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

and fifty cases were taken off. That'I
| the report. But there was no Government
! boat in that vicinity at the time. Eth
Now what do you make of THAR"
There was a volley 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 II
stage where pun is as high form
Of humor as any-"has been hanging
around. My man left. But some one saw
Garrick in a taxi"
+with Dick2" This quick query wa,
from Ruth and a bit anxious.
"No, alone"
"oh I" Her voice died OF ir
relief.
I've sent another fellow out Hope
he's in time"
"where2" This was from vira-
your place" Jsck seemed to pound 8
table. They'll give him the beating OF
his life, confound him mash his face
in-put him In the sheets for a week
maybe"
Blatti
Dick tinkered and tickied and adjusted
All ne got WAS SDLuo Aook Vn Nut
same wave length. He swore. he tried
TO swear over the ether, but with III sue
| cess. The interference was there to stay
as II always is when one is listening II
on something pretty good.
Dick was sore. But he was not sur
prised When he first became greatly In.
terested in wireless some eighteen months
before there had been perhaps fifty thou
L aN.-n..
year later there had been six hundred
thousand. Today, he knew, one authority
/ had estimated a million and the Gov.
eminent had estimated a million and {
! half in the papers that week. No, Dicl
was sore, but not surprised. In fact h'
would have been pleased at almost any
other time. For even II his family were
wealthy, Dick had visions of himself
some day doing better than the bigges
Of the radio firms which was doing bust
ness at the rate Of fifty million dollars 8
year. Thoughts like this had no place
| in his mind, pow. All he knew was tina
he was the victim OF interference, And
| he was sore-and worried too.
For the use OF the ether (begging tn,
pardon Of Einstein and his theory is no
| limitIess. 1t will accommodate just. SC
many wireless messages and no more-a
| least until such an invention IS Dicl
was working on was perfected. Wher
! that limit is reached, the air becomes
| boiler factory.
Dick cast the headgear IN useless vex
alton on the table
| 1t seemed to him that he had been OF
the point Of getting just the importan
thing he wanted TO hear. He had beer
making notes as he went along, for some
where he had heard something about thu
methods Of detectives.
His mind was in a whirI, as If a dozeI
people were sending in his mental ether
at once. Then, suddenly, as If uncon
sclously, he had sharpened the thought!
to the exact wave length, one idei
seemed to swamp all others.
Dick felt that he must get to this place
where Ruth had spent the night ant
where Garrick was running into danger
IL he had not already fallen into it. An(
he must get there first.
He tore out of the apartment, grabbed
the first taxi. rode only a few blocks
and dismissed him.
As he sped down the block he coHlC
see a car in front OF Gerard's. Then
man ran across unde. the arc light. Dicl
quickened. He saw In the shadow tw
men struggling and a third creeping to
ward them.
Dick could make out Garrick. He wa
Just in time. He hurled himself at tn
other attacker. They we're two agains
| two, nov.
But Mt the moment when It seeme'
that each was getting the upper hand o
his man, a couple Of others ran on
Evidently they had been trailing hin
from Garricks, where they must hav
been watching.
The fight of the four now swung en-
tirely against Garrick and Dick.
From the avenue whence had come tn
new assailants, now came a quick scurr
OF feet a whistle. Some one raped a
with a hickory stick on the curb
making hollow echoes.
The four fed.
The newcomers hauled Garrick and Die
unceremoniously to their feet.
You're under arrest |" One of then
flashed a badge. "Saw you come out o
the cellar of the Inner Circle last night
Also you we're on that roof tonight"
Garrick looked at the badge. The,
were revenue enforcement men. H
pulled his own card, issued by tn
comptroller of the State. There was
moment of perplexity, then explanation
and apologies.
Thought you were in the Velvet Gang
too"
1.-The Velvet Gang?"
"Yeh-thats what we nicknamed tina
bunch Of aristocratic rum-runners."
One of them had picked up the keJ
"Ah ha We're In luck!"
So without the Formally of a scare,
warrant, they entered the Gerard house
If anything had ever been there-th
stuff was gonei
"Then-why the hght-with us?
puzzled Dick as they parted from tn
chagrined raiders.
"Just to get us out Of the way,
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