Adventure Trails, February 1929 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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_ W.M. CLAYTON, Publisher HARRY BATES, Editor DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting Editor The Clayton Standard on a Magazine Guarantees: That the stories therein are clean, interesting, vivid; by leading writers of the day and purchased under conditions approved by the Authors’ League of America; That such magazines are manufactured in Union shops by American workmen; That each newsdealer and agent is insured a fair profit; That an intelligent eensorship guards their advertising pages. The other Clayton magazines are: ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE, RANCH ROMANCES, COWBOY STORIES, CLUES, FIVE-NOVELS MONTHLY, THREE STAR STORIES, AIR ADVENTURES, RANGELAND STORIES, BIG STORY MAGAZINE and FOREST AND STREAM —- More Than a Million and a Quarter Clayton Magazines Sold Every Month. VOL. XIII, NO. 1 CONTENTS FEBRUARY COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSOLOWSKI Painted in oils from a scene in “The Might of the Scorpion.” THE MIGHT OF THE SCORPION SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT il Ted McKay Extracts the Venom of a Deadly Scorpion. THROUGH THE WAR ON A SUBMARINE AS TOLD TO D. W. HALL ser. BY CAPT. J. D. DRYBURGH, R.N.R. 36 The Second of a Thrilling Series of Actual Wartime Sub-Sea Adventures. ss ‘THE SPIRIT OF FRANCE S. B. H. HURST 57 She Danced for Mohammedans, and She Was White; and When Mergui Boiled Over with Religious Fanaticism—White She Remained! BLACK ARROWS P. S. WINTON 67 A Northwoods Trapper Fights Fire with Fire. THE SUB AND THE MERCHANT PRINCE F. V. W. MASON 75 | | A Yellow Captain; an Enemy Sub—but Jeff Gaines Sticks with His Crippled Ship, DEVIL VALLEY 3 FRANK RICHARDSON PIERCE 94 Contact and Mile-High Explore a Northwest Valley of Terror. MAEHOE MURRAY LEINSTER 103 A Story of a Brutal White, a Faithful Black, and Fear. PASSENGERS BERTRAND W. WILLIAMS 115 A Deserted Derelict Comes to Life and Kidnaps Carnegie—and His Passengers. - WITH PICK AND PAN JOHN A. THOMPSON 129 A Department of Prospecting and Mining. , ADVENTURERS ALL ALL OF US 133 A Meeting Place for Those Who Travel Adventure Trails. DE IE EE reer rsrcreeeer errr nr ens sn enc e et s Single Copies, 20 Cents (In Canada, 25 Cents) Yearly Subscription, $2.00 Issued monthly by Danger Trail, Inc., 80 Lafayette St., New York, N.Y. Nathan Goldmann, President ; H, Mayer, Secretary. Entered as second-class matter Dec. 31, 1925, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Copyright, 1928, by Adventure Trails. Title registered as a Trade-mark in U. S, Patent Office. Member Newsstand Group—Men’s List. For advertising rates address E, R. Crowe & Co., Inc., 25 Vanderbilt Ave., New York; or 225 North Michigan Ave,, Chicago. \ ) iDOOKS (c@) See } : Connt