Argosy All-Story Weekly, May 5, 1928 — page 76: what you’re looking at

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uJ pe: = 2 oH ipse'@e By FRED MacISAAC Author of ‘‘ Coast of Blue,’’ ‘‘ Desperate Chances,’’ ete. In which the author shows that you'll have an exciting time if you try to keep a good man down WHAT -HAS OCCURRED IN PREVIOUS PARTS ESTER LUCUS and his classmate, Arthur “Chipmunk” Colter, have started into the retail frankfurter business together, on Lester’s enterprise, Chipmunk’s money, and with the encouragement of Hilda and Francesca Brinker, daughters of Ludwig Brinker, the millionaire sausage king. They open their first hot-dog stand in an old Broadway build- ing, underneath the platinum firm of Gander and Gruen. When Nora Meagher, a friend of Lester’s, does not see them for days, she finds two rough looking men running their stand. knows that the men are crooks. An old tramp named Walter Downing, whom Lester had befriended, tells her he After Downing promises to phone her at seven that eve- ning, Nora goes to the Brinker home and enlists the aid of Hilda and Francesca. CHAPTER XVI. THREE IN A TAXI. Y this time it was three o'clock, as Nora observed by her wrist watch when she left the Brinker residence. It would be three thirty by the time she got back to the office, per- haps later, and under the circumstances she could not compose herself to type letters. She determined to go down town, however, and make another inspection of the frankfurter stand. This time she took the subway, which proved more rapid than the taxi had been and, emerging at Fulton Street, she moved with the crowd past the establishment of Lester Lucus. There were no customers, she ob- served, and the man she had talked with was making no effort to draw trade. He was seated inside the coun- ter reading a newspaper. ‘The second man was not visible. Her eyes snapped angrily, then she considered that it was better to sell nothing at all than to give the stand a bad reputation by handing out the kind of stuff they were using. This story began in the Argosy-Alistory Weekly for April 14 642 COPMICLOOOKS (C@)