Argosy All-Story Weekly, June 27, 1925 — page 101: what you’re looking at

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By GEORGE F. WORTS —— GET. 7 <> - © . o on Wi fh a e “<= — *, if a oo Y & ™ Author of ‘‘Out Where the Woret Begins,’’ etc. CHAPTER XXXIII. TERRIBLE TERMS. N Yumpa panic reigned. Thirst when [ vate is not available is doubly ac- cursed. Men were gathered in little knots about the street profanely discussing the gravity of the situation. Jim Rooney, owner of the Yumpa Grand Palace Hotel, was busy in the doorway of the Chinese laundry, connecting the speaking trumpet from his radio to the telephone receiver. A small group was assembled about the hydrant which stood before the still smol- dering ruins of Hell’s Delight. The hose had been unscrewed, but it contained no water. Its contents had flowed unnoticed into the parched ground. This story began in the The hydrant was the only water connec- tion in Yumpa, for Yumpa until the recent activities of Larry Wilpin, had had little use for water. To be sure, water was used in the preparation of food, and in Wun Lung Low’s laundry; and one or two of the more fastidious gamblers regularly took & bath in water, yet they were exceptions. The desert rats, the horse thieves and cattle rustlers, the human vultures of every description who made Yumpa their head- quarters, looked upon bathing as efiem- ‘nate. They were soaked to the skin only when they chanced to be caught unpre pared in a rainstorin Or, by mischance, fell into a river, ot were thrown into watering troughs by roughly playful cowboys. Not anti the Yumpa water supply was Argosy-Allstory Weekly for Jane é 895 Co 1A@OO S Co