Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-16

Dick ifoWned. unconscious! Jam
was stealing his stuff,
Away ready to try anything
once, Jack.
Pm going TO do ii soon. Of COURSE
no one has told you how beautiful
YOU are. I'M going to tell you mere
things about yourself than all the
psychoanalysts in Greenwich. Vii
lager Connecticut, or Gretna
Green or some place"
rAnd he's some teller" snapped
Rae pertly,
There was another tilt verging on
when Georges voice interrupted
Telephone, Curtis,
Jack went out, apparently, and
Georges, by the sound, must have
shit the door.
Did you get the low down? NoY'
His laugh punctuated the remark.
''Ner. good. The steamship, Gar
royo,' has wirelessed in that she was
held up by government boat out
side the three-mile limit, and
searched, and that two hundred and
fifty cases were taken off. That's
the report But there was no gov
eminent boat in that vicinity at the
time. Eli? Now what do you make
OF that?"
There was a volley Of laughter
from everybody. E
That was a call from the garage,
came Jacks voice. That Garrick
guy" there was laugh, for they
we're adj in stage where pun is
rs high a form of humor as any
has been hanging around. My man
left. But someone saw Garrick in
a iaxAH a. -.-a.se ..a.
with Dick?" This quick query
was from Ruth and bit anxious
''No alone"
oh -. ;" Her voice died off in
in. relief .-
I've sent another fellow out. Hope
he's in time. -n
7'Where?" This was from Vira
Your place. Jack seemed to
pound "a table They'll give him the
beating of his life, eonfound him =
mash his face in-put him in the
SHEETS for a week-maybe--"
B1att!
Dick tinkered and tickled and ad-
jGated. All he got was some fool
alnateur on the same wave length.
lie swore. He tried tetswear over
tie ether, But with i'll success. The
Interference was there to stay, as it
always is when one is listening in on
something pretty. good,
Dick was sore. But he was not
cuypfised When he first became
greatly Interested in wireless some
eighteen months before there had
been perhaps fifty thousand wireless
telephone receiving sets. A year Ia
ter there had been SIX hundred thou
sand. Today, he knew, one authority
had estimated a million and the gov
eminent had estimated a million and
h$-ia ~ isnc papers lHdL WeVh. fNO,
DicR was sore, but not surprised. In
fact he would have been pleased at
ainlbst any other time. For, even if
his family were wealthy, Dick had
visions Of himself some day doing
beiEcr than the biggest of the radio
Firms which was doing business at
the. rate Of fifty million dollars a
yea} Thoughts like this had no
place in the mind, now. All he knew
We that he was the victim of inter
ference. And he was sore-and wor-
lla8 too.
For the use Of the ether (begging
heg pardon of Einsten and bis
the6ryl is not limitleGs. 1t will ac-
cc'Amodatc lust 50 many wireless
messages and no more-at least until
such an invention as Dick was work
ing on was perfected. When that
llmE is reached, the air becomes
boiled factory
lGck cast the hcadgear in useless
TcEation on the .ab'e $3.50 -<-
u seemed TO him that he had been
on Che point of getting just the i'm
portant thing he wanted to hear. He
had been making notes as he went
along, for somewhere he had heard