The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17

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tual sending apparatus upstairs
not that switch we saw before US
but another. They use 1t when
ever anyone broadcasting tries 10
put over a bit of advertising OF
chicanery or If the singer or speak
er is rotten, swing the switch and
put on a photograph or something
A million explanations will do
later. The point is that he learned
that | was there, found out what
was doing and choked it on-there-
by betraying himself He has been
under cover ever since and this Is
the first information I've had OF
him all day-although, without let
ting Dick ranyone else know OF
my suspicion, l had private detec-
tives and the police looking for him
quietly" He nodded over toward
one of the Astra men with the
policeman in the crowd whom Dick
had not seen. Then to the man,
How long before we came did you
get these people?"
Not ten minutes, SIR"
And the Bacchante,' which way
did it head?"
He must have got a motorboat
somewhere; put out to it the min
ute it hove in sight; then sent
these people ashore after a fight
or something. l should say it head
ed southeast-by east"
"Come-Dick!"
Just a second, Guy. Whose hat
was it, Rae, that held the jewels at
Gerard's?"
Mine, of course" Defiantly.
And what was in the tower with
the searchlight at Gerard's that
night?"
Ruth and Glenn" This was
spiteful We threatened them. But
it was the last time"
"And why were the Walden
pearls returned?'
1T was his idea. Vario's-to in
volve her, tie her up tighter, so she
wouldn't dare squeal."
They jumped into the motorboat
and a few minutes later the whir-
ring of the propellers and the gor-
geous cutting of spray gave them
another leap off into the air.
They've 20-minute start, .
shouted Garrick, adjusting his head
gear in the rush of air. Thank
heaven for the light. What sun
set"
Dick flew by his compass in the
direction the Astra man had indi-
Gated, then began a series Of ever
widening horizontal loops. 1t de-
creased his direct distance. but it
enabled him to cover a wider range
in case Vario had turned the course
Of the "Bacchante" when he got
out of sight of land. Fast as the
scout cruiser was it could not COM
pete with him for speed, Garrick,
with his eye glued to glass with
splendid German lenses, swept the
seas.
They had not been flying ten min
utes in this fashion and Dick was
considering the turn on the south
ernmost swing of the loop when
| Garrick shouted above the rash Of
air, and pointed ahead, further
south.
Dick depressed his altitude and
, they swung along until shortly
with the naked eye could be made
out a boat which was without doubt
the ''Bacchante," far out to sea
As they watched, it deliberately
turned and headed back, toward
them. Garrick trained the glass
toward it. What did it mean?
BY heaven!" he exclaimed.
What's that speck between us and
him? Can it be someone-swim-
ming? My God-it is-it is Ruth
Could it be that Ruth had seen
and taken a last long chance, that
she had gone overheard. risking
everything on a Marathon swim, at
that hour, with not a chance in a
million of making the shore?
AS the radioplane came nearer
the water and nearer the struggling
swimmer it became evident that the
race between the plane and the
cruiser was a losing one for the
cruiser
Here Guy, take this plane. I'll
take the radio!"
Garrick seized the other of the
double set of controls A moment
later he had TAXED in spray and
was rocking the pitching only few
feet from the swimmer. 1t was
ticklish business but he maneu-
vered until he was able to swing
about. Fortunately the sea was
comparatively calm. AS for Ruth,
she was still fresh. Her long-dis-
lance swimming counted now in
the balance for her life.
As Garrick, with a final effort
with IlIcly dTa hnr I'd
almost collapsed in Dicks arms.
Take care of her, Guy, for
minute," Dick turned to his radio
apparatus and as he did SO Garrick
saw that the "Bacchante," long be-
fore she was beaten, had turned
and was going away at top speed.
"There!" Dick swung a switch. A
little light cleaned overhead. He
swung another. Another signal
overhead changed. GOT"
Like a bolt flew the ARRANGEMENT
overhead. a long torpedo-like af-
fair of aluminium, with wings and
pontoons for all the world like the
hydroaeroplane on which they
were.
1t was flying, with the buzz of a
hornet!
Dick pressed a lever. 1t swung in
its fight.
THE principle Of the thing is
that l use Hertzian waves to actu-
ate relays on the radioplane-that
is, l send a child with a message.
The grown man, through the relay.
so to speak, does the work. So, you
see / can sit here and send NV lit