Show I 1 az I 1 ea 0 LAS 44 r T 1 I V 1 5 U 11 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 L I 1 0 a U a II 11 R M b k I 1 L AA N DS r I 1 i I 1 b y E POW ELL 1 I 1 1 NOVELIZED FROM THE MOTION PICTURE PI G I 1 u TU RE SERIAL OF THE SAME NAME P PRODUCED R 0 BY THE SIG SIGNAL NAL FILM CO CORP R P I 1 I 1 zar fourth episode the dramatic coup by which helen acquired title to tho the buoni boom rights oil tile lie Oreg oregonia onla and thereby frustrated the sOi enies of the made tier her n popular heroine in ili the camps of the independent lumbermen who came to regard tier us its their chain plon pion in the unequal struggle they were wag waging ing with tile great monopoly with the boom rights in undisputed possession of ono one so avowedly friendly to their cause the independents now felt flint they were reasonably secure frog from it the machinations of tile trust I 1 in in this conclusion she failed to make allowance for lite whims of nature which in tho the newer never wider reaf eglons ris frequently proved more dangerous anti vindictive than in settled bottled count country the summer and autumn which followed the tiling filing of helens claim was the driest flint tho the lum berlands had known within memory of tho the oldest inhabitant ba bitaut in five months thero them had been mile pr or no rain tile cultivated lands ordinarily a vivid ald preen green were now brown from drouth foresi forest rangers watched night and flay day for fires in tile chider like woods where in norma normal I 1 years sens leaping torrents ran there now stony up witter courses even the largo rivers such it us tile the and the Ore oregonia gonta inning having swindled into insignificant streams tho the that confronted the lumbermen was as to how they were to pet get their logs from the forest to tile river tit nt el and to this his bueg loi flon there was but one anwer possible they must pocket their pride and slit phlp over tho the railway owned by tile tho amalgamated this they might have boon been permitted to toto alto without interference until the ruins ruing permitted them to resume river booming had not rupert If olmes returning from new york learned by tho merest chance what ills hla competitors were doing then lie got busy send carruthers here ordered the dili grate happened carruthers de dc rounded r Ifo holinds Holin lines cs as the malinger ap pearce feared 1 I tiec see tho the railway has actually been making money account of tho independents dependents grunted curruthers carruthers been forced to still ship over our line and gee geol I 1 how hove it toes does hurt ein cm to do it tills this la Is only temporary business though As soon boon ns as theres water in the river bagin booming again for sonio some sat eat silent drumm lug on bis desk with a pencil carruthers lie he said paid at last were not going to cay carry any more logs for fellows its only playing their game not going to boycott this railway when things are going smoothly with them and then full fall back on it when in trouble send a wire to clancy nt at Daw dassonville dawsonville sonville flint ile lies not to accept tiny more inore shipments of logs from the independents think safe protested carruthers rut liers it would bo be just like that scrappy bunch to dang us into court on a conspiracy chargo charge or of something of that kind besides it if you solid send a wire biles still on the job you know right agreed holmes it bo be safe it if she fille rot got hold of a ines message sage it would make isako things very indeed mark my words cm rathers theres a it clever girl art I 1 stink ill run down to daw dan sonville tonight better belter come along and while I 1 think of iti it wire behrens to meet us there A wire from mra holmes sir I 1 announced the private secretary entering ns na carruthers left the message informed holm 0 3 flint his fits wife would leave san fran francisco el by alget train and arrive in m seattle 0 in tile tho morning airo grunted vie lumberman wire airs holmes to leave tile the train at and join tae me there when holmes and carruthers rend reached ed dassonville dawsonville Daw sonville the following foll mOng morning tle the former found behrens waiting on tile the station platform lIn Inies briefly explained to him blin and to clancy tho the local agent how matters stood with regard to luciler ship menta not another foot font of lumber owned by the independents Is to go over our rails ho he concluded does docs tho the order go into effect now demanded clancy clone y instanter was ovas the response res ponc tom dawar n was about to climb into big engine cab on the start for LI BI capitan capital when lie heard ills fits name shouted anti and to see the agat running toward hini him across tho tracks up inquired tom curiously uncouple Uc couple tom ordered clancy youre not going out today therell be ti li to pay it these logs jont dont get down to I kl IN N capitan tonight the young mati maa yet yes and therell th eroll bo be lint to tny tiny with before wo get aft with tills this game grinned clancy 1 ho 10 1119 just came in oh number cumber four ho has ordered all tho the lamber I 1 stopped when tile hoys boys henr of it they way ret get disagreeable kichnet morrisey a fearless old irishman and lender leader of the cuts wits MIS tile tho first to hear of Ilo holmes illies order in ft a minute lie he wits was on oil the job so busy did monthey get in ili fact flint by the middle of the afternoon little pendent lumber operators were vere streak ing into town front from nil points of tho the compass tho the big meeting held field lit in tho the courthouse roin square was addressed by morrisey Mor ilsey hoys shouted alio tile amalgamated has ordered that flint we shant ship hip our timber over Us ili railway anti old dollar holmes Is hero here to enforce alio order dirty dollar holmes la is tho the nanie name for the old helion cllon li ono one ninn man shouted aret are wo going to stupid for tills sort hort of treatment roared you bet your our life wo we aint blut tile the crowd shouted back tho the only tiling thing this old treo cral crab Is norald of Is law went on tile big irishman irishman shy when somebody nome body throws a law book tit ot him tile tho amalgamated gaina ted aint hankering for tiny liny feder ul ill investigation now tile truth la Is fellows felloes i wo we can curry this flits into court find beil beat t tho the bunch 0 crooks sit at tile lio head of alib amalgamated weve stood this long enough now well take tho the bull by 13 tile tho horns the appointment of ft a committee to wait or on holmes mid and inform it him in that flint lie ho was up till against a finish light unless lip ho chose to 0 compromise quickly resulted in Morri selection ns as chair man your troubles lest I 1 snarled JI olmes when lie find heard the report of the committee emphatically stilted stated by morrisey your troubles but not my troubles the amalgamated tried to buy you follows fellows out you refused to sell bell the built it a railroad in here ut ot rt a great expense and you boycotted it now because youre high and try dry you yon want to make ft a convenience veni ence of it well im liere here to say you cant do it not by a d sight you cant this i railway wits built by private capital it Is not it common carrier canler now get out 11 your sour last word vord li Is it de dc Alor risey it if it is well see what the courts court have to say about it to it with tho the courts shouted sli holmes olmes II ills his face aflame with passim pass lm ills small all dark eyes glea gleaning mink not ir stick of moves over tills this road until I 1 give the words word on oil the heels of this declaration came a roar from froin the crowd outside followed by a deep tumbling noise that brought holmes and ills associates to their feet with it a wild rush for tile lie san station platform tho the right that flint met their gaze filled them with amazement the long train of logs log front from which dawson daw yon had been ordered to uncouple his engine went thundering past tile the station under Us its own momentum on oil the road to ll el capitan a down grade stretch of twenty mile with it a good prospect of if going into the river when it reached its journeys benj tile remark of ct a amad sina bey had started the trouble it wits a verbal spark bpark about releasing the brasci anil and letting the lumber go to mill by itzell itans it was enough canough for the crowd already spoiling for trouble with whoops and yells a score of men leaped for the tie heels and kicked tile the logs loose in ili fifty secondi thi train was moving slowly in less than two minutes it was its jogging along ut tit ten miles art an lur ilour and by tile ho time the station where holmes and his crew sat gat was wag rea reached clied the speed was twenty miles an hour tit at least hoiriis stared at the arnin his face convulsed with fury cursing like a rian maniac tac clancy wits tearing about trying to find out what to do in fact there was nothing to do that would stop the train barring a very derp desperate e rate dangerous plan that had nir already endy begun to simm er in the arnin of helen dawson daw son the operator whose face was white its as chalk and tier her lips trembling as she gasped out tile passenger train what shouted holmes olmos II the passenger cried helen its loft left ul 11 and the log train will lilt hit it there Is no way to send a warning holmes stood by his huge Ms lists clenched hla his eyes rolling railing wildly for onoe once in ills his lite life tile lie big lun lumberman berrian was cornered lie he had no roi remedy medi for this flits situation all the huge staff of if tho the amalgamated save saile florence holmes olmes II whom he bo be on tile ho limited with death rushing duin upon her I 1 good gasped my ay wife Is on that train tom dawson waited no time in words ile ho had beail trained to net act quickly in crises like tills before anyone even 11 olmes allied re what was happening dawson daw son was on oil tile tho engine she had been all ready to start when lio ho received tile the oriler to uncouple now ton tom hall had use usa for tier her 1 A l moment later helen wito in the cab i you cant wait wal for a fireman tile alio girl said saia ill il push tile tho shovel tow TOM quick now 1 10 I 1 I 1 they were off the water manic slid loco 1000 00 past tho the past the freight sheds unit und through the fringe of scattered cottages at uni the CIK 1 1 of tho the town like to a shish they left behind farmsteads with neat I 1 I 1 houses anti anil freshly plowed bubl I 1 i patches then came the foresta 1 I 1 t they tore through it long vista in w u i pine little and spruce down down yuwu t I 1 v 11 11 do don I 1 I 1 it I 1 I 1 11 i 1 dawson held field tile throttle wad ame e open ia it F 11 I 1 1 I it wag it mcirven hat flint I 1 they hoy kept tit the 4 p 1 afe A 11 rails mils the engine rocked tind iwaye buoyed li 14 I 1 1 like u jitney on a jug jag there wits no I 1 1 f I 1 tile chances of dwyth it I 1 I 1 t i 5 wim was just it case of overhauling flint i il i t crazy lutu bering train flint plunged 44 1 i w wildly liere there between un tell and fifteen miles ahead olic iid il I 1 two thirds of 0 the ho distance to LU el I 1 I 1 capital had beet been covered colored before I 1 I 1 swinging round a curve they caught I 1 sight ot of tho the rul runaway lawdy slowly they I 1 gained upon it now only it thousand 4 yards ads separated pursuer anti and pursued I 1 now live five hund hundred reil now three hundred it was the crucial moment helen dropped tier lier shovel hovel fc out sho she 1 I 1 crawled on the footboards foot boards of thu the away I 1 ing engine sixty miles an hour was I 1 1 tile tho speed shown hy by the indicator closi 4 14 1 I 1 e cr r closer now a hundred foot feet I 1 11 14 now fifty feet I 1 tet llaca was on oil the tender feilder I 1 it t tile the engine now only Iti incites elivs sep rated tho the rear car and tho pilot I 1 I 1 then helen jumped I 1 i the arst real certainty dawson hail had of 11 hir e r success i was when lie ho saw her ber wa rill g over the he end of tho the tall car I 1 TI alieu 1 a lio lie drew draw a long breath and blew blesy I 1 his hia whistle until hu he happened to think lie ho might need every pound of it over tile swaying logs loga car cair by car the lie intrepid girl made tier lier it perilous e 8 I 1 way vay one by one she twisted the hand 0 1 brakes until mhd train begun began to i and was finally under control there was no time to lose As aa prooro 1 us its the train cuino came to a n shop fifty feet of tile tho siding find and switch lit at cali cula poola helen raced for tile lever and elicited the alie trucks without I 1 I 1 to make kiako sure there wits was room regal for far tile thy I 1 long train boin dawson kicked the tha 1 I lumber limber cars cara jolting over OUT the frog aidi and I 1 them with only a few feet to spare between them thein and disaster just ns its the rumble ut tit the limited became lc caino I 1 audible helen had thrown the switch birck I 1 anti anil had collapsed in a shuddering I 1 I 1 heap against the clay embankment I 1 when with at shriek and a roar tin the crack train rain of the alio 11 1 I 0 0 went tearing past attached to its ita rear wits the I 1 private car of rupert holmes holics president I 1 X of the amalgamated and I 1 1 cm I its brassbound brass bound bourd observation plat pint I 1 forn fora was waa florence holmes t I 1 there Is no need to ente details of alid bredt bat legal battle that wasi was fought the amalgamated under 1 1 tho interstate vorn meree net act olf of ahw of cf a package through two 1 states by helen dawson which gaya gave 1 1 I 1 tile basis for sult hutt against holmes anda 4 his fits crowd as aa common carriers I 1 not only were uio 00 plaintiffs award awarded eV heavy datt lages but tho the amalgamated wits was adjudged a common carrier canler I 1 1 the meaning of the law helep dawon I 1 son wits lionized by the independents Independent tn if I 1 and presented wath tin nn engraved goldi gold anva watch all alore ee were different n tw I 1 lit at tile tha horne horae of rupert holmesly Holme in yeut cut 1 I 1 tle tie its all the doing of girl remarked holmes grimly ahen lie aicard the courts decision anif little de 11 lias has cost us a cold million 1 T I ches still working for UP slit inquired young stephen why 1 1 1 1 dol boit t we tie it can to tier her I 1 for two good treasons trea reasons sons grinned I 1 4 holmes Up lines first she saved your chur lif alff e 11 JI then bile saved that of your mothe i r I 1 stephen stared from ohp hig window I 1 reminiscently I 1 and i it I 1 one more thing I 1 may mention 1 concluded holmes 1 I live a 1 lighter I 1 1 I 1 TO DK 1111 1 CONTINUED I 1 |