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Adventure Magazine Cover

· April 10, 1925

Adventure Magazine Cover
Adventure Magazine Contents, April 10, 1925 This issue features several adventure serials and stories. Talbot Mundy contributes "The Enemy of Rome," a complete novel set in Early Britain (56 B.C.), following Tros of Samothrace commanding a damaged Roman galley up the Thames with a mutinous crew of sixty Britons. Robert Simpson's "Calvert of Allobar" (Part I of four) is set in Nigeria and concerns a "blue light from the street of the makers of kings." Percy Charles Chandler's "The Cableman," a complete novelette, transpires in South America as protagonist McGregor incites revolution. Additional stories include Warren Elliot Carleton's "The Tangled Warp" (Atlantic Ocean setting), Ernest Lyons' "The Broken Derringer" (Florida), W. Harald Bagge's "Fire! Hot Times at Sea," Hugh Pendexter's "The Bush Lopers" (conclusion, Border Colonies), and Everett Saunders' "The Way of a Horse—and a Man" (Western novelette). The issue also includes verse and practical reader services.

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