The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 24, 1922, Page 9

ns m- FRE BPRS SHS Riess F244 Bad2Es f meas eaar AGER FREGPE RSIS cig unt" ! iil nn aarti Copyright, 1922 b (Continued From Page @ turned to his radiophone; Garrick to Sifting crank reports of, the where abouts of the fast scoyt cruiser, | “Vira,” said Glenn ardently, the SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1922. ngsoF Wireless 7 nner 0 Teen Oe A SL v N. B.A. Service “To take him off; he came across by car from the Radio Central, as soon as he got me—damn him}—with the boat into the open ocean, safe— Professor Vario, of course! \ thon, ™ Moment they were alone, “I woh't| “Professor Vario!” echoed Dick tn take ‘No’ this time—nor even | AMasement. “Wait’. “Yos, Professor Varlo, head of the Vira blushed. “Just as soon as we | Digwest gang of bootleggers, black Get Ruthie.” mailers and dresssuit yeegsman I “Eere's the first report that 1|#uess you ever heard of. Yeh Place any confidence in,” shouted Nein and Bi ornet Ke Regd sg men " “qt's | IN? Brock was the roughnex Garrick all over the boathouse. at eee ne ee ee Ruth, Vira from a boat answering the deserip. | 61.) tion of the ‘Bachante’ putting into | @/¢™m and the oth the Gerat South Bay.” jet Damn his ey “That checks up with Ruth's Fire “But — the Island message! called Dick from | Dick. Delow. “The Bacchante’ must have! “Doesn't it explain the robberies? Founded the island, I guess she|To amass a small fortune, of course, gould; she's fact enough.” That guy was born money-hungry “How's the .work coming on, | and girlcrasy! | know his game, He Dick?" shouted Garrick, all energy | dragged me tnto his dirty work— Row with the first wireless clue.|fool that I was—then he expected “It'll be twilight tn an hour, Can/all the time to come along at the you hurry it | right time, posing as a hero to Ruth, “All ready now. Fve been all | rescuing ber from me. Then to Ber @ressed up with nowhere to go for/muda, the Bahamas, Martinique, fifteen minutes!’ called back Dick | anywhere—I don’t know, Only I do from below. know now that Vario intended all They swung open the doors and/along to marry that girl—and get Tan the radioplane down the skid-| ten millions!" ‘Way, calling back to McKay drive} “Explain Mra. Walden across the Island to! plains a lot of things, For instance, willie, The radioplane str the at the Binnacie, what really hap julet water of athe harbor, the stuc-| pened was that you, Jack, double ato whirr of the two propellors rose | crossed Vario and tried to get away to a@ screech. They were off in aj with Ruth yourself, and he caught Gloud of spray. leaping lightly from} you. It just gave him his first the surface to the air, and waving a/ chance to play hero, eh Curtis Bay goodby as Nita clasped her hands | nodded sutlenty Qs if in prayer and Vira drew close | the dictagraph, With his wave me. to Glenn. ter, Vario discovered it, found that The flight to Seaville was only a/all his secrets were being spilled in Matter of minutes for there waz no| the air, and jammed in on the dicta- time to lose before darkness: graph wave length,” At Seaville « hasty survey dis-| Jack listened as if it was the clank closed no sign of the “Bacchante”|ing of a chair, He was afraid of Dut there was a tremendous crowd| Garrick. “Then that broadcasted @own on a bulkhead and they could| poison pen message. First Vario See them waving and hear their had alowed you to get Ruth Into a shouts. Dick brought the radioplane | dangerous position at the Binnacle down to the water and a couple of | from which he rescued her and play @mall motor boats put out. ed hero. Then this elopment story, We've got that C rtly and the/to compromise her. But he had you Larue girl!" shouted 4 man with a/right where he wanted you. How? Big brass etar of the local police | The bigamy charge, of course!* foree on his chest. | Rae was now biazing, She might Dick glanced at Gayrick. “Anchor | battle Jack. No one else could. 8 here. We must take the time. We) would perjure her little seul but «! Must give them the third degree.” _ | would fight him clear. Curtis was sour; Rae nervously} “Do you know the conclusive triumphant. They had been desert-| thing?’ Garrick turned to Dick. ed, put ashore, double-crossed. Was| “That postcard, about last night at possible that they, too, were mere- | the Radio Central told me something. tools of the man-at-the-top? Who} How did my alarm fail? You know, ‘Was it then? Georges had been elim-| Dick, there's a switch between the Mnated and was in jail with bis mouth | studio room and the actual sending gealed. Brock was out of the way, @/ apparatus upstaire—not that switch prisoner ready to turn state's | we saw before us, but another. They dérce to save his miserable hide. | use it whenever anyone broadeastii Who, then? Where was Ruth? tries to put over a bit of advertising In spite of her capture, Rae looked | or chicanery or if the singer or happier than she had been for days.| speaker is rotten, swing the switch holding on to Jack’s arm/and put on a phonagraph or some- alr of possession that seem-|thing. A million explanations wil! everything. | do, later, The point Is that he learn- ed that I was there, found out what I was doing and choked it off— ~|there-by betraying himeelf. He has been under cover ever since and this ie the first information I've had of him all day—although, without let- ting Dick or anyone else know of my suspicion, I had private detectives and the police looking for him quiet. ly.” He nodded over toward.one of the Astra men with the policeman in the crowd whom Dick had not ‘what will happen, now. Here's that|seen. Then to the man, “How tong Garrick—and Dick. I could tear the} before we came did you get these eyes out of the whole smart bunch— | people @specially Ruth Walden. I never| “Not ten minutes, air.’ trusted her—she's too smart!’ As Garrick and Dick cameup, Cur- | d tis had his cue from Rae. A clean He must have got a motorboat Dreast was the next best thing to a/ somewhere: put out to it the minute clean get-away. it hove tm sight; then sent these “Talk about Ki44 an@ Morgan! people ashore after a fight or some. ‘and Blackbeard!’ he exclaimed in| thing. [I should say it headed south- @nxious disgust. “They were piker| east—by east.’ Pirates! They plundered their pals,| “Come—Dick Ive read. Well, so did this beast—| “Just a second, Guy. Whose hat and he carried off a girl, too, a ten-| was it, Rae, that held the jewels at Million dollar prize!” Gerard Garrick shot question after ques-, ‘Mine, of course.” Defiantly. “Why, the ‘Bacchante’ was a| “And what was in the tower with floating treasure house--the jewels/the searchlight at Gerard's that of the Gerard robbery, the Parr | night? weis—the stuff from a score of| “Ruth and Glenn.” This was spite. Others. There was money, oh, I) ful.’ “We threatened them. But it @on’t know how much the profits of | was the last time.” the bootleg scheme, of jooting wine} “And why were the Walden pearls gellars all over the Island, of the! returned?” Inner Circle.” Jack swore as he| “It was his fea, Vario’s—to thousht of the massed wealth from) votve her, tie her up tighter, so she Which he had been “defrauded.” | wouldn't dare squeal.” “Why was the ‘Bachante’ here?"| They jumped into the motorboat @emanded Garrick. and a few minutes later the whir. s were their cov robberies?” queried echoed Garrick. “It ex im the cabarets! Lord knows which way POLLY POLLYWOG HAS CLEW BUT IT LEADS NOWHERE When Phil Frog heard M: amazed. When Phil Frog heard Mr. Peer-| about, the Man-in-the-Moon, was lost | been listening, he was amazed. “What does the Moon-Man “The very idea of us not knowing | like?” she asked. “Anything it?" he declared. “Why, last night | frogs or pollywogs?” the Moon looked so nice and round| “No,” explained Nick. “He looks and shiny Fannie and 1 and the chil-| tke us. He bas a head and arms r. Peerabout was lost he was Polly Pollywor, spoke up. Just then who'd look like Gren all got omt and sang a song of |and legn and feet.” thankfulness. We were sure we saw| But Polly was too excited to lsten. Mr. Peerabout then.” | “Oh, I saw something,” she cried y shook her head. out. “I know where Mr. Peerabou No,” she said. “You didn’t seelis. I saw him hiding in the tall Mr. Peerabout. O14 Comet-Legs, the | grass near the bank. He's got arms fairy who is jealous of him, pushed|and legs and a head and he's all him off the Moon, The Weather-|ragged, too. I'll take you there.” man is running the Moon until Mr.| So off they al} started, Peerabout ts found.” “There he is,” cried Polly, “Right “Well, 1 declare! croaked Phil. | there.” “TN have to help, that's suré, for And what do you think! Nancy | tly I don't know what we'd do| | hone picked up Kitty Brown's rag doll. without a Moon, “No, Polly,” said she kindly. “When there's a nice Moon we're | ‘This ien't4he Moon-Man. He’s lost Wely But you can keep on looking. I'm afraid when he fell he.got hin ad bumped and lost his memory.” » (To Be Continued) Mot afraid of losing our lives. fan vee when Oscar Owl is looking for us, and Marty Mink snoops along the bank on the lookout for a nice, fat pollywog.” “And the night off THIS 1S WHAT Y'CALL OLD MaiD's GOLF = MISS CHURCH AN! MISS HERZOG JES RA CAME IN ALL FLUSHED WI BXCITEMENT AFTER A THRILLING GAME AN’ Now “WEVRE IN READING ring of the propellors and the gor: geous cutting of spray gave them another leap off into the “They've a twenty-minute start”! shouted Garrick, adjusting his head j sear in the rush of alr “Thank | heaven for the light. What a sunset!” Dick flew by his compass in the direction the Astra mgn had indi-| cated, then began a series of ever) widening horizontal loops. It de. creased his direct distance, but ft en- | abled him to cover a wider range in cast Vario had turned the course of the “Bacchante” when he got out of | sight of land. Fast as the scout cruiser was it could not compete! with him for speed. Garrick, with | his eye glued to @ glass with splendid | German lenses, swept the ea, They bad not been flying ten min. utes if this fashion and Dick was considering the turn on the southern. | most swing of the loop when Garrick | shouted above the rush of air, and pointed ahead, further south. Dick depressed hie altitude and) they swung along until shortly with! the naked eye could be made out a) boat which was without doubt the “Bacchante,” far out to sea. As they watched, tt deliberately turned and headed back, toward them. Garrick trained the blass to- ward it. What did it mean? heaven!” he him? Can it be someone--swim. | ming? My God—tt t»—it is Ruth?’ Could it be that Ruth had eeen and} taken a last long chance, that she| had gone overboard, risking every- ¢ oD & Marathon swim, at that! hour, with not a chance in a weet of making the shore As the radioplane came nearer! the water and nearer the struggling! swimmer ft became evigent that the} race betweep the pine and the cruiser was a losing one for the cruts- | er. | “Here, Guy, take this plane. I'll) take the radio!’ | Garrick seized the other of the double set of controls. A moment | later he had taxied in spray was rocking and pitching only a few feet | from the ewimmer. It was ticklish | bustness but he maneuvered until he/ | was able to swing about. y the sea waa comparatively caim.{ As for Ruth, she was still fresh. Her | | long-distance swimming counted now | in the balance of her life. | world then to send that little trea. sure ship to Davy Jones!” dark when the| up and cast] anchor off the Seaville wireless sta. | jarrick, with a final effort with . Gragged her aboard, she al most collapsed in Dick's arms “Take care of her, Guy, for a | minute!" Diek turned to his radio | tie CAN Y'IMAGINE “H’ FLAPS oF “TODAY GETTIN’ A RISE OUT OF "THIS GAME ? = THEY'D DON A GYM SUIT AN! "TRY To CRAWL THROUGH TH’ LooPS = I've GoTA FLAP NIECE PAVING | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS WELL, 1GLESS I'M GOING ‘TO BE DOLLED UP TODAY ALLRIGHT~ I'VE HAD A LONG WAIT FOR'EM,BUT A NEW DRESS, A NEW HAT, NEW ISN"T SO BAD ~ j Fortunate-| ment the little thing circled lke a warp, turned, and started back, 3 “ll stand by, no mut- tered Dick. “Not a reason tn the It was late and Racchante” limped on, towing Defoe’s radloplane anc THE SEATTLE ST PUMPS AND NEW SILK HOSE BY AHERN GAL 1S GONE LIKE A HACK-DRIVER'S HAT: A COUSIN OF MINE ~ 16 A WI WITH A \TeNNIS RACQUET, AN’ LAST WEEK SHE SPRAINED HER ar. THE TOWN WAS WILD EVE OF THE BIG GRAND PRIZE DRAWING Doris Blooms Out Goattle _ + “Mother hid sister far back In Japparatus and as he 4id so Garrick | ite mother flying boat. saw that the “Bacchante,” long be Nita Walden had been sitting for * tore she was beaten, had turned and| pours in her car by the beach {n 1°. SF, z away at top speed. nt of the station, her eyes glassy, & >, “There!” Dick swung @ awitch. A lit-| staring over the waters. She was| Page 711 aring | ‘ tle light gleamed overhead. He) shivering with fear, “Will they nev- SIX TERRIBLE DAYS @wung another. Another signal over-|er come back? Oh, Ruth, Ruth, | “As captain of the train,” Mrs. head changed. “Go!” Ruth!’ Like a bolt flew the arrangement overhead, a long torpedo-like afair of aluminum, with wings and pon | toons f4F all the world like the hy droaeroplane on which they were. It was flying, With the buzz of a hornet! Dick preased a lever. its flight 8h Ri It swung in back Suddenly she saw a slim, dripping | | figure of a girl running up the beach “My | at last!” She pulled the curly | head down te | ously “And she's promised to revise the | ne winked, stared harder. uth her and sobbed, joy remony ain—only I don’t expect he and put the word ‘obey’ | Davis went on with her story, “of course father was everywhere, far | in the lead sometimes, sometimes | |] “helping about the last wagons in | |] the line, sometimes helping to set | |] tle a quarrel and sometimes giv- | ing encouragement to a discour- | aged family, but always keeping "i “The principle of the thing ts that do it!" | I use Hertzian waves towctuate re| ‘Thru her tears and hysterical! close watch over his two red lays on the radioplane—that is, I| sobs Nita Walden saw Dick and Gar wagons. send a child with a message. The! rick just behind him. She opened grown man, thru the relay, 80 to| her arms and drew Dick toward her. So he needed no telling, he | speak, does the work. S80, you see, I| self and Ruth knew that ali that day the chief can sit here and send my little David| “I suppose I may have the Job of |] and his braves were never out of anywhere to strike down Goliath!” | detective watching the wedding pres: bight of ‘thaed two wagond. With | In the sunset Vario on the “Bac-| ents?” laughed Garrick. | chante“inust have seen it, sensed | mother, Guy Saved me as little noise as possible he got it, for he knew something of Dick's | yc work He changed his course. In-| le stantly Dick pulled a lever and the} radioplane changed {ts course by ex |actly the same degree. It was like @ conscience pursuing. They could not see Vario beside the man at the wheel. He had his revolver, whether to intimidate the | ye man or not, could not be determined. | in’ As the hornet swooped straight at | o: |him, however, he fired once, twice, | tle ch To his amaze- ther, 1 might say—on wings of wire Nita Walden spread her arms far. drew him over, as the tears trickled down her face and planted a kiss on his caught Garrick’s coat, ek, Garrick took her arm. “Nita, for our sake as well as Ruth's, com to the station t the truth. They'll fix up a » bite to eat, too-—-maybe a toast!" (THE END) for everybody because she’ Jant.,” said I to Me. “She | realize how she'd upset the play if| Bo | she drops out of the cast, She never | 80 ignor doesn't to her father will be if he has to take | av George Bradshaw for a non-in-law, OUR FIRST YEAR By a Bride —~-— CHAPTER XLV—PLAY’S THE THING “Ronny 1s making all this trouble) modern flappers. The: you've got some job stops to think how awfully cut up| plexities were of slow growth yoidable, my marriage Peggy Madison, if you keer have senso. onny from eloping!” I used to believe that life's com anc if one had sense, Since I've We ought to broad "re too young learned that the (Copyright, 1922, by Seatle Star) | “That's the whole trouble with most trying situations develop in | how Jack would react to my work together a number of strong men who rode horses, told them of the chief's offer to buy sister and ask. | ed them to guard the wagon, “But wo camped that night, the little band of savages when T{} camped too, just outside our lines. “In the morning the chief came again to father and offered | three times at it No marksmanship He glanced over at Dick, as Ruth of Vario's could stop that thing. He| struggled away from his lips. two blankets for the girl. Again seemed to realise it. For an instant} “May I—may I-—broadcast our an father explained and again we he hesitated, then quickly turned|nouncement, Ruth?” pleaded Dick. ‘ rolled out, his time t the gun on himeelf—and fired Ruth eank back In his arms, “Yer a but-this tine the chief As Vario sank to the deck, Gar. Dick . .. IN tell the rode a little nearer and seemed a | rick nerved himself for the explosion | world!" little bolder and more eager. of the radloplane, about half a minute, Alone, as a spinster, T had to decide things for myself, As a bride, I never could make a decision without consulting Jack, And that was the very thing we had planned to avoid. y Once upon a time T would have »}heen completely absorbed in the play But marriage had made it impos. 1 | sible for me to handle any detail of »| my existence so simply, How I acted was now less important to me than the wagon, and that night we had no music, for the Indians were watching close and father didn’t know how they might behave. “So day after day we traveled, ench morning the offer grew larger, first two blankets, then two blankets and a horse, then beads and moccasins and any other treasure the young chief had to offer, and he seemed not to be able to understand why any man wouldn't be glad to sell his daugh- ter to a chief, specially if the chief gave a good big price for her. “Mother and father Were nearly frantic and sister was half sick with fear and the horror of tt, and none of us knew how it would all come out because we knew that to make an enemy of a chief was an awfully dangerous thing, “But father never lost his temper; he never was rude or un- kind. He explained and at last the Indian seemed to realize that his quest was vain, and he rode away. “But those were six terrible days he gave us.” I Pena rere nS lhl A en no ate nee on 4 in my part. How would he take the love scene when the Viking was reunited to his bride? I made my entry in Bart's arms. I, his queen, was supposed to have come down to the harbor to welcome him, and he had picked me up and carried me aboard his ship, My returning hero had many rich gifts for me. I sat by his side while captive maids spread the rich treas- ure of the raid before me, Bert made an elemental conquer. ing Norse lover, The captive maids who served me THE OLD HOME TOWN OW DORIS, YOUR DRESS 1S STUNNING= YoU JUST LOOK TOO SWEET FoR G EXCITEMENT TONIGHT ON THE MONDAY. YES MRTRNE, T'VE BEEN OUT THO TaYS LOOKING FoR NEW BUSINESS, BUT BopY © PUTS MG OF. CET'S LOOK FOR A_ DRY CLGANING CONCERN f T THINK GuUsINGSS WILL e(eK VE FOR You AFTER wou HAVGS THS SEE ANP B00P STAINS TAKEN OFF Youre Vest tit were all humble enough — mere | gets what's coming to him! Don't slaves—except one. She gazed upon | pinch or bite when I kiss you. Don't the Viking’s wife with the eyes of} stick a pin into me when I hug youy an equal, And I knew her for a/Peggy! You've got nothing to say rival in my lord's affection. Kachin this little act, it recognized the fact without a word,| “Now, if Jack ean be made to feel, each guessed the place and thejhe's going to have his chance, — power of the other, knew the truth | Peggy, listen to me: Your Jack is in about the other, rival women al- ‘ ways and everywhere have known, for a lesson! Half way thru the scene Jack bes Only the man in a triangle case is ever duped for long. hea to pace up and down the aud So ran the play. Before Bart torlum, Was he angry? Or disgusted? picked me up, he had warned me: “Now, Peggins! Don't make a hurt? (To Be Continued) 4 row! Here's where Jack Madison! (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stag’ |