The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-01-29
SYNOPSIS
Copyright by W. G. Chapman.
WNU Service

SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER Lee Anderson, Royal
Canadian Mounted Police sergeant, is
sent to Stony range to arrest q man
named Pelly for murder. He is also
instructed to look after Jim Railway,
reputed head of the Free Traders
illicit liquor At Little Falls
he finds Pelly is credited with havin
found a gold mine, and is missing.
CHAPTER II.-At the hotel where
Anderson stops, a girl, obviously out
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
saston Lake, which is also Anderson's
objective. He overtakes her and the
two men with whom he had troubls
the night before.
CHAPTER IV.-Pierre 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, ssnseless.
CHAPTER v.-Recovering conscious
ness, Anderson finds the girl has dis
evidently nurriediy u from her head
where it had been caught by her fall
ing horse, assures him she is alive
and kshorty.;" On foot he makes his
way 70 Siston Lake. hn<Ss
companion of the d&y before. and
Railway. with a girl. Estelle, a former
sweetheart OF Anderson's, who. had
wrecked his life. Railway strikes Es-
telle, and after a fight Anderson, with
Estelle's help, escapes with the girl.
CHAPTER vL-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 her name is Joyce Pelly and
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 ar
unseen adversary, whom he. takes t.
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
sion of Father McGrath.
The glare a been only in contrast
to the dark of the tunnel. Outside II
was melancholy twilight. Lee emerged
into a solitary, %snoWbOund world
There was no sign Of his antagonist
uwho had evidently had enough for the
present.
Lee looked down at the fragments
of shirt that remained to him, expect
ing to find himself soaked in blood
He was astonished to see only a thin
thread on his chest. He tore the rag
open.
There was only a scratch on the
skin from the knife-point, but there
was a spreading bruise-under the
thick coils of Joyce's hair, in which
the knife blade had become entangled,
The blow, struck Immediately over
the heart, would have killed him in
stantly but for that. Lee raised the
tresses %reverently to his lips. And
with a deep feeling of tenderness
toward the girl, he began to make his
%ay through the twilight toward the
log house. I
He was torn etwee apprehension
for her and speculation as to his assaii.
ant. His first thought had been that
the nan was Pelly, But 0 ne be-
gan to doubt this. An old man might
have had his assailant's strength-he
would not have had the endurance.
But stronger still was the conviction
that that monstrous form which had
attacked him in the shaft could never
have been the father of Joyce.
Yet who but Pelly knew the secret
of the miner
The problem was at present insol-
nble, but it's consideration brought
with it the fear that Joyce might have
been attacked as well. Lee ~quickened
his footsteps through the storm,
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which was now subsiding, though the
snow still fell steadily. He blamed
himself bitterly for having left the
girl. Surely the strength of that love
and tenderness he felt toward her
would reach her, and she would
respond! =
And he planned what he would say
TO her. He would advise her that IT
was improbable that her father would
receive anything but a nominal SEN
tence. that he might even go free, thai
in the absence of witnesses a convic-
ton might prove impossible. His best
course would be to surrender. Lee
began TO grow more hopeful.
The log house came into sight,
standing bare and bleak In the snowy
wilderness. There was no light within.
Lees alarm increased. He hurried
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