10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 30: what you’re looking at

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

question the handwritin’—if we ‘hadn't known ‘he ‘was murdered.” Marston’s legs gave way, and he slumped against ithe desk. He was in for it, all right. Something had gone -wrong. But what? He had to know! | “How—how did you know WT -killed him?” His vaiee cracked. He realized the slip as soon as he made it. But it didn’t matter now. They had him, anyway. “Knew it soon as we saw the date on that note in the wastebacket,” Braden said Jaconically. Marston’s eyes frantically probed the wall calendar. But yesterday had ‘been the 11th! Sure! The date had to beright! He licked dry iips again. Braden smiled grimly. “Oh, you -had the right day,” ‘he said. “What was wrong was the three ‘figure ones in ‘the date. ‘The right way to make a figure one.on a type- writer is with the lower case ‘1’. That'a the way you made ‘em. “But Hitchcock just picked -up ‘typi’. He never had much formal ccienstiad” Anil like most folks who use the hunt-and- peck system, he made his figure ones with a capital “I’. That's the ‘way ‘they was made m ‘the dates of all them letters in his desk.” ‘The detective’s voice softened. “Always admired the old man’s record,” he said. “T'm a self-made man, myself. And if asso anything I ‘hate, ‘it’s 1a self-maite kkk kkk Kr Ke KK KKK KK Are YOU Doing Your — Saving BONDS and STAMPS kkk KK Kk Kk kK OK Kk kk ok ok