Argosy All-Story Weekly, June 13, 1925 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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

ARGOSY-ALLSTORY Ww E EK LY | VoL. CLXIX SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1925 NUMBER 4 | By CHARLES NEVILLE BUCK Author of “‘ The Battle Cry,’’ etc. FOREWORD T is the sincere belief of the editorial department that this serial is a truly great | achievement. Its unforgetable characters scale the very peaks of emotion. Our readers will share the torturing doubt that came to Cynthia Meade. Which of her two gallant suitors should she marry? In what environment would she be hap- pier? What of the losing man’s deep sorrow? There is a moot question among readers as to whether the endings of stories always should be happy. Some are keenly disappointed when a finale is sad. Others are as sharply critical if a tragic situation winds up in comedy. If you had been the eclitor, which of the optional conclusions would you have pre- ferred in this masterly analysis of a woman’s soul? Would you have turned thumbs down on Wade Murrell, mountaineer, or Jock Harrison, man of the town? After you have read the serial in its entirety you will be deus ex machina—a god from the machine, as in the Classical tragedies, brought on the stage to solve super- human difficulties—if you communicate your decision to the editor. The majority of 1A 48i eomicbooks