Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-17
Continued from Last Week.
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I.-Occupying a dilapidated
shack in the Silent City, a %squatter settle
ment near Ithaca, New YORK, Poliy HOP
kins lives with her father, small Jerry,
and an old woman, Granny Hope. On an
adjacent farm, Oscar Bennett, prosperous
farmer, is a neighbor. He is secretly
married to Evelyn Robertson, supposedly
wealthy girl of the neighborhood. PONY
alone knows their secret. Marcus Mac
Kenzie, who owns the ground the squat
tiers occupy, is their determined enemy.
Polly overhears a conversation between
Mackenzie and a stranger, in which the
former avows his intention of driving the
squatters from his land. The stranger
sympathizes with the squatters, ana
earns Polly's gratitude.
CHAPTER II.-Evelyn Robertson dis
covers from her mother that they are not
rich, as she supposed, but practically nv
ing on the bounty of Robert PerclVal'
E%velyn's cousin.
CHAPTER Iu.-Polly learns from Eve
lyn that the sympathetic stranger is Rob
ert Percival. Evelyn charges Polly with
a message to Bennett, telling him she can
give him no more money, and urging MIN
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. he IN
sists Evelyn meet him that night. Polly
has her father and Larry Bishop, a squat.
ter who has .Iered from the enmity Of
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 for
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 for
Evelyn and fancying himself in love with
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. Pe7cival is rich and influential,
though lacking the power of Mackenzie,
but agrees to do mis- best. K
visits the Hopkins shack with an offer
to the squatters, through Hopkins, to
sum of money. The offer is refused and
Mackenzie 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.
CHAPTER K.-Knowing Benefits in
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,
though scarcely realizing it, the girl re-
fuses. Meeting Robert next day, ne tells
her he loves her, and she acknowledges
a similar feeling for him. Mackenzie
lays a trap for Hopkins and the latter
is arrested.