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Blue Book v036 n03 [1923-01], 1923
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1Greene of the Gran Quivera
3This fine novel of romance and adventure in the Southwest is by the gifted author of "Harmony and High Water," "The Hand of Esau," the Captain Titus stories and others that will be remembered with pleasure.
5By J. FRANK DAVIS
7CHAPTER I
8"SHIPS THAT PASS"
10THE busiest crossroads in America is not the place I should select to make a daylight holdup; nevertheless right there is where it took place—not ten yards from the corner of Broadway and Forty-second Street, at half-past two in the afternoon. I don't suppose the little Swede had definitely planned to do it there, or at any other particular spot, but he saw his prospects of getting his hands on the map speedily vanishing and became desperate. Then the automobile accident happened to divert the eyes of the multitude—and he was an opportunist.
12My presence there was pure chance, if there is such a thing as chance. If I had taken a second cup of coffee with my luncheon, as I remember I had half a mind to do, or if I hadn't loitered there by the coat-checking room to gossip a moment with Big Bill Yawtry, who was Varsity halfback in my class, I should have been a few minutes earlier or a few minutes later getting out to the street: and thirty seconds either way might as well have been an hour. There is small probability, in that case, that I ever would have got tangled up with old Sepulveda's cached chests of gold-pieces or the competent crooked gentry of the Gran Quivera who wanted it, because Anne would have lost the map then and there, and without it there would have been no use in her going to Texas.
14Even if the police had succeeded in recovering it, she would have been delayed in New York, would have taken a later train South, and whatever happened thereafter, I shouldn't have been in it. As it
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