10-Story Detective, September 1941 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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

Four and Twenty Stirring Novelette He had left his home seven years ago—an outcast framed for a forgery. But now he was back as a private dick to challenge a revival of that old indictment—and to try to save from de- struction the town that had spurned him. q CHAPTER I HE train which brought Guy Falkner home steered its pant- ing way through the deep gorge and started the long seven mile P climb of Thorndyke grade. Falkner shifted in his seat. He was a big man, shaggy as a bear, with heavy shoulders and powerful arms under the rough tweed of his coat. His face was tanned heavily and his COMIC OO® C©