Summary
A bullet-scarred fugitive, Christopher Foy, staggers through alpine dusk until the Vorhis cabin—half sanctuary, half tribunal—materializes like a wood-cut mirage. Colonel Vorhis, part Stoic sentinel, part providential magistrate, hears the outlaw’s self-indictment and, rather than chain him, chooses to unshackle justice itself; his lantern-jawed daughter Stella, luminous as kerosene flame, bathes Foy’s wounds while her gaze ignites a subtler fever. Between snowmelt thaws and cattle-baron machinations, the lovers trade confessions beneath bristle-cone pines until a second, fabricated crime—rustled steers—catapults Foy back into limestone labyrinths. Enter John Wesley Pringle, rival yet knight-errant, who exhumes forged brands and perjured affidavits, sacrificing his own heart so that Stella’s may tether to the man whose only true theft was of her breath.
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Christoper Foy, who is running away from the authorities, is injured during his escape and takes refuge at the mountain cabin of Colonel Vorhis and his daughter Stella. Stella takes pity on Foy, and the Colonel, admiring Foy's confession of guilt, takes steps to have him pardoned. He and Stella fall in love and Foy remains honest, but when he is accused of cattle stealing, he again runs away. When John Wesley Pringle, who also loves Stella, learns that Foy is innocent but is the object of a conspiracy, he helps Foy by uncovering the plot. Despite his love for Stella, Pringle helps to prove that Foy is innocent so that Stella can find happiness with the man she loves.
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