White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-09
Synopsis.

swears vengeance on Henry Blake,
rsii~sv bsiiacr and capitalist. and
Bessie. his young wife, who sept him
20 prison. He escapes and Carries
Bessie away. but she Is rescue ~
her husband Tney are cornered or
a mountain top. Blake is buried by
a mine blast and his wife is captured
by Black Jack. She seizes his pistol
as sue is behind him on his horse,
and wounding him. gets away. Close
ly pursued, she rides out onto a pla-
teau. and leaps on the horse over a
high cliff into the river.
The horse, Bessie clinging about
bis neck, struck the water with a
crash. and twice rolled over, sweep
ing the girl from the saddle. Then
righting himself, the animal struck
out down stream, Bessie, unhurst,
quickly overlook him and catching
his name swan by his side direct
ing his course toward shore.
Black Jack and Brown reached the
edge of the plateau a moment later
and vainly urged their horses to take
The leap, then wheeled to the left and
dashed down a slope which lead to
the river. Not five minutes behind,
came Morgan's posse, led by Blake.
An instant only they paused where
Bessie's horse had been killed by a
bullet from Hsines' pistol. then gal
loped out opto the plateau.
Swimming strong, with her arm
about the horses neck. BESSIE ap-
poached shore where the waller was
shallow and some 500 yards below
the plateau. She gained her feet
ard was about to walk ashore when
she saw Black Jack and Curly COM
ing furiously down the rivers edge.
She swung into the saddle and again
\ eaded out into the river across a
powerful current and 10 the opposite
hank which doomed high an eighth
a mile distant. Bleak Jack. feel
ing that at last the girl was within
his grasp, ordered Curly TO continue
down the river a distance and across, |
While he struck out directly after
BESSIE
In the middle of the river. Bessie
slid from the saddle and her horse.
of her weight, gained a trifle
on the outlaw. winning the race to
the shore by a few yards. Again in
The saddle, Bessie frantically sought
a path up the steep. rock bank. but
zach time she drove the horse for
ward. he slipped back. Black Jack
was almost on her when she turned
and In desperation started down the
shore. hoping to find some avenue
Of escape into the woods lying back
from the river.
Down the rocky shore they raced.
Black Jack with pistol drawn watch
ing for a fair shot at Bessie's horse
and with no danger of hitting her.
4 large tree barred their path, and
the girls mount took 1t beautifully.
but the outlaw was less fortunate.
his horse stumbling and throwing
him heavily. 1t was only a moments
delay, but it enabled Bessie to reach
q stretch of comparatively low and
level shore and she had turned her
horse away from the river only to
face Curly, VINO had made a crossing
below
Caught between the two outlaws
and the river now breaking out In
70 a nasty piece of rapids, Bessie
again was in desperate straits. There
but ore course open-the river,
and with a whispered word of en-
enlargement TO the tired horse. she
urged him out into the swift current !
Shooting out in to the river from
the right bank, a narrow spit OF sand
merged into a good-sized island. on
the extreme end Of which a high Cliff
overlooked falls marking the foot OF
The rapids. Toward this island .Bes-
sic directed her horse, experiencing
the greatest difficulty from the swift
cross currents and rocks. She finally
gained shore, however. and made her
way through a thin strip OF woods
to the cliff, leaving Block Jack still
struggling in the middle OF the river.
and Curly on the further shore with
the bunch of horses, where he had
been ordered to stay by Haines.
Bessie was forced to halt at the
base of the cliff ~Dismounting. she
searched either way. then realised
she had ridden right into a rock
trap. CHANGING back through the
fringe of trees. she could see Black
Jack wading ashore, and abandoning
her horse, she scrambled up the crags