The Argosy, Vol. 81, No. 4 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THE ARGOSY Vol. LXXXI El MARCH, i 1916 No. 4 , A FULL BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL COMPLETE. CHAPTER I. A RUSH FOR CARS. ARDWICK ORTON rubbed his head HY with the dazed gesture of a man who has taken three drinks too many. His newly fitted up salesroom and garage had been opened exactly fifteen minutes as the agency for the new Rollerton Six. He had got half through showing the car’s good points to one customer when the sec- ond appeared. He was starting to give the pair a little road demonstration when num- ber three showed up to ask to go along. And these did not count the six might- be buyers who had drifted in with them. These three men had “buy” written all over their impatient faces. Orton had not r A been selling automobiles five years without learning to distinguish the real prospect from the fellow who would be one if he could.- It couldn’t be real. He had demon- strated to a carful many a time. But it had been a carful of relatives and friends of a highly tentative possibility of a buyer. Three buyers at once! Well, if they really handed out good money as their deposits and signed their names to order slips, and he didn’t wake up right afterward, he would know that he had at last found the thing he was looking for. He would have proven to his own satisfac- tion that he could sell a car when the right car was there to be sold. ‘Control seems pretty easy,” the one of 577 ECORMICLOO® S (E@)