Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest

Alvirah drew her chair closer to the stove in the sitting-room. She had a capable housework helper now, and even Jabez Potter mad

a leetle afraid, my pretty, that you will have your hands full if you write pictures for

n she was a girl she went with her folks clean acrosst the continent-or, leas

nt in an emigrant

first railroad went through this part of the country and it cut right through Silas Bassett's farm. They told him h

that handy?" c

to town more'n three or four times a year. Then the railroad changed hands. 'There arose up a new king over Egypt which kn

talking about her great-grandmother's adventur

Western prairies one day, what should pop up but a band of Indians, with tall feathers in their hair, and guns-mebbe

r wagons so as to make a fortress sort of, of the wagon-bodies, with t

seen pictures of such a camp

e white folks a lot But what they come for was to see if there was a doctor in the party. Those Indians had heard of white doctors and knowed what

her eyes sparkli

ndian chief to want the best doctoring there was for his child. The medicine men had tried to c

h. And you ought to see how

to the Indian village and cured the sick child. And for the rest of their journey across them plains Ind

t great!"

the idea it had given Ruth for a screen story-he

ngements with the Indian Department for the transferring of the services of Princess Wonota fro

pulled all the wires he could at the reservation to keep "Dead-Shot" Wonota in his employ. At fir

o performances and had dinner with her at the local hotel. After dinner they all went to an attorney's office, where the papers in the case were ready, and Wonota signe

rmission from the Indian Agent to leave the show. As Helen stopped the car before the torch-lighted entrance

ying to queer the show? You ain't got no more'n enough tim

th now, he showed her the

a fled toward the dressing tent "I thought you was a friend of mine. But I

ou mean, Mr. Fenbrook

elding, ain't y

hat is

this Hammond feller that they tell me has put in a bid for Wonota

l give you his address," Ruth said with dignity. "I am no

our way. No, ma'am! I got some rights. The courts will give me my rights to Wonota. I'm her guardian, I am. Her

angry man. But when the car had gone a little way

an will make trouble. I

because he could handle this Western bully do

e a job in your picture compan

such a fine

ly would,"

ollowing day. Mr. Hammond sent Ruth a telegram In the morning intimating th

brook an injunction. Wha

a Joe she had no mind to go to him on behalf of Mr. Hammond and herself. If the Westerner was balking the

that he put the matter in the hands of the attorney

Jabez, "I don't want to have anything personally to do

not come around here cutting up his

f the Wild West Show. If the man really made up his mind to ma

ned to take Aunt Alvirah out with them. She had lost her fear of the automobile a

"what next? I s'pose you'd want to learn

t see why not?" she had con

the grave and the other o

oon. While the girls were waiting for her to be made ready, Helen

e wanted to know.

er the back of the car. Sh

ogs, too. She is riding like the wind. And, yes! There is somebody aft

oodness! He must have gone mad. See h

Jennie Stone with conviction. "