Argosy All-Story Weekly, May 17, 1924 — page 87: what you’re looking at

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

By KENNETH PERKINS Author of ‘* Queen of the Night,’’ ‘‘ Desert Voices,’’ etc. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PARTS I and Il. ERZOG, crafty Jandlord of Sundown Café, in the marsh country of southeastern Texas, has stolen and hidden the mummified body of Mate Grimpen, who was killed in a brawl, in the vacant tomb of the Mexican General Papaquillo, hoping to extort money from kins- men of the dead seaman. Grimpen was of the noble English family of Glamours. Cora, his wife, convinces the highly superstitious Herzog that apparitions from the deep will haunt the café until the mate’s body has sea burial. not get at it. Then she maliciously steals the key of the tomb, so he can- Al Boscoe, the café’s new barkeep and bouncer, who is in love with Cora, is interrupted in process of terrorizing sailors in the bar by a mariner with sea green eyes who overawes him. This man, Glamours, nephew of Grimpen, has come to commit the body to the sea. His efforts to discover the corpse are interrupted by the arrival of Modesta, a beautiful Creole harpist, who comes to mourn on the anniversary of the martyrdom of her grandfather, General Papaquillo. Her playing first soothes the café loiterers; then—when she sees Glamours—maddens them. Her- zog urges Boscoe to kill Glamours, whom he fears, CHAPTER X. *“YOU’LL BE FLOATIN’ IN THE BAYOU.” NSIDE of the gambling den the ring of brutish seamen sat silent and worship- ful around a haloed picture. Glamours musing upon the loveliness of the girl at her harp, as he sat before that drab and ferocious background, felt a sinister thrill; such a thrill as one might feel when a too beautiful and brilliant crimson suggests blood, or when a vivid poppy suggests death. “A Spanish girl-—-or a Creole as these thugs around here call her. Damme if she hasn’t some fire under that skin.” He had the impression that if he touched her, as Cora had suggested, upon that dusky shoul- This story began in the Argosy-Alistory Weekly for May 3. 237 Go NOOK = a (C@