The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-10
Continued from last week.
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER Ion the banks of the
Wabash stand TeXie Colin and JACK
Warhope. young and very much in love
Texie is the only daughter of old Par
Simon, rich man and money-lender
Jack is the orphan bound boy of Par
Simon, who had foreclosed a mortgage
and Jack talk sadly of Ken Colin. the
girls missing brother. Then Jack says
that in ten days his servitude will be
gold and that he viii come back. Then
the Milford stage comes in, bringing
Rev. Caleb Hopkins, the new minister
Of Buckeye. in the Flatwoods.
CHAPTER III.-At supper at the
Colin home the preacher, who had been
Ken's roommate at college, tells how
the boy killed a gambler and disap-
peared. His father attributes Ken's
fall from grace to his red lock Of hair,
pirate in the days Of Elizabeth. Then
Pap Simon has a sort OF stroke,
trough on by reading a letter from
curses his father on his death bed. A
postscript by another hand says he
Is lead.
CHAPTER Iv.-At the village store
and postofice Loge Belden. a newcomer,
says he saw the new parson, with his
arm around Texie. Jack slaps him,
ticks him, shoots q pistol from his hand
and makes him say he was mistaken.
AT1AT EN- Vine DAIsOn BOSG Glh-
ing on the river with Jack and others.
Jack discovers the parson carries a re-
yolver. The party runs across a hid
den houseboat. Jack discovers that the
parsons boot fits a footprint on the
dusty deck.
gather at a festival in the schoolhouse.
A drunken stranger disturbs the fes-
Uvittes. He attacks Jack with a knife.
Jack knocks him fiat, but receives an
nQimnOrtanT wound in the shoulder
The preacher faces the desperate and
points to the door. The rufian. cowed.
goes out and disappears.
CHAPTER vII.-Jack, working in a
Geld. sees the desperate of the festival
watching aim from behind a log. He
trails the man to the cabin where Bel
den and his sister live.
CHAPTER vIII.-Jack tells Pap ST.
mon. who has been good to him., that
hes going to California to find gold to
buy back the old homestead. He tells
Texie of his love for her-in all but
words.
CHAPTER IX-Al Counterman and
Uncle Nick Whites, friends Of Jack.
agree that the festival Desperate is
Black Bogus, q counterfeiter and bad
man wanted by the sheriff. that he Is
harborin' with Loge Belden and that
CHAPTER X.-Jack trails a night
roWler VINO goes to WhtSperin
Spring, calls out the preacher with an
owl boot and hands him a small pack
age.
CHAPTER Kiln the forest Jennie
Belden warns Jack that his life is in
danger from three men and the third
"bides his time an when he strikes
he kills"
CHAPTER X1I-Pap Simon looks
over the papers in his safe and ad-
dresses an envelope to Jack Warhope
not to be opened till his ~twenty-frst
birthday" Texie, Jack and the preacher
go riding.
CHAPTER XIII.-Texie and Jack
show their skill with a pistol. The
preacher takes great pains to prove he
can't hit a flock of barn doors. Jack
sees a face at the window of a haunted
cabin.
CHAPTER XIv.-Jack sees Black
Bogus handl counterfeit money In the
haunted cabin and pa&s it to the
preacher at Whispering Spring. where
the two men ak of Pap Simon and
his money. Shortly after, the alarm
is given and the old money-lender is
found e in his office. Disarranged
furniture and the old mans scratched
face tell Of a struggle, but the safe is
locked. Jack does his own investigat-
ing and solves the mystery