Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-03-20
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER Lon the banks Of the
wabash stand Texie Colin and Jack
Marhope. young and very much In love.
Simon, rich man and money lender.
Jack 10 the orphan bound boy OF Pap
Simon. who had foreciosed q mortgage
and Jack talk sadly OF Ken Colin. the
girls missing brother. Then Jack says
that In ten days his servltude will be
over. that he VIII 70 to CALIFORNIA for
the Milford stage comes In. bringing
Rev Caleb Hopkins, the new minister
OF Buckeye In the Fiatwoods.
CHAPTER u.--simon Colin welcomes
che minister and introduces the VII
layers The preacher In q young man
neck stock and patent leather boots.
&c, CHAPTER In.--A, supper q, the
ken's roommate at college. tells how
peared, His father attributes Ken's
nS S% rsSs e rom ms !f s.s poc co II e'
pirate In the days Of Elisabeih. Then
Rs" 1s ~ IN f ssr t wSo
curses hts father on his death bed. a
postscript BY another hand says he
CHAPTER Iv--At the village store
and postofiice I.oge Belden newcomer
arm around To- s jack .laps " him. M
ticks him. shoots q pistol from his hand
and makes him say he was mistaken.
CnAPTBR v.--Tns parson goes sein-
ing on the river with Jack and others
voiver. The party runs across a hid-
den houAeboat Jack discovers that the
parsons boot nts q footprint on the
dusty deck.
CHAPTER vI.--An the villagers
gather AZ festival In the schooihouse.
INVITES. He attacks Jack with a knife
JACK knocks him nat, but receives an
rnlmportant wound In the shoulder.
points tSs door The r.. rsgsn Sos sna
goes out and disappears
CHAPTER vII.--Jack, working In a
neld, sees the desperado OF the festival
watshinE him from behind q log. lie
den and his sister live
CHAPTER vIII.--Jsck tells Pap 81.
mon who has boon good to him. that
he's going to California to and gold to
buy back the old homestead. He tells
Texie OF HIS love for her--in all but
:, CHAPTER Ix,--A counterman and
agree that the festival desperate 10
Black Bogus. a eounterfelter and bad
man wanted by the sheriff, that he IL
they are planning to rob S'I Pap Simon snA'
1n,ArTER x.--Jaek trail. /. nigh,
Spring. calls out the preacher with an
owl boot and hands him . small pack
age
CHAPTER Kiln the forest Jennie
belden warns Jack that his life is In
DANGER from three men and the third
no kills."
CHAPTER xu.-pap simon looks
ever the papers In his safe and adj.
dresses an envelope 60 Jack warhope
not TO be opened TIL his twenty flr.t
birthday" TeSie. Jack and the preacher
10 riding.
CHAPTER xIII--Texi. and Jack
show their skiI with a pistol. The
preacher takes great pains 60 prove he
can't hlt nock OF barn doorA Jack
sees face at the window OF haunted
, CHATTER xIv.--Jsek sees Black
Bogus handle counterfeit money IN the
haunted cabin and pass II to the
preacher at Whispering Spring where
the two men talk OF Pap simon and
Is given and the old money lender is
found dead In hts once Dlaarranged
furniture and the old mans scratched
,S sss 5eh az o. ss5rnSsls' but the safe Is
Ing and solves the mystery
Twilight had put the woods to sleep
when Jack warhope rode back to the
homestead FROM trailing the stage, lie
groomed his horse. foul with sweat and
sand fed him and went straight to his
cabin. BEFORE lifting the latch he
stopped moment and. with slow
sweep OF his eyes. sifted the gathering
shadows.
The foothills away across on the
plains were already hiding under "a,
able wings Of the south; q sinuous
lighter streak marked where the river
trimmed the bottoms; the red flare ~
The spent day family spangled the
west the woods breathed softly; hard.
" pulse stirred the apple blossoms;
out OF the silence came the tinkle OF
the spring under the elf tapping down
the sulphurstalned gutter on its way
10 the harn-lot and cattle pens.
He allied his lungs full OF the serene
evening; entered the door; closed and
fastened Il with unusual care. drew
the blinds Of the two small windows
and lighted his candle.
What TO do with the bundles OF mon.
eyf A key TO the dead bankers safe
he did not have. even II he could have
found the chance TO open Il and put
them back. He took the thick bundles
out Of his blouse pockets and began TO
count them. They totaled exactly three
thousand Ave hundred eighty dollars
one hundred seven twenties and one
hundred forty-four tens The woods
mans eyes lifted at the amount. Such
a sum In ave nlghts--it showed what
Hopkins might have done In time.
But what 20 do with itt-the man
bent his brows over the problem. I,
Is only Just TO him-and the blood
that was In hlm--to state that Il never
30 much as crossed him that he nigh,
keep u. with probably nobody ever
the wiser.
In WINS too late 20 take it hack 70 the