Argosy All-Story Weekly, August 9, 1924 — page 104: what you’re looking at

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

“tilt ‘ ee ee hh we a “2 a L=— ba NA ' ND By CHARLES ALDEN SELTZER Author of ‘‘ Mystery Land,’’ ‘‘ Riddle Gawne,’’ etc. CHAPTER XIX. CHANNING DECIDES. FTER Eve and Channing had left the A living room following Warren’s de- fense of Betty, Warren stood staring out of the door through which Betty had gone. Later, observing that Eve was at the corral fence talking with Channing, he went out the front door, crossed the level in front of the house and found Betty crouched in some grass near the base of a tree. She looked up at Warren when he ap- proached and he saw that she had been cry- ing. After a while she returned with him to the front veranda, where they both sat, silent and thoughtful, while Eve and Chan- ning rode away, toward Red Mesa. “TI feel terribly—guilty,” said Betty finally. ‘““T don’t,” said Warren. ‘‘I suppose I ought to, but somehow I feel that when this thing is all straightened out we’ll all be satisfied that we have done the right thing. Eve didn’t take it as hard as I thought she would.” ‘‘ She was splendid,” was Betty’s tribute. “But I think she has begun to realize that she loves Channing. She is disappointed, and hurt. But I think she will thank me when she begins to understand that she made a mistake. I am afraid of Channing. He has such an odd gleam in his eyes when This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for July 19. 254 EO HOO = SS (C@)