Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-12

d ARK. you look as IL you had beer
on n hat took a nose dive i. .
If there is any lark, let me in on it.
1t was Rae who was at least one
of the new arrivals.
: Lark This from Ruth. con-
temptuously. Yes. One thing leads
to another, all right. First we start
This place. Then we get 1t over our
heads. Then we begin getting our
own stuff to save money. Then We
begin getting more than we can use
hereto make some money-to pay
the other expenses. Then-oh,
Lordy."
Ruth subsidized as another voice
became audible also to Dick. Glenn
had evidently been another of the
new arrivals.
Now, Ruth, watch Glenn desert
me for Vira. He was glad enough
to come down here with me. Never
mind, Glennie. I'll get you, yet
Dick could hear Rae laugh teasing
ly. "Vira, if you don't put more pep
into Glenn, I'm going TO take a
hand"
you're taking a lot for granted,
Rae" put in Ruth.
Rae has a very taking way" said
Vira pointedly.
Now. fellows" smoothed out
Glenn. Quit doing your stuff. No
good ever comes"
ITO rogues when rogues fall OUT
Ruth finished with a laugh and
some claws in the soft voice.
Il hear Jack and Georges down
stairs" Rae changed the subject
automatically. "Oh. here's Jack.
now. Well. Jack. what's the dirt %
Ruth did not wait for any answer.
Did you"
Yes 1 did, Ruth" fastened Jack.
Got a good scout to go up there to
Vira's place and remove those Parr
cases as soon as the coast is clear
say, eleven o'clock"
What time is IL now?"
Must be about that now -. . It's
after"
Again Dick felt his heart throp-
bling violently when the Hertzian
waves were reconverted into sound
waves and brought the next con-
versation to his ears.
Ruth, dear. how do you feel?"
Dick was tense. 1t was Jack speak
ing.
"A little weak, Jack But
ready to begin again when I get
home and quiet Mothers fears. /
live on excitement"
We'll, l am coming over to the
house-maybe l al help you with
an alibi?-or meet you in some
quiet place where we can talk ove-
the future. the exciting future-if
you get what l mean"
Dick frowned. Unconsciously Jack
was stealing his stuff.
Always ready to try anything
once, Jack"
I'm going to do it soon. OF
course. no one has told you how
beautiful you are. I'm going to tell
you more things about yourself than
all the psychoanalysts in Green
witch Village-or Greenwich, Con-
n%ecticut, or Gretna Green, or some
place!"
And he's some teller." snapped
Rae pertly.
There was another tilt verging on
when Georges voice interrupted.
Telephone. Curtis"
Jack went out, apparently. and
Georges. by the sound. must have
shut the door.
Did you get the low-down? Mop"
His laugh punctuated the remark.
"Ver' good. The steamship Ar
royo' has wirelessed in that she was
held up by a government boat out
side the three-mile limit and
searched, and hat two hundred and
fifty cases were taken off. That's
the report. But there was no gov
eminent boat in that vicinity at the
time. Eth? Now what do you make
of that?"
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 in a stage when a pun Is
as high a form of humor as any
has been hanging around. My man
left. But someone saw Garrick in
a taxi"
with Dick?" This quick query
was from Ruth and a bit anxious.
"oh ..." Her voice died of in
relief.
"Tve sent another fellow out.
Hope he's in time"
"Where?" This was from vira.
Your place." Jack seemed to
pound a 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-"
Blatt,
Dick tinkered and tickled and ad-
Justed. All he got was some focl
amateur on the same wave length.
He swore. He tried to swear over
the ether. but with i'll success. The
interference was there TO say, as Il
always is when n is listening in on
something pretty good.
Dick was sore. But he was not
surprised. When he first became
greatly interested in wireless some
eighteen months before there had
been perhaps fifty thousand wireless
telephone receiving sets. A year la
ter there had been six hundred
thousand. Today, he knew, one
authority had estimated a million
and the government had estimated
a million and a half in the papers
that week. No. Dick was sore, but
not surprised. In fact he would have
been pleased at almost n other
time. For, even If his family were
wealthy. Dick had visions of himself
some day doing better than the big
gest of the radio firms which was
doing business at the ate of fifty
million dollars a year. Thoughts
like this had no place in his mind.
now. All he knew was that he was
the victim of interference. And he
vas sore-and worried, too.
For the use of the ether (begging
the pardon of Einstein and his
theory is not limitless. It will ac-
commodate just so many wireless
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