New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1922, Page 5

By ARTHUR B. REEVE 1022 NEA Service, Inc. START HERE Intputfixl! of crooks who held up & fashionable Radio dance, Guy Gar- rick ‘and Defoe find that beautiful Ruth Walden may be the fnnocent in- strument of robbers posing as wealthy {dlers. They seek to check up on a mysterious crulser, “The Bacchante," to see if {ts movements have anything to do with the occupants of the wire- less equipped houseboat ‘‘Sea Vamp,' where Ruth and her questionable friends spend much of their time, and where they found some of the robbers’ loot and a roll of undeveloped films. By a ruse they get on 'The Bac- chante,” where they find Professor Vario, radio expect and learn of a W. 49th St. restaurant called “The Inner Circle." NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY , CHAPTER 1V THE INNER CIRCLE They caught the afternoon train for the city. It was a perfect summer evening {like Canoe Place in June. They mounted the breakneck spiral to the top of a bus and jolted and swayed, across to Fifth Avenue, then uptown in blocks of motors and taxis. Everywhere were gay crowds, almost as if New York were itself a summer resort. Sauntering slowly down Forty- Ninth Street, the found the address of the Inner Circle, a big old brow- 'stone house midway in the block west of ‘'the Avenue, back of a high iron fence with plain brass knobs setting off the gections. Heavy grilled doors opened into an English basement. two or three smart motors were drawn up along the curb. ‘'Recherche!" nodded Dick, hesitat- ing a bit. 3 Garrick turned in at the gate and pressed a button by the side of the doors. “Aren’'t I select enough for the Inner Circle?”” He straightened with true British swank. The door swung open, Garrick in- quired nothing, explained nothing. He inclined slightly toward Dick to precede him and they passed the Americanized butler. It had been a magnificent gesture on Garrick's part. The most difficult thing had been ac- complishéd on sheer nerve. He might have owned the place as he led the way up the short flight of stairs from the former basement. “Monsicur Georges—as I live!"” Garrick's tone of raillery. At a thick-set, erect, very dark French- man with a black, pointed mustache. He had been standing just at the head of the stairs. “Ah-h It' is Monsieur the Ad- miral!"” The Frenchman grinned pleasantly, displaying rows of splendid teeth. .Indeed he seemed ir fine trim. Before them opened a 11TT¢ alcove reception room. Garrick paced on info it, followed by Georges, and in- troduced Dick. “You must know Monsieur, Dick, who made the old Chateau Rouge up by Tarytown so wonderful in the; old days?” Georges motioned them to a little table, clapped his hands sharply and a waiter appeared on rubber heels, took an order and they settiesl htem- selves, '"Now for the mystery of the dancing men,” whispered Garrick to Dick just as Georges turned. There was just a shade of contempt in Garriek's one of raillery. At a glance he had taKen an estimate of the character of the place. For ten or fifteen minutes Gar- rick reminisced of the old days be- fore and during the war. Gradually Dick pleced together the drama of the present. It seemed that a group of rapid young peopla many of them his own acquaintances, had started what they called the “Fifty Club.” There had been a split of some kind, re- ducing the stalwarts down to twenty. The twenty had tried to go it alone. But it had been too much for their wllowances. It had been a bit too ex- clusive. Now it was really a private club run by M. Georgfies who had catgred to the elite of a generation at the Chateau Rouge. Most of the twenty had stuck, and enough of the se- lected elect admitted by card kept the Inner Circle going. The long, wide, high-cellinged par- lor of the old house had been re- modeled fto a dining room with a beautiful flance floor. Outside they could hear the plaintive rhythmic notes of the club's own Hawaiian orchestra of three pgrformers. As nearly as Garrick could make it out, M. Georges was making an ex- cellent thing out of the revolt against reform. In a lull of the conversation and above the soft Hawailan strains floated new volces from a table out- side. ‘‘Well, Glenn, for once.” Dick peered cautiously out through slightly-parted portieres and nodded to Guy. It was Vira. “It does seem good, doesn’t {t?" she was saying: '‘No Rae, no Ruth, ng rumpus. Let's have no worry, You've been looking nervous, lately." “Vira, you're great tonight! That violet tweed is slick. If I stole a kiss s ¢« ¢+ would -you register anger? That's the word they use, isn't it? Register?”’ Glenn chuckled contently as they toyed with thin-stemmed glasses. "It's mighty fine of 'you, Vira, to notice that I haven't been looking quite right. I didn't think you cared any more for me than for the rest of them. To tell the truth 1 am worrled * * ' but I can't tell anyone."” “I don't believe it's over exams. You don't seem to be carrying your Horacé or calculus around in jour PALACE Starting Sunday Vera Gordon in “Your Best Friend” o et S here we are, aolne— pocket. You're not in love, are you, Glenn?" Vira gave him a look that would have thrilled the audience of any movie place from coast to coast, Glenn reached over, took her hand, passed his foot under the table and lald it gently over her dainty ankle. ‘‘Honest to God, Vira, I love you!" Then he added fervently, *“I want to get you in my racer, soon, and we'll motor out to some nice quite spot, used to bhe * * ¢ and I'm going to tell you all about it. Will you let me tell you * * * how much I love you?" “Dear boy, I'm just dying to go on that ride with you.” Her eyes were sparkling like dew drops on a green leaf in the morning sun. Vira knew it, meant them to sparkle. At a lower level she would have reasoned, how could one get over dramatic mo- ments on the screen unless one lived them? As it was she merely felt, ‘‘Make it tomorrow, Virma." Glenn took her hands and toyed with the ring finder on the left hand. “Well, you dumb-vells!"” laughed Rae, suddenly poking her pretty pi- quant face around the corner. “What are you doing, Vira? Rehearsing a for it, are you old dear?” With a for it, are oyu, old dear?" With a shrug of her shoulders and her arms akimbo, she threw her head back and laughed silvery. Quickly lean- ing her beautiful body forward she waved a mocking finger toward Glenn. “With three cocktails, Vira, he would say the same things to me. Don't believe a word she says." Somehow, Rae's jocular remarks bred distrust in both lovers. They glowered at her for the interruption But they both fell for it. “Love claims all or none,” is just as true among the sophisticated as among the simple. Suddenly slmng down, Rae beck- oned a boy. "“Three soothing sirups in a hurry!” Then, turning to her companions, she said, lower, “I have some important news for you. I've been hunting all over for you." Her voice dropped to a ‘'‘bzz-bzz- bzz."" Georges had been called away from Garrick and Dick to some of his multitudinous business in pleas- ing the uftra particular. They strained their ears. “I was just up there.” Then a break. “And it came in over Pinkey's wireless from * * *" It was lost. "It said, Watch out for Garrick and Dick * * * They got ashore * * * To New York * * Get them out of the way for good.” Garrick and Dick glances. “Forwarned, whispered Dick. “Our forearms are about all we've got, too!" There was a swish of someone passing their door and along the hall. Dick started. It was Ruth herself! Both he and Garrick were on their feet in a moment, "quietly, down the hall after her and around a heavy carved newell post up the stairs to exchanged forearmed,"” | the second floor. She turned as she heard their steps in the wide hall on the second fioor. i “And along came Ruth!" exclaimed Garrick, smiling. “What are you boys doing here? Snooping again? It's a bad idea. Snoopers never come to any good end!" She laughed, but neither could be 50 obtuse as not to see that there was a kick in it. She had her hand on the knob of a door at the end of the hall. She turned it, loked in, shut the door again and faced them. ‘‘Show us around, crazy about this shack.” “Well, Guy, you might think I was a megaphone man in a Chinatown- for-a-dollar rubberneck bus * * * or the guide in many museums. Just what do you want to see this time?" Her lightning mind seemed to tune itself to a fine adjustment. She did not wait for a reply. Instead, she opened ' the door and admitted them into a very pink room. “Wait here a minute. body know you here?" “No one but Georges.” Shedid not waft for more explapa- tion but was out in the hall again, closing the door softly. Garrick, running true to opened a cedar chest between closet doors. He beckoned Dick. “A radio frequency amplifier!" he muttered to Dick. “All wired up.” He closed the chest upon the complete paraphernalia, thought a moment, then stood up on it, running his fin- ger along the picture molding that circuited the room. He blew the dust from his fingers and wiped them on his handkerchief. “About forty feet of wire placed behind the picture molding about the room’ where it's out of sight * ¢ ¢ The receiving outfit in a cedar chest where no one can see it. Humph!" Dick went over it, making a hasty examination of his own. Ruth. I'm Does any- form, two {They were rising. “A loop outfit of this kind gives pretty fair results over reasonable distances, although it doesn't cover the same distance that the same equipment would.if it were used with a good antenna. Still, during the summer when ‘there are many light- ning storms and static is at {tsa worst, the loop is an interesting means of| recelving. To begin with, the loop is safe from lightning singe it can be used indoors. More than that, it doesn't pick up static like the usual antenna. It doesn't make use of a ground conection. It only inter- cepts a small portion of the usual energy intercepted by a good an- tenna * * * So the radio frequency amplifier.” “That's all very interesting, but just shut up that chest before we have fifteen men dancing on two dead men's chests!" Garrick was looking keenly at the color scheme of the lounge. “Pink-Pinkey * * * "] was just up there * * * I gather that the threat * * ¢ or warning * * * came over this wireless. From the ‘Bacchante’? It's punning through my mind: '5-22-22 250 cases S. S. Aroyo. CKGG'. This is CKGG: Do you begin to get it?" ' Dick nodded, half comprehending. ‘As they said about little Willie, ‘What next? What next?' " Ruth opened the door quietly, mys- teriously. She seemed to be labor- ing under high nervous tension. “You saw the dance floor and din- Ing room downstairs. And you met Georges. I guess/you can guess that anything Georges has anything to do with will be at least aristocratic?" “Everything is classy and in taste,” admitted Dick. "It has atmosphere, and all that.'" He longed to go on with more personal questions. But Garrick's presence restrained him. Ruth beckoned them out in the hall. It was noticeable that she was discreetly quiet. “Of course, I can't show you around up here. You see, these are the lodgings of about half a dozen members and, believe me, they pay. That was a lounge, real- ly for ladies.’” She was leading them back down the thick-carpeted hall. She came to a door. “There's one thing you might be interested in."” She opened the door and it appeared to be a back flight of steps for the servants in the old days when it had been a residence. Ruth started down %he stairs and they followed, past a door that evi- dently opened on the parlor floor, then down another flight that led to the former basement. Luscious odors of cooking smote the nostrills. They emerged back of the reception hall through which they bluffed the butler at the door. Here was the kitchen, beautiful, a gem of a place. It did George credit. Ruth turned, opened another door and disclosed a stairway down into the cellar, in which a light was burning She started down dnd the door closed behind them. “Whats' all this?" inquired Dick, amazed, as he reached the foot of the stairs and saw weights and ex- ercises on the walls on one side, a couple of punching bags, heavy mats, gloves, an ample handbell court, in fact a quite complete littie gymnasium in the cellar, with a very good ventilating device. “Down the passageway, on either side are showers and we're having two steam rooms put in."” Ruth was, however, moving to- ward the front of the building. “T suppose you've been wondering,"” she sald, “where are the things you usually find in a cellar.”” ‘She paused and opened a door in the front, then with a twinkle added, *“The heating apparatus.’ There was a big, white-asbestosed low-pressure boiler and a row of ash cans, Dick's face fell and Ruth laughed outright. *“That was a mean one, Dick. Disappointed? I get you. Well, as I was saying, the most interesting part of a house nowadays is the cel- lar!" She winked and stood before a lit- tle iron door. “This must be what you expected. The vault * % only this is built out under the sidewalk. Now * * = gloat!"” She swung the door open. It was dark and dank inside and cobwebby. The light from the celar did not shed any ray into the vauit. Ruth held the door, smiling, gently took Dick's arm and guided him in, then Garrick. “'Strike ‘a match—if you want to see some good stuff!" Dick struck a light. But as he did so a rush of air ex- tinguished it and back of them clanged the iron door. There was a grinding of a bolt. “Confdund it!" growled Garrick at letting himself be trapped. A gong began ringing, stridently. It seemed as if th every floor on which they were was moving. There was a metallic noise overhead. Gar- rick loped up. It seemed as if fhe earth was opening above them and a glaring light pouring in. He ran his hand up alongside and over his head.” There was a heavy iron bow, U-shaped but inverted The top of the U seemed to be parting iron doors on efther side. ‘‘Hang it!"" growled Garrick. ash lift!" Up the little elevator rose, the bell still ringing to warn passerbys on L Ehe JUNE 8, 1922, “Only a bowl of Bread-and-Milk”— Do you say? Yet it has the power to raise babies to strong men and keep old men young No one questions the value of Bread-and-Milk for babies, but how few stop to consider that it’s just as good for older folks of every age. The same energy-value that encourages Bobbie to take his first step, keeps Mother young and radiant, Father fit and keen in his middle forties and Grandma hale and hearty at eighty-six. Bread-ond-Milk are i the sidewalk, up to the street level, | then &topped. Back of them was of the Inner Circle. the fence, then at Guy and foolishly. They stepped off the lift. Slowly the platform began to sink and as it did the pair of folding iron doors closed down again over the U Just as they clanged shut there came a voice merrily from the depths. “You can't!slide down my door!" the iron grill Dick looked at laughed cellar * WHITE AND GOLD ‘White satin and gold lace is a re- gal combination seen in many forms on the latest fashion ~ revelations. The fad for all white is second only to that for all black. LADIES! DARKEN YOUR GRAY HAIR Use Grandma's Sage Tea and Sulphur Recipe and Nobody Will Know. The use of Sage and Sulphur for restoring faded, gray hair to its nat- ural color dates back to grandmoth- er's time. She used it to keep her hair beautifully dark, glossy and at- tractive. Whenever her hair took on that dull, faded or streaked appear- ance, this simple mixture was applied with wonderful effect. But brewing at home is mussy and out-of-date. Nowadays, by asking at any Jrug store for a bottle of “Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com- pound,” you will get this famous old preparation, improved by the ad- dition of other ingredients, which can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the Mair. A well-known down town druagist says it darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied. You simply dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one strand at a time By morning the gray hair disappears, and after an- other application or two, it becomes beautifully dark and glossy. “ Family Food. Together they bread-and-milk at every meal D.H. 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