Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-06-25
PETER I'D. KYNE
or CHLDI RICHS
COPYRIGHT, BY PETER B.KYNE

smart woman and that you've been
doing n little private gum-shoe work
Of your own on behalf Of the Laguna
Grnnde Lumber company"
(Which IL exactly what have been
doing" she reminded him.
"I know. But then. I'm not afraid
OF you. Shirley-that Is, any more.
And after Friday morning I'll not be
afraid OF your uncle"
~ feel as II were a conspirator."
at believe you are one. Your dicto.
graph has arrived. Shall send George
Sea otter over with Il? And have you
somebody to install it7'
"oh. bother Does II have to be In.
stalled7'
ut does. You place the contraption
hide II, rather--in the room where
the conspirators conspire; then you
run wires from II into another room
where the detectives listen in on the
receivers"
"Could George Sea otter install itr'|
~ think he could. There is a print.
ed card OF instructions, and dare say
George would find the job no more
bafTiing than the Ignition system on
the Napier"
"Will he tell anybodyf
mot II you ask him not to-"
"very well, then. Please send him
over. Thank you so much. Bryce
Cardigan. You're an awful good old
sort after all. Really. II hurts me to
have to oppose you. II would be so
much nicer IL we didn't have all those
redwood trees to protect, wouldn't IT."
LET us not argue the question. Shlr.
ley. think have my redwood trees
protected. Good-by."
He had scarcely finished telephOn.
ing his home to instruct George Sea
Otter to report with the express pack.
age to Shirley when Buck Ogilvy
strolled into the Office and tossed q
document on his desk. "There's your
little old temporary franchise, old
thing" he announced; and with many
| hearty laugh he related to Bryce the
ingenious means BY which he had oh
tained II. "And now II you will phone
up TO your logging camp and instruct
the w0ods-boss to lay on about nrty
men to rest for the day. pending a
hard nights work. and arrange te
send them down on the last log train
today. I'll drop around after dinner
and wen fly TO that jump-crossing."
"I'li telephone Colonel Pennington's
manager and ask him to kick q switch
engine In on the Laurel creek spur ant
snake those fiat cars with my rails
aboard out to the junction with the
main line" Bryce replied. And III
called up the Laguna Grande Lumber
company--only TO be informed by M
less person than Colonel Pennington
himself that II would be impossible
TO send the swltch-engine In until TIT
following afternoon. The Colonel wal
sorry, but the switch engine was In TIT
shop having the brick In her frebo'
renewed. while the mogul that haule'
the log trains would not have time L
attend to the matter. since the nat
, would have to he spotted on the side
track at Cardigan's log landing In tn
woods. and this could not be done IN
III the last loaded log train for the da,
had been hauled out TO make room.
"why not switch back with III
mogul after the log train has bee
hauled out on the main liner Bryc
demanded pointedly.
Pennington, however. was no
trapped MY dear fellow" he reptile
patronlzingly, quite impossible, l as
sure you. That old trestle across tn
creek, my boy--It hasn't been locke
= at for years. While I'd send the ligh
l. switch.englne over II and have n
fears"
81 happen to know, Colonel. that IN
u big mogul kicked those fats in to loa
the rails !"
? 81 know II. And what happened
Why, that old trestle sQueaked an
shook and gave every evidence OF b,
ing about 10 buckle in the center. NJ
engineer threatened TO quit II SCI
u him in again"
every well. ! suppose I'll have
r wait until the switch-engine come
Il out OF the shop" Bryce replied r
y signedly, and hung up. He turned
troubled face 10 0gilvy "Chec
o mated |" he announced. whipped
a FRAGILE. The colonel is lying, Buc
and I've caught him at II. AS ma
II ter OF fact, the mogul didn't kick tho'
IT fats in at all. The switch. engine d
II and know II. Now I'm going
n send a man over 10 snoOp around Pc
" nington's rOundhouse and verify h
report about the switch-engine bell
e In the shop"
He did 81. Half an hour later Il
y messenger returned with the inform
ton that not only was the switch-e
IS CINE NOT in the shop but her fr
box had been Overhauled the week B
fore and was reported TO be In e
70 cellent condition.
"That settles IT," Buck Ogil'
T. mourned. 1.-THE Colonel is as suspicio
'e as rhino. lie doesn't know anythin
~ hut he smells danger lust the same