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# The Double Scoop

This issue of Adventure (mid-August 1918) features "The Double Scoop," a complete novelette by Charles Beadle centered on Alan, a war correspondent, and Miriam Travers, a journalist. The story opens in London with their banter about gender roles and professional capabilities. Alan dismisses Miriam's ambitions as a war correspondent, insisting women cannot tackle such dangerous work independently. Alan is departing for Morocco to cover the French military situation there, having secured assignment from his newspaper. Miriam, who had theorized about the Moroccan conflict, challenges his assumptions about women's professional limits. The narrative concerns both characters' experiences in the Atlas Mountains foothills amid warring factions, presenting the region as offering romantic business ventures alongside journalistic opportunity. The issue also includes fiction by J. Allan Dunn, Talbot Mundy, Robert P. Churchill, and others, plus serialized stories and poetry.