The Argosy, Christmas 1912 — page 249: what you’re looking at

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Editor TWO FAVORITES COME BACK. UR old friends, Steve Girton and Ned Hemmett come to the front again () next month, in answer to “ A Call to Arms,” the new story Edgar Frank- lin has written around these two popular heroes, whose adventures in “The Chase of the Concession ” and other tales of Guanama proved so fascinating to our readers. In “A Call to Arms,” the book-length novel which will open the January Arcosy, these two gentlemen are roused from a rather somnolent exist- ence in New York by a visit frem a peculiar gentleman with a South American cast of countenance and a dread of pursuers that is not wholly conducive to calming the nerves. Will they go back? Guanama needs them just now, and will make it well worth their while to exchange a sky-scraper office-suite in Manhattan for a so- journ in the land where there are no blizzards and where revolutions are served out on demand with almost the regularity of one’s morning paper. Why, of course they will go. It is the call of the blood, likewise of the wild. and all that sort of thing, but no sooner have they set out on the steamer bearing them southward than unaccountable things begin to happen. But these are not a marker to what takes place after they reach Guanama, and find it grown almost out of recollection, with palaces in place of humble shacks and a mysterious foe who lurks in the swamps and picks off men with the unshakable lure of the magnet. Thrilling, indeed, are the things that befall the two New Yorkers when they venture themselves into the lair of the foe. Talk about your close calls! Read what happens to the fly in the stew the captives are given to eat. And courage? But you'll find it all set forth in “A Call to Arms,” which will be published com- plete in next month’s Arcosy, on sale five days before Christmas. “SOMETHING QUEER IN UTICA.” N the next number of THE Arcosy we are going to give you a long short story if under the above title. It was written by Seward W. Hopkins, a favorite among our contributors, and a native son of Utica himself, so you may be sure there will be nothing in the tale derogatory of the city so pleasantly located in the Mohawk Valley. Indeed, Mr. Hopkins’s description of the town in his opening paragraphs would well fit him to become publicity man in a Utica boom- ing campaign. The queer happening has to do with a crime that tarnishes not a whit the city’s reputation for keeping out of the papers pretty persistently so far as the record of horrible occurrences within her borders is concerned. Whether you be- long in Utica or not, I predict you will be deeply interested in reading all about it. MAGAZINE FICTION CAPPED BY NEWSPAPER FACT. AST month I mentioned a coincidence in the daily news bearing on the first | instalment of “Flirting With Desperate Hazard.” Again a similar instance has come to light, this time in connection with “ Before the Dark,” the new serial starting in the present number of Tue Arcosy. As the type-setting machines were putting these opening chapters into shape, the New York news- papers recorded the suicide in Central Park of a business man because he was going blind. 235 cComicbooks CO