The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 17, 1922, Page 9

ERDAY, JUNE 17, 1922. pies da ae 1 Wy =6aARTHUR Copyright, i922, From Yesterday) CHAPTER VI WIRELESS DICTAGRAPH wireless distagraph? Bully? Garrick. “We could use » mechanical eavesdropper, rh ae jaboratory.” ved face fell. He glanced at ory then at the sun, “Yea Mink we can make It. . , = oy ns jours later found them tn 5 wireless workshop. Mie boathouse on his ent had done some remarka with wireless, It waa true efee. had some wonderful dat all the equipment tn would not have availed bad not had that «park of (genius tnberited from his x he had a big acrtal from ‘ arrick looked on at the completeness: workshop inside, the hack Saws, crompcut — eawes, % gouges, files, vises. were drills, hands, breast, ‘twist, pilers with all sorts ‘There was wire, copper, plain and insulated, shes, flexible Insulated wire for a supply store, and dakelite, porcelain tubing, sheet brass, sheet ot It} reless RE ee NR AL “So many amateurs,” explained Vario, “have difficulty tn finding the Wave length of the broadcasting sta tions that I that some simple method of tuning and calibrating the set would clear things up, especially for those who are some distance away from the fending stations. They have weak signals to begin with and must listen in on very nearly the proper tune if they are to get any signals at all.” “I gee,” nodded Dick. “For that purpose & Wave meter Is needed. It's to the radio what pitch pipe ts to & plano tuner.” “7 Mine ts atmply « callbrated, oncillating cirouit and is one of the simplest ciroutts to build. The pro- fessor launched into a description of his small coll, variable condensor, valvemeter phones, and general hook-up In town Garrick called up Nita | Walden at her apartments on Park jave. She had got ahead of any one | else and had had Ruth's car towed to & Karage. They stopped there a mo- ment and Professor Varto's solicitude Tor Mra. Walden seemed to offer have concluded HAT CHAIR FELT KINDA STICKY = IF THERES SPOTS on MY RIGGIN' T'LL TRANS- PLANT 'EM ON “TH! FATHEAD WHO PUT | Garrick the opportunity to get rid of him, for they certainly did not want any strangers about in what they were going to do, “But the show,” remonstrated Mrs. Walden as Vario offered to stay Jana do anything he could to relieve thing at the very fin- Garrick urged led Nim proudly to a ce! his apparatus. Wireless complimented Garrick, ping up the familiar little round >em Uke often an interesting | the hearth back of the iron grill| up behind the wheel. the preceding conversation Silence is Freudian. at Garrick. her anxiety. “TN telephone them that I'm de. layed. They can postpone my stunt wntil later in the evening.” he tn. sisted. “And Mra. Walden, don’t you worry when you have two such good friends as Garrick and Dick helping. You should have aten the way they settled the porch crowd—and you can count on me as a third, I may be the last but I hope not the least where Miss Ruth's welfare ts con- corned.” “I really appreciate your kindness deeply—but--of course, I want my little girl. I can’t think of any. thing else. I can't talk over the telephone right; I can't read; I am Just incapacitated untit Ruth gets back to me.” ‘Dick, I'l stay with Mrs, Walden for a little while, if I may. I know sho needs some help, If you want me later I'll be at the Radio Show.” Garrick thanked him, then leaned over Nita Walden. “We'll have some word tonight—sure, By tomorrow you'll have her back—safe.” Ivered Mra. Walden’s tnatructiran “You are to take Prot. Vario dowa to the Armory to the Radio Show, thea you may put the car up. Garrick had been thinking out a plan for the installing of the dicta. graph. Up the street from the Inner Circle were two houses turned into studio apartments. He found th caretaker and the conversation was hung a foot from the floor of work under the mantel below in the Pink Room. Meanwhile, on the roof, Dick had utes but there was nothing more yet. Whoever was cleaning the room fin- ished and left. The busser on Garrick’s door! sounded. He opened it on @ crack.) It was McKay. T just saw that Rae Larue, with & man, at the Park garage on 60th | where I put the ear up.” What sort of looking man?” “I didn’t know him, sir, Sort of | sheggy bair— | “Brock!” exclaimed Dick, who had | com, over. | “then Jack Curtis came tn a car. | Vie didn't etay long: went downtown, | 1 think.” i Rae bad been fussing with the tn- terior of one car in the long line in the garage. She was apparently very busy but Mefay noticed that | nothing escaped Ber, no matter how | slight. He had continued to watch | some time. | Suddenly a very rakich roadster drew up and Rae looked out of the! sedan In which she was, When ehe}| caw Glenn Buckley in the roadster | she Jumped out to meet him. Glenn greeted her with a eickly emil | “Well, you poor fish? exclaimed Rae, “You must believe in ghosts. | You look as though you'd seen one. ‘What are you doing here™ “Just looking... to see ff there’s anyone about.” “Gee, Glenn, I'm thirety. Let's go down to the Inner Cirtie, Will you take me?” “Surely, Rae, Always gtad to re ve a drought and be charitable to my own at the same time, | Rae grabbed his arm and swung! They were off To himself Glenn had had to ad-| mit that no one could be bored in| | Rae's society. No wonder Vira was! 014 Indy, trembling forl been busy placing his sending sot | jealous. But he wouldn't have taken | fm Was actually short-breathed fmt to Garrick before a group of Gar. ye Mappers won out. They near-|he was carrying out of his band! do these days. “Hey—Dick! Ruth? . . . Guy, have you Mhow badly she was hurt? . . "s sake, get her back here. fe dead without Rut lady plumped down tn a to Msten, actually with » | again Jana Garrick helped him cemolete the set up. As they left the studio house, two men were passing. One of brushed suspiciously against Dick with enough force to knock the bag | Garrick controlled his temper. Here were the mysterious shadowers Were they emissaries of the | gang? } Garrick picked up the bag him self, looked significantly at the man, |and remarked, “Well, see? Nothing dripping them | }a dozen Raes for one Vira. He| {didn't like coarseness and some [times Rae did not suit his fastidious nature. Vira with all her modernity, vivacity and recklessness never was | coar } McKay had gone, properly reward. | led, and Garrick was pondering over | what he had just learned. 1 } “Were they the three at the Parr jestate last night—Rae, Brock 4 | Jack?’ he «peculated aloud length. “But Jnck could hardly have been |back then,” hastened Dick. / “He) OUR BOARDING HOUSE TOGS 2+ I THOUGHT \==—7 See ~ WOW! = You LOoK Like A THE SEATTLE ON-SKID TIRE - Al OTH’ WILL “TAKE ‘AT BUS* WHY DON'TCHA Look WHERE Wuster HELPS DRY ONE OF THE PORCH CHAIRS STAR \e<a] “Yo BAD LUCK = TH! DRY CLEAWER WILL WRISTS TRVING “Tb SHOO THOSE SPOTS OFF « BUS IS ALWAYS IN WRONG LIKE DOINGS OF THE DUFFS HELLO, MRS. DUFF, HOW ARE You? ? THOUGHT. I'D SToP IN FOR A YOU -COMEIN AND SIT Down = EXCUSE MY, APPEAR, ‘You &t | violation of seliing service men that | which ts wet? It was nearly midnight when Gar- €, Won't ' | PAGE 9 BY STANLEY suey MARSHAL OTEY WALKER {S BEGINNING TO CRACK, UNDER THE STRAIN OF GUARDING “THE GRAND PRIZE HANGING LAMP. 1 WAS NEVER SO EMBARRASSED IH ALL MY LIFE! THE FIRST | EVER WAS CAUGHT LOOKING THIS WAY- MRS. DOWELL OF ALL PEOPLE “Too! YOU IN YOUR STOCKING FEET wiTH A PIPE IH YOUR MOUTH LOOKING FOR: GOODBYE .MRS, DUFF You MUST COME over ANO SEE ME REAL As they had been at work on the| must have been on the Bacchante.”| rick in what seemed like a reliable) face, Prof. Central at Rock | roof, they had determined on plac-| “How about G / “Or Georges’ jenn?’ parried Dick. + What of Ruth? taxicab, concluded the trailing cf) |the man who had received instruc: | tions from Curtia. | over to them to make| ing the receiving end up at Gar- Inquiries. rick’s apartments which was only} “Perhaps into town?” inquired Vario | several blocks uptown. + . » Say, Dick, I'm going to leave! He had evidently been waiting Garrick returned with a small| At Bachelors’ Hall Dick worked| you here with that wireless dicta-| until the streets were sufficiently | \ from hig rooms. rapidly, for it was now getting dark| graph. You can work it best any-| deserted ow he drew his car, @ Te" Observing how Vario was) in spite of the length of the days.|how. I must get a line o that | big sedan, up to the curb, leaving | you?” He unpacked the receiving end of | garage and do it right aw | the engine running, but well muffled, wie waiting for the club bus| iris wireless dictagraph in the room,| Down the atreet in lunchroom | ag silent as sleeve valves could make Me up to the station. Yes,/then went upon the roof and erected | Garrick caught sight of McKay again | jr te Radio Show at the Seventy. |the portable aerial |and beckoned him quietly out. | It was an Fegigent Armory. I'm to give| Carefully and deftly he began to| “I was thinking about calling you| saw that the peters and demonstration tonight | tune up, now that this second instal-| up, sir, soon,” informed McKay. “I! ¢ront of the Fay new wave meter.” lation was complete. It was rather | was just talking to one of the polish-|the driver had entered the gate and difficult to get the fine adjustment, | ers in there. He told me that Jack | was fumbling with a key at the door. ger to assist| but at last he got the right wave | Curtis gave orders to some driver; Garrick quickened his steps. It fnevery way as far as they | lengh. | abe a stranger, to g0|was now or never to get let in on ® take him into their confi-| He looked up at Garrick, emiled,|after something at 11 o'clock. He) this mystery Garrick had met him many |and took the headgear off, banding | didn't know what it was or where it} As he turned In at the gate the M the club and Dick « it to him. t that?’ was but he gave him a key, sir.” man at the door heard him, looking had much in common tn Garrick adjusted it, iMstened for a| McKay pointed the fellow, & quickly as if expecting him, then Work. He seemed particuarly | moment {n some perplexity, then ex-| stranger, out, and Garrick reached | catching @ better look uttered an in keeping Ruth out of|ciaimed, “Why, I can hear the whirr| into his pocket for his every-ready | c and swung on him and very sympathetic | of a vacuum cleaner in the room!” | rol! of bills. | Garrick parried and countered. Mrs. Walden in her trouble.| Dick smiled proudly, “I think I McKay seemed really offended.| The man went sprawling backward Miveter, Garrick did not propose | made the transmitter about as sensi-| “Mr. Garrick—please, I Aidn’t fee!|on the bit of turf of the little front 4 Much with even Vario and| tive a microphone as can be made. 1| right when you slipped me that other | yard Beway he and Dick fell into a| only hope It Jan't so sensitive that {t| five spot. Mrs. Walden has been so| A: that moment * of thelr hobby, especially | picks up thru the wall what happens|fine to me—I've driven her three|the clatter of fect from across the lecture on his new wave|in the house next door.” years—and, as you might say, seen | street and around the motor, But They listened in for several five Ruth grow up. Say, I believe | before he could turn, the other man’ }ra lose an arm or @ leg to get this | wag on him, bearing him down with thing settled straight.” the momentum of the rush. He waa) ADVENTURES yy OF THE TWINS [| Clive Barto - Alone Garrick waited. It was now /a husky but Garrick felt he could halt past He had an hour and | outwrestle him, -LEGS WORSTED—BUT HE TURNS THE TABLES a half to watch. Ag he did so he| ‘The fellow sprawling on the turf revolved the two robberies over and/ swore again as he crouched up on 7 and Nick had some magic;star any more! fo @ gsit-shaker Mr. Peer-| Wicked relatives! Oh! Oh! Ob!" over in his mind, Each time his|his hands and knees, waiting to get | thought led him to the «ame path.|a hold, | Who was the “man higher up”?-Was| Two were more than Garrick | it Jack Curtis? Or Brock? Might it | could handle as legs and arms and not be Georges? What, after all,|heads cut the turf, getting ever | id he know about Georges, since be | nearer the sharp pickets of the fence l tore the and during the (Continued Monday) Comet-Legs kept hopping around ii 6 Had given them. He had said lon one foot and talking like a phono. me you get near enough| graph, But he stopped finally and Bat mischievous tairy, Comet-| rubbed his eyes Mrinkle 4 little on his legs.| He looked at Nancy and Nick. P7 Will love their crookedness and| “So it's you, is it? he sald. “T Straight. He will lose his| just sald to Kena Meena, my cousin, ‘8nd won't be able to ride his OUR FIRST YEAR By a Bride CHAPTER XXXIX—A_ NEAR QUARREL They're up to something. Coming moon acted so crazily |all the way to the moon to help old | brittle, the Twins found Comet-Legn Never had my temper been #0) joke never had Jack been 80] “Bills don’t come this time of the Peerabout! They'll do something| patient. While he turned the cuff#|month!" I snapped. “You'll get With the handles that ranjyet” And now you've up and gone! of his only clean shirt to conceal the | plenty when they do!” Moon they thought of the ded shock when he had stopped just in ard house and that THE OLD CABLE CAR Peeey was gigging. All by jon another turn on First ave herself, sitting out on the front | “You see, Davie, they didn't atep, she was all doubled up with |have sides to keep people from giggles. | falling-—just two long seats back David came whistling up the |to back—and so if you weren't path and stopped to regard her |stuck on good and tight when curiously, “What seems to be the |the car went around those cor- matter?” he asked in a voice as | ners, off you would go. nearly like daddy's as he could| “Sometimes many people did get make {t hurt, too, and that isn’t the funny “Oh, Dav part. But one day a girl named just remembered |Emma was on the ear going to story that Mrs. Martha’s daugh- | her work, She had a whole lot of ter did tell me. T didn’t laugh a little parcels with her and her bit when she did tell it to me, | purse and everything. but now I think {t's so funny, “And—Davie, did I tell you that and ehe giggled Into her fat little | was a ‘nawfully steep hill from hands once more. First to Second, where the Stand- David sat down beside her and|ard Furniture store is? Well, tried to look bored, but he was |there was, and that was another nearly bursting with curiosity |spilly place, but Emma was on about the story. the car when it was going around “Pioneer story?” the corner at Aloha and just as briefly. he started around the man lost “Oh, ‘course,"* Pesey his grip (that's what Mrs, Mar- with intense scorn. tha's daughter said), but anyway “What's it about? David ven-|the old car gave a jerk and off tured again went ma, and all her bundles “Weull,” Peggy began slowly, | flew open and flew all over the he always did, “you know the car and her purse flew open and cable cars didn't used to be where |all the money scattered every- they are now. This one in the| where and Emma just spilled her: story was one that went up Queen | self all over the c but she Anne Hill a little ways, I think to |wasn't burt a speck, and most the top of the bill, and it turned |everybody in town teased her on Queen Anne ave. and Aloha st., | about It. and Pegsy had to giggle| “I guess the early-day cable again, “and—and that's where |cars were more worse even than people falled off; thefe and down | these now,” she sighed. ———— a ciaiiaiieiiaiisllicmamnmnessmumsenmssseeee oA Penne scerenseese del Rl warren morning?” “I understand you're late, awfully! | Goodby!” Another Kiss, another hug, an- other rustling of crushed paper, the door closed between us. Jack’ was | gone and I was ate t the place, she answered, “T such a funny BLOW THAT HORN oR Vee Give You A BLOW ON THE HEAD !! ° Garrick heard min- he asked replied AMY tie UN ee zs I can't visit my as Tearle's letter, I had been cross be- cause I had been wrong. I snatched the letter from my blouse, tt was of little consequence, merely a suggestion that I upset Bonny's talks with George Brad- shaw, so far as I decently could, if they met at the Litthe Playhouse that evening. And for our misunderstanding, caused by other people's business, Jack was to spend a whole day in bewilderment and I in heartbreak, (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1932, by Seattle Stax With tears in my eyes I started to collect the breakfast dishes, The sight of Jack's half empty coffee cup made the tears brim over, I sat down on the bench by the side of my narrow Pullman table and had a nice quiet erying spell, My darling husband would not be |in his office until the late afternoon T could not phone him and tell him a tone Intended to convey the idea that it was decidedly ail wrong. 1 | put up my face to be kissed. “Hurry, dear! I've made you late to your ap- pointment! Now don’t make me feel | worse about It by betng later!"* Jack hugged me close, Mr, Tearle’s ) letter in my blouse crackled sharply.| Never had we come so close to |My husband held me at arm's length, | quarreling. Whenever I had ap. It's mean to bother | laughed. peared to bea the least bit annoyed, “Right over your heart! What's | Jack had looked worried, helpless,| how sorry T was. I would have to that you were asking about secrets?” |as if he were at his wit's end. Helendure that horrid weight upon my “Maybe—tt's another bill!” was In that state when he deft the|heart, a suffocated feeling, until he “Oh, Feggins! Don't you—won't| house. I hadn't been fair; I had be.| returned and we could make up. you understand any old Joke this'haved very badlyt ‘Aad all this on gcchpaS ot Bt and done tt! But I'l get even. That | frazzled edges he whistted cheertly.| “Why, Peggins! Darling! What's powder makes anything that 1s|But his indifference to a trying situ: /the matter this morning?” curved straight. I want It. Gtvelation, which I might have prevented,| To this question my only answer |it here." laid not comfort me, | was a stony glance, Just long ehough ie’ Ge Bick “had And he "sot much mail ‘this morning!’ /to wee that Jack wore his usual ex. | Powder on the fairy's| Nick's hand. Jack picked up his letters {pression when I'm horrid, a grieved, calves, | “19 1 shake some of this powder! 1 did not answer. I kavw perfect. | bewildered look legs gave a yell like @ fire|on the moon, it will change from |ly well'that my husband was talking| “Pegmy, love! round ‘to square. And I'm going to|merely for talking’s sake, just to re-|you! I thought you'd know T was Ouch! he cried. do it! he cried. lieve the tension of the moment only teasing! I'm stupid, sometimes, Oh, my legs! My nice,|. Away he ran “And no bills—thank the god: | guess. But, girl, tf I've hurt you, i SrOoked lecn! They're getting (Vo Be Continued) Jack's last remark quite finished | I'm sorry!” # Oh, now 1 can't ride my Lezs was so busy he didn’t #ud before you could have ferked the shaker from “What's (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) | me, altho 1 kaew he meant it for al “it’s all rlglt, Jack!" I replied ip