The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-06-19

There was voiley OF laughter
from everybody.
'That Was a call from the garage"
came Jacks voice. That Garrick
guy" there was a laugh. for they
were all la a stage where pun Ia
as high a form Of hurnor a. any
has been hanging around. My man
left. But someone saw Garrick In
taxi"
"wlth Dlckg" This quick query
was from Ruth and BIT anxious.
no. alone"
"oh /" Her voice died or In
relief.
"Ive sent another fellow out.
Hope he's In time"
-Wherr7- This was from Nira-
'your place" Jack seemed 20
pound table. They'll give him tho
beating ~ hia life. confound HIM.
mash hts face in--put him in the
sheets for a week--mn ybc---''
Hiatt,
Dick tinkcred and ticlisd and nd.
iustcd. All he got was some fool
amateur on tho same wave length.
Ito sworc. lie tried Ga swear over
the ether. bat with ~ success The
interference was there 20 stay. ar. II
always II when one IL listening M
on something pretty good
Dick was sore. hut he was not
surprised. When he first became
greatly interested IN wireless SONS
IL months before there had been
perhaps 50. coo wireless telephone re.
ceivfng Gets. A year later there had
been 900 600 To-day. no knew. one
authority had estimated a million.
and the government had estimated
million and n half In tho papers
that week. No. Dick was sore. but
not surprised. In fact he would have
been pleased at almost any other
time. For. even n hls family we're
wealthy, Dick had visions Of himself
some day doing better than the big.
gest Of tho radio firms which was
doing business at the rate OF fifty
million dollars year. Thoughts
like this had no place in hts mind,
now All he knew was that he was
the victim Of Interference. And he
was sore--and worried, too.
For tho use OF tho ether O,~rrinr
the pardon Of Einstcln and his
theory IL no, nmitless. II win &C.
commodate just 40 many wireless
messages and no more---at least untiI
such an invention as Dick was work.
ing on was perfected when that
limit Il reached. the air becomes a
boiler factory.
Dick cast the heaagear in useless
vexation on the table.
II seemed 10 him that he had been
on the point Of getting just the i'm.
portani thing he wanted 70 hear. lie
had been making notes aa he went
along. for somewhere he had heard
something about the methods OF dc.
tectlvea.
His mind WIS In a whirl. ms n a
dozen people were sending IN his
mental ether at once Then, sudden.
~. ass n unconsciousiy he had
sharpcned the thoughts to tho exact
wave length, oue idea seemed to
swamp an others.
Dick felt that he must get TO this
place where Ruth had spent the
night and whore Garrick WINS run.
ming into danger. II he had not al.
ready fallen into Il. And no must
get there first.
He tore out OF the apartment.
grabbed the first taxi. rode only a
few blocks. dismissed him M the
corner and started running down tho
street.
As he sped down tho block. he
could see a car in front OF Gerard's.
Then a man ran across under the
arc light Dick uuickened He saw
In the shadow two men struggling
and third creeping toward them.
Dick could make out Garrick. lie
was Just IN time. lie hurled him.
self at the other attaclser. They
were two against two. now.
But at the moment when Il seemed
that each was getting tho upper
hand Of his man, a couple OF others
ran In. Evidently they had been
trailing him from Garrick's. where
they much have been watching.