and lawyers’ objections. Walker’s appear- ance has given new and virile life to America’s Dreyfus case. : And because of that it must now be apparent to the people of Cali- fornia and their governor that the, freeing of Mooney and Billings is both a national and a popular case —and one that will not die. Walker knows the psychology of public reactions as few men know that psychology. When he joined the mountingly popular cause he proved among other-things that the crusade sential, or at least highly desirable,| ! | WELL =1FIT ISNT LITTLE MARY CHRISTMAS, HERSELF, IN PERSON! wih Gilbert Swan New York, Nov. 10.—Sixth Avenue, under the elevateds, is no longer a Pleasant thoroughfare for strolling. Employment agents have taken up most of the space unoccupied by 10 and 20-cent lunch counters. And there’s nothing funny about watch- ing a man tack up 20 signs announc- ing jobs to several hundred itinerants blocking the sidewalk. But this accumulation of jobless men and women, wandering from block to block, has attracted the most Picturesque tribe of county fair side- shows seen in these parts in many a year. : * oe In the general neighborhood of Forty-seventh street, Kid Canfield is prepared to show the city-going yok- els how he gyped the country lads for many a year. Not since I left the dear old back sections of Michigan, have I seen a setup such as is used by Mons. Can- field, who is more talented than many gents to be found a block away on Broadway. A vacant store has been decorated with melodramatic posters showing gents being shot at the rou- lette wheel; of other gents slipping aces from the bottoms of card decks; of faded and wind-swept banners de- claring that M. Canfield is a “re- formed gambler,” who saw the light when Billy Sunday got him to march down the sawdust trail. . Now the employed and unemployed crowds that gather in front of Prof. Canfield’s wooden stand may or may not have watched the old shell game. But now, for 10 cents, they were able to observe how the “envelope” game was worked; how a smart dice shaker could produce four aces against his opponent’s four fives; how a card dealer could deal himself a royal flush and his nearest opponent four aces. To be sure, Prof. Canfield carried his own dice and his own cards, He was, to hear him tell it, through with sharp practices forever. A five-gallon rather than a 10-gallon Stetson perched backwards on his head. His teeth reflected many gold coverings. was not doomed to fail but had be- come a mighty force. In California he faced opposition. He came under two fires—the reac- tionary press, which called him “im- pudent,” and the Communists, who’ charged him with “stealing the Fittingly he paid no attention to} either. Seriously he pleaded for a fellow American who, he is convinced, has suffered one of the greatest wrongs ever inflicted by lawless jus- The mass of native Californians must have been impressed by the earnest pleading. The touches of his oratory that brought tears to the eyes of the audience will be understood and remembered by many who have failed to grasp the constitutional questions involved in the long, long story of the Mooney-Billings case. His final appeal directed to Gover- nor Rolph will ring for a long time in the ears of His Excellency, the mayor's friend: 1 “The president of the Uni States, the congress, tl¢> standing army and navy cannot give Mooney reprieve. Neither can the governors of forty-seven states. The League of Nations or all the king’s horses or all the king's men—they can’t help him, It remains exclusively and solely with one person, and that sole indi- vidual in the whole civilized world that can right the wrong and do jus- tice is the governor of California.” And so, whether Walker's transcon- tinental journey brings immediate fruit or not, it has added immeasur- ably to @ cause whose ultimate suc- cess must come—unless justice has vanished from this nation. f BARBS { Now that the navy squabble is back in the headlines again it’s plain that Hoover and the Navy League are still at sea. * * * A Philadelphia youth was sentenced to two years for yelling something belittling at Grandi. He might have failed, but for the next two years he'll succeed in making little ones out of big ones. * eK The Japanese were pressing on to- ward Chinchow. But if they ever get into chow chow they'll be in a pretty Piccalilli. He could deal from the bottom or from the top. He was, in a word, a Picturesque i ea - drab highway. Just three doors away, a hard- boiled young woman, with more come- hither personality than many & Broadway chorine, was preparing to disappear into a trunk. Two ballyhoo gents were trying to drag a hesitant crowd of men to the very front of a ballyhoo stand. The big moment arrived when “Minerva” was asked to disrobe in the trunk and veappear in tights. This, naturally, held the crowd, for “Minerva” had.a smile that was both wise and win- some. fountain pens. And four doors beyond that “the| @. recreation of man” was going full blast, This was another super-pitch show. Upon a vast wheel were the signs of the zodiac; a spieler garbed in the graduation clothes of a Har- vard man, with scholarly pince-nez upon his nose, was trying to convince @ crowd of time-killers that they could change their. lives if only they would follow their planetary influ- ences. For 50 cents or a dollar, they could know all. Obviously, the county fair boys are finding Manhattan good pickings. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) TODAY <% Fach Sug 1S THE % pany RUSS COUNTER REVOLT On Dec. 10, 1917, a counter revolt in southeastern Russia was aimed at seizing authority in that section and cutting off food supplies from Si- beria. The revolt was led. by Generals Kaledine, Dutoff and Korniloff. ‘The Rumanians were forced by the Russians to sign an armistice. A dispatch from Jassy, Rumania, stated that an armistice for three months between the German avd Ru- manian forces, taking in also the Rus- sians on the Rumanian front, had been agreed upon. Spain announced that the Spanish steamship Claudio had been bom- barded by a German submarine. Eight sailors were killed and several ‘wounded. Observation trenches, lost by the Italians east of Capo Sile, on the STICKERS When the above empty squares are properly filled in it will form a word dia- mond that will read the same across and down. See if you can fill in the missing letters. © THIS CURIOUS WORLD Te een SMAr ius Spofrenent fi) MEANINGS, HORSE, GHOST, BuT, TOMB, AND MAMA... TALL ONTHE INFLECTION USED. ‘When it was all over, they sold|® ‘The Time, the Place, and—’ Mee | Italian forces, - | Quotations C. Ritchie of Maryland. e 8 & lower Piave line, were retaken by the Demoralized industry means de- moralized politics. — Governor Albert The time has come to take the soap-box off the street corner an take it into the directors’ University. eee Koenig, |man submarine. een —Rev. Edward Robert Moore, Asso. ee & D. Bancroft, Cornell University. * * & perity.—Henry Ford. | Sterling pass By FERN R. STEWART Monday. <. marck. ‘Bismarck shoppers Tuesday. Stewart home in Driscoll. ler Friday. Clifford Olson and sister, Mildred, were Bismarck callers Saturday. jtives in Glen Ullin Sunday. day. Van Viet home Sunday. Miss week-end at her home Butte township. ing was held Monday night. nerve for collateral. Which Egypt, Arabia and India are in the same lattitude as Florida. room.—Dr. Glen Frank, president of Wisconsin I do not believe the nature of the Chinese race will ever enable them to. embrace Bolshevism.— Captain Paul war-time commander-of Ger-/ Birth control is socially unethical. ciated Catholic Charities, New York. The brain can be abnormal two ways—by being too puckered or by being too mushy.—Professor Wilder If you want my opinion, 10 years from now there will be much pros- Kute Johnson was a town caller Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jessen were town callers Tuesday en route to Bis- Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Johnson werp Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stewart and {family spent Sunday at the J. D. Pete Schlaback was a Driscoll call- Mr. ang Mrs. Lee Neth visited rela- Alton Johnson and Pete Schmid- kunz called on Joseph Dorson Sun- Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Johnson and daughter Olive called at the Allen Mr. and Mrs. Wildfang and family spent Sunday at the P. E. Roth home. Vivian Larson spent the in Sibley ‘stered with mohair, which is made The regular Farmers’ Union meet- And a banker says you can’t accept means, perhaps, that a dead beat has more nerve than you'll give him credit for. a} By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association Almost everyone now knows that the human being may be sensitized to certain protein substances and re- ‘spond in various ways, sometimes with hhay-fever, sometimes with asthma, sometimes with abdominal pain or headache, and sometimes with erup- tion on the skin. The eruption on the skin may take various forms, including swelling, ec- (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc. |2ema, and general irrgation mant- fested by blisters and itching. Dr. Leo H. Criep has recently sur- | veyed some of the special points in relationship to the type of sensitivity ©! that is manifest in the skin. Usually the person indicates that other mem- bers of his family have similar dis- turbances, Mcluding either hay-fever or asthma, or some other type of sen- sitivity. Not infrequently the occupation of the patient is such that he is fre- quently in contact with material which may cause sensitivity. For ex- ample, he may be a peddler or a stable man, and thus be in contact with horses. He may be a baker or she may be a housewife and sensitive to flour. Janitors show sensitivity to insect powder, pharmacists and chem- ,/ists to various substances with which they may be concerned. Furriers may have eczema due to furs, but women | who wear the furs may also show sen- sitivity. xe * Sometimes the appearance of the first attack may coincide with the purchase of new bedding, pillows, up- holstered furniture, rugs, new toys, or new clothing. People sensitive to goat hair may have their first attack when riding in a motor car uphol- from goat hair. A new rug made of cotton, wool, hair or camel hair when put into a house may suddenly lead to an attack of sensitivity explainéd Daily Health Service SKIN DISEASE IS USUALLY RESULT OF SENSITIVITY Medical Tests of Skin and Diet Disclose Cause of MGcaltiel people are sensitive to flowers, in- cluding the primrose, the chrysanthe- mum, the ivy and the rose, The common foods involved in manifestations of sensitivity, such as eczema -and urticaria and swelling of the szin, are milk, wheat, eggs, cars. als, lettuce, chocolate, fish, cabbages and potato. ean aes ee ing proper of the , OF tasting the diet after studying the his- tory of the case, can determine whether or not there exists one of these special sensitivities. When the nature of the sensitivity is deter- mined, it is possible to avoid the sub- stance to which the sensitivity ex- ists and thus to be relieved of the symptoms. This year’s Ohio corn crop is esti- mated at 162,564,000 bushels. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: (REO. U. 8. PAT. only by contact with the new piece of fui It is now generally known that some people are sensitive to orris root in face powder, others to rice, corn or similar substances mixed with The race to health is often won in soaps or cosmetics. Finally, many the home stretch. . BEGIN HERE TODAY MARY HARKNESS plots to en- snare The Fly, who “framed” her her, EDDIE, with the mard JUPITER and ran hi in BOWEN of the Star. Mary's DIRK RUYTHER, believes guilty and breaks with when she will not give a up the bracelet ry, who discovers it was len from Mes, Jupiter 'the night with him, necklace from her “Gypsy.” The Fly goes al tries again to steal the Bowen gives Mary walked The “Gypsy” goes reef. . Li a tr agrouné on a NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLIV J. JUPITER was the first man on deck. Although it was past his usual early retiring hour, he was still dressed. He was there -when Captain Hendricks came hur- tying down from the bridge, and together the two men retired to the port rail. Bates and Mary fol- lowed, “What's the matter, captain?” . Bates inquired somewhat nervously. He “had a landsman’s fnordinate fear of-accident on sea, and even Mary felt a childish impulse to rush to the captain and cling to his hand until the danger was over. “We're fast on a reef,” Captain Hendricks was explaining to Mr. Jupiter. “She's apparently not hurt—the engineers say she’s mak- ing no water below—but she seems to be well stuck.” “Can you get off by yourself?” "Mr, Jupiter aske “We'll have a try at it tomorrow morning. I’m afraid we'll have to} have @ tug out of Key West though to give us a pull.” “Do what you think. best,” Mr. Jupiter answered mildly. “I shouldn't have come in to- night,” the captain continued, “but the moon made it almost like day, and I’ve been around here.so much I thought I could make it even in & fog. This channel isn’t used ex- cept for small fishing craft, and Apparently some of the buoys have drifted over. See that mid-channel buoy there?” He pointed to what looked like an upturned funnel to Mary. It was floating almost in the shadow the ship cast on the water. “Mid-channel buoy, and {t’s stick- ing right up on top of a reet with only about five feet of water over it! Fortunately we were coming in slow, just barely turning over.” “Where are we?” Bates asked. “Just a half mile from. the old pier at Fort Jefferson where I in- tended to make fast, In’ another five minutes we'd bave been there. ‘That's Dry Tortugas there a couple of miles off the starboard beam.” They turned to look, and the ray fully. “How about it, Bates?” “Fine.” “We'd better be getting a little sleep. Ought to be out by six an: way. They bite better early in the morning. Everybody back to bed now. There’s nothing we can do to help, and we'd only be in the way.” eee HE day that followed was one of unutterable tedium for those left behind while the fishing party cruised happily about. Mary sat in a deck chair, a book in her lap, watching the unexcited labors of the distant fishermen through a telescope loaned her by the captain. It was not very entertaining but {t was better than nothing. The burning sun drove Bruce and Louise downstairs, where they played interminable games of soll- taire. De Loma prowled the ship like @ caged animal. He had run out of cigarettes long since, and his nerves were all a-jangle. He roved from one end of the ship to the other, leaning on the rail and studying the prospect in every di- rection. They were all very much the same, which must have been discouraging. He. avoided the landward side, Mary observed, but whether this was due to her presence there, or to the view—which consisted of glassy sea out of which old Fort Jefferson prison reared its ugly head—she did not know. Presently, to give him the range of the boat, and also because his restlessness had begun to get on her nerves, she resolved to go below and take a nap, She met a steward with a tray, headed for Dirk's state- room, and stopped him. She rear- ranged it a bit to make it more in- viting. .Then she had the steward wait while she wrote a note. It was only three words, ‘Mary pulled a book from the rack on one side of the salon and sent that along, too. She promised her- self that she would drop in and see Dirk after he had funcb, Once she heard an altercation out on deck. De Loma was berating a steward because he had locked up the liquor cabinet, at Mr. Jupiter's order, as it turned.out. Mary dis- missed it from her mind, until a violent knocking at her door forced her to take notice of it. De Loma was in a towering, white-hot.rage, ~ “What's this all about?’ he snarled. “Am I a guest on this damn fishing-smack or am I not? Why can’t 1 get service trom these deaf mutes you've got for waiters on this tub? I want a drink, and I want it now, do you hear! Tell this cub to toss out that key! What does he think I am, a baby?” “Take your troubles to Captain Hendricks, He's in command,” Mary replied. “Yes? Well, there's something else I want to know—why doesn’t that radio operator send my mes- sages?” “Doesn't he?” “No. It he did, I'd have had an- swers before now. What's happen- ing to my trunks? Damn it, if that hotel seizes them, I'll hold you re sponsible!” Mary smiled shakily. “You flatter me. As I said before, Captain Hendricks is the man to see.” 4 : “That sd From lis choice of expletives it was apparent that Captain Hen- of the big lamp in its white tower ewept across their faces and off into the moonlit night. “I'm going fishing In the morn- ing then,” Mr. Jupiter said cheer- dricks had already been seen, and added bis refusal to that of his subordinates. De Loma was ap- Dealing \to Mary as.a last resort. He was almost beside himself, and his bravado was fast crumbling. Mary shut the door and an instant later she heard the captain's low, steady voice, “We've a sick man in that cabin down there, De Loma. I suggest you lower ybur voice, Better still, was impressive, particularly to a man whose courage was not of the Stay up on deck. What were you bothering Miss Harkness about? Miss Harkness 1s not to be an- noyed!” os » /E LOMA obeyed without a word. There was something about the sturdy figure of the captain that physical sort, Mary, listening to the encounter between the two with @ loudly beating heart, opened her door a trifle when De Loma had gone, Captain Hendricks was still standing there. “Keep your door locked,” he said very low. “The steward just sur- prised him trying Mr. Jupiter's door. That's what he’s so hot and bothered about, Though I reckon he'd like to have a drink, at that. Good thing Jupiter's got the only boat—I think he'd try to row to shore.” “Are we off the reef yet?” she asked hopefully, All morning the crew had worked at the job of dislodging the strand- ed “Gypsy,” first dropping an an- chor off the bow and trying to pull her forward with a winch and then repeating the performance off the stern, But the lovely white-and- gold yacht was firmly seated upon @ rock, and there she remained, as alluring a sight as Circe of old to the tired and grubby fishermen now plying toward her. “No luck. We're here till we can get @ tug to pull us off.” The cap- tain /shook his head. “He'll be balmy before then. You know what I think?” He whispered almost gleefully. “I\ think it’s that old prison that gets his goat! He's so jittery now he can’t eat. And when appetites fail on shipboard, a man’s either seasick or got the fear of hell-fire in him.” In mid-afternoon the fishermen arrived, and even the sullen De Loma was at the rail to watch their coming aboard. Any kind of ac tivity was better than the stillness and utter Jack of human association from which he had been suffering. “Oh, what marvelous luck!” Mary called out involuntarily as the boat came alongside and she saw several shining fish in the bottom. “What are they? I never saw such beaut!- ful fish before.” Both Mr. Jupiter and Bates were grinning as they climbed out, albeit rather stiffly, and came up the gangplank. “Kingfish,” Bates replied, “and they're rightly named, too. What a fight one of those fellows gave me! He knew I was an amateur so he gave the works.” “Didn't you get any barracuda?” “No. No luck there.” Mr, Jupl- ter called a deck hand to bring their catch up from the dinghy. “I wouldn’t want to try to bring one of those into that cockleshell. Got the boat loose yet?” “Sorry, sir,” the captain replied. “And now there's something the matter with the radio. Tried to get Key West to order a tug, but it wouldn't work. Couldn't raise any- one.” A sudden thought made him look suspiciously in De Loma’s di- rection. “If I thought anyone had tampered with it—” De Loma brought his eyes back from a moody contemplation of Fort Jefferson prison, turned and walked away. The captain's specu- lative gaze followed him. Dr was either asleep or feigned it when Mary went down to seo him. His stony unresponsiveness was beginning to wear her spirits down at last, It was not human, she felt, to be so stubbornly resist- ant even to the ordinary claims of friendship. He must hate her, There was no other explanation. She almost ran to her own cabin, locked herself in and let the tears come. Then, realizing that she could not go up on deck again with- out exciting curiosity, she sent a steward to ask Bates to loan her his half-complete “picture puzzle.” If she must be a prisoner she could at least be doing something useful. For two hours she labored over the heap of paper scraps, fitting them together expertly, until she had the finished poster. It was al- most impossible to gain a clear idea of the man’s looks until another hour's labor had succeeded in past- ing the scraps in place. But be yond @ doubt it was De Loma—a younger De Loma, almost a boy, in fact. The same thin, hawk-like face, the beady black eyes, the ar- rogant head. He wore a white shirt open at the neck, and white trou- sers curiously clipped in at the ankles, as it for bicycle riding, and what appeared to be a pair of old tennis shoes. The curiousness of this get-up was heightened by his pose—arms folded across the chest, the feet at right angles in the “first Dosition” of the baMet dancer. Below was printed: “Harry Hill, the Human Fly.” Mary pondered this for some time. The name was not familiar, and she had no idea what a “human fly” was. Leaving it for Bates’ interpretation, she went up on deck. Night had settled down as she Joined the rest of the party, grouped on the main deck just forward of Mr. Jupiter’s cabin. A half mile or Bo to the east, gleaming ghostly clear in the moonlight, the prison rose abruptly out of the sea. A gold moon swam in the deep blue trop!- cal sky. The whole scene was like a vivid lthograph or a highly col- ored postcard picture. Louise was talking as Mary joined the group, describing an old castle she had visited the year before. “It had the most marvelous stained glass windows, made in Italy by the monks during the Renaissance and transported over the mountains on donkeys. I remember particu- larly a deep crimson ... the glass ‘was so finely colored it looked like precious stone...” She turned to Mary. “What yeminded me of it were your rubies. What have you done with them? Do you have them on the yacht? I should love just to look at them again.” “I have them here,” Mr. Jupiter spoke up, before Mary could de cide what answer to make to this amazing request. He reached into the pocket of his dinner jacket and pulled them out, holding them up to the eyes of the others, There were several sharply drawn breaths at the unexpected glory of the stones, “Try ‘em on, Mary, do,” he urged. “It’s a sight worth seeing,” he told the others with naive pride. He rose and laid them in her hands, Fumbling with nervousness, Mary reached up to fasten them about her neck, but they slipped from her fingers. She mado a fran- tic grab for them, but cnly suc ceeded in striking them with her hand,‘ They fell flashing into the sea, “You fool! Ob, you fool!” De Loma screamed at her insanely. “Now see what you've done!” (To Be Continued) %