The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 23, 1922, Page 13

ngs all t Yireless cn Tec y Ax REEVE . (Continued From Yesterday) CHAPTER XI THE NOISES OF SPACE It was carly in the morning when Garrick with Dick turned into the G@riveway of Glenn's house at Nono wantue, “Any word of Vira and Queried Glenn “Not yet. But there !s something you can do. Have you had you breakfast? Then come along.” At Defoe's boathouse-laboratory Garrick posted Glenn on guard. “Now, look here, boy—if- you love Vira and want her back, guard this Place as you would your life.” Gar Tick had assumed a rather stern tone; he kn he must impress Glenn Inside and out,” he added seriously. “I'd like to be with you hunting the girls,” returned Glenn promptly, “but if sticking here will help me, @epend on me. I'll be a stick right. Only for heaven's sak those girts.” Dick grasped his hand and Garrick slapped his back encouragingly Ruth t ‘With one last look to see that noth. | ing had been disturbed, Dick grabbed Up a small oak case and some other portable paraphernalia and lugged it Out to the car, “Never can tell,” he said to Gar Tick, “I hate to be out of radio touch And why the club can't appropriate Money for an outfit, I can't see.” Garrick made the Club his head Quarters and he felt he would like to start the day there. “Cast thy words upon the ether @nd they will return unto thee after many days," laughed Garrick as he looked over his mail. “I suppose now for a week I'm going to be bom-) barded with mail from radio fans. It's always that way. Where do they find the time to write all the letters? Say—here's one, tho. Read that. A pestcard — postmarked ‘North- Dick, who was familiar with the ‘Ways of the radio listeners, read the card: “Your message was good and clear —But why did you suddenly stop when you began to tell us your suspicions? “P. 8. I don’t approve of phono- right on to the end. And the phono- record—what's that? shrugged. His mind wae on else. Garrick, in his without avail tried to identity of “K 902" trom lists at the club, called RiGee me li the looking up of the I grabbed this thing up, the thing I lala my hands on. Got the receiving apparatus—all but the entenna. Oh, very well—we'll see.” Dick snapped tn place small clips ‘which connected the bed springs of Garrick’s bed—and put the head- like a telephone receiver to his “Bed eprings—the fron fire escape =the gas and water pipes—the tele phone wire—" he remarked as he tuned and sdjusted, “almost any- thing may serve as an antenna in « pinch.” The room telephone rang for Gar- Fick. It was the Customs House calling. “We find,” reported the clerk, “that K 902 fs registered by Patrick Devins, Bridgeport, Connec- tieut, @ forty-foot cabin cruiser pamed ‘Lassie. Want a descrip- ton?” Garrick had just finished copying ft when « loud exclamation came from Dick. “By Jove—Guy! It's a Message from Ruth! Repeated —twice here, L scribbled it on this book.” “Please give this to the news Papers—It now develops that Jack Curtis, who attempted an elopement yesterday with me, has a wife—Mre. Rae Larve Curtis. That is all now. ‘Tell my mother I am safe and will be back the first chance I can swim ashore. Ruth Walden.” The two men gazed at each other. “Looks like she's a prisoner,” scowled “Dick. “The first chance 1 can ewim ashore!” “Yes but, man, ehe's somewhere. Her mother!” Somehow Ruth had cleverly con- trived to communicate with the out side world by radio. Together the fe two hurried down the long corridor! House in New York | by N, BL A. Bervice Jana Up A Might of stairs to Nita Wal: | heart was loud as his He had heard |den's rooms, Dick's | pounding, he felt, Knuckles on the door. \from Ruth! Mra, Walden opened the door, Bhe was afraid. Whet did the sudden rapping mean? Her worried and wearled face searched Dick's eyes. | “About Ruth? Tell me, Dick!" Dick blurted tt out, “Oh, what awful people!’ shuddered Mra. jden, “Rut Ruth says, ‘attempted elopement'—that meang Ruth ta all j tight. It didn’t succeed. But—what jean you do now? Oh, there's | my telephone ringing again,” | She turned from the room phone | bewildered. “It was that Rae Larue | giri—calling me. Oh, but there wai hate and spite and jealousy in her The little vixen what did she say?” calmed | | i voice! “But Garrick “Yr can’t begin to repeat the Mood of words. Why, you'd think that I, Ruth's mother, had tried to frame up something against her! She said ‘Td have you know that Jack Curtis te my husband! I married him Chicago two years ago! I won't have that daughter of yours coming between us I've told him so. Tl! squeal—I'l hand the whole bunch | over, first’."* | “Hulty! Interrupted Garrick | Nita’s astonishment ing among themselves. fury—and all that want a better guardian than that woman scorned! and to “Got ‘em fight Hell hath no for Ruth And rm chance she gets. Here.” without waiting for any comment from the surprised Nita, “let me have the wire. Central where did that you trace it? He put his hand over the transmitter and asided, “In the city you can’t trace a thing. But out in these little Long Island towns these hick telephone girls listen in on all the village gossip. Watt, you'll see." Then, with his hand off, “Yes, thank you.’ He hung up. “From the Gravel mouth of the harbor!’ “I'll be darned—our harbor!” claimed Dick. “You'll be something else.” quick. ly from Garrick. “Your boathouse!” “I hadn't thought of that, Detter get down there.” “Well, I thought of it. That’s why I left Glenn. You don't need to ask M, Nita. I know. You're nervous and ail upset. Yes, I think doing something, anything would do you good, Have McKay drive us all down. And hurry. We're not going to make a cali ‘They were coasting down from the top of the hill a few hundred feet from the boathouse when McKay jammed on the brakes and scraped a couple of gollars* worth of rubber off the tres. Just over the tops of the trees could be seen the roof of the boat. house. But beyond, tn the harbor, one instant was a rowboat with a girl and fellow tm it, the girl in a bathing suit. They seemed to be struge'ing. The next instant like a three-foot flash of a motion-picture, there was a large column of water and a puff of smoke, black wreckage of the boat. jsplit second before, the two had | struggled overboard or leaped. Then cathe the deep report echoing end re- verbverating among the Nonowantuc hills, “Glenn!” exclaimed Garrick, as MeKay released the brakes and roll e4 down like a roller coaster the rest of the way. They were in time to see that the boathouse was unharmed. A litte speed boat which they had not no. ticed new circled about! It picked up the girl and started off furiously toward the mouth of the harber. A black object, Glenn, struggled feebly in the water. By this time Dick had | his coat off. He ripped his shirt as jhe ran down the dock and plunged | off, almost unencumbered by that | time. | When Garrick pulled them both out and had Glenn sufficiently re | vived to find that there were no | | | } | broken bones, he had begun to get! the story. . Glenn, tt seemed, had been on the |road-side of the boathouse from | which he had expected attack, if at jen, when he had heard a notse under jthe workshop. The workshop was }on the second floor. It had been con verted into a hangar by Dick, with a skid-way down into the water, In it he had a hydroseroplane on which he was working, | his new radio ideas. | “I saw Rae,” he panted for breath | “She had come up to the boathouse, | alone. in a rowboat with a little j engine over the stern. She was stick ing the nose of the boat under the boathouse in the channel between the skidway. I saw something smoking in the bow The engine | was going slowly, keeping the nose | of the boat up under the boathouse. |I ran down and jumped into the boat. “My God, Rae shouted I APDVEN a BEN RABBIT TREATS Nancy and Nick looked and looked | “Lettuce and radish tops and new. | ¢t for Mr. Peerabout, the Man-in-the Moon, but he wasn’t anywhere to be found. Old Comet-Legs had pushed him off the Moon so he could be Moon Man in his place. By ‘n’ by they came to the place Ben Bunny lived with his wife, Blow. som, and tapped on the door “My, my, Ben, look who's here ried Blonsom, when she'd wiped her hands on her apron and shaken hands. Ben came lopping up, bowing and Scraping and wiggling his ears joy ry. “Just in time for lunch, my dears,” S0id he. “And say, that Blossom here ts some cook.” Mrs. Blossom blushed on her pink Move and looked proudly at her hus- ‘band "Yes, but I've a good provider,” She declared. “Ben brings home the Micest things.” “Depends upon the time of year, My dears,” aid Ben importantly. Joyner’s Wonderful Catarrh Remedy Is now #014 by drug stores at $1.00 Ber bottle—enough for three months. OF THE TWINS sures IN > TWINS AND JOINS IN pea shoots are at their best just | Row. Um yum! Blossom can make | salad that would melt in your mouth. But there, come in and find jout for yourselves.” Ben bowed them in and set chairs }and Blossom brought in the food | That was the time for the Twins |to tell how they wished they could find poor old Peerabout and take | him home. | “Say,” said Ben suddenly. “I saw a stranger today! Ragged as a beg: jgar, too, as you way the Moon-Man jis. He was standing in field right beside Farmer jsans-patch garden.” | “Oh, will you show us where he [is cried Nancy, “Maybe {t's Mr. | Peerabout “sure,” said Ben obligingly, and they all started off towards the corn- field at once. “There he 1s," cried Ben, pointing to a silent, motionless figure in an old, tattered coat and torn hat. “Why, that's Mr. Scare-Crow, Ben,” said Nick. ‘Farmer Smith has just put him out to scare the| crows away.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) Smith's If you have Catarrh of the Head, try this medicine once and save yourself Beediess suffering —Advertisement. children who enter only 16 finish high Of every 100 public school school. Wal-| in| You couldn't | bet you she'll do something—the first | last call to the Club come from? Can | Works at the! Wea | It aeemed that, but a| nstalling one of the corn-| 490 BUSTER, { NOU'RE “HE ESKIMO WHOS BEEN TAKING MY {\Ce = I THOUGHT VT FUNNY THAT Box | SHOULD USE FIFTY POUNDS MORE “THis, | | | | HOOPLE = We WERE JeS'Gou!' ‘TO FRAME UP A NICE SMACK OF LEMONADE AN’ LET You IW on TH’ DRINK! ™' WAS WIth | | | | | ) | 33 ~— "oO FOILS “Going to kill us both?” “With a boat hook in beth hands she lunged at me but it hit my | shoulder instead of my head. ‘Damn | you! she cried, ‘I have had to say #0! many nice things to you when I} didn't feel like it—here's another | wallop! “I swung the boat free, gave the | pier a kick and I turned. The en gine was turning over slowly and jcarrying us away. I got the boat hook Away; then she grabbed me) "You fool! Take your hands off—be- fore 1 bite them off! Look! | It's going to explode” Then I—-we! jumped. There was that geyser of water and stuff. . Someone picked up Rae in a speed boat. . , I felt aw if that darn engine had hit me till Dick got me! But . . + the boathouse ts safe, fellows!" j Garrick smiled. “I could decorate jyou on the field of action, Glenn | He looked over at Dick. The biow | [had been intended for them; it had miscarried and Glenn had risked his | life. “We'll leave McKay here for a few minutes. Iii girive your car, Nita. I must get Glenn home, He | mustered out with all the honors!* “Wait a minute.” It was Dick.! | "We left that other set in your room | jae Club. I've got a new one. | | I'm a bug on this. I can't be out of | |touch with the air a minute and be/ bappy.” | As Garrick drove them, Dick told jwhat had happened at the Club. ow ” asked Glenn, reviving, “why | } — \| | ( GOODNIGHT iT | Boys! iW ie es FRECKLES AND HIS Swoes! HEY ANT BEEN ANYTHING Dont ON “RADIO ALL DAY = GEE-T SH SOMBBOOY WOULD COME \N ON tr. f the atternpt to wreck the boathouse. | lab? “Because.” quickened Garrick, “it is the one place, they know, contains |the apparatus to ferret them out and catch them!” | | At Glenn's they waited for Dr |}Darling to run over from Stony | | Brook to dress his wounds again “You must stay, fellows; I need your | moral support,” begged Glenn. He'll give me the devil.” hook up you brought along. the fever, too, a passion for pulling | information down out of the air, lke the prestidigitators do with gold | pieces.”” Dick busted himself about the tele-| sng cut the other two loose, Some phone for some time, then set up his | euiiors came on deck. ‘The scout receiving set | was pointing out into the sound by “It's a sort of wired wireless.” hej this time. One of the men grabbed| explained, “based on a discovery, 1-/ the other—and flung him overboard. vented and peffected by @ regular |phig Devine couldn't catch the scout shark at this thing, Major General | gq he kept right on till he came up| Squier.” }to the ‘Sea Vamp.’ Who should he| While they waited for the doctor a | ring there, pacing the deck and curs. Faft of inconsequential stuff filtered | ing « blue streak but Captain Brock thru. The doctor came, was pact-|_ dumped overboard, double-crossed, | fied professionally, and was just fin-| and eft behind!” | ishing a lecture on asepais. | “And Ruth and Vira not on the “Another message!" interrupted |‘gea Vamp'-—on this other boat?” Dick | Yes, He's got Brock ‘That's | From Vira Ruth? bright-|two. Now we know that Brock at ened Glenn } least isn’t the manmat-the-top. Dick shook his Back gt the boathouse t6 tell Nita that fellow again Walden they found that she knew Mount Sinai—her more than they did. vnalll “1 didn’t know McKay knew «0 much about radio, she cried ex cited! “While we were waiting he was trying that set over there. He seemed to know all about it And, Dick, he got a second message from Ruth! Here it is, I wrote it down just as McKay says he got it.” On a@ plece of wrapping paper Nita had written. “On the Bacchante, headed down the Sound toward the ocean I hear the men talk of Fire Island. This is Ruth “That's where it broke off," half apologized McKay \ Dick paced up and down the work shop floor. nally he lifted a trap door and climbed down to the former | boathouse below | When Garrick climbed after him a} few later, he found Dick, | ame ar pat off, and head. “Guy—it's| | -K-202—he's over ake this other rick fairly slapped Dick's shoul der as they listened. “What did I n't I say cherchez a jealous I knew Ree in her jealousy and she has th: fighting came along in his woman? would do something done it—just Irishman, Devins K-94 Dick cautioned silence tened. Then Glenn cut in, | ing to know the story “It's just this, Glenn,” retailed |Garrick when he was sure that no| |more news was being spilled. “That feliow, Devina, in t K-902 was sing down the Sound with his es open when he saw what he thought was the ‘Sea Vamp’ in the inlet at Mount Sinai, where they used to load the old wood packets in the | |old days, As he got nearer he could | ma with his glass that they were transferring stuff from the| houseboat to a scout cruiser up along. side.” Glenn nodded. “It was our float ing storehouse, the ‘Sea Vamp.” “Well, as he got nearer, hé made! out through his glass what looked |to look over those pontoons?” he| like two men struggling with «| called to Garrick, waving toward the| couple of girls. The scout boat was | hydroaeroplane. |arifting away from the houseboat,| “What's the idea?” then. The girls couldn't fight; they] “I'm tuning up. 1 wasn't ema to be tied. That must have | ready to exhibit the Defoe been Ruth and Vii Then another |-—but, hang it all—the | girl came when They lis demand minutes red and cov e out The! been trans: | Dick | i about keenly. former boathouse had into a real hangar. 4 up from his work guess remember enough | you quite | joplane | hante™| from a cabin. She must| must be found—with Ruth!" have had @ knife or something, for! (Concluded Tomorrow) By a Bride ; AR | CHAPTER XLIV—LEARNING TO DEPEND ) I needed Jack's advice if I were|and I prided myself that I was. But | to save Bonny from making a tragic |« few short weeks of matrimony had mistake. Mr urle had written me | proved to me that I must have Jack's to keep Bonny and George apart. I | opinion about everything. had failed. | And I couldn't ask for it at a re I always had been called an inde-|hearsal; in that crowd I couldn't pendent little thing, able to take care|explain the circumstances about | } | “THAT ICE You COULD HEAR'M CORK EARS# Lf G a) TH! LEMONS BACK IN TH’ CHEST “OQ: | aN! HERE 1 AM DRIER “THAN A ROCKING WAY HE SOCKING & SET OF Irs. HOOPLE” A COLD PLOT—=- DOINGS OF THE DUFFS H ('M “THROUGH - || | ano we Have A Yer Berort THE BELL RINGS JOLLY STUFF ~, FRIENDS gre i NA nt, iy ‘ar. % “GOOD NIGHT BOYS, ate a r STANLEY — PAGE 13 BY STANLEY f \ fad GRAND PRIZE FREE <4 LUCKY NUMBER WITH EVERY POUND OF TEA 19 PRIZE -HANGING LAMP 2MPPRIZE -FIVE POUNDS OF SMOKING TOBACCO ON STAYIN UP NIGHTS PETE PENDLETON MEASURED THE PRIZE HANGING LAMP TO SEE If IT WOULD F IN CASE HE WON IT. Wilbur’s Private Office IT’S Just ACHEERPUL REMINDER QuiIT AT ONE WHOLE FORTY MINUTES) THAT WE'RE | AND I'LL SAY GOOD- NOT THE ' Bo Ro 2 Qrattle % ———— ‘age 710 SIX TERRIBLE DAYS “T ve to think of that music,” Mrs. Davis went on, “sometimes a big crowd would gather around, and sitting on the ground about the camp fires, they would sing and sing all the old familiar songs until far into the night. “Sometimes every other voice waa silent and from our tent we would watch the beautiful sister as the firelight flickered on her face and made glinting shadows in her hair as she too listened to the clear, sweet voice that rose and thrilkd thru the night, till it seemed a part of the night like the stars and the moon beams. “But—the children in the tents were not the only w hers, the friends about the camp fires were not the only listeners, for just within the blackness of the woods were silent brown figures, still as the tree trunks and liv restless horses on the out ige of our camp borders. braves they were, led himself Just grown to manhood, and while he stood like a statue, his black eye ned as they rested on the fair girl and he at once made up his mind what he would do. “I do not know, of course, just what he thought in his heart. I think it must have been some- thing like this: “Long have T waited to take for myself a wife. I am a great chief and a brave man; I must eve ax the Bid “Young by their ch! form. It was up to me to prevent that elopement—but how? The addition of this worry to my misunderstanding with Jack over. whelmed me. up” hastily “Now w dear one” And I said that I hoped we were. Jack had whispered all right, aren't we, But in my heart I knew that, try as| of myself under ali circumstances, | Bonny and her father’s trust in me. |hard as I might, something was still| Bart, the Viking, and his bold Norse-'the ancient hag; and| When we had “made | have a wife who will bring glory to my tribe and to my name, Never have I seen anything, as beautiful as this white man's child; never have I heard a sound so sweet as the sound as comes from their white throats, save only the song of the meadow lark in the springtime. I will take this girl and she shall be the wife of a chief, even tho she is of a strange people.’ “The young chief and his war. riors were a part of that great, angry, howling band who had | circled our np on’ the island and who had intended to massacre | our whole party: “After they found us prepared for that attack, the others went away, but this chief decided to follow us. So he stood and watched. “And when morning came, he walked up to father and said, ‘White man, white woman sing. T hear, Much good to see.’ And he looked hard at sister's golden curls. . “Then he offered father a beau- tiful Indian blanket, thinking he would sell sister as the Indians sold their daughters. her explained to him that his daughter wasn’t for sale, and the young chief went away. But we had gone only a little way when we saw him with his war. riors—following—following—" (To Be Continued) +e — ey | | Jack 1s so exact, he'd want all sides |amiss: Mrs, Herrod’s letter was still lwefore he put his own ideas into | “all wrong” between us, Good men are not as petty as women, I suppowe. Jack had accept. ed with «a laugh the rustling of Mr. Tearle’s letter in my blouse, If 1 |were Just T ought to swap fair, and forget Mrs, Herrod's letter! I couldn't. Could any wife? I was i a terrible mental tangle | when Judge Ballou called for the next scene. The curtains parted and disclosed WHEN 1GET To BE BOSS I'M GOING TO IT IN HIS PARLOR IF TWAS Boss 'D OCLOCK | CHANGE THE WHOLE PLACE AROUND Get VP A TRipre CcSesEeR TO THS TARGET |men in their bark, returning from a] in breeches was the Present; Bonny, two years’ cruise to the southward. |in her startling dance dress, was the The company’s handsome leading | blithe young Future. man was attired in his mechanic’ In such motley dress our plays uniform because when Bart was not | interested me far more than the per acting at rehearsal he was occupied fected costumed drama. As I watch: in stringing wires and experimenting | ed with Jack, 1 wondered how with lighting effects, could do so well when she knew thet His firce warriors wore business | she was going to run away, leaving | suits, or formal evening clothes. {her duty to the company unfulfilled, To these heroes, on watch for a/that she was going to make her landfall which should prove they | father rage with anger. |Were nearing their home, appeared | A flapper’s silly trick! the Norns, spirits of the Past, Pres: | science at all! ent and Future. Mrs. Ballou was (To Be Continued) one of the twins! (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) No con. 5