Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-05
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Nita was getting more nervous by
the second. "She won t say she re-
piled in hoarse whisper.
''H m, considered Garrick. "It
comes down to whether it is another
wave of crime that has been hitting
country places this summer-or is it a
lob pulled off with the assistance of
someone at the dance!"
Nita Walden shook off a restraint,
as if it had been wrap. She had
come at last to the real point that had
led her to seek Garrick's counsel and
now stood trembling as if on spring
board over the water.
"'This morning." she blurted out in
desperation, 90 messenger boy de
livered package to Ruth. In it were
her jewels that had been taken from
her--the Walden pearls!"
"Whew! Have any of the others
been returned? Could it have been a
hoaxg"
"No!" Nita sank back i'll wicker
chair, her splendid shoulders convulsed
as she sank her head into filmy lace
handkerchief and sobbed. 81 am fran
tic about Ruth $ silence . Is silence
confession2 Better to lose the
Jewels hundred times than to
have them retVrned under such circum-
stances.'
Garrick was thinking about Ruth
Walden the pretty flapper sub-deb. He
said something soothing, reassuring.
II didn t think Ruth was much more
than a child,'' walled Nita, straighten-
ing 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 road,
| houses ont here on the Island. -
, Garrick involuntarily elevated his
! eyebrows.
"Oh it S not a question of morals
-alone,' she FASTENED. CATER all
sometimes common sense and foolish
ness are fair equivalents for right and
wrong
Guy looked up quickly, genuinely sur
prised ut this bit of worldly wisdom.
"When girls do stupid, dangerous
things, trouble follows,' she persisted
''if not at once, bit later. l IN afraid
this is case of it. Besides . Ruth
comes into the income from the ten
million trust fund of her father S estate
next month when she is eighteen"
''Who are in this set!" a asked Gar
rick then in tone of gentle raillery
''Who are these dancing men!'
"There s young Glenn Buckley. They
call him the Demon Lover, you know
He's just smart college kid with &
pile OF money and a smattering of in
| formation. He can take UP cricket ol
radio or acting or relativity or banking
-he knows them all. Another is tha
Jack Curtis, over at the hotel. They
call him Worcestershire he's th'
sauce to anything they arrange, make!
it snappy In my humble opinion
though, he IS nothing more nor less than
another cabaret product. -
- know him what | call ;
ditto boy plunges in with big splasl
and swims with the tide. -
"Oh, why can't Ruth accept Dick De
foe?" implored Nita.
Richard Defoe was friend of Gar
rick, graduate of great engineering
school, son of famous engineer and al
ready an inventor of no mean fame. o.
late he had turned all his attention to ;
radio invention in which he seemed tt
have strange aptitude. His work OF
wireless photo transmission, his perfec
ton of a wireless dictagraph and wire
less telautograph had won him wide
recognition. Just now he was at worl
on a radio boat, radio automobile anC
a radio airplane.
Continued Tomorrow