The Argosy, April 1916 — page 198: what you’re looking at

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DIK Je, _.\ <—-—— ike Deg sbeek By the \./7 Fditor HERE are only thirty-six dramatic situations on which story plots may be based. At T least this was the assertion of one Gozzi, an Italian, who lived, I believe, in the eighteenth century. If he had waited some hundred or two years longer to make his advent on this sphere of activities, I think he might have added at least one more to his list of ingredients out of which dramatic situations might be evolved. For, you see, he was not able to take into account the thrilling possibilities that lurk around the auto- mobile license-plate. These are brought out in graphic tensity of interest in the Book-Length Novel to ap- pear complete in the May Arcosy. GETTING AWAY FROM THOMPSON BY EDGAR FRANKLIN Author of ‘‘The Chase of the Concession,’’ ‘‘The Amiable Aroma,’’ et cetera. Thompson is a terror, and the effort to keep out of his way tends to make a certain automobile tour anything but a pleasure-trip. Things are bad enough before the result of juggling with the license-plates precipitates catastrophe that plunges two eminently re- spectable persons into a horrible dilemma. The story is not only compelling in its interest, but is told with that rare grace of humor that has made Mr. Franklin so great a favorite with the wide circle of readers his stories command. “ Getting Away From Thompson ” is in his happiest vein, and every- body who has ever ridden in a motor-car will be especially delighted with it. THE OLD WEST PER CONTRACT BY WILLIAM WALLACE COOK Is a new Two-Part Story, the first chapters of which will appear in the May Arcosy. It is a new way of treating the familiar condiments of the old-time Western tale, with a thread of mystery that will keep the reader guessing the while he is entertained by the doings of the happy-go-lucky crowd that go to make up the members of Castle’s ’49 Camp. . But besides the opening of this two-part tale, the May Arcosy will carry the first in- stalment of the best mystery story you have read in many a month. It will be run in three parts, and is called FROM DUSK TO DARK BY GEORGE M. A. CAIN In the opening chapter Morris Ballard enters a house by the roadside to borrow a match. His companion, after waiting an unconscionable time for his return, becomes im- 188 cCoOmiclboooks C©@