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Show LUMBERLANDS by E. ALEYANDERPOWELL M VELIZED FROM THE MOTION Pcltl RE SERIAL OF THE SAME NAME. PRO- Br1 IED BY THE SIGNAL FILM CORP. pH LWM SYNOPSIS. Rupsrt Holmes, a lumberman of the H Nnrili Woods, disappointed at becoming H tha father of a daughter Instead of a aon. H abandons Ma wife and child to the log- B Jammed river. Thinking them dead, he al- H ilea himself with the lumber trust head, H whose daughter he marries. Hut the de- H err i.'il wife and baby are picked up and H oared for by on tave Dawson Twenty B years later Rupert Holmes Is the lumber - magvut fighting the Independents around H Mm. Ills daughter, Helen, unknown to H him, has brought herself to his attention H by several heroic acta about the camps B Hhe takes up a fight against the trust and H leads the Independents In their defenses BJ against the great Amalgamated which JHJBJ seeks to absorb their herd-earned prop- B si lies. In this Helen la assisted by Tom H Iawson, a young engineer, and her fostor H father, lime. Dawson. Helen discovers HH that the trust Is hot living up to their B charter and she proceeds against them. The village council resigns to balk her. JBJBJ but she helps elect another. Rupert Holmes meets his abandoned wife, Vlr- alula, whom he hss thought dead and JBJBJ learns that his own daughter Is fighting him. In an attempt to Mil Virginia he JjBJH renders her an Invalid, hut she tells the truth about Holmes to I .It tie Bear, thsln- dlan boy. The Amalgamated foment a BVB Strike among the Independent camps. In H a riot the buildings are" burned. Holmes' agent releases a car of explosive against the Independent lumber train, but It Is stopped by the heroic act of Helen. BVB Holmes sends his son Stephen to win Helen to the side of the trust; but the boy falls I In love with the girl. His father sends JBJBJ him away, utile Bear confronts Holmes pi with a threat, and Dill turns up to add B his enmity H NINTH EPISODE. B When the giant pine felled by H Holmes crashed through the roof of H the cabin In which the magnate knew H that hia deserted wife lay sleeping, the H hend of the lumber combination he- H llcvtng he had forever removed evl- H deuce of his first marriage. H The magnate's lmtri'il for Helen H Holmes, go long known as Helen 1 hi w H Hon, but whom he now knew to be his H own daughter, was Intensified rather H than diminished by the discovery of H her Identity. The knowledge that H young Stephen had for some time been VM displaying Interest In Helen, awak- wM nitl In him a further fear that this H uncanny attachment had progressed so H far an to render Ita sudden ending a H difficult matter. Aa he aat In his 11- wa tirary, pondering the ghastly dilemma B In which his criminal activities had H placed him. Holmes clenched his great B muscular hands and fought back the B thoughts that crowded upon him. H Quite well he realised that the scoundrel Behrens, with whom he had PH Intrusted his devious plana for the. removal of obstacles from his path, PH was not to be trusted. PH Jim Dawson was the first to BP find the wrecked cot of Helen's moth pBa t and to summon aid. The unfnrtu- PP nate woman had been fearfully PP crushed In the wreck of her little pBa home, and although still living when pH removed, was In a dying condition. PP "Send for Helen," she gasped. "I PP I have something to tell her before I PP Standing on the grade near the con- pBa structlon enmp, Tom Dawson heurd a PP hall from the telegraph office. PBh "Uusli message for Helen Dawson," PH the iniir. shouted. "Her mother's tsken PPJ suddenly 111 and she Is to start for pBa home at once." PBb Within five minutes the camp was pBf in an uproar. Helen, her face pale as PBb death, but calm In a crisis as always, pBl sent Tom Dawson to prepare a long, PP narrow rating canoe for the 20-mlle PP journey on the crest of the Ottawa's PP awlft current the most rapid route PB to Dawsou, but one the traversing of PB which was fraught with considerable PHi danger. PH "If you catch the local train pBl at five-ten you'll make It pretty neur us H quick," declared the foremua of the pBn camp. Old Man Mortisey, who loved pBa Helen as a daughter, and was loath pBa to see her embark oa the dangerous PHl river Journey. PP "We can't take a chance," Helen au- pBa swered, with u half sob In her voice. PJB Helen and Tom shot out Into the PB stream, and In a few moments were PP lost to sight round a beud of the tor- PH tuous river. PP Meantime the devoted little group Ppi surrounding the crushed eubln of the PJH dying woasan hud doue all that human PBa bands could do for her comfort, but It PP was recognised that her life could not PP be saved. pBs Holmes, having received word that f his wife still lived, and cruzed with k fear that her dying statement would B Incriminate him us well us ruin those I for whom I e had plotted und schemi'd, PHP at the 8ume time act mI with the cool PHI cruft characteristic of him. PPJ Summoning Hehrens and several of PBl the tools of that cowardly mill. in, PHl Holmes bribed the gang to enter the PBl reoonler's office ut I'oiial and steal PBl the records of his marrlugu und the H birth of his daughter Helen. With the PBl aubtlety of bis nature he foresaw that PPB a question would soon an ua to PBM Helen's pureutuge, and he wus deter- PBB mined that uo record of her birth PBV ahould be found in existence. PJPJr This plan was already batched in PJPJ the brain of Holmes us Helen stood Mm by the denthbed of her mother, und PH heurd from the pule lips of the dying PIP woman the true story of her birth. BR Now the young girl realized for the PJE Drat time why she had been so strunge- Wf ly drawn to young Stephen Holmes. Bar Many days elapsed before Holmes dared to put Into effect his plan for the destruction of the marriage and birth records by which he hoped to destroy de-stroy all chance of his relation to the dead woman being brought to light. In the meantime Jim Dawson and his son deotded to confront Holmes with the written statement of the wife he had deserted and then murdered, though Holmes' share In the falling of the giant pine which crushed the life out of Mrs. Holmes was so far only conjectured. Tom Dawson, the precious paper In his hantl, called on Holmes and waa ushered Into the lumberman'a superb library. "Mr. Holmes," said Tom bluntly, "I have In my possession proof that the woman who has lived more than twenty years In our home, the mother of the young woman who has been known as Helen Dawson, was your legal le-gal wife that Helen Dawson, so-called, so-called, la Helen Holmes, your daughter." daugh-ter." The lumber baron surveyed his visitor vis-itor for a moment with contemptuous calm, the Inevitable black cigar smoking smok-ing between his right forefinger and thumb. "So thnt'a the cock-and-bull atory you have brought to me?" he grinned. "Why, that ynrn has been Industriously Industri-ously spread all over the reserve. It Is as foolish as you are." "I rather expected you'd Bay that," retorted Dawson, "but Jiere Is the proof your wife's dying statement. The story was also told by her on her deathbed to several competent witnesses." wit-nesses." "Well," snarled nolmeB, "does that make It true? If this woman were married to me, don't you suppose she must have a certificate of her marriage mar-riage something to show that the story were true? You go back and tell what's thatr Tom drew the signed statement of Mrs. Holmes from hla pocket. Quick as a flash Holmes had anatcbed It from his hand and holding the document behind be-hind his back aa he leaned against the table facing Dawson, he aet It on Are, scratching the match with hia concealed con-cealed hand as he talked. Suddenly realizing what waa being done, Dawson threw himself upon the desperate man who stood facing him with the courage of a cornered wolf, hut before he could strike a blow Holmes had whipped forward an automatic au-tomatic pistol and the young lumberman lumber-man was covered. "Now go," shouted Holmes. "Oo. I sny, and remember that the next time you or any of your crew try to corner cor-ner 'Dollar' Holmes, there's going to be a vacancy or two In the independents' independ-ents' camp. Oood night." e Helen Holmes, while utterly Indifferent Indif-ferent to the wealth of her father, had mail' up her mind that Holmes should be compelled to acknowledge her legitimacy for the houor of her mother, moth-er, and to this end she begun planning plan-ning vigorously. Accompanied by Tom Dawson, that .voting man being In a most revenge-rul revenge-rul state of mind following his late encounter en-counter with Holmes, Helen left for the county scut at Portal, a few weeks ufter Mrs. Holmes' death, determined to exutnlno the records and secure copies cop-ies of the certificates of marriage and birth. Installed at the Hotel Tyson, opposite the courthouse, Helen awaited await-ed the return of young Dawson, who had gone to arrange for their Joint examination ex-amination of the books at a later hour. Hemming unexpectedly, Tom threw his hat In a corner with an ejaculation of disgust. "Never was such rotten luck," he growled. "Here we've hit town on a public holiday and the recorder's office is closed." "Hut surely," Interposed Helen, "In a Mnull place like this we might ask the recorder to muke an exception." Dawson grinned. He knew something some-thing of the accommodating disposition disposi-tion of the small-town official, but without with-out much hope of success he decided upon another effort this time with I letter fortune. The door of the recorder's re-corder's office was ajur, and two men were within going over the hooks. 1 taw sou demanded thut he be permitted permit-ted to examine the records of marriages mar-riages and births and was puzzled at the confusion that seemed to overwhelm over-whelm the two worthies. Despite their opposition Tom found the records he sought und copied them. Still puzzled as to where and when he had seen the two meu before, Tom left the recorder's office on his way to tln hotel. His departure was the signal for quick action. "He's wise to us and It's a penitentiary peniten-tiary Job," snarled Tim Orogun, one of "Dollar" Holuiea' most desperate henchmen, to Feruuld, the other, us he ripped the pages coutalnlug the records rec-ords from their long resting place. Tom was reudlng the copy he had made of the record aa he heurd a stealthy step behind him. Before he could turn his urnis were pinion, il. ha was thrown violently to the ground, Ktinuld hud bound ulin scientifically bund and foot era ha conld recover hf scattered senses Tha copy of the record, which Tom hsd so laboriously made, blew to the four winds of heaven In scattered fragments. Dragging the half-conscious lad to a shack beside the railway track, the two rascals, doing Holmes' bidding, I left him there still securely bound. Behrens, chief plotter of the Holmes gsng, who hsd awaited the return of i Kernald and Orogan with the record, ! turned It over to him with the Information In-formation that young Dawson hail seen and copied ttte entries. When later Ilehrens conveyed this Informs Hon to Holmes, the lumber magnets cursed him for a blunderer. Behrens' eyes biased with impotent hate. He would have given half his life for a cbanco to kill thla hard driver, whose dirty work ha had been compelled to do for 20 yeara or more, but he feared even to make reply, re-ply, so completely waa ha In Holmes' power. The most careful aehemer of villainy ultimately finds himself Involved In the meshes of his own net Behrens' assistants who had torn up the actual marriage record, considered that where such effort had been put forth there must be soma Important secret Involved, In-volved, ao they carefulfy patched together to-gether the torn document While engaged en-gaged in this delectabla occupation Tom Dawson and Helen came upon the cabin In which they were at work. Through the window Tom recognized the papers for which he bad made so bard a tH.ht, and as the two men rushed from the hut bent on blackmailing blackmail-ing "Dollar" Holmes with their valuable valu-able secret, Helen and Tom tried to arrest their flight but without avail. With a wild rush the Holmes agents swung themselves under the brakebeams of an already moving freight and disappeared Ino an open boxcar as the train rounded the bend. "Quick," sobbed Helen, "the big car we can overtake that train and we must" Five mlnutea later, with Helen Holmes at the wheel, "Boss" Mor-rlsey's Mor-rlsey's big "60" went smashing along a narrow trail In the wake of the train. Mile after mile the powerful car gained on lta quarry. Now the lull of the lumbering freight was In sight Ten minutes later Helen surrendered sur-rendered the steering wheel to Tom. "When we get alongside that open car, steady her down," ordered Helen. "I'm going to Jump for It" "For Ood'a sake, don't I" pleaded the young man. "It's utmost sure death." "I'd rather die than lose that certificate," cer-tificate," answered the Intrepid girl. "It's for my mother." Helen Holmes was used to taking desperate risks. Possessed of a sure eye and a steady nerve, shr felt no fli BBV fr Mm B 5vBr Ba vsa V wP MMl jEC ! - 8ajra las Baaaa t'iwvTCBjBBKjf o' Jr H raBB BBBBb r ' ' iBBn&ll iidr ' Basal BBBft V el BBt- Worda and Datea Ware Practical!) Illegible. ear but thut she would make the des n rate leap In safety, but to Tom, who dared not oppose her imperious young will, the moments that ensued were agonizing. At last the big machine waa held heudy alongside the open freight und before Tom Dawson could utter another an-other protest Helen was In the air. It waa a narrow squeak. Indeed, for she miscalculated the barest fraction of an Inch and fell as the big side door struck her, lauding on the floor of the car. "Olve me that paper," she demanded demand-ed of Grogan, who with Fernuld wus staring at her open-eyed "give It to me, I say It's mine." "Oh. what're y" glvln' us?" grinned the big fellow. "We're going to work this on 'Dollar' Holmes for ail the truffle will bear." It was no time for argument The train was approaching the long steel bridge at Junction crossing. As It rolled on to the tall trusses that spanned the raging river, Helen snatched the paper from Orogan's baud, and with a swoop like that of a bird, dived tbrough tha ateel struts to the water, 00 feet below. Tom Dawson stopped the 60-horse power motor with a Jerk. In a hulf dozen leaps he was on the river bank, and Ave minutes later Helen was In his arms, exhausted but happy. Together To-gether the two young adventurers examined ex-amined the rescued papers and their fuces went white with disappointment. disappoint-ment. The water had so distorted what had been written In luk many years before, that the words and dates were practically Illegible. It aeemed thut they bud taken desperate chances It vain. (END OF NINTU EU'ISODE.) e |