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The Law of the Talon
By Louis Tra ’.y ‘'•font no* j
SYNOPSIS.
Jim Parke. Hudson Bay Co.'s a (rent
Ot Moose Ixtke. is greatly disturbed by a
news item in ;ui English paper amiouiKiug
the .coming marriage oi Alistair Spencer
Pantnn to Eileen Grant and reierrimr to the
prospective groom as the heir presumptive
of Lord Oban, whose only son. John Bridg
north Panton. disappeared some years ago
and whose death is about to la* presumed
b.v law. Parke decides to leave Moose Lake
and ir<. btuk to Emrland.
In the meantime. Eileen Grant is married
iu Jxmdon to Alistair Panton. immediately
after the ceremony she learns that John is
alive and is on his way to Emrland to claim
an inheritame left him by his aunt. Lord
Oban. John Panton's father, tells Eileen that
los son had been dismissed from the army
for cowardice under tire and drunkenness,
and that he is unable to forgive him. Eileen
goes off to Inverloehtie with Alistair as
S tanned, but she tells him that she will not
ve with him as his wife until the matter
about John is settled to her satisfaction.
John, accompanied b.v his dop. Spot, ar
rives in England. He carries a letter of in
troduction to Mr. Leslie, a lawyer living at
Wimbledon. The Leslies invite him to stay
with them and he invents their hospitality.
While walking through the streets of
London. John meets an old arm.v friend. Sir
Arthur Erensham. who tells him that he
has evidemv that he had tieen drugged by
one of his men on the fatal day he refused
to lead his men out of the trenches.
