Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-03-26

OF stranger| His big hands cencl
ed. NO" he growled Savagely. "Giy
me your LAST five annual statement
Mr.. Sinclair. please"
The old S2rvitor brought forth tn
documents IN question Bryce Stull'c
them into his pocket and left the oflic,
Three quarters Of an hour later he eI
tered the little amphtheater in III
Valley of the Giants and paused wit
an expression Of dlSmay. one of TN
giants had fallen ana lay Stretche,
across the little clearing. In Its de
scent II had demolished the littl
white stone over his mothers gray,
and had driven the fragments of IN,
stone deep into the earth.
The fact that the tree was down
however, was secondary to the fact
that neither wind nor lightning hac
brought II low, but rather the impiou,
hand of man; for the great jagged
stump showed all too plainly the
marks Of crosS.cut saw and axe: a
pile of chps four feet dpen Uttered the
ground
For fully a minute Bryce stood
dumby gazing upon Inc sa,rilpre be-
fore his rage and horror found vent IN
words. AN enemy has done This
thing he cried aloud to tile wood
COLLINS. "And over Lpr crave"
II was n hurI lrce Al fine poIut
whore Bryce ppuSrd uuli.ryDpt
growth Ind dp,cloped 81 I'M tr7pl,
Of The trrp ror Nh thp world lilp \
tremendous yaa mis- vu, no bprl
So priced for tahe.tops npd pauelIin-
because Of lhn r,ct NH mo twisted
wavy. heller. >licltrr orpiu lends ~ rbp
wood nm cyiroordha,, h.,nt, o.b,p
polished Bryce pot,d tbat mo vorl,
of removing mis- eyrreSrpnrn ind r.nn
ACCOMPLISHED very pentIv Witb i
croSs-cut saw the grov,b nerbaus fen
feet in diameter had bepn neatly
sliced off much MS housewife ems
Slice after slice from n loaf of hrrod
He guessed TINT these slices nrocti.
cally circular in shan, had been rolled
out of the wootls to some conveyance
waiting 10 receive tb.m
What Bryce could NOT understand
however was the Stupid brutality Of
the raiders in Telling rho free merely
for that section Of burl Nv hermit.
ting the tree 10 stand ana merely
building a staging I'm TO the burl the
latter could have been removed with.
out vital ipiury IA the Whereas
By DESTROYING the tree the wretcbes
had evidenced all roo clearly to Bryca
il wanton desire 10 add ipsul, to in.
jury.
Poor old Dad" he murmured
I'm glad now he has heen unable 10
get up here ana see this. II would
ave broken his heart I'll have This
rec made INTO fence post, ana rbe
stump dynamited ana removed mi.
;umnpr Arter no is onnr,tod ~, AMI
refs back his sight he win come M
lere-and he must never know Per.
lapS he will have fursltten how many
reeS stood IN this circle"
He paused Peeping ont from I'M.
Ter chip among the litter M his foot
vas the moldy corner of n white
nyelope. In an instant Bryce bad il
b his hand. The enyclopp was dirty
nd weatherbeaten. bnt ia n certain
ytent the redwood chlps under which
had lam hidden had served 10 pro.
eel il. ana The writing an tba rore
,as still legihle. The enyplonn was
mpty and addressed 10 Jules Ron.
eau. care Of the Lagllna Graude
lumber company, Seduoia. California
Bryce read and rep,ad that address
nondeau y he muttcred "Jules
stideaul Eve heard that name he.
,re-ah, yes, Dad smoke of him last
ght. He's Pennington's woodS.boss
nd"
An enemy had dome this thing |
all the world John Cardigan had |
1t one enemy-Coonel Seth pennlnr.
N. Had Pennington sent his woods.
,SS 10 do This dirty work out of I
eer spite? Hardly. The section Of
,r1 v.os ,,.,, ,rl ,ti, ,,,.I -, |
@ question of spite had been purelv
matter of secondary consideration ?
Evidently, Bryce reasoned Someone K
d desired that burl redwood grpotlv h
y , ''"' SH ,. nav, ''o' Oe'ii lures II
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