Argosy All-Story Weekly — page 11: what you’re looking at

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ARGOSY-ALLSTORY 5, eee Oe SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1924 fees eS VoL. CLXII By RUFUS KING Author of *‘ Dirty Work,’’ ‘‘ The Silent Command,’’ etc. BY WAY OF PREFACE. UNCHES, premonitions, second- oe sight, and all that sort of thing, have always appeared to me to be- long by right to the province of the weak- minded. That was before I bought the trunk. If I hadn’t bought the trunk I would never have come across the amazing doc- ument, nor would I have met Billy. To have missed the first would have been a serious loss not alone to the world, but, I NUMBER 6 CAN KD. = be left lying about where it might fall into the hands of some unscrupulous person. As to not having met Billy, I do not know. It is all very well for people to say that contact with youth is good for age. I haven’t the least doubt but that it is. If one looks at it from the point of view that the bulk of things that are good for one are either uncomfortable or unpleasant, then the statement is true. I do not want to give the impression by this that Billy is unpleasant. He is quite the reverse, and is one of the most attractive young fellows am sure, to its owner’s peace of mind. It imaginable. But he is decidedly uncom- is not the sort of document that ought to fortable. 1A 80x cCoMmiclboOoksS.€©