Show V LAS V r T a sam a r L U M B L AN D S L ky t I 1 got JT NOVELIZED FROM THE MOTION PICTURE iture SERIAL OF THE SAME NAME PRO EDUCED D ED BY THE SIGNAL FILM CORP COR SYNOPSIS rupert holmes it a lumberman ot of the he north woods d disappointed is nt at bece mInK tho the fal her or of a d daughter a I 1 ter instead of a sn em s n abanil na hla hill wife slid and child to lo the IOK fi ni cd river thinking them dead he lol 1 in ilea e himself zelf with tile aber tr trust head whose daughter dauB liter lie he marries but the do de period difo and baby are arc picked up tip anil cored for by one luv dav dawson twenty yearn later rupert Tt hulmes Is tile ho lumber luin ler tigh fighting ting the In independents depend ar around oun I 1 him mm lilt ills daughter helen animo wn to men him has brought herse heri elf if to hla hito at tent I 1 on by several heroic acts acta about tio tho ramps campa khe elle takes up a tight fight azat aist the lust antl and leads tile the i in n th ir defenses against the gibout amalgamated which fecks to absorb their liard hard prop artles in this Is 13 by tom dawson a younk young engineer and her ber foster father dave dawson discovers cliot tho the trust la Is not living up to their charter and she cha proceeds aga against ur ast thern them the tha village council resigns to balk her tut but she helps elect another ru laupert rt 1101 holmes mes trivets hla his abandoned wife ife clr rw 1 I ia whom he has thought dead da a it and I 1 lot laanna ms that his own daughter Is ie elgh ILI n 9 h liaro m in an attempt attorn pt to bicili g he re renders ders her rn an invalid but sit eho tella 11 tho truth th about holmes to little D bear the indian boy bar the f fonca n t a hum union the independent camps ca 0 in a riol tho t buildings ail edings ore are burned 10 lo m ea ag agent ent releases rele asea a car of explosive against the independent lumber train but it Is stopped by the heroic act of helen holmes llo linca tends ends r tits his son BOH stephen n to win helen to the th ai alile ot of the trust but 11 t the boy falls in love with the girl ills father sends mm him away little dear bear confronts con fronta gifol in 43 with A threat and dill turns up to add ma bla enmity enn 1 try helen learns from her dying mother thet she he Is 13 If olmes daughter I 1 bolmes orders ordera wa lila marriage records be tolen and destroyed torn tom dawson and helen finally recover the papers but water has rendered them worthless TENTH EPISODE dollar normea was in a dilemma at the ante of construction just reported to him by jim jhn behrens ill chief of crooked diplomacy tile lie ll imler road for construction of which ile had been compelled to issue notes voting more than a quarter of a million dollars would be completed to shady creek by the sixteenth of flit month this state of dill did not suit stilt the scheming book at all for so far ns as actual redy ready cash was concerned berned ho he and not tile money find and hel ho was wolf well cuare that the Daw dagons dawsons Da sons I 1 holding paper would demand tm im ined late payment nent with n quiet quick nervous gesture Res turo foreign to its his usually taciturn habit dign turned lit n his chair and past IL d BH an electric button find behrens Hoh rens he snapped as the expressionless face of tits ills secretary speared ppe ared lit in ill the dobrai doorway ity get him here 11 the lumber chief was still nibbling savagely inva lava gely at tho the cold butt of his its black elgar cigar when slouched in ili ive had enough of tills till four flush ing over the chady thady creek construe loci snarled II olmos its got to stop otye dye hear husir me got to t stop without tiny an now the answer well if you yon know tiny way to stop that gang working double shifts ui under ler i dawson unil und his gang of bosses with that internal nl girl helen dawson lecturing the shifty shifts as s they go out nut for lipped itlie vol why just rive give orders and well carry em cm out ont As for roe me I 1 dont bee le to he doop one dono roared 11 olmes rising fotu f nis chair kicking it back tire tho eillce wall and stamping up tip und end down the he floor like till nil angry bear dono you say why work up ill a strike ret get that hunch bunch off tile the aralle by hook or crook now we see here sir mr olmos Il later filter posed behrens nud arid there something in tits ills that indicated a contempt for the itha slave driving lumber baron which tall had only lately become n part of ills hla weve done ul oil your dirty work wark for four or five years mid ind not at man in the crowd haq hai be been en overpaid civility costs coats nothing noth ln remember were nil au in the same boat if it for that thai you and id part company right now I 1 guess fcc face becam elfrid with rage lie ile find recognized for some timo time a growing tendency ten dency on the ilia port part of behrens and hta his gang oi 01 thugs to resent lit lili treatment of them hut but so in grained was its his habit of abuse that 11 lie a with restrained himself from ritti the foreman who stood glaring at him defiantly arft enough of this growled the ning nae nate 1 I tell you weve got to get that gang off tho the work jeres it piece of news lint flint will probably do the trick ive just rec received elved a wire that struck pd bick gold up on eleven ahle kond and nil all kinds of hoboka hoboes are chasing in there with packs from fifty miles around all youve bouvo got giot to do Is to spread tho the news in dawsonoa Daw sona lili bhicks acts tind lie wont have a bilkers bil kers dozen on the ha work next morning so it came about that within willita twenty four hours houns Puw Daws sonn onti work shacks buzzed with excitement an anted version of the gold strike on oll eleven wile ulle had been circulated among them and the uneasiness of tho the men presaged trouble in vain dantion nud his bin son tom irom with helen eagerly OB no st sting tried tiled to stern tho title tide ily by twos and threes then by dozens find lastly tn in sc scores scored the graders threw flown tocas and started up tho the liver that settles it growled damaon BS as tho the lost half dozen ot 0 his band 91 started firtell away with their pay in their peir pock and somewhat fuimo fai faced expressions of regret at beuving leuv tui I 1 the works do you menn hint flint were going to give up helen tier her black eyes 3 blazing with finger why daddy da 1 weve only just begun it to fight that man dian behrens worked up this gold strike story for tile the purpose ut of blocking construction theres just ono one on cu awer to that get more anoro men IDi sold ald than done commented dawson sadly ton tom i cried helen what time will the lio mixed train leave tor for capitol city about nn an hour torn answered 1 well ordered tho ilia determined girl barl you be ready to go BO with nie inc dat duddy 14 aiho ill went on im going into capitol too TO get men well pondered the elder man its ICs well worth trying llelvan if it were nt not wed lia have e probably tossed ahli thing in tho the air long ngo ago well never quit snapped the girl when clelen and tom reached capitol city the streets were crowded with idle men they avre gathered in groups about tho the employment ago meles find anil loafing on the edges of 0 tho the walks C currea arry s agency was thu tho net nearest irest nt at hand into tills this office strode helen followed by toni tom tito tho wily little man imin behind the desk jumped to ills feet at helens demand for a hundred men hero was a flit commission suro sure I 1 lie I 1 e could got get them arid and would forthwith line thein up then snapped helen well have a work special really ready to run them out tonight three airty it adny and all tonal found ill ile he buck back in un on hour less than the hour lapsed elapsed before helen returned to look over tier hor gillie not it man wits MII in sight curry sat behind its ills desk his little eyes balf shut lie ile stared at I 1 eclea with a grin fi aln on ills ance where are the men she ehe dj ni uia udert 0 cant get bet em cm snorted tho the agent ti tile confers wont go BO out for three eltty oner offer them three five four doI dollars lars interrupted tho the young contractor currys carrys face broke into a broad cuilla i say ho he chuckled you hire tiny nien men from this for love r or money any 1 lind ind of money we I 1 cant ilo do business with you sou see sec ill gasped tom alies queered queerer thai deal helen turned without a word ord and left tho the onice office with tom tit nt ber heels on tile step outside site halted aho who vho vas avas the tall athletic looking youth v abing his liand hand and advancing toward her ile who but little bear son eon of I 1 lio ile of old chief black hear dear friend filand of tier her I 1 babyhood son ot of the man murdered in hl blind rage more than twenty years before by dollar the youns olang fellow wits was in football costume auw now it till benime plain little hear bear was as one oe of ilie HIB star football players of capitol at city university team learn nud find to today as the dm lay iny of the big game helen greeted the young follow heartily with a voice that bespoke her anxiety she related the ilia situation out on the grade her efforts to got get men still and the counter plotting of bolmes and hla his agents cm ie on oil to tire the gaine ill got get a box for you utter after that watch me ill get those men or blow up tile the old dev lla ills offices laughed little near benr it was vaa a smashing game agnine the big match of the year arid and little bear won it tor for tho the capitol city eleven kicking three goals fruin from tho the field he wits was tile tho popular hero it yas was lini immediately nedi after the match before the crowd had had bad to disperse that little bears plan was ns developed jumping into a box still in ills his ploy piny lui ing togs the young oung atti lete made mada n speech relating the di dilumina lemina of the lumbermen and calling tor for one hundred volunteers olun the crowd was thrilled one mail stepped forward then two or three together at last scores caught the infection and within a few minutes n hundred and fifty ruen men were rondy ready to board the train arata ut bt the wages offered tom dawsom rushed to the telegraph office with avith ia a brief message scrawled by helen wo we win it rend read get really ready for tomorrow in on special tonight airo 11 grunted 11 olmes as ho he perused tle message aalten oft doff tho the avire ft ire by one of his operator that abat means quick fiction for us ua lavo minutes later behrens was in ahr magu magnates ates s vt f ficq holmes was mas not excited now lit lie was lias coot cool and sharp us a steel timp get dearins Do artnes bunch of evits together oril ordered ered that gangs going no tl t on n special la at eight oc lack collect tho the outfit at sleepy hollow and you know tile rem past that train will have a block signal it at the hollow and you can pull the crew off let the gong walk back do em cm good dont stand tiny nonsense but no more than absolutely necessary get tile mo it batio long to get et Dearil left gang together it never did A linn grier or band of desperadoes never packed pa cited their that walli dan deuran Deur ln ono one tima strikebreaker strike breaker and private detect detective ly had surrounded blin self mounted on cow ponies the cation of train wreckers started tea sleepy bollow by n devious route dearing hinl had his instructions tho roads were bad though arid although they rodo rode hard dearing and his men arrived only just in thim t to 0 put their nc into execution id fact the special with its lond load of workmen was already ing for the he junction when dearing tied tits his pony to the platform ring an Ins instant trint later late nixon tho the agent stood with his buck back against ri a wall while the ho mock block signal atis sot set against at the work train on board tiro tho train helen riding with taij mci mc bell oll tho the engineer till no trouble was su tho the block signal sigi 1 I i int stop so the ilia train stopped out piled mcnell mcneil arid and tits his thu ilia latter staring into a pistol nu nuzzle izle ni as lit he lilt hit the gmund amund oil con can in hond A few feet awny away mcnell mcneil was similarly treated at that instant little bear who acius lit in charge of tho ilia work crew undo tonic ti it snapshot with lilt ills winchester 45 nt it dearing arid and neatly clipped wirt unit gentleman on the shoulder with a leadell beug thero there came a volley front from flit dearing gang aud alid two inen on flat eurs dropped tho the volley was returned by little ilear und and ills his men tilt alio lag log becoming ge general its aa the first following Dea ringa collapse wits was overcome then ilia train began to move slowly it crawled forward flit gabig of gunmen dismounting and running to catch tile side grips helen holmes vias tit nt the throttle with a wrench sho she threw tile lie lever ker wide open and dearin bearings Os gangsters gang were w ere either tossed from their heir holds or shot na as they hung on to drop lit in ito itch by the hie right of 0 way it win will some little fight helen her hair tons loois ami streaming out tit la in thArl howand hoWl nd ild tier her iran hand on oil tit tin lever tier her eyes blazing the cab in she lie stood rip spattered altered with bullets run irlin tho the gantlet to and then with a sl M 14 i of 0 set back on sent for tho the run to dawson Daws sitting lit in hi hn office recel word of lie iho flasco that hul halt followed ills his careful planning ills evil visage was inflamed with passion had helen been there then his knowledge flint sho wits was ills his own child would not have saved the young girl from tits his wroth wrath 1111 ito ho roared that d 1 d fool behrens ens if we ait oit ull all gu to 1 fe I 1 k 1 4 ea i 11 4 ji P I 1 ZA k ev X t holmead tic im e a receives news of the fiasco jall for this hits job it will he be no fault of ills what realized zed was that de spite pit nil all tits ills scheming Daw lawsons dawsons sons contract would probably protin bly bo be completed on time arid the lie notes lie ho wits unable to pity would lie pres presented elated tit t the capitol city bank for settlement on the six tt etli hut but to a man of II 11 olmes tempera anent discouragement wrist never prolonged within fifteen minutes lio lie vas casting about for some new plan to heat beat the dawsons lawsons Daw sons and as lio ito sat ent pondering tin nn idon iden came to lim film that caused his face to unil and in it a broad grin by 0 ill got get em yet hi he muttered jumping to ills his feet nud find rushing for the telegraph office allo 1110 a ninn man possessed posses sed of but onu one iden want the plan was that had restored the old plotters equanimity was not at once revealed lille tho the work train truan with its hilla dozen wounded men and it its 9 I 1 intrepid n young engineer elneer eu rolled safely into dawson belen was waa as billick us as a sweep with flying coal dust and toni tom dawson hr her blacker still nut but po no happier engine crew ever rolled into the town than this ono one wa was t helen was lliter lifted from the cab by strong armed men who literally wept over her jn in their pride tit nt her achieve benl tito tho now new gang thrilled by the young girls bravery declared to it a man that there would beno bo no letup let up until the shady crock creek grade was tin dished what did I 1 tell you 1 helen fig as dawson the elder ook oak tier hr in his bis arms but wait she we owe it all to little hear dear ile HD if 14 the ono one wo must thank for our trw crew little bear nann a smear of blood tram from n I 1 flesh wound in tits lila scalp marring une fado FA do of hh olive skinned grinned derisively tako take it from toe me lie clelen would move a Ino n 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