Evening journal., 1922-06-06
fContinued From Yesterday


g stituted an added reason why Gar
rick felt impelled to come to tho
: assistance 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
new Talmadge or Pickford
= really wants to be the so
, ciety 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, I think she's an adven-1
-turess. I've heard It whispered that
. She used TO be a cabaret singer or
dancer or something. with smbi-
. lions Anyway, she's been taken up
by the girls OF the younger set and
it's not for the likes Of us, Guy. TO
ten the young idea how II shall
shoot away its time any more"
"These dance palaces and caba-
! rets.s pondered Garrick, consider
inr. "have given a new twist to
crime"
"And the pacei How do they do
8, on their allowances. Cut
tbem off TO next to nothing. They
seem to 20 right on. There's some
thing mighty queer about II all.
You viii look into II lor
me?"
Indeed. will, Nita. Glad OF the
Opportunity. I'm rather fed up on
country life Just now. anyhow.
Besides, I'd like nothing better than
to set some OF these youngsters
right"
Nita Valdez glowed her thanks
and was whisked away.
Garrick took a turn or two across
the deserted end OF the veranda.
A couple OF years before the war,
Garricl5, 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 nova 7
days" he told = friend. The old I
methods are all right-as far as {
they go. But criminals are keeping Z
up with science" /
but what hobbyl" his friend I
had returned. Never knew anyone '
in our set ever TO take up that!'
TITS just our set that needs Il S
most. We're always shaken down, q
blackmailed. victimized, imposed on s
--until we, the wise ones, are the 4
easiest marks OF all" I
So. in his casual way, Garrick t
had Travelled to London. Paris, Ber-
lin, Vienna, where he had studied
the amazing growth abroad OF the
new criminal science. II was not 2
merely desultory. with his careless I
predilection. he had absorbed near
~ everything from such men as
Gross. Iacassagne. Reiss, all the
successors of the day OF the immor-
tals Bertiilon.
!. Next strange thing happened.
The war broke out, and before he
knew II, he was drawn into bril-
FAINT service in the Office OF Naval
from which he emerg-
"a a Lieutenant Commander.
Then for four years he had set
led back into the life he had been
,orn into, until now he was vir-
ually father confessor OF all the
roubles Of the social leaders, a sort
IF unofficial adviser, with no pro-
-ession except having a good time
md with the Garrick fortune that
vas ample TO indulge his hobbies.
$50 here you are Been
ooking all over Suffolk county for
-ou. Guy. It was Dick Defoe.
Suppose you've heard this new
ale of Dame Rumor-about the
Radio Dance last night?"
carrick nodded but did not COM
nit himself. This was an ideal
nance. He wanted TO see how
much Dick knew and whether he
ould add anything. Perhaps some
resh angle would offer a new attack
N the case. Dick knew less than
Irs. Walden, but 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 condolences.
"wen, then, tell me something
bout those friends. What about
he radio kid. Glenn Buckley?" Car
lex watched with concealed amuse-
nent the reaction on Dicks face.
"oh, he's like great many peo-
pie today. It isn't the scientific in
.erest in radio that Glenn feels. It's
the entertainment value in tin
anything-that appeals 10 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 became 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, / imagine. Glenn wants to be -,
smart. SO he has asked the advice X
md assistance Of Professor Vario i
,ver at Rock Ledgs. The rest of the
rowd, 1 guess you know-that Jack
,urtis You've seen him around the
'iub. To me, though, Ruth is the
enter of everything. But
hen. there's Vira Gerard and
lat Larue girl. or course, Glenn
as taken quite a fancy in this wire
IS craze of his to Professor Vario
the Radio Central"
what about him ?" reiterated
1rrick
"Oh nothing -. Guess