Adventure, December 1914 — page 173: what you’re looking at

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

“For Ways That Are Dark” As for Pitkin, his neck was certainly broken. I think he deserved it for what he did that night. I’ve mentioned that the man was an electrical expert, and he had planned this thing all out. He’d taken an extra pulley and mouthpiece and soaked the whole thing in a strong copper solution for days. That night he switched pulleys and put on his copper-loaded one. When Mitchi bit it the current jumped into her like light- ning. That, by the way, is why she OSSACK was in the throes of the “lay-up” season. Cossack was further convulsed {with the knowledge of the Black Sisters. é < The Black Sisters was a pearl—a pearl such as is found only once in a generation. It was a deep, lustrous, living black in color, takes the bite now before her wings go on. If any josher tried that stunt again, she’d taste it or drop on the tower, at least, even if Tom didn’t get it first in his bare hands. Tom Collins is He doesn’t wear gloves. sure mighty careful of his wife. We picked up a new electrician, and no- body wept for Pitkin. Even the coroner, when he’d heard all the evidence we could give, decided his death was due to acciden- tal causes, and nobody kicked on that. FOR WAYS THAT ARE DARK 6y NORMAN SPRINGER and it was double—two perfect spheres It was grown together in the same shell. the catch of twenty years. Not since the famed Southern Cross had been found in the eighties had Ninety There was no other topic of conversation in the Mile Beach yielded such a prize. Co DOO 171 C@