The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-06-19
tocntinued From saturday.
INTERFENENCE

Tor an hour or more DICK waiteu
patiently az his wireless dictagraph
m 0arrick's room.
In tho silence. broken now ana
then by some amateur. he had
plenty OF time 60 think OF Ruth.
In spite OF himself his suspicious car.
ried him ON TO the rarr robbery. now
known 90 have included the taking
OF valuable Jewels rs well as the loot
Ing OF the parr cellar 81 some OF It's
choicest vlntAxes. Tits thoughts ran
beyond that. TO tho radio dance and
the suspicious signaling from the
tower of the Gerard house.
Who was the ringleader OF this
miserable affairf He thought OF
Brock, of Georges--and OF Jack Cur
tls. lie grltted his teeth. He hated
the very name Of the dcbonair ad.
venturer.
Dick started from his reverie. The
dlctagraph was workingl
Thru the high resistance head,
pieces he heard voices. almost as II
from one % she old monographs. He
strained his ears 20 recognise the
voices. II was vira speaking To
RUTH
well. here we are again. For
second last night thought we were
never going to set 60 the cid Inner
\ Circle again. You're some driver.
Anyhody else at the wheel and-well
sead girls tell no taicsr'
A Dicks keen ears focused At
IGNITION he could recognize Ruth's
augh.
-Nira. that sounds good-because
I know yos mean n. After what we
went thru last night were pals for
ever. l feel a little shaky yet. /
think III lie down for a while on
this chaiso lcngue. Some more OF
yoor massaging would do my poor
hack lot Of good. IL you ever so
broke and have 20 open beauty
your best patron
There was silence for few min
utes. Then Ruth spoke again. Il
wonder when Jack Ia coming, He's
becoming such a rushing lover. felt
I had 20 do something 20 rise to the
same standard Of energy he shows.
These boys aren't going TO get
ahead OF little Ruth"
yira chuckled. We'll. II wouldn't
take much TO get ahead OF Glenn
these days. He looks worrtei--and
that makes me worried. Have you
noticed IL. Ruth
~Sot thru your eyes OF love. dear. g
kidded Ruth.
Dick. at the other end. had been a
BIT worried about the ethics OF what
Garrick's detective procllvitics had
<got him into. He told himself that
he would stop N II were not for what
Guy would say. II he had stopped
long enough he might have admitted
that ne was just like the other mil.
lions In similar circumstances who
would have liked an carfui on the
other fellow.
The fact was that Dick was almost
beside himself with jealousy a. he
heard Ruth discussing Jack. The
only consolation 10 which he could
treat himself was the nonchaiant
and rather flippant way she spoke %
him. He wondered. DID he imagine
that, because he wished III
Then he heard another voice. over
the wireless He recognized n AZ
Brooks voice and Brock did not
seen IN the best Of teEnpers with the
gtri.
You ourhtn't to butt In ana try
70 stop anything. Ruth--not when n
has gone as FAR as that thing did
last night You'n get somebody
caught one Of these days and"
These was a thiniy veiied threat
In the gruff breaking Off OF Brooks
remark
-Just because :, was the PARIS.
some friends Of"
II know interrupted Ruth. 'sBut
when you all picked US up after the
smash-up and took us 10 vIra's--
why did you leave the bulky stuff at
In there-and finds u. A pretty little
front-page scandaiY'
Ruth Ind been Characteristic
Without entering a defense she had
Fhiffed the subject until the other
han was on the defensive.
i Don't worry. No one win find
anything. Jack VIII take care OF
hat
Vira made a little suppressed ex-
-larnation. II can imagine my Ma
Ter II 7 was caught In a bootlegging
lean QUIT That'd be the last straw
,n the drouedary She'd be looking
Tor some new sheik for me In the
shape Of a grand old ocfogcnarian
husband. I was straight on the road
10 perdition when I went into pic
.ures. I shock the folks a dozen
times day. But rum.running
scandaIl Go. get thee TO a nunnery.
Viraf'
Speaking Of mothers - Ruth
paused. nothing flppant In word or
one.
Dick at the other end was aghast
Z wss all surprising news, this clue
% where Ruth had been the night
before. Also. II was some mitigated
relief. She had got back 10 town
,haken up by the accident and had
gone with Vira 10 Vira's erspty town
house. More than that. there was
,onething he did not get; but some
Row her smash-up had been con
,erned with trying 70 Illustrate some
hing. not perpetrate II.
I II won't go back there tonight