The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-10

Walden at her departments on Park
Avenue She had got ahead on
anyone else and had had Ruth's
car towed to a&garage. They stop
ped there a moment and Professor
sVario,s solicitude for Mra. Wal
den seemed to offer Garrick the
opportunity to get rid Of him, for
they certainly did not want any
strangers about in what they were
going to do. Y
But the show, z demonstrated
Mrs. Walden as Vario offered 20
stay and do anything he could t2
relieve her anxiety. u.
I'll telephone them that I'm de-
1ayed. They can postpone my stunt
until later in the evening" he in
sisted. And, Mrs. Walden, don't
you worry when you have two sucf:
good friends as Garrick and Dick
helping. You should have seen the
! way they settled the porch crowd
and you can count on me as a
third i may be the last but !
hope not the least where Miss
Ruth's welfare is concerned.
II really appreciate your kind
ness deeply--but-o course, !
want my little girl. can't think
Of anything else. can't talk over
/, the telephone. right; can't read
t 1 am just incapacitated until Ru+':
gets back to me.
"Dick, I'll stay with Mrs. Walden
for. a little while, if may. / know
she needs some help. If you want
me later I'll be at the Radio Show
Garricli thanked him. then lean
ed over Mia Walden, Wen have
some word tonight-sure. by to-
morrow you'll have her back
safe
Outside he found Mckay and de-
Hyered Mrs. Walden's instructions.
you are to take Professor Var!o
down to the Armory to the Radio
Show; then you may put the car
up.
Garrick had been thinking out 2
plan for the installing Of the die
tagraph. Up the street from the
Inner Circle were two houses turn
ed into studio apartments. He
found the caretaker and the cor
versation was lucrative to her.
Dick selected and carried up to
the roof the apparatus. and they
went as silently as possible across
the intervening roofs until they
came to the roof of the Inner Circle.
1t was a curious roof. In the
center had been built a great conj
crete box as big as a room. There
was no, time to investigate that.
however.
Garrick fished with line down
the chimney. by sounding, until he
located the flue to the Pink Room
Then. dangling down, he lowered
the dictagraph transmitter until it
must have hung a. foot from the
floor of the hearth back of the
iron grill work under the mant5l
below in the Pink Room.
Meanwhile, on the roof Dick
had been busy placing his sending
set and Garrick helped MIN com
plete the set-up.
AS they left the studio house.
two men were passing. One OF
them brushed suspiciously against
Dick with enough force to knock
the bag he was carrying out of
his hand. Garrick controlled his
temper Here were the mysterious
shadowers again. Were they ennis
saries Of the gang?
Garrick picked up the Tag hll:l-
self, looked significantly at the
man, and remarked, well, sec?
Nothing dripping"
AS they had been at work on the
Ioof, they had determined on plac-
ing the receiving end up at Gar:
rick's apartment which was only
several blocks uptown.
AT Bachelors Hall Dick worked
rapidly, for it was now getting dark
in spite of the length of the DAYS.
He unpacked the receiving end o.
his wireless dictagraph in the room
then went UP on the roof a-a
erected the portable aerial.
Carefully and deity he began to-
tune UP. now that this second in
stallation was complete. 1t was
rather difficult to get the fine adj
justment, but at last he got the
right wave length.
He looked up at Garrick, smiled.
and took the headgear off, hand
ing it to him Get that p
Garrick adjusted it, listened fer
a moment In some perplexity, then
exclaimed. why, I can near the
whirr of, vacuum cleaner in tEc
room
Dick smiled proudly. II think I've
made the transmitter about az sen
sitiye a rnicrophone as can bo
made. only hope it isn't so SEN
.sitive thatait picks up through the
wall what happens in the house
next door"
They listened in for several min
utes but there was nothing moro
vet. Whoever was cleaning the
room finished and left.
The buzzer on Garrick's doo-
sounded. He opened it on crack.
1t was Mckay.
st Just saw that Rae Darue, with
a man. at the Park Garage on sly
tieth Street where put the cac
up
81 didn't know him, sir. Sort O:
shaggy hair
Brock" exclaimed Dick. who
had come over.
"Then Jack Curtis came in q
car. He didn't stay long; went
downtown. I think.
Rae had been fussing with the,
interior OF one car in the long line
in the garage. She was apparently
very busy but Mckay noticed that
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