The Popular Magazine, August 20, 1923

This issue of *Popular Magazine* (August 20, 1923) contains five short stories and two multi-part serials. The lead installment is Burton E. Stevenson's "The Storm Center," a five-part adventure tale set in France and Africa following O'Neill's journey aboard the Marseilles Express, where he assumes a stranger's train reservation under the assumed name Delage and receives an urgent mysterious message. William West Winter's complete novel *The Valley of the Four Ghosts* concerns oil, Indians, love, and adventure. Henry Herbert Knibbs contributes "Smoky Steps Out"; C. S. Montanye offers "The Count of Mont-Cristiano" about a character named Scandrel; and other stories include Calvin Johnston's "The Invisible Flagman" and Albert W. Tolman's "The Sentence." H. de Vere Stacpoole's serial "Ocean Tramps" continues, and Edgar Wallace's five-part serial *The Missing Millions* concludes in this issue.