Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-17
BILLY BYRNE
Plays Hero Through q Ten
Reeler.

The Mucker. BY Edgar Rice Burroughs
"a. c, McClurg & Coz
If you liked the old blood and
thunder drama, the melodrama, 1t
was called; IL you liked Broncho
Billy and the movies when a thou
sand men were killed in every reel;
IL you like your liquor hard and
your women wild; If you like &C.
ton in every page, in every para
graph, in every line. read "rhe
Mucker."
Billy Byrne Is product OF the
west side of Chicago, a child OF a
drunken mother and whose father
might have been one of a hun
bred hnen. When Billy should
have been in kindergarten he was
rushing the can for the boys back
of Kellys feed store. When he
should have been in high school,
he was sticking up small saloons,
elevated stations and unescorted
females, the latter because he
hated all women and 1t gave him
unbridled opportunity to give
them a push in the mush," which
was q favorite pastime with him.
Before he was 20 he was tipped
off bWa friendly cop that he was
about to be framed for a murder
which he did not commit, or
course, and that night found him
on the brake beams for the west.
,nAtnf tho antinn is
kaleidoscope. He Is shanghaied
in Frisco, and finds when the wind
TANNER reaches Honolulu that he
is a member of crew bent on kid
mapping an American multimillion-
aires yacht and daughter. The
yacht is overtaken. stripped of
coal, wireless and instruments, the
girl taken on board the wind JAM
mer and the course laid for the
south seas, which offered good
hiding places while the ransom
was being collected. In the mean
time all hands have killed few
men each, just to keep in practice.
As in all south sea narratives, a
tropical storm throws them on an
inland, smashing the boat, oil
course, providing them with timed
foods and firearms and ammuni-
ton, as usual. The crew divides
into two bands to as to kill each
other quicker, and Billy is on the
side with the millionaire's daugh-
ter whom he saved when the boat
caved in. Billy can't understand
why he saved her and wonder why
he didn't croak, de skirt"
1t develops that on the island
live some descendants of the Sa-
mural of Japan, intermarried with
head hunters, and they, probably
thinking that the white people
were some more impudent mission
aries, proceeded to eXterminate the
whole gang. Billy and the girl
hide on an island by a mountain
stream and before they are res
cued in a few weeks, she has
taught him perfect English as well
as what love is.
That makes Part I. Billy opens
Part by knocking a white hope
for a row OF nightmares in reg
ularly scheduled fight in New
York. He is the hero, but he
slips back to Chicago to give him
self up and life at Joliet is his por-
ton. On the way to Joliet, hand
cuffed to the guard. he leaps from
the train, dragging the guard with
him. and liberty is again his.
Another trip on the beams, the
rescue of a boy who was being at
tackled by two others and about to
be robbed of his food, and a new
and loyal friend is his. In Kan
sas City he barely escapes the
dicks again in Kansas, likewise in
El Paso.
He joins an anti-Villa revolu-
zionist and depopulates Mexico so
fast you cant keep count. Double
dealing of all sort takes place, but
when he discovers that the rich
Americana who owns the rancho
is none other than the daddy of
the Goldilocks whom he protected
out in the south seas, why, he just
kills another thousand or so Mex
leans and Indians with, l might
say, the help of his inamorata, who
is also some little killer, and back
to New York in papa's private car
they go for the orchids and or
ange blossoms. But before this
| happens, another square toed dick
| turns up with pardon from Gov
ernor Illinois, and there you are.
N. D. p.