Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 12, 1927 — page 60: what you’re looking at

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

By SINCLAIR MURRAY WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PART 1 HROUGH her refinement and loveliness Sylvia Denby obtains employment from Marcus King, a strange man of tremendous force, power, and wealth, who is relentless in using and crushing anybody or anything to achieve success, and whose dominance and fascination are almost mys- tifying. Sylvia is somewhat perturbed because of her love for a childhood sweetheart, Jim Brent, who is accumulating for a home while he works as engineer in the Victrix mine in Canada. However, she goes on with the work, which ostensibly consists of being companion to Miss Beatrice King, sup- posed to be King’s sister and subject to moments of delusion in which she believes she is his wife. . She and Sylvia form an instantaneous affection for one another. Mrs. Byfleet and her husband, housekeeper and chaufteur respectively of Shadow Manor, where Sylvia is installed with her charge, behave very peculiarly toward Sylvia and suggest some occult force. Following an automobile acci- dent which injures Beatrice King, Byfleet warns Sylvia to be constantly on her guard. CHAPTER IV. about it, as if it were the meeting of well loved friends after a long parting, and the moment seemed quite perfect without HE hours passed slowly in the sick speech. It was only slowly and with a grad- room where Beatrice King lay hover- ually increasing breathlessness that Sylvia ing on the edge of consciousness and realized that she was looking into @ face of when, a little later, the hazel eyes opened calm intelligence. again on the world of life it happened that Perhaps Beatrice realized it, too, because, Sylvia Denby was sitting close by, and it almost to the eye, she seemed to be sum- was on her exquisite face that the gaze of moning to her aid faculties of whose exist- Beatrice fell first of all. ence she was aware, but of whose powers The girl remained quite motionless while, she appeared a little uncertain. When final- : for a space these two beheld each other. ly she spoke it was very slowly, very care- FALSE SAFETY. a — — A on < . 7 — * = i cr ap — Eis oer I i a ae reign le pe ~* — Re —— . <a és *, en, oe a Fae nas “ P = ~ — is > = as There was something poignant and touching — fully, and as if she were determined to make Thin story began in the Argosy-Alletory Weekly for February 5. | comicbooks.com