Argosy All-Story Weekly — "The Purple Limited" — page 39: what you’re looking at

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BAD BILL STARK. taking an uncertain step forward. ‘“ My God! I'll go for a doctor!” “ Take Papineau’s horse!” Stark flung “at him. ‘ And be quick about it!” Janet was smiling up into Bill’s face with the happiness of a lost child come home. “ There’s Daddy’s money,” she whis- pered, and at a movement of her arm a hand-bag dropped from a fold of the cape. “I’m no good—not even a good crook, Bill. You believed in me—” é U U 605 Bill Stark brushed the hand-bag aside, and into the clutching hands of Papineau, as he worked clumsily at her waist where _ it had grown wet to the touch. He had seen wounds, many of them, and of various kinds, and the sight of this one gave him courage to smile through the mist that dimmed his eyes. “You believed in me, Bill,’’ she breathed —‘ and I had to live up to you!” ““Good or bad,” he growled softly, ‘“‘ you're my girl, Jan!” U ‘MAGELLAN IN THE STRAITS BY SARAH N. CLEGHORN THe stehdy wind blew west Along the tortuous strait; And still the lean and scowling crew, Consumed with helpless hate, = Beheld Magellan smile As if he joked with fatt. All day they cursed the ship; All night they dreamed of Spain. = | They called the strait a river of hell—- He swore it was the main; For oft at eve he dipped And found it salt again. The sailors sickened fast; Their eyes began to stare. Now, wolflike ravening, from the mast The leathern thongs they tear; - For none of their small lives Did that great captain care. At even and at morn He bade their labors halt, © ‘To swing some luckier comrade down Into the foaming vault; And still he smiled and said: “The water still is salt!” The water still was salt; The west wind still blew free— Sudden the sailors crowding ran From starboard and from lee, And lifted up their eyes Upon the western sea. COMmic NOOK CO