Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-19

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Georges-and Of Jack Curtis. He gritted
his teeth. He hated the very name Of the
debenair adventurer.
Dick started from his reverie- The
dictagraph was workingI
Through the high resistance head
pieces he heard voices, almost as If from
one of the old Photographs. He strained
his ears to recognize the voices 1t was
Yira speaking. To Ruth?
"weI here we are again. For a second
last night I thought we were never going
to get to the old Inner Circle again.
You're some driver. Anybody else at the
wheel and-well. dead girls tell no tales !"
AS Dicks keen ears focused attention he
could recognize Ruth's laugh.
'FVira, that sounds goOd-because
know you mean it. After what we went
through last night we're pals forever.
feel a little shaky yet. l think I'll lie
down for a while on this chaise Tongue
Some more of your massaging would sdO
my poor back a lot Of good. If 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 minutes.
Then Ruth spoke again. Il wonder
when Jack is coming. He's becoming
such a rushing lover. I 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, 1t wouldn't
take much 70 get ahead of Glenn these
DAYS. He looks worried-and that makes
me worried. Have you noticed it, Ruth 2"
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 prOcliYities had got
him into. He told himself that he would
stop If It were not for what Guy would
say. If he had stopped long enough he
might have admitted that he was just
Ike the other millions in similar cir
cumstances who would have liked an ear
full on the other fellow.
The fact was that Dick was almost
beside himself with jealousy as he heard
Ruth discussing Jack. The only con-
ISOLATION to which he could treat himself
was the nonchalant and rather fipPant
way she spoke Of him. He wondered
Did he imagine that, because he
wished 1T
Then he heard another voice over the
wireless. He recognized it as Brooke
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 it has
gone as far as that thing did last night.
You'll get somebody caught one Of these
days and"
There was a thinly yelled threat in
the grun breaking of OF Brooks remark.
"Just because it was the PAIRS 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
house? Suppose some one comes in there
and finds it, A pretty little front.
page scandal"
Ruth had been characterize. without
entering a defense she had shifted the
subject until the other man was on
the defensive.
"Don't worry. No one will find any.
thing. Jack will take care of that"
vira made a little suppressed excla.
nation. 81 can imagine my Mater if
was caught in a bootlegging clean
QUIT That'd be the last straw on the
dromedary She'd be looking for some
new sheik for me IN the shape of a
grand old octogenarian husband. I was
straight on the road TO perdition when
1 went into pictures. I shock the folks
a dozen times a day. But a rum-run-
ming scandal Go, get thee to a nun
merry, Viral"
Speaking of mother Ruth
paused, nothing fippant in word or tone.
Dick at the other end was aghast
It was all surprising news, this clew to
where Ruth had been the night before.
Also, II was some mitigated relief. She
had got back to town shaken up By