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The Steele Belknap Plot Thwarts a Lumber Scheme
John Belknap posing as Steele presses for return of hidden logs while Ellen Richards of the Richards Lumber Co. faces a web of deceit and arson rumors. Paul Gorbel and Tom Belknap scheme to crush the business, but Ellen learns Steele is actually Belknap and confronts him with a pivotal telegram and bank letter.
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Ellen
Burke
John
Steele
Dad
Richards
Gorbel
Paul Gorbel
Belknap & Gorbel
Mark
Jack Tait
Jack
Richards Woods
John Belknap
John Steele
Gorbel Filer
Bradshaw
Kampfest
Bank of Kampfest
Tucker
Marie
Belknap
Tom
Garbel
John Steele Belknap
Tom” Belknap
Richards Lumber Company
Ellen Richards
Richards Company
Sheriff Bradshaw
Nat
de- Young
DeYoung
Preacher
Hollywood
State Bank of
Ferryville
Witch Hill
Witch Hill Lumber Co
Belknap Lumber Co
Chicago
S. McIver
Ebien
Tom Belknap
Ellen Dear