Pulp Fiction, 1934 · page 84 of 148
Western Story Magazine, May 12, 1934 — page 84: what you’re looking at
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This is a story prose page from a Western pulp fiction magazine. It presents the opening of "Fugitive's Return" by Carlos St. Clair, depicting protagonist Jade Holloway returning to Windy Basin after four years away. He discovers his mother's grave at Spruce Hill and reflects on a promise he made to her before her death to remain in the area and keep the Circle Dot ranch. The page includes an illustration above showing cowboys on horseback near ranch buildings.
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a ' \ i WeEGeBNHCS Sse = FUGITIVE’S RETURN. By CARLOS ST. CLAIR Author of “Two-fisted Pard,” etc. ELL, I’m a horny toad, a centipede, and a scorpion!” Jade Hol- loway, leaning along the sweated and dust- streaked neck of his trail-weary ca- yuse, stared down, wide-eyed, at the roughly lettered board which, in lieu of a headstone, marked the narrow mound of sun-dried clods which had attracted his startled at- tention. Next to it, a more decorous-ap- pearing mound was headed by a granite slab which bore the name of Abigail Jane Holloway, and a date of four years previous. That was Jade’s mother, and it had been with some vague, half-furtive thought. of telling her that he was home again, come back to Windy Basin and the Circle Dot, that Jade had reined his winded nag under the familiar elk- horn portals which marked the Spruce Hill burying ground. He’d told her, before she died, that he would always stay in Windy Basin and hang onto. the Circle Dot,