Argosy All-Story Weekly, June 27, 1925 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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

By WALTER A. SINCLAIR A NOVELETTE—COMPLETE. IN THIS ISSUE ERE was an open invitation to H crooks, and Monty Craig grinned happily as he read the newspaper stories. Not that Monty was a crook, Quite the opposite. He was the extender of the open invitation which now shouted itself from the printed page. | It was not an advertisement headed “ To All Crooks in Good Standing to Whom ‘These Presents Come, Greeting ”; because the presents had not come to them yet, but merely were dangled tantalizingly in pros- pect. V. P.” Nevertheless, it was calculated to make a crookish mouth water. A news story it was, headed, “' Dollars To Go at Cut Rate,” with subbeads drolly announcing a marked down sale of Uncle Sam’s slightly soiled currency. 3A Nor was it rounded off with “R. S. The account, written in a light vein, stated that Montgomery Craig 2d, who had been cut off in the will of the late million- aire manufacturer with a paltry ten thou- sand dollars, would take physical passes- sion of his inheritance this afternoon. Fur- thermore, that he had stipulated that this sum be paid him in one-dollar bills, which he would proceed forthwith to sell to the public at the cut price of ninety-nine cents a dollar. Each purchaser could buy one dollar, po more. This “latest outburst of Monty .Craig, whose escapades have added to the joy of nations ’~—to quote the news account— came opportunely in dog days when serious news is scarce and freak stories are played up. Following the interviews with Monty was an extended “‘sbirt-tail,” which is 833 NOO C (CO) S Co