Adventure Magazine Cover — page 68: what you’re looking at

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824 Keegles rose from his bench to face Miss Hayden and Hartley. The young lady had caught him by the arm before he could open his lips to speak. “Mr. Keegles,” she said, “‘did you go to see Pounds?”’ | ““Of course——”’ he began. “Did you get the job?” she interrupted. “You can’t slug your way into a job,” returned Keegles soberly and with infinite weariness. “But you can!” declared Miss Hayden, dancing in front of him, emitting delighted gigeles. ‘Show him, Mr. Hartley!” she directed. Adventure Suddenly in the dim light Keegles was looking at a telegram signed by the chair- mani of the board of directors of the Western company, whom Hartley had met that morn- ing at the train. The telegram was brief, merely announcing that Hartley’s concern had secured the contract. “And I’ve got a job for you out there,” declared Hartley. ‘Your salary starts from this minute!” And then Keegles was pushed away from the bench toward the bright lights of the Avenue. A little hand was patting him on the back, and a soft voice was whispering: “The great Keegles! The great Keegles!” THE LOST TREASURES OF THE ORIENT Gold and Jewels Still Waitmg to be Found by Some Modern Adventurer Buffingt Pag Phillips ; HE mind is staggered, the imagina- tion atrophied, in contemplation of the lost treasures of the East— gold, silver and jewels—which lie in the graves of dead emperors, in the ruins of ancient capitals under centuries of desert dust and in the forgotten mountain temples, almost any one of them sufficient in amount to make the true adventurer who finds them amazingly rich. The East to-day is wealthy in gold vessels, ornaments and precious stones, but think what it must have been four thousand or even eight hundred years ago when it was the world’s center of wealth! One of the most elusive clues to any of these very great treasures is what is now called the Spaulding quest, bearing the name of the young American who dis- appeared, probably forever, three years ago C© MICLOOOKS C©