Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1922, Page 6

’ Announcement PAINE STUDIO 923 F St. NW. OPEN AGAIN SUNDAYS BEGINNING OCT. 1st As usual week days, in- cluding Saturday, 9 A M. to COURTESY Your little battery troubles will be gladly attended. You do not need to have any big battery troubles. Careful attention will avoid them. WESTINGHOUSE " BATTERIES Maryland Battery Service, Inc. 1019 17th St. N.W. (Between K and L) Open 8 AM. to 9:30 P.AL. ‘Westinghouse Attention is for all batteries How Do You Get To—? Be prepared to & this important qu. for voursell and by taking a ma will sho ail the rou reach vour tion. You'll zet only Re- lizble Maps here, and the ownership of one or two will enable you to enjoy your motc Don’'t alw “ask™ directic position to “give them.” = !known to be = nis The story thus far: Craig is called to look into the case of the millionaire, John Srixton, who i3 Ily in a state of siege at his home k. He ls negotiating with & south- foreign syndieate of banke eastern Europe for a loan to relieve the money ugency there. Every day he receives anonvmous letters sMned ““The Red Brotherliood,” telling b if the negotiations are con- cluded he will bo Killed. mnt Wac mann, one of the foreign bankers, i3 st ing at Woodrock. Brixton is ill,” suspe everybody but his daughter Yvonne and stays in a beautifully furnished room un- der his house, reached by It is supposed to be hears a voice _threatening Kennedy examin cellings, takes a sample of the wall p and the alr from the ventilating apparatus and look: into the electric wiriug of the house. il ~-ems to find u clue in a dark storeroom in the cellar. Thete he found that the telephone wires from the under- gromd_room had been tapped. Kennedy tells Wachtmann, when he meets him, that he is a_reporter from the Star. Tl count and Yvonne seem to be o That night Kennedy returns to W and hides a little instrument in th . A wire from this runs to a nderground d Brix- 1 tou take up_their watch. voice that B often m s product t lamp In the ceilig as & " "At his_apartment and ke investigat: laboratory Kennedy does som Brixton is 3 some of the powder he ha the wall paper and tests it. K RSENIURETED hydrogen,” commented Craig. “This is the Marsh test for arsenic. That wall paper in Brix- arsenic, probably Paris schweinfurth green, which is aceto- arsenite of copper. Every minute he hydrogen. Some one has contrived intake of his ventilator. That acts on the arsenic compounds in the wall paper and hangings and sets frce the gas. I thought I knew the smel the moment I got a whiff of it. Be- sides, I could tell by the jaundiced look of his face that he was being poisoned. His liver w out of order, and arsenic seems to accumulate in the liver.” lowly poisoned by minute qu tities of gas,” 1 repeated In amaze- ment. “Some one in that Red Broth- erhood is a diabolical genius. Think of it—poisoned wall paper It was still early in the forenoon when Kennedy excused himself leaving me to my own devic appeared on one of his into the underworid of the settlements on the East Side. the middle of the ternoon reappeared. As far as I could learn all that he had found out was that the famous, or rather infamous, Prof. Michael Kumanova, one of the 1 the Red Brotherhood, somewhere in n- country. ¥ We lost no time in returning again {o Woodrock late that afternoon Craig hastened to warn Brixton of peril from the contaminated atmosphere of the den, and at once a servant was set to work with a = | vacuum cleaner. The National Remembrance Shop (Mr. Foster's Shop) 14th St., One door from ==| Pa. Ave, ANl » b it 1 ERVICE —you will appreciate—in Painting, Paperhanging or Upholstering. Moderate| charges. Geo. Plitt Co.. Inc., 373! 45205 | ool PERPETUAL - BUILDING ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity. Assets More Than $8,000,000 Surplus More Than $800,000 Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY, President JOSHUA W. CARR, Sceretary | turns anad everything. I { this third Carefully Craig reconnoitered the basement where the eavesdropping storeroom was situated. Finding it deserted, he quickly set to work connecting the two wires of the gen- eral household telephone with w looked very much like a seamle iron tube, perhaps six inches long and three inches in diametex Then he connected the tube alsd with the private wire of Brixton in a similar manner. “This is a special repeating coll of high efficiency.” he explained In an- swer to my inquiry. “It is absolutely balanced as to resistance, number o line from the coil into Brixton’s den, and then, if you like you can accompany me on’ a littld excursion down to the village, where I am going to install another similar between the two lines at the local telephone central station oppo- i site the railroad.” Brixton met us about 8 o'clack that night in his now renovated den. Ap- parently, even the little change from uncertainty to certainty so far had had a tonic effect on him. I had, | however, almost given up the illusion that It was possible for us to be even in the den without being watched by an unseen eye. It seemed to me that no one who could conceive of tatk- ing through an incandescent lamp seeing, even through steel and ma- { sontry, was not impossible. Kennedy had brought with him a rectangular box of oak, in one of the large faces of which were two square holes. As he replaced the camera-like box of the detectaphone wilh this oak box he remarkea* “This is an intercommunicating tele- phone arrangement of the detecta- phone. You see, it is more sensitive than anything of the sort ever made before. ~The arrangement bf these little square holes is such as to make !them act as horns or magnifiers of a ‘We can all hear at | double receiver. once what is going on by using this machine.” S5 We had not been’ waiting long be- fore a peculiar noise seemed to issue from the detectaphone. It was as though a door had opened and shut hastily. Some one had evidently en- tered the storeroom. A volce/ called up the railroad station and asked for Michael Kronski, Count Wachtmann's chauffeur. “It is the voice I heard last night.” exclaimed Brixton. “By the Lord POMPEIAN OLIVE OIL o Sold Everywhere Harry, do you know, it is Janeff, the engineer who has charge of the steam heating, the electric bells and every- thing of the sort around the place. My own engineer—I'l]l land the fellow in_jail before I' Kennedy raised his hand. “Let us hear what he has to say,” remonstrat- ed Craig calmly. “I suppose you have wondered why T didn’t just go dowy there last night and grab the fellow: Well, you see now. It is my Invaria- ble rule to get the man highest up. This fellow is only one tool. Arrest him, and as likely as not we should allow the big criminal to escape?” “Hello, Kronski!” came over the de- tectaphone. “This is Janeff. How are things going?” ‘Wachtmann's chauffeur must have answered that everything was all right. “You knew that they had discovered the poisoned wallpaper?” asked Janeff. A long parley followed. Finally, Janeff repeated what apparently had been his instructions. see,” he said. “You want me to stay here until the last minute so that T can overhear whether any alarm is given for her? All right. You're sure it is the 9 o’clock train she is due on? Very well. at the ferry across the Hudson. I'll start from here as soon as I hear the train come An. We'll get the girl this time. That will bring Brixton to terms sure. Don't fail me. I'll be at the ferry as soon as I can get past the guards and joln you. There isn't a chance of an alarm from the house. T'll cut all the wires the last thing be- fore I leave. Good-bye.” All at once it dawned on me what they were pl-nnlnf- he ‘kidnaping of Brixton's only ughter, to hold her, perhaps, as a hostage until he did the bidding of the gang. Wacht- mann’s_chauffeur was doing it and using Wachtmann’'s car, too. Was ‘What was to beidone? I looked at my watch. It was already only a cou- ple of minutes of 9, when the train would be due. “If we could séize that fellow in the -| Wachtmann a party to it? | closet and start for the station im- mediately we might save Yvonne.” cried Brixton, starting for the door. ton’s den has been loaded down with | green or| is there he is breathing arseniurcted | to Introduce free hydrogen into the ! I na. | all run | “Now, let me | I shall meet you | ! “And if they escape you make them | more eager than ever to strike a blow | at you and yours,” put in Craig coolly. No, let us get this thing straight. 1 didn’t think it was as serious as this, but I'm prepared to meet any emer- | gency.” 4 “But, man” shouted Brixton, “you don’t suppose anything in_the world | counts beside her, do_you?” Exactly the point,” urged Craig. “Save her and capture them—both at once. “How can you?" fumed Brixton. “If| you attempt to telephone from here} that fellow Janeft will overhear and give a warning.” 5 _Regardless of whether Janeff' was| listening or not, Kennedy was eagerly telephoning to the Woodrock central down in the village. He was using the | transmitter and receiver that were jconnected with the- iron tube which he had connected to the two regular house lines. “Have the ferry held at any cost,” {he was ordering. “Don’t let the next| {boat go out until Mr. Brixton gets! i(hvre, under any circumstances. Now, put that to them straight, central You know Mr. Brixton has just a lit- { tle bit of influence around here, and | somebody's head will drop if they let that bout go before he gets there.” umph!"* ejaculated Brixton. “Much i 'hy, T suppose our : {fricnd Janeff down_ in the storeroom j knows it all now. Come on, let's grab | there was no sound: from the detéctaphone which would indicate that he ha was spreading the for wé could hear him clear his| once or_twice. replied Kennedy calmly, “he | nothing about it. T didn't use ary means to prepare the experts who have brought | tuation about. That message rd me send went out over! call the ‘phantom circuit.’* phantom circuit?” repeat- xton, chafing at the delay. t seems fantastic at first, 1 isuppose,” pursued Kennedy calmly, “but, after all, it is in accordance with | the ‘laws of electricity. I's no use! fretti nd fuming, Mr. Brixton. If Juneft 1 wait we'll have to do! . too. Suppose we should start and | tthis Kronski should change-his plans | at the last minute? How would we { find out? Ly telepathy? Believe me, sir, | | it is better to wait here a minute’and i trust to the phantom circuit than to!} mere chance.” i “Iiut suppose he should cut the lige,” I put in miled. “I have provided at, Walter, in the way I install- ed the thihg. I took good care that we could not be cut off that way. We! can hear everything ourselves, but| not be overheard. He Knows | You s I took advantage ! nal telephones or | n be superpos- | lines. It is| o-called phantom line ed on existing phy ical possible to obtain a third circuit from | nilar metalli ch side of th two wires of e; circuits by using third circuit the ! ch of the other cir-| cuits in multiple. All three circuits| independent. too. 'he third telephone current en- the first circuit, as ong the wires There are sev- One is to use of the second cireuit. teral ways of doing it. retardation or choke- coils bridged across the two metallic circuits at both ends, with taps aken from the middle points of cach. But the more desirable method is the one you saw | me install this afternoon. 1 intro- | | duced repeating the cir- | | s at both ends. Technically, the ! | third circuit is then taken off from | i { i coils into the midpoints of the secondaries or | line windings of these repeating coils, “The current on a long-distance ¢ is alternating in character, and | readily through a repeating | effect it has on thei slightly reducing the . ent passes into re- peating coil, then divides and passes | through the two line wires. At the other end the halves balance, so to peak. Thus, currents passing over phantom reuit don't s up cur- rents in the terminal apparatus of the circuits. Consequently, a} sation carried on over the | phantom circuit will not be heard in side circuit, nor does a con- on one side circuit affect ) tom. We could all talk at hout interfering with each ] i |5 i ! { {e “At any other time I should Dl more than interested,” remarked | Brixton, grimly, curbing his impa- tignce to be doing something. “I appreciate that, sir,” rejoined Kennddy, “Ah, here 1t 181’1 Base tha | central down in the village, Yes?| I They will hold the boat for us?| i. Thank you. The 9 o.lock train is five minutes late? Yes-— ihat? Count Wachtmann's car . is | there? Oh, ves, the train is just pull- | {ing in. T Miss Brixton has en- |tered his car alone. What's -hat?| His chauffcur has started the car | without waiting for the count, who | is coming down the platform?” Instantly Kennedy was on his fcer.! He was dashing up the corridor and the stairs from the den and down into the basement to the little storcroom. | We burst into the place. It was;j : s |empty, Janeft had cut the wires and | ed, There was not a moment to o | Craig hastily made sure that he noc| | ot discovered or injured the phantom cuit. H Call the fastest car you have in| your garage, Mr. Brixton,” ordered | Kennedy. “Hello, hello, central! Get| the lodge at the Brixton estate. Tell | ithem if they seo the Enginer Janeff | going out to stop him. Alarm the watchman and have the dogs ready. Catch him at any cost, dead or alive.” | A moment later Brixton's car raced | around, and we piled in and were Off | like a whirlwind. Already we could see lights moving about and hear the baying of dogs. Personally, 1| ‘\vouldn‘t have given much for Janeff's | chances of, escape. i As we turned the bend in the road Just before we ‘reached the ferry we almost ran into two cars .standing | before the ferry house. It looked as though one had run squarely in front | of the other and blocked it off. 1In| the slip the ferryboat was still steam- ing and waiting. Beside the wrecked car & man was Iving on th¢ ground groaning, while another man was quieting a girl whom he was leading to the waiting room of the ferry..s 5 Brixton, weak though he was from his illness, leaped out of the car al- most before we stopped and caught the girl in his arms. piFather!” she exclaimed, clinging tol im. “What's this?” he demanded, stern-| ly, eyeing the man. It was [Wacht- mann himself. | “Conrad saved me from that chauf- feur of his,” explained Miss Brixton. “l met him on the train and we were going to ride up to the house to- gether. But, before Conrad could get into the car this fellow, who had the engine running, started it. Conrad{ jumped into another car that was waiting at the station. He overtook lus and dodged in front so as to cut the chauffeur off from the ferry.” “Curse that villain of_a chauffeur, muttered Wachtmann, looking down | at the wounded man. “Do §ou khow who he is?’ asked Craig,” with a searching glance at Wachtmann's face. i “I ought to. His name Jl Kronski, 'mpl d a blacker devil an loyment reau never furnished.” ‘Kronski? No,” corrected Kennedy. | “It is Prof. Kumanova, whom you per- haps have heard of as a leader of the Red Brotherhood, one of the cleverest scientific criminals who ever lived. I think you'll have no more trouble ne- gotiating your loan or your love af- fair, count,” ’:dded Cralg, turning o his heel. (The End.) ———e 5 lnehlne’: are now in use which make cigarettes at the rate of 50,000 ;‘\;xwhoyxrhmd which pack 15,000 an THE \EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, JULY ‘1, 1992, — THB BV NING R, W e s The Detectophone By Arthur B. Reem'a. One of The Star's Week-End Fiction Series. 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