The Adair County news., 1922-11-21
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER lat the death Of his foster
father, Bruce Duncan, in an eastern city,
receives a mysterious message, sent by
Mrs. Ross. summoning him peremptorily
TO southern Oregon-to meet Linda"
CHAPTER u.-Bruce has vivid but baf-
ling recollections of his childhood in an
orphanage, before his adoption by New
ION Duncan. with the girl Linda.
CHAPTER III.-At his destination,
Trails End, news that message has
marked displeasure by a man introduced
10 the reader as Simon"
CHAPTER IV.-Leaving the train,
Bruce is astonished at his apparent IA
MAllarity with the surroundings, though
20 his knowledge he has never been there.
CHAPTER V.-Obedient to the message,
Bruce makes his way to Martins cross
roads store, for direction as to reaching
Mrs. Ross cabin.
CHAPTER Won the way. Simon"
sternly warns him to give up his quest
and return East Bruce refuses.
4CHAPTER VII-Mrs. Ross, aged and
infrm, welcomes him with emotion. She
hastens him on his way-the end of Pine
Needle Trail
CHAPTER VIII.-Through a country
pWxzlingly familiar Bruce journeys, and
hnds his childhood playmate, Linda.
CHAPTER K.-The girl tells him of
wrongs committed by an enemy clan on
her family, the Rosses. Lands occupied
by the clan were stolen from the Rosses,
and the family, with the exception of
Aunt Elmira CMrs. Ross) and herself,
wiped out by assassination. Bruce's IA
ther, Matthew Folger, was one Of the
and Linda. The girl, while small, had
been kidnapped from the orphanage and
brought to the mountains. Linda's father
but the agreement, which would confute
the enemy's claims to the property, has
been lost
responds to the call of the blood-feud.
CHAPTER XI-A giant tree, the Sen
tfnel Pine, in front of Linda's cabin,
seems to Bruce's excited imagination to
be endeavoring to convey message.
CHAPTER XM-Bruce sets out in
search OF a uapper named hudson, a
witness to the agreement between Linda's
father and Matthew Folger.
CHAPTER XIIL-A gigantic grizzly,
known as the Killer is the terror of the
vicinity, because of his size and ferocity.
CHAPTER XIV.-Dave Turner. sent by
concerning the agreement, If brought to
light, he knowing its whereabouts.
CHAPTER XV.-Hudson and Dave visit
the formers traps A wolf. caught in one,
10 discovered by the Killer. Disturbed at
his feast the brute strikes down Hudson.
Bruce, on his way to Hudson, shoots and
wounds the Killer, driving him from his
victim. Hudson, learning Bruce's iden-
dty, tries to tell him the hiding place of
the agreement, but death summons him.
CHAPTER XVI-Simon, believing Bruce
knows where the document is concealed,
lays plans to trap him.
CHAPTER XVII-Dave decoys Linda
and Aunt Elmira from their home. The
man insults Linda and is struck down
by the aged woman. Elmira's son has
been murdered by Dave, and at her COM
mand, after securely binding the des-
perado, Linda leaves them alone.
CHAPTER XVIIL-Ry turning. Bruce
finds a note, presumably from Linda, tell
ing him she has been kidnapped by the
Turner'S.
CHAPTER XIX.-Bruce falls into ST.
mons trap, and is made prisoner.
CHAPTER XX.-Charging Bruce with
attempting to reopen the blsOd-feud, the
clan, after mock trial, decides to leave
him, bound. in a pasture on the spot
where the Killer had slain and half eaten
a calf the night before. They look for
the return of the grizzly and the probable
Staying of Bruce by the animal.
CHAPTER XXL-Bruce, helpless, awaits
arrival of the Killer and death.
CHAPTER XXII-Simon makes Linda
an offer of marriage. The girl refuses,
telling him she loves Bruce. Enraged,
the man brutally strikes her, and leaves.
The girl is confident he will go to Bruce,
and she follows him.