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TITUS, HAROLD. Last straw. il *$1.75 (2c) Small
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Jane Hunter falls heir to a western ranch. She is an eastern society girl who knows little about the West and had it not been that her fortunes were at a low ebb she would have taken little interest in her new property. She goes West hoping to realize ready money out of the place and once there events decide her to stay. Dick Hilton, the easterner who had long wanted to marry her, follows her to the West and remains there to add to her troubles. Of the latter she has many, including a dishonest foreman, cattle thieves, and a “nester” who cuts off her best watering place and who is only a tool in the hands of her enemies. Tom Beck, who had refused to take a chance in the draw for foreman but who stays on the ranch to serve her at every turn, makes a very satisfactory hero and after an exciting bit of fighting the story comes to a peaceful close.
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