Argosy All-Story Weekly, May 17, 1924 — page 136: what you’re looking at

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By J. U. GIESY and JUNIUS B. SMITH Authors of the Semi-Dual Stories, ‘‘ The Wolf of Erlik,’’ etc. CHAPTER X. A SHOT IN THE NIGHT, no one spoke. The argument ap- peared to have run around in a circle and arrived once more at the starting point. It flashed into Eddie’s mind that the man having put the hundred-dollar bill into the hands of a stranger that afternoon was not so strange after all. He was a psycholo- gist, at least in practice if not in theory. Even now, when he stood in the position of an escaped criminal, he was the coolest of any one in the room; he was cool enough to trade on his knowledge that these men F a moment after Blumefeldt paused would be swayed first and last by a con- sideration of self. And to such a man it would have been plain that a total stranger, finding himself in the sudden possession of a hundred-dollar note, not his own, and smarting under the sting of an unmerited blow, would act very much as—well, as he —Eddie Harmon—had done. And then Welter sneered. ‘“ That’s right. He’s got th’ goods on us, Irak, an’ —what’s it to us if he wants to fix it so he'll get his money. Whose fault was it we couldn't get his price in th’ first place? Who was it suggested our using them notes? Wasn’t it th’ guy that spread enough of them while we was rottin’ in stir to make This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for April 26. 286 eComicloool< (C@