The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1922-06-11
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. Arthur B REEVE


tcoWinocf From Our Last Is~uc)
CHAPTER WI
INTERFERENCE
FeF an hour or moro Dick waited
retirntiy at his wireless dicfa-
Eraph In Garrick'a room.
Id the silence. broken now and
therf by some amateur, he had
picHlr OF time to think OF Ruth.
IN Nite OF himself his Suspicious
carfItd him Q N TO the Pafr robbery.
nova known to have Included the
tnktE OF valuable jewels as well
~ tke iooting Of the Parr cellar OF
some Of III choicest viDtngcs. His
Thoughts ran beyond that, TO tho
radio dance and the suspicious
siGnnling from the tower OF the
Gerard house.
Who was the ringleader OF this
miserable affAir7 He thought OF
Brock. OF 0sorees-and OF Jack
Curtis. He eritted hts teeth. lie
hated ~ very name OF the debon-
air adVenturer.
Dick started from his reverle.
The dictaeraph WINS working!
Through the high resistance
headpicces he heard voices, almos;
~ N from one of the old phono-
Rrapba. lie strained his ears 10
recognise the voices. IL was Vira
speaking. To Ruth?
We'll. here we are again. For
a second last night I thought we
were v going TO get to the old
Inner Circle again. You're some
driver. Anybody else nj the wheel
and-weli. dead girls tell no talcEi :
As Dick's teen oars focused at
t%ention he could recognize Ruth
laugh.
'svira. that sounds good-be-
cause ! know % mean H. After
what we went through last night
we're pals forever. l feel n little
shaky yet. / think IN lie down for
a while on this chaise lounge.
Some more OF your m~aRsaging
would do my POOR back a lot OF
good. II you cver 70 broke ane
have TO open a beauty shop or
something. count on me as your
best patron"
There was silence for a few min
utes. Then Ruth spoke again. II
wonder when Jack In coming. He's
becoming such a rushing lover, 1
felt I had TO do something to rise
to the same standard OF energy he
shows. These boys aren't going 10
get ahead Of little Ruth"
Virn chuckled. "Wen II wouldn't
take much to get ahead OF Glenn
these days. He looks worried
and that makes me worried. Have
you noticed II. RUTH"
Not through your eyes Of love,
dear kidded Ruth.
Dick. at the other end. had been
n bit worried about the ethics Of
what Garrick's detective proellvi-
ties had got him Into. He told him
self that he would stop II IL were
not for what Guy would say II he
had stopped long enough he might
have admitted that he was Just like
the other millions in similar CIR
cumstances who would have liked
an carful on the other fellow.
The fact was that Dick was al
most heslde himself with Jealousy
IN he heard Ruth discussing Jack.
The only consolation TO which he
could treat himself was the on
chalant and rather f1ippant way
she spoke OF him. He wondered.
Did he imagine that. because he
wished NJ
Then he heard another voice
over the wireless. He recognized
Il as Brooks voice and Brock did
not seem in the best OF tempers
with the girls.
You oughtn't To butt In and try
TO stop anything. Ruth-not when
Il has gone as Ear as TINT thing did
last night. You'H get somebody
caught one of these days and
There was a thiniy veiled threat
in the gruff breaking off OF
Brooks remark.
Just because u vas the PAIRS.
some friend Of
II know" interrupted Ruth.
"Hut when You all picked ms up
after the smash-up and took us to
Vira 's-why did you leave the
bulky stuff At her hoUseg sup
pos comes In there-and
finds II. A pretty little front-pags
scandal
Ruth had been characteristics.
Without entering n defense she had
shifted the subject until the other
man wa on the defensive.
"Don't worry. No one will find
anything. Jack will take are OF
that"
yira made a little suppressed ex.
clnmation. Il can Imagine my
Mater u l was caught In q boot
legElng clean OUT That'd be tho
iast straw ON tho dromedary. shed
br looking for some new shcik for
me in the shape Of 81 grand old
o~ctoEenarian husband. n was
sirniEht on the road to perditlon
when I went into pictures. I
shock tho folks n dozen times "a
day. But a r-um-runninE scandal,
Go. get thee to a nunnery, Nira''
Speaking OF mpthers -
Ruth paused. nothing nlppant In
u0rd or tone.
Dick al the other end was
aghasi. IL was all snrprising newa.
this cine TO whore Ruth had been
ths night before. Also. Il was somr
mitiRntcd relief. she had got hack
70 Town shaken up ~ the ACCIDENT
and had gone with NiFa 20 Vffa =
empty town house. More thnn
that. there vas something he did