Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-08-09
SYNOPSIS.

SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER lon Frontier day at Sleepy
Cat, Henry de Spain, gunman and train
master at Medicine Bend. is beaten at
target shooting by Nan Morgan OF Music
Mountain. Jefrries. division superinten-
dent asks De Spain to take charge OF the
Thief River stage line. but he refuses.
CHAPTER II-De Spain sees Nan dane
Ing with Gale Morgan, is later derisively
pointed out to Nan on the street by Gale
and Is moved to change his mind and &C
cept the stage line job.
CHAPTER Hide Spain and Lefever
ride to Calabasas inn and there meet
Gale Morgan with Deaf Sandusky and
6assoon. gunner and retainers or the
Morgan clan Morgan demands the dis
charge of stage driver and De Spain re-
fuses. De Spain meets Nan but falls to
overcome her aversion to him.
CHAPTER Iv-Sassoon knifes Elpaso
the stage driver, and escapes to Morgan's
gap, the stronghold OF the Morgans. De-
Spain, Lefeyer and Scott 60 in after him.
and De Spain brings out Sasson alone.
CHAPTER Vile meets Nan. who do
lays him until nearly overtaken by. the
horgans. but lands his captive in Jail.
CHAPTER vI-Sassoon breaks Jail De
Spain boards the Morgans In a saloon
meets Nan again
CHAPTER Willie prevents her going
Duke and inside faces Sandusky and Lo
gan, who prudenuy decline to fight At
the time
CHAPTER Wilde Spain. anxious to
make peace with Nan arranges little
drive her out to Gorgans gap. and while
waiting for her goes down to the Inn to
get a cup of coffee
CHAPTER Kiln the deserted barroom
he is trapped He kills Sandusky and
Logan, wounds Gale and Sassoon and es-
capes. badly wounded
CHAPTER x-Bewildered and weak. he
wanders into Morgans gap and Is dis
covered on Music mountain by Nan.
CHAPTER xI-Nan. to prevent further
lighting, does not tell. but finds out from
McAlpfn that De Spain had really been
trapped and had left his cartridge belt
behind when he went into the fight at the
Inn.
CHAPTER xII-While De Spain Is I'M
able to travel Nan brings food to him.
He tells her that he became gunman to
murderer. He gives Nan his last cart
ridge.
over De Spain's hiding place. Nan draws
him away and to stop Gales rough WOO
Ing De Spain blufrs him out with an empty
gun. Nan plans De Spain's escape.
CHAPTER xIv-De Spain crawls out
Of the gap over the face of FL Captain
at night, Nan meets him with horse and
his cartridge belt, which she had sneaked
from McAlpin. and De Spain rides into
Ca1abasas.
CHAPTER xv-De Spain hires old Bull
Page and gains a valuable aid. After two
nightly visits to the gap, De Spain gets a
her and he asks her to shoot him.
Duke in the hospital at Sleepy Cat. and
De Spain woos and wins her love.
CHAPTER xvII-Lefever manifests an
interest in De Spain's cartridge belt. and
expresses surprise at his unreadiness to
get ,sassoon: Sassoon almost discovers
the lovers at their trysting place.
CHAPTER XVIII-In Morgan's gap
Spain and Duke warns Nan that he will
Kill De Spain II she tries to marry him.
meeting with Duke and tries to make
friends with him without success.
CHAPTER xx-Gale persists In his
wooing Of Nan.
CHAPTER xXI-De Spain enlists a spy
and that her uncle il trying to force her
10 marry Gale.
CHAPTER XXII-A mysterious message
comes from Nan to take her away
CHAPTER xXIII-De Spain, Lefever
and Scott invade the Morgan stronghold.
De Spain alone walks into Dukes house
and, preventing forced marriage takes
Nan away.
CHAPTER XxIv-They escape over Eel
Captain. De Spain kills Sassoon.
CHAPTER XXV-Lefever rides In and
out of the gap.
CHAPTER xxvI-Pardaloe, who has
been working for Duke tells De Spain
that Sassoon had said that Duke killed
De SPANS father. Nan overhears the
story.
CHAPTER xx%II-Nsn goes back tc
get the straight story from Duke De
spain sends his spy into the gap.