Argosy All-Story Weekly, August 9, 1924 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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

ARGOSY-ALLSTORY wwe. Ee, VoL. CLXII ay Oo SOS ATs SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1924 ~~ 1. NUMBER 2 U ALE, , ome meets Was ~ By J. U. GIESY and JUNIUS B. SMITH Authors of ‘* Wolf of Erlik,’’ ‘‘The Opposing Venus,’’ etc. CHAPTER I. THE MAN ON THE ROOF. HE letter was waiting for me that April morning when I came into the offices of Glace and Bryce—Private Investigators—on the seventh floor of the Urania Building. It lay with a stack of other mail upon my desk. There was nothing about it to mark it out from the rest. It was postmarked, ‘“‘ Nogales, Arizona,” as I noted, and called to a post office box. Then I slit the cover and drew out a typewritten page, which, 1A 161 unfolded, disclosed a second slip of paper. And I read: Nogales, Arizona, April 18, 19—. My DEAR GLACE: As you know, I’m a veritable bird of pas- sage, always more or less on the move, al- ways poking into place after place. Right now, however, I’m down near the Mexican teapot, which, like Old Faithful, of Yellow- stone fame, never ceases to boil and erupt at fairly regular intervals, being internally troubled to an apparently incurable extent. However, this is not a geological or an in- ternational discussion. As you'll see, I’m in- closing a second sheet, conveying something of information, to one who may read. It COMMIClIOOO© () SS Eo