Argosy All-Story Weekly — page 19: what you’re looking at

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" | Posty Salome, centralized a community of 801 F. ; Cts) rat ~ . bg yt ; » 7 2, < . } ) LA re {) y ys L Oeeer- oe 7 = QQ \S Wk —-= SSA By KENNETH PERKINS ee Author of “‘ Queen of the Night,’* The Seo ae “2 ice a CHAPTER is A GIRL UN AFRAID. transformation of that notorious stage stop which only a few years before had flaunted its glorious aspect of the old and vitally romantic Arizona. The group of unpainted shacks in a scene of mesas, deserts and sparkling thin air still retained the vigorous intense drama of the lost era. It drew for its existence upon the same resources. 2 Sun- “up was in the center of a mining and stock raising country. A stage connected with the Quartzite placer mines, orchards and vineyards; to the north the trading eis ~ as desert cafions and mines—the Harqua Hala gold mine, the Glory Hole of sudden and _ Violent fame. To the south i 2 a country, of —— RED HAYDEN was astounded at the bleached grass, giant cactus —s cactus =2>. SS ishing years. Fred Hayden rattled into town in a run-_ = Z about. He apologized for the cheap light — = = car; it was the only machine he said which, Se Se with the use of chicken wire when stuck in the sand, could traverse the road between Sun-up and the Santa Fe junction He observed a semblance of the old days; —S ‘the unpainted dance halls, the broad, glar- ing street relieved of a monotone of brown dust by the zigzag red and yellow of a blan- = ket swathing a Pima Indian. - haere: — pinto at a tethering post, and . — —— cattle outfits evoked the ae and van- =