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...riots when mobs rule the city and thugs assault his sweetheart. John Hargedon, after a long career trapping and abandoning girls, is himself trapped into marriage by a shrewd wench who despises him, robs a house during the strike, shoots two gangsters after the same loot, and dies an ironically heroic death...
Story opens with Captain Trolley delivering a typical blast against the Colonel's latest philanthropy, consisting of 46 cathedral chimes. "There are thieves, he trumpets, "mark you well, who are trying to exchange their loot for the moldy perfume of sanctity. They are hypocrites and gold-plated scoundrels of the first water, damme!" To spoil the chimes-presentation ceremony, the Captain distributes handbills announcing a counterceremony at which he will dedicate his own tomb to the death of the West. The philanthropist strikes back by demanding Trolley's arrest. From this beginning Author Fowler more than makes good...
During that curious chapter in Occidental imperialism, the Boxer Rebellion, the U. S. dispatched some 2,500 marines and regulars to China to participate in the international loot of Peking. Last week as death and destruction were being visited on China once more a faint echo of China's earlier troubles was heard in Buffalo, N. Y., where the Veterans of Foreign Wars, older brother of the American Legion, was assembled for its 38th encampment. For the first time since the World War the aging veterans who had tramped the plains of northern China found themselves...
...Baron hides a message to the Tsar; in the other candlestick the Countess hides the Baron's death warrant. The candlesticks are filched en route, pawned at Budapest, shipped to Paris, auctioned in London. By the time the Countess and the Baron have caught up with the loot, they have fairly forsaken duty for love, for which they are promptly pardoned by the Tsar in person...
...called in because the mob had previously taken some loot across a State line), local officers and police from four States were out in force after the Brady mob when two mornings later they rolled up to the Indianapolis fair grounds, held up a watchman while they made a telephone call. That afternoon they lunched at a restaurant a block from the Marion County jail, where their colleague Geisking was being held for killing the gang's second policeman. If they intended to "spring" their friend, they did not do it that afternoon. Instead, Brady & friends vanished...