Judge — June 5, 1920 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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

Puttine ox THe Skip-Citains was re- out doubt Whelk had escaped that way. It flue called that he had spoken of having had the Cuarter TT Whelk’s Apartment HERE is one event th ife. It may cor in Summe arrives but : in the zero- s sweaty per- usually once in a man’s ness of Winter, or bathed it may attack him in Southeastern Ecuador nwich Vill but the effect is always the except by actually dying, spiration or in G ame. N one. not large. but it was light—so light that it on floated up to the 17th st Not a bad room, if one didn’t mind carly rising—the elevator rose very early, some i it was better, anyway, than sle in Whelk et could find no dia None ding bed, several nights a small trap v but no diamond necklace, in- to wet caught alas, necklace. one even 1 virdca mond in the set under the deed no necklace of any kind crawled it iano: The elevator boy had heard nothing suspicious, cither—no sounds at all resembling a diamon lace. All he had heard v Mr. Whelk dancin room. “And Mr. Whel he declared roll his dancer!” In every who looked “is certainly a dandy many said that! women—women eyebrows, Strange—how Ferret had found they could go right at an ins And, cur who had danced els. Oh, how Two mysteries now cabaret into a circus notice enough, almost, every ainst Whelk had missed a few wom work. 1 them! Ferret had miss: shricked to to le 1. Why was Whelk rood dancer? 2. Where were such he diamonds —if they really were Cuarrer IN Dramatic Inc awful flirt. One day she allows the delivered as usual, and the next she directs your wife to the inside pocket where you keep lic. But today Fate, spooning him to overhear a v affected by ident FS! is an milk b that with Ferret, per ber surgeon, who was slightly in it, telephoning to an impatient. “Why yes, Minnie, he’s the chap that came into my operating room last year to have his legs removed ated both of them a few inches above the letter from (€ g num- the raisin te I ampu hip join The rest was Ferret had he No wonder Il blub-blub-blub-ring off, enough. Mystery No. 1 Whelk danced divinely! but now in short It was Was now su can escape his forty-third birthda man attack of this that Ferret | ering. It would pass, probably, and he wo be a man again—or at least Albino—but, meanwhile, he must dis- cover Whelk and recover the diamonds. ‘To this task he now bent all his legs In Ferret’s brain the convolutions as the worm of an old distillery; vuld travel miles { miles with- vod a dancer were as empty one eting another. f out me as Whelk is easily trace and even Ferret lid did it. teeth down drowned but he lived in Whelk, he fou town where the the shrieks of his victims; id, pulled h of the roar the Catgut Apartments. Owing to his land- lord’s greed, Whelk had an inside room * partitioned off in the elevator car, It was ts Totes of Peace as is Totes or Wan comicbooks.com