The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-11-11
THE STORY

CHAPTER with her baby sis
ter, Patience, Lydia returns from
play to the untidy home of her i'm
poverished father, Amos Dudley, a
Lake City. Her fathers friend, and
her W devoted admirer, John LIE
vine, after discussing affairs witt
Dudley, makes up his mind to &c
into politics.
CHAPTER II. = Lydia, Patience
and a companion, Kent Moulton
playing by the lake, are ~accosteC
by an old squaw from the nearby
reservation. Lydia gives her food
Margery, small daughter of DaY
Marshall, the towns banker, Joins
them. In their play Margery falls
into the water. She is pulled out
unhurt but frightened, n taken
home by Lydia and Kent. Her ia
Their calls on Amos TO complain
blaming Lydia for the mishap.
CHAPTER III.-Lydia explains
the accident and asserts that be
cause Margery is considered stuck
up she is not a popular playmate,
Marshall arranges for Lydia to
teach Margery to swim and other
wise become zone of the crowd"
Levine tells Amos his plan to take
timber from the Indian reservation
and ultimately have ii opened for
settlement.
CHAPTER ". Patience sue
oumbs to an attack of diphtheria,
leaving Lydia feeling hat her trust
in God is lost and her small world
has collapsed. She finds comfort in
the loving kindness of John Lee
vine. Lydia learns that a note Of
Amos, backed by Levine and held
by Marshall, is due and cannot be
met. The child pleads with Mar
shall, and for her sake he agrees to
renew the note.
CHAPTER V.-Grieving for h
loss of little Patience, Lydia's health
fails. Levine, understanding the
situation, gives her a pup, which
Reaching the age of fifteen, Lydia
enters high school, where she at
once realizes that her homemade
frock and general appearance of
poverty set her apart from her bet
ter-dressed companions.
CHAPTER .VL.-Levine 1. elected
sheriff. A sixteen-year-old Indian
boy, Charlie Jackson, tells Lydia of
numerous wrongs done his people,
mainly by Marshall and Levine.
Lydia defends her friend vigorous
ly. Meeting LeYine in Lydia's house,
Charlie Jackson threatens and en-
beavers to attack him.
CHAPTER VII.-Levine is shot by
an unseen assassin. Recuperating
st the Dudley cottage, he learns
the real extent of Lydia's loneliness
and her shaker faith in God. The
man and girl enter into a compact
to start q search for Cod togeth-
ar. Levine, recovered, begins his
campaign for congress.
CHAPTER VIII.-Lydia is unable
to drive the hatred of Levine from
|Charlie's heart, and despite herself
Der faith in her old friend is sha-
ken by the young Indians stories.
Levine has long realized that de-
spite their disparity in age he is
pRssionately in love with the young
Sirl.
CHAPTER IX.-Leyine is trium-
plant In his campaign for congress.
Lydia earns enough money selling
fudge to go camping with Charlie,
Kent, Margery and two school
friends, Gustus Bach and a girl
named Olga. Miss Towne chaperons
them.
CHAPTER X. II Walking with
Kent in the woods, Lydia witnesses
a meeting of Levine and some half
breeds. Their conversation con-
vinces Lydia that Charlie has been
right in accusing Levine of plot
ting to rob the Indians.
CHAPTER XI-A visit from the
|old squaw whom Lydia had be-
ffriended long ago causes Charlie to
tell more of Marshall's and Levine's
|thievery. Lydia promises to talk to
Levine. Billy Norton makes a boy
Iish proposal of marriage to Lydia.
|who repulses him. In her talk with
Levine the man AYERS his methods
Ere lawful II really best for the
INDIANS. The girl is only half con
fvinced.