Everybody's Magazine, August 1923

Everybody's Magazine, August 1923 This issue of Everybody's Magazine contains a complete novel by Rafael Sabatini, *The Venetian*, and seven short stories by established authors including Samuel Merwin, Achmed Abdullah, L. Patrick Greene, and L. A. R. Wylie. Three serials are serialized: "Mellowing Money" by Francis Lynde, "Thoroughbred" by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, and "The Bucoleon Treasure" by Arthur D. Howden Smith. The featured opening serial, "Mellowing Money," concerns a derelict named Griffith who boards a freight train near Cincinnati and is confronted by a brakeman. The narrative explores sudden fortune and its consequences, posing the question of whether sudden wealth is inherently ruinous. The story follows Griffith's struggle against the existing social order, establishing him as a vagrant who has adopted a fatalistic philosophy about his circumstances. The plot begins with physical conflict aboard the moving train, setting up what promises to be a narrative about personal redemption and the challenges of unexpected responsibility.