Argosy All-Story Weekly, July 7, 1928 — page 77: what you’re looking at

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

World Brigands When big business pays the fiddler it calls the tune: and its mad dance in 1940 involved the fate of fwe nations By FRED MacISAAC Author of ‘‘ The Great Commander,’’ ‘‘ The Pancake Princess,” etc. LEADING UP TO THIS the chaos following the World War in 1918, Gus Tuttle, of cockney origin, rose in 1940 to be Sir Augustus Tuttle, owner of Winstut Abbey, and one of the most powerful financiers in England. The only threat on his security was America, who, in con- trolling the world money market, was forcing all Europe to the wall. For years England, France, Ger- many, and Italy had paid the interest on their debt to the United States by borrowing from American financiers ; but this source refused to lend any more. Sir Augustus and the Conti- nental war profiteers stood to lose [: the new order which grew out of INSTALLMENT heavily if, through the repudiation of the war debt, European money lost its value. American secret agents had discov- ered the sinister alliance of individuals representing each of the endangered nations, whose primary interest was in saving their recently acquired wealth; and it was feared they meant to incite their countries to war with America. It was to ascertain the progress and exact nature of this plot that Dick Boswell was spending a week-end at the Abbey—where the conspirators were wont to gather—as the guest of the son, Roger. It was toward this end that Dick had This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for June 30 217 Gomichbooks (F@)