The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1920-10-21
CHAPTER XIX.

Col. Seth Pennington was thoroughly
crushed. Look which way he would
the bedevled old rascal could find no
loophole for escape
"You win, Cardigan" he muttered
desperately MS he sat In his Office after
Shirley had left him. you've had
more than a shade in every round thus
far. and ut the finish you've landed
clean knockout. II had TO fight any
man but you"
He sighed resignedly and pressed
the push-button on his desk Sexton
entered. Sexton" he said bluntly
and with slight culver in his voice.
my niece and have had disagree
ment We have quarreled over young
Cardigan. She's going TO marry him.
Now, our affairs are somewhat In
vOlved. and in order 10 straighten them
out we spun a coin to see whether she
should sell her stock I'm Iaguna
Grande to me or whether should sell
mine 10 her-and I lost. The book
valuation OF the stock ut the close OF
last years business, plus ten per cent
will determine the selling price, and
shall resign rs president. You will.
in all probability. be retained to man
age the company until II Is merged
with the Cardigan Redwood Lumber
c0mpany--when. / imagine, you will he
given ample notice 10 seek new job
elsewhere. Call Miss Summers attor-
ney, Judge Moore, on the telephone
and ask him TO conc to the Office AT
nine o'clock tomorrow. when the pa
pers can be drawn up and signed.
That is ALL"
The Colonel did not return TO his
home IN Redwood boulevard that night.
He had no appetite for dinner and sat
hroodlng I'm his office until very late:
then he went to the Hotel Sequola and
engaged a room. He did not possess
sufficient courage TO face his niece
again.
Al four o'clock the next day the
Colonel, his baggage. his automobile,
his chauffeur and the solemn butler.
James, boarded the passenger steamer
for San Francisco. and at four-thirty
sailed out Of Humboldt hay over the
laundering bar and on into the south.
The Colonel was still rich man. but
his dream Of redwood empire had
faded, and once more he was taking
up the search for cheap timber
Whether he ever found II or not Is a
matter that does not concern MS.
Az a moment when young Henry
Poundstone's dream OF legal opulence
was fading when Mayor POundstOne's
hopes for domestic peace had been
shattered beyond repair, the while his
cheap political aspirations had been
equally devastated because OF GER
tain damnable document I'm the posses.
sion Of Bryce Cardigan, many events
or Importance were Transporting. On
the veranda of his old fashioned home
John Cardigan sat tapping the floor
with his stick and dreaming dreams
which for the first time in many yenrs
were rose-tintel. Beside him Shirley
sat, her glance bent muslngly ont
across the roofs Of Sequoia ana on 10
the bay shore, where the smoke and
exhaust steam tloaied up from two
sawmllls-her own and Bryce CnrdI-
CANS. To her came at regularly spaced
Intervals the faint whining OF the saws
and the rumble of log trains crawling
out Of the log dumps; high over the
piles Of bright, freshly sawn lumber
she caught from time to time the fash
of white spray as the great logs tossed
from the trucks hurtled down the
skids and crashed into the bay At
the locks OF both mills vessels were
loading their tall spars cutting the
SKY line above and beyond the smoke.
stacks; far down the bay steam
schooner loaded until her main deci,
was almost flush with the water. wns