Argosy All-Story Weekly, March 15, 1924 — page 97: what you’re looking at

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By LOUIS LACY STEVENSON WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PARTS If and II. HEN Josiah Forsythe, a niggardly Ohio farmer, ousts his old neighbor, Sam Thompson, from his farm because he cannot meet a mortgage, his son, John Forsythe, looks on approvingly. John determines he will go-after “big game,” which, in his opinion, is money. He forces his father to pay him five dollars a week for his labor on the farm, and when, after two years of toil, he saves a hundred dollars, he leaves his father, brother Hiram, and mother, Mary, on the farm and goes to Unionville, a near-by town. There John gets a job in a grocery store where Ralph Walters, a spendthrift youth, is also a clerk, and takes the cheapest room in ‘the cheapest boarding house in town. Marie Riggers, ® another boarder, discovers when. she tries to fascinate him, that he. is not interested in girls. As time passes John, by saving every cent, Jending money to ess provident acquaintances and demand- ing double the sum in return for the accommodation, and forcing Ben Johnson, the grocer, to . increase his wages, builds up. his: bank account. When Walters fails to return a loan Forsythe garnishees his wages and Walters flees from town. Finally Forsythe decides he has enough money to pursue“ big game” in Chicago and leaves Unionville without a word of farewell from any one, in a day coach. CHAPTER X. THE CITY OF BIG GAME. voiced brakeman, and passengers leaving and boarding the train. He made a hur- ried and ineffective toilet at.the ice water. OHN FORSYTHE awakened just as the sun was gilding the Indiana prairies, his head aching and his neck stiff. He was ~ far from being refreshed, as his rest had. been broken at every station by a raucous tank, and was one of the first to leave the train in the gloomy terminal known as “ the Polk Street Depot.” Walking “through the long -train shed, John Forsythe was a much different figure This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for March 1. - 726 EO OO (Cc CO