The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 22, 1922, Page 11

_ heavy robe, his head bandaged, still “Tap, tap, tap’ went Nick with Cob’s knocker on the basement | door. ss THE SEATTL PAGE 11 R EEVE Oi lh La Copyright, (Continued From Yesterday) CHAPTER X BROADCASTING “My Ruth—carried off Sea Vamp! Nita Wakien repeated her words) hysterically over the telephone. Gar. | rick know that (here was no use now te camouflage his fears. “1 be out there—with you—tn a few minutes," he shouted. | Dick was still in a daze at the un: | expected { the blow. Mechant: | cally he followed Garrick and climbed | into the car. As it started and turned | down the road to Nonowantue, the} cool of the damp evening atr seemed | to collect his faculties. He notleed for the first time where they were | headed. Why this way, Guy? Why rot | to New York?" “L want to see Nita Walden first, ; and reassure her, I promised her,” “But—it's Ruth first." “Well, the club isn't far.” *“Yes—but the city—the police—" “Walt, Dick. 1 know what Tam on the | that here, SYN. RAL Mervtice at the Usontia. 4 really clever. | You know it as well aw 1 do, But | they had her—they meshed, hooked, time she has meant Just to lead them om—and hand them over, when she got them right, But #he coullin't tell Gleen, here, Nor Vira. Not He «lan up at bis own car, if she had only stuck to her Promisze—to let me know—first! But Ruth is so clever; she thinks she's a match for anyone, And mostly she ist Walt! She'll prove it.” Tt was cold comfort to Dick. “Well, now, what good is it to be hore? If we had only gone to the city, we could have alarmed the police there,” Garrick amiled patiently ou for get the Radio Central at Rock Ledge —and the telephone. [ ean do all T can call up and get the police of the country here by tele phone. Besides, trom Rock Ledge Loan alarm the police of the world, Every ship, every amateur station, had them all, that. Jon any wave length—the wireless world is open to me here!* “That's it,” cried Glenn. “Let me Nita Walden was ovetwhelmed by her daughter's peril. encapades were nothing compared to this. Up and down the room «he| paced. choking back her sobs, wait.) ing for Garrick's arrival. Some mo- nents she would stand before Ruth's ‘picture wondering what was happen- ing to her, Other moments she would try to calm herself and relax | im an easy chair in a vain effort to concentrate on Ruth as if that might bring her back. | She was frantic when Garrick ar | rived. . “If it's a ransom they want . Tu_pay a million!” | “Pay @ million? Puy nothing. Yea) + + «& million to catch them and) gave her . . . but not a cent of ran- The Teom telephone rang. Dick answered ft. “}t'e Gtenn downstairs, with Dr. Darling of Stony Brook.” Dick said | Ro More but Garrick understood and | excused himeelt. At the desk stood the doctor alone. “T've got him out tn my car. 7 thought he'd better see you first—| Or he did, rather.” | “What's the matter? ‘The doctor did not answer but led the way outside and a few feet down the driveway. ‘There was Glenn, wrapped tn a yet? Someone's carried off and Vira in the Sea Vamp. | the doctor got hold of me he) me up: 1 told him; he was or ringing up the sheriff, but 1 made him wait until I could see Te eas eeetereie or quentiane it a> ‘They | wet goods we} were dealing im for Georges and the fest That was Brock’e real job.” | “E eee,” encouraged Garrick. “And Ruth thought they might mo boat Bo she started to pre vent that—and left me the note about it.” “Yes,” nodded Glenn, adjusting} bandages more comfortably. |. when we got over there it) was dark. There wasn’t even the light on the boat, Ruth figured that Brock and everybody were away and | ft was a good time to do what she) wanted. We got a cance and pad. died out. There's wasn't a sound. We) ‘climbed aboard and went down to the litle engine room. ly dark. 1 was fumbling about for the switch—the next thing I knew I) heard a scream from Vira—then | something or somebody must have} hit me,” he put his hand carefully | Dut did not touch the bandage back of his ear, “and that’s the last thing | Tknew until I came to fn the water, half fyll of the harbor. Must have knocked me cold and overboard. I Managed to get to the other shore! and some people in a bungalow got the Doc.” “Who was It?” asked Dick than one?” j “IT don't know. But I think so, I had a vague feeling there were @) couple at least back of me.” Dick stared at Garrick. Vira gone, | tool Georges, Brock, Jack Curtis, | Rae. He uttered the names, suspl Was it fm reality a final ad in t he double triangle of Rae “More | venture Ruth, himself and Jack, Vira, and Glenn? “Bo,” Dick mumbled sarcastically with a aide giance at Garrick. “Ruth knew very well what she was doing, | en?” Garrick was too big to take of- se. “Dick,” he replied merely, Ruth confided in me, that morning Ruth's other | go with you.” “No, Doctor, put him up where he get over this quick, I'll need you, boy, tomorrow, need you badly Get In shape.” Glenn obeyed with, for him, good grace and In a moment, with the full story, Garrick and Dick were speed ing to Rock Ledge. “Broadcasting by the police-—for olen care—mise. ing people—all sorte of crimee—is xetting to be a greater success every day,” eried Garrick, trying to pump enthusiasm into the crushed Dick and with success, “Guy, I'm a dub, Ih my own line, too. Never thought of the Rock Ledge broadcasting” station, Of course, XYXZ% can do it! ‘They soon found themselves in a small room, quite plain except for the draperies that were artistically arranged to hide the bare walls. There were a few plants and flowers about, also, At one end stood a beautiful plano of the reproductog variety, Some of the best known artiste had In reality played on it; all had played on ft thru the perforated paper rolls, There were phonographs of all the standard well-known makes and on the other side an auto. matic organ. A ental! table with a aftk-shaded lamp added a touch of hominess and there were a few, not many, deep easy chairs. But the most important plece of furniture which tnterested Garrick more than anything else, as the at- tendant conducted them in, was the eabinet containing little lampe and plenty of switches and wiring, com- prising whet fs known as the modu lating equipment. It was a wooden framework covered with copper wereening to prevent the delicate ap paratus from being disturbed by electrical and magnetic influences within the room itself. Various con- ductors connecting up the cabinet and the transmitter were sheathed in beautiful, bright and neat woven copper sleeves or tubes for the same reason. “There's the little transmitter, mounted on that portable stand,” pointed ont Dick. “The radiophone transmitter, proper, is located tn a Mttle room under the roof overhead. ‘There are a couple of operators, for it contains all the elements of actual transmisaton. When this studio ts to broadcast {tt t# connected by this switch over here with the radio sta tion upstairs, Here's a wire tele phone to it, too.” Garrick hardly needed to be told. He had seen it once before. the radio telephone tranamitter which con sisted of a cabinet closed tn by tron rill work to prevent damage to the delicate vyncuum tubes, five of them for the normal operation. At the ex treme end of a long operating desk or table was the tranemitter, On the table were ordinary telephone instru mé radio apparatus, a recetving set with amplifiers, telephone head sets and a lond speaking device by which the operators could hear the speech or music rendered downstatrs, It was beast only here actuated by the long dis-| tance recefving act. “Now, here's the phonetron—the ‘Aish basin’ some people call ft.” pointed out the attendant, who had heen looking at bie watch and « schedule to determine when would be the best time to broadcaat the | alarm Garrick had impressed on hie | wanted mind. “Ie tt about the right height? You prefer to stand? All right. How's that? Now, don't forget—talk di rectly into the tittle hole—good and loud, Keep up your voice. About | three inches away from the trans mitter. There. No, wait until 1 tell you.” “ML set?’ The attendant “Let's got" “Ruth Walden and Vira Gerard of Nonowantuc, Long Island, were kid naped fn a house boat, the Sen Vamp, from Duck Harbor, - Island, tonight, about 9 o'clock called. | The attendant nodded to Garrick | that In his opinion he was no novice in handling the affair Slowly and lstinctly Garrick launched into a brief description of the house boat and followed with a detailed description of Ruth and Vira and his own suspicion that A oF ant Ee TWINS ENLIST ANOTHER AID DVENTUR IN MOQN-MAN Nancy anf Nick came to Cob Coon’s tree in Whispering Forest Cob lived in the O14 Oak across the way from Maple-Tree Flats. But no answer. “He's too sound asleep to hear a,” said Nancy. “We'll have to go to his other door upstairs.” So they wished themselves up the 014 Oak Tree in their Green Shoes. Cob had his second-story door open for air and his bed close to the doorway. There he was, all cuddled Up and snoring like everything. “hhem!’ went Nick loudly Cob woke right up "Who's there?” he called sharply “Just us.” laughed Nancy. “Did We sears you?” “Sort of.” yawned Cobb. “But! Wha folks?” | "We just came to see if you'd seen Anything of Peerabout, the Man-in- MBeMoon. He's loxt,” said Nick. fee, hee, hee! giggled Cob, ic his hands joyfully. “That's just fine! Now I s'pose the nebby old Moon will be stored away in camphor balls and not bother me any more. “Why, a skyrocket! ved to death! “{ can't go down to Ripple Creek to fish as on dark nights because Charlie Chub and Slippery Shiner and Mark Minnow ‘will see me com- ing and escape. And it's too early for corn ‘n' things. My, I'm glad the Moon-Man's lost.” “Oh, shame on you, Cob Coonf* said Nancy crossly. “Mr. Peerabout's an nice as he can be. Bright most look at it tonight And I'm please = everybody. Goodness, he} leaves t dark for a whole week each month, You shouldn’t com plain.” “Besides,” anid Nick, “if there's no Moon, there won't be any corn ‘The Moon helps the corn grow.” “Goodness!” gasped Cob, “In that #0? That would be dreadful! Just walt till I find my suspenders, and I'll help you hunt.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Beattie Star) Why, Dick, atl the! the Sea} HUNT FOR | He tries to/ BY STANLEY. =I OUR BOARDING HOUSE THE OLD HOME TOWN HOLD. NEWT BY AHERN 7 OH BUS, YGoG H DOWN "To"(H’ DRUG SHES STORE 2~ BRING ME BAcK AN ic6 CREAM CONE WILL ) Ad TeLL THAT SODA JOCKEY NoT “YO BS AFRAID oF SPRAIDING A WRIST WHEN HE PACKS PICK ME OFF A PACK OF CIGARETTES AN! SOMB RAZOR BLADSS, WILL V'BUS 2 = LooK AROUND AN! sae \F THEY Gor ANY FREE SAMOLES OF ARB “TALKING RAGTIME ! VTHINK I'M GONNA “THROW MY MIND OUT oF GEAR TRYING "1D REMEMBER WHAT V'WANT 9 © TILL WOULD You MIND GETTING ME SOME STAMPS AND A DOUBLE MESH DARK GRAND PRIZE FREE LUCKY NUMBER WITH EVERY POUND OF TEA 157 PRIZE-HANGING LAMP 2“ PRIZE-FIVE POUNDS OF SMOKING TOBACCO THE UNKNOWN CAPTURED AT THE WATER TANK TODAY WAS CLEARED OF TAMPERING WITH THE LOCK OF ROBINSONS STORE - | | A Golf Bag Doesn’t Mean Much Vamp was now somewhere in the Sound, probably on Ite way east. Garrick finished. There wee a st! lence. He looked about stupidly. Net | that he could have expected any thing else than ellence, Yet it was! weird, uncanny, He had spoken to! & mute and invisible audience, W ft one, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thourand? No one could do other than guess | “Always the radio ie a tempera: | mental thing, that is, if you can say | inanimate things are temperamental: | there's @ natural depravity about ft. | But 1 think conditions are fine, just | now.” | Garrick turned. It waa Prof, Varto | who had just heard he was there| and had hurried into the bullding at) the news, “It has worked best when nobody was around to appreciate it! and not so goed when it's on parade. | ‘The radiephone with its delicate tubes and controls sometimes lew down on the job at the wrong mo- | ment. But we don't have much trouble here.” Hasty inquiries and a promise to} put the whole of the Rock Ledgs! equipment at th i “Now, Dick, energetically, outside, “I’ve got that) first call off. Now you can have your way. To the cityf’ } As they whirled down the splendid | road Garrick could not get out of} hie mind the similar impression he | had between broadcasting and a pio- ture studio. “I suppose in one case it's one-sided pantomime, tn the other one-sided disiogue, Anyhow, the samo motto applies to both. ‘Get It across! it's a new art, not much More than a year old, is it, Dick? An old story to you; but full of interest) to me as a detective. Broadcasting @ business will settie down, I sup pose. This Radio Central service in| really a public service, Just now it's! like the talking machine companies selling you an instrument and giving | away the recorda!* | A surprise awaited them as they | drew up at Glenn's garage guarded | by the Astra agency men. | "Giad you came, sir, exclaimed the | jagency manager himself. “I've got three men here, now.” i “Three men?” queried Garrick. “Why ts» that?’ ‘The manager, for answer, took him | inside and closed the door. In the [corner was a well-dresred, exponsive- | goods! y-dreased man with a Greek cast of| The thought of the hard-earned | countenance, handcuffed. leonsh settled Achilles, “The man and “This man—his name, he saya, ts} the girl are now there,” he reported Achilleo—came in here early tonight | as he left the telephone, with hand- jand claimed this stuff, maid he had a| cuffs «lipped. | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS GUESS I'LL TAKE THESE GOLF CLUBS HOME WITH ME - THEY DON'T LOOK VERY DINNER 1S 1M AN OFFICE ~ EVERETT. TRUE THESE ARE VERY ATTRACTIVS SOME OF THOSE THINGS, Tt NGED VER’ mMUcH, Ht a ae Ait ct Ri gh ity thousan yourse! instead o e leaving It In court as cash bail, take | the Laper Circle and get the! Circle | bill of sale or something for it, and| Garrick's raid of the Inner o arrange for a truck tolwas a nolasiess, if not painiess,|] @ | take ft out laftair, Frut it was only fifty per cent a | “I know,” cautioned Garrick, look- | successful. The net closed on C ne > ling at the handouffs on the restless | Georges; Rae Larue was nowhere abel icland—_* , | prisoner, “But isn’t this a bit high | about | Page 709 5 T | handed?” | Georges shut up like « clam. It age 7 Veu TELL You, Te Tho Astra manager smiled know-| was more than evident, however, | SIX TERRIBLE DAYS ARTICLES IN THE bh like | ingly. “With contraband, sir, that be was not the “man-at-the | sauyepattnt tor Mye: avie 00 -ientened ‘fev the teed Gken, Ithis—stolen goods? He's an feces | top ” if go cis te Bele gtd it ctsae ener “tee was simply ARE A CHEAPER Ciwis OF jeory after the fact—mayde-—et least! | ‘Shoroushly, they searched, et) l ing trip in'the great red wagons, | thrown out; tim plain were GooDs THAN “oJ WOULD eB tag Bate lRap epee (cap there was not a trace of Rae. Nor)} aig while she waited, she thought | strewn with such things all along WANT TO CON SIDER. STSe THIS WAY AND TLL SHOW You SomGe ING MUCH BETTCR ---= | ‘The prisoner seemed to regard Gar | was there a trace of Ruth or tho) lrick as a savior, He showed signa | others. } lof foosening up on his surly ret| “So—the ecllar is on the roof!" | | gence. lnughed Garrick, as they uncovered t he pioneer trail.” Peggy was getting uneasy about the rest of her story by this time, so she said, “You were going, to how easy It was to think of this pioneer as a little bit of girl, be. | enuse eho is still #0 little and | dainty. HAVG On Disecar “You see, alr, I buy the Inmer| the little concrete room they had ; . ee | Circle—understand?—for fifty thou-| seen when they intalled the dicta- But when she took up the story pe ‘me ‘bout what happened Window. ———— sand dollar, understand? If I get{graph aorial “Here's « small for |] again, she didn’t begin with tho |e ee = all. the goods, understand?” Heltune alone, in these cases, When 1|} day after the dreadful night on ‘Ont So I was” Mre. David hs agreed, “but that part of my story the island, she went all the way back to the start from Omaha. “We started,” she said laugh- ing, “for Pike's Peak in Colorado, and mother had ber own ideas turned aside and opened his coat for | poked my head out thru the scuttle, | Garrick alone. In his inside pocket| Dick, I also saw your aerial all was a long envelope’ with fifty one. | snarled up and tangled, wrecked.” | thousand dollar bills. “I make pay| Dick did not appear to be inter: | ment when I get all stuff, here, too, | ested. “Maybe they had a secret is about my beautiful sister, “I was just a little girl lke you, but my sisters were young ladies; | | one was #0 beautiful and the other |} had been away in Now York for understand?" J exit over the roofs in case of a raid. about what would be the proper | ; Garrick did understand. It was a| Anyway, Ree got away. So nes |} way to plan for such a trip. ‘ ape time studying music, she | | matter of making a quick sell-out | out fifty thousand in the clean-up.” my auc graduates from a music and getaway, “Where's your bill of| “This eliminates Georges,” con: | tid AmeAS ii pra eo = ®| school there just before we started KA |aale or whatever it l# you have for | sidered Garrick, “except, of course, |} fy « ipohgen vad O.0658, Sis ne Went. ATT | nie?” as an understrapper. that by the tine we yesches We | YAnd in one SC our wagons & NO “THAWKS — point where there were no young | piace was found for her melo- Achilles pulled out a paper. It| ‘“Brock-—Curtis.” repeated Dick sy. vend ge Geckges'and Rac La | mechahically, ouiting hie tooth an}, “hickéns these would hp FeABy © | Goon.” vCC StSeP rue ne agent in fact. “Set the buyer | the names suggested Vira and Ruth fry. “What is @ melodeon?”’ Peggy THI 8 Wwaw Ul beware!” laughed Garrick as he re} Garrick shook his head absently. “She brought the family cat, interrupted. ore turned It. “Now, I understand that|"All the wild horses in Hades too, ‘to make things cosy and “Don't you know what a melo- - the money ts to pass tonight at the| wouldn’t get a word out of Georges, hometike in the new land.’ Poor dear? They are little reed == = linner Circle when this is signed?” | now,” he observed. “Thank the|} little mother! When we reached | organs which most early-day peo- ‘The man nodded and grinned with| Lord, Dick, you're an expert at it;|]| Fort Taramie she had to give | ple used instead of pianos. Pianos perfect ivories. ‘Then, if you want|our only hope Mes in wireless—ip || them all up. weren't invented, 1 think, till “It was pitiful to see the treas- ures the emigrants had to give! up all along the trafl; so much many years after the first melo- deons were mado, “Well, every Megal trans-| some form or other! and have that (Continued Tomorrow) | to get free in this litt mn, Mr. acti Achilleo, night when we rr kt heavy mahoguny furniture, old | made camp, they would take out family pieces, no doubt, thatthe melodeon and sister would | OU FIR wives felt they could not leave be | play and sing, and that was i$ i] hind, But when food for the cat-| partly what caused the troubl | ot —~ By a Bride tle grew scarce and loads must be (To Be Continued) | CHAPTER XLIII—SYMPTOM OF LOVE can manage to get out of o senti- mental situation he 1s not in love, Bald T to Me “Probably eelf-forgetfulness is the only reliable symptom of true love. | Wer vivid blush, upon finding her | Bonny is a child of poses and smart |nelf alone with Bart, faded slowly. | apeechen. But at thie minute she’s} Ronny pulled her wrap over her! wrapped up in Bart's acheme for the bare shoulders, threw away her cle: |ights in this play. That flapper has laret, stened to Bart. She became | actually forgotten herself! Bonny ts absorbed in what Bart was saying, |in love!” quite unconactous of herself | Bart was wenrtng an old ‘An long a8 & girl can put her mind | one-piece cover-all left over from his lupon the effect she 1s producing |aviation days, And a startling con and a few strokes of heavy paint— upon a man she f# not in love, While |trast he made to the elegant little|/!f you knew how to manage the a man can meditate upon what he|princess in her marvelous evening | lights, eter? ———— ny der what I've done to Jack? And| you won't get home from the gise P jack to me? club dance until nearly dawn, ‘Dell conclude that Bart hadn't an atom) Quite unintentionally, as happens | your maid to let you rei until noon, of sentiment about her. He had|in a crowd, 1 overheard what George | then come to me. It's one big chance made no effort to hold his ground. |aaid to Bonny for us! And think what a row the As soon as he was gone the tender,| “At Main street station, then! At|papers will make about your elope- shy Bonny vanished, With G. B./7 in the morning!” | ment.”* the girl immediately became the| “Oh, why tomorrow, George?! ‘This fdea evidently pleased the hard, daring, bright-eyed little flap-| Bonny expostulated. “Let's walt 10 poor child. She agreed meekly: per—her vainest, her worst self! days. Until after thin play is; “All right. You always have your What a darling Bonny would be | over!” lown way, Georget* if sie married Bart! And what an| “Now's the best time, girlie! Late} “Don't pass me up, lady-lovel* affected woman she will tyrn out as|ly your father doesn’t give mo Ph laughed conceitedly as if he George's wife! said I to Me, “Cer-|chance to see you alone, How do|were hinting the imposstble, ‘ tainly human beings shape each|you think I can get along without (Ze Be Continued) $ other for better for worse. 1 won- my little sweetheart? Tomorrow— (Copyright, 1932, by Seattle Stax Bonny had given away her rouge and Mp stick in mid-winter. | pallor, she exclaimed, ts so much contume, And poor Bonny simply had to Protably George Bradshaw saw | what I did in the fttle scene, and scented danger. He came up and took possession of Bonny. It seemed to me that he assumed the attitude which makes people comment before an engagement ts announced. Bart surrendered his place, asked | }Jeanne to go behind the pcenes to kholt |see what a wonderful Viking ship could be constructed with canvas | pot more conspicuous than ronge! J ) TMtt rare Peeve aan, Pe ae Muh