Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-29
SYNOPSIS.

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CHAPTER I-Barton Baynes. orphan.
y to live with his uncle, Peabody
Baynes, and his Aunt Deel on a farm on
Rattieroad in a neighborhood called Lich-
isySplit, about the year 1926. Barton meets
socially OF a class above the Bayneses,
and Is fascinated by the pretty face
and fine clothes.
CHAPTER II-Barton mer,s r,vv,..s
nate at. known IN the neighborhood as the
silent Womans" Amos Grimshaw, young
son OF the richest man in the township;
Rowing Kate tells the fortunes of the two
boys. predicting a bright future for Bar
ton and death on the gallows for Amos.
Barton runs ISL away VA I'm intending p%ssi to make mise1 his
home with the Dunkelbergs. He reaches
the village Of Canton and falls into a
s Stee p f OF e%xn austen o. vnr; e porch. There
nent man In public affairs. who, knowing
Peabody Baynes, takes Barton home at.
ter buying him new clothes.
CHAPTER 11I-Barton and his uncle
and aunt visit Canton and hear Siias
wright read q sermon.
CHAPTER. 1v-silas Wright evinces
or books n magazines to the Baynes
home: The election Of silas Wright to
the United States senate is announced.
CHAPTER v-when Barton Is twelve
years old he becomes aware Of the ex-
istence of a wonderful and mysterious
power known as Money" and learns
derful thing Grimshaw is the most power
ful and greatly dreaded man IN the COM
munity. most of the settlers being in his
Mr.. Wright leaves a note in a sealed en-.
yeiope, which Barton is to read on the
first night when he leaves home to at,
tend school.
CHAPTER Wharton is asked to
drive a load to mill, arrives safely, but
II the = h so1sst0 gsa 1 into the to d diteh the an 5Gad 4
wheel of the wagon is broken. Uncle
Peabody. to get together
enough to satisfy Grimshaw n obtain
CHAPTER v1l-New =. as sixteenth
y sae hi Rai'G man a'i 10 tRe post M; p at can-
the three journey together. They are
t held Up BY a mt man ~, with a n who m .e1G,as
money or your life." Purvis runs away,
while thes stranger draws 2 pistol. but be;
fore he can use it the robber shoots and
n runs away. AS the murderer bends
over the stranger Barton throws a stone
which he observes wounds the thief. who
makes OF at once, but not until Barton
had noted that his gun stock was broken
in a peculiar manner. Search Of the
neighborhood for the robber is %unavailing
n the stranger Is buried.
CHAPTER VII1-Barton leaves home to
attend Michael Hacket's school. Amos
Grimshaw is arrested charged with the
murder Of the stranger.
CHAPTER 1x--Grimshaw seeks to
TuN1In6lro thu yoyyr1nro~ ~ thu Il11o1
on the road. The offer is spurned.
CHAPTER x-Emissaries of Ben Grim
shaw seek to kidnap Barton, or do worse.
he Is warned ~ "Silent Kate" and es-
capes.
CHAPTER x1-Uncle Peabody, Aunt
Deel and the %neighbors celebrated Christ
CHAPTER x1I-Barton and Sally Dun
kelberg formally pledge their troth.
CHAPTER x1I1-Old Rates silent but
has It's effect, and goaded beyond endur
ance, Grimshaw dies as the "Silent Wom-
an" points at him.
from Growing Kate" which heartens him
Immensely, although at the time he
doesn't understand it.
CHAPTER XV-Barton moves from
boyhood into manhood, and chooses his
w road.
We got our dinners and set out soon
after one o'clock. I had read the
deeds Of the men we were to visit
They were brothers and lived on ad
joining farms with leases which GOV
cred three hundred and fftyaacres OF
land. Their great-grandfather hat
agreed to pay q yearly rent forever O.
sixty-two bushels Of good, sweet, mer
charitable, winter wheat, eight yearlins
cattle and four sheep in good flesh ant
sixteen fat hens, all to be delivered il
the city of Albany OF the first day o.
January of each year. So, feeling tina
I was engaged in a just cause, I brave
ly> determined to serve the writs i
possible.
T rode in silence, thinking of Sail;
and Of those beautiful days now reced
ing into the past and Of my aunt ant
uncle. I had written a letter to then
every week and one or the other hat
answered it. Between the lines I hat
detected the note Of loneliness. The,
had told me the small news Of tn,
countryside. How narrow and mo
.notonous it all seemed to me then
Rodney Barnes had bought a nev
farm John Axtell had been hurt in
runaway; my white mare had got
SPAWN!
Hello, mister!"
L started out Of my reveries with
little jump of surprise. A big, rough
dressed, bearded man stood in the mid
die Of the road with a gun on hi
shoulder.
"Where We goin'"
up to the Van Heusen place."
'"Where do We hail from?"