The Adair County news., 1922-12-05
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER lat the death of his foster
Haiher, Bruce Duncan, in an eastern city,
fecsives mysterious message, sent by
14fe. Ross, summontng him peremptorily
% southern Oregon-to meet Linda"
CHAPTER u.-Bruce has vivid but baf-
4tng recollections Of his childhood in an
ofphanage, before his adoption by New
ton Duncan. with the girl Linda.
CHAPTER IIL-At his destination,
Trails End, news that a message has
been sent to Bruce Is received with
% the reader as Simon"
CHAPTER Iv-Leaving the train.
Bruce Is astonished at his apparent IA
mlliarity with the surroundings, though
% 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.
sternly warns him to give up his quest
ana return East. Bruce refuses.
CHAPTER Vu.-Mrs. Ross, aged and
hAstens him on his way-the end of Pine
Needle Trail"
CHAPTER VIII.-Through a country
puExlingly familiar, Bruce journeys, and
4nds his childhood playmate, Linda.
CHAPTER K.-The girl tells him Of
wrongs committed by an enemy clan on
her family, the Rosses. Lands occupied
b. the clan were stolen from the Rosses,
Aunt 1 s Einira % SMrS. % ROssS 9 fDSS and Serseif. r.
wiped out by assassination. Bruce's IA
ther, Matthew Folger, was one Of the
victims. His mother had fed with Bruce
been kidnapped from the orphanage and
krOuRht to the mountains Linda's father
TAD decided his lands to Matthew Folger,
bLt the agreement which would confute
the enemy's claims to the property, has
been lost.
CHAPTER X.-Bruce's mountain blood
responds to the call Of the blood-feud.
CHAPTER XI.-A giant. tree, the Sen
tinei Pine, in front of Linda's cabin,
seems to Bruce's excited imagination to
Be endeavoring to convey a message.
CHAPTER Xu.-Bruce sets out in
search Of uapper named Hudson,
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
Simon, bribes Hudson to swear falsely
concerning the agreement, II brought to
light he knowing its whereabouts.
CHAPTER XV-Hudson and Dave visit
the formers traps. A wolf, caught in one,
60 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-
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the agreement but death summons him.
CHAPTER XVL-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
been murdered by Dave, and at her COM
nland, after securely binding the des-
perado, Linda leaves them alone.
CHAPTER XVIII-Returning, Bruce
ands 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 blood-feud, the
clan, after a mock trial. decides to leave
him bound in a pasture on the spot
where the Killer had slain and half eaten
q calf the night before. They look for
the return of the grizzly and the probable
staying of Bruce by the animal
CHAPTER XXI.-Bruce, helpless, awaits
arrival of the Killer and death.
CHAPTER XXu-Simon makes Linda
an offer of marriage. The girl refuses,
falling him she loves Bruce. Enraged,
the man brutaIly strikes her, and leaves.
The girl is confident he will go to Bruce,
and she follows him.
CHAPTER xXIII.-Her surmise is cor
rect, Simon visiting his helpless enemy
to gloat over him. With the Killer ac-
tually shifting at Bruce's body, Linda, on
horseback, arrives, wounds the animal
and carries her lover away.
CHAPTER XXIV.-Despite their appar-
emit helplessness, Bruce and LINDA decide
to keep up the fight.
CHAPTER XXV.-Seeking to make hel
way to Martins store for ammunition
LINDA is fired on and turned back.
CHAPTER XXVL-The Turner clan, in
a terrific thunderstorm attack the FolgeI
home The Sentinel Pine is struck by
lightning and set on fire.
CHAPTER XXVII-The noise and
flames stampede the attackers horses and
they scatter. In the half-consumed trunk
OF the giant pine Bruce and Linda FIND
, the agreement so long sought AT tna'
moment Bruce is shot.
CHAPTER XXVIII.-Simon had been g
witness to the finding of the paper and Il
was his rifle that spoke. Linda gets Bruce
into the house. He is not badly hurt
Despite the blizzard, the two mount the
one horse, with the intention Of making
their way to the settlements.