Adventure Magazine Cover, June 20, 1925 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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

Registered in U.S. Patent Office 2.1925 _. Vol LI-No 2 Author of “Eye-Wash,” “The Casual’s Return,” etc. N THE midst of what appeared to be an old pasture was a small wooden house, one of the port- able type such as one sees at summer resorts and on the fringes of great cities, where bank clerks and what-not are getting back to the land. Before the door of the house was a line of men, waiting patiently. This house, however, was not a home, but the head- quarters of a rest camp where men new- landed in France were taken to recuperate. They wore the olive drab of the United States Army, but though they were mem- bers of the American Expeditionary Force, they did not wear the overseas cap. They wore campaign hats, with hat-cords of “A Sergeant of Cavalry,” copyright, 1925, by Leonard H. Nason. yellow, thus showing that they belonged to a cavalry regiment. These men were all unarmed, save one, who carried a rifle and had a pistol hung to his cartridge belt, which he wore in true cavalry fashion, around his hips, as a shim- my dancer wears a sash. The men spat and shifted from one foot to the other, and gazed at the sky. They were prisoners, awaiting trial by the sum- mary court, and the man with the rifle was guarding them. The men were sad and their eyes bloodshot. This was a Monday morning and the joy of Saturday or Sunday night had turned into a headache and a rebellious stomach. That which had soothed and exhilarated going down had not been as pleasant on its return journey. Therefore the men stood sullenly, said Copyright, 1925, by The Ridgway Company in the United States and Great Britain. All rights reserved. 1 COMIGDIOOKSEEO