The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-05
CHAPTER /.
THE RADIO DANCE.

Nonowantuc Country club.
/ Garricsk did not need to affect =
! terest, for Ruth Walden was far and
away the most interesting problem
of the Country club set OF late
years Garrick had grown to b !,
counselor and confidant in all the
ills to which North Shore society
was heir.
Mrs Walden smiled abstractedly
She was one Of those stunning wom-
en- of today whom one confuses
with their daughters.
| "She says that | betray my in
| feriority complex when l say it
that what l really mean is not that
Ruth worries me, but youth worries
me-that / don't understand young
people today. | may have under
stood young people in the days IF
the Florodora sextet-but / don't
understand them now-and that's
what really worries me ="
mo one would believe you could
have a daughter old enough to
worry you, Nita," declared Garrick
in unaffected admiration. But tell
me what ii was you couldn't say
over the telephone when you ct ME
at last this morning"
Il suppose you've heard all about
the first Radio Dance last night over
at Bellevue Dodge-you know, tho
Gerard place, at Oldf1eId ?"
Garrick nodded.
We'll. you know how young
Glenn Buckley got the Gerards %
put in a wireless outfit-had Pro-
fessor Vario from the big Radio
Central Station at Rock Ledge help
him install it. At least that's what
Glenn said The truth was, of
course, that Professor Vario had to
do all the work. Glenn just mess s
around with it; las acquired the
lingo-but l guess that's about all. !"
Garrick smiled at the character
ization and Mrs Walden hurried
on. Then the young folks got up 4
dance to celebrate the installation.
Lo and behold, they had scarcely
started when that awful thunder
shower-you remember last night?
swept around, as they often do.
from the Connecticut shore. That
stopped the m Asic over the wire
less
Yes static Natures
jazz jazzed the radio jazz"
/ 1T was a spectacular storm, you
know, with the lightning flashing
and crashes of thunder. They were
debating whether to use the Victrola
and canned music or impr0vise an
orchestra of their own. At the
height of the storm came a voice
from the French windows:
! Hands up. . And be ok
about it. Line up along that
wall! And keep your mouths
Shut
There seemed to be three of
them, masked, two men and a girl
a regular devil-may- care hussy.
She held the bag and gun and
took the jewels while the two men
covered the party They seem
ed to know just what they wanted,
what to expect"
What did they get"
Why, those bandits welt
through the party. They must have
got away with a hundred thousand
dollars worth of jewelry oh,
more than that. The Walden pearls
| that they took from Ruth were
worth twenty thousand easily"
"A good haul . But what's this
| gossip l hea- that it was an inside
job?"
Mrs. Walden glanced about ~
make sure that they were out of
earshot. That's what l want your
help on, Guy" She dropped her
voice. II think Mckay can tell you
better, at first hand Mckay is our
chauffeur" She leaned Gov the
| @Ho tTnb0in
Mckay, down the driveway with
the car, touched his cap and sided
up the steps of the club veranda
John, will you tell Mr. Garrick
what you saw last night over at
Gerard's?
well, sir" began Mckay, bal
ancing accurately first on one foot,
then on the other, as he picked at
his visored cap, after it war Ill
over and there was a general alarm,
sir, old Mr. Gerard came down 10
see what all the shootin' was for
and he asked me lot of questions
about tie signal-and-"
Just how did you happen to be
there, McKay?' asked Garrick. y
didn't know Miss Ruth would let
anybody drive her car
Mckay smiled. He had touch of
humor, even though his keen
wit saw the serious and suspicious
side of the incident.
| "Oh, had bee out joy-riding, sir
I'm sorry to have to say it,
ma am" he bowed toward Mrs
Walden with Lolita, one of the
maids at Oldfi..d."
| 1t was evident that Mckay was
striving to show that he had moth
ing to .conceaI-and a lot TO tel.
Moreover, on the score that there
had been a signal and the affair
was an inside job, he seemed anx-
ious to clear Lolita, too.
"Sa when Mr.. Gerard asks me, l
saws It's darn funny. 1t must have
happened right after that light sig
nailed down toward Cranes neck
Light? Signal? Tell me about
it,
We'll I saw it," returned Mckay,
a trifie contentiously. "A lot of US
saw it. That's what made the sus-
picion that it was an inside job. You
see, saw the storm coming up LIST
and I beat it back to Bellevue in me
car with Lolita a mile minute. You
know that tower on the Nrner OF
the Gerard house? thought you'd
know it. Most everybody does and
has seen the searchlight in it. Well,