Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-02-13
sYsNopsis.


Sleepy Cat, Henry de Spain, gunman
and tranmaster at Medicine Bend, is
beaten at target shooting by Nan Nor
gan OF Music Mountain. Jeffries, divi-
sion superintendent. asks De Spain to
take charge OF the Thief River stag
line. but he refuses.
Chapter II-De Spain sees Nan
dancing with Gale Morgan, is later de.
rislyefy pointed out to Nan on the
street by Gale, and is moved to
change his mind and accept the stage
line Job.
Chapter Hide Spain aud Lefever
ride TO Calabasas inn and there meet
b Gale Morgan with Deaf Sandusky and
SESSION, gunner and retainers of the
Morgan clan. Morgan demands the
discharge Of stage driver and De
Spain refuses. De Spain meets Nan
I. but, fails to overcome her aversion to
him.
Chapter lv-Sasson knifes Elpaso,
the stage driver, and escapes to Nor.
CAMS gap, the stronghold of the Nor
! cams. De Spain, Lefever and Scott 80
In after him, and De Spain brings out
Sasseu alone.
Chapter Vile meets Nan, who de-
lays him until nearly overtaken by the
MOfgans, but lands his captive in Jail,
Chapter vI--Sassoon breaks Jail.
Despair boards the Morgans in So.
loon and is shot at thru the window.
He meets Nan again.
Chapter Willie prevents her going
into o gambling hall to find her Uncle
luke and inside faces Sandusky and
Logan, who prudently decline to fight
at The time.
Chapter Wilde Spain, anxious to
make peace with Nan, arranges lit
tie plan with McAlpin, the barn man.
to drive her out to Morgan's gap, and
while waiting for her goes down to
the inn to get cup of coffee.
Chapter lX-In the deserted bar
room he is trapped He kills Sandus.
Ky and Logan, wounds Gale and Sas.
soon and escapes, badly wounded,
y Chapter X-Bewildered and weak,
he wanders into Morgan's gap and is
discovered on Music Mountain by
Nan.
Chapter Khan, to prevent further
lighting does not tell, but finds on,
from McAlpin that De Spain had real
~ been trapped and had left his carl.
IA ridge belt behind when he went into
the fight at the inn.
Chapter XTI-While De Spain is un
s. able to travel Nan brings food to him
He tells her that he became gun
man to find and deal with his fathers
unknown murderer. He gives Mar
his last cartridge.
n Chapter XII1--Gale almost stumblet
over De SPANS hiding place. Mar
draws him away and to stop Gales
rough wooing Dc Spain bluffs him ou
with an empty gun. Nan plans Dc
SPANS escape.
Chapter XIv--De Spain crawls ou
of the gap over the face of Ell Capitar
at night, Nan meets him with horse
and his cartridge belt, which she hat
sneAked from McAlpine, and De SPAR
rides into Calabasas.
Chapter XV--De Spain hires oil
Bull, Page and gains valuable aid
After two nightly visits to the gap
Despair gets word with Nan. Sh'
tells him to forget her and he ask
es her to shoot him.
N Chapter XvT-Nan attends her I'm
Gle Duke in the hospital at Sleep,
rs Cat, and Despair wooes and wins he
love.
i. Chapter XVII--Lefever manifest
4 an interest in De SPANS cartridg,
Z belt, and expresses surprise at his TN
readiness to get Sassoon. Sassoon al
most discover the lovers at thei
( trysting place.
~ Chapter XvlII---In Morgan's ga
Hale tells Duke of Mans meeting
with De Spain and Duke warns Maj
that he will kill De Spain II she trie
to marry him.
Chapter XIX-De Spain arranges
meeting with Duke and tries to MAX
friends with him without success.
\ Chapter Xx--Gale persists In hi
4 woning Of Nan.
Chapter xXl--De Spain enlists
.spy. He hears that Nan is kept 1
the house and that her uncle Is tryin
10 force her TO marry Gale.