Argosy All-Story Weekly, October 6, 1923 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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

= pler’s straight or crooked? SS eS * the proprietor said. ett, the gambler, the devil I chased out of . on _ DESERT = lin, cornét—anything you gave him—it made no difference so long as he could work men or women into a passion. And a gambler, too, who busted men—” s Absolutely straight—though, a arden put in reminiscently. “What difference does it make if a gam- He ruined -men—” “And himselfi—” “ All right! That’s all the worse! VOICES. - a ‘slightly tanned fohaad In the digas room which opened wide upon the vestibule, = Fred Hayden sipped his special brand, == coffee and took small puffs from a fancy — He represented what you-—-what sentimental _ citified poets call the spirit of the frontier | days. Drank like a hog—” “But was never drunk. I’ve heard that, too.” - This also was a distinction Noah Doxey —_ would not recognize. “ He was a man—a master, if you want to call it—of Sin, pean, of the ways of hell’s fire.” — “ The last of a ae race, 2 > Hayden ar mented with the same exuberance. : —__ Doxey did not heed the interruption. — And it was me who. pve ee out of town. - Yes—the last of the __ thieves, gamblers, gunmen! town of peace.” Fhe nasal screech from the vestibule— = Z the voice of Jen Parker—cut into Doxey: Ss = tirade . _-« This here gal wants for to talk io: you, F “Mr. Doxey,” the clerk called out. “It’s Hallie. Crockett.” “ Crockett?” Hayden raised his eye- Since his time and his influence is gone the town is a you.” brows with a-look of sudden see 2 “Ves! It’s his ¢ Ke Dan Crock. town. Speaking of the devil—here comes his daughter!” _ - devil. Noah Doxey stepped into the vestibule - with a feeling of ‘self-elation common to— —— business men when pretty girls ask for em-— 3 = ployment. But here, meeting the full, bright gaze of the girl, he shrank, his head set-. -_tling into a large celluloid collar. He real- pi — —-—ized_he was ugly and that she—whether — a devil er angel—was a beautiful creature. - "_He squinted directly at every feature of — her face; the huge gray eyes, the smiling = = damask lips, the curl of silken hair about town from his range, a sqt a youth ae the telegraph office. cigarette, deliberately assaying the frag-— rance of each sip and each puff. As yet he showed no interest in Ni oah Doxey and his visitor. ‘Now then set down here by the win- dow! ” the old man ordered. — The girl obeyed, seating hecsel in the *e : = ee sofa and leaning forward. ~ Doxey hunched himself in the brightly varnished — “‘selden oak ” armchair, with a convenient and resplendent brass spittoon at his heel. — Through the plate glass window Suncup looked on; the stage driver pretending to = be busy with a tire, a stocktender just in- yaw and cholo, They _hear the conversation, but SS could sce Hallie’s Tips—which sufficed. — “* Now, miss, if you want to see me about getting a job in this town,” Doxey said, “Tt want to know something ‘about you.” “Ym Hallie Crockett—my father, before — he died, was cueee Ps shere, ‘He. knew J ee SS ee ——< “Ves J nee your Si aa > he said. “A very popular fellow. A Dixie gent—as they call °em back in Texas. I don’t know = Sabi abet. we call ‘em here in Arizona.” Fu ner th + this. 2 th Doxey, with be aes es “He was a great man, our hands say = down. = ie Tange, "the girl announced — = again—the kind the onlookers were waiting — for—the kind Noah Doxey said was of the es, she sa: with a quirt down in the si ab I inherited a powerful character traits!” “J reckon you jeok like him, = — 805 vance folks.” a ‘She inched FOuE oo ile — 7 “But when ma used to tan me 7 Tot of my = = —=-> — > — ——— — —— ee < a ~ —— —a == Me} eB SAY dey Ae HALL DAME OD ND Was NR Nee a ae ( ‘ 4 | Nery AY i i) HNO Ny et es Wi Xt Wi; ie i h MN a] yy () 4) a RA AY iM ak said. He did not know how to pay a a pliment to a woman, but he was thinking = definitely that the girl’s face was a beauti- fied copy of the face of the devil, her fathers Z LS ma said = was 5 to. ask you te. me a job. SS = = = a comichooks.com 2 = as —*