Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-27
SYNOPSIS.

= SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER Tom Shelby, a rancher,
rides in to the frontier town of Ponca
looking for a good time after a long spell
Of hard work n loneliness on the
ranch. Instead, he runs into a. funeral
that of Dad Calkins, a retired army man
of whom little Is known. A girl, still in
her teens, survives Calkins.
CHAPTER u.-McCarthy, a saloon
keeper and Ponca's leading citizen. de-
ctdes that the girl, now alone in the
world, should marry. Shelby starts q
hunt for eligible husbands and the min
aster goes. to confer with the girl.
CHAPTER I1I.-she agrees to pick a
husband from a score Of men lined up in
her home. To his CONSERVATION, she Sc
lects Shelby, who had gone along merely
as q spectator. He declines the honor.
Indignant, the girl dismisses the assem-
blags. Later, Shelby goes back to make
an explanation. She receives him good
naturally.
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runs into two Of the rejected suitors, anu
in a fight worsts them both. Angered
at their remarks, he returns to the girl,
determined to marry her, If she will nave
him. After his explanation she agrees
to marry him.
CHAPTER V.-The wedding AXE
place and the couple set>out for Shelby's
ranch. With them Is the kid" Mack
lin, whom Shelby has hired as a helper
on the ranch. On the way the girl tells
her husband her name is Olga Carlyn,
and also tells him something Of the Pc
tlliar circumstances of her life.
CHAPTER VI.-Leaving his wife in
the house, Shelby goes to care for the
horses. Returning, he is struck from
behind by an unknown assailant. Hours
later he RECEIVERS consciousness, to find
hat his wife and the kid have dis
appeared. He starts in pursuit.
CHAPTER VII.-Shelby overhears q
conversation between two outlaws that
throws some light on his wife's history.
He learns she is an heiress and that her
abduction has been planned. He also
learns that she has been taken to
wolves Hole" a haunt Of bandits n
"bad' Indians. Thu whereabouts of the
place is unknown to Shelby, though its
reputation as a resort of criminals is
widespread.
CHAPTER vIII.-shelby a plans
to rescue his wife. He is discovered by
Indian Joe" Laud, the leader of the
outlaws, and forced to accompany him
into the stronghold. There Shelby makes
friends with a Mexican girl. Pancha.
who is betrothed to .Macklin and in
tensely jealous.
CHAPTER Ix.-Imprisoned by Laud,
Sfalby escapes with Pancha's help. III
guides him to a secure hiding place but
refuses to reveal the whereabouts of his
wife.
Shelby tried in vain to distinguish
her outlines; he could only be sure of
her presence by the voice.
"Do not use any fire." she went on
warningly, "or show yourself by day
light. They will seek you. and watch
these cliffs. Eet may be several days
before I will dare act; you must be
patient. When we come I will bring
arms, but I didn't dare touch any to-
night"
"You will not tell me where my wife
is being held?"
"What good, senior! You could aid
her not at all. There is no great harm
coming to her yet. Sacrista! why you
worry about her? I bring her with
me; did I not promise?"
""Yes, | trust you, Pancha," he said
warmly, land will do just what you
say. But-but, don't you understand?
If / knew where she was I would feel
better
She laughed almost s%cornfully.
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You not know if ! told you. But it's
not far away; perhaps by daylight
you might see eet from up there /; a log
house all alone under the bluff. Yet
YOU lie hid, senor, and trust all to me"
81 have promised that"
''Good. senior I will CO."
She drew her hand away, and he
knew she was gone, although no move
ment of her figure could be distin-
guished. Shelby swung the bag of
provisions again to his shoulder, and
began feeling his way blindly forward.
He had retained the knife, with
which he had effected escape from the
cabin. and, although the point of the
blade had been broken, he did not feel
entirely unarmed. There was no pos
sibility for him to lose the way, the
unbroken walls shutting him tightly
in, so that even the star-decked sky
was invisible, while the path he must
follow led almost dizziiy upward, 1t
was boulder-strewn. and he fell twice,
yet toiled steadily on. never permit
ting his hand to leave the guidance Of
the wall to the right. and carefully
testing the placing of each foot In
fear OF some pitfall. He could neither
judge time o distance, yet 1t was
long before light came into the sky.
when he finally clambered over a rock
barrier across the path, and came
upon a shelf of stone. the left wall of
this strange avern abruptly disap.
pearsng, Fearful of what precipice
might yawn there. as soon as he again
attained his feet Shelby fattened him
self against the n rock front remain
Ing, scarcely daring to venture for. !
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