The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-03-05
SYNOPSIS
Copyright by w. G. Chapman.
WNU Service

SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER Lee Anderson, Royal
Canadian Mount Police sergeant. Is
sent to Stony range to arrest a man
Instructed to look after Jim Railway,
teputed head of the Free raiders
illicit liquor runners: At Little Falls
he finds Pelly Is credited with having
found a gold mine, and is missing.
CHAPTER u.-At the hotel where
Anderson stops, a girl, obviously, out
of place in the rough surroundings,
appears. A halfbreed whom Anderson
hears called Pierre, and a companion,
shorty" annoy the girl. Anderson In
terferes. earning the enmity of the two
men.
CHAPTER III.-The girl sets out for
ssston Lake, which is also Andersonls
objective. He overtakes her and the
two men with whom he had troubls
the night before.
CHAPTER Iv.-Pisrre and Shorty"
ride on, Anderson and the girl follow
ing. In the hills the road is blown up,
before and behind the two; Anderson.
mountain side, senselsss.
CHAPTER v.-Recovering conscious
ness, Anderson finds the girl has dis
appeared, but the finding of her hair;
evidently hurriedly cut from her head
where 1t had been caught by her fall
Ing morse, assures MIN snS is AilNe
and kshorty." On foot he makes his
companion Of the day before, n
sweetheart of Anderson's, who had
abused his confidence and practically
wrecked his life. Railway strikes Es-
telle, and after a fight Anderson, with
Estelle's help, escapes with the girl.
CHAPTER vI-Anderson's .compan-
Ions mind is clouded and she Is suffer
Ing with a dislocated knee. Anderson
sets the knee.
CHAPTER vII.-Memory of her past
life practically gone, even to the extent
of remembering her NAME, Anderson
and his companion go on.
CHAPTER VIII.-The two plan to
make their way to a Moravian mission,
of which Father McGrath has charge.
Their experiences and their mutual
danger have naturally drawn them to-
gether, and their acquaintance ripens
into mutual love.
CHAPTER Ix.-The girl remembers
that she is the daughter of the man
Anderson has been sent to arrest,
Torn between her love for her father
and her regard for Anderson, the girl
practically drives him from her.
CHAPTER Kin the forest Ander-
son stumbles upon the entrance to a
gorge. He investigates and is con-
WINGED he has located Pelly's mine
In a rude tunnel he is attacked by an
unseen adversary, whom he, takes te
be Pelly. A knife thrust which would
have been fatal is turned aside by the
girls hair in his blouse. Escaping, he
returns to- the cabin, to find joyce
gone. He follows her trail to the mis-
sion of Father McGrath.
CHAPTER XI.-McGrath repulses
him, but Joyce feels her love return
and welcomes him. Her memory has
been in a measure restored. Lee visits
the mine again, finding there the grave
of a woman, marked Helene Pelly,"
and the skeleton CT a man clutching a
revolver on which are the letters &c
p" without doubt Joyce's father.
CHAPTER XII.-Anderson is again
attacked by his adversary Of the day
before. From words dropped by Joyce
Lee recognizes his assailant as "Le-
b%oeuf," halfbreed, n Pelly's devoted
friend. The finding of Joyce's hair in
Anderson's blouse convinces Leboeuf
ne is not an enemy
xIII-Anderson breaks
the news of her fathers death to Joyce,
the girls sorrow being greatly less
ened by the fact that the uncertainty
of his fate is ended, and also that Lees
duty in the case is ended. Father Nc
Grath agrees to marry the couple.
CHAPTER XIV.-The marriage takes
place, and almost Immediately Rath'
way appears and claims Joyce as his
wife. The girls mind clears enough
for her to remember that, to save her
father, whom Railway had threatened
to betray, she had gone through a
ceremony with him in Montreal. Rath-
ways claim is beyond dispute, and
Lee, heartbroken, surrenders her.
CHAPTER Xv.-In the cabin Joyce
desperately repulses Railways ad-
vances. He overpowers her. and shs
calls to Lee to save her.
CHAPTER XV1.-Hearing the call
of the woman he loves, Anderson
bursts into the cabin. Railway and
his gang verpower him. Railway
agrees to surrender his claim to Joyce
if Anderson will reveal the location of
the mine. Lee agrees and shows the
way. In the mine they find a sack
filled with gold which Pelly had dug
Railway attempts to murder Ander-
son, throwing him into an under
ground stream. Leboeuf saves him.
CHAPTER XVTI.-With the gold, and
Joyce, Railway considers making his
escape without dividing the spoils with
his companions.