The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-11-26
SMASHING BARRIERS"
FOURTH EPISODE
"The Decd Of a Devil"

As the tree and the house on the
top of it, in which Bella is iInprison-
ed, starts to topple to the ground,
Dick reaches the top branches of
the tree alongside. He signals Bella
and pulls her through hole in the
roof. They secure a hold on the ad-
joining tree and make their way t.
the ground. Bullhead and his gang
from thc distance see the failure of
their plans and, not wishing to have
their identity known, head back to
the lumber camp. Manners is taken
back to the mine shaft.
Dick and Bella make their way
back to the camp. Virgins and Bull
head express establishment at seeing
her. Virgins again blames the af-
fair on timber thieves" and plans to
go to the city with her to enlist the
AID OF the sheriff. At the same time
he plots with Bullhead to induce Bel
la to marry him. They start off US
ing Dick as their method, knowing
that Bella is attracted by the young
rough-and-ready lumberjack who has
saved her life on several occasions.
Virgins tells Bella that Dick is pay
ing attention to another girl and in
sinuates, while Dick is away at the
store in the valley buying a new out
fit OF clothes, that he is visiting her
Wiggins and Bella ride off to get
the sheriff. Bullhead's gang, masked,
attacks them. Virgins puts up a
mock fight but is captured with Bella
i They are imprisoned in shack Dick
returning from his trip is waylaid by
Bullhcad and thrown from his horse
| stunned They tie him in dip o.
ground ut the foot of steep hill
At the top they place a heavy tim
Der wagon. held from rolling down
on Dick by a chock placed under one
of the wheels. To this chock they tie
Dicks horse with a lariat.
! In the meantime Virgins, by a
fake, show of bravery gets free of
the gang and pretends to rescue
Bella and hides in the woods with
her. He lowers her to a shelf over
the side Of steep cliff in order to
avoid the fake pursuit. In attempt
ing to join her, he accdentally-o
purpose takes a drop through a pine
tree and sneaks away joining Bull
head and the rest of the gang.
i Dick regains consciousness, discov-
crs his plight and calls to his horse
! who is grazing near the summit of
the hill above him. And horse re-
| spends and in doing so, the chock is
pulled from beneath the wagon
wheel and it is released. Heavily
laden with logs it starts down the
! hill. Dick, with his hands and feet
tied, tries in vain to roll out of the
way He calls the horse again and the
animal with a burst of speed dashes
past the descending lumber wagon
and Dick manages to catch hold of
the trailing lariat as it slides over
him. He is dragged out of the path
OF the runaway wagon just as it hits
the spot where he was lying. The
horse then gnaws his bonds. releases
him and he heads back for the camp.
Virgins, Bullhead and the others
are planning fake rescue of Bella in
order to make an impression on her.
On his way back to camp, Dick sees
them and hides in hollow log, near
where they are making their plans.
Squinty sees him and quietly apprises
the others and before Dick is aware
they start rolling the log over the
edge of the steep gorge near where it
was lying.
Still clutching his lariat, Dick
tries to squirm out of the log before
being dashed to death in the gorge
below. The Williams are too quick
for him and the log falls over the
edge and smashes on the rocks be-
low.
Continued next week.