New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 14, 1922, Page 5

By ARTHUR B, REEVE 1022 NEA Service, Inc. Continued From Our Last Issue CHAPTER IX THE DIRECTION FINDER “Curtis—you were up to something devilish-——I knew i{t!" repeated Vario as he faced Jack over the table at the Binnacle. “When you saw me drive up here you.suddenly changed your tune. You ran to cover—to cover yourself!" The waliter, Herman, sniveled. His face was livid. He bowed and al- most fauned on Vario, took hold of him, for all the world like a drown- ing man catching at a straw, “Furthermore, 1 helieve you slipped ! that vial in this man's pocket—per- haps you palmed it—did a little sleight of hand, You inhuman cad! I could cane you!" Ruth was speechless, She leaned over the table, half standing, an al- luring little Yigure in blue. Her ex- citement had sent a blaze of color to her cheeks. Her golden hair framed her face in a mass of gold that shed a brightness over her whole counte- nance. Ruth was a very desirable little girl and her chief charm was that she did not seem to be thinking of it all the time, Jack had been working into an almost apoplectic. rage as Vario hurled the accusation at him. He took a step forward in furious defense, then shot out his forefinger pointing at the teacup that had been before him. “Would menaced. “We'll - settie Vario sharply. himself I—poison—myself!” he came back “I'll undertake to label this al! and seal it—in the presence of you as witness. Then I'll send it to some reputable chemi- cal laboratory for analysis. I could do it myself-——but—well, in other words, we'll impound this evidence until someone else determines what it is.” The waiter scurried flasks. Vario turned to Ruth with excessive courtesy. ‘‘Miss Walden—I must insist—for your own safety—I'll drive you back to the club, T'll tele- phone and postpone the appointment I had at the Seaville Station. No * ¢ ¢ It can easily go over till tomorrow. Your mother cannot stand much more. She needs you * * * Ruth. She has been through so much anguish in the last two days.” Ruth looked from Vario at Jack, still sputtering impotently. Was it true? The quickest way to get out of danger is often the most obvious. “Thank you, Professor. It's very kind of you to take such an inter- est.” They left Curtis standing, still boil- ing with rage, beside his motor. As Vario's car disapreared, Jack sprang into his own and shot down the South Shore road toward a short cut to the cross isiand highway. Nita Walden's surprise when she saw Varlo wi Ruth. “Where's Jack Curtis?” she ex- claimed. & The moment of silence that follow- ed was eloquent. *‘Oh, Ruth, dear, any more trouble?” Ruth was out of the car, eager to give her mother more confidence. “No, Mummsy, nothing much * * * Jack was a little off in the head * * * but Professor Vario came along * * * and * ¥ Mrs. Walden beamed her apprecia- tion of Vario's help. 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Meanwhile, on the opposite porch of the club which was otherwise de- serted, Vira, only a few moments be- fore, had tucked her arm nervously under Garrick's and drawn him into the privacy of the glassed-in, winter solarium, “You may come, too, Diek," she nodded back to him, “There—please shut the door.” She glanced at Gar- rick, half confidingly, half fearful of him. “I've been so afraid—ever since I found out how the walls might have ears!" Dick closed it and Garrick placed a chair for Vira who sank into it rigid- ly, turning and looking up at his face as he stood with his hands still on the back of the chair. There was something seething in her mind and Garrick was just about to make some reassuring remark that would relfeve the tension and open the floodgates of her heart. Vira, all animation, now that she had taken this step, did not wait to give him a chance. “It's about Glenn,” she cried tensely, bringing her two hands to- gether. “You know all about the In- ner Circle . and Georges. Well, Glenn was our treasurer when we first started—is yet, in a way, I sup- “THE SEA VAMP. HAS GONE,” HE SAID, AS THEY LOOKED OUT OVER THE EMPTY HARBOR. Oh, it may have been all right It was fun and all that. It was unique. It was smart. But . . one thing led to another . and . Guy. Oh, get him out of it all . get him out of it ‘ clean!" Vira, flushed, had risen from the chair and was standing with hands extended, pleadingly before Garrick. As she finished there was a |little tremble in her voice and she turned quickly to dab away a tear that had gathered in each eye. Garrick took her arms and gently forced her back into the chair. Vira pressed the tips of fingers of both hands on her flushed forehead. “But who's the head of it all—this|[ Velvet Gang, as the police call it?" Garrick exaggerated a bit for effect. Vira looked up quickly, a fright- ened stare on her face. But she said nothing. “I don't want to drag all you fool-|1 ish young folks into anything. 1 want to keep you out of it. I'm not half so much interested even in catching these hootlegging profiteers higher up as I am in getting you out of your foolishness—clean. “I'm sick of it all. So are Glenn— and Ruth—only they're too proud to admit it. Someone must make the break. I felt that 1 could—swallow my pride, Guy."” Garrick patted the shoulder. Vira smiled up gratefully and with confidence. “Whose was that gruff voice, a man, that T heard this morning over the dictagraph in the Pink Room? Brock 2" Garrick had figured on betrayal by surprise. He in turn was not sur- prised at the naive stare in return nor by the firm silence. He had seen too many women on the witness stand. Vira had made up her mind to talk—but not too much. He de- cided it was best to let it go at that;; not to try any social third degree. would come around. They agreed not for the present to be seen together. It was not three minufes when Dick received another | Mrs. Walden had hastened to pour Jout the news of the Binnacle epi- |sode, us far as she knew it, to Gar- rick. “I'm going to call up Ruth on the house phone,” exclaimed Dick vio- lently as he and Garrick paced down the porch alone. | “No-—don't. It won't do a bit of good. You'll do harm, in your pres- ent mood. Don't be so worried over Ruth, Dick. Take it from me. She'll come out all right. 1 think that| little girl knows very well what sht‘i is doing.” | She does—¢h? The deuce she| does!" Garrick was not disposed to argue “This thing has gone just about far enough, Dick,” he considered ener- getically. “Now is the moment to act in earnest. Take these robberies, first. Why and by whom? Whatever her foolishness and love of adventure, Ruth just simply could not have been concerned in them Now, start at the beginning. There's that girl's hat used in the Gerard robbery, the one J've got in the Club safe. Whose is that? I know what you're going to say. Rae Larue's Maybe. But can you prove it? And if you can, that's a long way from connecting her with the hold-up.” “That devil, Jack Curtis!" ground out Dick. “They're two of a Kind. I'll bet if we could raid bis room at the pose. when we started. little at girl's him later shock. hotel, we'd get picture of Raé—with the hat. that you pinched tis. Jump quick.” tls had cleaned out everything forenoon, had checked out, and disappeared. the Page place. home but her mother, with consider- able Miss Larue left rather hurriedly for tha city she expects coa sfarted when Vario and saw him.” naled. a couple of hundred “Jump in, Dick." ‘“there's no use keeping cover. Room, you'd taken that Parr to your own garage to protect Vira. Are you the only one that has a key to that place? Glenn. Did I ever do you a dirty trick—or Dick? think of me? cigarette, lighted another, away and burnt match the way, “*As nervous as hell. a cinch no one else will. well make a clean breast of it . . . no, just give me tonight to think it over . night, tell seeing me first.” all hastily reasoned Garrick. is a cache for their stuff. I want to ask for the Kkey. need it. get in. down the turnpike, eyes glued to the road back of them for motorcycle cops. rick. his friend Houdini. get out of everything, he could get into nearly anything. Can’t Think? If you lack the power of con- centration, if yqu are restless yet tired, your body and not your brain is to blame. 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New York City VEGEX mething—maybe a 1 think was his camera after all that “Cur- Let's right, Garrick swung on his heel Just what T was thinking. over there—get him At the hotel they learned that Cur- that had Over the telephone Garrick Beth was called not at relief, replied: “Miss [Larue? 1 from believe the this afternoon. her mother tet “Mrs. Walden said that Curtis had down the South Shore road left. Ruth looked back Garrick was climbing in under the wheel when a blue streak shot along Main He jabbed at his screecher of a horn, street regardless of local law. “It's Glenn.” He waved and sig- Glenn bore over to the curb yards ahead. “Where's the fire?" “Just going up to see joked Garrick. Vira—with Ruth."” confidentially— this under I heard you say, in the Pink stuff “Say, Glenn—" Now, This is for straight, good. play your ewn What do people at the Club Do they trust me?" Glenn threw away an almost fresh threw it stood foolishly with the in his hand. “That's 1 am, Guy,” he scowled. Half the time don't know what I'm doing. Say ¢ . you'll be on the level, Guy. It's I might as Well, anyway . gave a key to Rae Larue once. ves, She begged it of me once to put her car up .. . . and then { “All right, Glenn. T'll give you to- Going to see Ruth? Well, her not to do a thing without Glenn departed a bit relieved at postponing the evil day of confession. Larue had it, they wanted it “That place didn’t don't r if Rae it, anyone who “Well, had 1 ay. We'll go there any Come on to the city! Dick were whirling Dick with his Garrick and L.ocks were no impediment to Gar- He had taken a course with While he couldn't Glenn's garage was casy. As they closed the door, they looked about in amazement. bonded cases enough to have meant a |little fortune. they the product of the Parr cellar. “‘un- were tidy where lay the It was indeed an warehouse.” There In one corner been hastily dumped looting of had Te POLICEMAN SAYS Every year | had a skin erup- tion that drove me necarly crazy with the itching. Nothing helped meuntil Tused SANALT The Sensible Tonic 1t corrected digestion,purified my blood and since using it the eruption has notreturned. 1 know that Sanalt has been used successfully for nearly a hundred years as a recon- structive tonic. 1am on the police force of Scituate, Mase. My name is Elmer F. Burrows. “Undlsturbed. tered Garriok, been here." ""How do you know?" Garrick pointed toward a crack of light. On one side of the garage was an auto pit for working on the under #lde of cars. A board covering was Imperfectly pulled over it. Through the edge shone a light, Garrick wrenched thegovering aside, “Thelr hidi place, Whoever was here must have been In a nervous hurry . . forgot to switch off that garage light on the flexible cable.” He jumped down In the pit. A mo- ment later he holsted himself up, Without a word he handed Dick a little jewel case. Engraved on it were the words, “Antoinette Parr,” It was empty. “Everything's gone—all portable property." “What shall we do? to the police?" “Not yet. I must get Glenn and the others some sort of immunity for what they didn't do. They don't de- serve it—but they're just wise young fools,” Garrick thought a moment. “You see, the net result of some of our new commandments has been to make varlous phases of lawbreaking fashionable, smart. Only this is a bit extreme."” He moved over to the It was working and he Astra Agency of private ,detectives to furnish a guard until the ring- leader was caught and he was ready to e final disposition of the case. Dick's alert eyes, as they were waiting, dfcovered a wireless set on a worktable in the rear. Out of the back window he could see the an- tenna from the garage to the house. Mechanically he started tuning up. The agency men were a long time in coming. “Holy judas priest!” Dick was so startled he was pale. “Spmeonc's broadcasting what they call news. It it can’t be. 1t must be some crazy amateur, ‘Ruth Walden, the heiress, has eloped with John Cur- tisl’ " Garrick seized the phones. teur-—perhaps; crazy, no!" Garrick listened and continued, “Did you ever stop to consider the radio as a means for slander? Talk about your poison pen writers! Science has put into the hands of blackmailers the most dangerous of weapons. Your story is spread to a million fans. And there's not a chance of tracing it to your slanderer!” “There isn't? I can. I willl" exclaimed Dick. he keeps it up.” Everything he needed scemed there on the workbench. Tt was comparatively simple, a “loop” as it is known, copper wire bound eight times around a frame four feet square. He hung it from the ceiling, free. He could turn it in any direc- tion. He connected up the receiving set. Then he began turning the loop slowly. “A directional receiver,” explained Lick. *Jt must be -orientated toward the hidden sender. Really it's a ra- dio compass.” By the time the Astra men arrived Dick had it pointed. Every few min- utes a new message came. They left the men in charge and climbed in the car. The direction had been east by a little south. Across the bridge Dick set up his finder again. This time it was east by a little north. Over well known roads they scurried, now and then, every few miles setting up the finder and modifying their course. Who was the hidden and persistent slan- derer? “l.ooks as if it Duck Harbor way!" finally, aghast. Garrick took it as a course. It was merely his rapid deductions. At Duck Harbor, abruptly, the di- rection of the messages changed to the northeast sharply. “T believe you traced sender,” ‘cried Garrick, they looked out over the empty harbor. “But we're too late. The ‘Sea Vamp' has gone! 'The birds are flown!" From a cottage down the Garrick called Nita Walden Nonowantue Club. “Where is Ruth?" he asked quick- ly. “She went out with Glenn and Vira. She left a note for you, Guy, marked ‘Mr. Garrick. Personal.’ Hel- lo? Wait, I'll open it then. Here. ‘You told me never to do anything again without letting you know. TI've gone to the ‘Sea Vamp' to destroy the engine so they can't move it away until tomorrow, Ruth.' ' “*But the ‘Sea Vamp' h Nita Walden screamed tion. “Ruth has been carried off on the ‘Sea Vamp!' " (Continued in Our Next Issue) Too bulk “But someone mut has the small Hand it over telephone, called the “Ama- The devil there isn't. g might be exclaimed down Dick matter of confirming out the as beach at the as gonei her intui- SALLING FOR ENGLAND Supernumerary Policeman and Mrs. Harry Mount Will Leave for Lengthy Visit on July 6. Supernumerary Policeman and Mrs. Harry Mount of 63 Hart street will | sail from New York on the S. S. La- cenia for England on July 6. They will visit Sheffield and other cities of England and expect to be gone from three to five months This will be the first time taat Mr, Mount has returned to his native land in more than 30 years, although Mr. Mount visited England about 12 years ago. Mr. Mount, however, is not un- tamiliar with the sensations of er ing the ocean as this will be his ninth cross, He first came to this 51 years ago and returned at various intervals until he finally went Lack, 30 years ago, to claim his bride, and then returned to the U, 8. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mount are well { known in this city, where Mr. Mount | has been employed at Landers, Trary & Clark for 30 years. He has also been connected with the police de- partment for more than a score of Vears, Mrs. Mount 1s prominent in women's fraternal organizations, be- ing affiliated with the Maccabees, the Shepherds of Dethlehem, the Lady Foresters and others FIND GAS IN PAILIPPINES, San Francisco, June 14— The Stand- ard Oil of California which a kear ago sent an expedition ta the Philip- pines has discovered gas on the island of Luzon, possibly indicating the pres- ence of oil, according ceived today by the local offices of the company. to 4 cable re-| e KDKA (Westinghouse— Kast Pittsburgh.) “The Iron Age,” from Pittsburgh Post Studio ing Agent County of Allegheny, for- mer Sheriff of Allegheny county, from Margaret ghelby Laurie and Miss An- nie; soprano solos by Mrs. Mary J. | VOICES IN THE AIR Wednesday, June 14, 7:00 p. m.—"Playgrounds and Rec Pittsburgh Post Studio, Conway and readings by Earl C. Con- L — 6:00 p, m-~Weekly Summary of reation,” Wm, 8. Haddock, Purchas- 8:00 p. m~Plano solos hy Mrs, way. WBZ (Westinghouse—Springfield.) 7:30 p. m.-—NBaseball scores, “Lit- tle Dog Togo," from St. Nicholas Mag- agine, 7:45 p. m.—Naval reserve activities, by Chief Gunner H. . Johnson, Com- mander of 3rd Naval Battalion, U, 8§, Gov., and state market-reports, 8:00 p. m.—Baseball scores, cal program by Gibbs Piano Co WJIZ (Westinghouse—Newark.) 7:00 p. m~—"Animal Storles" Florence Smith Vincent. 30 p. m.—"Interpretation of Drug Iabels” by Dr. W. 8. Hubbard . Coneert by Original one Syncopaters. 9:00 p. m Recital by Daisy Jean, Belgian ‘cellist, harpist and soprano; accompanied by Jean Wiswell. WGI (American Radio and Research Corp., Medford Hillside, Mass.) H —“*When to Buy Fruit for Can- ning,” by Miss D. H. Goodwin, Mass. Division of Markets, Department of Agriculture, Boston, Mass. 8:10—"I"allacies of the St. Law- rence Ship Canal and Power Project,” by George E. Rix. 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