The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-02-26
SYNOPSIS

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CHAPTER Lee Anderson, Roya
Canadian Mounted Police sergeant, II
sent to Stony range to arrest a mar
PANIED Pelly for murder. He is also
Instructed to look after Jim Railway
Ieputed head Of the Free Traders,
illicit liquor n At Little Falls
be finds Pelly is credited with having
found a gold mine, and is missing.
CHAPTER II-At the hotel whers
Anderson stops, a girl, obviously out
OF place in the rough surroundings
appears. A halfbreed whom Anderson
Pears 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 Anderson's
objective. He overtakes her and the
the night before.
CHAPTER Iv.-Pierre and Shorty
fioe on, Anderson and the girl follow
ing. In the hills the road is blown up,
before and behind the two. Anderson.
with his horse, is hurled down the
mountain side. senseless.
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 horse, assures him she is alive
and ER%Trobably, in ths power Of Pierre
way to Siston Lake. There he nnds his
companion OF the day before, and
PATHWAY, with a girl, Estelle. a former
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 her name is Joyce Pelly and
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. lie investigates ana 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
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 mar clutching a
revolver on which are the letters &C.
p" without doubt Joyce's father.
CHAPTER XII.-Anderson is gail
attacked by his adversary of the day
before. From words dropped by Joyce
Lee recognizes his assailant as Lee
6oeuf" halfbreed, n Pelly's devoted
friend. The finding of Joyce's hair in
Anderson's blouse convinces Leboeut
ne Is not an enemy.
CHAPTER 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
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 ave her
father, whom Railway had threatened
to betray, she had gon through a
ceremony with him in Montreal. Rath-
ways claim is beyond dispute, and
Lee, h~eartbroken, surrenders her.
CHAPTER xv.-1n the cabin Joyce
desperately repulses Railways ad-
vances. He ~overpowers her, and shs
calls to Lee to save her.
CHAPTER XVI.-Hearing the call
of the woman he loves, Anderson
bursts into the cabin. Railway and
his gang overpower 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 IN under
ground stream. Leboeuf saves him.
CHAPTER XVII.-With the gold, and
Joyce, Railway considers making his
escape without dividing the spoils with
his companions.