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Show a3 Arthur, B. R,eeve 1 j (Continued from Our Isasi Issue) CHAPTEl: V MtJSIC IX THE A IK. (inrrirk and Dick Walked mIowIv , down Forty-ninth street and across 'Sixth Avenue, laughing at Ruth's rus" ; and a bit sore. "I suppose you feel put out!" punned pun-ned Ciarrlck. . Dick was too puzzled to gt it.) : "Sho OSrtSinly put us through th I Inner t'irrlo with as much neatness anu dlsputrh m a sardine goi from tho river to the tin in the movies . . . only, 1 wonder why?" Garrlck whs thinking of tho threat message. "Gould It bo that she took that way of krpplnjr us out of dan- ger ?" He stopped short and looked back. J A tough stranger was lurking back of them. (larrlck moved ahtad and I stopped again The strangrr stopped jand slouched into a garage, Patrick Talked bock quickly and B4 he passed him looked over and smiled "I'm on" he laughed and th man dropped his yt in sheepish aullenness. They turned the corner and again into Fiftieth Street. As they passed tho other door of the garage which ran through tho block t'.arriek hesitated hesi-tated as if to walk through it and locate lo-cate tho shadow, r. As he did so he saw another man slink into a doorwa "Wo've discovered one. another has moved up to take his place AJl old nd ver effective device' lie hurried down the street with Dick, plunged into the subwav. waited wait-ed for a train. then walked on out tho Other silt. Nn "tall" COUld hold down Garrlck if he suspected he was being shadowed. j What did It mean'' Still speculating, speculat-ing, they went on to Uairlck's city apart merit at Bachelor's Hall and turned turn-ed In. The next mornlnir was rainy damp (and depressing Garrlck and Hick had breakfast and were discussing ih events of the day before. Garrlck' a mind was most active when his physical physi-cal helng seemed laziest. Stretching out in his chair, raising his arms slowly slow-ly above his head, he yawned and Waa about to deliver himself of sonio sage olsei-vaton on life In general and the ease In partl ular when the telephone rang. "Hang it. what's this" " Answer it. Pick, old man ?" Dick's mind and body were both 1 alert. He had breakfasted with a I couple of Invisible companions, love Jand anxiety Uarrlck." He held hi-'hand hi-'hand now over the transmitter My word: It's Mrs. Walden." 'Xlta Walden'.' Here? Tell her there's a little reception room down there. We'll be with her right away." Nita Walden was distractedly winking quick and balling the handkerchief hand-kerchief In her hand as she gazed out of tho Window at her car in which McKay was biting with bulldog grip at his pipo as If contemplating something some-thing distasteful. Garrick closed tho door as she rushed excitedly to him and seized his hand with fingers that din. bed unconsciously "Guy ... I am desperate. It's jHuth again my little girl. You must find her for me. I can't take anyone any-one into my confidence except you and Dick. I don't know which way to turn. She didn t come home hist night. I have walked and walked tho floor waiting for her. 1 haven't even had a telephone etrll from her or anyone else. What shall I do? She never, never did this befete My Kuthle my little girl. Oh, Guy. 1 can't stand the worry and uncertainty of it Help me, please Garrlck took Xlta's arms and led her quietly back to a big seat In ono end of the room. Gently he questioned ques-tioned her until he had her quieted by concentrating on her answers. There w'as a knock at the door Gar-ricked Gar-ricked opened it It was McKay. "Please, sir, l was Just talking to a friend of mine, a chauffeur, wh" drives for some people out on the south shore, who live up the street. Miss Ruth's car was wrecked out on the Island ran into a fen r something some-thing on an approach to one of the bridges on the Motor Parkway -oyer the embankment hear Smfthtown " "Was she hurt'' Where is she" Mrs. Walaen's acute ears had caught oven the modulated wordt "No one knows, ma'am. There ra,fl not a trace of anyone around the car Just the machine, left there." "Oh, Guy. this is terrible, terrible. What shall I do? I'll go wild with fear If I don't hear something soon." hat had happened ; H.irrlck tried to be rerussurlng, but Xlta Walden would not be reaaaiired "This in another triad escapade of Ruth . and Vira, I hupposo . . . and who else? What can Ruth be thinking about ?" Garrlck took down the telephone, receiver and called a Bryant number num-ber Pick glanced over quickly. li wax a number he had spen in the' h:illwa of ih Inner Circle and hnd made a mental note of. Evidently Garrlck had done the same "This Is Glenn Buckley's brother." he prevaricated. "Is he thero? Well, do you know where I -.an call him ' Vou think he'a :it the Cecil? Thani j you." c.nrrlck turned, without betraying where Itwa.s he. hnd called. "They're some f lien da of his. I thought perhaps per-haps Glenn might give us some Information. In-formation. Suppose Nita, you hava McKay drive us over to the Cecil If on T'ark Avenue." They were rounding the Grand, Central and caught in traffic when Garrlck suddenly beckoned over a newsboy and bought a couple of evening eve-ning papers. ' Another robbery on I,ong Island " ho commented, as he glanced down' from the big headline. "The Parr estate In Smith town." Tlie Parrs?" commented Mi-s. Walden'. Wal-den'. ' Why, they're friends of mine 'I hey have n beautiful place. er.s wealthy people "Strange circumstances" went nn ie,,ding Garrick. "A girl and two men " Then he checked himself. "Why that's like the affair over at C.eraids' the other night," supplied Mrs. Walden. It was easy to .sec what was running run-ning through her mind, the similarity simi-larity of the affairs the coincidence of Ruth's car on the Parkway neat Smlthtown, and her Intimacy with me ramliy She did not say anything any-thing but ran through the short news story feverishly without finding find-ing anything further to feed her fears Rut It was evident that she suspected the worst Had Ruth been mixed up in it? They found Glenn at the Cecil, looking a bit fagged "Ruth Why sho's all right. Mrs Walden. he hastened. "Yes. I heard something about an accident. Jus, the steering gear went wrong. But she wan quick enough to get from under the car. took the fence instead of up the bridge and off at least that's what I heard." They harried young Buckley with questions, but hp was guarded. l. protested that he knew nothing more winding up again with the assurance. "She's all light, though. ' "But how do you know she's all right?" Insisted Garriek "Because I was talking to Vlra over the wire when I made the appoint" merit to meet her at the tea rooms of tho Champs Klysees at three and she said she was. That's all 1 know." It seomed as though having de-livered de-livered hi assurance that Ruth was ,safe. Glenn was doing some rapid They BelOi ted table iii an angular corner. thinking on his own account. How had they located him here at the Cecil? It was true that his family lived liv-ed here in the winter, but the more ho revolved It In his mind, the more suspicious sus-picious of Garrick he became and he began to shut up for fear of dropping another Inadvertent remark like that about the Champs Elysees. inow, rsua, insisted arric a they returned to her car, "don't let go yourself Just trust me. I believe that boy, even if he was tightmouthed. I can handle this thing. Don't worry. Just keep busy See. the sun Is out. now. Givo" her a surprise. Take M -K ty; go out there; get her car towou somewhere before she does. I'll get her. safe." Ntta Walden was nearly hysterical, nut the pressure of Garrlck's hand and his almost hypnotic eves won her Glenn had riot been such a bad guesser. It was nearly three when Garrlck Gar-rlck and Dick sauntered into the lobby of the Champs Eljsees. looked about cautiously! and proceeded to get undef cover. Before the tea room on the mezzanine mez-zanine floor hung a sign "Radio Concerts Con-certs Dail." They nowod In, saw that the coiust was clear, and selected a table In an angulur corner, with B mirror mir-ror so placed that It was a veritable periscope. An orchestra in Newark was broadcasting broad-casting some selection as they sat down at the table and ordered tea and crumpets. It. was not more than sixty seconds after three that they saw Glenn come in .looking pale and tired select a table at the other end of the room and drop Into a chair facing the entrance Ten minutes later Vlra bustled in. es Itod and angry about something and worried. (Jlenn rose and greeted greet-ed her. all animation, now that a girl was In question. Few things are more fascinating than listening to a radiphone concert. con-cert. Someone turns the tuning handle of the receiving set. Short and long buzzes following each other in a Ihjsv sort of way indicate some amateur fceisgr i pher at work. Tho tuning handle Ls turned a little more and a peculiar moaning sound is heard. Turned stiLl more the sound becomes a weak voice or mu.rtc A final turning of the handle brings In the radiphone loud and clear. Tho tuning Is exceedingly sharp. It ls fascinating ordinarily but thero were four people at opposite ends of tho room for whom this concert had no Interest. Garrlck and Dick. watching and wondering what to do, had fallen Into a discussion of Ruth and Vlra and Garrlck waa taking a cruel delight In sounding Dick. To his serious mind. EMck confessed. It was just this vivacious type of Ruth that had for him the greatest attraction. attrac-tion. As ho put It, and intellectual girl would have been merely Intensifying Intensify-ing his own nature. Garrlck was urging him on and delivering de-livering a IHtle scientific homily on wise old nature that brought, together the dissimilar and averaged them. I Thero was no approval of the but- terfly and tho candle In Dick, however how-ever and they were jjoon Into a discussion dis-cussion of Rae and the evident dissipation dissipa-tion she showed. "One does not readily think of guls sowing wild oats," remarked Garrick. "Yet they often do. This 1 one of the strange anomalies of the new freedom of women " Dick frowned as he thought of the clamor of the life they had seen at the Inner Circle. What the end of it all might be, he evidently preferred pre-ferred not to guess. At least ho did not pursue the subject. Do you know, I've been worrying worry-ing a good deal about the handwriting handwrit-ing on that autographic film" Gar-i Gar-i Icli hanged the subject as ho brought out duplicate prints he had made. Whose Is It? Do you happen to have sny note or letter from Ruth"" Idck could not avoid the point-blank point-blank inquiry. He pulled a little note from his pocket Inside tho envelope was a dainty handkerchief. Garrlck looked up with a questioning question-ing smile. Dick flushed. "A note from Ruth several weeks ago . . ." Then he stopped He did not need to xplain the dainty little bit of lace. Qarrick took the note and laid it down on the table beside the print Then with his pencil he began noting not-ing the formation of letters, the capitals, capi-tals, a score of little characteristics. The writing Is Ruth's, all right." he remarked, passing both over to Dick and at arm's length in silence pointing from one to the other with the pencil. "I think I'm getting a line on Ruth," he said in a tone to reassure Dick. "She's a game bird but she files funny." There was a pause. The roncert number was now a solo. "Love's Old Bweel song ' Neither said a word Dick was me-i eluinh allv folding up the letter, restoring restor-ing the handkerchief in the envelope, ami handing back the print to Guy. They sat for a moment as the words, clear, tender distinct transferred Hertzian Hert-zian waves into waves of emotion. Suddenly ah-h-h Bizz-zz-zzzz Bur.z-zz-zz-zz A shado of annoyance passed over Dick's face as if a thread of feeling had been broken. Bzzzzzzz d ot - d ash - d o t -dash . Dick scowled Garrick tapped the table absent-mindedly with his finger. Then suddenly ach looked u caught the eyes of the uther. j fag uu .'.i i Km h v. i '.den ft Sen Vamp Meet im in the Plnl tonight Jack." The dot-; and daslo-s cO.LSed. 1 Buzzz-77- i " .io it j again. ; Garrlck looked I n 1 1 the ' '"H Of and Vlra. They had g. ' it too Idols and dashes had no ant onj torrputlon to most In the rooi 'two people thos were a messog two others they wen i ivsterl few moments later '".lent 1 1 tie i Iiim i i th ' : e to gl rick hastilv did the same '1 'They will '.11 Ruth." he n JtO Dlcl as the; rvi ill ,ei'. "SI ithere " In the press In the lobby thej aged to get Just back of ttl earnestly conversing couple. Well If Jack s here . . . th lis. too " j I Glen looked more troubled.! Garrick dresv Dick over towa tivHs Hland jut m time to p Ithelr being seen following. "So 'ack Curtis has come in I ' around out Dick. "We've Just simply i;ot to hsi Is -aid in that FMrjk mom tonl considered Garrlck. with a glai i ,, i much i i o ask "Al !fc'a.nie-' 1 . k'.s fa lighted up as 11 ray an had beer, switched on. ; ;,. e lift igi i ph!" h claim 1 1 (Continued in hir Next IsS ' |