New Britain herald., 1922-06-06
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Guy Garrick and his wireless ex
 pert friend, Dick Defoe. seek tn,
 trail of two men and a girl who per
 petrated a spectacular holdup at ,
 fashionable radio dance near New
 York. They fear that beautiful Ruth Walden has innocently become tool in the hands of crooks. Theil quest leads them to the Sea Vamp.' yacht-like houseboat frequentet by Ruth and her questionable young friends. They know Ruth often goel
 .here with Glenn Buckley. "th' demon lover," who Is feared by Ruth'i mother and distrusted by themselves
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER II
 THE SEA vAMP
 With a siren blast and a swish oi dusty air yellow racer shot past Garrick and Dick before they were q mile down the turnpike. leaving only kaleidoscopic impression of girl al the wheel and a fellow lolling back tensely in the other bucket seat.
 "Ruth!" exclaimed Dick as Gar rick mechanically threw in more pow CT.
 Who was with her?"
 Glenn Buckley"
 Barrick's motor leaped ahead as he stepped on It. straight-away down the turnpike they raced. Garrick was just about holding his own. But Ruth had the jump and there was not chance to pass her. She was too wise a driver. Having shot ahead of car she did not slacken a fraction and she knew that that all ways makes it nearly impossible to catch one.
 A bend in the turnpike toward the south and a dirt road forked off, Ruth slowed up just a bit, turned her head with pearly smile. i've hunch," she called back teasingly you can't follow me. Dick"
 With wave of her hand suddenly Ruth shot away on the side road to the right, to the north, in a pillar of dust cloud.
 Garrick had no desire for a wild goose quest. He stuck to the con- creted turnpike.
 What's the matter, old man? Why so sient?" queried Dick a mile further on. Suppose you're wonder ing, like me, how Ruth could have got meshed in the wheels of this gang, if that's what 1t is, eh ?" Dick gazed hopelessly off at the hill and forest north of them with their maze of side roads. T wish. by gad, a girl was like a car or a boat something you could steer-right!"
 Time enough to worry when we know more than we think we know" returned Guy, negotiating a left turn that required some skill to make the succeeding hill on high. After all, Ruth's just a stunning little flapper-facing a very cold and calculating world-with a thoroughly modern - balanced equipment that doesn't hug the road like this old car of mine. Except" he paused, then added, that she has the inherit ed intelligence, the intuition. the in- stinct of woman in all the ages The real question is, What will she do with it?''
 They swung off at last on another concreted road and finally nosed down the middle of the sand neck that hooked about Duck Harbor As they drew up, off the road, in a | clump of stunted Long Island beach ! plums. they were astounded to see, | couple of yards ahead on the sort beach. Ruth's racer. She had taken a short cut and beaten them by many minutes.
 Perhaps a thousand feet further they could see a houseboat at anchor and between them and the boat knot of young people in bathing suits on the beach.
 As Garrick and Dick strolled down the shore, it proved to be Glenn and three or four other fellows in various stages of college careers past or present. They wore class numerals or other marks on their bathing a college letter-for five minutes of play in game lost to Princeton. Buckley was a rather handsome lad in spite of his evident satisfaction with himself, tall, slender with a general impression, T love the ladies and the ladies love mo-"
 In spite of competition he was Vira Gerard. A jet shock of bobbed hair set off big liquid dark eyes, eyes that, if theyl were the windows of the soul. had a depth that was baffling even to the lens, eyes that domi- mated her splendid features and gave her that today priceless "camera face" Suppose you know this is a pr- vate beach?" inquired one of the numeraled youngsters as the two ap- ( preached. ( Guy smiled and nodded toward { Vira and Glenn. Between the wa |, ter and low water marks?" W Down the shore could be seen a I canoe coming from the houseboatl ( with a girl, alone. As she beached it and stepped out, it was Ruth in smart swimming suit of violet and |