Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-05
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BY Arthur B REEVE
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Five minutes later-just about
the time IL would have taken to
come down the beach from the cove
and climb the steps up the bluff.
this robbery took place. on, it was
a signal. all right"
WAS the fellow in the tower
Glenn Buckley, you Think
Looked like him. sir"
who was the girl?"
II can't say. sir"
That will do, Johi," motioned
Mrs. Walden.
There was something in her tone
that checked Garrick from insisting
on the pursuit of the identity of the
mystery girl.
Mckay touched his hat and re-
turned to his car quicker than he
had left 1t.
Garrick turned keenly toward
Mrs. Walden. What does Ruth
say? Who was up there? Was she
in the tower"
Mrs. Walden looked away and
murmured, Ruth refuses to say
anything"
"Was it Glenn in the tower?"
Nita was getting more nervous by
the second. "She won't say" she re-
piled in a hoarse whisper.
Him." considered Garrick. ct
comes down to whether it is another
crime in the wave of crime that has
been hitting country places this
summer or is it a job pulled off
with the assistance of someone at
the dance!"
Nita Walden shook off a restraint.
as If 1t had been a wrap. She had
come at last to the real point that
had led her to seek Garrick's coun-
sci and now stood trembling as IL
on a springboard over the water.
This morning" she blurted out
in desperation, "a messenger boy
delivered a package to Ruth. In it
were her jewels that had been taken
from her-the Walden pearlsl"
"Whew! Have any OF the others
been returned? Could 1t have been
a hoax"
mo-" Nita sank back in a wicker
chair. her splendid shoulders con-
vulsed rs she sank her head into a
little filmy lace handkerchief and
sobbed. II am frantic about Ruth's
silence j.. . Is silence confession:
/. Better to lose the jewels a
hundred times . . . than to have
them returned under such circum-
stances."
Garrick' was thinking about Ruth
Walden. the pretty fapper sub-deb.
He said something soothing, reas-
surfing.
Il didn't think Ruth was much
more than a child" walled Nita,
Strengthening and dabbing at her
eyes with the handkerchief. "but
she has been going to all sorts of
Dances"
What sort of dances?"
The cabarets in the city-and
r~oadhouses out here on the island"
Garrick involuntarily elevated his
eyebrows.
"Oh, it's not a question of morals
alone" she fastened. After ali,
sometimes common sense and foef-
ishness 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 per-
sisted. eff not at once. a bit later.
I'm afraid this is a case of it. Be-
sides . Ruth comes into the in
come from the ten-million trust
fund of her fathers estate next
month when she is eighteen"
Who are in this set?" asked Gar
rick, then in a tone of gentle rail-
lery. "Who are these dancing mem"
There's young Glenn Buckley.
you know. He's just a smart COL
lege kid with a pile of money and a
SCATTERING of Information. He can
take up cricket or radio or acting or
RELATIVELY or banking-he knows
them all. Another is that Jack
Curtis, over at the Hotel. They call
him 'Worcestershire'-he's the
sauce to anything they arrange.
makes il snappy. In my humble
opinion, though, he's nothing more
nor less than another cabaret pro-
duct"
"I know him what I call q
ditto boy plunges 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
Garrick, graduate of a great engi-
neering school. son of a famous en-
gineer and already an inventor OF
no mean fame. OF late he had turn
ed all his attention to a radio inven-
ton in which he seemed TO have a
strange aptitude. His work on
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perfection of a wireless dictagraph
and wireless telautograph had won
him wide recognition. just now ne
was at work on a radio boat, a radio
automobile and a radio airplane.
The mere mention of Dick consft-
tuted an added reason why Garriek
felt impelled to come TO the assist
ance of Nita in distress.
Tell me something about the
girls" he suggested.
well, there's Vira Gerard. Yol
know her. the blonde vamp' they've
nicknamed her. ever since h went
into that amateur motion picture
the girls made at the school OF the
Misses Place. She thinks she is a
new Talmadge DR. Pickford . -.
really . . wants to be the society
girl with a career on the screen
Then, there's that Rae Larue,
who has been the guest of n or
another of the girls all summer.
Just between you and me and the
listening post. 1 think she's an ad-
ventures. I've heard it whispered
that she used to be a cabaret singer
or a dancer or something. With am
billions. 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 it shall
shoot away its time any more"
These dance palaces and caba-
rets,' pondered Garrick. consider
ing. have given a new twist TO
crime
And the pace! How do they do it
on their Allowances Cut them