Life — August 13, 1925 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE * Nemesis: AA Novel of Despair by Tip Bliss (Synopsis of preceding instalments) Pu VANDERTUYL loves Alyce Smudge, but there is too much difference between their stations of life. He is employed at the Grand Central and she at the Penn- sylvania. During the yachting party Benjamin Trout (“Old J. F.," as he is known by his employees in Wall Street) breaks the bank at Monte Carlo. But Leila, a demi- monde of Sioux City, sees the error of her ways when she looks upon the curly head of a little child, and tries to end it all. She is unsuccessful, because there must naturally be more instalments to keep the serial running. At this point Turp, a lance corporal in the Royal North- west Mounted Police, comes to Binghamton, N. Y., in search of his man, but finds his man has moved to Utica. He loses him, of course, because nobody ever goes to Utica. Alarmed at the turn matters have taken, Zeb Sponger, the hon- est old cobbler of Red (“Bloody”) Gulch, warns the miners that the dam has broken. But young Joseph Sprinkle, the superintendent’s son, quells the strikers by announcing that all men are brothers, after all, and that many a true heart beats beneath homespun, klassy kut kollege klothes, or what have you. “We are quelled, we are quelled!” shout the factory hands enthusiastically. At this point a mysterious stranger from the city, who has registered at the Eagle House under the obviously assumed name of Henry W. Murchison, Jr., finds a pearl-handled paper cutter, which he believes has a bearing on the case. Local detectives can find no bearings, but they are not mechanically inclined. A veiled woman is seen giving an incantation in the public square, and there is much talk of the appearance in the old Morton manse, believed to be haunted, of a tall Persian with a pet cobra named Fannie. Thaddeus, a local “charac- ter,” enlists in the marines and carries the dear old flag over the top at Trafalgar. This naturally leads to a duel C Leila tries to end it all between Simms and the Duke, but Helen arrives in the nick of time, having set the alarm clock at twenty minutes before the nic he is fast at dressing, and in other ways, too. “Hunky Dory,” an old Negro, proves his devotion to the family in the hour of their misfortune by refusing to accompany the Northern troops. And _then- (Now go on with the story.) CHAPTER XXIII THE MAN IN THE BLUE GABARDINE “God!” she screamed. T clutched my hands about her white throat. White. Like moonbeams. (To be continued) Editor’s Note—In the next instalment of this big, gripping serial of hypocrisy in New York's “upper crust’’ we'shall learn how Athalie is forced by grim fate into a loveless marriage with Basil Fishbein, the Commissioner of Playgrounds and Municipal Dumps; disillu- sioned and stripped of her ideals, she goes to Niles, Mich., to find a new life. But in the casino in far-off Biarritz No. 13 (black) pays 35 to 1 and the whole course of Fred’s career is changed. Read the startling new develop- ment in this wonder-mystery story in the next news-stand number of LIFE. : comicbooks.com