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ARGOSY-ALLSTORY SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1920 Isabel Ostrander ‘Author :of-*:Ashesito Ashes,” ““Ewenty-Six: Claes,” “Suspense,” :etc. gra: | ‘Look! And ‘Listen! ‘Ex-reundsman Timothy ‘McCarty is -on the job again. Aind «you :know ‘that means some job or Tm -would -not ‘touch ‘the case. This new Isdbel ‘Ostrander ‘story -will ‘banish ‘boredom, ‘hold :your interest and. ¢hail- ‘lenge tyour own powers of. and we know it. But this first instalment will justify our encomiums .and leave you with an itching curiosity to know the whole story. us—* Some Story!” CHAPTER 1. -EX-ROUNDSMAN ‘M’CARTY ‘MIXES IN. ‘CARTY ‘was ‘tdking one of ‘the -nac- tyinal -strolls so habitual -with :him;as | to have become almost instinctive since ‘the far-off days when, as:Officer 804, and one of ‘the ‘finest, -he -had pounded ;his beat. Et was a soft April night, starless, ‘for ‘the sky was still overcast from .a:recent shower, and the.edor.df wet:earth and fresh, spring- ing green things from ‘the ;park across ‘the avenue blended pleasantly with ‘the smoke of the cigar which tilted upward from :be- neath this short, stubby, sandy mustache. McCarty’s meditations were pleasant, tea, for earlier ;in the evening he had come 1A Digitized by (Go gle detection :as :no other story ever did. ‘Thhis .is shigh praise And then -you will agree with off victor in :a strenuous debate .with his old .erony, Dennis ‘Riordan, of the fire .de- partment, over old wersus new police meth- ods, and the memory .of it :made ‘his ‘broad shoulders ‘heave in a saundless chuckle. All at once he paused in his -measured, rhythmic -tread, his .teeth clamped :dawn upon the cigar and his keen, twinkling blué.eyes narrowed. A block.ahead-of chim, keeping well in shadow, there :slouched a figure \whose type ‘had been well :known .,to him :-in the old days and among whose fraternity, his own name had .been men- tioned blasphemausly; -hut with bated breath. The figure was that of an undersized, narrow4framed man :who :moved with the Slow, crouching :poise.of.a,cat. ‘He wore :no 289 CloOOO Original from (C(O) nn | S C@ THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY