Argosy All-Story Weekly

About this issue

Where Was I, by Edgar Franklin, is the opening installment of a four-part story serialized in Argosy-All Story (November 1, 1924). The narrative follows Henry, secretary to Thomas F. Berford, president of the B. Berford Corporation. Henry witnesses his famously austere, work-obsessed boss—a bachelor thought incapable of sentiment—standing on the street below their office holding hands with a striking young woman in a pale blue automobile. The encounter visibly transforms Berford: he returns upstairs whistling, grins broadly, grants his secretary a salary increase, and displays uncharacteristic warmth and levity. The story's premise hinges on Henry's realization that the previously emotionally remote businessman has fallen in love, a development he finds almost incredible given Berford's single-minded dedication to work.

In this issue

• “Where Was I...” by Edgar Franklin · serial · p.161
• “Conor” by Laurie York Erskine · serial · p.202
• “Expectation” by Glace Eloise Brierly · poem · p.206
• “The Shadow” by Chart Pitt · p.225
• “The Cup of Life” by Emma A. Lente · p.234
• “The Line That Lasts” by Helen Cowles LeCron · poem · p.253
• “Buccaneer Blood” by Kenneth Perkins · serial · p.262
• “The Complex” by Robert Baker · poem · p.293
• “Harbinger of Age” by Louis B. Capron · poem · p.308
• “An Engagement in Trinidad” by Chandler P. Barton · p.309
• “Only Cheese” by Roderick William Siler · p.314
• “The Racing Doll” by Chathan L. Edick · serial
• “Glovelly” by Max Brand · serial
• “Nothing But Money” by Fred MacIsaac · novelette
• “The Goat-Getter” by Jack Bechdolt
• “Judgments” by Nan Moynahan
• “The Desperate Man” by F. Morton Howard
• “The Ship of Ishtar” by A. Merritt · serial