Argosy All-Story Weekly, April 7, 1928 — page 94: what you’re looking at

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

By KENNETH PERKINS Author of *‘ The Canon of Light,’’ ‘‘ Night Hawk’s Gold,’ etc. When a good little girl was caught in the gold rush, it took quick, red-blooded men of actiongto fight her battles WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PREVIOUS PARTS HEN the whaling ship Cape Cod is deserted by all its crew except a harpooner named Old Joshua, in San Francisco Bay during the gold rush in 1849, Priscilla, the angelic daughter of Captain Adam Bartlett, goes ashore to find a chivalrous gambler named Jim Dorsey. man engages her to sing hymns and folk melodies. In her search, she visits Steve Lukon’s famous dance hall, and that astute show- When some of the mutineers under Swope, the former mate, hear that Priscilla is being showered with gold every evening, they decide to return, kill Captain Bartlett, and steal Priscilla’s earnings. CHAPTER XIX. WHY SHE WENT. N infinite peace had come to the A Cape Cod. The skipper, nursed during that week by his daugh- ter and the faithful Joshua, had recov- ered a sufficient portion of his strength to walk the decks. Both Joshua and the girl, however, had urged him not to go ashore until one more day. He surrendered to their wishes without very much protest. As a matter of fact, the old sea-dog did not care about San Francisco or the gold hills. He was not a landsman. His one fervent prayer was to weigh anchor and be out again for the whaling grounds. Meanwhile the harpooner assured him that he had had a certain amount of luck on shore. ‘There was a small element in town who were sick to death of the misery and starvation and chol- This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for March 17 84 in) (E00) DOO (C@)