Argosy All-Story Weekly, April 28, 1928 — page 77: what you’re looking at

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

itt mh jie Red Hot By FRED MacISAAC Author of ‘‘ Coast of Blue,’’ ‘‘ Desperate Chances,’’ efe. In which the author shows that you’ll have an exciting time if you try to keep a good man down WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PARTS I and II pietes LUCUS opens a “hot-dog” stand after being fired from an office job. He does so well that a formerly rich college classmate, “Chipmunk” Arthur Colter, puts half his remaining money into the business, and Francesca and Hilda, the daughters of Ludwig Brinker, the “ sausage king,” buy a small interest in the business as a joke on their father, who hates to have “his Comet Brand superfrankfurters called “hot dogs.” Mr. Brinker is so sore that he has the police make Lester change his business slogan, and stops the sale of his fine product to Lester. Half-disheartened, Chipmunk starts uptown to see the Brinker girls. While Lester is closing up shop, and thinking of visiting Nora Meagher, a quick-witted friend of his, a man comes in to talk to him, whom an old bum named Walter Downing, whom Lester had twice befriended, declares is one of a quartet of crooks —_ once beat Downing up. CHAPTER XII. NORA COMES DOWN TOWN. T happened that Lester Lucus had not called upon Nora Meagher since the evening when he encountered Randolph Milligan in her apartment. He had intended to make a return vis- it, but what with one thing or another —the arrangements with Arthur Col- ter, for example—he hadn’t managed to get uptown. People who live upon the northern fringe of New York are almost out of the world, in the opinion of the lazy residents of the city proper. They tell of two brothers who had not seen each other for thirty years because one lived at Washington Heights and the other in Flatbush. Lots of working girls whose home is in remote suburbs walk out on their parents, on the ground that no man. will ever come to see them, and take a furnished room in the congested dis- trict so as to be a convenient drop for the spoiled youths who are potential husbands. This wares began in the Argosy-Alistory Weekly for April 14 507 (EO) .OOK AMUNG (E@)