Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-02-05
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Chapter /. On Frontier day at
SLEEPY Cat. Henry de Spain, gunman
and tra.nmaster 1T Medicine Bend, is
beaten at target shooting by Nan Nor
gan Of Muse Mountain. Jeffres, diyi
sion superintendent, asks De Spain to
take charge OF the Thief River stag
line, but he refuses.
Chapter lI-De Spain sees Nan
dancing with Gale Morgan, Is later de-
risively pointed out to Nan on the
street by Gal, 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
Gale Morgan with Deaf Sandusky and
Sasson, gunmcn and retainers OF the
Morgan clan. Morgan demands the
discharge of stage driver and De
Spain refuses. De Spain meets Nan
but fails to overcome her aversion to
him.
Chapter IV-Sasson knifes Elpaso,
the stage driver, and escapes to Nor
gan,s Zap, the stronghold of the Nor
sans DE Spain, Lefever and Scott go
In after him, and De Spain brings out
6aascp alone.
i 01epter Vie meets Nan, who de.
lg4shlm until nearly overtaken by the
Notgans, but lands his captive in jail.
is.Chapter vI-Sassoon breaks Jail.
Despair boards the Morgans in sa.
hon and Is shot at thru the window.
e' meets Nan again.
~ Chapter Willie prevents her going
into gambling hall to find her Uncle
Duke and inside faces Sandusky and
logan, who nriidently decline to fight
n 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 Morgans gap, and
while waiting for her goes down to
the inn to get cup of coffee
Chapter IX--In the deserted bar
room he Is trapped He kills Sandus.
ky and Logan, wounds Gale and Sas-
soon and escapes, badly wounded.
Chapter X-Bewildered and weak,
lie wande:s into Morgan's gap and is
discovered on Music Mountain by
Nan.
Chapter KHAN. to prevent furthe,
fighting, does not tell, but finds on,
from McAlpin that De Spain had real
Aly been trapped and had left his carr,
ridge belt behind when he went into
/; the fight at the inn.
Chapter XH-While De Spain is un
( able to travel Nan brings food to him
I He tells her that he became a gun
| man to fnd and deal with his fathers
unknown murderer He gives Mar
his last cartridge
Chapter XIII---Gale almost stumbles
over De Spains hiding place. Mar
draws him away and to stop Gales
rough wooing Dc Spain bluffs him GU
with an empty gun. Nan plans d.
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 Spair
\ rides into Calabasas.
Chapter xv-De Spain hires oil
1 BullsPage and gains valuable aid
After two nightly visits to the gap
4 despair gets word with Nan. Sh'
tells him, to forget her and he ask
I her to shoot him.
Chapter XVI--Nan attends her Tn
Gle Duke in the hospital at Sleep.
\ Cat, and Despair wooes and wins he
love, III,
Chapter XVII--Lefever manifest
an interest in De Spain's cartridg
+ belt, and expresses surprise at his ur
readiness to get sassoon. Sassoon a
most discover the lovers at < thei
trysting place. -
Chapter XvTII--In Morgan's ga
Gallo tells Duke Of Mans meeting
with De Spain and Duke warns Ma
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--(Iale persists In hl
wo0ing Of Nan