The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-03
Copyright by The Bobbs- Merrill Co.
Continued from last week.
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER Lon the banks of the
Wabash stand Texie Colin and Jack
Warhope, young and very much in love.
Texie is the only daughter Of old Pap
Jack is the orphan bound boy Of Pap
Simon. who had foreclosed a mortgage
on the Warhope estate. At nrst Texie
snd Jack talk sadiy OF Ken Ken GoIin' ths
that in ten days his servitude will be
over, that he will go to California for
gold and that he will come back. Thsn
the Milford stage comes In, bringtng
Rev. Caleb Hopkins, the new minister
Of Buckeye. in the Flatwoods.
CHAPTER III.-At supper at thu
Colin home the preacher, whs had been
Ken's roommate at college, tells how
the ssre s1y Killed. HIs : sem It.4Tns and d K ?
tall from grace to his red lock Of hair.
an inheritance from Red Colin" a
pirate in the days Of Elizabsth. Then
Ksn, "somewhere in New York" who
curses his father en- his death bad. A
postscript by another hand says he
fs dead.
CHAPTER Iv.-At ths village store
and postofice Loge Bsldsn, a newcomer.
arm around Texis. Jack slaps him.
llSEn nlms SHOOTS u PISTOL from Ms MANU.
and makes him say he was mistaken.
CHAPTER v.-The parson goes ssin-
ing on the river with Jack and others.
Jack discovers the parson carries a re-
volvsr. The party runs across a hid
een houseboat. Jack discovers that the
parsons boot fits a footprint ON the
dusty deck.
CHAPTER. Wall the villagers
gather at a festival in the schoolhouHe.
A rnnkA stranger distlIThs fhe faa-
t%ivities. He attacks Jack with a knife.
Jack knocks him nat, but receives an
The preacher faces the desperate and
points to the door. The ~rufian. cowsd,
goes out and disappears.
CHAPTER vII-Jack, working in a
geld, sees the desperate of the festival
watching MIN from behind a log. He
trails the man to the cabin where Bel
den and his sister live.
CHAPTER VIII.-Jack tells Pap ST.
hes going to California to and 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,
Black Bogus, q counterfeiter- and bad
man wanted by the sheriff, that he is
harborin' with Loge Belden and that
hhOS ~ PAnAAuAA6 ~ AOD rap 04LiOu.
CHAPTER x-Jack trails a night
growler. who goes to whispering
owl boot and hands him a small pack
age.
CHAPTER Kiln the forest Jennie
Belden warns Jack that his life is in
danger from thres men and the third
he kills"
CHAPTER xI1-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.
The preacher dropped a quick look
at the weapon.
"Gun," he repeated, with a mite of
hesitation that escaped the others
sis that what you call them? The man
who sold it to me called it a revolver.
/ do wonder If he sold me a second
hand one"
The old banker laughed-raspy rau-
cous.
Cheated a-plenty, parson. This
Dolly Varden cannon O. your'n has
seen service, r l amt no judge of six
guns"
do you mean that it will not
shoot?" the preacher asked in anxious
tones.
Lord, mol" the banker returned
sit would drop a man in is tracks,
but they cheated y'u if they sold it to
y'u FIR new"
Texie handed the weapon back to
it's owner. He thrust it awkwardly
into the holster and stood fumbling
the belt, wrong side out, around his