Evening journal., 1922-06-20

say. eleven o'clock"
what time is it now"
Must be about that, now It's
after"
Again Dick felt his heart throb-
bing violently when the Hertzian
waves were reconverted into sound
waves and brought the next con-
versation to his ears.
Ruth. dear, how do you feei?'
Dick was tense. Il was Jack speak
ing.
"A little weak. Jack But
ready TO begin again when / get
home and quiet Mothers fears. l
live on excitement"
'Well. I'm coming over to the
house-maybe l can hep you with
an alibi Or meet you In some
quiet place where we can talk over
the future, the exciting future--ii
you get what ! mean
Dick frowned. Unconsciously JACK
was stealing his stuff.
Always ready TO try anything
once. Jack"
I'm going TO do IL soon or course,
no one has told you how beauttul
vou are. I'm going 10 tell you more
things about yourself than all the
psvchoana ysts in Greenwich VII
iage-or Greenwich. Connecticut or
cre,na Green, or some placer
And he's some teller: snapped
Rae pertly-
There was another tilt verging on
when Georges voice interrupted
"Teiephone. Curtis"
LACY went out. apparently ana
Georges. by the. sound must nave
shut the door.
..Did YOU get the low-downF NO
1r,. laugh punctuated the remark
.rx-a-, good. The steamship Al
rovo.' has wirelessed in that sne was
be,d m by a government boat out
ssds the three-rnile limit, and search-
"a .na that two hundred and htty
1900 we're taken of. That's the re-
-. PM there was no government
-. !, that vicinity at the time.
rhg Now what do you make Vi
that" -, ,a,,sbter
rThQTn was Il NRAAN1
from everybody. .,
.s-rhat was call from the garage
carna Jacks voice. Ina1 'ai IN
s,,v-, there was laugh, Tor they
al in a stage where pun i
,,,.b a form of humor as any
a. hesn hanging around. My man
10 ant someone saw Garrick IN
with Dick?" This quick query
from Ruth and a bit anxious
mo, alone" q,
relief. How.
he's in time" vi.
your place" Jack seemed 20
mound a table. They'll give him the
heating Of his life. confsund him =
mash his face in-put him in the
sheets for a week-maybe-
Blatti
D,cl. ainkered and tickled and ad-
4rstad All he got was some fool |
amateur on the same wave length. |
he swore. He tired TO swear over
~ ether. but with i'll success. The
interference was there to stay as II
aIwav. is when one is listening In on
something pretty good.
Dick was sore. But he was NOT
surnrised. When he first became
greatly interested in wireless some
eighteen months before there had
heen perhaps fifty thousand wireless
telenhone receiving sets. a year Ia
Tor there had been six hundred thou
sand. Today, he knew, one suthor-
itv had estimated a million and the
had estimated a million
ana a half in the papers that week.
No Dick was sore, but not surprised
In fact he would have been pleased !
A. almost any other time. or even
n his family were wealthy DICK |
had visions OF himself some day |
doing better than the biggest Of the
radio firms which was doing business |
at the rate OF fifty million dollars
a year Thoughts like this had no
place in his mind. now. All he knew
was that he was the victim Of in
reference. And he was sore-and
worried. too.
For the use of the ether (beg-
ging the pardon of E.nstein and his
theory is not limitless. 1t will ac-