Argosy All-Story Weekly, 4 February 1922 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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

2 Victor Rousseau ga Author ef “ While Dorion Lives,” “The Big Muskeg,” “ Wooden Sele etc, WHAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED EAN GERVAISE, American engineer, having lost his position in the New Krugersdorp Mine, because he had refused to certify to a false assay at the instigation of Eltzmann, the president — of the company, finds himself black-listed and practically stranded in Johannesburg, the chief city of the Transvaal gold-fields, South Africa. Almost at the end of his rope, financially, he meets — and rescues from the police a young girl—Lois Ashton—who has just aided her father to escape from prison, where he had been railroaded by certain big interests in an attempt to get hold of property to which he had a claim. Lois hires Dean to help her father and herself across the border into Batakaland. While buying the outfit Dean has a run-in with a crooked Dutch trader named Van Leenen, a bully and ruffian, but a man of wealth and political influence, and knocks him out, paying little attention to the braggart’s threats to get even. Meantime Lois disappears. Thinking she has joined her father and will meet him along the road he starts out, but almost reaches the border before he finds any signs of her. Then he is surprised and captured one night by Van Leenen and his henchmen, who bind him and his faithful Hottentot guide, Tietjens, to an acacia, on the bank of a river to be eaten by a crocodile, but they are saved by a devoted native servant who gives his life for them. Escaping, they follow Van Leenen, who has managed to persuade Lois and her father that Dean is a traitor and intends to turn them over to the police. Overtaking them, they capture the party, and convincing the girl that it is really Van Leenen who is the traitor, Dean leaves the latter and his men bound to their carts and hurries on toward the border with the girl and her father. CHAPTER VII. A DASH FOR FREEDOM. N a few minutes Tietjens had the four | securely fastened. While he inspanned the oxen to the Cape cart, Dean took a last look at the prisoners. The Kaffirs, resigned .to their situation, grinned amia- bly; Smit, who had been cursing and threatening, had subsided into silence; Van Leenen rested on the ground and rolled This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for January 28. 347 : his eyes on Dean in vicious hatred. Dean recognized that he was getting off too light- ly, but one cannot flog a white man. Then the cart started, Ashton lying in- side on the kartel, while Dean and Lois walked behind, discussing their plans. The girl told him that, watching for him near the house, she had seen him drive up w’th the policeman, and, in her fear, had gone — = immediately to the place where her father See was hidden. CORMCEIOO es