The Lamar register., 1920-06-09
SYNOPSIS.

Ter from an old friend, Jim Westcott,
Deciding TO go, he employs a lawyer,
Patrick Enright, to draw up a will leay-
ing most of his estate to charity. with a
mere plttance to John Cavendish his
nephew and only relative, a dissolute
youth. That night Frederick CaVendish
Is murdered In his apartments. No will
being found. John Cavendish inherits the
sstate.
CHAPTER 1.-two months later En-
right informs John Cavendish of the ex-
istence OF the will and offers. for 10000.
70 say nothing of It. John agrees. Stella
Ponovan, newspaper writer. learns from
Frederick cayendish's vale. that he is
not satisfied the body found was that of
his employer She is directed by Far
riss. city editor. of the Star. to follow up
CHAPTER III.-Stelia learns of the
viii Enright had drawn up. also of John
Rue, chorus girl. and that Enright is a
friend of the La Rue girl A conversa-
ton Stella overhears between Celeste and
John Cavendsh convinces her Frederick
Cavendish is alive, the victim of a con-
spiracy engineered by Enright to secure
his fortune. and that Celeste knows where
he Is hidden. Ned Beaton. notorious gum
man. Is also mentioned. Celeste is about
to leave for Haskell, Colorado. and Stella
10 ordered by Farriss TO proceed there at
once.
CHAPTER Wat Haskell Stella, rep
makes the acquaintance of Jim Westcott.
Frederick Cavendish's old partner. West
cott resents the interest taken in Stella
by Beaton, whom he knows only a
Whiting New Yorker. and worsts him in
Q nstic encounter.
CHAPTER v-Returning from a walk.
Stella finds her baggage at the hotel has
been searched. From Farriss she learns
that GnriEht has left NeT YORK; his ass
Westcott all that happened at New York,
and he IL satisfied the dead man was not
Frederick Cavendish. They agree to
work together to unravei the mystery
CHAPTER vI.-Ceieste and Enrighi
Join Beaton at Haskell. While visitins
bis mine an attempt Is made to shoot
Westcott. the bullet killing his Mexican
assistant Tracking the assassin. West
cott listens to a conference between Bea-
ton. Enright and Bill Lacy, local despe-
rado. He learns that Frederick Caven-
dish In alive and a prisoner OF Lacy.
CHAPTER VII. Caught listening,
Westcott escapes but leaves evidence OF
his presence and becomes a marked man
Celeste visits Stella and steals tele'
gram from Farriss containing instrue-
lions That night Stella receives note
supposedly from westcott. asking her to
meet him at once. She goes to the desig-
mated place and Is seized and carried
away In a wagon.
CHAPTER yIII-Her kidnapers carr,
Stella across the Shoshone desert &c
sunken valley. q stronghold Of Pascual
Mendez. leader Of horse thieves She I;
left prisoner In the hands OF Juan cate
ras. Mendez lieutenant.
CHAPTER x.-Back at Haskell. West.
colt is told Stella has returned east, but
is Informed Of the kidnapping by an eye
witness He determines to force the trutt
from s Lazy and sTEP5ls sb EBfFbt fh5t ina
demands to know the whereabouts OF
Stella and Frederick Cavendish. A night
Killed by Enright. Lacy accuses West.
cott OF killing Beaton. urging his follow
ers TO lynch him Dan Brennan. village
marshal protects Westcott. the two tax
ing refuge On a rock in the river, where
they hold on their asailants.
wen pIcR out the two critters far
ihest from the light" he muttered,
''an' trust ter luck. Wen have to lead
'em ways afore we mount. Shall we
try il now?"
'-'rhe sooner the better"
That's me- Blamed IL thought I'd
be hoss thief, but when a feller as
soclates with Bill Lacy there's no
KNOWN what he viii come to. We
better try the other side o. the road
lin"
They were In the flicker of light for
scarcely an instant, merely two dart
ing shadows, vanishing once more
swiftly and silently into the gloom.
Nor were they much longer in releas
ing the two cow-ponies. Westcott tied
his bundle to the cantle of the saddle
and then. bride reins in hand, the do
cile animals following their new mas
ters without resistance, the men led
them over the smooth turf well back
from the range of light. They were IA
quarter Of a mile from the Red Dog
hefore Brennan. slightly in advance
ventured to enter the road.
Its safe enough now, Jim, an We
don't wanter lose no time. Ever
crossed Shoshone?"
No"
"Well, It's a little bit o. hi after
sunup. an wen have a twenty-nille
ride before We strike water. Wen
start SLOW"
They swung into saddle, the road be
fore them II mere black ribbon revealed
only by the CLEAN of a few far
IN stars peerlng through riffs in the
LIQUIDS. Brennan rode slightly in ad-
vance. trusting his mount largely to
eick out the way. yet leaning forward