Pulp Fiction, 1934 · page 128 of 148
Western Story Magazine, May 12, 1934 — page 128: what you’re looking at
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# Page 126 of Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine This page contains prose fiction from an ongoing Western serial story. The narrative depicts a tense confrontation between a character named Jerry and various cowboys/punchers regarding a mysterious figure called "the trailer." A violent altercation erupts when one puncher attempts to force information from the trailer at gunpoint. The scene culminates in gunfire and death. The story concludes with a note promising continuation in the next week's issue. Below the story excerpt appears an unrelated brief human-interest feature titled "This Girl Loves This Mouse," describing how a pet mouse saved a Colorado Springs girl's family from a house fire.
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126 Street & Smith’s men. Their sullen anger had been displaced by fear. Jerry was con- vinced that if they knew anything ' about the missing cows or about Blackman, they would tell him. He was equally convinced that they didn’t know anything. Probably Blackman alone ever saw Virlee— except, of course, that trailer. Jerry idly glanced at the trailer. He was grinning. Jerry’s swift anger rose. “Wipe that grin off your face,” he said. — The trailer turned fully toward him. He did not wipe the grin from his face. Jerry beat his anger back. The fellow had something on his mind. “I got somethin’ for you,” the trailer declared. “Well, what is it?” “This here ol’ man said it wouldn’t do nobody no good to talk about squealin’ an’ ridin’,” said the trailer. ““What’s the use 0’ my squealin’ if I don’t ride?” | “Oh, gosh,” a puncher exclaimed, “do we hafta stand for this?” He seemed to decide that he didn’t have to stand for it. Walk- ing up behind the trailer, he placed both hands under the trailer’s chin and snapped back his head as if he would break it from his neck. The trailer cried out. Western Story Magazine The puncher re- leased him and put his gun into the small of his back. “Speak your piece,” the puncher ordered. “I’m doin’ this on my own hook. I’m sick an’ tired 0’ you. Tl drill you in about another minute.” “Smylie’s here,” the trailer whim- pered. 3 “Which one?” Jerry asked. “Do I ride?” “No!” the puncher cried. “Let him go,” Jerry said. come up here.” All of Parks’s men had been in a semicircle, the trailer near the end. To reach Jerry, the trailer had to move between those men and the prisoners. When the prisoners had been dis- armed, their guns had been laid in a pile on the ground. A man near the pile suddenly leaped and snatched up a gun. He sent the trailer out on the long, long trail. Some punchers seized ee slayer; others covered him. “Is he Smylie?” generally. “Yeah,” one of the prisoners an- swered. “He killed Treece.” “Close to Red Blackman, is he?” Jerry inquired. “Closest.” “Fella, Jerry asked, To be continued in next week’s issue. ” | THIS GIRL LOVES THIS MOUSE pas she won a beauty contest, held in Colorado Springs, Colo- rado, an admirer sent Miss Ann Sallek a white mouse. Miss Sallek has good reason for feeling thankful to both admirer and mouse. The mouse saved her life. Awakened by the squeals of hey pet, the girl found the family home full of smoke. She aroused her parents and sister, saving all from possible fatal suf- focation when a coal-fire damper closed, causing the smoke to fill the house. The girl’ s mother was rescued in semiconscious condition, ee ee COT