Argosy All-Story Weekly, May 17, 1924 — page 60: what you’re looking at

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

By RUFUS KING Author of ‘‘ Dirty Weather,’’ ‘‘ The Silent Command,”’’ etc WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PART Ii. EORGE FIELDING MORTIMER BUNTZ, wireless operator on an oil tanker, ‘runs foul of the Finnish cook. As a result, “ Sparks” finds himself swimming in a midnight sea with a bump on his head, and the vessel beyond hailing distance. He is picked up by a yacht, and thus encounters Nancy, daughter of James K. Vail, a hydrophosphate king. She is seventeen, and a red head. Buntz tells her that he is “ Victor Swift,’ owns his own yacht, and is a mechani- cal engineering and electrical genius. Nancy believes him, and reveals that her father wishes to move a mountain of coral rock for building purposes from an outlying island to his Florida estate. Sparks gets the contract on pure bluff, equips a tramp steamer with electrical derricks, and sets to work. Meanwhile Hindu fanatics have discovered that the coral mountain contains material essential to their religious exercises. Sparks uses electrically charged defenses to fight them off, and safely brings his first steamer load of rock to Papa Vail, a mighty short tempered customer. CHAPTER IX. THE FIRST CRIMP IN THE RAJAH’S BONNET. HE rajah rose with immense satisfac- tion from a make-believe chair of the fourteenth Louis and offered a fatu- « ous smile to the dark faces of the gathered twelve. The Hudson flowed pleasantly beneath his windows and the breeze came coolly through their curtains of rich lace. His manner indicated that all was well. They were waiting the report that would announce that the young American pig em- ployed by the big American pig had agreed to accept their inconsequential bribe of three hundred thousand dollars and double- cross his master. The rajah gave a brief résumé of this expectation and warned, incidentally, Finger Number Four of the twelve, please not to scatter his cigar ash over the small medal- This story began in the Argosy-Allistory Weekly for May 10. 210 GO NOOK (C@