Argosy All-Story Weekly — "Sea Marauders" — page 93: what you’re looking at

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f THE SCANDAL ON KITIKAT KEY. because he and your Uncle Ham wanted us to fall i love.” “ That’s right,” said the radiant girl. “Well, how come,’ Gerald wanted to know, “they'd try to start another romance when there’s one already under way?” “You mean your romance with Eulalie Maytime?” “You know darned well J mean your romance with Lester Colton!” “Oh, that,” said Susan. “ Why, they don’t approve of Lester.” That, she thought, was fairly quick thinking. “Well, why should they?” Gerald growled. “Well, why shouldn’t they?” she said mockingly. “For one thing,” Gerald retorted. “Lester is not only a bootlegger, but a hijacker. Moreover, he is suspected of being more than a little bit in- terested in smuggling in snow and blackbirding.”’ “Snow!” Susan gasped. “* Coke—dope—cocaine !” “Oh!” Susan gasped, turning pale. * And blackbirding ?” “Running in Chinks from Cuba at a thousand a head. Don’t tell me you don’t know the kind of fellow Lester Sees “Yes,” she said, “I knew. I’m going to reform him.” ‘That was quick thinking, too. : “That road,” said the sophisticated Gerald, “is narrow, straight, full of chuck holes and thank-ye-ma’ams and uphill all the way.” “T like a good fight,” said Susan. claimed. Ne 615 bird and shoot innocent sheriffs in the back.” | “Tove makes a lot of difference,” said Susan stubbornly, but her knees, under the table, were clicking together. “It’s a shame you couldn’t have picked on me instead,” -he argued. “That’s Eulalie’s job. And Fulalie likes you just as youare. You told me = “ She’s very broad-minded,” Gerald admitted. | “And I’m very narrow-minded,” gasped Susan. : He bent toward her. “ Listen, Susan; I think you’re the—” = Gerald stopped. They both looked up, rolling their eyes, as people do who have heard a strange, alien sound. What they heard was the muffled throbbing of a motor boat’s exhaust. “Uncle Jethro!” Gerald growled. “ Oh, hell’s bells!” “Gerald!” Susan gasped. “ You cursed.” “Yes, and I’m going to curse some more! Damn! I don’t want you to be taken away. Doggone it, anyhow,” Gerald flung out, recklessly, “I’m just begin—”’ He was standing, looking out the south window into the South Cove. “It isn’t the Lottie Lee,” he ex- “It’s that launch from Miami! Now, who in Sam Hill—” “There’s a girl coming ashore,” Susan interrupted, excitedly. _““ Why should any girl come ashore on Kitikat? It must be a mistake.” They hastened out to the veranda _* a > 20 Me : ve = ~ ie x ~ “ee ¥ po - I : 7] 2 >» . . a<- . . af. aa ; > See > s,s <——_« at, 7 : . - , - a 3 ore =" —- ae F) ent ae 8 + ee eur <1? Jk ~*» oa ma t% ae _ a = ‘ i~ o* = pares , > Par *- a - te ‘= tA» 7 “ & —— ~~ r+ . Bs . — . 5 yo* ~*~ “2 - a. —— <=", ’ . c ~* ¢ . ts oo “5 7 - z A “You've got one,’ Gerald growled. and down the steps. A girl in flame- # “Did you know that Lester is sus- red was stepping daintly from the deck a pected of committing that Everglades of the launch to the pier in the South 2 murder that happened last month?” Cove. She also wore a large flame- | - ‘J—I love him,” said Susan weakly red sports hat. Her shoes were gray ee and defiantly. and her stockings matched her ‘shoes "eS “Tt seems to me you're mighty perfectly. Her bright red dress came es broag-minded about Lester,” Gerald scarcely to her knees. They were beau- ee muttered ‘‘ You won’t even let me have tiful knees; beautiful legs. as a cocktail before dinner, but you'll let “My God!” Gerald groaned, “‘ It’s = | your Lester hijack, run snow, black- Eulalie!” i= be TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK ee 9 SE TE Ses CC oe ee ee ee COMMIEDOOKS;COM — a aes von