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BY APTHuR B REEVE
CONTINUED from our last issue)
CHAPTER VII
INTERFERENCE

For an hour or more Dick waited
patiently at his wireless dictagrapa
In Garrick's room.
In the silence, broken now and
then by some amateur, he had
plenty of time to think of Ruth
In spite of himself his suspicious
carried him on to the Parr robbery,
now known to have included the
taking of valuable jewels as well al
the footing Of the Parr cellar OF
some of its choicest vintages. His
thoughts ran beyond that, to the
radio dance and the suspicious sig
mailing from the tower of the Gerard
house.
Who was the ringleader Of this
miserable affair? He thought OF
Brock. of Georges-and of Jack
Curtis. He gritted his teeth. He
hated the very name of the debonair
adventurer.
Dick started from his reverie. The
dictagraph vas working!
Through the high resistance head
pieces he heard voices. almost as If
from of the old monographs.
He strained his ears to recognize
the voices. 1t was Vira speaking.
To Ruth?
"CiAs hClV We ait dSdlls TUT n
second last night / thought we were
never going to get TO the old Inner
Circle again. You're some driver.
Anybody else at the wheel and
well, dead girls tell no tales!'
AS Dicks keen ears focused at
tention he could recognize Ruth's
laugh.
"vira. that sounds good-because
l know you mean ii. After what we
went through last night we're pas
forever. / feel a little shaky yet. /
think I'll lie down for a while on
this chaise lounge. Some more of
your massaging would do my poor
back a lot of good. II you ever go
broke and 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 is coming. He's
becoming such a rushing lover I felt
| had to do something to rise to the
same standard OF energy he shows.
These boys aren't going to get
ahead of little Ruth"
Vira chuckled. "Well II wouldn':
take much to get ahead of Glenn
these days. He looks worried-and
that makes me worried. Have you
noticed it. Ruth?"
mot through your eyes of love.
dear" kidded Ruth.
Dick, at the other end, had been
a bit worried about the ethics of
what Garrick's detective p~roclivities
had got him into. He told himself
that he would stop If it were not for
what Guy would say. If he had
stopped long enough he might have
admitted that he was just like the
other millions in similar circum-
stances who would have liked an
earful Of the other fellow.
The fact was that Dick was al
most beside himself with jealousy as
he heard Ruth discussing Jack. The
only consolation to which he couli
treat himself was the n~onchalant
and rather flippant way she spoke
of him. He wondered. Did he
imagine that, because he wished 1t ?
Then he heard another voice over
the wireless. He recognized it 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
it has gone as far as that thing did
last night. You'll get somebody
caught one of these days and"
There was a thinly yelled threat
in the gruf breaking off of Brooks
remark.
Just because it was the PARIS
some friends Of"
81 know" interrupted Ruth. But
when you all picked us up after the
smash-up and took US to Vira's-
why did you leave the bulky stuff az
her house? Suppose someone comes
in there-and finds it. A pretty little
frcnt-page scandal"
Ruth had been characteristic.
without entering a defense she had
shifted the subject until the other
man was on the defensive.
Don't worry. No one will find
anything. Jack will take care of
that
Vira made a little suppressed ex-
clamation. II can imagine my Ma
ter If I was caught in a bootlegging
clean out. That'd be the last straw
on the dromedary. Shed be looking
for some new sheik for me in the
shape of a grand old octogenarian
husband. 1 was straight on the road
to perdition when / went into pic
lures. 1 shock the folks a dozen
times a day. But a rum-running
scandal! Go. get thee to a nunnery,
Vira,"
Speaking of mothers :" Ruth
paused, nothing fippant in word or
tone.
Dick at the other end was aghast.
1t was all surprising news, this clue
to where Ruth had been the night
before. Also, it was some mitigated
relief. She had got back TO town
shaken up by the accident and had
gone with Vira 10 Vira's empty town
house. More than that, there was
something he did not get; but some
how her smash-up had been con-
cerned with trying to Illustrate
something. not perpetrate IT.
II won't go back there tonight,
Vira," she said at length. I'm go
ing to stay at the Usonia. A nice
little lecture is coming to me for be-
ing out two nights and smashing
my car. Think of it-her getting
out there and getting it lowed in
herself-to the same garage we tele-
phoned to for a wrecking car-only
first! That's some of Garrick's
work, I'll bet . Well . . . no
rum-running arrest yet . 1t might
dampen the ardor Of someone I
know whose ardor I do not want
dampened . Brock, you said this
would be a lark. It's a lark, all