New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1922, Page 5

By ARTHUR B. REEVE 1022 NEA Service, Inc. (Continued From Our Last Issue) CHAPTER VII INTERFERENCE For an hour or more Dick waited patiently at his wireless dictagraph in Garrick's room, In the silence, broken now and then by some amateur, he had plenty of time to think of Ruth. In spite of himself his suspicions carried him on to the Parr robbery, now known to have including the taking of valuable Jewels as well as the looting of the Parr cellar of .some of its choicest| vintages.. His thoughts ran beyond that, to the radio dance and the suspi- clous signaling from the tower of the Gerard house. b Who was the ring leader of this miserable aflair? He thought of Brock of Georges—and of Jack Curtis. He gritted his tMth, He hated the very name of the debonair adventurer, Dick started from his reverie. The dictagraph was working. | Through the high resistance head- pleces he heard voices, almost as it | from one of the old phonographs. He strained® his ears to recognize !he' voices, It was Vira speaking. To Ruth? ) “Well, here we are agann. - For second last night T thought we were never going to get to the old Inner Circle again. You're some driver, Anybody else at the wheel and—well, dead girls tell no tales!" " A8 'Dick's keen ears focused at- tention he could recognize Ruth's laugh'. “Vira, that sounds good—because T know you mean it. After what we went through last night we're pal# forever. 1 feel a little shaky yet. I think I'll 1ie down for a while on the chaise longue.” Some more of your massaging would do my poor back a lot of good. If you ever go broke and” have to open a beauty shop or something, count on me as your best patron.” There was silence for a few min- utes. Then tuth spoke again. I wonder when Jack is coming. He's becoming such a rushing lover, I felt I had to do something to rise to the same . standard of energy he shows, These boys aren't going to get ahead of little Ruti Vira chuckled. “Well, it wouldn't take. much to get ahead of Glenn these days. He looks worried—and that makes me worried. Have you nottced it, Ruth 2. ‘Not ;through your eyes dear,” kidded Ruth. Dick, at the other end, had .been.a bit worried about the ethics of what Garrick’s detective .proclivities had got him into. .He told himself that he would- step if it were not for what Guy would :say. JIf he. had stopped long enough he might have admitted that he:-was just iike ‘the other mil- lions in similar circumstances whe would have liked an earful on the other fellow. s The fact was that Dick was almost beside! himself with jealousy as he' heard Ruth discussing Jack. Thel! only congolation to which he could treat himself was the nonchalant and rather flippant way she spoke of him. He "wondered. Did., he imagine that, because he wished it? Then he héard another voice over the wireless. He recognizgd it as Brock’'s voice and Brock «ld not seem in the best of tempers with the girls, !You oughtn't to butt in and try to stop anything, Ruth-——not when it Las gone as far as that thing did last night. You'll get somebody caught one of these days and—"" There wis a thinly veiled threat in the gruff breaking off of Brock's remark. “Just . because some friends of--" “I know,"” interrupted Ruth. ‘“But when you all picked us up after the smash-up and took us to Vira's— why did you leave the bulky stuff at her house? Suppose someone comes in there—and- finds 'it. A pretty little front-page scandal!" Ruth had been characteristic. ‘Without entering a defense she had shifted the subject until the other man was on the defensive. "“Don't worry. No one will find anything. Jack will take care of that.”" - i et - - Vira made a little suppressed ex- clamation. "I can imagine my Ma- ter if 1 was caught in a bootlegging clean out! That'd be the last straw on the dromedary. She'd be looking for some new sheik for me in the shape of a grand old * octogenarian husband. I was straight on the road to perdition when I went into pic- tures. I shook the folks a dozen times a day. But the rum-running scandal! Go, get thee to a nunnery, Vira!" “Speaking of mothers * * *" Ruth paused, nothing flippant in word or! tone. Dick at the other end was aghast. It was all surprising news, this clue to where Ruth had been the night before. Also, it was some mitigated relief. She had got back to town shaken up by the accident and had gone with Vira to Vira's empty town house. More than that, there was something he did not get; but some- how her smash-up had been con- cerned with trying to frustrate some- thing, not perpetrate it. “1 won't go back there tonight, Vira,” she said at length. "“I'm go- ing to stay at the Usonia. A nice little lecture is coming to me for be- ing out two nights and smashing my car. Think of it—her getting out there and getting it towed in herself—to the same garage we tele- phoned to for a wrecking car—only first! That's some of Garrick's word, I'l bet * ** Well ** * no rum- runing arest yet * * * It might dampen the ardor of someone 1 know whoee ardor I do not want dampened ® ¢ * Brock, you said this would be & lark. It's a lark, all right. We wake up the larks.” “Ruthie, old sore-bones, how do you feel? I heard you talking, about a lark. You look as if vou had been on one that took a nose dive % * * It was Rae who was at least one of the new arrivals. of love, it was the Parrs, “Lark!" This from Ruth, con- temptuously. “Yes. One thing leads to another, all right. First we start this place. Then we get in over our heads. Then we begin getting our own stuff to save money. Then we begin getting more than we can use here—to make some money-—to pay the other expenses. Then—oh, Lordy!" : Ruth asubsided as another * voice hecame audible also to Dick. Glenn had evidently been another of the new arrivals. “Now, Ruth, watch Glenn desert me fore Vira, He was glad enough to come down here with me, Never mind, ,Glennle. T'll get you, yet'* Dick could hear Rae laugh teasingly. “Vira, if you don't put more pep inte Glenn, I'm going to take a hand.” “You're taking a lot for granted, Rae,” put in Ruth, ““Rae has a very taking way,"” said Vira pointedly. ‘Now, fellows,'" smoothed out Glenn, "Quit doing your stuff. No good ever comes—'" ‘To rogues when rogues fal out,” Ruth finished with a laugh and some claws in the soft voice. “I hear Jack and Georges down- stairs,”” Rae changed the subject diplomatically. *“Oh, here's Jack, now. Well, Jack, what's the dirt?" Ruth did not wait for any answer. “Did you—7?" “Yes I did, Ruth,” hastened Jack. “Got a good scout to go up there to Vira's place and remove those Parr cases as soon as the coast is clear— DICK CAST THE RECEIVER FROM HIM. say, eleven o'clock.” “What time is it now?" ““Must be about that, now * * * It's after.” Again Dick felt his heart throbbing violently when the Hertzian waves were reconverted into sound waves and brought the next conversation to his ears. “Ruth, dear, Dick was tense. ing. “A little weak, Jack But ready to begin again when I get home and quiet Mother's fears. I live on ex- citement.” “Well, how do you feel?" It was Jack speak- . I am coming over to the house—maybe I can help you with an alibi?—or meet you in some quiet place where we can talk over the future, the exciting future—if you get what I mean.” Dick frowned. Unconsciously Jack was stealing his stuff. “Always ready to try once, Jack." “I'm going to do it soon. Of course, no one has told you how beautiful you are. I'm going to tell you more things about yourself than all the psychoanalysts it Greenwich Vil- lage—or Greenwich, Connecticut, or Gretna Green, or some place!” “And he's some teller!” snapped Rae pertly. There was another tilt verging on when Georges' voice interrupted. “Telephone, Curtis." Jack went out, apparently, Georges, by the sound, must shut the door. “Did you get the low-down? No?" His laugh punctuated the remark. “Ver'. good. . The steamship, ‘Ar- royo,”” has wirelessed in that she was held up by a government boat out- side the three-mile limit, and searched, and that® two hundred and fifty cases were taken off. That's the report. But there was no gov- ernment boat in that vicinity at the| time. Eh? Now what do you make of that?" There was a from everybody. “That was a call from the garage,” came Jack's voice. “That Garrick guy—," there was a laugh, for they were all in a stage where a pun is as high a form of humor as any— “has been hanging around. My man anything— and have volley of laughter {Circle last night. need plenty of mi dishes in their daily diet. Use Bordeny EVAPORATED MILK left. PBut saw Garrick in a taxl" “With Dick?" This quick query was from Ruth and a bit anxious, “No, alone." O o ¥ relief, “I've sent another fellow out. Hope he's in time.” “Where?" This was from Vira, “Your place.” Jack seemed to pound a table, “They'll give him the beating of his life, confound him!— mash his face fn—put him in the sheets for a week—maybe—"" Blatt! Dick tinkered and tickled and ad- Justed. All he got was some fool amateur on the same wave length. He swore, He tried to swear over the ether, but with ill success. he in- terference was there to stay, as it always s when one is listening in on something pretty good. | Dick was sore. But he was not surprised. When he .first became greatly interested in wireless . some eighteen months before there had been perhaps fifty thousand wirless telephone receiving sets. A year la- ter there had been six hundred thou- sand. Today, he knew, one authority had estimated a million and the gov- ernment had estimated a million and a half in the papers that week. No Dick was sore, but not surprised. In fact he would have been pleased at almost any other time. For, even if him family were wealthy, Dick had visions of himself some day dging better than the biggest of the radio firms which was doing business at the rate of fifty million dollars a year. Thoughts like this had no place in his mind, now. All he knew was that he was the victim of inter- ference. And he was sore—and wor- ried, too. For the use of the ether the pardon of Einstein and his theory) is not limitless. It will ac- commodate just so many wireless messages and no more-—at least until such an invention as Dick was work- ing on was perfected. When that limit is reached, the air becomes a boiler factory. Dick cast the headgear in useless vexation on the table. It seemed to him that he had been on the point of getting just the im- portant thing he wanted to hear. He had been making notes as he went along, for somewhere he had heard something about the methods of de- tectives. His mind was in a whirl, as if a dozen people were sending in his mental ether at once. Then, sudden- ly, as if unconsciously, he had sharpened the thoughts to the exact wave length, one idea seemed to swamp all others. Dick felt that he must get to this place where Ruth had spent the night and where Garrick was run- ning into danger, If he had not al- ready fallen into it. And he must get there first. He tore out of the apartment, grabbed the first taxi, rode only a few blocks, dismissed him down the street, As he sped down the block, he could see a car in front of Gerard's. Then a man ran across under the arc light. Dick quickened. He saw in the shadow two men struggling and a third creeping toward them. Dick could make out Garrick. He was just in time. He hurled him- self at the other attacker. They were two against two, now. But at the moment when it seemed that each was geting the upper hand of his man, a couple of others ran on. Evidently they had been trailing him from Garrick's, where they must have been watching. The fight of the four now swung entirely against Garrick and Dick. From the Avenue whence had come the new assailants, now came a quick scury of feet. A whistle. Some- one rapped as with a bickory stick on the curb, making hollow echoes. The four fled. The newcomers hauled and Digk unceremoniously to feet. “You're under arrest!” One of them flashed a badge. ‘‘Saw you come out of the cellar of the Inner Also you were on someone Her voice died off in (begging Garrick their that roof tonight!™ Garrick looked at the badge. were revenue enforcement men. He pulled his own card, fssued by the Comptroller of the State. There was a moment of perplexity, then ex- planations and apologies. They ITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1922, “Thought you were in the Velvet Gang, too" he Velvet Gang?"' “Yeh—that's what we that bunch of aristocratic ners." One of them had picked up the key. “Ah-ha! We're In luck!" So, without the formality search warrant, they entered Gerard house, If anything had ever been there— the stuff was gone! "“Then—why the fght—with us?" puzzied Dick as they parted from the chagrined raiders. “Just to get us out of the way," grunted Garrick, “Gosh! I ache! * ¢ Humph! * * ¢ The Velvet Gang!! * ¢ *I don't know whether it's a de- tective that's needed so much-—or a psychoanalyst-—or an allenist—or a spiritual adviser!" [ OICEITT&EA/R]J nleknamed rum-run- of a the ( Continued in Our Next Issue) (L KDKA (Westinghouse—East Pittsburgh) 6:00 p. m.—Weekly survey of Busi- ness Conditions, Natlonal Conference Board. From Pittsburgh Post Studio. T7:00 m.—"Eugenics,"” Roswel] Johnson, head of the Bureau of Oil and Gas Industries, University of Pittsburgh. From Pittsburgh Post Studio. 8:00 p. m.—Pleasing program by the Malta Male Quartet of the George Washington Commandery, No. 667, of Pittsburgh, Pa. WBZ (Westinghouse—Springfield) 7:30 p. m.—Baseball scores of Eastern, National and American lea- gues. Uncle Wiggily Bedtime story. 7:45 p. m.—"The Advantages of Modern Life Insurance” by George W. Miner, Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Co. 8:00 p. m.—Baseball scores. cal and instrumental selections. Al- wyn E. M. 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