Argosy All-Story Weekly, July 7, 1928 — page 123: what you’re looking at

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

Heartbreak Trail A story of 1855, in which a young man leaves luxury to struggle amid the murders and arson of the Kansas border war BY THE AUTHOR OF “EYES WEST!” CHAPTER XII. REPUDIATION. IDING through the drifts in a R vin of Siberian cold, holding the girl in front of him, Reuel realized that he had been foolhardy in his haste and desperation. He wore only his buckskin breeches and the heavy jacket which had served him for riding in the milder November weather. His head and shoulders were covered with the fur cap and muffler, but the gusts of wind on his back struck to the bone and the heart. The horse was far spent and spirit- less. It had been treated unkindly dur- ing the eventful hours at the cabin, and the rider in his contrition would not force it to hurry on the return journey. Hetty appeared to suffer little dis- comfort from the exposure. The great- coat muffled her slender form complete- ly, and she seemed to doze in the half- sleep of fever and exhaustion. Fortunately the blizzard had spent itself; otherwise the results of such a night march would have been doubtful. The wind was bitterly cruel, the cold intense, but it was possible to follow the trail with little difficulty. Reuel rode directly to the hotel, turned his mount over to a hostler with directions for its care, and hastened in- to the building with his charge. Young enough to be easily embarrassed, he This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for June 23 263 COPMICGLOOOKS (E@)