Argosy All-Story Weekly, March 15, 1924 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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

VoL. CLVIII By LAURIE YORK ERSKINE ad Author of *‘ The Laughing Rider,’’ ‘‘ The River Trail,’”’ ete. CHAPTER I, THE GRAND VIZIER PRESUMES. YITH an elegance, a distinction, that ' made his passage notable among = VY the bustling masses of the street, the Great Corvan turned from Wall Street into another, narrower cafion, and permitted himself to be swallowed by the gaping maw of the Citizen’s Trust Building. With a bow to the starter of elevators, and a cheer- ful smile for the operator, he bestowed him- 641 self slimly in a corner of an express to the nineteenth floor, and was swept upward to alight at. the twenty-seventh story. There his tall figure, clad in the softest of well fitting worsteds over the finest of Oriental silks, fitted by its appearance and its bear- ing the flawless marble of the corridors through which he strode. Fashioned after the haunts of medieval Italian princes, the halls of the Citizen’s Trust Building seldom entertained a more appropriate figure than that of the Great Corvan. He was an COmiclboo (Cc CO