, 1922-06-20

couple OF hundred yards shead
-Iumr in. Dick"
"whero's the nies" joked Garriek
Just going Up to see vira-w1th
Ruth
Say, Glenn concdentiaily-I
there's no use keeping this under
cover 1 heard you say. IN the Pink
Room. you'd taken that Parr stuff
to your own garag TO protect vira-
Are you the only one that has a key
10 that place? Now. play straight,
Glenn This Is for your own good.
Did 1 ever do o a dirty triek-or
Dick? What do people At the Club
think OF me? DO they trust mel'
Glenn threw away an almost fresh
cigarette. lighted another. threw it
away and stood foolizhly with B
burnt match in his hand That's
the way, I am. Guy" he scowled.
AS as hell Half the time
L don't know what Pm doing. Say
. you1l be IN the level. Guy. It's
a cineh no one else Will. L might as
well mako a clean breast Of ii -.
no, Just give me tonight to think 1t
over = Well. anyway g.
49, a saw MY u TAO 4ALuo once
She begged it OF me once to put her
car up and the- :"
"An right. Glenn IN give you to
night Going TO see huth7 Well. tell
her not TO do a thing without seeing
mo first"
Glenn departed a bit relieved at rosa
roning the evil day OF confession.
We'll, II Rae Larue had il. they
all had It, anyone who wanted it."
hastily reasoned Garrick- That place
is a cache for their stuff. / didn't
want to ask for the key. I don't
need it Wen so there anyway. I'll
get in Come on to the cityr'
Garrick and Dick were whirltng
down tho turnpike, Dick with his eyes
Hsred to the oad back OF them for
moto. -vcie o
Locks, we're no impediment to Gar
rick. He has taken a course with his
friend Houdini. While no couldn't get
out Of everything he could get into
nearly everything.
Glenn's garage vas easy. As they
closed the door. they looked about in
Amusement. It wns indeed an "un.
bonded warehouse" There were
cases enough to have a tidy
little fortune In n corner where
they had been hastily dumped lay the
product of the iooting OF tho Parr
cellar.
'Undisturbed. Too bulky mutter-
ed Garrick- But someone has been
here
"How 10 ycn known
Garrick pointed toward n crack of
fN-A -4E-
an M pit for working on the under
side OF cars. A board covering vas
imperfectiy pulled over it. Through
the edge shone a light Garrick
wrenched toe covering aside
'Their hiding place. Whoever was
here must have boon in n
hurry forgot to switch off
that garage light on the flexible
cable" b
He Jumped down in tho pit. A mo-
mem later he hoisted himself up.
Without a word he handed Dick a
portable property"
What shall we do? Hand It over
TO tho police?"
mot yet. I must get Glenn and
the others rome sort,o OF immunity for
what they didn't do. They don't de-
serve it-but they're just wise young
fools. sGarrick thought a moment.
You see. tho net result of some of
our new commandments has been TO
make various phases of lawbreaking
fashionable, smart Only this is a
bit extreme"
He moved over TO the telephone. II
was working and he called the Astra
Agency of private detectives to fur
nish a guard until the ringleader was
caught and he was ready to make final
disposition OF the case
Dicks ebert eyes. Is they were
waiting. discovered a wireless set on a
workable in the car Out OF the
back window he could see the an
tenna from the garage to the house.