Argosy All-Story Weekly, October 6, 1923 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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

ARGOSY-ALLSTORY W EEK LL oY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1923 VoL. CLIV SS = “ ~< SN Tinea [is By KENNETH PERKINS Author of ‘‘ Queen of the Night,’’ ‘‘ The Bull-Dogger,’’ CHAPTER I. A GIRL UNAFRAID. RED HAYDEN was astounded at the transformation of that notorious stage stop which only a few years before had flaunted its glorious aspect of the old and vitally romantic Arizona. The group of unpainted shacks in a scene of mesas, deserts and sparkling thin air still retained the vigorous intense drama of the lost era. It drew for its existence upon the same resources. Sun-up was in the center of a mining and stock raising country. A stage connected with the Quartzite placer mines, orchards and vineyards; to the north the trading post, Salome, centralized a community of LA NUMBER 6 etc. desert cafions and mines—the Harqua Hala gold mine, the Glory Hole of sudden and violent fame. To the south in a country of bleached grass, giant cactus and sage, a few cattle outfits evoked the elemental and van- ishing years. Fred Hayden rattled into town in a run- about. He apologized for the cheap light car; it was the only machine he said which, with the use of chicken wire when stuck in the sand, could traverse the road between Sun-up and the Santa Fe junction. He observed a semblance of the old days; the unpainted dance halls, the broad, glar- ing street relieved of a monotone of brown dust by the zigzag red and yellow of a blan- ket swathing a Pima Indian. There was a pinto at a tethering post, and a loiterer 80r COMmiclooe C©