Pulp Fiction, 1928 · page 133 of 156
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f, SS f “Go on, tell her,’ Quimby flaccidly intoned Hawatian Heels Mystery stalks the Stingaree when naught but a splash of blood marks the spot where Lance Houston had lain By RICHARD BARRY Author of ‘‘ The Long Arm of the Big Gun,’’ ‘‘Worth Millions,’’ etc. LEADING UP TO THIS INSTALLMENT est cowboy star in the motion- picture world, when he happened to be in a cabaret one evening when a tipsy woman became murderously jealous of her husband. She promptly killed both her husband and another woman with the revolver of Lance Houston, who was sitting at a near-by table. On the hasty advice of his personal manager, Joe Bloom, Lance sailed 1m- mediately for Hawaii, with Slum Ritey, a former cowboy buddy who had been living in Hollywood too, but Joes: HOUSTON was the great- had never risen above the role of extra in a movie or extra waiter in a speak- easy. Joe Bloom stayed behind to fix up the district attorney, and if possible to whittle down the sizeof the news sto- ries following the murder. However, it happened to be just before election, and the district attorney made political capital of his hunt for Lance Houston, and put up a reward of five hundred dollars for information leading to his apprehension; so Joe Bloom had to dis- appear hurriedly too. That left Lance and Slum stranded’ This story began in the Arzgosy-Alistory Weekly for August 4 $55 Ebooks: com fer nS y. Pope 5 + s a eo% a se 2 <5 a