Argosy All-Story Weekly, July 1, 1922 — page 53: what you’re looking at

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

Nett c By EDGAR FRANKLIN Author of “‘A Noise in Newboro,’’ ‘‘ Regular People, ’’ WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN efc. PART I. YRA CARSON is evicted from her boarding house for failure to pay rent; her next misfortune is losing a temporary job as restaurant cashier in a hotel. As she passes through the lobby she meets a strange girl, who asks her, as a great favor, to change hats and coats for a short time. Impetuously she-slips into the fur cloak. Within the next few minutes she is seen by the hotel manager, -her roommate, Daisy Walsh, and her fiancé, Arthur Bond, all of whom conclude that Myra is indebted to some generous man for the costly garment. She is furious. As she rushes from the hotel she is approached by a chauffeur, who directs her to a limousine around the corner; thinking it belongs to the real owner of the coat she accompanies him. They drive through strange streets, and to a sparsely settled neighborhood; she has been kidnaped. CHAPTER V. IN THE SIDE ROOM. HERE was,. of course, the ancient and ineradicable impulse to scream. Myra, fairly convinced that some- thing of a most unusual and threatening nature was afoot, essayed to scream to the very limit of her lung power... A great palm, she is ordered out of the car—and discovers that suddenly placed over her mouth, reduced this sound to a mere gasping grunt, inau- dible twenty feet away. Again she strug- gled viciously, putting forth all the force of her strong young body. The big arms merely tightened a little about her and Miss Carson was carried on and on, toward the house. Hazily she caught soft steps on bare floor This story began in the Argosy- Allstory Weekly for June 24. 843 CO DOO C©