Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-12-24
SYNOPSIS OF
PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.

CHAPTER Phillip Steele, son OF a
Chicago millionaire, lover OF adventure and
dian Northwest Mounted Police; In his
cabin station far up IN the north he gets
orders to go to the Hudson Bay Company
post at Lac Balm, to join Bucky Nome a
fellow police officer
CHAPTER I1.-On Steele's arrival at Lac
Balm the company's factor, there. Breed, or
ders him to 20 to Fort Churchill, on
Hudson's Raw, to meet and assist Col
Becker. a high official in the company's ser
vice, who is his way to visit the Lac
Rain post tour OF investigation. lie
finds the colonel, and with him unexpectedly,
Isobel Becker. The fondness between them
convincrs Steele they are husband and wife
CHAPTER 1II-Arriving at Lac Balm,
Steele finds Rucky Nome there, Nome al
though in reality a desperate, has capti-
Mrs. Becker after surper at Breeds. much
to the indignation OF Steele. who knows him
we'll. When Steele and Nome return to
their cabin at the post Steele angers Nome
by charging him with murder and with
having. designs on Mrs, Becker: Steele or
country, to become what he knows he will
be, an outlaw. Nome leaves with threats
Of ultimate vengeance. Then, later Steele
shoulders his pack and he, too quits Lac
Balm.
CHAPTER IV.--Steele visits the cabin OF
Jacque Pierrot, a half breed with the idea OF
getting him as a companion on his patrol IN
stead OF Nome. There he is shown silken
scarf given by Mrs Becker at Churchill to
jacques sick wife, and the well.known odor
OF hyacinth cngng to it revives all his at
lection for Mrs. Becker
CHAPTER V.--Iuspector MacGYegor sum.
mons Steele to Prince Albert and sends him
on dangerous missiorSto Wekusko to bring
back named Thorpe, who had at
tempted to murder Chief Constructor Hodges.
CHAPTER NI.-Steele is kidnapped at
Wekusko, through the decoy OF beautiful
woman, bucked and gagged and nailed up
tight in a box, which is carried to the wo:
mans cabin. This woman is the wife OF
Thorpe.
CHAPTER VII.-whie imprisoned in the
box in the Thorpe home, Hodges visits the
place and makes fruitless overtures to Mrs.
Thorpe, which Steele oyerhears. Mrs.
Thorpe bitterly berates Hodges for running
her husband and pursuing her, and in her
hate she kills him when he assaults her.
Mrs. Thorpe then releases Steele, who now
spiracy against Thorpe. He in turn re-
leases Thorpe from prison and sends him
and his wife to Chicago, giving them a
check Tor $1,000 with which to begin life
CHAPTER VIII.-Back in MacGregor's
trail far up north to find DeBar another
office again Steele gets a letter by which he
learns for the first time that 1sobel Becker
is the daughter and not the young wife OF
Col. Becker.
CHAPTER IX.-Philip is sent on the
trail far up north TO ind DeRar, another
great outlaw. Other officers sent previously
to get DeBar never returned.
CHAPTER N.-On the hunt of DeBar,
Steele varies from his .uute to go to Lac
Rain in the hope OF finding Miss Becker
there He learns they had left that morn
ing He follows their trail for several days,
but fails TO catch up. Then he returns to
the chase OF DeRar and the latter saves
Stece's life when he meets with accident
CHAPTER NI.-DcBar and Steele find
there is good deal i'll the character OF each
that the other likes. The outlaw is not so
bad as painted.
"a
together in the midst OF the vast SHOWS,
agree to fight to the death with guns. In
the struggle Steele falls and his head strikes
stone; he becomes unsconscious: DeBar
carries him to the cabin, dresses his wound,
puts food him and then fees
AS quickly as possible DeBar car
ried Philip into the cabin and placed
him on one of the cots. Then he
gathered certain articles of food
from Pierre's stock and put them in
his pack. He had carried the pack
half way to the door when he
stopped, dropped his load gently to
the floor, and thrust hand inside
his coat pocket. From it he drew
forth a letter. Il was a woman's
letter-and he read it now with
UoNNu hNdu' a l'il'l vi ldlIH,
and hope, and love, and when once
more he turned toward Philip his
face was filed with the flush of
great happiness.
"Mebby you don't understand
Phil" he whispered, as If the other
were listening to him. Im going
to leave this"
With the stub of pencil he scrib-
bled few words at the bottom of
the crumpled letter.
He wrote in crude. awkward
hand:
You'd won II it hadn't been for
the rock. But guess mebby that
It was God who rut the rock there,
Phil. While you was asleep / took
the bullets out of your cartridges
and put in damp paper, for I didn't
want to see any harm done with the
guns I didn't shoot to hit you,
and after all, I'm glad it was the
rock that hurt you instead of me-"
He leaned over the cot to assure
himself that Philips breath was
coming steadier and stronger and
then laid the letter on the young
mans breast.
Five minutes later he was plod.
ding steadily ahead of his big
Mackenzie hound into the people
less barrens to the south and west
And still later Philip opened his
eyes and saw what DeBar had left
for him. He struggled into a sitting
posture and read the few lines which
the outlaw had written.
Here's to you, Mr.. Felix Mac
Gregor," he chuckled feebly, bal
ancing himself on the edge of the
bunk,
You're right. It'll take two mer
to lay out Mr.. William DeBar-ii
you ever get him at ALL"
Three days later still In the cabin