All-Story Weekly

All-Story Weekly, December 27, 1919 This issue contains five serials in varying stages, a novelette, five short stories, and verse. "The Gold Girl" by James B. Hendryx begins a six-part western adventure: young Patty Sinclair, searching for her late father's gold claim in the hills, becomes lost while riding toward the Watts ranch. She encounters a soft-spoken cowboy on horseback but refuses his offer of assistance, suspecting him of being a "desperate character" because he carries a jug. She eventually reaches the ramshackle Watts ranch—hardly the grand property she'd imagined—where the voluble Ma Watts welcomes her warmly and sets her numerous oddly-named children to tasks. Other serials continuing include "A Goth from Boston" by Julian Hawthorne (part two), Natalie Sumner Lincoln's "The Red Seal" (part three), Captain Dingle's "No Fear" (part four), and Achmed Abdullah's "A Buccaneer in Spats" (part five). Edith Sessions Tupper contributes the novelette "House of the Dream."