Argosy All-Story Weekly, May 3, 1924 — page 50: what you’re looking at

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

By J. U. Authors of the Semi-Dual Stories, ‘‘ The Wolf of Erlik,’’ etc. GIESY and JUNIUS B. SMITH WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PART I. DDIE HARMON, architect, comes to San Francisco to spend a care-free vacation. While admiring the lines of a skyscraper, a man in a gray suit accosts him, thrusts a hundred dollar bill into his hand, slaps his face, and runs. Eddie pursues hotly—until the arm of Patrolman Jenkins halts him. Jenkins insists he’s the man he has been pursuing, a chemist called Blume- feldt, who has escaped during a raid on counterfeiters who were buying from him the secret of bleaching India ink. Eddie realizes that his assailant tricked him into pursuit in order to make his own escape. In the police station Eddie hotly demands a lawyer, and from the telephone book picks out M. C. Elton as his attorney. “Elton” turns out to be a girl. When Police Captain Salles, and Marvin, a special agent of the Federal government, who supervised the raid, appear, they realize Harmon isn’t the missing Blumefeldt, but suspect him of some connection with the fellow. The hundred dollar bill which Eddie has thought counterfeit is genuine, Marvin asserts. CHAPTER IV. SALLES SPRINGS A SURPRISE. = ENUINE? You mean—it’s real?” .. The words dribbled off Eddie’s lips in a startled stammer. It had been a real bill! Somebody had run up to him and hit him and given him a hun- dred dollars of actual money and he had tried to throw it away, and Jenkins had taken it from him. Once more his thoughts began to jumble. This latest development was as crazy as all the others that had kept bobbing up all afternoon. It didn’t This story began in the Argosy-Alistory Weekly for April 26. 840 COMIC OOo! S CO