South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-17

had allowed you 10 get Ruth into a
dangerous position az the Binnacle
from which he rescued her and
played hero Then this elopement
story. 10 compromise her But he
had YOU right where he wanted YOU
How? The bigamy charge OF
course."
Rae was now blazing She might
battle Jack. No one else could. She
would perjure her little soul but she
would fight him clear.
DO you know the conclusive
thing?" Garrick turned 10 Dick.
THAT postcard. about last night az
the Radio Central told me something.
How did my alarm fail? You know.
Dick. there's a switch between the
studio room and the actual sending
apparatus upstairs-not that switch
we saw before Us. but another. They
use il whenever anyone brOadCasting
tries 10 put over a bit OF advertising
or chicanery or II the singer or
speaker Is rotten. swing the switch
and put on a phonograph or some
thing a million explanations will
do. later. The point is that he learned
that / was there. found out what I
was doing and choked II off-tner--
by berraylng himself He mas Deen
under cover ever since and this is
the first information I've had OF him
all day-althOugh. without letting
Dick or anyone else know of my
suspicion. 1 had private detectives
and the police looking for him quiet
ly.' He nodded over toward one OF
the Astra men with the policeman
in the crowd whom Dick had not
seen. Then 70 the man. How long
before we came did you get thess
! peOple2"
Not ten minutes. sir"
and the 'Bacchante' which way
did it head?"
He must have got a motorboat
somewhere: put out to it the minute
/ 1t hove in sight: then sent these
| people ashore after a fight or some
thing. I should say it headed south
easily east"
"Come-Dickr
Just a second. Guy. Whose hat
was it, Rae, that held the jewels at
Gerard's?"
Mine. of course" defiantly
And what was in the tower with
the searchlight at Gerard's that
night?"
Ruth and Glenn" This was spite
full. I'VE threatened them. But it
was the last time"
"And why were the Walden pearls
returned? ?"
ct was his idea, Vario's-to in
volve her tie her UP tighter, so she
! wouldn't dare squeal"
They jumped into the motorboat
and few minutes later the whir-
ring Of the propellers and the gor-
geous cutting Of spray gave them
another leap off into the air.
They've a twenty start, "
shouted Garrick. adjusting his head
gear in the rush OF air. Thank
heaven for the light. What a sunset"
Dick flew by his compass in the
direction the Astra man had indi-
Gated then began a series of ever
| widening horizontal loops. 1t de-
creased his direct distance, but it en-
abled him 10 cover a wider range IN
case Vario had turned the course OF
the "Bacchante" when he got out OF
sight of land Fast as the scout
cruiser was It could not compete
with him for Speed. Garrick, with
his eye glued to a glass with splendid
/ German lenses swept the sea.
They had not been flying ten min
utes in this fashion and Dick was
considering the turn on the southern
most swing Of the loop when GarricR
shouted above the rush Of air, and
cnrr+h
Dick depressed his altitude and
they swung along until shortly with
the naked eye could be made out a
boat which was without doubt the
"Bacchante, far out TO sea.
As they watched it deliberately
turned and headed back. toward
them. Garrick trained the glass to-
ward IT, What did il mean?
"By heaveni" he exclaimed.
Whats that speck between US and
him? Ny God-it is-it is RUTH"
Could il be that Ruth had seen and
taken a last long chance. that she
had gone overheard. risKing every
thing on a Marathon swim, at that
hour. with not a chance in a million
Of making the shore?
As the radioplane came nearer
the water and nearer the struggling
swimmer II became evident that the
race between the plane and the
cruiser was a losing one for the
cruiser.
Here. Guy. take this plane. III
take the radio!"
Garrick seized the other or the
double set Of controls. A moment
later he had TAXED in spray and was
rocking and pitching only few feet
from the swimmer. II was ticklish
business but he unanswered until he
was able 10 swing about Fortunate
IN the sea was comparatively calm
AS for Ruth. she was still fresh. Her
long-distance swimming counted now
in the balance for her life.
AS Garrick. with a final effort with
Dick. dragged her aboard, she al
most collapsed in Dicks arms.
Take care of her. Guy, for a
minute" Dick turned 10 his radio
apparatus. and as he did so Garrick
saw that the "Bacchante. long De-
fore she was beaten, had turned and
was going away at top speed
There" Dick swung a switch. A
little light cleaned overhead. He
swung another Another signal
overhead changed. Co"
Like a bolt flew the arrangement
overhead. long torpedo-like affair
OF aluminium. with wings and pom
toons for all the world like the hy-
droaeroplane on which they We're
It was flying with the buzz Of
hornet
Dick pressed a lever. It swung in
its flight.