Argosy All-Story Weekly — page 11: what you’re looking at

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ARGOSY-ALLSTORY we SS VoL. CXLVIT a SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1922 oe = NUMBER 4 By MAX BRAND Author of “‘ The Night Horseman,”’ ‘‘ Black Jach,’’ ‘‘ The Seventh Man,”’ etc. CHAPTER I. HE DRINKS WITH A THIEF. HE thick shoulders of Bud Gainer, his shaven bullet head and the outthrust of the lower jaw, suggested the pugil- ist, arid now he sat forward on the edge of his chair like a prizefighter eager to rise for the last round. His hair was flecked here and there with gray, but since age had not visibly impaired his body, it seemed that time had only served to make him more dangerous through experience. As for Kain, he was one of those men 1A s who easily merge with a crowd; indeed, he fitted quite accurately that nonexistent gen- erality—the average man. Yet, when any one looked more closely, there was that about him which arrested the attention and roused conjecture. It was easy to read Bud Gainer and assign him a place, but the pe- culiar power of Kain was to rouse a question whose answer was deferred. For instance, though by the usual signs he was not more than thirty years old, very few men were willing to conjecture his age. A portrait painter would have presented him in neutral colors with the stronger 481 com iGchbooks com