Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1922, Page 18

B - = - % E £ E % = ARLING 1627 K St. N.W. [ Price, 88 SOO—EASY TERMS These beautiful homes are selling fast—only two left. 1 tiled bath, hardwood floors, hot-water clothes chute, trunk closets, metal kitchen cabinets, concrete front porch; ¥ contain s tricity, epini porche irovements te vour i rooms, spection. REAL VALU! GRANT CIRCLE HOMES? If Not, Inspect 415 Varnum St. N.W. Right at Grant Circle—A Superior Location—23 Feet Wide—Side Light 4 Large Bedrooms, 5 Closets, Tile Bath Large Living and Dining Rooms Convenient Kitchen and Pantry Open and lighted until 9 pm. Take any 9th Street car marked “Soldiers’ Home” or 16th D..J. DUNIGAN 000000 R Street Bus to “Grant Circle.” 1321 New York Avenue N.W. REAL ESTATE. ————" REAL HOMES (JUST COMPLETED) FOUR SOLD 906-16 Decatur Street N.W. (JUST OFF GA. AV Salesman on premises at all Mimes. TON REALTY CO. S IN REAL HOMES large lot to alley; all | | | | Main 3174 | Petworth Grant Circle at Varnum St. A Superior Location Have You Seen Dunigan’s Coat a LOT 135 FEET DEEP L g = - T - = Cchtains 6 Rooms and Bath, Sleeping Porch, Attic. ! ROBERT E. MITCHELL CO. (i OPEN ‘m‘ NEW Chevy Chase HOMES 39th and Le gatmn The Price, $11,500~Terms, $2,000 Cash Balance Same As Rent 1405 Irvmg St. N. about her dsughter, Gloria. Seward had been sext out for it r Trlends 1o get It. Feputation: entlst, | bers of the hunt were scouring the | country over which we had passed, Parquet Floor, Detroit Jewel Gas Range Hot-Water Heat, 3 Porches THE. * Each story complete The Story thus fai cousults Kennedy Mrs. Bradford Rrackett ey 4 from her x.o-‘ itand, tiom {isement of & ten-thousand.doll Mrs. Brack- o edy that Gloria may have g Bhss helbed some of her fast She says her daughter has at of lier control. She is fre- abaret Rouge, both in New York which has a very bad 4 ahe wmllld v Bl Francont, taltan wel- rE. who han ‘perfected ‘the. telephote. by graphs could be transmitted by jue the mother in afraid ria’s futimacy with her present companions will make the marriage impossible. Ritter, or tehouse Swith, is one of them. Rhineland- Brown is one and so is a dancer, Rex Du nd, und » woman, Deroice Heutley, chaj eron of the caburet. adv oomily -watchin e danting A strang Soung _ woman, i Du Mond's wife, Ring divorce evidence, comes quietly to the and the party breaks up planning to er at the Long Island Ken- nedy sends a young detective to search the pawnshops for news of stolen necklace. ay wax the day of a fox hunt s 'father had insisted she be present. .Tla hunters gathered. T e e miles. and _then stopped o Dreathe. After a few moments Mrs. Irackett came galloping over to Kenned: ER face was almost white. “Gloria hasn't come up with she exclaimed Already Brackett had told those about him, and all was confusion. was only a moment when the mem- with something really definite to find. Kennedy did not pause. “Come on, Walter,” he shouted, striking out down the road, with me hard after him. We pulled up before a roadhouse of remarkable quaintness and lux- | ury of appointment, one of the hun- dreds about New York which the automobile has recreated. Before it nd UmbreHa Closet Main 1267 Southern Exposure. -EVENING The Social Gangster By Arthur B. Reeve. One of The Star’s Week-End Fiction Series. 2 PRNEINY O Sl P o P Py in three installments. swung the weathered sign: ‘“Cabaret Rouge.' To our hurried Inquiries the man- ager admitted that Du Mond had been there, but alone, and left, also alone. Gloria had not come there. A moment later sounds of hooffs on the hard road Interrupted us and Ritter Smith dashed up. ‘Just overtook a farmer down the road,” he panted. “Says he saw an automobile waiting at the stone bridge and later it passed him with a girl and a man n it. He couldn't recognize them. The top was up and they went so fast.” Together we retraced the way to the stone bridge. Sure enough, there on the side of the road were marks where a car had pulled up. Th grass about was trampled. and us we searched Kennedy reached down and picked up something white. At least it had been white. But now it was spotted with fresh blood, as though some one had tried to stop 2 nosebleed. He looked at it !l(l:‘e corner was e ore closely. In roidered a’ little Evidently there had been a strug- gle and a car had whizzed off. Gloria was gone. But with whom? Had the message which he had seen her read at the start been from Du 4\1l)l|d'l Was the plan to elope and so avoid his wife? Then why the struggle?” Absolutely nothing more developed | from the scarch. An alarm was at [once sent vut and the police all over ] the country notihed. There was noth- ing to do now but walt. Mrs. Brackett was frantic. But it was not now the scandal that worried her. It was Glorfa's safety. That night in the laboratory Ken- sedy took the handkerchief and with the blood on it made a most peculiar test before a strange-looking little instrument. It seemed to consist of a little cylinder of glass immersed in water Kept at the temperature of the body. Between two minutes wire pincers or serres In the cylinder was a very small plece of some tissue. To the lower serre was attached a thread. The upper one was attached to a sort of lever ending in a pen that moved over a ruled card. very emotion,” remarked Ken- nedy as he watched the movement of the pen in the zigzag lines over the card, “produces its physlological effect. Fear, rage, pain, hunger are primitive experiences, the most pow- erful that determine the actions of man. I suppose you have heard of the recent studies of Dr. Walter Cannon of Harvard of the group of remarkable _alterations In bodily economy under emotion?" nodded, and Kennedy resumed. “On the surface one may see the ef- fect of blood vessels contracting, In pallor: one may see cold sweat, or the saliva stop when the tongue cleaves to the roof of the mouth, or one may see the pupils dilate. hairs raise, perspiration, become quick, or the beating of the heart, or trem- bling of the muscles, notably the lips. But one cannot see such evidences of emotion If he is not present at the time. How can we reconstruct | them He paused a moment, then resumed. “There are organs hidden deep in the body which do not reveal so easily the emotions. But the effect often outlasts the actual emotion. There | are special methods by which one can | udy the feelings. That is what 1 have been doing here. I querled. called the pathetlc norvous system.” he oxplain: ed. “Above the kidney there are also glands called the suprarenal, which excrete a substance known as ad- | renin. In extraordinary small amounts adrenin affects this sympathetic sys- tem. In emotions of various kinds a reflex action is sent to the suprarenal glands, which causes a pouring into the blood of adrenin. the handkerchiet of Glorla I obtained plenty of com- fresh blood. Here in th Tachine 1 have between these two pincers a minute segment of rabbit | intestine. He withdrew the solution from the cylinder with a pipette, then intro- duced some more of the dissolved blood from the handkerchief. The first effect was a strong contraction of the rabbit intestine, then in a min- jute or so the contractions became fairly even with the base line on the card. “Such tissue,” he remarked, “Is no- | ticeably affected by even one part In over a million of adrenin. See here, by the writing lever, the rhythmical | contractions are recorded. Such a strip of tissue will live for hours, will contract and relax beautifully with a regular rhythm, which, as you see, can be graphically recorded.” This is my adrenin test.” Carefully he withdrew the ruled pa- per with its tracings. “It's a very simple test after al he said, laying beside this tracing a other which he had made previously. | “There you see the difference between what I may call ‘quiet blood’ and ‘ex- cited bloo I looked at the two sets of tracings. t “What do they show to "I asked, perplexed. “he answered, laconically. ‘Gloria Brackett did not go voluntai ily. She did not elope. She wal forced to go!™ carried ‘off?™ I “Attacked queried. “l did not say that,” he replied. “Perhaps our original theory that her nose was bleeding may be correct. It might have started in the excite- ment, the anger and fear at what happened, whatever it was. Certain- 1y the amount of adrenin in her blood shows that she was laboring under strong enough emotion.” Our telephone rang insistently and Kennedy answered it. As he talked, although I could hear only one side of the conversation, I knew that the I message was from Chase and that he had something important about the missing necklace. “What was it?” I asked, eagerly, as he hung up the receiver. “Chase has traced the necklace,” he reported; “that is, he has discovered the separate stones, unset, pawned in several shops. The tickets were is- sued to a girl whose description ex- iactly fits Gloria Brackett.” { I could only stare at him. What) we had all feared bad actually taken] and place. Gloria must have taken the necklace herself. Though we had {feared it and' trled to discount fit, | nevertheless .the certainty came aw a shock. “Why should she have taken {t?” I considered. “For many possible reasons,” re- turned Kennedy. “You saw the life she was leading. Her own income probably went to keep tho: going. ides, her mothe; her allowance. She may have need- ed money very badly.’ “Perhaps they had run her into debt,” 1 agreed, though the thought was disagreeable. A “How about that other little wom. an we saw?' suggested Kennedy. “You remember how Gloria seemed to stand ‘{I fear of Du Mond? Who knows but that he made her get it to save her reputation? A girl in Gloria’s position might do many fool: ish things. But to be named as co- respondent, that would be fatal.” There was not much comfort to be had by either alternative, and we sat for a moment regarding each other in_silence. Suddenly the door opefed. Mrs. Brackett entered. Never h;ve I seen 2 greater contrast in so me than that between u:e -ulklnr 80~ ciety matron who first called on us and the broken woman now before us. iShe was a pathetic figure as Kennedy placed an easy chair for her. “Why, what's the matter?” asked xennsdy. “Have you heard anything new?” She did not answer directly, but silently handed him a yellow alip of paper. On a telegraph blank wen wrman simply the wordd, “Don't try to follow mea I've gone to be a war nurln. ‘When I make good I will let you know. Gloria.' ‘We looked at each other in blank amazement. That was hardly an asy way to trace her. How could one ever find out now where she was in the present state of affairs abroad, even supposing it were not a ruse to cover up something? Somehow I felt that the message did not tell the story. Where was Du Mond? Had he fled, too-—perhaps forced her to go with him wken Mrs. Du Mond appeared? The message did not explain the struggle and the fear. “Oh, . Kennedy,” pleaded Mrs. Brackett, all thought of her former pride gone, as she actually held out her hands . fell on her knees, " she cried eagerly, reaching into her mesh bag and drawing one 1 carry it with me always. " exclalmed Kennedy, selz- “It occurs to me that it is now or never that this devise of Francon!'s must prove that it is some ! good. If she really went, she wasted no time. There's just a bare chance that the telephote has been placed on sdme of these vessels that are carrying munitions abroard. Fran- coni says that he has developed it for its war value.” As fast as Mrs. Brackett's chauffeur could drive us, we motored down to South Side beach and sought out the little workshop directly, on the ocean where Franconi had (old us that we should always be welcome. He was not there, but an assistant was. Kennedy showed him the card that Franconi had given us. “Sho; me how the machine works,” he asked, while Mrs. Brack- ett and I waited aside, scarcely able to curb our impatience. “Well,” began the assistant, “this is a screen of very minute and sen- sitive selenfum cells. 1 don't know how to describe the process better than to say that the tones of sound. the human voice, have hundreds of gradations which are transmitted, as you know, by wireless, now. Gradations of 'light, hich are all that are necessary to produce the {llusion of a picture, are far simpler than those of sound. Here,.in this projector—" “That is the transmitting part of the apparatus? interrupted Ken- nedy brusqaely. “That holder?" “Yes. You see there are hundreds of alternating conductors and insu- lators, all synchronized with h\ln- ds of similar receivers at the Let me see vou try this photo- graph,” interrupted Kennedy again, handing over the picture of Gloria which Mrs. Brackett had given him. “Signor Franconi told me he had the telephote on several outgoing liners. Let me see if you can trans- mit it. Is there any way of sending a wireless message from this place? The assistant had shoved the pho- tograph into the holder from which each section was projected on the selenium cell screen. “I have a fairly powerful here,” he replied. Quickly Kennedy wrote out a message, briefly describing the rea- son why the picture was transmitted and asking that any station on Ship- board that received it would have a careful search made of the passen gers for any young woman, no mat- ter what name was assumed, who might resemble the photograph. Though nothing could be expected immediately at best it was, at least some satisfaction to know that through the invisible air waves, wirelessly, the only means now of identifying Gloria was heing flashed far and wide to all the big ships within a day's distance or less on which Franconi had established his system as a test. The telephote had finished its work. Naw there was nothing to do but wait. It was a slender thread on plant { which hung the hope of success. While he waited Mrs. Brackett eating her heart out with anxiety Kennedy took the occasion to call up the New York police on long dis- tance. They had no clue to Gloria. Nor had they been able to find a trace of Du Mond. Mrs. Du Mond also had disappeared. At the Cab- aret Rouge, Bernice Bentley had been held and put through a third degree without disclosing a thing, if, indeed, she knkew anything. I won- dered ‘whether at such a crisis Du Mond, too, might not have taken the ‘ of Refined Environment and Location Strategically Creek Park. REALTOR imploringly and almost | G: Old-fashioned, hardwood floors; unusually large kitchen, with built-in refrigerator; closets; attractive bath, opportunlty to flee the country. ‘e bad almost given up hope when luddenly ® little busser on the tel phote warned the operator that som thing was coming over it. ! “The Monfaicone,” he remarked, in- terpreNng the source of the impulse: We gathered breathlessly about th complicated instrument as, on a fe. ceiving screen composed of innumer- able pencils of light, polarized and acting on a set of mirrors, each cor- jTesponding to the cells of the sele- nfum screen. and turned to them, as it were, a thin film or veli seemed gradually as the tele- | phote slowly got it | rium at both ends of the airline. the face of a girl appeared. loria,” gasped Mrs. Brackett in ione that sounded as if ten years| added to her life. cautioned the operator. There is a written message to fol- On the same screen now came in letters that Mrs. Brackett in her joy | recognized the message: “I couldn't | help it. I was blackmailed into tak- ing the necklace. Even at the hunt I recéived another demand. I did not mean to go, but I was carried off by force before I could pay the sec- ond demand. Now I'm glad of it. Forgive us. Glorl repeated Mrs. Brackett, not mprehending. ‘Look—another Kenned We bent over as the face of a man seemed to dissolve more clearly in place of the writing. “Thank God!" exclaimed Mrs. Brack- | ett fervently, reading the face by a sort of intuition before it cleare enough for us to recognize. “He has saved her from herself! It was Franconi. Slowly it faded, and in its place ap- peared another written message: “Recalled to Italy for war service. I took her with me by force. It was { the only way. Civil ceremony in New York vesterday. Religious will fol- low at Rome.” (The End.) PROTESTS MINIMUM,_ WAGE REDUCTION picture,” pointed Martin Wolf Suggests Other Cnul That Might Be Made by Merchants. To the Editor of The Star: Dear Sir: As a subscriber and read- er of your paper for many years, in- terested in the welfare of the women workers, I ask you to enter a strong protest against the contemplated re- duction of the minimum wage of $16.50 for the store women and oth- ers coming under that law. The mer- chants claim an increase of overhead expense, a 10 per cent loss of sales and a reduction of the cost of living as a basls for the change. The first item is true enough, but why take it from the lowest-paid employes. Why not reduce the salaries of people getting from $5.000 to $15,000 per year? Why not reduce expenses in other possible ways, such as stop- ping the use of page after page of advertising? As to the 10 per cent loss in the amount of sales, I beg to say that some of it Is caused by various goods being cheaper and that a 10 per cent loss of sales does not mean a 10 per cent loss of profit There is a vast difference in the two items. Taking the possible profit on the 10 per cent loss of sales claimed, add the increase of overhead expense and deduct the resultant saving in federal income: tax with the reduction in wages con- templated and the petitioners will be able to pocket a very handsome profit. no reductions resuiting to the buying public. As to the reduced cost of living, that is just a little joke, as every- body knows to their cost. The peti- tioners want to allow the women jonly the bare living expenses, no al- lowance for possible trouble, sick- nese or a little saving against the day when they may be laid off. That happens often. 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