The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-05

it on their allowance? Cut
them OF to next to nothing. They
seem to go right on. There's some
thing mighty queer about it all
You will look into it for me?
Indeed l viii. Mia. Glad of the
opportunity. I'm rather fed up on
country life just now, anyhow. Be
sides, I'd like nothing better than
to set some of these youngsters
right"
Nita Walden glowed her thanks
and was whisked away.
Garrick took a turn or two across
the deserted end OF the veranda.
A couple of years before the war
Garrick, just out of college. OF fine
| family and some fortune, had de-
cided to dilettante his way into de
tective life
There must be something new
in order to catch criminals nov
adays," he told friend. THE Ole
methods are all right-as far as
they go. But criminals are keeping
up with science"
But what a hobby" his friend
has returned. Never knew any.
one in our set ever to take W
! that"
ITS just our set that needs il
most. We're always shaken down
blackmailed, victimized. imposed or
until we, the wise ones. are the
/ easiest marks of ALL"
| So, in his casual way, Garricl
had Travelled to London, Paris, Der
lin, Vienna, where he had studied
! the amazing growth abroad of the
new criminal science 1t was moi
merely desultory. With his care.
/ less prediction, he had absorbed
| nearly everything from such men as
| Gross, Lacassagne, Reiss, all tht
| successors of the day of the i'm
mortal BertilIon.
Next a strange thing happened
The war broke out, and before he
knew it, he was drawn into brilliant
service in the Office of Naval Intel.
ligence, from which he emerged e
| Lieutenant Commander.
! Then for four years he had set
| tied back into the life he had beer
| born into, until now he was
virtually father confessor of all the
l =,
| sort of unofficial advisor, with NJ
profession except having a goot
time and with the Garrick fortune
| that was ample to indulge in his
hobbies.
so . here you are. Beer
looking all over Suffolk County f0l
you, Guy" 1t was Dick Defoe
Suppose you've heard this new
tale of Dame Rumor-about tht
Radio Dance last night?'
Garrick nodded but did not com
nit himself. This was an idea
chance. He wanted to see how
much Dick knew and whether Il,
could add anything. Perhaps some
tack on the case. Dick knew lesI
than Mrs. Walden, but felt a:
much.
Guy" he pleaded, you mus
-. you must help me save Ru.l
from herself . and her friends.
Curiously, here was Defoe ap
pealing to him to do what he hat
already agreed to do. Garrick wa:
used to such condolences.
We'll, then, tell me something
about those friends. What abou
the radio kid, Glenn Buckley?
Garrick watched with conceale
amusement the reaction on Dick
face.
"Oh, he's like a great many pee
pie today. 1t sn't the scientific i'll
terest in radio that Glenn feel.
It's the entertainment value in it
in anything appeals to hin
AS a scientific study, l supp
motion pictures were interesting I
. people who were following wha
Edison and others were doing. BIT
when they became a source of en-
tertainment, pictures became tn
| fifth industry. That's the way it i
with radio today with Glenn. Be
| sides, just now Radio is fashion
l,ble It's smart. Like the automo
bile was 20 years ago, l imagine
| Glenn wants 10 be smart. So he ha
asked the advice and assistance o
Professor Vario over at Rocl
Ledge. The rest of the crowd
| guess you know-that Jack CT
You've seen him around '-e Club