Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-10-05
SYNOPSIS
By
Zane Grey
Illustrations by Irwin Myers
Copyright By Harper and Brothers

OENSF SiS
CHAPTER L-Arriving at the lonely
little railroad station Of Ell Cajon, New
Mexico, Madeline Hammond, New York
girl. finds no one to meet her. While In
the waiting room a drunken cowboy en-
ter ters, asks If she T. married, and departs
priest. who goes through some sort of
say '.si." Asking her name and learning
= shooting scrape ser p"out outtsds sSs ths Ars room
Mexican Is killed. The cowboy lets I
girl "Bonita, take his horse ana escape,
nrssy na s9ndpes 9psna n AfSsps Ssr e
CHAPTER I1-F1orepce welcomes her,
boy, Gene Stewart. Next day Alfred
sts%aa u ass ssdens sshs ssas:
him Of any wrong intent
CHAPTER 11t1A!fred. seton Of 2
his home because Of h!a dissipation.
deemed him. she meets stiiIweii, AS
sMmg9l0yer' Mag9sgyYsr' typical western ranchaan:
the border.
stiilwell's coYbgys, Kss dIsappearsA
E1sa iEisna. :4aS INK S. s.sissA sn. W. sSss'E az j., R
nitA-
CHAPTER y-Msnelins set. a glimpse
CHAPTER YI,-stewart's horse comes
asking Madeline to accept the beautiful
pet nickname. Madeline. |ndependsntly
rich. arranges e buy spIlwsNs tanph
Dor.
CHAPTER YHZMadeiins. feels ,.shs
has found her right place. Under tho light
Of the western stars.
CHAPTER vIFI.-Learning Stewart had
been hurt in brawl at Chirica hua, and
knowing her brothers. fondness for him,
MaSsas soms to ss a h ana "a Rse Ssss
cowboys.
.Sa R9n9z fcs ar. III Masss. HSs stsss ssis
Elders ride They they have feud With Don Car
Madeline pledges Stewart to see that
peace Is kept
CHAPTER X.-Madeline and Florence,
returning home from Alfreds ranch, run
into an ambush Of vaqueros. F1orsnce.
knowing the Mexicans are after Made
gets home safely but alone.
band earrias o Madelna ls,an stswssrs 4o
lows alone. The leader is man with
whom Stewart had served In Mexico. He
releases the girl. arranging for ransom
Returning home with Stewart, Madeline
finds herself strangely stirred.
CHAPTER XII. - Madeline's sister
Helen, with party Of eastern friends.
ia onnh axt}v1 Nff ~
CHAPTER xIII.-For the guests enter
tainment a game Of golf Is arranged.
Ste s5swa Whole pay retnra hs ss e once n's s
house. He tells Madeline her guests are
not safe while the Mexican revolution ts
going on, and urges them to 60 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, go up to the mountains
CHAPTER xy.-Edith Wayne pleads
with Madeline to return to the East. but
she refuses.
mountains, Madeline sees Stewart with
the girl Bonita, and comes to the worst
conclusions: At camp Stewart offers to
brings IS news ' that Don Carlos T ana 6iis
followers are coming.
CHAPTER XvII.-The women are con-
csaled. and the approach of the .guerril-
las awaited. They come, clustering. but
stewart's detsrminsd attitude COWS them,
begins It's return to the ranch.
CHAPTER xv1I,..Alfred Hamnond.
line announcing his Immediate return and
that he WIFI marry Florence at once. He
arrives. the wedding takes PLACE, but the
fsstyes pat aws are assr os S hs srs Msa
declares his Intention Of arrestins stew
art for the murder of Mexican on the
Right when Stewart first pst Madeltn$
story. HAVE Insults her, and stewart
mon from attaesng S onty P2ss M 0dse ds
psof Susi daX Es ana sse big apus aa osss y
own life
For the third time he repeated his
question to her. Madeline did not an
swer; she could not speak.
"You don't know 1 love you, do
your he continued passionately.
''That ever since you stood before me
in that hole at Chiricahua I've loved
you? You can't see I've been another
man, loving you, working for you, llv-
ing for you? You won't believe I've
turned my back on the old wild life,
that I've been decent and honorable
and happy and useful-your kind Of
cowboy? You couldn't tell, though
/ loved you, that never wanted you
to know 1t, that I never dared to
think Of you except as my angel, my
holy Virgin? What do you know Of
q mans heart and soul? How could
you tell of the love, the salvation Of
a man who's lived his life In the ST.
lence and loneliness? Who could teach
you the actual truth-that wild cow
boy, faithless to mother and sister, ex-
cept in memory, riding hard, drunk
en- trail straight to hell, had looked
into the face, the eyes Of beautiful
woman infinitely beyond him, above
him, and had SO loved her that he was
saved-that he became faithful again
that he saw her face in every fiow-