Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-01-02
By JACKSON GREGORY

woman ner cousin, POLLOCK Hampton,
his Job. Judith arrives and announces
she has bought Gray's share In the
ranch and will run It She discharges
Trevors.
CHAPTER 1.-THE men ON the
ranch dislike taking orders from a
snd s1ri Grnv,Dyx but by sundIinE vicious horse
Of ranch life, Judith wins the best OF
them over. Lee decides to stay.
CHAPTER III.-Convinced her vet.
srinarian. Bill Crowdy. IL treaoherous,
Judith discharges him. re-engaging an
old friend of her fathers. Doc. Trip.
with party Of friends. comes to the
ranch to stay permanently. Trsvors
accepts Hampton's invitation to visit
the ranch. Judith's messenger is held
up and robbed Of the monthly pay roll.
CHAPTER v-Bud Lee goes to the
M safely ''T with t. sSSSsh fsitRs e. h6r.s back IS
killed under him. Both he and judith
sSe,9r see Trsyors, hand in ths crime, Hog
eating the scene OF the holdup, climb
mountain, whore the robbsr must
have hidden.
plsntsd oissrinE a exotic: uaiti'. + nSGsi oGIsi-
ration. It 10 Lees. though he does not
say, SAY so; .nd They are ossd, nssd ON from am
the hrs, they make for the cabin. Here
they find Bill Crowdy wounded. Drag
cling him into the building. they nnd
messenger Besisged In the cabin, they
are compelled to stay all Night.
rench. becomes uneasy ct Judith's long
absence. With Tommy Burkitt ne goes
the attackers Of, and capturing one
CHAPTER vIIL-"shorty" escapes
from imprisonment in the grainhouse
cow CO. ne foreman. sn " Who % hsd him IN IN charge. Charge.
Lee begins to feel 0 fondness for Ju-
dith, though he rsalisss she is not his
womanly ideal. Maroia LenEworthy.
girl. 10 more to his taste.
CHAPTER Ix-The discovery is
made that pigeons. with hog cholera
stranger. Dick Donlsy. rsd-hsnded,
with an aoSomDiios a cowboy known
more pigeons to the ranoh.
CHAPTER x-At dance Judith
gives in honor Of Hampton's friends
recognized by one Of the party as an
old acquaintance, Dave Lee, once
wealthy but ruined by trusting false
makes such an appeal to Ls. that.
alone with her, he foroibly kisses her,
receiving the rsbuks deserved.
CHAPTER XI-Word is sent to Lee
that Quinnion has been casting slurs
on Judith's name because Of the night
ahe and Lee were together in the cal bin.
INA n,ai
worsts him in a nght and makes him
confess publicly he is liar. and agree
to leave the Vicinity.
CHAPTER xII.-Aftsr the kissing
incident Judith ignores Lee, who would
90 away, but nnds himself unable. Ju-
dith sees letter to Pollock Hampton
been connected, offering to buy a large
consignment Of cattle and horses at q
ridiculously low figure Hampton is
sas EFe o. out :udt Is sssuey Sf an sne
easy. In her absence Hampton decides
to accept the offer. Lac protests
strongly. He learns from Marcia Lang
gone to see her lawyers at San Fran
cisco. A telegram from her orders
Hampton to sell the stock at the price
offered. Lee refuses to accept the mos
viction forcing itself upon him that
Trsvors has kidnapped her and is hold
Ing her prisoner
CHAPTER XIII-Lee tells Carson
and Hampton Of his suspicious. Hamp-
ton jeers at the idea. In Judith's room
they And q note from Doc. Tripp ask
ing Judith to visit him, as he has been
shot and cannot come to the ranch.
They learn from Trip he has not been
Convinced now OF Judith's imminent
danger Lee sets out to find her.
CHAPTER xIv.-Judith finds herself
In q cave where she has been conveyed
after being kidnapped. She knows her
abductors are Trevors and Quinnion.
Treyors gives her , in charge Of De. ::
Catching Quinnion off his guard, Ju-
d!th escapes from the cave. She is
forced to descend the mountain, Quin-
MON pursuing and calling to Mad Ruth
TO intercept her at the bottom of the
clif
worn-out and nervous as Judith was,
the darkness seemed to harbor
thousand ugly things which watched
her and Knocked at her despair and
reached out vile hands toward her.
She called loudly, and for answer had
the crazed laugh of Mad Ruth which
foated in to her from without, but
which seemed to drop down from the
void above.
Judith, Judith" the girl whispered
after the first outburst, when she
found that she was shaking pitifully.
You've got to do better than this
I'm ashamed Of you"
She went back to her couch, where
she sat down seeking to hold her
jangling nerves in check. But, despite
her intention, she sat shaking, lis
tening, listening for even the
football Of her jaller.
When Ruth was with her she at
tempted in hundred ways to gauge
the woman's warped brain, to seek
some way to get the better Of her,
to gain her trust and so to slip away.
But she found that here was the u.s.
ual cunning born Of madness, and that
Ruth's one idea was to keep the girl
who had escaped her once but who
must never escape again. There were
times when suspicion awakened in
Ruth's mind, and she broke into vio-