Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-17

IL possible tnat tney, 100, were mere
ly tools of the man-at-the-top2 Who
was it then? Georges had been elm
mated and was in Jail with his
mouth sealed. Brock was out of the
way, a lonely prisoner ready to turn
states evidence to save his misera-
BILE hide. Who. then? Where was
Ruth?
In spite of her capture, Rae look
ed happier than she had been for
days. She was holding on to Jacks
arm with the air of possession that
seemed to compensate for every
thing. Curtis did not look so pleased.
He was thinking of the vanishing
fortune and the frolics he saw glim-
mcring away in the past.
Suddenly Rae shook his arm.
Dreaming of those hussies? Jack,
you're mine-I can't let anyone
have you-even when I'm playing
the game. These damsels have
ditched us! We might better have
stayed In our own class. There's
good pickings in the cabarets! Lord
knows what will happen now. Here's
that Garrick-and Dick. / could
tear the eyes put of the whole smart
bunch-especially Ruth Walden. ]
never trusted her-she's too SMART
As Garrick and Dick came up,
Curtis had his cue from Rae. A
clean breast was the next best thing
to a clean getaway.
Talk about Kidd and Morgan
and Blackboard he exclaimed n
anxious disgust. "They were piker
pirates! They plundered their pals,
I've read. Well, so did this beast
and he carried off a girl. too. a ten
million dollar prize!"
Garrirk shot question Altar mas
ton. why, the 'Bacchante' was a
floating treasure house-the jewels
OF the Gerard robbery, the Parr
jewels-the stun from a score OF
others. There was money, oh,
don't know how much, the profits OF
! the bootleg scheme, of looting wine
cellars all over the island. of the
Inner Circle" Jack swore as he
thought of the massed wealth from
which he had been "defrauded."
"Why was the 'Bacchante' here?'
demanded Garrick.
ITO take him off; he came across
by car from the Radio Central as
soon as he got me-damn him!-
with the boat into the open ocean,
safe-Professor Vario, Of counsel"
Professor Vario.' echoed Dick
in amazement.
Eyes, Professor Vario. head of the
biggest gang of bootleggers, black
mailers and dress-suit yeggman ]
guess you ever heard of. Yeh-
Georges was the fellow pulled 'em
in; Brock was the roughneck-Rae
and 1 were the decoys-Ruth, Vira,
Glenn and the others were their
cover. Damn his eyes!"
"But-the robberies?" queried
Dick.
Doesn't it explain the robberies?
To amass a small fortune, of course,
That guy vas born money-hungry-
and girl-crazy. I know his game.
He dragged me into his dirty work
fool that I was-then he expected
right time, posing as a hero to Ruth,
~rescuing her from me. Then to Ber-
muda, the Bahamas, Martinique
anywhere don't know. Only / dc
know now that Vario intended al
| along to marry that girl-and ge:
ten m~illions!"
Explain % echoed Garrick. "It
explains a lot of things. For in
| stance, at the Binnacle, what really
happened was that you, Jack
| double crossed Vario and tried to
get away with Ruth yourself. and
he caught you. 1t just gave hin
his first chance to play hero. eh?'
| Curtis nodded sullenly. And the
night of the dictagraph. With hi:
wave meter Vario discovered II
found that all his secrets were being
spilled in the air, and damned in or
the dictagraph wav length"
Jack listened as if it was thu
| clanking of a chair. He was afrait
| of Garrick. "Then that broadcaste6
| poison pen message. First Varic
had allowed you to get Ruth into q
dangerous position at the Binnaclt
from which he rescued her and
| played hero. Then this elopemen'
| story, to compromise her. But he
| had o right where he wanted you
How? The bigamy charge. OF
| course!"
Rae was now blazing. She might
battle Jack. Nc n else could. She
would perjure her little soul but she
would fight him clear.
do you know the conclusive
thing? !" Garrick turned to Dick
the Radio Central told me some
thing. How did my alarm fail? You
know, Dick, there's a switch be-
tween the studio oom and the &C
tual sending apparatus upstairs
not that switch we saw before us
but another. They use it whenever
anyone broadcasting tries to pu'
over a bit Of advertising or chilean
cry or if the singer or speaker /.
rotten, swing the switch and put or
a photograph or something. A mil
lion explanations will do, later. Tht
point is that he learned that I wa!
there. found out what I was doing
and choked it of-thereby betray'
ing himself. He has been under
cover ever since and this is the frs
information I've had of him all da,
although, without letting Dick Of
anyone else know of my suspicion
I had private detectives and the
police looking for him quietly" HI
nodded over toward one of tbs
| Astra men with the policeman n
the crowd whom Dick had not seen
Then to the man, How long before
we came did you get these people 2
Not ten minutes. sir"
"And the 'Bacchante.' which way
| did 1t head?"
He must have got a motorboa'
somewhere: put out to it the minute
it hove in sight: then sent these
people ashore after a fight or some
thing. I should say It headed south
east-by east"
"Come-Dick."
"Just a second. Guy. Whose hal
was it. Rae, that held the jewels a
| Gerard's?"
mine, of course" Deflantly.
"And what was in the tower with
the searchlight at Gerard's tina
night? ?"
Ruth and Glenn" This was
spiteful. 1--WE threatened them. But
it was the last time"