Evening journal., 1922-06-19
(Continued From Our Last Issue
CHAPTER VII
INTEXEEsR EsNCE

For an hour or more LICK Waltet
patiently at his wireless dictagrapf
in Garrick's room.
In the silence, broken now and
then by some amateur, he had
plenty of time to think OF Ruth.
In spite Of himself his suspicious
carried him on the Parr robbery,
now known to have included the
taking OF valuable Jewels as well as
the Iooting of the Parr cellar of
some of its choicest vintages His
thoughts ran beyond that, to the
radio dance and the suspicious sig
mailing from the tower of the Ge-
rard house.
who was the riDgleader of this
miserable AFFAIR? He thought of
Brock, OF Georges-and Of Jack
Curtis. He gritted his teeth. He
hated the name OF the debonair
adventurer.
Dick started from his reverie. The
dictagraph was workingl
Through the high resistance
headpieces he heard voices, almost
as If from one OF the old phono-
graphs. He strained his ears TO reg
onize the voices. It was Nira
speaking. 10 Ruthf
well here we are again. For a
second last night I thought we were
never going TO get 10 the old Inner
Circle again. You're some driver.
Anybody else at the wheel and
well, dead girls tell no talesl"
As Dicks keen ears focused at
tention he could recognize Ruth's
laugh.
''Vira that sounds good-because
/ know you mean 1t. After what we.
went through last night we're pals
forever. / feel a little shaky yet.
think I'll lie down for a while on
this chaise Tongue. Some more OF
your massaging would do my poor
back a lot of good. II you ever go
broke and have to open a beauty
shop or something. count on me as
your best patron"
There was silence for a few min
utes. Then Ruth spoke again. Il
wonder when Jack is coming. He's
becoming such rushing lover, /
felt I had to do something to rise
to the same standard of energy he
shows. These boys aren't going to
get ahead Of little Ruth"
vira chuckled. well. It wouldn't
take much to get ahead of Glenn
these days. He looks worried-and
that makes me worried. Have you
noticed it. Ruth7"
mot through your eyes OF love,
dear" kidded Ruth.
Dick, at the other end, had been
a bit worried about the ethics of
what Garrick's detective proclivities
had got him into. He told himself
that he would stop II It were not for
what Guy would say. If he had
stopped long enough he might have
admitted that he was just like the
other millions in similar circum-
stances who would have liked an |
earful on the other fellow.
The fact was that Dick was al |
most beside himself with Jealousy as
he heard Ruth discussing Jack. |
The only consolation TO which he |
could treat himself was the non
chalant and rather fippaDt way she
spoke OF him. He wondered. Did |
he imagine that, because he wished
it7
Then he heard another voice over
the wireless. He recognized It as
Brooks voice and Brock did not
seem in the best OF tempers with the
girls.
you oughtn't to butt in and try
to stop anything, Ruth-not when il
has gone as far as that thing did
last night. You'll get somebody
caught one of these days and"
There was thinly veiled threat
in the gruff breaking off of Brooks
remark.
Just because it was the PARIS
some friends Of" ,
Il know" interrupted Ruth, But
when you all picked us up after the
smash-up and took us to Vira's- :
why did you leave the bulky stuff at
her house7 Suppose someone comes
In there-and finds 1t. A pretty lit .
tie front-page scandal"
Ruth had been characteristics
without entering a defense she had =
shifted the subject until the other
man was on the defensive.
Don't worry. No one will find
anything. Jack will take care OF
that
Vira made little suppressed ex-
Il can imagine my Ma
ter If 1 was caught in the bootleg
ging clean outl That'd be the last
straw on the dromedary. She'd be
for some new sheik for me
in the shape of a grand old octogen-
arian husband. 1 was straight on I
the road TO perdition when / went .,
into pictures. / shock the folks a
dozen times a day. But a rum-run- $
ming scandal Go, get thee to a L
nunnery, Viral" II
Speaking Of mothers =" Ruth n
paused. nothing fippant in word or
tone. II
Dick at the other end was aghast h
II was all surprising news, this clue s.
to where Ruth had been the night a
before. Also. 1t was some mitigated
relief She had got back TO town v
shaken up by the accident and had n
gone with Vira to Vira's empty town u
house. More than that, there was o
something he did not get; but some
how her smash-up had been con-
cerned with trying to frustrate some s
thing, not perpetuate II.
Il won't go back there tonight,
Vira," she said at length. I'm go .
ing to stay at the Usonia. A nice Z
little lecture is coming TO me for be- II
ing out two nights and smashing 6
my car. Think of it-her getting u
put there and getting it towed in
1erself-to the same garage we tele- d
ohoned TO for wrecking car-only r
irst, That's some Of Garrick's work r
II bet Well ... no rum c
unning arrest yet =. II might y
Iampen the ardor of someone c
NOW whose ardor 1 do not want