Adventure Magazine Cover, December 18, 1919 — page 17: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Man toMan 64 Jackson Gregory A four-part stor; ‘December WW msue~ Yol23 Nob partone che, fo “at gee i 7 Author of “ Silver Slippers,” “The Bells of San Juan,” etc. I IS pulses quickened and a bright eagerness came into Steve Pack- ard’s eyes as he rode deeper into the pine-timbered mountains. Today he was on the last lap of a delectable journey: Three days ago he had ridden out of the sun-baked town of San Juan; three months ago he had sailed out of a South Sea port. : Far down there, foregathering with sail- ormen in a dirty water-front boarding- house, he had grown suddenly and even tenderly reminiscent of a cleaner land which he had roamed as a boy. He looked back across the departed years as many. a man has looked from just some such resort as Black Jack’s boarding-house, a little wist- fully withal. Abruptly he had gotten up and taken ship back across the Pacific. The house of Packard might have spelled its name with the seven letters of the word Impulse. Late tonight or early tomorrow he would go down the trail into Packard’s Grab, the valley which had been his grandfather’s and, because of a burst of reckless gener- osity on the part of the old man, Steve’s father’s also. But never Steve’s, pondered the man on the horse; word of his father’s death had come to him five months ago and with it word of Phil Packard’s specu- lations and sweeping losses. But never had money’s coming and money’s going been a serious concern of Steve Packard and now his anticipation was sufficiently keen. The world was his; he had no need of a legal paper to state that the small fragment of the world known as Copyright, 1919, by The Ridgway Company in the United States and Great Britain, All rights reserved. 3 00 \(6) S (EC)