Argosy All-Story Weekly, January 13, 1923 — page 72: what you’re looking at

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Meee ed bed “it Mi Ht | iil (ir fil Phe fedbury Fi By ELIZABETH YORK MILLER Author of ‘‘ The Greatest Gamble,’’ *‘ Diana the Hunted,’’ ‘‘ Doubles and Quits,’’ ete. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PART 1. ICK ARDELL, about to be married to Evelyn Harland, goes with a friend to spend the evening at the house of Marchesa di Trevi. The next morning he wakes up to find himself on a bench on the embankment with a valuable diamond-studded pendant in the shape of a cross in his pocket. It develops later that the marchesa has been murdered and the cross stolen. All Dick recalls is that, missing his cigarette case, he went back for it. He has a fearful pain in his head, so his pal, Jimmy Creigh, takes him to his rooms, summons a doctor and builds an elaborate alibi to the effect that the crack on his head was sustained by slipping on the stairs of the under- ground railway. Meanwhile, the valuable pendant has been stolen from Dick’s pocket and later sent to Evelyn with a card from Dick, apparently in his writing. But he and Jimmy realize that this 16 the Ledbury fist, a style of penmanship all members of.their unit at Clavering School acquired. Dick teHs Evelyn that he did not mean to give her the cross; she suspects he intended it {for another woman and breaks the engagement. Meanwhile, he and Jimmy have a call from the real Marchesa di Trevi, from whom it appears that the woman who impersonated her had stolen the famous pendant. She is engaged to Bruce Norwich, a bounder who was at school with Jimmy and Dick. Events are now at such a pass that Dick resolves to go to the police and tell the truth regardless of what the result will be to Jimmy and himself. CHAPTER IX. and the doctor protested vigorously when he announced his intention of getting up WAVERING. and out. ICK was confronted by a very dis- “ Young man, you are very rash,” said agreeable task, no less difficult be- the doctor. cause self-imposed. “ He’s sixteen kinds of an ass,’”’ muttered He was supposed to be still an invalid Jimmy Creigh. This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for January 6. 534 EORMICLOOO©