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“A LASS OF THE LUMBERLANDS”
Thirteenth Chapter of the great phot-novel starring Helen Holmes
KIDNAPING episode, in which Helen Holmes, the pretty and dashing young heroine of Camp Dawson, is abducted by Bill Behrens, one of “Dollar” Holmes’ paid thugs, who then dries to intimidate the girl into marrying him under pain of death, re¬ alizing that she is the legitimate heir of “Old Man” Holmes’ millions, constitutes the most sensational fea¬ ture of Chaper XIII, “A Lass of the Lumberlands,” MutualSignal fifteen part drama.
The chapter is a succession of thrilling episodes and it is difficult to say which of the many is most sensational. Miss Holmes makes her escape from the gang in Sam Deering’s old shack in the heart of China Flats, by swinging out over a canyon three thousand feet deep, suspended by her hands on a trolley wire, from which she drops to the roof of a swaying box car, where she lies exhausted while the train speeds fifty miles and hour.
That ought to have been enough adventure for one girl in one day, but not so with Helen. Behrens, who had boarded the train at China Flats siding when it stopped for a hot box, found Helen trying to descend from her precarious perch and grappled her. The young woman succeeded in making her escape, only to be pursued by th? agent of Holmes in a thrilling chase from one end of the long train to the other, over flat cars and box cars, slipping and slid¬ ing on the slanting platforms, until it appears miraculous that both pursuer and pursued are not precipitated under the wheels.
When Tom Dawson appears from a stretch of timber beside the track and picks Behrens off with a Winchester rifle everybody wonders where Miss Holmes’ assailant will
fall, but speculation is soon ended. Behrens staggers from the roof of the speeding car in a startling somersault that lands him in a swamp under a trestle, where he lies ap¬ parently dead.
In this chapter Helen is beset with marriage offers. Behrens, who is determined to marry her for the sake of her fortune, is no more important than is Stephen Holmes, the girl’s half brother, who, unaware of the relationship, has fallen madly in love with her. When Holmes’ son tells him of his desire to marry the young woman, the father is aghast. He makes hasty arrangements with Behrens to have Helen abducted and rushes young Stephen off to the city.
From the point of view of the spectator this episode is a tremendous thrill. Miss Holmes is attacked on the moving train, tied hand and foot, taken off while the train is still going at high speed, dragged up the side of a mountain and rescued in a desperate pictol battle after Behrens, her ab¬ ductor, has tried to compel her to marry him in order that he may obtain title to “Dollar” Holmes property.
How the young actress manages to come through this chapter unscathed is one of the eternal mysteries.
The ultimate thrill of the chapter comes when Old Jack Dill, one of “Dollar” Holmes’ victims, is released from the penitentiary after spending half his lifetime there. He was a witness to Holmes’ slaying of Sleepy Dog, the Klamath Indian chief, whose lands he subsequently obtained from the Klamath tribe by fraud. The revelation of this knowledge by Dill to Little Bear, the college bred son of the old Indian chief, affords a pathetic and intensely dramatic touch.
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