, 1922-06-10


OF Mia IN distress
Tell me somethInK about the Eiris.-
he suggested
We'll. there's vira Gerard You
know her. the blonde vAmp' they've
nicknamed her. evcr since she went
into that amateur motion picture the
girls made at the school Of the Misses
Place She thinks she Is n new Tai
madge or Pickford really -.
wants to be tho society girl with q
career on the screen
Then, there's that Rae LArue, who
has been tho guest OF one or another
OF the girls AL summer. Just between
you and ma and tho listening post,
I think she's an adventures. I've
hard II whispered that she used TO
be a cabaret singer or a lancer or
something. With ambitions. Anyway.
she's zen taken up By the girls OF
the younger set and it's not for the
likes OF US. Guy. to tell the young idea
how 81 shall shoot away It's time any
more"
"These dance parties and cabarets.-
pondered Garrick. considering. have
given a new twist TO crime"
And the pacei How do they do It
- .son their allowances. Cut them
or to NEXT to nothing. They seem to
70 right on. There's something mighty
queer about 1t ALL You will -. look
into It for meT-
Indeed I win Nita- Glad OF the
opportunity. I'm rather fed UP on
country hfo Just nov anyhow. Be
sides. I'd like nothing better than 10
get some OF these youngsters right"
Nita Walden glowed her thsrks and
was whisked away.
Garrick too a turn or two across
the deserted end OF the verandA.
A couple OF years before the war.
iGarrick. just out Of college. OF fine
family and some fortune, had de-
cided TO dilcttante his way into de-
ltective life
"Thero must be something new in
order to catch criminals nowadays"
he told a friend. ''rhe OLD methods
are all risht-as far as they &C. But
criminals arc keeping up with
'science."
but what a hobbyr' his friend had
returned. Never knew anybody in
our set ever TO tako up thatf'
TITS just set h a needs It most
We're always shaken down. black
mailed. victimized, imposed on until
we, the wise ones. are the easiest
marks of anr'
So. In his casual way. Garrick had
travelled to London, Paris, Berlin
Vienna where no had studied the
amazing growth abroad of tho new
criminal science II was not merely
desultory. With his careless predI-
lection. he had absorbed nearly every
thing from such men as Gross. Lacas-
sange, Riess. all h successors Of
the day of the immortal Bertillon-
Next a strange thing happened.
The war broke out. and before he
knew 1t, he was drawn into brilliant
service in the Office of Naval Intel
ligence. from which no emerged a
Lieutenant Commander.
Then for four years he had settled
back into the life he had been born
into. until now he was virtually father
~confessor OF all tho trouble of the
social leaders, a sort OF unofficial ad-
visor, with no profession except a
good time ind with the Garrick for
tune tina. was ample to indulge his
hobbies.
oO 1CAG yOu Il PCth lOOh-
ing all over Suffolk County for you.
Guy" It was Dick Defoe. Suppose
you've heard hat new tale of Dame
Rumor-about the Radio Dance last
night?"
Garrick nodded but did not commit
himself This was an ideal chance.
He wanted to see how much Dick
knew and whether he could add any
thing. Perhaps some fresh angle
would offer a new attack on the case.
Dick knew less han Mrs. Walden,
but felt as much.
Guy he pleaded, you must . &.
you must help me I've Ruth from
herself and her friends"
Curiously, here was Defoe appeal
ing to him to do what he had already
agreed to do. Garrick was used to
such condolences
well. then, tell me something
about thooe friends. What about the
radio lid, Glenn Buckley" Garrick
watched with concealed amusement
the reaction on Dicks face.
"Oh,- he's like a great many people
today. It isn't the scientific interest
in radio that Glenn feels. It's the
entertainment value In it-in any
thing that appeals to him. AS a
scientific study. I suppose motion
pictures were interesting to people
who were following what Edison and
Others were doing. But when they
became a source of entertainment,
pictures becams the fifth industry.
That's the way it is with radio today
with Glenn Besides. just now ra-
dio is fashionable. It's smart Like
the automobile was twenty years ago.
1 imagine. Glenn wants to be smart
So he has asked the advice n assist
ance of Professor Vario over at Rock
Ledge. The rest-of tho crowd. I guess
you know-that Jack Curtis You've
seen him around the club. To me,
though. Ruth is the center of every
thing But - then. there's Vera
Gerard and that Larue girl.
lOf COURSE, Glenn has taken quite a
fancy in this wireless a of his to
Professor vario at tho Radio Cen
trail"
what about htm7' reiterated Gar
rick.
"Oh nothing guess I'm
thinking too much about Gleu~' Any