Argosy All-Story Weekly — "Sea Marauders" — page 103: what you’re looking at

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The sweet little girl's name was Anne Crosby Every Minute Counts Although luxury surrounded him on every side Richard Melton knew that a bullet would reward any attempt to leave his sumptuous prison By EDGAR FRANKLIN Author of ‘‘ Now We’re Rich,’’ ‘‘ Paid In Advanee,’’ etc. LEADING UP TO THIS INSTALLMENT HEN the contracts for the new two-million-dollar addition to the Combined Products Com- pany are about to be let, Richard Mel- ton gets so eager to supply the archi- tectural plans for this ambitious struc- ture that he almost has a nervous breakdown. Though Anne Crosby, who is his secretary and his fiancée, wants him to take on the planning of a large group of little suburban houses to divert his mind from thoughts of the big factory contract, which Dick feels would es- tablish his reputation, he refuses on the ground that thinking about the homes would distract his mind from his big ambition. While things are in this state, Bill Reeves, who runs the prominent Inter- urban Employment Bureau, comes in and tries to persuade Dick to get men- tal relaxation by taking on a particu- larly lucrative secretarial job which is offered at the home of a multimillion- aire named Colonel Samson Bragg, up in Westchester County. Bill points out that Dick was a whiz of a stenographer in the days when he was working his way through archi- tectural school, and that the work would keep him busy and still not This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for August 11 SE apo at dts ae oe TAT ae ee ew oe! oP - RD > Dee " Oar ae ae a ee crew” weet tay ‘he al hey ee Hy MSs per ae a AF ¥ ee Tu ‘ivy a ERLE Re ERS To OM: TEP URRAY APT Ot ea ane a x» ae