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CHAPTER VI.
TIM WIRELESS DICTAGRA?Xi.
"Your wireless dictagraph? Bully!"
exclaimed Garrick. "We could use
that little mechanical eavesdropper.
Where is it?"
"In my laboratory."
Garriek's face fell. He glanced at
his watch and then at the sun. "Yes,
. I think we can make it. • . We claimed, "Why, I can hear the whrrr o.k
listened for several minutes but tiler
as nothing snore. Whoever as clean•-
ing the roomfinished and left.
went up on the roof. and erected the
portable aerial.
Carefully and deftly he began to
tune up, now that this second instal-
lation was complete. He finally look-
ed up at Garrick, smiled, and took, the
headgear off, handing it to him. "Get
that?" '
Garrick adjusted it, listened for,
8
a
moment in some perplexity, then x -
must" vacuum cleaner in the room!" They
•e
Two hours` later found them in
Dick's own wireless workshop, It svgs
the boathouse on his estate where he
had done some remarkable things with
wireless. Outside he had a big aerial
from two steel towers.
Interested though he would have
been at any other time, Garrick urged
haste. Dick led him proudly to a
table on which was his apparatus.
"So this is the Defoe Wireless Dic-
tagraph," comelimented Garrick, pick-
ing familiar little round trans -
The uzzer on Garrick's door sound-
ed. 'He opened it a crack. It as Mc-
Kay. "I just saw that Rae Larue, with
a man, at the Park Garage on Sixtieth
Street, where I put the car up."
"What sort of looking man?"
"I didn't know him,. sir. Sort of
shaggy hair—"
"Brock!" exclaimed Dick.
rug up re amr "Then Jack Curtis came in a car.
nutter like that which he had used so He didn't stay long; went downtown,
many times on the wired machine.
As he packed the pc:rts Dick hastily
enumerated them, his sending set, bat-
teries, coils of wire, small portable
antennae, and the receiving set.
They at last had everything strap-
ped in on the rear of Garrick's car
and as they swung up toward the turn-
pike they stopped for a moment at
the Nonowantuc Club.
As Dick hopped out, followed by
Guy, there was a suspicious silence
on the club porch, as often happens
when the friends of an interesting'
factor of the preceding conversation
draw nigh. Silence is Freudian. Dick
winked at Garrick.
A group of flappers, Ruth's friends,
came up. "Hey, Dick, where's Ruth?
Guy, have you Leard how badly
h hurts For heaven's sakeI think.had ad been waiting in `a car in
the long line in the garage. Suddenly
a rakish roadster drew up and Rae
saw Glenn Buckley in it. She jumped
out to meet hire.
Glenn greeted her with a sickly
smile.
"Well, you poor fish!" exclaimed
Rae. "What are you doing here?"
"Just looking to see if there's any-
one about."
"Gee, Glenn, I'm thirsty. Let's go
down to the Inter Circle. Will you
take me?"
"Surely, Rae. Always glad to re-
lieve a drought and be charitable to
my own at the same time."
Rae grabbed his arm and swung up
behind the wheel. They were off.
she
was To himself Glenn had to admit that
get her back here. The place is dead no one could be bored in Rae's society.
without Ruth." No wonder Vira was jealous. But he
With a smile on his face, Professor wouldn't have taken a dozen Rees for
VBrio of the Radio Central at Rock one Vira. He didn't like coarseness
Ledge. crossed over to them to make and sometimes . Rae did not shit his
friendly inquiries. fastidious nature. Vira with all her
"Going to town?" inquired Vario modernity, vivacity and recklessness
when Garrick returned with a small
handbag from his rooms.
"Yes," observing how Vario was
dressed—"are you?"
"I was waiting for the club bus to
take me to the station. Yes, to the
Radio Show at the Seventy-first Regi-
ment Armory. I'm to give a lecture
and demonstration to -night of my new
wave meter."
"Well, jump in."
In town Garrick called up Nita Wal -
.den at her apartments on Park Ave.
She had got ahead of anyone else and
Lad had Ruth's car towed to a garage.
They stopped there a moment and
Professor Vario's solicitude for Mrs.
Walden seemed to offer Garrick the
opportunity to get rid of hire, for they
certainly did not want any strangers
about in what they were going to do.
"But the show," remonstrated Mrs.
Walden as Vario offered to stay and
do anything he could to relieve her
anxiety.
"I'll telephone thein that I'm delay-
ed. They can postpone my stunt till
later in the evening," he insisted.
"I really appreciate your kindness
deeply—but--of course, I want my
.little girl. I can't think of anything
else. I can't talk over the telephone,
read; I
am
just
• t• I
can'tJ
right;
inca-
pacitated until.Ruth gets back to me."
Garrick leaned over to Nita Wal-
den. "We'll have some word to -night
—sure. By to -morrow you'll have her
back—"safe."
Garrick had been thinking '°out a
plan for installing the dictagraph.
Up the street from the Inner Circle
were two houses turned into studio
.apartments. He found the caretaker
and the conversation was lucrative to
her.
Dick selected. and carried up to the
roof the apparatus and they went as
silently as possible across the inter-
vening roofs until they came to the
roof of the Inner Circle.
It was a curious roof. In the cen-
tre had been built a great concrete
box as big as a room. There was no quickly as if expecting him, then,
time to investigate that, however. catching a better look, uttered an oath
Garrick fished with 'a line down and swung on him.
the chimney until he located the flue) Garrick parried and countered. The
i man went sprawling backward on the
pees
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The otic': man anal hie wife were
sitting Mettle third, class compartment
wben we boarded the tr't1•ia1 at Cam -
!midge for • London, It was evening,
The woman was' in her fifties, ,ami.
able and pretty, dressed in worn black
and wearing one of those towering
!rats popularized by .tbe late Queen
Alexandra.
13ut it was the man that drew our
attention, A powerful old man, crag-
gily• built. He looked like a storm•
.beaten oak tree, A fine head.' Gar
combed iron -grey hair. Eyebrows like
mustaches, piercing grey eyes, allege
Montan nose; The face deeply furrow -
Good' Arable Land
Found in Labrador
Rapid Growth of Vegetation
in Short Season Feature
of. Country
Amherst, Mass. Professor Fred C.
Sears of the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College here has just returned
after a summer spent in the interest
of agricultural development in -Labra-
dor. He expressed himself as opti-
mistic over the agricultural pi ospects
of the region. His work was"in connec-
tion with the Grenfell Mission.
Prof. Sears described a ten -acre
field which has been cleared 'of fir,
spruce and hackmatac'k at .Northwest
River. The soil, he si id,• is sandy and
success is anticipated in the growing
of asparagus, strawberries and rasp-
berries and potatoes. • The rapid
growth of vegetation during the few
weeks of warns weather. is almost un-
believable, he said. Potatoes planted,
on July 28 were sufficiently grown to
use on Oct. 1. He witnessed cab-
bages grow in four weeks from spind-
ling transplants to fully developed
heads.
Following his investigations of the
summer of 1928, the professor shipped
to St. Anthony, apple, cherry, crab-
apple and plum trees. He found them
making excellent grewth•ort his visit
mo e this year.
never was coarse. Prof. Sears' research was •directed.
ed and seemed. He'Sipped reflective-
ly from a quart bottle or Brown's
Ordinary.'ale as he looked us over.
"You are Americans, aren't you,
sir?" he asked finally, in a rumbling
voice. "I like Americans, 1 like .your
country. I helped to dig those tun-
nels of yours. under the Hudson."
His voice was not that of the edu-
cated man nor' of the cockney nor of
the ordinary laboring man. He spoke
a good. I+]nglislr, without any of tine
usual mannerisms. \Ve asked him
what he did on the tunnels.
"High pressure wort.," he explain.
ed. "I am a diver—the oldest sliver
in the world, T suppose. I've had
More water outside of mo and less
inside of me :then any man living."
He roared with laughter that shook
the train, and took a deep draught
of ale. °
"You will excuse me boasting, sir,
but this is my day oft, and we're en-
joying ourselves, eh, Mary? I'm sixty-
six years old. Find me another diver
of that age who still works at eighty-
five feet under. But I'm slipping.
When I was in racy. prime I was a „But my three quid. was gone, and
tough one, wasn't I rilgazin the laugh was on me. I scratched my
She nodded assent, gazing at hint • head a while. 'Wait a minute,' I said
proudly. 'You've won, but you're so tired out
He ~vent on tailiiug. Stories of illy now that you couldn't even run half
a mile in a half hour. One condition.
.You will have to wear ruv boots.
.Three quid on it'
"He laughed and laughed. He was
a good runner. Ile thought I'd had
too. much beer. The people from the
pub laughed too.
" `Some along,' I said. I'll get you
"Say, Dick, 3"m going to leave you to promotion of agriculture 'in a re -
here with that wireless dictagraph.
You can work "it best anyhow. I must
get a line on that garage 'and do it
right away," said Garrick.
Down the street in ,a lunchroom
Garrick caught sight of McKay again
and beckoned hint quietly out.
"I was thinking about calling you
up, sir, soon," informed McKay. "I
was just talking to one of the polish-
ers in there. Ile tells me that Jack
Curtis gave orders to some driver
about the place, a stranger, to go after
something at eleven o'clock. He didn't
know what it was or cohere it was, but
he give him a key, sir."
McKay pointed the fellow, a stran-
ger out. Alone Garrick waited. It
was now half past nine. He had an
hour and a half to watch. As he did
so he revolved the two robberies over
and over in his mind. Each time his
thought led him to the sae path.
Who was the "man higher up"?Was
it Jack Curtis? Or Brock? Might it
net be Georges? What, after all, did
he know about Georges, since before
the war and during the easy violation
of ,selling service men that which is
wet?
It was nearly midnight when Gar-
rick in what seemed like a reliable taxi-
cab, the man
o
f
the trailing
con
eluded
ab
C
who had received instructions from
Curtis.
Garrick dismissed his taxi at the
corner and began to reconnoitre. To
his amazement he saw that he was on
the block where was the town house
of Vira Gerard's family.
It was an added shock when he
saw that the car had stopped just in
front of the Gerard house and that
the driver had entered the gate and
was fumbling with a key at the door.
Garrick quickened his steps. It was
now or never to get let in on this
mystery.
As he turned in at the gate the
man at the door beard him, looking
gion where winter holds sway approx-
imately eight months of the year, and
where the frost never leaves the sub-
stratum of the soil. Several substa-
tions have been established in Lab-
rador and tests are being Made on
growth of both ornamental, and com-
mercial plants, as well as .fertilizer
and acidity tests, the raising of alfal-
fa, drainage and improvement of gar-
den vegetables.
Prof. Sears has.had';3i1 yea .s ex-
perience in investigational -work:ten
of which were spent in Nova Scotia.
His investigations have carried hint
into Canada and eastern and western
United States.
One of the most interesting phases
of Prof. Sears' work. in Labrador is
that relating to the introduction of
flowering plants. Red flowers are vir-
tually non-existent in Larador—why
it has not been explained Blue.flow-
ers thrive and Prof. Sears hopes that
red ones will be ma ,e to blossom as
well.
to the Pink Room. Then, dangling
down, he lowered the dictagraph
transmitter until it must have hung
a foot from the floor of the hearth
hack of the iron grill work under the
mantel below in the Pink Room.
Meanwhile, on the roof, Dick had
beenbusy placing his sending set and
Garrick helped hien complete the
set -tip.
As they left the studio house, two
men were passing. One of them bruslt-
ed suspiciously against Dick with
enough force to knock the bag he was
carrying out of his hand. Garrick
controlled his temper. Here were the
rnystrious shadowers again. Were
they emissaries ofthe gang?
Garrick picked up the bag himself,
looking significantly at the man, and
remarked, "Well, see? Nothing drip-
' ping!"
As they bad, been at work on the
roof, they had determined on placing
the , receiving end tip' at Garrick's
apartment, which was only several
blocks uptown. .
At Bachelors hall Dick worked
rapidly, for i' was now getting dark.
He unpacked the receiving end of his
wireless dictagraph in the room, then
p,p.iiJE, No. •
bit of turf of the little .front yard.
At. that moment Garrick heard the
clatter of feet from across the street
and around the motor. But before he
could turn, the other pian was on him,
bearing him down with the momentum
of the rush. He was a husky. but Gar-
rick felt he could outwrestle him.
The fellow sprawling on the turf
swore again as he crouched up on
his hands and knees, waiting to get a
hold. •
Two were more than Garrick could
handle as legs and anis and heads cut
the turf, getting ever nearer the sharp
pickets of the fence.
(To be continued.)
IDLENESS
The idle man is an annoyance, a
nuisance; he is of no beuelit, to any- man; •he praised America for its in- mixed thoroughly with as much cocoa
dividualism. With each point his as one likes, usually two tc.blespoon-
o every -day overwhelming laugh rang out. furs. One cupful of milk added and
stands
thoroughfare "I was a tough one," he repeated. the .mixture slowly- boiled, until when
stands in our path, and the push 11im
contemptuously aside; he is of no ad- Then he said: tested in cold water, it forums a soft
vantage to anybody; he annoys busy. "But one man almost rut me down. hall. A piece of butter .the size of a
men, he makes them unhappy; be is a It was when we were working off walnut and vanilla.
unit in society. Therefore, young man,' the docks in Southampton, in 1897. The secret is not beating or stir -
do something in this busy, bustling, That ryas my day off, too. I was tak ring the ingredients until the fudge
wide-awake world! Move about' for Ing a walk in the park, and I met up has cooled. -
the benefits of mankind, if not for with a tow headed chap, big. and WISDOM
yourself. Do not be idle; God's Iaw broad. We got to talking and drink- '
is that by the sweat of our brow we ing together and boasting. We had Wisdom does not shaty itself so
shall earn our bread. Di not be idle; money in our pockets, and got to much in precept as in. life—iu a,flrm-
Uettfng. niers of m'nil and a mastery of appe-
every man anevery woman, however
exalted or however humble, can do "We . rain races, we wrestled, we lite. It teaches us to do, as well as
good in this short life;, therefore, do long -jumped, re high jumped, we bet to talk; and to make our works and
not be idle. --G. A. Sala. on drinking speed, we fought two actions all of a color,—Seneca,
ycareful
knows it is the. best.
TEA
>resh . front the gardens'
rounds bale -fisted, Quite a crowd' The Secret n
co
llected. •
"We held our breath, and I beat him
two minutes. 11 'e tried grips, and he
] broke i ray hand 'We climbed
Married Happiness°
nearly
ire co r .
p0105 and I beat him. He out -spit me. $y An Old Lacy of
I lifted them him.
rock. So it went, \Vainfieet (Lincolnshire. — An old
first me, then him. 1\ 'e couldn't either leery of 'ninety-one inna lace cap trim
put the other down.aA eine man• med with heliotrope ribbons and a
trim -
"Finally he said to me, 'Bet you all
you have that in half an hour I can black satin bodice fastened at her
run half a mile, drink half a dozen throat with an Old gold brooch, told
me in one Sentence the secret of mar
pirate of beer and make half a pair, rind happiness. ...
mar -
of boots' I had three quid with ane. She is lines. Walker, the wife of Mr.
I took him on, • William Walker; ' who' recently cele
lie set out hellbent, with rate and ,
the whole pub after bine. In about brafecl the seventy-second anniversary.
minutes he ran in a • cobbler's of his wedding:
four She said:•"Let•a man do as he likes
•
shop. It was his own. He was a and keep hire well- fed."
cobbler. He started on the leather Havingkeep said ehat •she lapsed into.
like a wild man. 'Bring beer;' he silence for aiden minutes, •
yelled, and we ' brought him half a Then she said: "Never argue with e
dozen 'half pints. Hard to believe, 'man, because he. is always wrong;
but, sure as I'm sitting here, in half never let a man have to look for a
an hour he'd finished a boot pretty as stud or Pair of clean socks, because
you please. mro beer was easy for it will put bim in a bail temper for the •
him. A fine man, rest of the day."
Mr. and Mrs. Walker were celebrat-
ing when I called at their house.
Telegrams and great-grandchildren
were arriving every few minutes.
Mie Walker was dressed in his best
pea -jacket, and Mrs. Walker's sequins
shone in the light of a bright fire.
The Toby Jug
ing in France and India, Stories of
drinking bouts, endurance feats. The
great tear? The old diver was in it
for four years,' and dismissed it svitti
a laugh. Wounded? Certainly. He
opened his shirt, to show where the
bullet had missed his heart. He told
of how, when the canal was stopped
in Flanders, he went down without
diving equipment and removed the the boots.' We went to my quarters,
obstruction in the locks. all the crowd along. Nobody knew I
"That was just duck diving,".he
was a diver. I brought out my div -
said. "And what do you think the ing boots, extra heavy, forty pounds
of lead in each of them. He looked
kind of pale, but he was a man. He
strapped those •boots on and set
out.
He went about ttvo hundred yards in
the first ten minutes, and he fell over,
tread beat.
"I had to take the boots off hint
up Said before I. carried him to a pub."
wThe old diver leaned back again,
at chs, and there_ the sergeant was and his laugh rattled the windows.
at the door. 'The locks
ou've re jammed,
go He took a deep draught of the. ale,
Holly,' he said. y u g
down. Hurry.' I said- According: to and offered it to his wife. She sip -
you, I'm drunk, I won't go down until Pad it modestly, and handed it back.
the captain comes, and certifies me He was unlike `any Englishman •I
sober.' They brought the captain, have ever met He seemed to belong
they certified me sober, and I went to ^a lordlier day. The last of the
down. The sergeant .got the black Elizabethans, happy with his ale in
marks for the delay, the marks I a third-class compertlaent.—Montreal
should have had. They don't lightly Standard.
say Holly's had too much."
On and on Ile went. He quoted A Fudge Secret
Ingersoll with approval and with ex- This is a fudge recipe apparently
traorttinary accuracy on the question infallible, resulting in the delicious,
of deity;; be praised King • George as creamy candy which is the despair of
a good 0111 chap, and ridiculed tion those who can make only the hard,
archy; he bitterly attacked the union grainy kind. The recipe itself is an
wage system which mates the strong ordinary one.
man take 'the wage of the average . Two cupfuls of granulated sugar,
obstruction was? 4 five -gallon tin
of rum. ' Yes -sir, .rum.. We .took it
over after nightfall to an old Belgian
woman that brought us coffee, and
after that, our coffee was half rum
for a month.
"One day the sergeant locked me
S i 1 I was drunk.I took thirty
body; he is an intruder in the busy
I f f life; he
SYMPATHY
Let us cherish sympathy. By at-
tention and exercise it may be inn
proved in every roan. 'It prepares the
mind for receiving the ilnpressiotls of
virtue; and without it there can be
no trice politeness. Nothing is more
odious than that insensibility which
wraps a main rip in himself and his
own coner"iris, and prevents his being
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Iter little house, which is full of
treasures, including a Toby jug more
than three hundred years old, shone,
too. .
When I asked 'Mr. Walker if they
had quarrelled during their seventy-
two years of married. life, he shouted
with laughter, and Mrs. Walker, look
ing at hint severely through her spec-
tacles, said: "Be quiet, Willie. It is-
nothing to laugh at. Of course,
we
have quarrelled, but only a:.out little
things.
"How could two people live happily"
together for seventy-two years with-
out quarrelling? It's against nature.'
Mrs. Walker was full of such epi-
grams. Mr. Wacker poured out wed-
ding anniversary port,. and Mrs. Welk-
er moved closer to tate fire.
"I was nearly twenty when we near-,
tied," said Mr. Walker, and she wast
eighteen and a bit.
"We had a pound each of our owm
when we married, and practically no•
furniture except a bed and a few
tables and chairs."
"And new linen," said Mrs. Walkers,
giving him another severe look. "You;
can't start married life without new
linen."
was earning two shilings a day'
on a farm," continued Mr 'Valuer,.
"and we saved money on it. We had
two children. There's one of them
running about in the garden now."
IIe rose from his hair and called:.
"Paul, come 'here a minute," and Paul,
aged sixty-nine , came in smiling..
"Hid Mr. Walk-
e.s a tvoi'rcierfltl;lad, sa
er, beaming at Paul, "and. he loves his'
gardening—don't you,' Paul?"
"Ay," said Paul, and helped hiiuselt
to a glass of port.
"We've another child; a daughter,
who's married. I'm glad she's mar-
ried. Women are best married. It•
Serves them right."
.Mr. Walker is extremely active for
his age,',and I asked him if he could,
give any advice to some of the modern
old men of thirty.
Eat Bacon and Onions
"Tell them to eat fat bacon and
raw onions .for breakfast," said Mr,.
Walker.
"If they can eat that," said Mrs.
Walker, who hates onions,` 'It will
serve them right if they live to be a
hundred."
I asked Mrs. Walker if she had a
Hearty appetite.
"I can eat anything
onions," she answered..
"Do you like this wireless, young
man.?" I was obliged to confess that
I hated it.
"So do I," said Mrs. Walker. "Es-
peoially when they start talking" . I've
never heard such rubiaislt.
Mr. Walker moved towards the loud
speaker.
' "Leave it alone," sant Mrs. Walker.'
"You don't want music; you just want
to fiddle aboat with it"
Mr, Walker fingered a switch.
"Men are all likethat," said Mrs.
Walker. "They must have a toyh
Yellin 'Patti catt't leave the 'wireless
alone. But that's the way to keep
thein happy. Let them do as they
like. All right, Willie, if you must."
mod -
except raw
HABITS
That which the easiest 'becomes a
habit in xis is the will. Learn, then,
to will once, to will strongly and de-
cisively, Thus rix your floating life,
anal• leave it no longer to be drifted
dither and tinither, like a withered
leaf, by every wind, that blows.
For Toothache--'Mlndr'd's Linli 4�ud".
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