The Argosy, March 1907

This March 1907 issue of The Argosy contains five serials and five short stories. The lead serial is "Their Last Hope" by Albert Payson Terhune (Part 1 of 5), a railroad story involving the Spring Creek Railway Company facing financial ruin after losing access to eastern markets through unscrupulous competitor Sylvester Burns. The board hires young Gardiner Davis, a former sawmill operator turned Columbia engineering student, as chief engineer to find a solution. The opening chapters reveal Davis's earlier humiliation by schoolmate Phoebe Stonefield and his literary ambitions. Other serials include F.K. Scribner's "The Eagle of Empire," Stephen Brandish's "When Suspicion Struck Hard," Lawrence G. Byrd's "Down and Out," and Bertram Lebhar's "King or Counterfeit?" (concluding). Short stories include George Bronson-Howard's "The Beautiful Madness," Charles B. Fremont's "That Typewriter Girl," and works by Garret Smith, John Montague, C. Langton Clarke, Howard Dwight Smiley, and Marvin Dana.