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CHAPTER IX,
T}I1, 1)IREC'rrOia X'iemE1Z,
"Curtis ---you were up to something
devilish—I knew it!"repeated Vario as
be faced Jack over the table at the
Binnacle. "When you saw me drive
up here you suddenly changed your
tune. You ran to cover -to cover
yoarself!"
The waiter, Herman, sniveled. His
face was livid. He bowed and almost
fawned 0n Vario, took hold of him,
for all the world like a drowning man
catching at a straw.
"Furthermore, I believe you slipped
that vial into this man's pocket—
perhaps you palmed it—did a little
sleight of hand. You inhume..n cad !•
I could cane you!"
Ruth was speechless.
Jack had been working himself into
an almost apoplectic rage as Vario
hurled the accusation at him. He shot
out his forefinger, pointing at the tea-
cup that had been before hint:
"Would I—pciscn—rni+self 1" he
unenacea.
"We'll settle that," came back Vario
sharply. "1.11 undertake to label this
all and seal it—in the presence of you
as witnesses. Then I'll send it to some
reputable laboratory for analysis." •
The waiter scurried about getting
flasks. Vario turned to Ruth with
excessive courtesy. "1\'Iiss•,Walden—I
must insist—for your own safety—I'll
strive you bac]: to the Club. Your mo-
ther cannot stand much more, she has
been through so much anguish in the
last two days.'
Ruth looked. from Vario to Jack,
still sputtering impotently. "Thank
you., Professor. It's very kind of you
to take such an interest.
They left Curtis standing, still boil-
ing with rage, beside his motor. As
Vario's car disappeared, Jack sprang
into his own and shot down the -South
Shore road toward a short eat to the
cross island highway.
Nita Walden's surprise was great
when she saw Vario with Ruth.
"Where's Jack Curtis?" she exclaimed.
"Oh, Ruth, dear, any more trouble?"
"No, Mununsy, nothing much . , .
Jack was a little of in the head ..
but Professor Vario came along .. .
and..."
Mrs. Walden beamed her apprecia-
tion of Vario's help.
Ruth decided to wait until there
were more facts before she remade an
accusation. "You'll let me know the
—the result?" she asked. .
Vario promised, are] with a forced,
light-hearted remark, Ruth turned and
ran up the stairs to her room.
Meanwhile, on the opposite porch of
the Club, which was otherwise desert-
ed, Vira, only a few moments before,
had tucked her arm under Garrick's
and drawn him into the privacy of
the glassed -in winter solarium.
Tisomething seething in
avour
of this Japan Green Blend
cigarette, lighted .another, i•live v itt Or
away, and stood foolishly with the
burnt match in his hand. "'That's the y
way I am, Gup--- as name as hell,
You will ]lice the fl
I might as well make z clean breest of
• „ .. • c ThisLittle Essay,
.Just give are 'tonight to think Beautiful .1..,1
it over... S1relI, anyway . • yes, 1 Written by the Author o.. 1,
gave the key to lyra -arae once."
"All Quiet on the Western.
11
Glenn departed, a bit xelieved at
"Whose Was that gruff voice, a elan, postponini the evil day of confession.
that I heard this morning over the "Well, if Rao Larue heti it, they all
dictagraph in the Pink Room? Brock?' had it, anyone who wanted it," hastily
Garrick had figured on betrayal by reasoned Garrick. "That place is a
surprise. IIe in turn was not surpris- cache for their sttiff. I don't need the
ed by the naive stare in return nor key. Pll get in. Come on to the city!"
by the firm silence, He had seen too ,Glenn's garage ryas easy. It was
many women on the witness stand, indeed an "unbonded warehouse,"
Vira had made up her mind to talk— There • wore oases enough to have
but not too much, meant a tidy little fortune.
It was not three minutes later when "Whet shall we do?" asked Dick.
Dick received another shock. Mrs. "Hand it over to the police?" . the
Walden had hastened to pour outt the "Not yet. I must get Glenn and
news of the Binnacle episode, as far
as she knew it, to G£urrick.
"This thing has gone just about far
enough, Dick," Garrick announced en.
ergetically. "Now is the moment to
act in earnest. Take these robberies,
first. Why , .. and by whom? What-
ever her foolishness and love of ad-
venture, Ruth just simply could not
have been concerned in them. Now,
start at the beginning. There's that
girl's flat used in the Gerard robbery,
the one I've got in the Club safe.
Whose is that? I know what you're
going to say. Rae Larue's. Maybe.
/
ea
't
"The 'Sea Vamp' has gone," he said,
as they looked out over the empty
harbor.
tl t f ' u 'ty for what
—but they're just wise young fools.
Garrick thought a moment. "You see,.
the net result of sonie of our new corn-
mandlnents has been to make various
phases of lawbreaking fashionably
smart. Only this is a bit etfreme."
He moved over to the telephone and
called the Astra Agency of private de.
tectives to furnish a guard until the
ring -leader' was caught sad he was
ready to snake final disposition of the
case. ,
Dick discovered a wireless set on a
worktable in . the rear. Mecltanicalls one-sided. The war lent thein
be started tuning in. strength.
Dick was startled. .'"Soineone's Spurred by their inner striving,
broadcasting what they call news," he men had made a common lot of their
said. "It ... it can't be. It must be great works of philosophy, of art of
some crazy amateur. `Ruth Walden, knowledge. But the war had drag -
the heiress, has eloped with John Cur- a'ed those into the dust. :1 ratan
tis!" shut his eyes and saw in his omen-
ent seized the .phones; ' Aiwa- eat only the enemy, never another
teur—perhaps; crazy, no! Did you elan. To see only this enemy is to
ever stop to consider the radio as a see from the exact military noiut of
means for slander? Talk about your view. But this military viewpoint
poison pen writers] Science' has put has not furthered the Progress of
into the hands of blackmailers the mankind to any extraordinary degree
most dangerous of weapon;. Your of culture.
story is spread to a million Faris. And In the first years of the war there
there's not a chance of tracing it to were moments in the trenches when
your slanderer!" the homely understanding of the sine -
"There isn't? The devil there isn't. pie soldier . found release. These
I can. I will!" exclaimed Dick. "If moments were touching and human
it keeps up." things, even though they were danger -
Everything he neeclecl seemed there ous ones for a soldier. Men of up-
on the workbench. It was compara-1, peeing sides by nimble gestures,
tively simple to make a loop of copper 1 signs, flags, sometimes reached en
wire wound eight times around a frame ntlerstanding; and for a few hours
Front' is an Indication to
Humanity That There is
Still 1-lo'p e for Peace in the
World.
By ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
It is inconceivable to us to -day, ten
years after the war, that 'there was a
time when hate and blindness and er-
ror :Stilled the Impulse of man to seek
the truth..
Only from ignorance could such
others some sat o imnl m hate and blindness and error spring
they didn't do. They don't deserve it the Ignorance that blocks the way o..
Frenchmen atul Englishmen and
Americans believed the Germans to
bo Huns who, for their chief pursuits, All Young
Slew children and ravaged women.
And millions of Germans believed
that the French wore destined by na-
ture to be their arch enemies, that
Russians all and sundry were bar-
barians and that Englishmen tuft]
Americans fought the war solely as 0
part of a cold, business -like quest for
speculation and .trade. It mattered
not that such notions were false ante.
man toward tenth. Millions of
(GREEN)
'rest' Brom the gardens'
Su.
7a5
ed and platin pique, flat silk crepe, and
spenders Are
Tempting Juniors
four feet square. He hung it from { at a time these troops stopped the
But can you prove it? And if you can, the ceiling, free. IIe connected up the 'a ar. Germans went Into Russian
that's a long way from connecting her ,receiving set, then began turning thef and French trenches, Russians and
tvitll the hold-up." loop slowly. • Frenchmen into German, to swap tid-
"That devil, Jack Curtis!" ground "A directional receiver, explained! bits and cigarettes and other knick-
out Dfciy. "They're two of a kind. I'll Dick. "It must he orientated toward `icnecl:s... Later, they shot each oth-
bet if we could raid his room at the the hidden sender. Really it's a radio! er down. The higher command put
compass." ! r a stop to such an idyll.
By the time the Astra• Agency men! The American or the Freuchennn delightfully interesting fash-
arrived Dick had it pointid. Every who travels through Germany re-lay
Eery minutes a nety ruessa� caste in.� sees a friendly, industrious and a ion A particularly as illustrated in
i �t twuist
hotel, we'd get something—maybe a
picture of Rae—with the hat. I think
that was his camera after all that yoti
pinched."
Garrick swing on his heel. "Curtis.
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• YOUTH AND AG•fv
It is currently said that hope gens
with youth, and lends t. youth Its
wings of a butterfly; but I fancy that •
]tope is the last gift given to man, and
tlto only gift not giver: to youth.
Youth is pre•etuinently the period in
which a man can be lyric, tanaUcal,
poetic; bat youth is the Perim" in
which a man can be hopeless. The
end of every episode is the en@ of the
world. . But the power of . hoping
through everything, the l+nOWledge
that the soul survives he adventures,
that great insptration cases to the
middle-aged; Gc:cl has kept that good
wine until now. It is fro the hacks
of tate elderly gentlemen that the
wings of the butterfly should burst:
There is nothing that so mystifies the
young as the consistent frivolity of
the old. They have discovered their
indestructibility. They ere in theft
second and clearer childhood, and
there is a meaning in 1. a merriment
of their eyes. They have seen an
end of the End of the Work]. ---G.
Chesterton.
It's
They left the met in ;lege and peaceful people, and Uie German who nanlieni blue melee. The shirt Just what I was thinking. Let's jump' climbed in the car. The d,,-,ctlon had visits Auieaica or France sees the blouse of white cotton broadcloth in
J „ been east byn little soot},. same. One floes not comprehend shiny finish, with blue and white but -
At
there—get him right, quick. `
hotel theylearned that Cur Across the bridge Dick Set up his .]low, twelve years
ea sl ago, these
eotons, with tie of blue grosgrain ribbon.
At the finder again. This time it was east by, ane another,
forenoon.
had 1lacl d eck d3!ng that b
aucl had a little Borth. Over welt known roads ter, as a brutish criminal, as a titan Buttons haldin,; suspender s raps
dipeloci checked out, they scurried,. now and then, every without a heart. It was is if each at front of hip yoke of circular skirt
disappeared. few miles, setting up the finder and soldier took such a criminal and used are in the nautical blue shade.
Overathe telephone was Garrick home
the Page place. Beth not at home modifying their course. it as a one-sided measure to east Style No. 185 is a sportive outfit
hut her mother, with considerable re- "Looks as if it might be down Duck the statue of a Whole people. But for now and all Spring without a coat.
There was something Harbor way!" exclaimed Dieic, such one -tided notions have gone. It is designed in sizes 6, 8, 10, 1:.
her mind. "It's about Glentl," she lief, replied:"Miss Larue. Miss T,a-The woolen skirt worn with ditier-
cbringingher two hands rue left rather hurriedly for the city At Duck Harbor, abruptly, the di- One knows at last that all i!te pee- and 14years.
tog d tensely, "You rection of the messages changed to pie in the world are alike, knows that
to
Innelller. know eo about the this afternoon. l. I believe she expects the northeast sharply. all have the same cares, tate same ent blouses gives decided variety to
Inner Circle ... and Georges. Well, her mother from the coast." _' strugglewardrobe. White crepe de chine makes
when"Mrs. 'Walden said that Curtis had "I believe you traced out -the send- joys, the same and the same it wardrobe.
quite'dressy. White
A blue flat silk crepe
Glenn was our treasurer y,Iwe firsttheylooked t life • Ono takes the trouble now to
started—is yet, in a tray, I suppose. oxer the empty harbor. entirely new pect.
Oh, it may have been allright when
we started. It was fun and all that.
It was unique. It was smart. But ,
one thing led to another ... and .. .
Guy. Oh, get hint out of it all .. .
get him out of it ... clean!"
"But who's at the head of it all—
this Velvet Gans, as the police call it?"
Vira looked up quickly, a frightened
stare on her face. But she said no-
thing.
"I don't want to drag all you foolish
young folks into anything. I want to
keep you out of it. Pin not half so
much interested even in eatching these
bootlegging profiteers higher up as I
am in getting you ou: of your foolish-
ness ---cleat]. "
"I'm sick of it all. So are Glenn—
and Ruth—only they're too proud to
adroit it. Someone must make the
started down they South Shore road er," cried Garrick, as ou i in perfect matching shade of skirt
when Vario left. -:8uth looked back "Butt We're see inside the other fellows head. t
t n too late. The 'Sea Vamp' has gone! Ancl four years of ar have provedgives it , "
and sari him. The birds are flown!" - us only the value cf Peace. ally striped rayon crepe is jaunty. -
Gar'riclt was climbing fn under the r ger the will to truth, the striving Tweed skirt with jersey blouse,
•t rs e t 1
wheel when a blue streak shot along
Main Street regardless of local law.
He iabbed at his screecher of a horn.
"It's Glenn." He waved and signal-
ed. Glenn bore over to the curb a
couple of hundred yards ahead, "Jump
in, Dick." Int e.
"Wheres the fire?" joked Garrick. , opened the note and read its contents 1
"Yost going up to see Vira 'with Ito him over the phone: "I've gone to 'R e may prove it by taking the tron-
the 'Sea Vamp' to destroy the engine ble to understand the kinship of us{
Ruth:' j can't all. And the heart of man is rifles]]
"Say, Glenn—" confidentially—leo they mote it away until to- withhope. Four :,ears of hate has
morrow,—Ruth.
"there's no use lceesay this antler "But the 'Sea Vamp' has gone!" bred only the wish to understand
cover. I heard you say, in the Pinlc , „ each other. FOttt years of fighting
Room, you.'d taken that Parr stuff t e cried Nita Walden. Ruth has been has left us only thon;,hts r f peace.—
you
off on the ''Sea Vamp'!" has left
y
Sour own garage to protect Visa. Are (To be continued.)
you the only one that has a key, to
I
that place? Now, play straight, Glenn. Late -comers and Early -goers
This is for your own good. Did I ever Th London Conference
"What do you do .for a `iv)sig, Sam-
bo?"
"I'se de manager of a 1:.ndly."
"What's til name of tin.,laundry?"
":Eliza Ann."
COURAGE
Whether yon •e ate:; or women,
you will never (lo anything in the
world without courage. It is the
greatest quality of Ude is rad, next to
honor.—James Allen,
"The scoffer at art has gone oat
of fashion.""—Otta IT. Cain.
From a cottage down the beach a - sports we'g1 t linen with handkerchief '
rick called Nita Walden. "Where is to gam an oblectlt e w cle inailreal i ted and plain jersey, print- M inard's •
t/1a, ds Oft
Grippe.
Ruth?" he asked. of. the other fellow, has become linen, printed 1
"She ent out with Glenn and Vim. again. be proud of being
American, an English -
At
,P 1,,, man a Frenchman, but one g
again u w can I
She left a note for you, Guy, marked a German, nnogl h r
ersona .
At Garrick's request Mrs. Walden War no longer in order to prove his
break, I felt that I could—swallow] do you a dirty trick—or Dick?
rrea t.
my pride, Guy." t Glenr. threw away an almost fresh
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The on
T.Y. in the. New Statesman (Lon -
Round Table (London): It is cliffs-. don) : if there is snmetlung to he
cult to exaggerate the; significance of said in defence of the late -comer, I
the Conference which will assemble cannot think of anything that can be
in London in January to try to reach said in favor of those who go away
an agreement for the limitation and
reduction of naval armaments,
Though the formal deliberations of
the Conference itself will presumably
be confines] to strictly naval Issues,
the fact that it ie held at a11, the
,et a taxi for Twenty minutes or 11101
character et its personnel, and still I the chauffeur lest the way. Tho late
more the pooear l"� dtheuwS!Oc 17e• 1 comer may be the most innocent and
tween the Goreruments which its
meeting implies or will initiate, will
make it by far the most important in-
ternational conference -which has
been hell since the sessions or. the
Peace Conference in Paris in 1919.
early from theatres, concerts and
football inatclies. These,•it seems to
me, are the real criminals. They can-
not pretend that they are the victims
of truffle -lams or that they couldn't
unselfish creature alive. Tho early -
goer is in almost all cases deliberate,
ly selfish, Ile has but one p01905e---
to "get away before the crush"—and,
he does not care at whose expense he
does it. :r
3
SMALL JEALOUSIES
It is paradoxical, but true, that the : Truth. (London); This principle of
rOOinl the soul becetsel the morel general response to the 5,0,8. is mak-I
�1`00111 it Creates frr itself --a margin' r,
of quietness In which it remains mei lag shipping companies. rather
1 torched by petty jealousies -and hurts. 1 thoughtful. - It is a very expensive
13y the practice of charity '.and tinsel- ;business. No shipping company;
fishness a lite Builds for itself. more, would In any 111Y to restrict els •
i stately. mansions wherein it may' captains from responding to the calf; .
dwell in peace. A song in one's heart.; 110 captain would submit to be so ro-
e smiie upon ones lips, a cheery sIricted, But when one reads that
wholesome message of goodwill on, several ships are proceeding to the
nne's tongue are wonderful helps' to assistance of a vessel in trouble one
all kinds of ]people. rather foie it should be possible to
limit this process. Ono able and Well -
Fa 111rig 1•la'rJust try fJifnard's. `fotiud ship 'can render all the aid like -
The Costly S. 0. S.
•--•-.,,.^-,;, ly to be ]possible; why, therefore,
"'here is simply Ito limit towhat should half a dozen be diverted from
may be done by the directed milli their couise, perhaps by some hull-
oed will."--eI<athleen Norris, ,lt ergs of smiles, with consequent addi.'
jeeclless
sufi'eri.n
tlonal expenditure of fuel and loss of
ISSUE NO, 3—'30 tlnte?
The next time a headache makes
you stay at home—
Or some other ache or pain pre-
vents your keeping an engagement --
Remember Aspirin! For there is
scarcely any sort of pain it cannot
relieve, and relieve promptly.
These tablets give real relief, or
millions would not continue to ta'ke
there. They are quite harmless, or
the medical profession would not
constantly prescribe theist.
Don't be a martyr to unnecessary
pain. To colds that might so
easily be checked; neuritis, neu-
ralgia; to those pains peculiar to
women; or any suffering for which
Aspirin is such an effective anti-
dote.
to
You need not hesitate to take
Aspirin. It is safe. It is always
the same. It never depresses the
heart, so use it as often as needed:
but the cause of any pain can W
treated only by a doctor.
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