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Show Til be darned our barbor!" exclaimed ex-claimed Dick. "You'll bo something olM." quickly from Garrlck. "Your boathouee!" - "1 hadn't thought of that. We'd better bet-ter cot down thr." "Well. I thought of It. That's why I left Glenn. You don't need to ask It, Nlta. I know. You'ro nervous and all upMt Tee, I think doing some-thine some-thine anything would do you good. Havo MrKay drlv ua all down. And hurry. Wa n not going to mako a call!" They war coaatlng down from tha top of tha hill faw hundred feet from tha boathouM whan McKay Jammed on the brakea and acraped a couple of dollar worth of rubber off tha tlrea Juat over tha topa of tha treea could he aen tha roof of tha bosthouse. But beyond. In tha harbor, one Inatant waa a rowbo.t with a girl and fellow In It. tha girt In a bathing ault. Thay seemed to be struggling. The next Inatant, like a three-foot flaih of a motion picture, pic-ture, there waa a huge column of water wa-ter and puff of araoke. black wreckage of the boat. It aeemed that. By a apllt eecond before, the two had strug-gled strug-gled overboard or leaped. Then came tha deep report, echoing and reverberating reverber-ating among tha Nonowantuo bills. "Glenn!" exclaimed Oarrlck. aa Mo-Kay Mo-Kay releaaed tha brakea and rolled down Ilka a roller coaster tha raat of the way. They were In time to see that the boa l house waa unharmed. A little apeed boat which they had not noticed now circled about. It picked up the the mouth of the harbor. A black object, Olenn, atruggled feebly In the water. Bythla time Dick had hla coat off. lie ripped hla ahlrt aa he ran down tha dock and plunged off, almoat unencumbered by that time. When Oarrlck pulled them both out and had Olenn sufficiently revived to find that there were no broken bonea, he had begun to get the atory. Olenn. It aeemed. had bean on the roadside of the boathouaa from which ha had expected attack. If at all, when he had heard a nolaa under the workshop. work-shop. Tha workshop waa on tha second sec-ond floor. I'nder It had been a boat -ahed. It had bean converted Into a hangar by Dirk, with a akldway down Into the water. In It ha had a hydroaeroplane hydro-aeroplane on which ha waa working. Installing ona of hla new radio Ideas "I aaw Rao," ha panted for breath. "She had come up to tha boathouaa. alone. In a rowboat with a little engine en-gine over the atern. She waa etlcklng the nosa of tha boat under tha boathouaa boat-houaa In tha channel between tha akldway. akld-way. 1 saw eomething amoklng In tha ' bow. The engine waa going alowly, keeping tha noee of tha boat up under tha boathouaa. I ran down and jumped Into the boat. 'My God, Raa.' J shouted shout-ed -Going to kill u bothr "With a boat hook In both hands aha lunaed at me. but It hit mv ahoul- sailors cam on deck. Tha scout waa pointing out Into tha Sound by thla lima. Ona of tha man grabbed tha other and flung him overboard. Thla Devlna couldn't catch the scout, ao ha kept right on till ha cam up to tha 'Sea Vamp.' Who ahould he find there, paolng th deck and cursing a blue atreak, but Captain Brock dumped overboard, double-crossed, and left behind be-hind T" "And Ruth and Vlra not on th 'Sea Vamp'e-on thla othes boat?" "Yea. He'a got Brock. That'a two. Now wa know that Brock at leaat lan't the man -at -the -top." Back at th boathouaa to tell Nlta Walden they found that she knew more than they did. ' . "I didn't know McKay knew eo much shout radio," ahe cried excitedly. excited-ly. "While we were walling ha wa trying that aet over there. He seemed to know all about It. And. Dirk, he got a aecond meeasge from Ruth! Here It la. ! wrote It down Juat a McKay says he got It." On a piece of wrapping paper Nlta had written. "On tha Bacchante, headed head-ed down the Bound toward th ocean. I hear the men talk of PI re Island. Thla Is Roth That'a where It broke off.'' hajf apologised McKay. Dick passed up and down th workshop work-shop floor. Finally he lifted a trap door and climbed down td th former boat house below. When Oarrlck climbed after him a few mlnutee later - ha found Dick, ameared and greasy, coat off, covered wlth perplratlon,worklng varlhli Garrick looked about keenly. The former boathouaa had been transferred trans-ferred Into a real hangar. Dick looked up from hla work. "I gtiesa you remember enough to look over those pontoons?" ho called to Oarrlck. waving toward th hydroaeroplane. hydro-aeroplane. "What's the Idea?" "I'm tuning up. I waan't quite ready to exhibit the Defoe radloplane but. hang it all th 'Bacchante' must be found with Ruth!" CHAPTER XII. I'll Tell th Werldl Oarrlck spread tha net far and wide to Intercept the Bacchante. Within a few mlnutee he bed the radio centra, the New York police wireless atatlnn, all tha big private bmadcaatlng stations, sta-tions, even Defoe's apparatus In th boathouaa, sending out periodical slg-nets slg-nets of alarm. He had turned th radio world veritably upside down In the eearch. Forenoon lengthened Into afternoon. Dirk worked feverishly tuning up hla Defo tefsutomatlc hydroaeroplane. "Thla la one of tha newest of scl-enree scl-enree telautomatlrs," ha remarked aa Garrick watched. "Telautomatlc?" "Yee. You probably know It by another an-other name. There la eomething weird, fascinating about th very Idea. I alt -Wen, you see, ws found a duck boat In th hold, a boat for on. On of u could get off. Ruth mad th choloe Insisted settled it. It had to be don In a eecond. Bh mad m go even when I fought her to stay." Dick grasped Nlta. Walden'e hand In motion. It waa a splendid plc f heroism of Ruth. "Don't you see?" explained Vim, talking faat aa aha poured out what ah knew. "Tb Jig wa up for th gang. All the wanted waa to mak a clean getaway, tak all tha Jewelry and th money. They waited until th laat minute to let fifty thousand for the Inner Circle and tha other stuff. But It failed. Then th only thing that remained waa to get away with Ruth tha ten-mlHIon-dolUx heiress, aa they spoke of her. . . . "You know, th Bacchant had been taking th atuft oft rum runner. It waa eheer bluff, poeing aa revenue -forcers. It waa stored on the Sea Vamp. Every time anyone drov into th city they would take a couple of case or mora to th Inner Circle or th Oarage, From th Inner Circle and th Oarage It waa distributed. They war wealthy bootlegger to th wealthy. Bootleg aristocracy!" Nita sighed. "Up to a point, then, perhaps Ruth didn't need saving from herself aa much as I thought. She waa on tha trail of eomething big thla conspiracy. . . . And ah almoat al-moat landed her fish. . . , Only to get Into trouble from which It's taking all tb aklU of Our and Dick to save her." Vlra's area wer restlessly glancing three. the wlnasta duwa-tlio road. Suddenly her face beamed. Bh forgot for-got her rumpled dress aa It bad dried on her, her disordered hair. "Glenn's coming! I hear hla engins. Oh, boyl" Out of th room she flew. ' Vlra. and Glenn came up th road. Th atory waa repeated. Dick returned re-turned to hla radloplane; Garrick to lifting crank reports of the whereabout where-about of th faat ecout cruleer. "Vlra," aald Glenn ardently th moment mo-ment they wer alone, "I won't tak H& thla time nor vn Walt.' Vlra bluahed. "Just aa soon aa w get Ruthle." "Here's th first report that I plac any conftdeno In," shouted Oarrlck In a tone that could b heard all over the boathou. "If from a freighter Juat off Seavtlle elghted a boat answering answer-ing th description of th Bacchant putting Into tha Great South bay." "That checks up with Ruth'a Fir Island meaaage!" called Dick from bo-low. bo-low. "Th Bacchant must have rounded th Island. I gu ao could; ahe'e fast enough." "How'a th work coming on. Dirk?" shouted Garrick, all energy now with the flret wlrelee clue. "It'll be twilight twi-light In aa hour. Can you hurry It up?" "All ready now. I've been alt dressed up with n owner to go for fifteen minuted" called back Dick from below. ' They swung open th doorg and ran th radiophone down th akldway, calling back to McKay to drive Mrs. Walden acroaa th Island to Soavlll. Th radloplane atruck tha quiet water of tha harbor, th staccato whirr of th two propel lor rose to a ecreech-They ecreech-They war off In a cloud of spray, leaping lightly from th surface to the air, and waving a gay goodbye aa Nita elaaped her hands as If In prayer and Vlra drew close to Glenn. Th flight to Seaviu wa only a matter of mlnutea, for there waa no time to lose before darkness. At Seavlil a haaty survey disclosed no sign of th Bacchant, but there wa a tremendous crowd down on a bulkhead and they eould eee them waving and hear thalr shouts. Dlcka brought th radiopian down to the water and a couple of email motor boats nut out. -We've got that Curt! and th La-ru La-ru girl!" shouted a man with a big braaa atar of th local police fore on hi cheat. Dick glanced at Oarrlck. 'Anchor here, w must tak th time. We must give them th third degree." Curtis was sour; Ra nervoualy triumphant. tri-umphant. Thay had been deeerted. put ashore, doubl crossed. Wa It possible that they, too, wer merely tool of tb man at th top? Who wa It, thn? Oecrgea had been eliminated elim-inated and waa In Jail with his mouth sealed. Brock was out of th way, a lonely prlsonsr ready to turn atate' evidence to save bis miserable bid. Who, then? Where waa Ruth? In aplta of her capture, Ra looked happier tn ah hid keen for daya Hhe wa holding on to Jack'a arm with th air of poaseaalon that aeemed to compensate for everything. Curt! did not look ao pleased. Ha was thinking of th vanishing fortune and the frolics frol-ics hs saw glimmering away In th past. Suddenly Ra hook his arm. "Dreaming of those husalea? Jack, you're mine I can't let anyon bav you even when I'm playing the game. Thee damsel bav ditched ua! W might better hav stayed In our own claaa. There's good pickings In th cabaret! Lord knowa what will happen hap-pen now. Here's that Garrick and Dick. I eould tear the eyea out of the whol smart bunch especially Ruth Walden. I never trusted her she's too smart!" As Oarrlck and Dick cam up, Turtle Tur-tle had hi cue from Raa. A clean breast waa th next beat thing to a clean getaway. "Talk about Kldd and Morgan and Blackboard!" h xclalmed In anxloua disgust. They wer piker pirate! They plundered their pale. I've read. Well, eo did this beast and ha carried off a girl, too, a 110.000.000 prise!" Garrick shot question after queatlon, "Why, the "Bacchante' was a floating treasure house the Jewels of th Gerard Ger-ard robbery, th Parr Jewele tha atuff from a cor of othr. Thar wss money, oh, I dont know how much, th nroflra of tha booties: schema of loot . -And what was In th towr with tb searchlight at Gerard' that night 7" "Ruth and Glenn." This was spiteful. spite-ful. "W threatened them. But it waa th last time." "And why were th Walden pearl returned?" "It was his Idea, Varto'e to Involr her, tie her up tighter. o she wouldn't dar squeal." They Jumped Into tha motorboat and a few mlnutea later th whirring of th propeller and th gorgeous cutting of spray gav them another leap off Into the air. "Thejfv a twnty-mlnut tart," shouted Garrick, adjusting his head-tear head-tear in the rush of air. "Thank heaven for th light. What a sunset!" Dick flew by his compass in ths direction di-rection the Astra man had Indicated, then began eerlee of ever widening horizontal loops It decreased hia direct di-rect distance, but It enabled him to cover a wider range In ease Varlo had turned th course of th "Bacchant- when be got out of light of tend. Faat as ths scout cruiser was. It could not compete with him for speed. Garrick, with his eye glued to a glasa with aplendld German lenses, swept th sea. They had not been flying ten mln- - utea In thla fashion and Dick was considering con-sidering th turn on th eouthernmost swing of tha loop when Garrick ahouted above the rush of air and pointed ahead, further south. Dick depressed his altltud and they swung along until shortly with th naked y could b mad out a boat which wa without doubt th "Baa-chants," "Baa-chants," far out to sea A, they watched it deliberately turned and head back, toward them. Garrick trained tha glaaa toward It. What did It mean?" "By heaven!" ha exclaimed. "What's that speck between us and him? Can It be eomeone swimming? My God-It God-It la It 1 Ruth!" Could It b that "Ruth bad aeen and taken a laat long chance, that aha had gone overboard, risking everything on a marathon swim, at that hour, with not a ehanc In a million of making th shore? Aa th radloplane came nearer th water and nearer th atruggllng swimmer swim-mer It became evident that th race between th plan and the cruiser was a toeing ona for the cruiser. "Here, Guy, tak this plana 1 11 tak th radio!" Garrick Mixed th other of tb doubl dou-bl set of controls. A moment later ho had taxied In apray and waa rocking rock-ing and pitching only a few feet from tha awlmmer. It waa ticklish business, busi-ness, but hs maneuvered until he was able to swing about. Fortunately th sea waa comparatively calm. As for Ruth, ah was still fresh. Her long distance swimming oounted-now In th balance for her Ufa. Aa Garrick. with a final effort with Dick, dragged her aboard, ah almoat collapsed in Dick's arms. "Tak car of her, Guy. for a mln- t (Continued from laat Sunday.) CHAPTER XI. vj THI NOISES OF SPACE. It was early in tb morning when i Oarrlck with Dick turned Into th ( driveway of Glenn's houee at Nono- wantua, . -'Any word of Vlra and Ruth?" queried Olenn. "Not yet. But there la something Fou ran do. Hav you had your breakfast? break-fast? Then come along." At Defoe'a boathous laboratory i Oarrlck posted Olenn on gurd. "Now, look here, boy If you love Vlra and i want her back, guard thla place aa ? you would your life." Oarrlck.had -aumed a rather stern tone: he knew he .) Bluet impress Olenn. "Inside and out," 1 be added seriously. -I'd like to be with you hunting the girls." returned Olenn promptly, "but . If sticking hers will help me. depend j on ma I'll b a sticker, all right. I Onlv for heavens' sake, get those i girls." ? Dick grained his hand and Oarrlck lapped hla book encouragingly. Witn one last look to see that nothing had been disturbed, Dick grabbed up a mall oak case and some other portable port-able paraphernalia and lugged It out to the rar. "Never can tell," he aald to Oar-risk. Oar-risk. "I hate to be out of radio touch. And why the club can't appropriate money for an outfit I catv't aee." Garrick made th clilb hla headquarters head-quarters snd he felt ha would Ilka to tart the day ther. "Cast thy words upon th. ether and, they shall return unto thee after manv days." laughed Oarrlck aa he looked over his mall. "I suppose now for a week I'm going to be bombarded with tnall from radio fans. It's always that way. Where do they find ths time o writs all the letters? Say here's one. though. Read that. A postcard -postmarked 'Northport.' " Dirk, who was familiar with the wave of radio listeners, read tha card: "Your meeaaga was good and clear but why did you suddenly stop when you began to tell us your suspicions? "P. 8. I don't npprovs of phono, graph aelertlona In radio broadcasting, anyhow. I can buy record. "K 0J." "Someone on a cruiser or motor boat with a wireless," commented Oer-: Oer-: rick. "I like your radio fraternity. Dick. They certainly do tak an In-tereat In-tereat In on another and go out of their way to do It." Dirk laughed. "You ahould see my mstl! Why If they don't Hk a thing ' they almost take It a personal Insultfor In-sultfor a free service!" "There's a catch In It somewhere," considered Oarrlck. "Now what doea be mean? I didn't atop. I wsnt right n to ths end. And th phonograph record what'a that?" Dirk ahrugged. HI mind wa on omeihlng else. Oarrlck, In hla room, bavlng without avail tried to find out the Identity of "K eta" from th Urn- lied lists at 4h elub, -called th rtte- tome houee In New York and requeat-d requeat-d tha looking up of th number In th motor boat registration under th federal law. H waited. "Just what I expected," fidgeted TMch. "Marooned away from a radio for no one know how long. That'a why I grabbed thla thing up, th first thing I laid my hande on. Oct the receiving re-ceiving apparatus all but th antenna. anten-na. Oh. very well we'll ." Dick mapped In plac mall clips which connected th bed eprlnge of Oarrtek'i bed end put th headpieces like a telenhon receiver to hi ears. Dick set up hi roivlng set, her safely, upstairs, turning ewltehea, preeslng button, depressing levers. Ten miles away a vehlcl. an auto, a ship, an airplane, a submarln obey me! s "It may carry enough of th lateet and moat modern explosive that after-war after-war science can Invent, enough If exploded ex-ploded to rival tha worst of earthquakes. earth-quakes. Yet It obeys my will. It goee where I direct It It explode where and when I want It. And It wipe off ,.., f. jiu, earth, anything ta.es I want annihilated. That'a telautomat-Ica." telautomat-Ica." Garrick regarded big friend with genuine admiration. "I won't go Into my radlo-combtnator, my telecommu-tator, telecommu-tator, my audion relay and all th reat," went on Dick- "You , I bav letter on th key of th radio com-blnator com-blnator forward, back, atart propeller motor, atop propeller motor, rudder right, rudder left, the angles light signals sig-nals forward and aft, and all th rut. It' really delayed contact,- Th machinery ma-chinery la alwaya ready, but It delay until th right, selective Impulse Is given. And I tske advantage of the delay to have the message-signal re-peated re-peated back to me, to check vup on It." "Vlra's bach!" It was Nlta Walden In her ear with McKay before the laboratory. "She called me from Southold; I went over and met her train on the main line. And I've brought her here first. Guy, telephone to Glenn; 1 know how anxloua anx-loua the boy la." "But bow? What of Ruth?" queried Dick. i "Ask Vlra. She has com to tail you stl shs knows. 1 made her. These youngsters are getting toned down. Maybe Ruth will listen to reason when eh get back. On. If I only had her!" "I'll eay that, too!" cried Dick. "Tell ua. Vlra." . der Inetead of my head. 'Damn you! ha cried, 1 bav had to say so man) nloe things to you when I dldnt fee! Ilk It here's another wallop!' "I swung th boat free, gav th plat a kick and It turned. Th ngin wsi turning over slowly and carswlng ai way. I got th boat hook away: then she grabbed me. 'You fool! Tak) your handa off before I bit them of I . . . Look! - It' going to explode! It'a going to explode!' Then I w Jumped. Ther was that gyar of water wa-ter and atuff . . . Someone picked up Ra In a speed boat . . I felt ai If that darn engine had hit me , , , rill Dick got me I But . . th boathous boat-hous ... I safe fellowe!" Ing wine cellars all over the Island, of the Irmar Ctrcl." Jacxr wore, as bs thought of th massed wealth from which he had been "defrauded." "Why was ths "Bacchants' her?" demanded de-manded Garrick. "To take him off; be cam across by car from ths Radio Centnal aa soon as he got m damn him is with th boat Into tb open ocean, ' safe Professor Pro-fessor Varlo, of course!" "Professor Vsrlo!" echoed Dick In amasetnent. "Yea. Professor Varlo. head of th biggest gang of bootleggers, blackmailers blackmail-ers and dreee ault yeggman I guess you ever heard of. Yoh Georges waa the fellow pulled 'em In; Brock was the roughneck Rae and I were the decoys Ruth, Vlra, Olenn and the othere were their cover. Damn his syes ! " "But the robberies?" queried Dick. "Doesn't it explain ths robberies? To fflaii a smsll fortune, of course. That guy was born money hungry and girl crazy! I know hla game. He dragged ma Into hla dirty work fool that I waa then he expected sll the time to come along at the right time, posing aa a hero to Ruth, rescuing her from me. Then to Bermuda, the Bahamas, Martinique, Mar-tinique, anywhere I don't know. Only I do know now that Varlo Intended all along to marry that girl and get ten millions!" "Explain?" echoed Oarrlck. "It explains ex-plains a lot of thlnga For Instsnce. at the Binnacle, what really happened waa that you. Jack, doubl crossed Varlo and tried to get away with Ruth yourself, and he eaue-ht von It tnat ute!" Dick turned to his radio apparatus ap-paratus and e he did eo Oarrlck saw that the "Bacchapte," long before ahe was beaten, had turned and was going away at top apeed. "There!" Dick awung a switch. A little light gleamed overhead. He swung another. An- other signal overhead changed. "Oo." Lake a bolt flew ths arrangement overhead, a long torpedolike affair of aluminum, with wings and pontoons for all the world like the hydroaeroplane on which they were. It wa flying, with th buss of a bornet! Dick pressed a lever. It swung In its flight. "Th principle of th thing Is that t us Hertxlan wavea to actuat relays on the radiopian that is. I send a child with a message. The grown nun, through th relay, ao to speak, does th work. So, you aee. I can sit her and send my little David anywhere to strike down Ooliath!" In the sunset Varlo on ths "Bac-I "Bac-I chant" must hav seen It, sensed It, I for he knew something of Dick's work. I He changed hla course. Instantly Dick i pulled a lever and ths radiopian changed Its course by exactly the same degree, it was Ilk a conscience pur-I pur-I suing. I They could not see Varlo bealde th man at th wheel. He had his revolver, whether to Intimidate the man or not. could not be determined. A th hornet hor-net swooped straight at him. however, h fired once, twice, three times at It. No marksmanship of Varlo' could atop that thing. H seemed to realise It. For an Inatant he h.ii,,t.j .i I "Bed spring th Iron fir scapa i th gss and watsr pip th tlephon wire " h remarked a b tund and j adjueted. "almoat anything may serve sn antenna in a pinch." i The room telephone rang for Oar-. Oar-. rick. It waa the customs houss call-! call-! ' Ing. "We find." reported the clerk. I I "that K 0I la registered by Patrick i j Devlna Bridgeport, Connecticut, a i forty-foot cabin cruleer, named 'Laa-atr.' 'Laa-atr.' Want a description?" Garrick bad Juat finished eopyinai It .when a loud exclamation came from I Dick. "By Jove Guy! It'a a mee-! mee-! ease from Ruth I Repeated twice there. I ecrlbbled It on thla book." "Please give thla to the newapaper It now develop that Jack Curtis who attempted an elopement yeeter-day yeeter-day with me, ha a a wife. Mra. Rae Larue La-rue Curtla, That la all now. Tail my mother I am safe and will be back th first ehanc I can awlra ashore. Ruth Walden.' - ! Th two. seen gels at each other t look Ilk hes a prisoner," scowled )Tlck. "Th first chance I can swim 'ashore!" "Yea . . but, man. she's aafe ' somewhere. Her mother!" Somehow Ruth had cleverly eon-. eon-. trlved to communicate with the aut-I aut-I aid world by radio. Together th twe ( burr led down tb long corridor and up a flight of atalr to Nlta Walden'e rooms. Dlck a heart wss pounding, he felt, as loud as bis knuckles on th door. He hsd heard from Ruth I Mrs. Wallen opened th door. She waa afraid. What did tha audden rap- Jlng mean? Her worried and wearied ace searched Dirk' yea. "About Ruth? Tell me, Dick!" Dick blurted It out. "Oh. what awful aw-ful people!" shuddered Mra Wslden, -But Ruth says, "attempted elopement' elope-ment' that means Ruth Is all right. It dldnt succeed. But what can yon do now? Oh. there my telephone ringing again." She turned from the mom phone bewildered. be-wildered. "It waa that Rae Larue girl calling me. Oh, but there waa hate and spite and Jealousy In bar vole! Tb llttl vixen!" "But what did she eay?" calmed Oarrlck. "I cant begin to repeat tb flood of words. Why, you'd think that L Ruth's mother, hsd tried to frsms up something against her She eald. Td have you know that Jack Curtla la my buabandl I married him In Chicago Chi-cago two year ago! I won't hav tbat daughter of your coming between ua and I've told him so. I'll squeal I'll band th whol bunch over first." "Bully!" Interrupted Oarrlck to Nlta' astonishment- "Got 'em fighting fight-ing among themselves. Hell hath no fury and all that- You couldn't want better guardian for Ruth than that woman corned! And Til bet you ahe'll do something the first chaae ah gets Here," without waiting for any comment from the surprised Nita, "let go hav th wire. Central . . . where did tbat laat call to the dub . om from? Can you trace It?" He put bis hand over the transmitter and sided, -In the city you can't trace a thin;. But out In the llttl Long Island towns lbs si hick telephone glrla mates in oa all th wlllag goaaip. , ajvsjt, yowTJ eee." Then, with hi band j f, "To, thank you." He bung up. i'ri iim the gravel works at tba moutb f mt tha tartorl I Oarrlck smiled. "I could decorate you on th field of action. Olenn!" He looked over at Dick. Th blow bad been Intended for them; It had mle-re mle-re rrled snd Glenn had rlaked his life "We'll lesve MrKay hers for a few minute. I'll drive your car. Nlta. 1 must get Olenn homa He'a mustsrvd out with all th honor!" "Walt a mlnut." It wa Dtek. -Ws left that other aat tn your room at the club. I'v got a new one, I'm a bug on thla I cant be out of touch with tb air a mlnut and b happy." Aa Oarrlck drove them, Dick told what had happened at the club. "But," asked Glenn, reviving, "why the attempt at-tempt to wreck the boathous lab. T" "Because." quickened Oarrlck. 'It li ths ons place, thay know, contains ths apparatus to ferret them out and atoh them!" At Glenn' they waited for Dr. Darling Dar-ling to run over from Stony Brook te dreea hla wound again. "Tou muet, fellows; 1 need, your moral eupport." begged Olenn. ' "He'll give m the devil." "Now, Dick, hook up that business you brought along. I'v got th fever, too, a passion for pulling Information down out of th air. Ilk th preetldigl-tstors preetldigl-tstors do with goldplecea" Dick busied hlmeelf about th telephone tele-phone for som Urn, then set up his receiving set. "If a sort of wired wireless," b explained, "baaed on a dlseovery. Invented In-vented and perfected by ,a regular ahark at this thing. Major Qeenral Squler." While they waited for the doctor a raft of Inconsequential atuff filtered through. The doctor came, waa pacified paci-fied professionally, and was Just finishing fin-ishing a lecture on asepsis. "Another message !" Interrupted Dirk. "From Vint and Ruth?" brightened Olenn. Dick shook hi head. "Guy It'a that fellow again K-tOl he's over at Mount Blnal her, tak thla other earpiece." ear-piece." Garrick fairly clapped Dick shoulder shoul-der as they listened. "Whst did I say? Dldnt I aay cherches a Jealoue woman? I knew Ras In her Jealousy would do something and ehe hue don It Juat whan thl fighting Irishman, Devlna cam along In hla K-toi:" Dick cautioned alienee. They listened. lis-tened. Then Olenn cut In, demanding demand-ing to know the etory. "It's Just thla; Glenn." retailed Oarrlck Oar-rlck when he wa sure that no more knew waa being spilled, 'that fallow, Devtna In the K-Ml waa cruising down th Sound with 'hla eye open when he saw what he thought w th 'Sea Vamp' In th Inlet at Mount Sinai, where they used to load ths old wood packets In ths old dsya As hs got nearer he could make out with hie glass that they were transferring atuff from the houseboat to a scout cruiser up slongslde." Oiean nodded. -Tt wss our floating float-ing storehouse, the 'Sea Vamp'." "Well, aa be got nearer, be made out through his glass what looked like two men struggling with a couple of girl. Ths scout boat waa drifting away from the houseboat, then. The glrla couldn't fight; they aeemed to be tied. That must hsve been Ruth and Vlra. Then another girl came from a cabin. Shs must bars bad a knife or something, for she cut the other twe loos. Some gave him bla first chance to play hero, eh?" Curtis nodded sullenly. "And the night of tbe dictograph. With hla ware meter, 'Varlo discovered It, found that all' bla secrets were being spilled In the air, and Jammed In on tbe dictagraph wave length." Jack listened as If It waa the clanking clank-ing of a chair. H was afraid of Oar-tick. Oar-tick. "Than that broadcasted poison pen message. First Varlo had allowed you to get Ruth Into a dangeroua position posi-tion at ths Binnacle from which be rescued her and played hero. Then this elopement story, to compromise her. But he had you right where he wanted you. How? The bigamy charge, of course!" Ra was now biasing. She might battle Jack. No one else could. She would perjure her little soul, but she would fight him dear. "Do you know the conclusive thing?" Oarrlck turned to Dick. "That postcard, post-card, about laat night at the Radio Central told me something. How did I my alarm fall? Tou know. Dick, there's a switch between the studio room and ths actual sending apparatus upstairs not that switch we saw before ua but snothsr. They use It whenever sny-one sny-one broadcasting tries to put over a bit of advertising or chicanery or if the singer or spesker Is rotten, swing the switch and put on a phonograph or something. A million explanations will do. later. The point is that bs learned tbat I was there, found out what I waa doing and choked It off thereby betraying himself. He has been under cover ever since and this Is ths first Information I've had of him all day although, without letting Dick or anyone else know of my suspicion. I hsd private detectives and the police looking for him quietly." He nodded over toward one of the Astra men with ths policeman in ths crowd whom Dick had not seen. Then to the man. "How long before we cam did you get these people?" "Not ten mlnutea, sir." -And th Bacchante.' which way did It heed?" "He must bav got a motorboat ordwhre; put out to It the minute It ' hove In eight; tthen sent these people ' ashore after a fight or something. I quickly turned th gun on himself "" and fined. As Varlo sank to th deck, Oarricb .-nerved .-nerved tttmtli itr fh sxpfosfon of th radiopian. To hi amassment th llttl thing circled Ilk a wasp, turned, and started back. "Zb'?'ll mUni bv now" ""Uttered Dick. "Not a reason tn the world thea to send that litis treasure ship to Davy Jones!" It wss late and dark when the "Bacchante- limped up and cast anchor off ths Searllle wireless station, towing Defo' radiopian and Its mother fly- - ling boat. ' - j Nlta Walden hsd been sitting for hours In her csr by th beach in front of the station, her eye glassy, staring :over the waters. Bh was shlvsrlng with fesr. "Will they never coma back? Oh, Ruth. Ruth. Ruth'" Suddenly shs saw a allm. dripping figure of a glrl running up the beach. She winked, stared harder. "My Ruth at last.!" Shs pulled ths curly head down to her and sobbed, joyously "And she's promised to revise the ceremony and put the word 'obey Cdot,!-n"0nly 1 dn,t xpct sob? 'SI,'? hyterlcal sobs Nlta Walden aaw Dick and Oar. Ind DlCk tOWd "" "I euppoe I may hav th 1nt dte!v. watching th. wVd,ngJ pre?! enter- laughed Garrick. P mi"T""r' mother- ur aavd m yon St iT7n wln wireless!" Nlta Walden spread her srrna f, thr. caught Garrick'. coal d?Sw hm ov.r. a. th. tear, trickled down he? fac and planted a kiss on his cheek Oarrlck took her arm your sake a. well a, Ruth's, corn. Into to at, too maybe a toast'" H glanced over at Dick, as xtntt. struggled away from his lips! Roth - May I may I broadcast our a nouncement. Ruth?- pleaded Dick . R.Ul. ,D,?ckb.Ck.,n.h,rnrrm' world-- D Ck - n U tha . (Tb. End.) a. should say It beaded southeast by ssst." -Come Dick!" -Juat a eecond. Gav. Who hst was It Rae. tbat bald tb Jewel at Gerard'. Ger-ard'. "Mine, of course." Defiantly. |
