By BURTON WYNNE Adventures in Seeking the Super- Phonograph OR years my family has wanted a We read and heard of the Brunswick Fphonograph. Yet we hesitated. We Method of Reproduction, which included were on the verge of buying often, the Ultona and an improved amplifier. but delayed. And so we investigated. We were some- We love music. And we value the what skeptical — but we came away as phonograph for the wealth of world-wide proud owners. talent it brings to the home. For here, at last, was our ideal instru- But fr ankly, we ment one which played all records at their waited during the last — best, one with incomparable tone. few years, hearing the different phono- This remarkable instrument graphs and weighing ended our search. We found in their different advan- the Brunswick Meth- tages — never quite od of Reproduction satisfied. all we had looked for more. We felt that sooner and or later a better pho- The Ultona is a nograph would come, simple, convenient, overcoming all the current handicaps and all-record player, ad- setting new standards. justable to any type of record at a turn of We never liked the idea of a phonograph the hand. And now we buy our records which would play only its own make of according to artists rather than make. Thus records. No one catalog contained all our we overcome the old-time limitations. favorites. Each line of records offered its I am convinced that the tone of The attractions. Brunswick is far superior, and due chiefly Another thing we quarrelled with was to the strict observance of acoustic laws. tone. We were repelled at the The tone amplifier is built strident tones of some. And entirely of wood, molded so as others seemed to be nearly per- to give the sound waves full fect, but not quite. opportunity to develop. No metal I realize that all this sounds is used in this amplifier, so there like we were too critical and that are no stunted, metallic sounds. we set ourselves above the thou- My advice to every music lover sands who were content with the is to hear The Brunswick before phonographs we hesitated to buy. deciding. One’s ear immediately But we wanted to be sure before appreciates the difference. And we bought, so as to avoid regrets. old conceptions of the phono- graph are In our determination to find the changed. 1 super - phonograph, we came Brunswick dealers everywhere upon the new Brunswick. It was are delighted to play the new announced as something differ- Brunswick for you and to ex- ent, something advanced. plain its betterments. THE BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER CO. General Offices: CHICAGO and NEW YORK Branch Houses in Principal Cities of Canadian Distributors, Musical Merchandise Sales Co. United States, Mexico and Canada Excelsior Life Building, Toronto ffimm&wick ALL PHONOGRAPHS I N ONE 8 DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE EVERY TUESD* AY Vol. XIX [g] Contents for December 10, 1918 [g] No. 5 ONE COMPLETE NOVEL The Man With the Mole . J. Allan Dunn .... 3 THREE SERIALS •. ' The Man Who Awoke . Mary Imlay Taylor ... 54 A Seven-Part Story—Part Three The Shrieking Pit . « . Arthur J. Reea . ; . .85 A Seven-Part Story—Part Four The Winning Clew . James Hay, Jr. It) A Seven-Part Story—Part Seven ' SIX SHORT STORIES On the Inside • . Frederick Jackson . 41 ” “Fools Rush in . • . Dahlia Graham . 74 Through the Dragon’s Valley . Anna Alice Chapin . 79 Without Influence • . Harry M. Dean . 102 For Pretty Things • . Robert Winton . 129 The Accusing Melody . Ronald Oliphant . 133 The Last Chapter • . C. C. 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Author of “ The Shred of Serge," “The Malay Creese,” “Treasure for Treasure,” etc. CHAPTER I. “That is your signature on the back of the check, is it not?” FORGERY. The aggressiveness of the tone AZEDLY JACK SPERRY brought Sperry a little to his senses. stared at the pink slip in his “It looks very much like my writing, hand. He turned it from the sir. But it cannot be. I have not en- front, where his stepfather’s dorsed any check of yours for any such clear signature—Simeon Cairns—ap- amount none at all since the last pay- ; peared as drafter of a check for ten ment of my allowance.” thousand dollars, to the back, where “Indeed? This is a check bearing showed the endorsement of John J. my name, bearing a number consider- Sperry in handwriting so like his own ably in advance of the last issued by that it staggered him. The check was me. I find it has been torn from the payable to the same John J. Sperry. back pages of my check book, kept by The three men grouped on the side of me in the drawer of this desk, as you the desk opposite to him gazed at him are well aware. You know this gentle- uncompromisingly. The one in the cen- man, Mr. Hilliard, president of the tral chair, Simeon Cairns himself, Agricultural National, of Longfield, spoke. and Mr. Burnside, cashier of the same 4 Detective Story Magazine institution.” The speaker looked ex- The cashier’s voice struck in, coldly pectantly at the bank president. metallic. “This check,” said Hilliard in a dry, “You did cash a check in the bank commercial voice,” was presented to yesterday ?” our junior paying teller, Mr. Reming- “I did. But it was one of my own. I ton, yesterday morning by this young have a balance of two hundred and fifty man. He is well known to Remington odd. Wait.” He produced his own and to the rest of us, as your stepson. pocket check book while the others No question was raised of identity, or looked on cynically. “My balance is of the authenticity of your signature, or two hundred and sixty-three dollars. I of the amount of the check. Your step- drew a check for twenty-five dollars. son intimated to Remington that he was There is the stub. Remington gave me going into business on his own account, two tens and a five. Look for your- and that this sum had been advanced, selves.” He flung the check book on or presented to him, as his working the big library desk. No attempt was capital. A majority portion of it was made to pick it up. to go toward a partnership, I under- Burnside went on: stand.” “Your balance is exactly two hundred Sperry gasped and then broke into and eighty-eight dollars. Remington expostulation. Cairns interrupted him. states that you presented only the one “You shall have your say in a mo- check, this signed by Mr. Cairns, and ment. Go on, Mr. Hillard.” took the money in five one-thousand- dollar bills and ten five-hundred-dollar “There is little more to say. The bills. I sorry for you, Sperry, but cash was paid out, as desired. Ordi- am the evidence is overwhelmingly against narily the irregularity would not have you.” been noticed for another twenty-four Sperry’s eyes flashed and he hours had you not requested the exact pounded the desk with his fist. amount of your balance early this after- “Do you mean to insinuate I noon, Mr. Cairns. Upon your declara- that forged the name of Simeon Cairns and tion that this check must be a forgery, tried to appropriate ten- thousand dol- we came up to see you immediately lars? Why, there is a hundred thou- after closing hours. I understand you sand dollars held for me in trust by do repudiate this signature ?” my mother under my father’s will.” “It is cleverly done, but it is not “And not available until you are mine,” said Cairns. thirty, five years from now. Unless, in “Naturally the bank does not feel in- the meantime, your mother and her ad- clined to sustain this loss. We are com- visers become convinced that you are pelled to protect ourselves, to guard capable of successfully applying the ourselves against such attacks.