New Britain herald., 1922-06-12
tContinued From Our Last Issue)
CHAPTER VII
INTERFERENCE

INTERFERENCE
 For an hour or more Dick waited
 patiently at his wireless telegraph ir Garricks room,
 In the silence. broken now and then
 by some amateur. he had plenty of
 time to think Of Ruth Tn spite of
 himself his suspicious carried him on
 to the Parr robbery, now known to
 have including the taking Of valuable
 jewels as well as the footing of the
 Parr cellar of some of its choicest vintagess His thoughts ran beyond that to the radio dance and the suspi- cious signaling from the tower of the Gerard house.
 Who was the ring leader of this miserable affair? He thought of Brock of Georges..and of Jack Curtis. He gritted his tteth. He hated the very name of the debonair adventurer.
 Dick started from his reverie. The dictagraph was working.
 Through the high resistance head pieces he heard voices, almost as If from one of the old phonographs. He strained his ears to recognize the voices It was Vira speaking. To Ruth?
 Well, here we are agann. For 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 at tention he could recognize Ruth's laugh.
 ''Vira. that sounds good-because I know you mean it. After what we went through last night we're pals forever. I feel little shaky yet think I'll lie down for a while on the chaise tongue. Some more of your massaging would do my poor back 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 min- utes. Then Ruth spoke again. T wonder when Jack Is coming. He's becoming such rushing lover, I felt 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 1t, Ruth P
 Not through your eyes of love, dears" kidded Ruth.
 Dick, at the other. end, had been a | Dit worried about the ethics of what | Garrick's detective proclivities had got him into. He told himself that he. would, stop if it were not for what | Guy would say. If he, had stopped 1 long enough he might have admitted | that he was just like the other mill lions in similar circumstances who would have liked an earful on the other fellow.
 The fact was that Dick was almost ! bestde} himself with jealousy as hel heard Ruth iscussing Jack. The only consolation to which he could treat himself was the nonchalant and rather f1ippant way she spoke of him. He wondered Did. he imagine that, because he wished it?
 Then he heard another voice over the wireless He recognized it as Brooks voice and Brock lld not seem in the best of tempers with the girls.
 You oughtn't 10 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 thinIy yelled threat in the gruff breaking off of Brooks remark.
 Just because it was the Parrs, some friends of"
 T 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 someone comes in there-and- finds it. A pretty little front-page scandal"
 Ruth had been characteristic Without entering 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 D. - ...-' '--'-' % ---
 Vira made little suppressed ex- clamation. T can imagine my Ma ter if I was caught in bootlegging clean out! Thatd be the last strawl on the dromedary. She'd be looking for some new sheik for me in the shape of a grand old octogenarianI husband. I was straight on the road to perdition when 1 went into pie lures. shook the folks a dozen times day But the rum running scandal. Go, get thee to a nunnery, Vira."
 Speaking of mothers ;" Ruth paused, nothing flippant in word or z tone
 Dick at the other end was aghast. a It was all surprising news this clue to where Ruth had been the night before Also, it was some mitigated relief. She had got back to town | shaken up by the accident and had gone with Vira to Vira's empty town house. More than that, there was he did not get; but some how her smash-up had been con- cerned with trying to frustrate some thing, not perpetrate it.
 T won't go back there tonight, vira," she said at length. I'm go- ing to stay at the Usonia. A nice little lecture is coming to me for be- ing out two nights and smashing my car Think of it-her getting out there and getting it lowed in herself-to the same garage we tele- phoned to for a wrecking car-onlyl first! That's some of Garrick's word.