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GREYE LA SPINA|REYE LA SPINA'S serial of devil-worship, The Gargoyle, which ends in the present issue, promises to outdo in popularity even her gripping werewolf serial, Invaders From the Dark, if one may judge from the comments of the readers on the first installment, which appeared in for September. We will quote just one of the letters which it called forth, for all the letters received about The Gargoyle, up to the time of going to press, express the same vigorous enthusiasm.

This letter is from Lieutenant Arthur J. Burks, who is known to you for his powerful tales of Santo Domingo: "I have just finished the latest W. T., and I have a big fat crow to pick with you! What in thunder do you mean by breaking a story like The Gargoyle off right in the middle? So many good things have been said about Greye La Spina (I never believed I would like stories written by a woman) that I started the story with a great deal of skepticism, my lips pursed like the usual egotist who has to be convinced, read a few pages, straightened my lips, wrinkled my massive brow, leaned closer to the page, hung my heels over the chandelier, let my fried-chicken dinner get cold, became deaf to the commands of the 'wiff' to 'come and get it', read on and on—and then almost bumped my brains out on the three cussedest words ever invented by soulless editors: TO BE CONTINUED!

"I am convinced! I am humbled in the very dirt! I am no longer an egotist! I never knew nothing and always will! There are five votes (can minors vote?) in my family, and Greye La Spina gets 'em all or I am no longer the head of the household! When a chap who, less than six feet tall, only twenty-seven years of age and weighs 214 pounds misses his dinner over a story, I don't think there's anything more to be said! That's all I have to say about the lady in question and her story, and if you don't pass it on I'll—I'll—

"I don't know just exactly what I'll do; but in any case I'll postpone definite action until I have the rest of The Gargoyle safe in my hands. Let's have a La Spina story in each issue hereafter."

Well, that's a sample of the enthusiastic comment on The Gargoyle. We won't count this letter for five votes, as the genial lieutenant wants us to do, nor do we intend to print a La Spina story in each issue; but we hope to give you several of them in the course of a year. Those of you who have read Invaders From the Dark and The Gargoyle will be gratified to know