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SYNOPSIS (Continued)
The men tell Farnsworth that they do not believe the money is there. He dares any of them to cross the channel in a sailboat and get it with an order he offers to write. Jules volunteers to go. Burgess is urged by the loggers to accompany him to make certain that the money will get back to them. So in the raging storm, Jules and Burgess set out suspicious of each other and fighting every inch of their way against the terriff ic gale. Jules hids the order in his mouth until they reach the express office where the money is delivered to him in a canvas sack.
On the return trip Burgess strikes Jules down with a revolver and seeks the money but cannot find it. He beaches the sailboat and pinions Jules on the sand at the water's edge, torturing him for twenty-four hours in an effort to make him disclose what he did with the money. Jules of the "Strong Heart" withstands the agony and refuses to tell. In the lumber camp, meanwhile, the men are convinced by the failure of Jules and Burgess to return, that their money was not waiting at the express office. They imprison Farnsworth and Kendall and some of the boldest urge that Farnsworth be strung up a tree. The others urge delay for a few hours.
In the meantime, Herbert Sommerville arrives in a motor boat looking for Jules. He tells Joy that he is the father of the baby and that Jules is his best friend. This both amazes and pleases the girl who had been led to doubt Jules' honesty by insinuating remarks about the baby, cast by Burgess. Sommerville tells her how his wife had died while he was away, leaving the baby liable to be turned over to the State, unless some kind friend took charge of it. Jules, although poor and needy himself, had assumed care of the child. Sommerville had not learned his whereabouts until a few days before.
Sommerville and Joy start in search of Jules in the motorboat and find Burgess at his work of torturing the woodsman on the beach.
Jules only then consents to tell where he had hidden the money and it is found cleverly concealed hanging from the tiller-post of the sailboat.
Joy's love for Jules, long repressed, is revealed to him in camp when he recovers from the long illness which followed his exposure, and finds her caring devotedly for him.
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