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mHHAHH OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES lIa- uadlA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
b Arthur REEVE

- trifle contenuously a lot OF ne
saw g. Thits whst made the sus-
piciou thar il WIS an inslde job. You
see. I saw the storm coming up fast
and I beat H. back 70 Bellevue in the
car with Lotta a mile a minute.
You know that tower on the corner
sr tho Gerard house? I thought
cg'd know q. Most everybody does
td has seen the searchlight In IL
.,-. when the storm broke sup
peso that vas some time after their
wireless went on the blink 49, The
lightning was great. IL always -
out there-lights up the shore for
miles and the sea and you can see
the waves breaking way down on
the rocks and the beach.
Between flashes OF lightning
saw the searchligbt moving UP and
down the shore and I says 20 my
self. That's q queer stunt-maybe
a little dangerous on a night like
this up in that there tower But
the searcnlight was just ike artific-
ial hghtning only you could see any
part OF the shore you wanted ana
the waves Astonishing over the
rocks, az any time you liked. From
where I was I seen that there was
fellow and a girl up in the tower
"a fellow that looked maybe like
Glenn Buckley.
The light Travelled along the
shore, up toward Cranes Neck. l.
was beautiful Just as IL touched
I the cove. I made out three figures.
I II seemed as If they started down
I the shore just as the light hit EN-.
The light travelled on. then turned
\ back over the country and whoever
was flashing it swung it about as far
as he could in an arc. Then it went
ous"
Five minutes later-just about
I tho time it would have taken 10
come down the beach from the cove
and climb the steps up the blum.
this robbery took place. Oh, II was
signal al right"
was the fellow in the tower
Glenn Buckley, you think?"
Looked like him. sir
Who was the girl?'
Il can't say. SIR
That will do, John" mouoned
Mrs. Walden.
There was something IN her tone
that checked Garrick from insisting
on the pursuit of the identity Of the
mystery gir..
Mckay touched his hat and re-
turned 70 his car quicker than he
had left it,
Garrick turned keenly toward Mrs
Walden. What doess Ruth say ?
Who was up there Was she in the
tower?"
Mrs. Walden looked away and
murmured, Ruth refuses to say
anything"
WAS il Glenn in the tower"
Mia was getting more nervous by
the second. she won't say" she re
piled in a hoarse whisper.
HIM" considered Gsrrick. 1T
is another crime in the wave OF
crime that has been hitting country
places this summer-or is 1t a jot
pulled off with the assistance OF
someone at the dance!"
Mia Walden shook off a rest
RANT, as # it had been a wrap. She
had come at last TO the real point
that had led her TO seek Garrick' S
council and now stood trembling as
If on a springboard over the water
This morningn." she blurted out
in desperation, "a messenger hoy de-
livred a package to Ruth. In Il
were her jewels that had been taken
from her-the Walden pearls"
"whew! have any of the others
been returned? Could it have beer
Ia hoax"
mo-" Mia sank back in a wick
er chair her splendid shoulders
convulsed as she sank her head into
a little filmy lace handkerchief and
sobbed. I am rrantic about Ruth's
silence 49,. Is silence confession ?
" Better to iose the jewels a
hundred times see. than 10 have
them returned under such circum-
stancesi"
Garrick was thinking about Ruth
Walden. the pretty flapper subdeb.
/ He said netting soothing, reassur.
ing.
L didn't think Ruth was much
more than a child" waited Mia
Strengthening and dabbing at her
eyes with the handkerchie but she
has been going TO all sorts of
dances"
What sort OF dances?"
The cabarets in the clty-and
roadhouses out here on the Island
Garrick involuntarily elevated his
eyebrows.
:Oh. it's not a question OF morals
alone" she fastened. after all
sometimes common sense Qn6 fool
ishness are fair equivalents foI
) right and wrong"
Guy looked up quickly genuinery
T surprised at this bit o. worldly Wis
dom.
When girls do stupid dangerou:
, things, trouble follows" she per
sisted. If not at once. a bit later
5 I'm afraid this is a case o. II. Ee'
, sides .... Ruth comes into the in
come from the ten-million trus-
! fund OF her fathers estate neN'
j month when she is eighteen"
, Who are in this set?' asked Gar
rick then in a tone OF genie rail.
lery. who are these dancing men -
, There's young G.een Buckley
d They call him the Demon Lover. YOU
know He's just a smart college kic
with a Pile of money and smatter-
". .uc % information II can take uT