The Argosy, September 1915 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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

THE ARGOSY No. 2 Vol. LXXX SEPTEMBER, 1915 Author of ‘ _ The sae with the 44 Chest, ve The Fiying Courtship,” “ Kismet Isle,” **Two Women or One,”’ etc A FULL BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL COMPLETE. CHAPTER - 1. SAM, THE BOAT PERSON. ISS CHALMERS stood on the wharf at Clayton, poised upon one foot, while she employed the other in executing alternate tap- taps, denoting impatience, and vigor- ous stamping, by which she registered rage. Even the half-grown boy who volunteered to find her a boatman knew that she was angry. Her free foot beat upon the rough flooring of the wharf with increasing vigor. The wharf did not care; it was 1A old and stout, and did not pretend to be ornamental. Miss Chalmers’s shoe might have protested, had it possessed a voice, for it was new and spotless, and of deli- cate constitution. With its mate, it had cost Miss Chalmers twenty dollars, a fact which is set down to obviate the necessity of describing what else the lady wore. Her whole costume was in complete financial and artistic har- mony with its twenty-dollar-shoe foun- ‘ dation. It was dark and clear and warm— somewhat after nine .oclock of an 225 * COMMICGLOOKS (C@