Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-06
THE TRI- WEEKLY JOURNALS
MYSTERY SERIAL
ION WINGS or WIRELESS"
(Chanter TX ContinueM
ION WINGS OF WIRELESS
By Arthur B. Reeve

Chapter TX Continued
"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
| moment later he hoisted himself up.
Without a word he handed Dick a
little jewel case. Engraved on it
were the words, "Antionette Parr."
It was empty.
"Everything's gone-all the small
portable property"
What shall we do? Hand it over
to the police?"
mot yet. I must get Glenn and
the others some sort of immunity for
| what they didn't do. They don't de-
serve it-but they're just wise young
| fools. Garrick thought a moment.
"You see, the 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.
It was working and he called the
Astra agency Of private detectives
| to furnish a guard until the ring
leader was caught and he was ready
20 make final disposition Of the
case.
Dicks alert eyes, as they were
waiting, discovered a wireless set
| on a workable in the rear. Out of
| the back window he could see the an
tenna from the garage to the house
Mechanically he started tuning up.
| The agency men were a long time in
coming.
"IIoly Judas priestr Dick was so
startled he was pale. Someone's
| broadcasting what they call news.
It . it can't be. It must be some
crazy amateur. Ruth Walden, the
heiress, has eloped with John Cur
tis!"
Garrick seized the phones. "Ama-
teur-perhaps: crazy, mol" Garricl<
| listened and continued, did you
| ever stop to consider the radio as a
means for SANDER? Talk about your
poison pen writer's! Science has put
into the hands Of blackmailers the
most dangerous Of weapons. Your
story is spread to a million fans. And
| there's not a chance of tracing it
to your slanderer"
"There isn't? The devil there isn't.
I can. I will!' exclaimed Dick. IF
he keeps it up
Everything he needed seemed
there on the work bench. 1t was
comparatively simple, a loop" as it
is known, copper wire wound eight
times around a frame four feet
square. He hung it from the cell
| ing. free. He could turn it in any
direction. He connected up the re-
ceiving set. Then he began turning
the loop slowly.
"a directional receiver" explained
Dick. "It must be orientated toward
the hidden sender. Really it's q ra-
dio compass"
BY the time the Astra men ar
rived Dick had it pointed. Every
| few minutes a new message came.
They left the men in charge and
climbed in the car. The direction
had been east by a little south.
Across the bridge Dick set up his
finder again. This time it was east
| by little north. Over we'll known
roads they scurried, now and then,
every few miles setting up the finder
and modifying their course. Who
was the hidden and persistent SLAM
| derer?
Looks as if it might be down
Duck Harbor way!" exclaimed Dick
finally, aghast.
| Garrick took it as a matter Of
| course. 1t was merely confirming
his rapid deductions.
At Duck Harbor, abruptly, the d.
| rection of the messages, changed to
the northeast sharply
II believe you traced out the
| sender" cried Garrick, as they
| looked out over the empty harbor.
''But we're too late. The Sea Vamp'
has gone! The birds are flown!
From cottage down the beach
Garrick called Nita Walden at the
Nonowantuc club.
Where is Ruth?" he asked quick
ly.
"she went out with Glenn and
Vira. She left note for you, Guy,
marked Mr.. Garrick. Personal
Hello? Wait. I'll open it then. Here.
You told me never to do anything
again without letting you know. I've
| gone to the Sea Vamp' to destroy
the engine so they can't move it
away until tomorrow Ruth"
but the Sea Vamp' has gone"
ton
Ruth has been carried off on the
Sea Vampr"
CHAPTER x
| BROADCASTING
KIN ny Ruth carried off-on the
wi Sea vamp!"
Nita Walden repeated
her words Historically over the tele-