Argosy All-Story Weekly, July 11, 1925 — page 84: what you’re looking at

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= ¢ Wess: £ 3s) — ae Tee ~ > . 7 Ve* aary@ “~~ a). _ = t* A fo By CHARLES NEVILLE BUCK Author of ‘‘ The Battle Cry,’’ etc. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PREVIOUS PARTS ADE MURRELL, a Kentucky mountain clan leader in his later twenties, driving homeward” from North Carolina, finds a girl semiconscious in the dark road. She is Cynthia Meade, a New York actress with a small part in.a movie being made in an Asheville location. Jock ’ Harrison, a New York man about town, has been shot and Cynthia fears a murder charge; Harrison had been pursuing her. She appeals to the mountaineer to aid her flight, and he agrees after she declares she is a good woman. Lesher Skidmore, leader of a rival clan, spreads a poison-tongue report about Cynthia, but Murrell’s mother, known as Aunt Erie, welcomes the girl. Loutish school- boys stone Cynthia for a lowland wanton, and Murrell severely beats the ringleader and the school- master. Cynthia wins her enemies by garbing herself demurely and singing the mountain ballads. Caswell Harley, ambitious to go to the Legislature, offers the girl a secret love. She upbraids him tigerishly, Next she encounters Jock Harrison, who had recovered from an apparently mortal wound. He believes she*shot him, and has come for revenge. CHAPTER XX. WHEN AMBITION IS DEADLY. } CC vitaion did not accept Wade’s in- > instinct of a shrewd wariness to block the hospitable but dangerous effort of her hosts to throw her alone with their other guest—and she succeeded. In that effort to vary and amplify her entertainment she read their kindliness of motive and could not explain to them its unwelcomeness. vitation to spend that evening dressed in shoddy finery while the handsome stranger, who had given the name of Stacy = Carroll, ‘‘ sparked ” with her before the big fireplace. on Wade himself stand - on sentry post outside the door to protect her from prying eyes. the girl maneuvered with every Yet Cynthia carried the situation with a skill which, during the first evening, proved adequate, and Harrison, as he bowed to her adroitness, reflected that he could afford to play a waiting game. For This story began in the Argosy-Alistory Weekly for June 13. 238 (a) } ee r ee eT Or