Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-01-05


Mrs. Ross, summoning him peremptorily
to southern Oregon-to meet Linda"
CHAPTER u.-Bruce has vivid but baf-
orphanage, before his adoption by New
ton Duncan. with the girl Linda
CHAPTER ITI-At his destination,
been sent to Bruce is received with
marked displeasure by a man introduced
to the reader as Simon"
CHAPTER Iv.-Leaving the train.
Bruce is astonshed at his apparent ia
miliarity with the surroundings, though
TO his knowledge he has never been there
CHAPTER v.-Obedient to the message
Bruce makes his way 20 Martins cross
roads store, for direction as to reaching
Mrs. Ross cabin.
CHAPTER vI.-on tho way, Simon
sternly warns him to give up his quest
and return East Bruce refuses.
CHAPTER vII.-Mrs. Ross, aged and
infrn. welcomes him with emotion. She
hastens him on his way-the end OF Pine
Needle Trail"
CHAPTER vIII.-Through o country
puzzlingly familiar. Bruce Journeys. and
finds his childhood playmate, Linda.
CHAPTER R-The girl tells him Of
wrongs committed by an enemy clan on
her family, the Rosses. Lands occupied
and the family, with the exception Of
Aunt Elmira (Mrs. Ross) and herself.
wiped out by assassination. Bruces 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
had decided his lands to Matthew Folger.
ht,& ~ xxyhtn oh
the enemy's claims to thS property, has
been lost
CHAPTER xIIL-A gigantic gr1z.ly,
known as the Killer. Ia the terror OF tns
vicinity, because Of his sise and ferocatJ.
CHAPTER xIv.--Davs Turner. sent ey
Simon, bribes Hudson 20 swear falsely
concerning the agreement II brought 70
light, he knowing it's whereabouts
CHAPTER xv,-Hudson and Dave visit
the formers traps. A wolf. caught IN one
is discovered by the Killer. Disturbed 81
Bruce, on his way to Hudson, shoots and
wounds the Killer driving him from his
victim Hudson, learning Bruce's iden..
tity. tries to tell him the hiding place OF
CHAPTER xvL--simon. believing Bruce
knows where the document 10 concsaieo-
lays plans 10 trap him
CHAPTER xvu-Dave dscoys LINDA
and Aunt Elnira from their homA The
man insults Linda and 10 struck down
by the aged woman. Elmira's son has
been murdered by Dave, and at her com
mand, after securely binding the dss-
perado. Linda leaves them AIonA
CHAPTER xvIu.-Rsturning, Bruce
flnds q note presumably from Linda, tel.
ing him she has been kidnapped BY the
Turner'S
CHAPTER xR-Bruos falls ints O.
mons trap. and 10 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 . pasture on the spot
calf the night before. They look f9r
Staying OF Bruce BY the animal
CHAPTER xXI.-Bruce, helpless, awaits
arrival of the Killer and death.
CHAPTER xxIL-Simon makes IAnda
an aOT offer n of ana iasss Brsc. s nassd
the man brutally strikes her, ana leaves.
The girl is confident he will 90 70 Brucs.
and she follows him
CHAPTER xxIu.-Hsr surmise s 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 App&r
ent helplessness, Bruce and LINDA decide
to keep up the fight
CHAPTER XXv.-seeking to make her
way to Martins store for ammunition.
Linda is hred on and turned back
CHAPTER XXVI-The Turner clan, in
a terrific thunderstorm, attack the Folgef
home. The Sentinel Pine 10 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 dnd
the agreement so long soughts~At that
moment Bruce is shot.
CHAPTER XXvIIL-simon had been .
witness to the finding of the paper and 1t
was his rife that spoke. Linda gets Bruce
into the house He is not badly hurt
Despite the blizzard, the two mount tne
one horse with the intention OF making
their way to the settlements.
CHAPTER XXIX.-In the storm Linda
and Bruce lose the trail. While dis
mounted. their horse breaks away
And then all at once he caught
the scent plain. He lurched forward,
crashed again through the brush, and
walked out into the snow-swept open.
Linda saw his vague outline, and at
first she hung perfectly mOtionless,
hoping to escape his gaze. She had
been told many times that grizzlies
cannot climb, yet she had no desire
to see him raging below her, rea ching
possibly trying TO shake her from the
limb
He didn't seem to see her. His eyes
were lowered; besides, 1t was never the
grizzly way to search the branches Of
tree The wind blew the message
that he might have read clearly in the
opposite direction. She saw him walk
slowly across the snow, head low
cred, huge gray ghost in the snow
tiurries not one hundred feet distant
Then she saw him pause, with lowered
head.
In the little second before the truth
came 70 her. the bear had AlxNAdx