Argosy All-Story Weekly, January 13, 1923 — page 99: what you’re looking at

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

ee to ee . il ‘i By EDGAR FRANKLIN Author of ‘‘A Noise in Newboro,’’ ‘‘ Regular People,’’ ‘‘ Whatever She Wants,’’ etc. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PARTS I and I]. OOD-LOOKING young John Harley is in love with Helen Stevens, but on his small pay does not dare risk marriage, so their engagement is kept a secret. One Braisted bothers him so about an investment that to get rid of the bore, John intimates that he has inherited a foxtune from his Uncle William in Australia. The news spreads, and coming to the ears of John’s Aunt Faith, causes her to become so chipper that Dr. Fosdyck warns Jack he must not dare intimate that he is even one million short of the three she believes he has acquired, so Jack learns she has willed the money destined for him elsewhere. But worse than this, she thinks that his covert reference to a sweetheart means Mildred Ames, who just then happens in, and prompted by Aunt Faith’s happy remarks, marches straight into Jack’s unwilling arms. Trying to get out of his awkward fix, John accepts the proffered aid of Althea Wicks, daughter of a millionaire, and presently finds himself engaged to her as well. Helen gets wind of this and hands him back his ring. Desperate, John tries first to offend Althea and then her father, but the latter arranges to send, him to Europe on a business matter and announces that the marriage must take place at once, CHAPTER IX, * He’s begging your pardon!” he cried. * Thurlow Wicks is apologizing to you!” “ Huh?” ae yellow sheet fluttered to the floor. “Why, it’s a boast of his that he never THE STRAIGHTER COURSE. “ This week!” choked Mr. Harley. asked the pardon of any man living, Jack! Wolcott’s more deliberate mind Is—is it possible that /e’s infatuated with seemed still to be loitering over the earlier you, too?” words of the message. John Harley clutched at his friend’s arm This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for December 30. 6A 561 Se zs COMIEDOOKS:COM — Tw —_ - 4 - a - ot ‘tom - - mall pi . = - a ® : ’ - * _<ae- z ” a ae a ee Cw em ee Pe ee a a “= << ey —- a ete Pen ach; Stee