The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-12

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DICK CAST THE RECEIVER
FROM HIM.
ingly. "Vira if you don't put more
pep into Glenn, I'm going to take
a hand
You're taking a lot for granted,
Rae" put in Ruth.
Rae has a very taking way.
said Vira pointedly.
Now, fellows smoothed out
Glenn. "Quit doing your stuff. NO
good ever comes
ITO rogues when rogues fall
OUT Ruth finished with a laugh
and some claws in the soft yoi:a.
81 hear Jack and Georges down :
stairs,' Rae changed the subject
automatically. "OhS here's Jack,
now. Well, Jack, what's the d1rt?'
Ruth did not wait for any answer.
did you-?"
Got good scout to go up there
to Vira's place and remove those
Parr cases as soon as the coast IS
what time is it now?"
Must be about that, now -. It's
after"
Again Dick felt his heart theob-
bling violently when the Hertzian
waves were reconverted into sound
waves and brought the next con-
versation to his ears.
Ruth, dear, how do you fee,:'
Dick was tense. It was Jack speak
ing.
"a little weak, Jack -. But
ready to begin again when I get
home and quiet Mothers fears I
live on excitement.
well, I am coming over to the
house-maybe can help you with
an alibi?-or meet you in some
quiet place where we can talk over
the future, the exciting future
if you get what I mean"
Dick frowned. Enconsciocsly
Jack was stealing his stuff.
Always ready to try anything
once, Jack
I'm going to do it soon. OF
course no one has told you how
beautiful you are. I'm going-to tell
you more things about yourself
than all the psychoanalysts in
Greenwich Village-or Greenwich,
Connecticut or Gretna Green, or
some place."
And he's some teller!" snapped
Rae pertly.
There was another tilt vergiag
on when Georges voice interrupted.
Telephone, Curtis
Jack went out, apparently, ami
Georges, by the sound, must have
shut the door.
did you get the 1ow-down? No?
His laugh punctuated the remark.
"ver' good. The steamship. Ar
royo' has wirelessed in that she
was held up by government boat
outside the three mile limit and
searched, and that two hundred and
fifty cases were taken off That's
the report But there was no gov
eminent boat in that vicinity a,
the time Eth? Now what do you
make of that2f'
There was volley of laughter
from everybody.
That was call from the gar
age" came Jacks voice. Tht't
Garrick guy" there was a laugh
for they were all in stage where
pun is as high a form of huhor
as any-tthas been hanging arornc.
My man left. But someone saw
Garrick in a taxi"
with Dick?" This quick query
was from Ruth and 4 bit anxious.
mo, alone
ooh .s..' Her voice died off in
relief.
"I've sent another fellow out.
Hope he's in time
'Where?" This was from Vira.
"Your place. Jack seemed to
pound table, They'll give him
the beating of his life, confound
him l-mash his face in-put him
in the sheets for a week-mayb -
/ Blatt!
Dick tinkered and tickled and
adjusted. All he got was sume
fool amateur on the same wa,A
length He swore. He tried 70
swear over the ether. but with III
success. The interference was
there to stay, as it always is wher
one is listening / non something
pretty good.
Dick was sore. But he was not
surprised When he first became
greatly interested in wireless some
eighteen months before there hau
been perhaps fifty thousand wfro-
less telephone receiving sets. A
year later there had been six hun
bred thousand. Today, he knew.
one authority had estimated nl1-
lion and a half in the papers that