Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-04-17
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CHAPTER Lon the banks of the
wabash stand Texie Colin and Jack
Warhope, young and very much in love
simon, rich man ana money-lendef,
Jack Is the orphan bound boy OF Pap
simon who had foreolosed q mortgage
on the Warhope estate. At first Texie
girls missing brother. Then Jack says
that IN ten days his servitude will be
oyer, that he VIII 60 to California for
the M,iford stage comes in. bringing
HeY. Caleb Hopkins, the new minister
OF Buckeye. in the Flatwoods.
CHAPTER u-simon Colin welcomes
the minister and. introduces the VIII
Layers. The preacher IL q young man
With beard, enormous grectacles. stin
neck stock and patent leather boots.
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g4itn home the preeoher. who had been
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atm around 1oxio. Jack sIape N,
a,ese HIN. sA9eAs : pistel from 8. haad
an makes ~ eay he was mistakes.
GHArTER E--Tns parson goes satin
ing on the Tlysr with Jack and cthesn
JsHk disceyere the parson carries re-
Sc a FL ru ai:eo scs1:. ts.t h e.
Paz91nfs boot ats a footprint on the
CHAPTER VIAL the villagers
gs<her at festival in the schoolhouss
tivfttes. He aftacks Jack with q knife.
unimrortana wound in the shoulder.
The preacher facex the desperate and
points to the dpur. The ruffian. cowed,
goes out and disappears.
CHAPTER vH.-Jack, working In .
neld, sees the desperate of the festival
wafendng him from behind q log. Hs
fratfB the man to the cabin where Bel-
den and his 1iatar uvA
CHAPTER vIu-5ack tells Pap ST.
mons who has been good to him, that
he's ing 20 California to find gold 20
Texie Of hiB love for her-in all but
words.
CHAPTER K.-A Counterman and
Uncle Nick Whinisa friends Of Jack.
Black Bogus, a counterfeiter and bad
man wanted by the sheriff, that he 10
harbotin wien Loge Belden and that
they are planning to rob Pan Simon.
CHAPTER X.-Jack trails a night
prowler, who goes to Whispering
Spring, calls out the preacher with an
owl hoot and hands him o small pack
age.
CHAPTER Kiln the forest Jennie
Belden warns Jack that his life is Ia
danger from three men and the third
''bides his time an when he strikes
he kills"
CHAPTER xII.-Pap Simon looks
over the papers in his safe and ad-
dresses an envelope to Jack Warhope
-znot to be opened till his twenxy-frst
birthday" Texie. Jack and the preacher
CHAPTER xIII.-Texie and Jack
shcw their skin with pistol. The
preacher takes great pains to prove he
can't hit flock of barn doors. Jack
sees face at the window OF haunted
cabin.
CHAPTER xIv.-Jack sees Black
Bogus handle counterfeit moneys in the
haunted cabin and pass 1t to the
preacher at Whispering Spring. where
his money. shortly after, the alarm
Is given and the old money-lender is
found dead in his Office Disarranged
furniture and the old mans scratched
face tell of struggle, but the safe Is
locked. Jack does his own investigat-
ing and solves the mystery.
CHAPTER xv.-Jack faces the
preacher In his study and tells him
what he knows. The preacher draws
Jack disarms him and forces him to
disgorge the good money for which
counterfeit has been substituted. He
does not accuse the preacher of intend
ing to kill Pap Simon, but escorts him
to the stage. forces him to leave town
and warns him not to come back.