Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 16, 1922, Page 7

ve _~ J Ld FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1922. CHAPTER VI THE WIRELESS DICPAGRAPH e UR wireless dictagraph? ‘ Bully!” exclaimed Garrick. ‘ “We could use that little mechanical eavesdro»per. Where is atv’ “In my laboratory.” Garrick’s face fell. He gianced at his watch and then at the sun. “Yes + Ithink we can make it... ‘We must.” Two hours later found them tn Dick's own wireless workshop. It was the boathouse on his estate where he had done some remarkable things with wireless. It was true that Defoe had some wonderful equipment in the world would not have availed him if he had not had that spark of inventive genius inherited from his famous father. Outside he had a big aerial from two steel towers. Garrick looked with admiration at the completeness of the workshop inside, the hack frames, mitre saws, cross-cut saws, frames, chisels, gouges, files, vibes. There were drills, hands, breast, geared and twist, pliers with all sorts of noses Thero was wire, copper, iron, alumi- num, plain and insulated, of all sizes, flexible insulated wire cord, enough for a supply store. Fibre board and * bakelite, porcelain insulators, tubing, sheet brass, sheet copper, everything THE CONVERSATION WAS LU- CRATIVE TO HER. at the very fingertips of the young inventor. Interested though he would have been at any other time, Garrick urged haste. Dick led him proudly to a table on which was his apparatus. “So this is the Defoe Wireless Dic- simple method of tuning and calfbrat- ing tho set would clear things up, es- Pecially for those who are some dis- tance away from the sending stations. ‘They have weak signals to begin with and rust listen fm on very neaviy the Proper tune if they are to get any signals at all.” “I nee,” nodded Dick. “For that Purpose a wave moter is needed. It’s to the radio what a pitch pipe ts to a piano tuner.” “Yes. Mine is simply a calibrated, oscillating cireuit and is one of the simplest circuits to buil ,fessor Iaynched into a description of his small coil, variable condenser, valvemeter phones, and general hook- up. In town Garrick called up Nita Walden at her apartments on Park) Avenue. She had got ahead of any-| one else and had had Ruth's car towed to c garage. They stopped there a moment and Professor Vario's solicitude for Mrs. Walden seemed to offer Garrick the opportunity to get rid of him, for they certainly did not| want any strangers about tn what| they were going to do. “But the show,” remonstrated Mrs. Walden as Viro offered to stay and! do anything he enuld to relieve her anxiety. “I'll telephone them that I'm de- layed. They can postpone my stunt until later in the evening,” he in- sisted. “Apd, Mrs. Walden, don't you! worry when you have two such good friends as Garrick and Dick helping. | You should have seen the way they settled the porch crowd—and you can count on mo as a third. I may be the last bit I hope not the least where Miss Ruth's welfare is concerned.” “I really appreciate your kindness| deeply—but—of course, I want my Uttle girl. I can’t think of anything else. I can't talk over the telephone, | right; I can't read; I am just incapa- citated until Ruth gets back to me.” “Dick, I'll stay with Mrs. Walden! for a little while, if I may. I know| she needs some help. If you want! me later I'll be at the Radio Show.” Garrick thanked him, then leaned over Nita Walden. “We'll have some| word gonight—sure. By tomorrow you'll have her back—safe.” Outside he found McKay and de-| lvered Mrs. Walden’s instructions. | “You are to take Professor Vario down to the Armory to the Radio Show;| then you may put the car up.” Garrick had ben thinking out a plan for the installing of the dictagraph.| Up the street from the Inner Circle, were two houses turned into studio apartments. He found the caretaker, and the conversation was lucrative to her. Dick selected and carried up to the) roof the apparatus and they went as| silently as possible across the inter- vening roofs until they came to the ‘The pro-|fo down to the Inner Circle. — “Brock!* exclaimed Dick, who had come over. “Then Jack Curtie came in a car. He didn’t stay long; went downtown, I think.” Rac had been fussing with the in- terior of one car in the long line in the garage. She was apparently very busy but McKay noticed that n: escaped her, no matter how sligh’ had continued to watch some time. Suddenly @ very rakish drew up and Rae looked out of the sedan in which she was. When she she jumped out to meet him. Glenn greeted her with a smile. “Well, you poor fish?’ Rae. ‘You must believe in ghosts. You leok as though you'd seen one. What are you doing here?’ “Just looking . . . to there’s anyone about.” “Gee, Glenn, I'm sickly thirsty. wu you take me “Surely, Rae. Always gtad to re- lieve a drought and be charitable to my own at the same time.” Rae grabbed his arm and swung up behind the wheel. They were off. To himself Glenn had had to admit that no one could be bored in Rae's society. No wonder Vira was jealous. But he wouldn't have taken a dozen Raes for one Vira. He difn’t like coarseness and somtimes Rae did not suit his fastidious nature. Vir. with all her modernity, vivacity and reck- lessness never was coarse. McKay had gone, property reward ed, and Garrick was pondering over what he had just learned “Were they the three at the Parr estate last night—Rae, Brock and Jack?" he speculated aloud at length. “But Jack could hardly have been back then,” hastened Dick. “He must have been on the “Bacchante.’ “How about Glenn?’ ‘Or Georges?” parried Dick. “Perhaps . . . what of Ruth? + + + Say, Dick, I'm going to leave ‘ou here with that wireless dicta- graph. You can work it best any- how. I must get a line on that gar- age and do it right away.” Down the street in a lunchroom Garrick caught sight of McKay again and beckoned him quietly out. “I was thinking about calling you up sir, soon,” informed McKay. “I was just talking to one of the polish- ers in there. He tells me that Jack Curtis gave orders to some driver about the place, a stranger, to go after something at celeyen o'clock. He didn’t know what it was or whero it was but he give him a key, sir.” McKay pointed tho fellow, a strang- er, out, and Garrick reached into his Pocket for his ever-ready roll of bills. McKay seemed really offended. “Mr. Garrick—please. I didn’t feel ight when you slipped me that other five spot. Mrs. Walden has been so fine to me—I've driven her three years—and, as you might say, seen Miss Ruth grow up. Say, I believe I'd lose an arm or a leg to get this ‘thing settled straight.” Alone Garrick waited. It was now half past nine. He had an hour and a half to watch. As he did so he revolved the two robberies over and over in his mind. Each time his roadster saw Glenn Buckley in the roadster exclaimed see it It's |not be Georses? What, after all. did he know about Georges, since before the war and during the easy violation THE MAN WENT SPRAWLING BACKWARD. of selling service men that which ts wet? It was nearly midnight when Gar rick in what seemed {ke a reliable ‘taxicab, concluded the training of the man who had received instructions from Curtis. ; He had evidently been waiting until the streets were sufficiently deserte Now lie drew his car, a big sedan, up to the curb, leaving the engine run ning, but well muffied, as silent as ‘sleeve valves could make it. Garrick dismissed his taxi at the corner and began to reconroitre. To his amazement he saw that he was on the block where was the town house ‘af Vira Gerard's family. It was an added shock when he saw that the car had stopped just in front of the Gerard house and that he driv er had entered the gate and was fumb. fling with a key at the door. Garrick quickened his steps. It was now or never to get let in on this mys- tery. As he turned in at the gate the mn at the door heard him, looking then ‘quickly catching a be and swung on him. Garrick parried and countered. The man went sprawling backward on the bit of turf of the little front yard. At that moment Garrick heard the clatter of feet from across the street and around the motor. But before he could turn, the other man was on him, bearing him down with the mo. mentum of the rush. He was a husky but Garrick felt he could outwrestlo him. The fellow sprawling on the turf Swore again as he crouched up on his shands and knees, waiting to get a hold. ‘Two were more than Garrick could handle as legs and arms and heads jeut the turf, getting ever nearer the sharp pickets of the fence. (Continued In Our Next Issue.) | es cting him, ‘The horse that wins the great Eng- tagraph,” complimented Garrick, pick-|root of the Inner Circle. | ing up the familiar little round trans-| Jt was a curious roof. In the cen-| mitter like that which he had used|ter had been built a great concrete| so many times on the wired machine. [pox as big as a room. There was no As he packed the parts Dick hastl-|time to investigate that, however. Jy enumerated them, his sending set,| Garrick fished with a line down| batteries, coils of wire, small portable }the chimney, by sounding, until he lo- antennae, and the receiving set. Heated the flue to the Pink Room. They at last had everything strap-|rhen, dangling down, he lowered the ped in on the rear of Garrick’s car|ajctagravh transmitter until it must and as they swung up toward the}thave hung a foot from the floor of turnpike they stopped for a moment/the hearth back of the iron grill work! at the Nononwantuc Club. under the mantel below in the Pink| As Dick hopped out, followed by}Room. Guy, there was a suspicious silence] ‘Meanwhile, on the roof, Dick had on the club porch as often happens }bheen busy placing his sending set and when the friends of an interesting |.carrick helped him complete the set- + factor of the preceding conversation |iup, thought led him to the same path. ‘Who was the “man higher up’ it J: Curt! Or Bro GOLDEN VITAMINES| Nature has provided in the cells of the liver of the cod-fish, | a_treasure house of golden vitamine-bearing oil, sur- | passing in vitamine-richness any other form of fat or oil. | lish Derby has cause to remember it, for people pull hairs out of its tall as souvenirs. 4 | I take me up to the station. Radio Show at the Seventy-first Regi- ent Armory. I’m to give a lecture POeSeoODODeOOOCCO® draw nigh. Silence is Freudian. Dick winked-at Garrick. A buxom old lady, trembling for gossip, was actually short-breathed to get to Garrick before a group of flap- pers, Ruth's friends, reached him. “Mr, Garirck—ah-h-h—Mr. Gar rick—" ‘The flappers won out. They near-|* ly always do these days. “Hey—Dick! ‘Where's Ruth? . . . Guy, havo you heard how badly she was hurt? . . . For heaven’s sake, get her back here. The place is dead without Ruth.” The old lady plumped down in a nearby chair to listen, actually with mouth open. ‘With a smile on his face, Professor Vario of the Radio Central at Rock Ledge, crossed over to him to make friendly inquiries. “Going into town?” inquired Vario when Garrick returned with a small handbag from his rooms. “Yes,” observing how Vario was d@ressed—-“‘are you?” “I was_ waiting for the club bus ta Yes, to the @nd demonstration tonight of my new ‘wave meter.” “Well, jump in.” The professor was eager to assist them in every way as far as they chose to take him into their confi- dence. Garrick had met him many times at the Club and Dick.and Vario fmade the transmitter about as sensi- had had much in common in their work. He seemed particularly inter- ested in keeping Ruth out of further harm and very sympathetic toward Mrs. Walden in her trouble. However, Garrick did not propose to discuss much with even Vario and on the way he and Dick fell into a discussion of their hobby, especially on Vario’s lecture on his new wave meter. “So "explained many Vario, “have difficulty in finding thes wave length of the broadcasting sta- tions that I have concluded that some ‘As they left the studio house, two men were passing. One of them ‘brushed suspiciously against Dick with enough force to knock the bas| he was carrying out of his hand. Garrick controlied kis temper. Here ‘were the mysterious shadowers again. "Were they emissaries of the gang? Garrick picked up the bag himself, Mooked significantly at the man, and remarked, “Well, see? Nothing drip- ping!" ‘As they had been at work on the roof, they had determined on placing ‘the recetving end up at Garrick’s ‘apartment which was only several! blocks uptown. At Bachelors’ Hall -Dick worked rapidly, for it was now getting dark in spite of the length of the days. He unpacked the receiving end of his, wireless dictagraph in the room, then | [went up on the roof and erected the} portable aerial. { [ Carefully and deftly he began to) tune up, now that this second instal-| lation was complete. It was rather ‘difficult to get the fine adjustment, but at last he got the right wave! length. | He looked up at Garrick, smiled./ and took the headgear off, handing) it to him. “Get that?” | Garrick adjusted it, listened for a moment in some perplexity, then ex-| claimed, “Why, I can hear the whirr of a vacuum cleaner in the room! Dick smiled proudly. “Tf think I’ve! tive a raicrophone as can be made. I ‘nly hope it isn't so sensitive that it picks up through the wall what hap- pens in the house next door.” They listened in for several minutes but there was nothing more yet. Whoever was cleaning the room fin- ished and left. ‘The buzzer on Garrick's door sounded. He opened it on a crack. It bwas McKay. | “I just saw that Rae Larue, with a man, at the Park Garage on Six- tieth street, where I put the car up.” “What sort of looking man I hereby annouiice myself as a candidate for the Republican nomination of Sheriff of Natrona County at the August primary subject to the will of the voters. E. M. ELLITHORPE. is the ideal body-building Scott’s Emulsion beari: than SCOTS EMULSION OF PUREST VITAMINE-BEARING COD-LIVER OIL A little added to the diet stimulates assimilation and re-inforces the body with strength. food, builds health. t | ¢ now to start taking Scott’s Emulsion! | Scott & Bowne. Bloomfield. N. J. ne food and tonic for all ages. | highly charged _ vitamine- | calth. 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