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YOUR OPPORTUNITY To Win A Rich Reward ENTER THIS TRUE STORY MANUSCRIPT CONTEST TODAY! MACFADDEN PUBLICATIONS, INC., announces another great true story manuscript contest with the attendant rich rewards for writers of acceptable true stories. It begins on Thursday, January 2, 1941, and ends on Monday, March 31. 1941. Eight big prizes ranging from ?500 up to the magnificent sum of $1,000 will be awarded for successful true stories submitted. Perhaps yours will be among them. Do not hesitate to enter because you have never tried to write for publication. Already Macfadden Publications, Inc., has paid out over $650,000 in prizes for true stories, largely to persons who never before had tried to set a story down on paper. What they did you too should be able to do. So start today. Select from your memory a story from your own life or which took place in the life of a relative or acquaintance. Write it simply and clearly just as it happened. Include all background information such as parentage, surroundings and other facts necessary to give the reader a full understanding of the situation. Do not be afraid to speak plainly. No matter whether yours is a story of tragedy, happiness, failure, success, love triumphant or love disdained, if it contains the gripping interest and human quality we seek it will receive preference over tales of less merit regardless of how skilfully written they may be. Judging on this basis, to the best true story received will be awarded the grand prize of $1,000, to the two second best the two big $750 second prizes, etc. And don't forget that even if your story falls slightly below prize-winning quality, if we can use it we will gladly consider it for purchase at our liberal word rates, which range upwards from 2c to 5c per word. Unlike the eight prize awards there is no restriction on the number of stories we can purchase if they come up to our requirements. If you have not already procured a copy of our free booklet which explains the simple method of presenting true stories, which has proved to be most effective, be sure to mail the coupon today. In writing your story do not fail to follow the rules in every particular, thus making sure that your story will receive full consideration for prize or purchase. As soon as you have finished your story send it in. By cooperating with us in that way you can help to avoid a last-minute landslide, insure your story of an early reading and enable us to determine the winners at the earliest possible moment This contest closes March 31, 1941. PRIZE SCHEDULE First Prize SI ,000 Second Prize — 2 al $750 1,500 Third Prize — 5 at $500 2.500 8 Prize* $5,000 ► ► ► CONTEST RULES < < < All stories must he written tn the llrst person based on facts that happened either In the lives of the writers of these stories, or to people of their acquaintance, reasonable evidence of truth to be furnished by writers upon request. Type manuscripts or write legibly with pen. Do not send us printed material or poetry. Do not send us carbon copies. Do not write In pencil. Do not submit stories of less than 2500 or more lhan 50,000 words. Do not send us unfinished stories. Stories must be written in English. Write on one side of paper only. Do not use thin issue paper. Send material flat. Do not roll. IK) NOT WRITE ANYTHING ON PAGE ONE OF YOUR MANUSCRIPT EXCEPT YOUR FULL .NAME AND ADDRESS IN YOUR OWN HANDWRITING. 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You may submit mote than one manuscript, but not more than one prize will be awarded to any lndl\ IduaJ In t his contest Within .i month pi of each manu script, a report or rejection notice will lx mailed. be i"' made In manuscripts after they reach us. No correspondence can be I ernlng manuscripts submitted or rejected ,8 Always disguise the names of persons and places appearing in your stories. This rontest Is open to every one everywhere In the world, except employees and former employees of Macfadden Publications. Inc.. and mem bers of their families. It a story Is selected bv the editors for Immediate imrchase, It will be paid for at our regular rate and this will in no way affect the judges in their derision. If your story is awarder! a prize. a check for the balance due. if any. will be mailed after the derision of the judges which "ill be final, there being no appeal from their decision. t'nder no condition suhmit any story that has ever before been published in any form. Submit your manuscript to us direct. Due to the intimate nature of the stories, we prefer tc have our contributors send in their material to ui and not through an Intermediary. urn the exception of an explanatory letter which we well. .inc. do not enclose photographs or other extraneous matter except return i«ist.i -,■ Manuscripts submitted are considered for all or our magazines and we reserve the right to publish nrrepted material where best adapted to eds This contest ends Monday. March 31, 1941. Address your manuscripts tor this contest to Macfadden Publications, Inc., Oept. 41 C, Boi 333. Grand Central Station, New York, N. V. COUPON MM. 241 Macfadden Publications, Inc.. Dept. 41C P. O. Bo« 333. Grand Central Station New York. N. Y. I 'lease send me my free copy or your booklet entitled Facts You Should Know Before Writing True Stories " Name Street Town State (Print plnlnls GWe name of itate In full 1 house they were halted by the sound of angry words coming from the opposite side of the tall hedge. "I had to see you, Rosita," Ricardo was saying. "You've been avoiding me all day and I think I know the reason. You're planning to marry Don Carlos. Is that it?" There was no answer and his tone became more menacing. "Well, you will never marry him, Rosita. You belong to me and 1 would kill you rather than see you go to someone else." "What nonsense you talk, Ricardo," , Rosita said. "Of course I'll marry Don ! Carlos if I want to." "So that's it. You are determined to marry the master of the rancho no matter who he may be. I hope that's it," he exulted, "because tomorrow I will be the master!" "Oh, Don Carlos," Maria cried, but Cisco motioned her to silence and drew her away. "That means," Maria continued when they were out of earshot, "that he plans to kill you." Cisco nodded. "Maybe," he said, "I kill him first!" THAT night Gordito followed the servant Manuel to a spot far from the hacienda where Ricardo and Carver met him. Out of sight but within hearing distance, Gordito listened to the plot against Cisco's life. Ricardo was to invite Cisco and Gordito to ride with him next day on an inspection trip of the rancho. Manuel would accompany them. Cisco and Gordito would have the positions of honor, riding ahead of the other two. At a narrow pass Carver would be concealed with orders to kill the first two horsemen. Next day the party started out according to schedule with every evidence of a pleasant time to be had by all. What was not according to schedule was Cisco's abrupt move as they approached the pass. Suddenly he wheeled around and at the point of a gun forced Ricardo and Manuel forward to take the front positions vacated by himself and Gordito. As they entered the steep defile a shot rang out and Manuel pitched forward, mortally wounded. In the uproar which followed Ricardo and the hidden Carver succeeded in escaping. After a fruitless search for them Cisco and Gordito returned to the rancho, there to await Ricardo's return, capture him and, as they thought, confront him with the real Don Carlos and the dead Manuel. But matters were still not going according to plan, for Mama Lopez appeared at the rancho, trembling with fear. "Don Ricardo and Senor Carver — they have found Don Carlos," she cried. She was incoherent, but Cisco finally managed to piece her story together. After the gun battle at the pass that afternoon Ricardo and Carver had met at her cantina and had ordered refreshments. While she was in the kitchen carrying out their orders Don Carlos !".r.d aroused from the coma which had held him for many days and had staggered into the bar where the two men sat. Confused, not knowing where he was or how long he had been ill, he introduced himself to the pair. At the inintiiii nl Ins name Ricardo had sprung to life. If this were the real Don Carlos then the other must bo an impostor. Must be — the Cisco Kid! For only the Cisco Kid, Ricardo and Carver agreed, would dare to attempt such a masquerade. Ricardo thereupon had introduced himself as Don Carlos' cousin and had expressed delight ;it his safety. Then, leaving Carver on guard, he had ridden in h of the sheriff, to whom he would denounce tin Cisco Kid as an impostor, the kidnaper of Don Carlos and the mur iiiorori ay combined trith movif mihrou