The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-10

(, Walden at her apartments on Park
| avenue. She had got ahead OF any
one else and had had Ruth's car
towed to a garage. They stopped
there a moment and Professor
yario's solicitude for Mrs. Walden
! seemed to offer Garrick the oppor-
tunity to get rid of him, for they
! certainly did not want any strang-
ers about in what they were going
| to do.
But the show" demonstrated
| Mrs. Walden as Vario offered TO
stay and do anything he could to
relieve her anxiety.
! I'll telephone them that I'm de-
! layed. They can postpone my stunt
until later in the evening" he in
sisted. And. Mrs. Walden, don't
Won worry when you have two such
good friends as Garrick and Dick
helping. You should have seen the
way they settled the porch crowd
and you can count on me as
third. l may be the last but hope
not the least where Miss Ruth S
welfare is concerned.
"I really appreciate your kind
ness deeply-but-of course, l want
nv little girl. / can't think of any
thing else. | can't talk over the
telephone, right; can't read; am
lust incapacitated until Ruth gets
back to me-"
! Dick, I'll stay with Mrs. Walden
for a little while, if l may. l know
she needs some help. If you want
me later I'll be at the Radio Show"
Garrick thanked him, then
leaned over Nita Walden. We'll
have some word tonight-sure. By
tomorrow you'll have her back
safe"
Outside he found Mckay and de-
livered Mrs. walden's instructions.
You are to take Professor Vario
down TO the Armory to the Radio
Show; then you may put the car
up"
Garrick had been thinking out a
plan for the installing of the dicta-
graph. Up the street from the In
ner Circle were two houses turned
into studio apartments He found
the caretaker and the conversation
was lucrative to her.
Dick selected and carried up to
the roof the apparatus and they
went as silently as possible across
the intervening roofs until they
came to the roof of the Inner Cir
Gle.
It was a curious roof. In the CEN
ter had been built a great concrete
box as big as room. There was no
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Garrick fished with a line down
the chimney, by sounding, until he
located the f1ue to the Pink Room
Then, dangling down, he lowered
the dictagraph transmitter until it
must have hung a foot from the
floor of the hearth back Of the iron
grill work under the mantel below
in the Pink Room.
Meanwhile, on the roof, Dick had
been busy placing his sending set
and Garrick helped him complete
the set-up.
AS they left the studio house, two
men were passing. One of them
brushed suspiciously against Dick
with enough force to knock the bag
he was carrying out of his hand.
Garrick controlled his temper. Here
were the mysterious shadowers
again. Were they emissaries of the
gang?
Garriek picked up the bag him
self, looked significantly at the man,
and remarked, We'll, see? Nothing
dripping"
AS they had been at work on the
roof, they had determined on plac-
ing the receiving end up at Gar
rick's apartment which was only
several blocks uptown.
At Bachelors Hall Dick worked
rapidly, for it was now getting dark
in spite of the length of the days.
He unpacked the receiving end of
his wireless dictagraph in the room,
then went up on the roof and erect
ed the portable aerial.
Carefully and deity he began to
tune up, now that this second in
stallation was complete 1t was
rather difficult TO get the fine ad-
justmeHt, but at last he got the
right wave length.
He looked up at Garrick, smiled,
and took the haadgear off, handing
it to him., Get ttvt?"
Garrick adjusted it, listened for
a moment in some perplexity, then
exclaimed. why, l can hear the
whiEr of a vacuum cleaner in the
roomi"
Dick smiled proudly. 81 think I've
made the transmitter about as SEN
sitiye microphone as can be made |
l only hope 1t isn't so sensitive that |
it picks up through the wall what |
happens in the house next door" !
They listened in for several min !
utes but there was nothing more !
yet. Whoever was cleaning the |
room flushed and left
The bazzer on Garrick's door |
sounded. He opened it only q crack.
1t was Mckay. /
Il just saw that Rae Laure, with |
a man. at the Park Garage on Six
tieth street. where l put the car
up"
What sort of looking man."
Il didn't know him, sir. Sort of
shaggy hair
Brock" exclaimed Dick, who |
had come over.
Then Jack Curtis came in a
car. He didn't stay long; went
downtown, l think,
Rae had been fussing with the in
terror of one car in the long line in
the garage. She was apparently
very busy but Mckay noticed that
nothing escaped her. no matter how
slight He had continued to watch
some time.
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