Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 9, 1922, Page 2

‘{HE BEMIDJI DAILY FiONEER T SYNOPSIS I — ' FOREWORD.—Motoring _thro f‘ Art- f0na, & y of easterners, father and a male companion, stop to witness a cattle round up. The girl leaves the car &nd is attacked by & wild steer, A masterplece of riding on the part of Sne of the cowboys saves her life. CHAPTER L—Clay Lindsay, range-rider on an Arizona ranch, announces his inten- tion to visit the “big town,” New York. CAAPTER IL—On the train Lindsay Dbecomes Interested in & young Woman, Kitty Mason, on her way to New York to bacome & ‘motion-picture actress. She marxed as fair prey by & fellow trav- Jorey "Durand, gang politiclan and _prize fighter. Percliving his intention, Lindsa, g;uvoku & quarrel and throws Duraud from the train. CHAPTER IIL—On his fivet day {n New York Lindsay is splashed with water by & Janitor, 'hat individual the range- rider punishes summarily and leaves tied to a fire hydrant. A young woman who sees the occurrence invites Clay into her house and hides him fimm the police. CHAPTER 1V.—Clay's “rescuer’ intro- @uces herself as Beatrice Whitford. Lind- say meets her father, Colin ‘Whitford, and Invited to visit them again. He meets itty Mason by accident. Bhe has been disappointed in her stage aspirations, and 1o support herself is selling clgarettes in & cabaret. Clay visits her there. HAPTER_V.—Kitty is insulted by & Chmor CXCiay punishes the annoyer. y mixup Lindsay escapes. Outside, he is attacked by Jerry Durand and a companion and beaten insensible. APTER VI.—Lindsay's acquaintance Wil eatrice Whitford. rpens. Through her he is introduced into “society.” His “side partner” on the Arizona ranch, Jonnnle Green, comes to the “blg town. CHAPTER VIL.—The two take an apal mept together, Johnnle securing emplo: ment. at the Whitford's as "handy man.” y An advertisement signed “Kitty M." con- veys the information that she 1s in trou- ble and implores Lindsay to come to a eertain ‘ house - where she is imprisoned. Clay s _dublous as to its authenticity, but finally decides to-go. He makes his way .into’ what he supposes is the right Touse and finds himself in & young wom- an’s :bedroom. __ (Continuag_from iast_insue) The man from Arizona did not am- swer and. dld not stop. He knew that shooting from above Is an art that few men ‘have acquire-. ‘A bullet sang past his ear just as he swung; in anl crouched on the window- sill. _Another one hit the bricks close to his head. The firing stopped. A pair of uni- formed legs appeared dangling from the eaves. ‘A body and a head fol- lowed .these. They.began to descend Jerkily. Clay took a turn at the gun-play. He fired his revolver into the air. The spasmodi¢ jerking of the blue legs abruptly ceased. “Yuh'd better give up quietly. We're bound to get yuh,” an officer shouted from the roof by way of parley. The cattleman did not answer ex- cept by the smashing of glass. He had forced his way into two houses within the past hour. He was now busy breaking Into a third. The window had not ylelded to pressure. Therefore he ‘was knocking out the glass with the butt of his revolver. He crawled through the opening Just as some one sat up in bed with a frightened exclamation. “Who—Is—s—s—s it?" a mascullne volce asked, teeth chattering. Clay had no. thme to gratify ldle curlosity. He ran through the room, reached the head of the stalrs and went down on the banister to the first floor. He fled back to the rear of the house and stole out by the kitchen door. The darkness of the alley swallowed him, but he could still hear the shouts of the men on the roof and answering ones from new arrivals below. . Five minutes later he was on board a street car. He was not at all par- ticular as to its destination. He want- ed to be anywhere but here. This neighborhood was getting entirely too actlve for him, CHAPTER IX The Gangnan Sees Red. Exactly thirty minutes after Clay had left him to break Into the house, Johnnle lifted his voice in a loud wail for the police. He had read some- where that one can never find an officer when he is wanted, but the Bull-of-Bashan roar of the cowpuncher brought them running from all direc- tions. Out of the confused explanations of the range-rider the first policeman to reach him got two lucid statements. “They're white-slavin’ a straight girl. This busher says his pal went In to rescue her half an hour ago and hasn’t showed up since,” he told his mates. ‘With Johnnie bringing up the rear they made a noi: ttack on the front door of Number 121. Almost immedi- ately it was opened from the inside. Four men had come down the stairs in a headlong rush to cut off the es- cape of one who had outwitted and taunted them. ‘Those who wanted to get in and those who wanted to get out-all tried to talk’ at’ once, but as soon as the 508 recognized Jerry Durand they Copyright by Willam MacLeod Rasne . o gave him the floor. " “We're after a flat-worker,” ex- plained the ex-pugilist. “He must be tryin’ for a roof getaway.” He turned and led the jolnt forces batk up the stairs. Thugs and officers surged up -after him, carrying with them in their rush the Runt. He presently found himself on the roof with those engaged in a man-hunt for his friend. When Clay shattered the window and disappeared ingide after his escape from the roof, Johnnie gave a deep sigh of relfef. This gun-play got on his nerves, since Lindsay was the target of it. The bandy-legged range-rider was still trailing along with the party ten minutes later when its scattered mem- bers drew together in tacit admission that the hunted man had escaped. The gang leader was in a vile tem- per. If this story reached the news- papers all New York would be laugh- ing at him. He could appedl to the police, have Clay Lindsay arrested, and get him sent up for a term on the charge of burglary. But he could not do it without the whole tale coming out. One thing Jerry Durand could not stand was ridicule. His vanity was one of his outstanding qualities, and he did not want it widely known that the boob he had intended to trap had turned the tables on him, man- handled him, jeered at him and locked him In a room with his three hench- men. Johnnie Green chose this malapropos momient for reminding the officers of the reason for the coming to the house. “What about the young lady?” he asked sollcitously. Durand wheeled on him, looked him over with an Insolent, malevolent eye, and jerked a thumb in his direction. “Who is this guy?” “He's the fellow tipped us off his pal was .inside,” answered one of the pa- trolmen. He spoke in a whisper close to the ear of Jerry. “Likely he knows more than he lets on. Shall I make a pinch?” 5 The eyes of the gang leader nar- rowed. “So he's a friend of this sec- ond-story bird, Is he?” “Y'betcha!” chirped up Johnnie, “and I'm plumb tickled to take his dust, too. Now, about this yere young lady—" Jerry caught him hard on the side of the jaw with a short-arm jolt. The range-rider hit the pavement hard. Slowly be got to his feet nursing his cheek. “What yuh do that for, doggone it?" he demanded resentfully. *“Me, I wasn't lookin' for no trouble. Me, - Durand leaped at him across the sidewalk, His strong fingers closed on the throat of the bow-legged puncher, The officers pried Jerry loose from his victim with the greatest difficulty. He tried furiously to get at him, lunging from the men who were hold- Ing his arms. The puncher sank helplessly against the wall, “He’s got all he can carry, Mr. Du- rand,” one of the bluecoats said, sooth- Ingly. “You don't wantta croak the little guy. Gimme the word, an’ I'll run him in for a drunk.” Jerry shook his head. him go, Pete.” The policeman walked up to the Runt and caught him roughly by the arm. “Move along outa here. I'd ought to pinch you, but I'm not gonna do It this time, see? You beat it!" Durand turned to one of his follow- ers. “Tall that fellow. Find out where he's stayin' and report.” Helplessly Johnnie went staggering down the street. He did not under- stand why he had been treated-so, but the instinct of self-preservation car- ried him out of the danger zone with- out argument about it. Even as he wobbled away he was looking with un- wavering faith to his friend to right his wrongs. Clay would fix this fel- low Durand for what he had doune to him, e e e s s s e Clay did his best under the handicap of a lack of entente between him and the authorities to search New York for Kitty. He used the personal col- umns of the newspapers, - He ‘got in touch with taxicab drivers,.ticket-sel- lers, postmen, and station guards. All the time he knew that in such’®“maze as Manhattan it would be a miracle if he found her. But miracles are made possible by miracle-workers. The Westerner was a sixty-horse-power dynamo of energy. e felt responsible for Kitty ana he gave himself with single-minded devo- tion to the job of discovering her. When Clay met Kitty at last it was quite by chance. As it happened, Bea- trice was present at the time. He had been giving a box party at the Empire. The gay little group was gathered under the awning outside the foyer while the limousine that was to “Nope. Let take them to Shanley’s for supper was | ! gists.—Adv. being called. Colln Whitford, looking out Tnto the raln that pelted tered an exclamatory “By Jové Clay turned to him inquiringly. “A woman was looking out of that doorway at us,” he sald. “If she’s not in deep water I'm a bad guesser. I thought for a moment she knew me or some one of us. She started to reach out her hands and then shrank back.” ‘#Young or old?” asked the cattle- man, “Young—a girl.” ' “Excuse me.” The host was off in an Instant, almost on the run. But the woman had gone, swallowed In the semidarkness of a side street. Clay followed. Beatrice turned to her father, eye- brows lifted. There was a moment’s awkward silence. “Mr. Lindsay will be back pres- ently,” Whitford sald. “We'll get in and wait for him out of the way a lit- tle farther up the street.” ‘When Clay rejoined them he talked in a low volce with Beatrice’s father. The mining man nodded agreement and Lindsay turned to the others. “I'm called away,” he explained aloud. “Mr. Whitford has kindly prom- ised to play host in my place. I'm right sorry to leave, but it's urgent.” His grave smile asked Beatrice to be charitable in her findings. The eyes she gave him were coldly hostile. He knew Beatrice did not and would not understand. (Continued in Next Issze) NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY Adult Fiction The Isle of Seven Moons, by Robt. Anderson, Saint Teresa, by Henry S. Harri- son. Vandemark’s Quick. The Vehement Flame, by Margaret Deland. Folly, by Herbert Non-Fiction Americanization of Edward Bok, by Edward Bok. Mirrors of Washington, Ahony- mous. Memories of Eighty Chauncey M. Depew. Juvenile Non-Fiction The Golden Deed, The Golden Word, The Golden Ladder, The Gold- en Key, The Golden Door, The Gold- en Path, all by Sneath. Woodland Tales, by Ernest T. Se- ton, How Our Grandfathers Lived, by Bushnell. ¢ Colonial Children, by Bushnell. 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