A. Merritt's Fantasy Magazine, July 1950 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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

Veet etttes uber Veeee wersetete., La dew a tS ee aa Nicholas Graydon set out to explore a mystery, ancient beyond all memory of man, and riches untold—in the treacherous hills of bewitched Cordillera de Carabaya. A. Merritt's EPIC NOVEL OF HAUNTED TREASURE THE FACE IN THE ABYSS CHAPTER 1 Out of the Haunted Hills T HAS been just three years since I met Nicholas Graydon in the little Andean village of Chupan, high on the eastern slopes of the Peruvian up- lands. I had stopped there to renew my supplies, expecting to stay not more than a day or two. But after my arrieros had unlumbered my luggage from the two burros, and [ had entered the unusually clean and commodious posada, its keeper told me that another North American was 12 Copyright 1923 by Popular Publications, Inc. stopping there in the village of Chupan. He would be very glad to see me, said the innkeeper, since he was very ill and there was no other Americano in the ham- let. Yes, he was so ill that he was, to tell me all the truth, certain to die, and it would beyond doubt comfort him much to have a fellow countryman with him when that sad moment came. That is, he added, if he were able to recognize a fellow coun- tryman, since all the time the sefior had been at the posada he had been out of his mind with fever, and would probably pass away so. Then with a curiously intense anxiety CORMIEL OOS. COR