a six-part serial in Western Story Magazine, which appeared in the issues dated November 21, 1931 through December 26, 1932. As most of Faust’s continuing characters, Speedy is a loner, little more than a youngster, able to outwit and outmaneuver even the deadliest of men without the use of a gun. He appeared in a total of nine stories. The serial has been reprinted by Leisure Books under the title Speedy. The first short story, “Speedy—Deputy,” can be found in Jokers Extra Wild, “Seven-Day Lawman” can be found in Flaming Fortune, and “Speedy’s Mare” appears in Peter Blue. “The Crystal Game” was originally published in Western Story Magazine in the issue dated April 2, 1932. Chapter 1 Council Flat was one of those railway stops in the West where it seems that the planners of the road had grown tired of stretching the steel rails straight across league after league of desert and had marked with a cross the place where a little station house covered with brown paint should be.
