Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-24
Continued from Last Week.
SYNOPSIS.

u.-Evelyn Robertson dis
covers from her mother that they are ioe
rich, as she supposed, but pracueally nv
ing on the bounty of Robert PerelVai'
Eyelyn's cousin. =
Iu.-Polly learns from Eve
Ign that the sympathetic stranger is Rod
ert Percival. Evelyn charges Polly with
a message to Bennett, telling him she can
give him no more money, and urging MN
to be patient. She already bitterly re-
grets her infatuation with and marriage
to the ignorant farmer.
CHAPTER IV.-Polly conveys her mes
sage, and oscar makes threats. lie m
slsts Evelyn meet him that night. PONY
has her father and Larry Blshop, a squat
ter who has = Tered from the enmlty Oh
Mackenzie, take an oath to do him no
injury.
CHAPTER v Evelyn unsuccessfully
tries to get money from her mother with
which to buy off Bennett and induce him
to leave the country. giving her her free
dom. She is really enamored Of Marcus
Mackenzie. At the arranged meeting
that night Bennett threatens Evelyn with
exposure unless she procures money Ior
him.
CHAPTER VI.-Polly meets Robert Per-
cival, and they are mutually attracted
Polly's feeling being something like ado
ration.
CHAPTER VIT.-Overhearing a CONVEX
sation between Polly and Robert Perez
val, Bennett, really caring nothing Ior
Polly, waylays the girl when she leaves
Percival and abuses and threatens her.
Percival returns and thrashes the farmer.
He asks Polly in what way he can AID
her and she begs him to help the squat
tiers. Pefcival is rich and influential,
though LACKING the power of MacKenzle,
but agrees to do his best. Mackenzie
visits the Hopkins shack with an offer
to the squatters, through Hopkins, to
leave the vicinity, offering them a trifiing
sum of money. The ofrer Is refused ana
K threatens to burn their pitt
full dwellings and leave them homeless.
CHAPTER VIII.-Polly visits Percival
in the Robertson home in an effort to
enlist his aid, and he is on the point of
declaring his love for her, when the girl,
in a panic, fees. Mackenzie asks Evelyn
to be his wife. The girl agrees to marry
him after he has bought the Bennett
farm and got rid of the squatters. Rob-
ert fails in an effort to secure the aid
Of Mrs. Robertson and Evelyn in a prof.
ect to help the Silent City people.
fatuation for Polly, Evelyn tries to in
duce the girl to promise to marry him,
he having agreed to release Evelyn to
secure Polly. In love with Percival,
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fuses. Meeting Robert next day, he tells
her he loves her, and she acknowledges
a similar feeling for him. Mackenzie
lays a trap for Hopkins and the latter
is arrested.
CHAPTER X.-Polly goes to the Rob-
ertson home to enlist Percivars aid in
freeing her father. Mackenzie jeers at
her. He is also deaf to Roberts plead
ings, and the latter, though assuring
Polly of all the help he can give her. feels
himself powerless.
CHAPTER XI-A week later Polly.
alone during a heavy thunder storm with
her little brother and Granny Hope, has
a visit from Evelyn. She tells Polly
something has struck" Oscar. The two
women carry him from the road into the
shack. He is insensible. Polly sets out
to get a doctor. She meets Percival, who
accompanies her back to the hut. Evelyn
tells Robert she is there on a visit to
small Jerry. She insinuates that Ben
nett is Polly's sweetheart. Robert be-
lieves her. since the girl, true to a prom
Use to Evelyn, does not deny it.. He con-
ducts Evelyn from the hut, after bitterly
~denouncing Polly for her duplicity. Ben
nett dies and Evelyn is free.