The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-29
SYNOPSIS


little railroad station OF Ell CaJon. New
Mexico. Madeline Hammond, New iorh
girl. finds no one to meet her. While IN
the waiting room drunken cowboy en-,
tiers, asks If she Is married. and DEPARTS.
leaving her terrified He returns with
priest. who goes through some sort OF
ceremony, and the cowboy forces her to
say ST" Asking her name and learning
Aer Identity the cowboy seems dazed. In
Is killed The soS eo~60y lets
then conducts Madeline to Florence
Kingsley. friend of her brother.
CHAPTER 11.-Florence welcomes her,
learns her story, and dismisses the cow
boy, Gene Stewart. Next day Alfred
Hammond, Madeline's brother, takes
Stewart to tack. Madeline exonerates
him Of any wrong intent
CHAPTER XIx.-Riding alone, Made
line meets Stewart who declares his love
reproaches her for believing he had an
affair with Bonita, kisses her despite her
vehement protests. and rides away.
CHAPTER xx.-Padre Marcos. the
priest who figured in the adventure on
the first night Of Madeline's arrival. in
forms her that he performed the we'd
ding ceremony that night and that when
she answered "Si'' she became Stewards
wife.
CHAPTER xxI.-Dazed for a time
Stewart and Is proud Of it. A telegram
announces Stewart has been captured in
Mexico and is to be shot in two days.
CHAPTER 1n-Alfred. scion Of =
his home because Of his dissipation.
Madeline sees that the West has re-
deemed him: She meets stiliwell; AIS
Madeline LEARNS Stewart has gone over
the border.
CHAPTER rv.-Danny Mains. one Of
friends link his name with the girl Boz
nita-
CHAPTER V.-Madeline gets q glimpse
Of life on western ranch.
CHAPTER vI.-stewart's horse comes
to the ranch with a note on the saddle
asking Madeline to accept the beautiful
does SO, naming him Majesty" her own
rich, arranges to buy stlllweli's ranch
and that Of Don Carlos, q Mexican neigh
Dor
CHAPTER vII.-Madeline feels she
has found her right place. under the light
Of the western stars.
CHAPTER VIII.-Learning Stewart had
been hurt in a brawl at Chiricahua, and
knowing her brothers fondness for him,
come to the ranch as the boss Of her
cowboys.
CHAPTER K.-Jim Nels, Nick Steele,
riders. they have feud With Don Car
los vaqueros. who are really guerrillas.
Madeline pledges Stewart to see that
peace Is kept
CHAPTER x-Madeline and Florence.
returning home from A1fred's ranch, run
into an ambush Of vaqueros. Florence,
line, decoys them away, and Madeline
gets home safely but alone.
CHATTER II x x1 sa., Ss,dng susrr tn'
lows alone. The leader is a man with
whom Stewart had served in Mexico. He
releases the girl, arranging for ransom.
finds herself strangely stirred.
Helen, with party Of eastern friends,
arrives at the ranch. craving excitement
CHAPTER xIII.-For the guests enter
tainment q game of golf Is arranged.
Stewart interrupts the game. insisting
house He ss her
! not safe while the Mexican revolution is
| going on, and urges them to go up to
| the mountains out Of danger. They de-
! eide to do SO.
| CHAPTER XIV.-The guerrillas leave
during the night, without making trouble.
| Madeline and her guests, with the cow
| boys, 60 up to the mountains.
CHAPTER xv.-Edith Wayne pleads
| with Madeline to return to the East, but
she refuses.
CHAPTER XvI-Wandering In the
mountains, Madeline sees Stewart with
the girl Bonita, and comes to the worst
conclusions. At camp Stewart offers to
explain. Madeline will not listen. Stew
art, In . rage. starts to leave camp. Nels
| followers are coming.
CHAPTER XvIL-The women are con-
cealed. and the approach Of the suerril-
Stewards determined attitude cows them.
and they leave hastily. The party at once
begins It's return to the ranch.
CHAPTER XvHI-Alfrsd Hammond
| who has been in California, writes Made
| line announcing his immediate return and
that he will marry Florence at once. He
| arrives, the wedding takes place, but the
festivities are interrupted BY the arrival
Ct Pat Have h; ; sheriff q El csjon, who
/ art for the murder Of q Mexican on the
i night when Stewart first met Madeline.
| To save Stewart, Madeline tells the whole
/ story. HAVE insults her, and Stewart
who b unarmed. IL prevented by force
from attacking him. Money Price de-
DissOi asi iiiis them both. Sat loses iii
1 own life.