Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-03-13
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER Lon the banks Of the
Wabash stand Texis Colin and Jack
Warhope. young and very much 10 love.
Tsxle IL the only daughter of old Pap
Jack 10 the orphan bound boy OF Pap
Simon. who had foreclosed q mortgage
on the werhops estate, AT nrst Texie
and Jack talk sadly Of Ken Colin. the
that In ten days his servltude will be
over. that he win 80 10 California Tor
gold and that he win come back. Then
Rev. Caleb Hopkins, the new minister
of Buckeye, In the Fiatwoods.
the minister and Introduces the viii
layers. The preacher 10 a young man
with q beard. enormous spectacles. stin
neck stock and patent leather boots.
CHAPTER IIL--At supper at the
Colin home the preacher. who had been
the boy sllied. a gambler. and dlsap-
peared. Hls father attributes Ken's
fall from grace 20 his red lock Of hair,
an ,nherl tame from v ~Rsd Goiini a
Pap simon has q sort OF stroke.
Ken. "somswhsre In New York" who
curses HI. father on his death bed a
IL dead.
CHAPTER Iv.--At the village. store
and postofiice Loge Beiden. q newcomer
says he saw the new parson with bis
arm around Texie. Jack siaps him,
licks him. shoots n pistol from his hand
and makes him say he was mistaken.
CnAPTER v.---1ns parson goes sein-
ing on the river with Jack and others
Jack discovers the parson carries a re-
volver. The party runs across n hid
den houseboat. Jack discovers that the
parsons boot fts . footprint on the
dusty deck.
CHAPTER vL--An the villagers
gather at a festival In the schoolhouse.
4 drunken stranger .disturbs the fes-
tivities. He attacks Jack with knife
& 1s WON put sees ho,os an
The preacher faces the desperate and
points 20 the door, The rufiian. oowed.
goes out and disappears
CHAPTER vII.---Jaok. working In n
neld, sees the desperate of the festival
trails the man to the cabin where Bel
den and his sister live
CHAPTER vIII.---Jack tells Pap 81
mon, who has been good TO him. that
he's going to California to ind gold to
buy back the old homestead, He tell.
words.
CHAPTER Ix--Ai Counterman and
Uncle Nick Whites friends OF Jack
agree that the festival desperate IL
Black Bogus. counterfctter and bad
man wanted by tho sheriff that he IL
harborin' with Loge Belden and that
they are planning to rob Pap Simon.
CHAPTER x.--Jack trails q night
prowler. who goes to Whispering
Spring. calls out the preacher with an
owl boot and hands him n small pack
age
CHAPTER Kiln the forest Jennie
belden warns Jack that hts lie y In
bides his time an whom he strikes
CHAPTER XfI--Psp simon looks
over the papers In his safe and adj
mot to be opened TIL his twenty -nrst
birthday" TeSio. Jack and the preacher
20 riding.
CHAPTER xfiI.--Texte and Jack
show their aklll with q pistol. The
preacher takes great pains TO prove he
can't hit flock of barn doors. Jack
secs face at the window of a haunted
cabin
CHAPTER XIv.--Jaek sees Black
Bogus handle counterfeit money In the
haunted cabin and pass n to the
preacher at Whispering Spring where
the two men talk OF Pap simon and
his money shortly after. the alarm
IL given and the old money lender Ia
found dead In his once. Disarranged
furniture and the old mans scratched
face tell OF a struggle. but the safe IL
locked, jack does hts own investigat.
Ing and solves the mystery.