![]() ![]() A spy is sent to deliver the note to Heaton and he pauses long enough to show its contents to the Tollivers, None of them can read except June, and she, wishing to protect her sweetheart, reverses the directions so that, instead of sending the moonshiners to meet Heaton, she throws them directly in Hale’s path, which was directly opposite to what she intended to do. There is an understanding between Hale and Heaton that the order of all notes is to be reversed. Hale sends a note to Heaton, saying that he will take his posse and look for the escaped moonshiners along the south trail and for Heaton and his posse to go along the north trail. The remainder of the gang escapes through an underground passageway. The posse surrounds the cabin and upon breaking into it, after a sharp fight, find only June. Hale gets back to town and with a posse starts for an old deserted shack where he thinks the illegal whiskey is hidden and where he expects to arrest the gang of moonshiners. After several days of imprisonment Hale is able to set the straw in the shed on fire, burn through his rope bonds and escape. The increasing friendliness between June and Hale arouses Dave’s jealousy, and he forces Hale to live in the cowshed. Knowing they must work fast to get their illegal whiskey out of the county, old Judd Tolliver leaves Dave, his nephew, who is also in love with June, to guard Hale, while the rest of the gang rush the whiskey to the railroad. ![]() June Tolliver, the daughter of old Judd Tolliver, the head of the clan, pretends to have a sprained ankle at the foot of the big Lonesome Pine and when Hale comes along, he carries her to the cabin where he is captured by the moonshiners. Through a spy, the Tolliver clan, who are the moonshiners, hear that Hale has arrived to help Heaton in his investigation. Being unsuccessful, Heaton calls in the district revenue officer, Jack Hale. Bob Heaton is an internal revenue officer, working in the mountains of Virginia, hunting for whiskey stills which are supposed to be located somewhere near the Lonesome Pine Trail. ![]()
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