Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 7, 1925 — page 108: what you’re looking at

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

————— ya PIN Ral yi f’ ir ey i UE A ‘ 1 at = By CHARLES ALDEN SELTZER a Author of ‘‘ Channing Comes Through,’’ “‘ The Way of the Buffalo,’’ etc. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PREVIOUS PARTS DNA PENDLETON goes West to claim a partnership in a ranch willed to her. Hale Seaton, “4 a young attorney, accompanies her. Ross, a tall, handsome but saturnine cowman, guides them *S on the eighty-mile ride to the Circle Dot. The travelers find Nellie Porter, fourteen, cower- > ing in the brush. Her parents have been slain by Indians, who in turn were killed by Fagin and Brandt Adams, gunmen. At the Circle Dot it is revealed that Ross is Nevins, part owner of the ranch. Grace Rignal, ward of Nevins, falls in love with Seaton. Some one unidentified tries to murder Seaton by hanging; the Easterner is cut down just in time. Nevins rides to Hamlin’s ranch and finds him stabbed to death. Fagin and Adams discover that the knife used is Nevins’s. __ Nevins kills a sheriff’s deputy sent to arrest him, and flees. Fagin and Adams appear at the Circle Dot with legal papers giving Fagin possession of the property; Nellie Porter is made Adams’s ward. CHAPTER XVIII. faintly illuminated by a bracket lamp at = the far end. : | She stood in the partly opened door for HORTLY after midnight of the first some minutes, listening, hearing nothing. day of Fagin’s brutal assumption of Fagin had carried out his expressed deter- ~~ authority at the Circle Dot, Edna mination to occupy Nevins’s room. Both softly opened the door of her room Grace and Edna had gone upstairs early and gazed down the narrow hall, which was to avoid Fagin, and both were occupying et ia. Al 2 CSAS Mee ee 4 ORGANIZED LAWLESSNESS. 5 This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weehly for January 17. * Copyrighted in 1025 by Charles Alden Seltzer. Eomicbooks.com.