The Mena weekly star., 1920-11-11
CHAPTER xl.

len Bryce Cardigan walked down |angplank at the steamship dock Francisco. tie first face he saw the waiting crowd was Buck |y's. ogiIvy thrust forth great led paw for Bryce to shake. ignored if.
 |fhy don't you remember me?" N demanded. ssT'm Buck Ogilivy." ce locked him fairly in the eye axoresi him with n lightning wink. .e never heard Of Tou, Mir. Ogllvy. Ire mlstakIns me for some one rry. ugiIvy mnrmured. My ke. Thought you were Bill Ker- who used to be partner of ce nodded and passed on. hailed |scah. ard was driven to the San isco office of his company. Five ., pS i.iiff Ire Nouf Opebeu anu |st)eilvy entered
 was hit puzzled nj the dock.
 lie explained as they shook
 sbef decided to play safe and ollou Hou 70 your Office. Whats Have fou kiIied sonebody, and se detectives on your trail? If SS up md ril assume the re- hilitx for xoar crime. just to sou how gfatefuI am for that fed.r
 r Wasn't heing shadowed.
 hut my prineipal enemy was down the gsDEplank right be ne, and--
 was my principal enemy" ogilyy Ifted 'Mhai does bur enem, Ike
 e ready money And if he had ne shaking hands with you. he'd Inspected connection between r on Buck. you have q good bout five hundred month" -inks. ol6 man I'd work for you lining. Whet are We going to "a twelve miles of logging rail ,nd parallel fhe line of the old spoke Of a moment ago"
 d ue0A! Wen do 1t. How soon
 xans II done2''
 soon as possible. Yop're the 'estdenI and general manager" capt the nomination. What do It
 ten carefully 10 my story. ana 2 pIan for possible weak spots len get busy. because after rOvi1ed the funds and given the Col the rest is up to you. Iot be known In the transaction because that would be fatal" e hours later 0gIiyy was in pos
 of the most minute details of tuotIon in SeQuoia. had tabu lndexed and eross-Ipdexed them ingenious brain and was ready sineas md So announced him AW4y4 m eutUuslast Tn al.
 in his minds eve Mir. Ogilvy already see a long trainload oi lmIne down the Northern Cali
 < Oregon railroad. as he and had decided to ehristen the ven Q Bryce Cardigan returned t q. his labors. in 30 far as th, of the road were concerned sssn completed His agreement Ekzorg Of hA Trinidad Redwood
 company had been signed,
 and delivered; the money to he road had been deposited in and Buck Ueilvy was already as @it llkr drunken sailor. 11x es1. Bryce could only watch, n<i nraS
 lhe next sfeafncr surveying HItb complete camping equip lffiTed ID Seuuoia. purchased a and two horses. piled their dun >ato the wagon. and disappeared nfrS Harf on their heels came ufk 0Eiivy and occupied the sglife 10 the Hotel Sequoia, ar aeIits for which had previously r,is1l lIf l1y wire In the sitting room kz1ife Mr. Ogilvy Installed a new tlljue cabIncf. and a brisk T1aIe secretary.
 md beer in town less than an yIien the editor of the Sequoia el sent up his card. The an- plent of the Incorporation of |ssIIfornia 0nnpge Cor so had Mir. in huge enjoyment of the Y he WIS about to create. dubbed ff had previously been flashed
 senfIuc. by tllp United Press lfIon, IS | local feature story. rnadz sI>ecuIaflon was rife in aS fo tho Identity of the hare. [ IIl<II<ldua|S who dared to back efpfIse as nebuIons as the mil.
 A|r. QeiIx< Was Expecting the in fssct. impotien<ly awaiting it; lnte Inc ea<if8t thing he did |a sfeak for publication. natural. edIt0r of t9e Sentinel got a HhlfH <o lint inflividuars sim p seemed N Harrant a seven ' head ShIch if received. In E kerus ht spo<e of the billions
 o{ tImbfT>prQ1ucfs to be haul 7 q lhIs wonderfully fertile and un'za co'ln{ry and confidently 'eo'lF{y D future com
 supremacy f6nt would be sim. AegefinF 1o eontelhplate.
 *n coIoueI seth Bennington read utburst he smiled That's
 scheme on the part of that ad Redwood TIlrber company slaf( 6 faIIfoad Excitement and q lGclf white 4Icuhant." he da-