Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03
Copyright by The Bobbs. Merrill Co.
SYNOPSIS


Wabash stand Texle Colin and Jack
Tsxis 10 the only daughter OF old Pap
Jack IL the orphan bound boy of Pap
Simon, who had foreclosed q mortgage
on the Warhops estate, Al nrst Texie
gIri's missing brother Then jack says
that In ten days his servltude will be
over, that he will go TO California for
The Milford stage comes In. bringing
Rev. Caleb Hopkins, the new minister
OF Buckeye. In the Fiatwoods.
CHAPTER II.--simon Colin welcomes
the minister and introduces the vii.
layers The preacher 10 a young man
neck stock and patent leather boots.
cu CHATTER p III-.A, supper 2, tn, the
ken's roommats at college. tells how
the boy f,,isd . gambler and dWi. ..
sii from srsc. 70 Il. req ioos Of hair
pirate in the days Of Eiinabstn. Then
b s5sas S'm ON BY sA. r..us 9 it,.r 'f from
curses his father on his death bed. A
postscript BY another hand says he
and postofhce Loge Beiden. newcomer
arm around Texie. Jack slaps him,
lioks him. shoots a pistol from his hand
and makes him say he was mistaken.
CHATTER v.--The parson goes sein-
Jack discovers tfe parson carries q re-
volver, The party runs across hid
den houseboat Jack discovers that the
parsons boot fits footprint on the
dusty deck.
CHAPTER vI--An the villagers
gather At q festival In the schooihouse
4 drunken stranger disturbs the fes-
uvities, lie attacks Jack with a knife
unimportant wound In tina shoulder
The preacher faces the desperate and
gg., o, g The door door The rufiian oowsd
CHAPTER vII.--Jack, working In a
held. sees the Desperate OF, the festival
watching MIN from behind q log. He
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 md gold TO
buy back the old homestead, He tells
Texia OF his love for her--in all but
words
CHAPTER N.--M counterman and
agree that the festival desperado Is
man wanted by the sheriff. that he is
CHAPTER x--Jack trails a night
prowlsr, who goes TO Whispering
Spring. calla out the preacher with an
owl boot and hands him q small pack.
age
CHAPTER Kiln the forest Jennie
Belden warns Jack that his life Is In
sSiass his time an when he s,risss
he kills"
CHAPTER xff--Pap Simon looks
over the papers In his safe and ad.
dresses an envelope 20 Jack Warhope
brsSasS resse S' JACK ana nd ,Ss prsasSss
80 riding.
CHAPTER xrIi--Texle and Jack
show their skin with q pistol The
preacher takes great pains TO prove he
sees face at the window OF a haunted
cabin.
~ CHAPTER xIv.--Jack sees Black
Bogus handle counterfeit money IN the
haunted cabin and pass II 10 the
Ss s%o %en ,"iE 81 Par ' Simon mn "ns
hts money, shortly after, the alarm
IL given and the old money-iender Is
tSrniturs and the old S" mans 'I Scratched
locked. Jack does his own investigat-
Ing and solves the mystery,
CHAPTER Nv.---Jack faces the
what he s % The p s"S s draws a
his pistol only 20 and himself covered.
Jack disarms him and forces him 20
diSgorge the good money for which
counterfeit has been substituted. lie
does not accuse the preacher OF intend.
ing 20 KIN Pap simon, but escorts him
TO the stage forces him to leave town
and warns him not to come back.
CHAPTER Xvr.--Reiden gets let.
20 BeIdsn and Risss Bogus 1 dIscus ssfas
it's contents He hnds Texie has
started for town In response to q let.
he had found Ken alive Jack rides
60 the rescue.
CHATTER xvff--Jack nnds Texie
locked In the houseboat He moves
the boat: without hetraylns his pres
Drawing the skin wen In among the
fringe OF scrub willows Hopkins
glanced back In the direction OF the
houseboat, snarled out an impatten,
exclamation and set or across the hot.
toms The woodsman rose and softly
followed; Swallowed him through the
sangie OF bushes and vines and fallen
logs out to the River road; watched
him cross. pick his way up the blum
and slip away among the trees of the
upland.
The unguarded safe. the bundles Of
money under the floor OF the cabin at
the homestead. crossed the woodsman's
mind. But there was a far higher
stake In his tense thought Just then
than safes and bundles Of money. The
frock coat and high hat were no sooner
well out OF sight than he sprang up
from where he lay In the thicket at the
edge OF the bottoms and hurried back
20 the skin: slid Il out from the will
lows and crossed the channel to the
island. There he hid u again and
slipped through the tangle OF under
brush and driftwood to where he could
get q view Of the houseboat.
There reached him the dull sound ol
footballs on the cabin door and the
tiny craft rocked slightly as some one