Adventure Magazine, Mid-September 1917 — page 196: what you’re looking at

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

seemingly opened into the hillside, and beyond this yawning doorway I saw a thick, greenish- yellowish mist---and then we were init... .” oor \HEN we came to a heavily timbered doorway that The thick mist was poison gas, and it was Jeffery Farnol who was in it. The place was one of those great training camps somewhere “out there,’”’ where perhaps some of our own boys are getting their final discipline---a foretaste of the real red thing. Step by step the brilliant English novel- ist put himself through these grilling tests: went through poison gas; wept in the stinging vapor of the “‘lachry- matory;” choked in the smoke from liquid-fire bombs; - and all the rest of it. He tells the whole vivid story in the SEPTEMBER verybodys -There’s a war story in this number, too---about ‘‘The Man Who Was Afraid”’---and what he did about it. All that it’s fair to tell is that he was a rather rich young man who went out to drive an ambulance. By way of contrast, there’s a golf story with a real punch in it---‘A Matter of Quality,’ by Walter Ferris. Anda business story, in which the matter of lending money, and the high cost of paper, and a love-affair are very deftly blended by that popular short-story writer, Holworthy Hall. As an advance news item, let us tell you this: In the October Everybody’s a new serial starts. It’s “Yudith of Blue Lake Ranch,” by Jackson Gregory, author of “Silver Slippers,” and it’s a ripping outdoors Western story---chock-full of adventure and thrills. COL NOOK ©