New Britain herald., 1922-06-17

all the time, posing AS a hero 10 Ruth
 rescuing her from me, Then 10 Der
 muda. the Bahamas Martinique, any
 where-I don't know. Only I do kno,
 now that Vario intended all along |
 marry that girl--and get ten mil lions!" .'
 | "Explain?" echoed Garrick. Tt ex
 plains A lot of things, For instance at the Binnaele, what really hap pened was that you. Jack. double crossed Vario and tried to get ava, with Ruth yourself. And he caugh you. It just gave him his frs chance to play hero, eh? 2" Curti nodded sullenly And the night O the dictagraph. With his wave me ter, Vario discovered 1t. found tha all his secrets were being spilled fl the air, and damned in on the dlcta graph wave length"
 Jack listened as if 1t was tn, clanking of chair. He was afrai, of Garrick. Then that broadcastet poison pen message. First Vario hat | allowed you to get Ruth into a dan gerous position at the Binnacle iron which he rescued her and played hero Then this elopement story, to com promise her But he had you righ where he wanted you. How? Th' bigany charge, Of course!"
 Rae was now blazing. She nigh battle Jack. No one else could. Sht would perjure her little soul but sht would fight him clear.
 DO you know the conclusive thing?" Garrick turned to Dick That postcard, about last night al the Radio Central told me something How did my alarm fail? You know Dick, there's switch between the studio room and the actual sending apparatus upstairs-not that switch we saw before us, but another. They use it whenever anyone broadcastins tries to put over bit of advertising or chicanery or if the singer or speaker is rotten. swing the switch and put on photograph or some thing. A million explanations will do later. The point is that he learned that I was there, found out what l was doing and choked it off thereby betraying himself. He has been un- der cover since and this Is the first information I've had of him all day although, without letting Dick or any one else know of my suspicion, I had private detectives and the police look ing for him quietly" He nodded over toward one of the Astra men rn1irnY1ar n 1xryI whom Dick had not seen. Then to the man, How long before we came did you get these people?"
 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 it hove in sight; then sent these people ashore after fight or some thing. I should say it headed south east-by east"
 "Come-Dick.'
 Just a second, Guy. Whose hat was it, Rae, that held the jewels at Gerard's?"
 Mine, of course" Dehantly.
 And what was in the tower with the searchlight at Gerard's that night?"
 Ruth and Glenn" This was spite full. We threatened them. But it was the last time.
 And why were the Walden pearls returned?"
 Tt 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 minute 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 men had indi- cated, then began series of ever widening horizontal loops. It de- creased his direct distance, but it en- ahled him to cover 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 glass with splendid German lenses, swept the sea.
 They had not been flying ten min- utes in this fashion and Dick was the turn on the southern most swing of the loop when Garrick shouted above the rush of air, and pointed, further south.
 Dick depressed his altitude and they swung along until shortly with the naked eye could be made out boat which was without doubt the 'Bacchante," far out to sea.
 As they watched, it deliberately turned and headed back. toward hem. Garrick trained the glass to- ward it. What did it mean?
 By heaven." he exclaimed Whats that speck between us and 1im? My God-it is-it is Ruth"
 Goud it be that Ruth has seen and aken a last long chance. that she 1as gone overheard, risking every hing on a Marathon swim, at that lour, with not a chance in a million If making the shore?
 As the radioplane came nearer the