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JHE ARGOSY Vol. LXXXIII —————— 7 | AUGUST, 1916 No. 1 Joseph Ivers Lawrence A FULL BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL COMPLETE. CHAPTER I. OUT OF THE WHIRLPOOL. ERRY HAMPTON started out of his J twilight reverie and strained his eyes into the shadows that mantled the river. A moment before he had noticed a canoe gliding dreamily down the cur- rent, steered by a lone paddler; his vision had recorded it merely as a part of the gentle movement of the softly silent land- scape, and it had merged with the night mists without sensibly diverting the trend of his thoughts. Now, at the end of the finger of rock which extended into the river there was Tt A new movement; the water was splashed and thrown about, and something alive and vigorous took issue with the cease- lessly battling currents that _ swirled around the point. Jerry Hampton, startled, but vaguely mystified, rose from his seat on the ledge and strolled out to the end of the tongue of rock. The canoe, faintly remembered, was bobbing about, inverted, in the petu- lant eddies and a man was striving for his life with that miniature maelstrom. The sounds of the struggle indicated a robust vigor, but from the mouth of the victim there came not a single cry of terror or appeal. Hampton observed this (e) VOOKS (E@)