Skeleton in laurel grove ends Joyce mystery
Lee finds a bleached skeleton clutching a rusty revolver with initials C. P. near a tunnel grave by the gorge. He realizes Pelly died after a fall or confrontation, ending the long mystery and enabling Joyce to face the truth. Lee now seeks the tunnel entrance to inform Joyce.
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Joyce
Lee
Freed by a Lock of Hair in a Cliff Gorge
Lee battles a cliff wall for the tunnel entrance and confronts Leboeuf and a strange man guarding a hidden gold. After brutal fights and pleading, Joyce’s hair becomes the key to the tunnel’s fate as the story unfolds in a desolate gorge.
End of troubles as Lee plans to take Joyce away
Lee awakens with joy over his plan to marry Joyce and flee with her, imagining a life free of trouble. Joyce meets him at the log house entrance, gravely aware of the news and the danger behind Rathway’s demand for the secret, as Lee seeks to protect her memory and their future.
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Lee
C. P
Joyce
Walt
Eva
Leboeuf
Munster
Ma'm'zelle Joyce
Lehoeuf
Leboeufs
Turmel
Rathway
Pearance
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