New Britain herald., 1922-06-05

aptitude, His work on wireless photo,
 transmission, his perfection of a
 wireless telegraph and wireless, stelautograph had won him wide
 recognition. Just now he was al
 work on a radio boat, n radio auto, mobile and n radio airplane,
 The mere mention of Dick consti,
 tuted an added reason why Garrich
 felt impelled to come to the assist.
 ance of Nita In distress.
 "Teli mo 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 l the girls made at the school of the | Misses Place. She thinks she Is a
 new Talmadge or Pickford
 really wants to be the society
 girl with 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, l 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-
 ..r1:is. 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 its time any more"
 These dance palaces and caba- rets,' pondered Garrick,. considering. have given a new twist to crime" And the pace. How do they do 1t
 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 1t 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 reserted end of the veranda.
 Acouple of years before the war, Garrick, just of out 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 d friend. The old methods are all right-as far as they go. But criminals are keeping up with science"
 But what a hobby" his friend had returned. Never knew anyone in our set ever to take up that"
 Its just our set that needs it most. We're always shaken down, victimized, imposed on until me, 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. It 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 Bertillon.
 Next a strange thing happened. 1 The war broke out, and before he l knew it. he was. drawn into brilliant | service in the Office of Naval Intel igence. from which he engaged a Lieutenant Commander
 Then for four years he had settled pack into the life he had been born t1fn ,rf e uyo irf "a 11 ather confessor of all the troubles of the social leaders, a sort of un- official advisor, with no profession except having a good time and with he Garrick fortune that was ample o indulge his hobbies.
 "So here you are. Been ooking all over Suffolk County for ,ou, Guy" It was Dick Defoe. Sup pose you've heard this new tale of )ame Rumor--about the Radio Dance last night?"
 Garrick nodded but did not commit himself This was an ideal chance. Ie wanted to see how much Dick new and whether he could add any hing. Perhaps soma fresh angle would offer a new attack on the case. Dick knew less than Mrs. Walden, ut felt as much.
 Guy" he pleaded, you must ou must help me save Ruth from ; erself - and her friends !,
 Curiously, here was Defoe appeal ng to him to do what he had already { greed to do. Garrick was used to uch coinCidenCeS z
 Well, then, tell me something I bout those friends. What about the r adio kid. Glenn Buckley?" Garrick 'atched with concealed amusement he reaction on Dicks face.
 "Oh, he's like a great many people I oday. It isn't the scientific interest I l radio that Glenn feels, It's the I entertainment value in it-in any g 1ing-that appeals to him. AS a ( ,ientifc study, l suppose. motion ictures were interesting to people I ho were following what Edison and thers were doing. But when they ecame source of entertainment, V ictures became the fifth. industry | hats the way it is with radio today /, ith Glenn. Besides, just now Ra- f 10 is fashionable, It's smart. Like S 10 aDtom ohile was twenty veora co f