The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 21, 1922, Page 11

Wireless CU rarer THE SEATTLE STAR OUR BOARDING HOUSE 7 \.0OK UNCLE AMOS, AT TH’ =] Warr ALvIN MY Aj LRD, AND T WILL 4 HA-HA- LIGTEN = Yo THAT BY AHERN WHEN HE SWwAM TW ENGLISH THE OLD HOME TOWN neucnTT Z 2 6 ARTHUR R REEVE SWIMMIN! SUIT TAKE Vou our J eer CHANNEL. © —— AUNTY BOUGHT ME©E] THE BEACH Soon 4 Riese o¢ Tes at pj aaa : ps { AND START You Fe Go COULDN'T WADE {Continued From Yesteniay) | chair and was standing with hands| f] WILL YCOME OUT Wee Th INTO ATURKISH ACROSS A a S rye extended it y ol | U = ’ RIGHT wt le s CHAPTER IX |. Dleadingly before Garrick AN’ SPRINKLE “TH “| BATH witTHouTsAS RE e THE DIRECTION FINDER As she finished there was a little | NAN’ SPLASH CORRECT METHOD) ~ ki CREEK = ecurtis--you were up to something | eMBIe In her voice and she turned | LAWN AN SPLAS| OF SWIMMING = | 7] A LIFE “ONLY THING evitish—1 know it!" repeated Vario | W#ekly to dab away a tear that had | SOME WATER ow PRESERVER “MAT'D FLOAT Ae he faced Jack over the table at] #8thered in each eye, Garrick took ‘ “HE SAME STYLE See tinnante. SAwhen you anw me | Def azma and gently forced her back| || ME S0'S I CAN I USED WHEN AROUND HIS, WOULD BE Grive up here you suddenty changed | Wt the chair. Vira prested the SEE IF IT WoRKS NECK! WIS HEAD! Your tune. You ran to cover—-to cov: | UPS Of fingers of both hands on her I SWAM “THE 5 “Se thane flushed forehead, ALL RIGHT 2 - ENGLISH y t oy “But who's the head of tt all—this 5 ' The waiter, Herman, sniveled. His | Veivet Gang, as the police call It?" CHANNEL! face was livid, He bowed and &l-/ Garrick exaggerated a bit for effect, pH most faunedt on Vario, took bold of) “Vira looked up aulckly, a fright-| p) Dim, for all the world like @ drown | ened ytare on her face. But she said | | ie man catching at a straw nothing ° “Furthermore, I you! “I don't want to drag all you fool- Sitpped that vial in this man's pocketiish young folks into anything, I n perhaps you palmed it—did « little | wane to keep you out of it. I'm not | “ Cynon hand, You Inhuman cad!/ half so much Interested even in| could cane your cl . : joatching these bootlegging profiteere > Ruth was speechless. She leaned) higher up as Lam in getting you out ‘y over the table, half standing, an al) o¢ your foolishness—clean.” luting little figure in blue. Her ex-| [nm sick of it all. So are Glenn + | citement had sent a blaze of color to) and Ruth—only they're too proud to * her cheeks. Her golden hair framed | admit it, Someone must make the “4 her face in a mass of gold that shed | break. I felt that I could—swallow “4 & brightness over her whole counte-|my pride, Guy Rance. Ruth was a very desirable! Garrick patted the ttle girl's ttle girl and her chief charm was! shoulder. Vira emiled up at him | that she did not seem to be thinking s of i all the time. Jack had been working himself | to an almost apoplectic rage as fario hurted the accusation at him @ took a step forward in furious | fense, then shot out his forefinger efully and with confidence. Whose was that gruff voice, a man, that I heard this morning over the dictagraph in the Pink Room? Brock?" Garrick had figured on betrayal | by surprise. He in turn was not sur pointing at the teacup that had been | prised at the naive stare in return! before him. |nor by the firm silence. He had seen eet “Woult I-—potson—myself!’ he/too many women on the witness | st menaced. stand. Vira had made up her mind “We'll settle that,” came back/to talk—but not too much. He de- STATION AGENT DAD KEYES THOUGHT HE HAD FOUND THE HIDING PLACE OF THE UNKNOWN PERSON WHO TAMPERED WITH THE DOOR OF ROBINSONS STORE THE OTHER NIGHT — Vario sharply. “I'll undertake to/ cided it whs best to let it go at that; label this ail and seal it—in the/not to try any social third degree. Presence of you as witness, Then| she would come around. They TN send ft to some reputable chem | agreed not for the present to be seen cal laboratory for anslysis. I could | together. | do it myself—but—well, in other) it was not three minutes tater words, we'll impound this evidence} when Dick received another shock. until someone else determines what/ Mrs. Walden had hastened to pour Well, anyway... yea, | m tn” out the news of the Binnacle epi.|! #ave 4 key to Rae Larue onos. She ‘The waiter scurried about getting | sode, as far as she knew it, to Gar.| Deed It of me once to put her car flasks.. Varto turned to Ruth with | rick. up and then. . .” | excessive courtesy. “Miss Walden—| “jm going to call up Ruth on the} “All right, Glenn. I'll give you to | I must insist—for your own safety—|nouse phone,” exclaimed Dick vio-|Mlgbt. Gotng to see Ruth? Well, | I'll drive you back to the club. I'll jently as be and Garrick paced down | ell her not to do a thing without telephone and postpone the appoint: | the porch alone. seeing me first.” } ment I had at the Seaville station.| «No—don't, It won't do a bit of| Glenn departed a bit relieved at No. . . It can easily go over till/ good. You'll do harm, in your pres | Postponing the evil day of confession. tomorrow. Your mother cannot stand| ent mood. Don't be so worried over| “Well, if Rae Larue had it, they | much more. She needs you. . .| Ruth, Dick. Take it from me. She'll|#" had it, anyone that wanted it.” | Ruth. She hes been thru so much! come out ali right, 1 think that | hastily reasoned Garrick, “That place | Olivia Was a Handicap DO You KNOW HOW To ROW A BOAT, HAROLD? THIS Won"T WoRK EITHER - WELL BOTH HAVE To Ba IN THE CENTER OF THE BOAT AT THE You SAY You CANT Ger ANY LEVERAGE TT WELL WHY DID YouGer ME OUT HERE BEFORE You Found IT ov? | You AND | OH Yes, I'VE ROWED HEAPS OF TIMES! anguish in the last two days.” little girl knows very weil what she |! & cache for their stuff. I didn’t} Ruth looked from Vario to Jack. | is dolgg” af want to ask for the key. T don’t| |) still eputtering impotently. Was it} “ghe does—eh? The deuce whe/| eed it. We'll go there anyway. I'll| | true? The quickest way to get out | does!" get in. Come on to the city!" Locks werp no impediment to oar | rick. He had taken a course with | his friend Houdini, While he couldn't | get out of everything, he could get into nearly anything. | Glenn's garage was easy. As they | cloned the door, they looked about in | wemeseipeoh.1| was indeed an “un- bonded warchot. There were cases enough to Have meant a tidy | little fortune, In une cov where | they had been hastily dumg.4 thy! the product of the looting of she Parr cell \ Indisturbed. Too bulky,” mut tered Garrick. “But someone has been here.” “How do you know?" Garrick potated toward « crack of light. On one side of the garage was an auto pit for working en the under side of cars. A board covering was| imperfectly pulled over it. Thru the edge shone « light. Garrick wrenched the covering aside, “Their hiding 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 hoisted himself up.| Without a word he handed Dick a Uttle Jowel cane, Engraved on tt! were the words, “Antoinette Parr. It was empty Gatrick was not disposed to argue. | “This thing has gone just about far jenough, 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 teve.of anventure, Ruth just sifmply could not have been concerned tm them. Now, start et the beginning. Ther }that girl’s hat used in the Gerard robbery, the one I've got in the club safe, Whose is that? I know what you're going to say. Maybe. But can you prove fi if you can, that's a long way from connecting her with the hol4-up.” “That devil, Jack Curtis! ground out Dick. “They're two of a kind. I'll bet if we could rald his room at the hotel, we'd get something—maybe a picture of Rae—with the hat. I think iw es that was his camera after all that Walden beamed her apprecia-| you pinched.” of Verio's help. Vario exchanged/ Garrick swung on his heel. “Cur. Keen glance with Ruth and under-| tis, Just what I was thinking. Let's that she chose to walt until jump over there—get him right, were more facts before she) quick.” an open accusation, He nodded| At the hotel they learned that Cur acquiesced. | us had cleaned out everything that fou'll let me know the—the re! forenoon, had checked out, and had iT” Ruth asked. disappeared. promised and with a forced Over the telephone Garrick called phearted remark Ruth turned|the Page place. Beth was not at up the stairs to her room to | home but her mother, with consider inner. lable retief, replink “Mine Larue? while, on the opposite porch | Miss Larue left rather hurriedly for of danger ts often the most obvious. hank you, Professor. It's very of you to take such an inter. ‘They left Curtis standing, stil! boiling with rage, beside his motor. A® Vario's car disappeared, Jack Sprang into his own and shot down )) the South Shore road toward a short | eut to the cross island highway. Nita Walden’s surprise was great she saw Vario with Kuth. be ATTRA SRE NSE ASE ERNE RED « ve) a POP ENED ME A NICKEL T SPEND FoR CANDY = wus i i i Seher ape iag ? #) : £ i “Everything's gone—all the rtable property w «mail | U ; at shall we do? Hand it over ef the club, which was otherwise de-/the city this afternoon. I believe J gerted, Vira, only a fow moments be-|zhe expecta her mother from the|'® the police? fore, bad tacked her arm nervousty | const.” ot yet. I must get Glenn and Sender Garrick’s and drawn him {nto| “Mrs. Walden eaid that Curtis had | the others some sort of immun hat they didn’t do. serve it They don’t de-| ‘but theyre just wise young | | fools.” rrick thought & moment “You see, the net result of some of | Dick ir Hew commandments has been to | the hidden make various phases of lawbreaking | 0 compass fashionable, smart. Only this is «| By the time the Astra men arrived | bit extreme.” | Dick had it pointed. Every few min-| He moved over to the telephone.| utes a new message came, T It was working and he called the| left the men in charge and climbed started down the South Shore roac when Vario left. Ruth looked back “You may come, too, Dick,” she! and saw him.” Back to him. “There—please| Garrick was climbin in under the! the door. “She glanced at Gar-| wheel when a biue streak shot along | half confidently, half fearful of | Main st. regardiess of local law. He} “T've been so afraid—ever since 4 at his screecher of @ horn. I found out how the walls might) “It’s Gienn.” He waved and sig. have cars!" haled. Glenn bore over to the curb yards ahead privacy of the glassed-in, dace | ‘um, “It must be ortentated toward y ender. Really it's @ ra-| — L S9Qass BASRFete atte tt You PROMISED TO MEET ME HERE AT FOUR, AND [T'S Now FR ' ndred anda ordeal “gata -ctnag gy a JAstra agency of private detectives | in the The direction had been | HACE PAST FOUR tt ly, turning and looking up at his face| “Where's thagfire?” foked Garrick to furnish a guard until the fing-| east by south. | | ashe stood with hin hands still on| “Just going to see Vira—with | ader was ca t and he was ready| Across the bridge Dick set up his the back of tle chair. | Ruth.” |to make final disposition of the case, | finder again. This time It was east There waa something seething in| “Say, Glenn—" confidentially— Dick's alert eyes, as they were|by @ little north. Over well known|] gy Vibe wiind and Garrick wae just about|“there’s no use keeping this under | Wilting, discovered @ wireless set on | roads they scurried, now. and then, | om itkake some reassuring remark| cover. 1 heard you my, in the Pink |* Worktable in the rear. Out of the| every few miles setting up the finder dé would rélleve the tension and| Room, you'd taken that Parr stutt|sck window he could see the an-/and modifying thelr course. Who} the floodgates of her heart.|to your own garage’ to protect Vira. | li S pag hg te the house, | was the hidden and persistent slan-| AT MilynigHt TH | t is + he oy oly judas priew ick was #0 | de “ ” op 1p rw qgserspet a pepe nny rapid Serr oe may atratgne, | started he was pale. “Someone’s| Looks as if ft might be down} ‘ ath) , mig tt ace bed hey make an actual at- chance, likens. Sea. taiter your fm gous. |brosdeasting whet they calf | news.) Duck Harbor way!’ sa aysareeneh, eeu Cee ee ead cs| Pailin. an. Yai and Os ‘about Glenn,” she cried | Did 1 ever Go you & dirty trick—or | !¢ it can't be. It must be some | finally, aghast most couldn't stand it? What) did ell aecllagy: 7 wnkphlinsens Heesly, Bringing her two hands to-| Dick? What do people at the club|Tasy amateur. ‘Ruth Walden, the| At Duck Harbor, abruptly, the a1] you ao \ mere ape toe 25 bei fetes. «|. and Georges. Well.| Glenn threw ey eee it| Garrick selzed the phones, “Ama ve you traced out the|f Mra. Davis said, “but 1 gfon't| ing in a way which youlean not (Glenn was our treasurer when we/jcigaret, lighed another, | teur—perhape; crazy, n Garrick cried Garrick, a they|| think we said very much gMhout it;| possibly imagine. No ae who y, t sup-|away and stood foolishly with the harbon | we were all so sorry fol! mother | haxf't heard it can know the ter- Piet started—is yet, in a 3 s ‘ os listened and continued. “Did you ed out over the empty mete ey have been ail sight | bust —_ vl re Leg Pitas wy ever stop to consider the radio as a| ‘But we're too late, The Sea Vamp|f and all trying so hard Wf nelp her. | ror of that Indian war-whyop in eee cgi Ayre ertgarcdin 4, bore . as hell. ghey the time | Means for slander? Talk about your|has gone! The bird# are flown!” I had two older siste ‘one about | the blackness of the night. eee peniges. St wae aanert, | Ae Merwe | poison pen writers! Science has put| From a cottage down tho beach|f 16 and one a little ol than she,| “Mother wept and shuddyred, and our mother wag we felt we must do: protect her. “1 can reme [+ One thing led to another|1 don’t know what I'm doing. Say juy Oh, get him . you'll be on the level, Guy. It's . get him out of it} a einch no one else will. I might as well make a clean breast of it. . . and we clung about her, retewur. ing and comforting her. Qutside the yelling and the sound of beat. ing hoofs never ceased as the sav- the Garrick called Nita Walden at Nonowantue club. “Where is Ruth?” he asked quick- ly o frail that we could to |into the hands of blackmatlers the most dangerous of weapons. Your story is spread to a million fans, And there’s not a chance of tracing it to wHat Kou DO Owe ME iS ABOUT HOUR OF VALUAGLS TIMS 31 tke NEVGR BE AGLE To Cxcéecr AT, Met of it all. a eGeanr ir that spot #0 y flusher, had risen from the'no, fust give me tonight to think it} ores tio “She went out with Glenn and|f clearly, no rat trees about, | agen rode round and round our BoT TLL HAND You “There isn't? The devil there tan't.| Vira. She left a note for you, Guy, just sagebrusiy 4 grease-wood, | camp. be I can. I will! exclaimed Dick. “If} marked ‘Mr. Garrick, Personal.’ Hel and dust, and te sia so hot, | “Hvery moment we expected to REcarPT FOR iT he keeps it up.” Jo? Wait, I'll open it then. Here. “The meng. 4. their blockade | hear the sound of shots, or the ANY ow tbh (o) THE Tw eerie’, te. (MOneet somes | ow WE ce never to (Go saything by <i Me See way with the hun-| scream of some white man wound — a there on the workbench. It was| again without letting you know. I've|[ dred heavy MM) 1 'cirdie, end| ed by an arrow, but only the Ciive Roberts Verto * comparatively simple, a “loop” as it} gone to the Sen Vamp to destroy to end, thi omen and children | hideous yelling continued, not T ig known, copper wire wound eight| the engine #0 they can't move it were in t cat- other sound came. FIREFLY JOINS TWINS’ QUEST ie times around a frame four feet] away until tomorrow, Ruth,’ ” tle tn thay 4 Sel cks oxo wneWae aid not know wit time to the earth slid Nancy and jdaddy sulkily. “I hate tt. When tt) viare He hung it from the celling,| “But the Sea Vamp has gone!” ready with, un it was, We had no idea how Inng to hunt Mr. Peerabout, the lost | shines, as it's doing tonight, nobody | tree, He could turn it in any direc-} | Nita Walden screamed her intul- “It ere rk, but nobody slept. | it was since we beard the first He connected up the receiving | tion. Nobody, ‘Then he began turning the loop} “Ruth has been carried off on the any «i > Sea Vamp!” stirred (Continued Tomorrow) breathif yell, I remember that ft seemed to me that noise had been going ld we could hear their| on almost forever, when with a The air was still, We| final horrible long-drawn whoop, | they rode away into the coming tion. set. | slowly. “A directional receiver,” explained he-Moon. landed right beside Lily and there was old Grandaddy sulking. even the children, had can see my light, I wish the Moon feeling. The cattle and everything on It were in Guinea, wherever that is.” “Then you fe the matter, Grandaday?”| “Oht" erled Nancy. | quiet. The hours crept | | Nancy. “is anybody sick?” won't wish to help us, Grandaddy. ute by minute, to nearly | dawn #214 Grandaddy, “unless it's| You see we are after Mr. Peerabout, | R FIRS | YEAR t, then without any fore Not one shot was fired | Ym wick of everything” the Man-inthe-Moon. He's lost.” lg sound of hoofs or foot-| were safe, but it was an awful Why, what's asked “You don't say #0, exclaimed | jg. By a Bride a blood-curdling yell split} night, And for the travelers in wrong’ the red wagon, it was followed by kindly. “I should thi A) 6 a in surprise, lighting on ¥. “I should think you'd | Grandaddy surprise ie steady,’ father’s votes | six awful days.” ‘8 going to off the Moon and saya h turn the Moon square.” lack 1" “fo which Mr. Jack, never having it's b0 quiet and comfy and Said she super-sophisticated made a beautiful pair, Why couldn't Bar mood, “May 1 inquire who your Interest. | 114 59 pairs of eyes were released “You ing new friends may be?” Jack indi | oo bondage. and I know that | on such a lovely night. It's | Nancy's shoulder, the better to hear CHAPTER XLII—A FLAPPER CENSOR A ; ot ‘To Be Continy Wee Fairyland here. Kverything|“where do you s'pose he's gone?”| «preyo, folkes! Give mo a cigaret, was off and back in a minute, and out, ‘Remember not one shot (To Be ed) «aang and perfumy. And| “We don’t know,” " erg ind Jack! An’ a light! Thanks!” Thus!)ad wrapped Miss Flapper in her di Iii ee e " “Comnt- is enemy, shoved him reais | and tree frogs are ning: | “Comt-Legs, bis Bonny greeted us. evening cloak before she knew It, Jeanne, who had on her eriticaljoutside our circle, Ah, oh, they it Jeanne baby! have sense and fall in love Grandaday buzzed his wings and! “Well, I'll help you anyway,” of- ia uncannily sophisticated. with the girl? formed an opinion, contributed his|why, the infant has said all there flew around F/ leated two young girls in bobs, Sy aa Around the grass stalk he'd |fered Grandaddy. “We surely don’t Sroeches, coats and stocks, who had |, 7 tell this story only to Oe ee instance, observing the Konrad [characteristic bewildered, “Why no!/i, to be said against breeches for| ‘To me, she was obviously in love ing on, want a square Moon, and we don't sonny address envel.|* ‘esular dear fe my husband, | looking like pretty boys as |Why—ye: Bona AF shee ? tell you all about 1,” ‘Moon-Man. ‘The old|been helping Bonny |comprehending and chivalrous, how | b= aly girls! She's told us why Dr. Mary|with bim. Her bravado vanished da it Si tt “ beta aif gle enough. ” opes. quick to do the right thing at the pon the stage, Bomy ery do Bet ys Pantaloon effects | walker never could make them| when he no. She held her clouk fs m1 om was 5 A s,"" y sai pe 1 ow ues J ‘ ‘ Se n,n this world. [Moon was s00d enue ns you] “Don't you know them? They'relproper moment, Only about mie, [MPa put pot tor Bonny.| se henson oickene re) parecchea | popular! ‘Why, (they're doomed ‘40. |closs about ltt ANOU MarR Red aims * m “ ne . Z 1 one y’ th y vt y 4 5 wan "4 } r je hain pn mine, was PEN 40 9nd they don't like other | anid about wishing tt was in Guined,|the famous Kondar twins MY | about what I want, about how J feel |Maome girls are golng to wear ‘em all|right, But mon Itke frilly femini {eay' Mea ¢ esi ed it was a. eae to ‘ “e—they're wort of—sort of semi- | wk ever the least bit 4 ly feminine | at this moment Bart Jofned us and | bling little hand, I felt sure that ff i Shenadn with their rights, |did you?’ said Nancy quickly. poms is pakiae We ead tek fn na eg nie og that Summer, they say, white duck togs. |Iaeey leaning girls. So I'm going to|asnny blushed! ‘That smart ttle |a girl of her age can possibly fall in Jon’ fe ro ach “ ei smuiaadd rofessionals, © 4 for ” Bonny he has alwa t r “we ‘ of - » . agree with me No! declared Grandaddy. 1 | pr “ony - promgps Aired prs yr te pry be co But-—not me!” She blew a eircle of |be all ruffly this summer. Pretty | flapper actually blushed and put out | love, Bonny had met with the exper ald he did, tho he wasn't| guess I didn’t. Things might be | sp 3 ‘e Proye Ma mY Bcigaret amoke into the air, colors, too. I hope all the other|her cigaret against the back of ajience, If I could see, why couldn't Oe fust what Grandaddy |worse.” Shall 1 get one of ‘em to lend | prefers the freakish, the bizarre begm “Why not you?" Jeanne querted.| girls will wear breeches,” Then I'll /ghatr. Bant r v” hinted cause they ar s. ¥ g\ « . ‘ “ir - Z (To Be Canionee ‘ you Bay oat pen peanae | vents ge B rage eee? Rostiat wn men haga lke to see | have all the beaus! T managed to mill the group #0 (To Be Continued) Moon,” explained Gran-| (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) ‘Oh, y bel ne wir boys’ clothes. Now do they,| We laughted in chorug, all except that the two young things were left | (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stax ‘ '