Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, December 1956 — page 111: what you’re looking at

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

sion screen. The sign lettered across the glass in front said JAKE WIRTH’S PLACE in let- ters a foot high and, by the looks of the joint he was setting up, Wirth had plenty gold. Solid mir- rors. made up the walls along both sides, and neatly spaced above the glass were some of the finest etch-- ings you're likely to run across. Even a trucker could see they’d been turned out by a practiced RETURN TRIP 109 COPMICLOOO KS sO