Argosy All-Story Weekly, April 28, 1928 — page 102: what you’re looking at

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Damming Hairpin Cafion By C. C. WADDELL Author of ‘‘ Somewhere in Nevada,’’ ‘‘ Adventure’s Price,’’ etc. When the sheriff is crooked and a lady is in distress, what can a man accustomed only to riding bucking flivvers do ? CHAPTER XIV. WOMAN'S WITS. P. BLAIR, who had been out in- J specting the estate under the guid- * ance of Big Bill, came back to the house to find Molly alone, and nerv- ously tapping her foot. “Where is Gladys?” he asked. “ She went for a walk, and I sup- pose has strayed farther than she realized. But you needn’t be alarmed, Mr. Blair! Nothing could happen to her in the grounds. “T only wish [ could say the same for Mr. Rich,” Molly added, stepping to the window and looking out. “ He drove off into a rather rough and lonely part of the country this after- noon, and I am beginning to get alarmed. He should have been back before this.” “Oh, Norman will turn up afl right.” Blair gave a reassuring wave of the hand. “For all his air of un- sophistication, he has a faculty for landing on top. “By the way, Miss Todd,” he squared around toward her, “is he so absolutely essential to you?” * Why ?” “Well, I'll tell you. I have a whale of a big machinery contract to fill in the next two weeks, and I have no one with me that I can trust to do it prop- erly. It is a pretty important matter to me, and I offered Norman every in- ducement on earth this afternoon if he would go back and assume his old position. But he refused.” “TI don’t wonder,” said Molly a bit sharply. “ After the way you let him out. He told me about it.” “ That was one of the great mistakes of my business career,” J. P. said soberly. “ However, it was not on This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for April 7 $32 Gomichbook (C@