Argosy All-Story Weekly, October 7, 1922 — page 80: what you’re looking at

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

By HULBERT FOOTNER Author of *‘ A Self-Made Thief,’’ ‘‘ Country Love,’’ ‘‘ Madame Storey’s Way,’’ etc. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PARTS I and Hl. (Sones CRISPIN FLOWERDAY, an old soldier of fortune with an undeserved reputation as a roué, breaks with Myra Follett, an actress. He reports to Mrs. Guyon, a beautiful woman of high position, that he must find another girl to aid him in his efforts to get hold of some indiscreet letters written by Mrs. Guyon. Mrs. Guyon for years. Kirwan Sutliffe, who stole them, has been blackmailing When the colonel returns home he finds Diantha Lore, a beautiful girl, waiting to see him. At the exclusive Forty-Four Club both Sutliffe and Randal Guyon, who knows nothing of his pal’s blackmailing his.mother, meets and admires her. They quarrel and part company. Diantha encourages Sutliffe in accordance with the colonel’s plan. When Guyon warns her of the colonel’s bad reputation Diantha orders him from the house. CHAPTER X. SUTLIFFE MAKES HAY. URING the days that followed Sut- liffe never wearied of working to improve his position with the colo- nel. Scarcely a day passed that he was not invited to tea or dinner at the Iberia. He was a little astonished by his own suc- cess. “ Doesn’t the old fool ever think of me as a possible rival?” he wondered, with a complacent glance in his mirror. “ Oh, pshaw! dotage!”’ The colonel was accustomed to respect and deference from young men, but he did not like it much. Reminded him that he was growing old. Sutliffe’s method was more subtle. He treated the colonel fa- miliarly as a man of his own age, and with a touch of envy as a better man than him- I should worry! He’s in his self. His usual comment on the colonel’s stories was: ‘Lord! What a fellow you are!”’ It was in furtherance of his new char- This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for September 23. 226 COMmiclboo C©