Argosy, Vol. 147, No. 1 — page 122: what you’re looking at

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

By WILLIAM J. FLYNN, Former Chief, United States Secret Service, and GEORGE BARTON. UI.— THE CHALKED HAT. HIS is the hitherto unpublished tale sode publicly, but he was intimately con- of the strange disappearance of five nected with it through the part he played as one-thousand-dollar bank notes, the the special investigator of the Good Govern- of a powerful lobby at Albany, and ment League, The organization was non- 5 self-exile of a prominent public partisan, and the sole purpose of its exist gh-sounding military title. At ence was to break up a system of lobbying one of these things would have that was corrupting the politics of the Com worth a first-page story in monwealth. The decent men who were — an journals, but combined back of the league were neither theorists nor ma that set the-whole State reformers in the ordinary sense of the term. tarte They did not care which party or i tion - ee as, - me ir aie : ‘ was in the saddle so long as the air of —— a | a alt Te es, > « aaa (a a a ~ \ id pe a re , “* " : J - comicbooks.com