Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-05-13
SYNOPSIS.
Part 4.


SYNOPSIS.
Part !.
:. CHAPTER I.-Adventurous and reck-
less. rather than criminal. and excited by
liquor, Curly F1andrau and his chum,
Mac, both practically mere boys, become
involved in a horse-stealing adventure.
~ 1'sg gas,scS 81 th Ar; stolen r. stock Ss 81 In the the town owl
Curly and his partner staying in town.
They are awakened and told q posse is
IN town in pursuit Of them. They elude
captive. after he has shot one and him
self been wounded. The man shot Is
Luck Cullison.
CHAPTER I1.-Cullison's friends, all
an example to cattle thieves. with the
intervention Of Kate cullison. Euck's
CHAPTER Hills wound dressed.
Curly is sent for by .Cullison. He ques-
tons the boy, concerning a notorious out
: .tlsTs s0 %ho iss . been esal l euliy.s Of t ahs ans:
E1andrau learns that Soapy Stone is Gull
lison,s bitter enemy and exercises a bale
Sam, 'H who has o auarre ens %ith Sis fath sSn
'Cullison goes bail for Curly.
SSaAEIGt1 1V.-Curly reScueS Soapy
stone from a bear trap into which he has
stumbled, and discovers tina the outlaw
ls young Sans rival for the hand of Lau-
. re- london 20 s.S She gtvss Curly a note to
set out for the latter's ranch.
CHAPTER v.-There Curly meets his
companions Of the rustling expedition and
delivers Laura's note to Sam. Young
.s GIllIs 6a bel Ra1ie Stis,. Stone ITO s,m is his f. n friend Z and ana
some move Is being planned and becomes
convinced 1t is train robbery. Sam leaves
Sne ranch to go to S~aguache. Curly &C
companies him.
CHAPTER vi. - Eavesdropping at a
meeting place, Curly hears Stone and his
lieutenant, Lutte Blackwell, arrange to
hold up the train at a crossing known as
I'm Cup. and after the robbery shoot
young sullison and leave his body on the
the ex-sherin through his sons death and
disgrace. Curly is accused by Stone of
being a spy Of Luck Cullison's. They are
Ing that their next meeting will mean a
night to the death. Curly makes a con-
,M fSa Of Dick Maloney, cattleman, and
against his aan
Part II.
CHAPTER latter an all-night ses-
son has lost heavily, there is an exchange
tof sharp words between Luck and a
NDAGCNlldu, CdSS HNen0T1CK. with whom
sCullison has a feud.
CHAPTER I~I:-saguacre is electrified
by the news Of the holdup Of express
messengers, the bandits securing $40, 900.
'CHllison pays his poker debts, and shortly
'Hfterward Mackenzie and Alex F1andrau,
OF the express robbery, his hat having
been found on the scene and he being
smissing.
CHAPTER III-Kate goes to saguache
Flandrau n Curly. All are convinced
of Luck's innocence. The sheriff reveals
that besides the finding Of Cullison's hat.
sdrick; had seen the robber and is almost
certain It was Luck. Cullison is about to
enter a homestead claim which will prac-
tically put Fendriclk out Of business
A o as we find where he is.
killing him wouldn't help Cass any,
because you and Sam would prove up
on the claim. But If he could hold
your father a prisoner and get him to
sign a REIMBURSEMENT to him he would
be in a fine position"
IF we could only have Fendrick ar
'rested-'
what good would that do? If he's
guilty he wouldn't talk. And if he
is holding your father somewhere in
the hills it would only be serving no.
tic that we were getting warm. No,
I'm for a still hunt. Let Cass ride
around and meet his partners in this
deal. Wen keep an eye on him, all
right"
Maybe you're right" Kate admitted
with a sigh.
= Il
Sheriff Bolt, though a politician,
was an honest man. 1t troubled him
that Cullison's friends believed him to
DE a partisan in a matter of this sort.
For which reason he met more thar
half way Curly's overtures. Young
F1andrau was in the Office of the sher-
iii a good deal, because he wanted to
keep informed of any new develop
ments in the W. & S. robbery case.
1t was or n Of those occasions
that Bolt tossed across to him a let
ter he had just opened.
i've been getting letters from the
village cutup OF from some crank, I
don't know which. Here's a sample"
The envelope, addressed evidently in
AoANS NOALoAuCu OuC SuScl
of paper. Upon this was lettered
roughly,
"PLAY THE JACK OF HEARTS,"
Flandrau looked up with a sugges-
ton Of eagerness in his eyes.
"What do you reckon it means?" he
asked.
Search me. Like as not it don't
mean a thing. The others had just
as much sense as that one. T chucked
them into the waste-paper basket. One
came by the morning mail yesterday
and one by the afternoon. I'm no
mind reader, and I've got no time to
guess fool puzzles"
Curly emptied the basket on the
floor and went yer its contents care
fully. He found three communications
from the unknown writer. Each of
them was printed by hand on a sheet
of cheap lined paper torn from a
scratch pad. He smoothed them out