Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-15
THE TRL- WEEKLY JOURNAL s
T. MYSTERY SERIAL
CON WINGS OF WIRELESS
(CHAPTER 1 Continued
ION WINGS OF WIRELE!
BY Arthur B. Reeve

CHAPTER Continued
The mere mention of Dick consti-
tuted an added reason why Garrick
felt impelled to come to the assist
ance Of Nita in distress.
"Tell me something about the
girls" he suggested.
"Well, there's Vira Gerard. You
know her, the blonde Vamp' they've
nicknamed her, ever since she went
into that amateur motion picture
the girls made at the school Of the
Misses Place. She thinks she is a
new Talmadge or Pickford
really wants to betthe Society
girl with a career on the SCREEN
Then, there's that Rae Larue,
who has been the guest of one or
another of the girls all summer. Just
between you and me and the listen
ing post, 1 think she's an adven-
turess. I've heard it whispered that
she used to be a cabaret singer or a
dancer or something. With ambi-
tions. Anyway, she's been 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 it shall shoot
away it's time any more"
These dance palaces and caba-
rets," pondered Garrick, considering,
''have given new twist to crime. "
"And the pace! How do they do it
. on their allowances? Cut them
off to next to nothing. They seem
to go right on. There's something
mighty queer about it all. You will
:. look into it for me?''
Indeed I will, Nita. Glad of the
opportunity. I'm rather fed up on
country life just now, anyhow. Be
sides, I'd like nothing better than to
set some of these youngsters right"
Nita Walden glowed her thanks
and was whisked away.
Garrick took turn or two across
the deserted end Of the veranda.
A couple Of years before the war,
Garrick, just out of college, of fine
| family and some fortune, had de-
! cided to dilettante his way into de-
tective life.
"There must be something new in
! order to catch criminals nowadays"
he told a friend. '"The old methods
are all right-as far as they go. But
criminals are keeping up with
science"
"But what hobby" his friend
had returned. ''Never knew anyone
| in our set ever to take up that"
"It's just our set that needs it
most. We're always shaken down,
blackmailed, victimized, imposed on
until we, the wise ones, are the
easiest marks of all''
So, in his casual way, Garrick had
Travelled to London, Paris, Berlin
| Vienna, where he had studied the
amazing growth abroad of the new
criminal science. 1t was not merely
desultory. With his careless predi
| lection, he had absorbed nearly
everything from such men as Gross
Lacassagne, Reiss, all the successors
| of the day of the immortal Bertil
| Ion.
Next STANCE thing happened
The war broke out, and before he
knew it, he was drawn into brilliant
service in the office of naval intel
ligence, from which he emerged G
| lieutenant commander.
Then for four years he had settled
back into, the life he had been borr
into, until now he was virtually
father confessor of all the troubles
of the social leaders, a sort of I'm
official adviser, with no profession
except having a good time and will
the Garrick fortune that was ample
to indulge his hobbies.
$50 here you are. Beer
looking all over Suffolk county fol
you, Guy" It was Dick Defoe. "Sup
pose you've heard this new tale o
Dame Rumor-about the Radio
Dance last night?-
Garrick nodded but did not com
NIT himself. This was an idea
chance. He wanted to see how mucl
Dick knew and whether he could adj
anything. Perhaps some fresh angl
would offer new attack on tn
case. Dick knew less than Mrs
| Walden, but felt as much.
Guy" he pleaded, ''you mus
|. you must help me saw
Ruth from herself and he
friends"
Curiously, here was Defoe appeal
ing to him to do what he had al
ready agreed to do. Garrick wa
used to such condolences.
| swell, then, tell me something
about those friends. What abou
the radio kid, Glenn Buckeye" Gar
rick watched with concealed amuse
ment the reaction on Dicks face.
"Oh, he's like a great many PEG
pie today. 1t isn't the scientifi,
interest in radio that Glenn feels
It's the entertainment value in it
in anything-that appeals to him
AS a scientific study, I suppose, mo
ton pictures were interesting tt
people who were following what Edi
son and others were doing. Blu
when they became a source of en-
tertainment, pictures became tn,
fifth industry. That's the way it il
with radio today with Glenn. Be
sides, just now radio is fashionable
It's smart. Like the AUTOMOBILE
was twenty years ago, imagine
Glenn wants to be smart. So h
has asked the advice and assistance
of Professor Vario over at Rocl
Ledge. The rest of the crowd,
guess you know-that Jack Curtis
You've seen him around the club
To me, though, Ruth is the cente
of everything. But then
there's Vira Gerard AM
that Larue girl. OF course, Glenn
has taken quite a fancy in this wire
less craze of his to Professor Vari,
at the Radio Central"
what about him?" reiteratet
Garrick.
"Oh E. nothing :. guess Tn
thinking too much about Glenn
Anyhow, it just shows how foolish
ness radiates and hits everybody
like Hertzian waves"
The Radio Central at Rock Ledg
some ten miles east along the Soutl
shore covered an area of ten squar
miles with twelve rows of 410-foo
towers radiating for a mile and
half from the central station, with
out a doubt the largest radio plan
Of the kind in the world.
"But you haven't told me we