The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17
Continued from last week.
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER lon the banks of ths
Wabash stand Texie Colin and Jack
Warhope, young and very much in love.
Texie is. the only daughter of old Pap
Simon, rlch man and money-IenGer
Jack is the orphan bound boy of Pap
Simon, who had foreclosed a mortgage
on the Warhope estate. At first Texie
and Jack talk sadly of Ken Colin, the
girls missing brother. Then Jack avs
that in ten days his servitude will be
over, that he will go to California for
gold and that he will come back. Then
the Milford stage comes in, bringing
Rev. Caleb Hopkins, the new minister
OF Buckeye. in the Flatwoods.
CHAPTER III.-At supper at the
Colin home the preacher. who had been
ken's roommate at college, tells how
the boy killed a gambler and disap-
fall from grace to his red lock Of hair,
an INHERITANCE from Red Colin" a
pirate in the days of Elizabeth. Then
brought on by reading a letter from
Ken, Somewhere in New York" who
curses his father on his death bed. A
postscript by another hand says he
CHAPTER W.-At the village store
and postofice Loge Belden, a newcomer,
arm around Texie. Jack slaps him,
ticks him, shoots a pistol from his hand
and makes him say he was mistaken.
CHAPTER V.-The parson goes sein-
ing on the river with Jack and others.
Jack discovers the parson carries a re-
volver. The party runs across a hid
den houseboat. Jack discovers that the
parsons boot fits a footprint on the
dusty deck.
CHAPTER Wall the villagers
gather at a festival in the schoolhouse.
A drunken stranger disturbs the fes-
t~ivities. He attacks Jack with a knife.
Jack knocks i'm fiat, but receives an
unfmportant wound in the shoulder.
The preacher faces the desperate and
points to the door. The rufian. cowed,
goes out and disappears.
CHAPTER VII.-Jack, working in a
field, sees the desperate of the festival
watching aim from behind a log. He
trails the man to the cabin where Bel
den and his sister live.
CHAPTER vIII.-Jack tells Pap ST.
mon. who has been good to him, that
hes going to California to find 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,
agree that the festival desperate is
man wanted by the sheriff. that he is
harborin' with Loge Belden and that
they are planning to rob Pap Simon.
CHAPTER X.-Jack trails a night
prowler, who goes to Whispering
Spring, calls out the preacher with an
owl boot and hands him a small pack
age.
CHAPTER Kiln the forest Jenni
Belden warns Jack that his life is in
danger from three men and the third
'bides his time an when he strikes
he kills"
CHAPTER XII.-Pap Simon looks
over the papers in his safe and adj
dresses an envelope to Jack Warhope
mot to be opened till his tw~enty-frst
birthday" Texie, Jack and the preacher
go riding.
CHAPTER XIII.-Texie and Jack
show their skill with a pistol. The
preacher takes great pains to prove he
can't hit a flock of barn doors. Jack
sees a face at the window of a haunted
cabin.
Bogus handle counterfeit money in the
haunted cabin and pass it to the
preacher at Whispering Spring. where
the two men talk of Pap Simon and
his money. Shortly after, the alarm
is given and the old money-lender is
found dead In his Office. Disarr2nged
furniture and the old mans scratched
face tell of a struggle, but the safe is
locked. Jack does his own investigat-
ing and solves the mystery
CHAPTER Xv.-Jack faces the
preacher in his study and tells him
what he knows. The preacher draws
his pistol only to find himself covered.
disgorge the good money for which
counterfeit has been substituted. He
does not accuse the preacher of intend
ing to- kill Pap Simon: but escorts him
to the stage. forces him to leave town
n warns him not to come back.