Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 7, 1925 — page 83: what you’re looking at

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{ sey 7 BOLI Z ZG Le OF By RONALD PRINCE WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PARTS 1? and Il ICAH THRUMM, whose finger-prints, found at scenes of successful crimes, indicate that he has been operating undetected for forty years, demands by letter that Billings, a million- aire, throw overboard at a designated time, ten miles off Westhampton, Long Island, a box containing one million dollars. As an. indication of his power and determination Thrumm has murdered Arrunsdale, a broker who disregarded his ‘command. The narrator of the story, a friend of Billmgs, calls in his- nephew, Billy, an amateur crim- inologist, and they plan to trap Micah Thrumm. With an empty box the yacht. Marriatt puts to sea. Billings, his daughter Alice, Billy, old Ripley, an acquaintance they have reason to suspect, his nephew Herrickson, Simpson Vailance and Sturtevant Wyeth, two of Alice’s suitors, and the man who tells the story, are on board. Smith,” @ new radio operator, joins the ship at the last minute. When Captain Wickstrom 45° aformed that a murderer is on oatd he a to confine Billings to his cabin under guard of Bickers, his first officer. As Bickers opens the stateroom door he is ‘stabbed by a man who rushes out and disappears. Search fails to disclose Thrumm. When the narrator ef fhe story goes to his own cabin he finds there a note from the murderer telling him he is the next victim, and demanding a million dollars to be left under the same conditions at sea a week later. CHAPTER 3 AQ. Tt iss about the tamned engines,” ce. announced. CRESCENDO. “Some further delay i in fixing them?” ITH the letter from Micah Captain Wickstrom gave me a look with Thrumm exciting = beats of my large eyes that were exceedingly grave. heart, 1 requested Captain Wick- “They will not be fixed at all,” he said. strom to relate the cause of his worry. At its worst, I felt, it could never equal my Own. I reflected his gravity. “We will haff to go into the ee = And we can’t—under our own power?” This story d5egan in the ‘Argosy-Alletory Weekly for January 24. COMICbOOKS.com_