Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-19
Chapter VII
INTERFERENCE

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| For an hour or more Dick waited
patiently at his wireless dictagraph
in Garrick s room.
In the silence, broken now and then
by some amateur, he had plenty OF
time to think of Ruth. In spite OF
himself, his suspicious carried him ON
to the Parr robbery, now known to
have included the taking of valuable
! Jewels as we'll as the looting of the
Parr cellar of some of its choicest
vintages. His thoughts ran beyond
that, to the radio dance and the sus-
I picious signally from the tower OF the
| Gerard house.
Who was the ringleader of the mis-
cradle affair." He thought of Brock,
of Gcorges---and of Jack Curtis. He
gritted his teeth. He hated the very
| name of the debonair adventurer.
Dick started from his reverie. The
dictagraph was working!
Through the high resistance head
pieces he heard voices, almost as if
from one of the old Photographs. He
strained his ears to recognize the
voices. 1t was Vira speaking. 10
Ruthe
"Wcll, here we are again. For n
second last night | thought we were
never going to get to the old Inner
Circle again. You re some driver. Any
body else at the wheel and-well, dead
girls tell no tales!'
AS Dick s keen ears focused atten-
ton he could recognize Ruth s laugh.
''Vira, that sounds gOOd---bccausc
know you mean it. After what we
went through last night re pals
forever. feel Il little shaky yet. L
think IL lie down for a while on this
chaisc Tongue. Some more of your
massaging. would do my poor back a
lot of good. If you ever go broke and
have to open a beauty shop or some
thing, count on me as your best
patron. -
There was silence for Il few min
utes. Then Ruth spoke again. q
wonder when Jack is coming. He S
becoming such 4 rushing lover, felt
1 had to do something to rise to the
same standard Of energy he shows.
These boys aren't going to. get
ahead of little Ruth
Vira chuckled. "Wcll, it wouldn t
take much to get ahead of Glenn these
days. He looks worricd-and that
makes me worried. Have you noticed
it, Ruth?'
"Not through your eyes of love,
DEAR kidded Ruth.
Dick, at the other end, had been Il
bit worried about the ethics of what
Garrick s detective proclivities had got
him into. He told himself that would
stop if it were not for what Guy would
say If he had stopped long enough
he might have admitted that he was
just like the others millions in similar
circumstances who would have liked an
earful on the other fellow.
The fact was that Dick was almost
beside himself with jealousy as he
heard Ruth discussing Jack. The only
consolation to which he could treat
himself was the nonchalant and rather
flippant way she spoke of him. He
wondered. Did he imagine that, because
he wished it?
Then he heard another voice over
the wireless. He recognized it as
Brock s voice and Brock did not seem
in the best of tcmpers with the girls
"You oughtn't to butt in and try
to stop anything, Ruth-not when it
has gone as far as that thing did
last night. You'll get somebody
caught ono of these days and"
There was a thinly vciled threat
in the gruff breaking off of Brock s
remark.
Just because it was the PARIS some
friends Of
81 know" interrupted Ruth. "But
when you all picked us up after the
snash-up and took us to Vira 's-why
did you leave the bulky stuff at her