Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-01-17
SYNOPSIS

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SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER Lon the banks OF the
Wabash stand Texie Colin and Jack
Texie 10 the only daughter Of old Pap
Simon, rich man and money LENDER.
ss the S or9hn sHSnS boy s Pss
on the Warhope estate. ~ nrst Tens
girls missing brother. Then Jack says
over. that he win 20 TO California for
gold and that he Will come back Then
the Milford stage comes In. bringing
BuSss ss h n .ss fls ss %s minister
CHAPTER II.--simon Colin welcomes
ine min, Ten ana introduces yo, ,ns main ,,
with q beard. enormous spectacles, stin
neck stock and patent leather boots.
CHAPTER TII--At supper at tho
Colin home the preacher. who had been
Kens roommate at college, tells how
peared Ills father attributes Ksn's
an inheritance from RED Colin, a
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CuThen MS fNtnor on MS OeAtn Deu. ~
postscript by another, hand says he
IL dead.
CHAPTER Tv.--At the village store
and postoffice Loge Beiden, newcomer,
says he Jaw the new parson with his
arm around Texis, Jack slaps him,
and makes him say he was mistaken
UnArTER v.--Ine parson goes sein-
ing on the river with Jack and others
Jack discovers the parson carries a re-
volver. The party runs across hid
parsons boot fts footprint on the
dusty deck.
CHAPTER vI.---Aii the villagers
gather at a festival In the schooihouse.
a drunken stranger disturbs the fes-
uvities. He attacks Jack with a knife.
unimportant wound In the shoulder,
The preacher faces the desperate and
points TO the door The ruffian. cowed
goes out and disappears
CHAPTER vII.--Jaek. working In n
watching MIN from behind a log. lie
trails the man 20 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 ce sl s 20 md Eoi ,a, 10
Texle OF his love for her--in all nut
words.
CHAPTER Ix---M Counterman and
Uncle Nick whiffies, friends OF Jack.
agree that the festival desperate IL
Black Bogus. n counterfelter and bad
man wanted by the shsriff, that he Is
harborin' with Loge Belden and that
they arc planning to rob Pap simon.
CHAPTER x.---Jack trails q night
prowier, who goes To Whispering
eml h.ot ana 9 hand. T sse An
age. ''
CHAPTER Kiln the forest Jennie
danger from three men and the third
'hides his time an when he strikes
he kills"
A breeze stirred the trees. as II
the woods were taking deeper
breath. Jack lifted hts shoulders and
allied his lungs with the nectar-laden
air. Warmed by the exuberanee of
life that rustled and Quivered and
thrilled around him there gushed up
within him the Jubllate OF man
wooed by the genial day into almost
primal closeness to nature. lie
dropped the butt OF the gun TO the
leaves, leaned lightly upon Il and
stood listening TO the duh dronlng OF
the bees.
A fash Of red famed through the
trees and stopped almost directly
above his head In the top twigs OF a
hickory sapllng and there swelled
out wild burst OF reckless melody
that clothed the hickory with music
rs the opening buds clothed the crab
apple tree with beauty,
~ thought So. OF warcoat." the
man muttered. glancing up. "You
know where she Is. don't y'uY"
lie stepped softly toward the crab
apple tree-the wild song burst In the
hickory ceasing the instant he moved
and peered In through the gnarled
limbs and tangled twlgs
Shrugged down among some drifted
dead leaves he found Il. the treasure
that Inspired the cardinals songs
roughly built, deep little nest. and
shining above its edge a dark glossy
crest, some long tall feathers. short,
heavy. reddish bill and round gilt
tering eye. black as q dewberry.
lie let the limb he had bent aside
swing slowly back into place and
stole away.
"Alw'ys two ran his thought
"a pair; mates-it's natures way.
Pheasants and cardinals and folks
they're all the same-though birds
and beasts aiw'ys run true while
folks ometlmes--oh, we'll"
Tie walked away toward the west.
coming at length TO where the up
lands ended abruptly In the line 81
wooded bluffs that fell steeply to the
deep and winding scar Of Eagle
hollow. and the exact point where
the double trail had run plainest
the day before-a fact that had
doubtless brought him just there.
He bent q critical look upon the lout'
ish trail: carefully crossed IL: stepped
out under q clump Of haw trees at the
very brink of the blum and stood keen.
ly searching the, woods In every direc,
ton.
Below him and q short distance
farther down the hollow an old desert
ed cabin of mud daubed LOGS squattcd