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The Mollycoddle 1              FOREWORD Our thanks are gratefully expressed to government officials, tribal chiefs, and to the hundreds of picturesque Hopi Indians on their reservation near the Painted Desert of Arizona, who, in their savage way heartily welcomed us to their prehis- toric villages and with primitive cheerfulness played an important part in this picture.

2 A mollycoddle is a body of man entirely surrounded by super-civilization.

3 CIVILIZATION  is the primitive plus refine- ment and adornment caviar - olives - after dinner speeches - and racing through fields of beauty at a hundred miles an hour.

4 Take for instance, the crude dwellings of the primitive Indians built ages ago on the rock mesas of Arizona -

5 Then look at the play- ground of the civilized world - also built upon a rock mesa - Monte Carlo.

6 Fundamentally they are the same - just rock.

One is highly polished - that's all.

7 For many generations back the RICHARD MARSHALLS have been found in the vanguard of civilization - God-fearing, hell-bustin', fighting adventurers and two-fisted pioneers.

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8 There was the Richard Marshall of 1853 -- a leather-necked, shag- gutted buckaroo, gamely waging an uneven battle near a coveted water hole - such as Remington knew.

9 "If you get back - give this - my son. Tell him Washing- ton - George Washington - gave it - my grandfather - for - bravery."

10 In 1880 another Richard Marshall put the fear of God into the heart of many an evil-doer along the frontier.

11 Riding into a strange bor- der town from the desert's blackness the chivalrous Marshall hears of a wronged girl in distress.

12 "Belly the bar, you buckaroos - and drink their luck."

13 What forefathers! Fearless fighters - the patriot of 1779 - the adventurer of 1853 the chivalrous Marshall of 1880. We now come to Marshall the fifth

14 -- at Monte Carlo where

15 Italians

16 Russians

17 French

18 English

19 Americans

20 and even the winds play.

21 One touch of hat- chase makes the whole world kin.

22 "Thanks awfully."

23 "Always glad to help an Englishman."

24 "Don't be silly! I'm an American!"

25 "Really! Well, this is the Fourth of July we should all know each other. I'm Mrs. Warren  and this is my daughter, Molly."

26 "Americans?"

27 "Yes we are all Americans. This is Mr. Patrick O'Flannigan."

28 "Mr. Ole Olsen."

29 "Mr. Samuel Levinski."

30 "Mr. Van Holkar, host to our yachting party."

31 "Are you an American, too?"

32 "I've taken out my first papers"

33 "Miss Virginia Hale."

34 "What part of Amer- ica are you from, Mr. Marshall?"

35 "I was born in Arizona."

36 "Are you kidding?"

37 "Oh, they mean spoof- ing, eh! No, really, all my people were cow persons in Arizona."

38 "My father made pots of money and brought me over when I was four. He died and I - I've just stayed on."

39 "And you have never even been back to New York!"

40 "I hear it's fearfully rough."

41 "Do all foreigners "

42 " American foreigners, I mean, - think that?"

43 "Nobody would ever take you for an American."

44 "Really that is a mess, isn't it! I've always been proud of being an American."

45 "Don't think me rude, but that's not American."

46 "They roll their own "

47 "Do you have to wear that?"

48 "I suppose it's just sort of a habit."

49 "That fellow is contrary to the Constitution of the United States. Something ought to be done about it!"

50 "Our tour with Mr. Van Holkar will take us to Arizona. Wouldn't you enjoy going back?"

51 "Oh, that would be ripping. Who is this Van Holkar?"

52 "We met him in Amsterdam."

53 To the American party Van Holkar is a charming host but in reality he is a blackguard and one of the greatest diamond smugglers the world has ever known.

54 In Arizona -

55 Renegade Indians secretly work a diamond mine for Van Holkar --

56 Rough diamonds stolen from the Indian reservation are taken abroad to be cut by experts -

57 Van Holkar averts suspicion through his lavish entertainment and association with prominent tourists -

58 Van Holkar honors Virginia with a farewell dinner before sailing.

59 "We have in our midst an American who has strayed from the fold. He should be led back. I appeal to our host to include him in our party."

60 "I guess we can make room for one more."

61 "You'll never want to come back after you've sat aboard a bronc in Arizona and shot a few Indians."

62 "I shall have to with- draw that invitation. This young man does not fit in our party besides, my yacht is already crowded."

63 "He will be dis- appointed. Perhaps I can tell him with- out hurting him."

64 "Sorry to interfere with your plans, but I can't take Marshall along."

65 "You know, seeing you and all that - I - I did want to go back home! But - it's quite all right."

66 "Won't you keep this the spoil of your conquest?"

67 "We're sailing at midnight."

68 For the first time in his life Marshall felt the glorious thrill and tingle the soul music that goes with the words "back home!"

69 Van Holkar's room in the Hotel Riviera - near the yacht wharf.

70 "We must get away quickly. A Secret Serv- ice rat is on our trail - and had the nerve to try and join our party."

71 "I'm sorry he didn't come along. I liked him. I think he had the makings of a man."

72 "Bah! That mollycoddle."

73 "We have a surprise for you - we're going to feed it now."

74 "Blug - blur - glug - bla!"

75 "What are you doing here?"

76 "That's what I want to know."

77 "How did you get here?"

78 "That's what I want to know."

79 "We shanghaied Marshall - and we've got him below in a basket."

80 "Bound and gagged, eh? That's a pretty smart trick."

81 "If that half-baked American is the Secret Service agent, he will get what he least expects. For the time being throw him in the stokehole."

82 "What is the surprise - a dog?

83 "No - it's just a little puppy."

84 Words cannot describe the heat, the roll, the filth - the awful mess of a ship's stokehole.

85 "Lookin' for the stowaway? The chief gave him a nice job - stokin'."

86 "Use this, you saphead."

87 "Wait, Molly. Work won't hurt him it will help make a man of him."

88 "Get our man in Amsterdam. Have him send a complete description of the Secret Service agent."

89 "Don't say I told you, but that funny Mr. Marshall is on board - shoveling coal."

90 "What you need is a chew of tobacco."

91 "Hey, buddie, try a lemon."

92 "You poor boy! I feel so sorry for you."

93 "Oh, splendid! I didn't know this was your yachting party."

94 "This is outrageous! I shall see that Mr. Van Holkar takes you out of here at once!"

95 "I think it is a shame to treat anyone like that. Besides, he's a gentleman and not used to it."

96 "Your slightest wish is a command aboard this boat."

97 "Release that young man. Tell him he is our guest until we land at Galveston."

98 Rescued from the stoke- hole, Marshall comes forth a different man -

Suit by O'Flannigan -

Cap by Olson -

Shoes by Levinski -

99 "You Johnnies are great spoofers! I rather like it "

100 During the voyage Marshall was puzzled by the objections of his fellow Americans to his little mannerisms -

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101 He didn't mind the others, but Virginia - well, he rather wanted to be just what Virginia wanted him to be.

102 "Unless you call polo or sports work that chucking coal is the first job I ever had."

103 "Well, I'm afraid Arizona will either kill or cure you."

104 "Righto! But dead or alive I shall jolly well be near you."

105 "I think you are a corker-jack!"

106 All for a girl

107 Under the cloak of night the smuggler's craft silently steals toward the dim lights of Galveston.

108 With the smuggler called to the wireless a last and desperate chance is taken by the Secret Service agent.

109 "I - I can't explain this - now! But you must believe me, it's - it's all right!"

110 Why, it's none of my bally busi- ness. Er - isn't this a wonderful night?"

111 "You must not tell "

112 "Really, you hurt my feelings. Shall we go for a walk?"

113 "It's wonderful to be going back home - that is, I mean to say - with you."

114 "That sneaking pup has rifled my papers! Go get him!"

115 "Where's the paper you took from that cabinet?"

116 "You're a fine specimen of a Secret Service spy."

117 "If I'm a Secret Service agent, you must jolly well be a crook."

118 "Do you know what we do with Secret Serv- ice rats on board this ship? We drown them!"

119 "Throw him in there. We'll drop him over- board at midnight."

120 "That's all right. Drown me - but don't slap me."

121 "Post a guard outside his door and get some weights. See that you don't bungle the job."

122 "Don't you think you are going a bit too far?"

123 "I'm sorry, but the immigration officials insist that Marshall be sent back - it's the law of the sea for stowaways, you know."

124 "This is serious Mr. Marshall must not be deported! You got him this far - don't be quitters now."

125 Van Holkar allows Marshall to join the boys in a farewell drink - but keeps a careful watch.

126 "Full of information, eh? A lot of good it will do you at the bottom of the sea."

127 "The shore is an easy swim now. Good luck, old man!"

128 "I'll look after the chest. You attend to that business with Marshall."

129 "Cheerio! I'm off - pip, pip!"

130 An extraordinary thing! The molly- coddle is caught in Van Holkar's net.

131 Morning while the fishing schooner ties up to her dock.

132 Van Holkar's fish house - another vital cog in his gigantic smuggling machine.

133 "The boss is tak- ing another pippin on a joy party to the Painted Desert."

134 "He certainly runs awful chances tak- ing anyone near the Haunted diamond Canyon."

135 "This is going to be bad for all of us!"

136 "No fish to-day."

137 "Where will I find a barber - and a railway to Arizona?"

138 In Arizona on the rim of the Painted Desert.

139 "So you're Dick Marshall's boy, eh?"

140 "I wonder if he is anything like his dad."

141 The primitive prairie schooner, civilized, becomes the "Desert Yacht" in which Van Holkar carries his guests to northern Arizona.

142 A western breeze, born on the snow-capped tips of the Apache range - flavored with the pines and warmed by the desert's purple sage - swept straight to the heart of young Marshall - and the blood of his forefathers seemed to respond.

143 Ugh - big chief - ah-h-h - umm-m-m - oh-h-h - clothes - umm-m-m - oh-h-h - ah-h-h - how much - ung?

144 "What the hell you talking about?"

145 "Are you one of those educated Carlisle Johnnies?"

146 "I've heard the primi- tive Indians in the village talk of a haunted canyon. They can direct you - but won't go with you."

147 The crafty Van Holkar keeps in touch with the outside world by wireless.

148 "Tell Yellow Horse to set a guard at the mine and ride over here at once."

149 Yellow Horse, a college Indian gone wrong, in charge of the diamond mine.

150 "Dance?"

151 "Haunted Canyon is through Death Defile below. Bad place - no good Indian go there."

152 "How!"

153 "What ho! Here we are again - as the Queen says when she opens Parliament."

154 "They're all spies. We've got to clean them out and then get away."

155 "Get them up in Haunted Canyon. We'll dynamite Hang- ing Rock and start an avalanche!"

156 "The landslide will fill the trail through Death Defile. It will take them days to get out the other way."

157 "Yellow Horse, you take the crowd through. Mac can plant the dynamite and wait for you."

158 "Instead of the Indian village we're going up to the Haunted Canyon and see some diamond mines!"

159 "Yes, diamond mines! They are on the reser- vation and really belong to the Indians."

160 Death Defile the gateway to Haunted Canyon.

161 "I shall not go another step without Virginia."

162 Years before, young Marshall's grandfather came abruptly on this very spot and reining in his horse, exclaimed:

"Hurrah for God."

163 Hanging Rock balanced high above the village, a menace for centuries.

164 Primitive cunning, born of instinct, now guides his every move.

165 Yellow Horse rides away to start the avalanche.

166 "The Mollycoddle!"

167 "Umu katchi oo-ve wat-ka-ah! Duh-bella ung sah pucktu!"

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"Fly for your lives! Avalanche coming!"

168 "Make for one of the ledges - quick!"

169 The mollycoddle learns that Virginia has been left with Van Holkar -

170 "That means I have your friends trapped beyond the defile. Now, you'll do as I say."

171 "In the name of the United States Govern- ment I arrest you for smuggling!"

172 "I have only one treatment for spies."

173 "He's a smuggler all right. I just finished getting the proof for you when some bally fool tipped a mountain over on me."

174 "Oh, you want to arrest that smuggling Johnnie! I'll go fetch him."

175 And so, folks - did you ever stop to think what a slight difference there is between the civilized and the primitive

176 Primitive

177 Civilized

178 Primitive

179 Civilized 180 Primitive and civilized - the world over

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