The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-14


way. I'll get in. Come on to the
city,"
Garrick and Dick were whirling
| down the turnpike, Dick with his
eyes glued to the road back OF them
for motorcycle cops.
Locks We're no impedilnent to
| Garrick. He had taken a course
| with his friend Houdini. While
he couldn't get out of everything,
he could get into nearly anything.
Glenn's garage was easy- AS they
closed the door, they looked about
in amazement.s 1t vas indeed an
..unbonded warehouse" There were
| cases enough to have meant a tidy
little fortune. In n corner where
they had been hastily dumped lay
the product of the looting of h
Parr cellar.
"Undisturbed. Too bulky" NUT
tered Garrick. But someone a
been here
How do you know"
Garrick pointed toward a crack
of light. On one side of the gar
age was an auto pit for working on
the under side of cars. A board
| covering was imperfectly pulled
over it. Through the edge shone =
light. Garrick wrenched the cover
ing aside.
..Their hiding place. Whoever
was here must>have been in a nerv
Gus hurry forgot to switch
off that garage light on thetfleX-
ib1e cable"
He jumped down in the pit. A
moment later he hoisted himself
up Without a word he handed
Dick a little Jewel case. Engrav-
ed on it were the words, "Antoin-
cite Parr." 1t was empty.
"Everything's gone-all the small
portable property
What shall we do? Hand it
over to the p%olice?"
Not yet. I must get Glenn and
the others some sort of immunity
for what they didn't DO. They
wise young FOOLS" Garrick thought
a moment. You see, the net result
| of some of Il new commandments
has been to make various phases
OF l~awbreaking fashionable smart.
| Only this is a bit extreme
He moved over to the telephone.
1t was working and he called the
Astra Agency of private detectives
to furnish a guard until the ring
leader was caught and he was
ready to make final disposition of
the case.
Dicks alert eyes, as they were
waiting, discovered a wireless set
on a workable in the rear. Out
| of the back window he could see,
the antenna from the garage to
the house. Mechanically he start
ed tuning up. The agency men
were a long time in coming.
Holy judas priest," Dick was
so startled he was pale. Some
ones b~roadsasting what they call
news. 1t 81. it can't be. 1t must
be some crazy amateur. Ruth Wal
den. the heiress. has eloped with
John Curtis!'
Garrick seized the phones. ANA
teur-perhaps; crazy, MOI" Garrick
listened and continued. Did you
ever stop to consider the radio as
a means for SANDER? Talk about
your poison pen writer's! Science
has put into the hands of black
mailerS the most dangerous of wea-
pons Your story is spread to a
million fans. And there's not a
chance Of tracing it to your sland-
erer!"'
There isn't? The devil there
isn't I can. I Will" exclaimed Dick.
IF he keeps it up
Everything he needed seemed
there on the workbench. It was
comparatively simple a loop" as
It is known, copper wire wound
! eight times around a frame four
feet square. He hung it from the
ceiling, free. He could turn it in
any direction. He connected up the
receiving set. Then he began
turning the loop slowly.
"A directional receiver explain
ed Dick. 1T must be o~rientated to-
ward the hidden sender. Really it's
a radio compass"
BY the time the Astra men ar
rived Dick had it pointed. Every
few minutes a new message came.
They left the men in charge and
climbed in the car. The direction
had been a by a little south.
Across the bridge, Dick set up
his finder again. This time 1t was
east by a little north. Over vel.
known roads they scurried, now
and then, every few miles setting
up the f~inder-and modifying their
course. Who raj the hidden and
persistent slanderer?
Looks as il it might be down
Duck Harbor way" exclaimed Dick
finally, aghast.
Garrick took IT as a matter Of