The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-07-24

on, it's not a question OF morals
alone" h FASTENED. After all, some
times common sense and foolishness
are fair equivalents for right and
wrong
Guy looked up quickly, genuinely
surprised at this bit Of worldly wis.
dom.
When girls do stupid, dangerous
things trouble follows" she persisted,
II not at once, a bit later. I'm afraid
this is a case Of it. Besides Ruth
comes n the income from her ten.
million trust fund of her fathers es.
tate next Month when she is eighteen.
Who are in this set?" asked Gar.
rick, then in a tone of gentle r~aillery,
VINO ara these dancing mem"
There's young Glenn Buckley. They
call him the Demon Lover, you know.
He's just a smart college kid with a
pie OF money and a smattering of in
formation. He can take up cricket or
raoio or acting or relatively or bank.
lng-he knows them all. Another is
that Jack Curtis, over at the hotel.
go hAii OICtSltTSllTe -neS
the u to anything they arrange
makes it snappy. In my humble opin.
ion, though he's nothing more nor less
than another cabaret product"
i know him . what l call a ditto
boy, plunees in with a big splash and
swims with the tide"
"Oh. why can't Ruth accept Dick
Defoe?' implored Nita.
Richard Defoe was a friend of Gar.
rick graduate Of a great engineering
school. son of a famous engineer and
already an inventor Of no mean fame.
or late he had turned all his atten.
ton to q radio invention in which he
seemed to have a strange aptitude. His
work on wireless photo transmission,
his perfection of a wireless d~ictograph
and wireless t~elautograph had won him
wide recognition. Just now he was at
work on q radio boat, a radio auto
mobile and a radio alrplane.
The mere mentor of Dick consti.
tuted an added reason why Garrick felt
impelled 20 come to the assistance of
Nita in distress.
Tell me something about the girls"
he suggested.
well, there's Vira Gerard. You
know her, the blonde vamp' they've
nicknamed her, ever since she went
into that amateur motion picture the
girls made at the school Of the Misses
Place. She thinks she Is q new Tai.
madge or Pickford really
wants to be the society girl with a ca.
reer on the screen
Then, there's that Rae Larue. who
has been the guest Of one of another
Of the girls all summer. Just between
you and mo and the listening post. l
have heard it whispered thai she used
to be a cabaret singer or a dancer or
something. With ambitions. Anyway,
she's been taken up by the girls Of the
younger set and it's not for the likes
OF us, Guy, to tell the young idea how
1t n shoot away its time any more"
These dance palaces and cabarets,"
pondered Garrick, considering, ''have
given a new twist to crime"
And the pace! How do they do II
. on their allowances? Cut them
off to next to nothing. They seem to
go right OF. There's something mighty
queer about it all. You will -. look
into it for me?'
Indeed 1 will, Nita. Glad of the
opportunity. I'm rather fed up on
country life. just now, anyhow Be-
sides, I'd like nothing better than to
set some CT these youngsters right"
Nita Walden glowed her thanks and
was whisked away.
GarriclS took a turn or two across
the deserted end of the veranda.
A couple of years before the war.
Garrick. lust out Of college, OF fine
family and some fortune, had decided
to dilettante his way into detective
life.
There must be something new In
order to catch criminals nowadays" he
told n friend. THE old methods are
all right-as far as they go. Blu Grim.
inals are keeping up with science"
But what q hobby" his friend had
returned. Never knew anyone in our
set ever to take up THAR
ITS lust our set that needs It most.
We're always shaken down, black
mailed, vlctlmized. imposed on-until
We, the wise ones, are the easiest marks
of all"
So. In his casual way, Garrick had
travelled to London. Paris, Berlin. Wen
ma. where he had studied the amazing
growth OF the new criminal science. II
WAS not merely desultory. With no
careless PREDICTION, he had absorbed
N az rlty AxfstttfhinU frnrn g,,,k -.
Gross, L~aonssagne. Reoss. all the sue.
cessors OF che day Of the immortal Ber-
tillon. . u lS~B
Next n strange thing happened. The
war broke out, and before he knew It,
he was drawn into brilians service in
the office of naval intelligence, from
which h emerged O lieutenant com.
mander.
Then for four years he had settled
back into the life he had been born in
to, until new he was virtually father
of all the troubles OF the
social leaders, a sort of unofficial ad.
wiser. with no PROCESSION except having
a good time and with the Garrick for
tune that IA ample to induige his
hobbies.
so . here you are. Been looking
all over Suffolk county for you, Guy"
1t was Dick Defoe. Suppose you've
heard this new tale OF Dame Rumor-
about tho radio dance last night7"
Garrick nodded but did not commit
himself. 1his was an ideal chance. He
wanted 10 see how much Dick knew
and whether he could add anything
Perhaps some fresh angle would offer
n new attack on the case. Dick knew
less than Mrs. Walden. but felt as