Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-06-25

s'You're Not In Politics for Your
HEALTH"
.you insult me-"
"Sit down. You've been insulted
that way before now. Shall we say
one thousand dollars per each for your
three good councilmen and true, and
for yourself that sedan Of my niece's?
It's a good car. imagine II will please
Mrs. p. immensely and grant you sur
cease from sorrow. OF course, l will
not give II to you. I'll sell It to you
Eve hundred down upon the signing OF
the agreement, and In lieu Of the cash,
will take over that jitney Mrs.
Poundstone finds so distasteful. Then
I will employ your son, Henry. as the
attorney for the Laguna Grande Lum-
Der company and give him a retainer
of twenty-five hundred dollars for one
year. will leave II to you to get this
twenty-five hundred dollars from
Henry and pay my niece cash for the
car. Doesn't that strike you as per-
fectly safe and sane propositionT
Had vista of paradise opened up
before Poundstone. he could not have
been more thrilled. He had been abso-
Iutely honest In his plea to Mrs.
Poundstone that he could not afford a
Observation-Disclosures Sc
dan, much as he longed to oblige her
and gain greatly-to-be-desired peace.
And now the price was dangling before
his eyes, so to speak. At any rate II
was parked in the porte-cochere not
fifty feet distant!
For the space Of minute the mayor
weighed his sons future as corpora
ton attorney against his own future
as mayor Of SeQuoia-and Henry lost.
'It might be arranged, Colonel" he
murmured In a low voice-the voice OF
shame.
ut Is already arranged" the Colonel
replied cheerfully. leave your jit ae
:he front gate and drive home In Shir'
ley's car I'll arrange matters with
her." he laughed shortly. 1T means,
Of course. that I'll have to telegraph
to San Francisco tomorrow and buy
her a later model. Thank goodness,
she has birthday tomorrow Have
fresh cigar. mayor"
Colonel Pennington had little diff
Guilty In explaining the deal to Shirley.
who was sleepy and not at all inter
ested. The Poundstones had bored her
to extinction. and upon her uncle's as
surance that she would have new car
within a week, she thanked him and
| for the first time retired without Offer
|. ing her cheek for his goodnight kiss.
Shortly thereafter the Colonel sought
his own virtuous couch and prepared
TO surrender himself to the first good
sleep In three weeks. He laid the fat
tering JUNCTION to his soul that Bryce
Cardigan had dealt him a poor hand
from a marked deck and he had played
II exceedingly well. Lucky blocked
the young beggar from getting those
rails out Of the Laurel Creek spur" he
unused. cor he'd have had his jump
crossing In overnight-and then where
the devil would have beenl Up Salt
creek without a paddle-and all the
courts In Christendom would avail me
nothing"
He was doing Off, when q sound
smote upon his ears. Instantly he was
wide awake, listening intently. his
head cooked on one side. The sound
grew louder; evidently It was ap-
preaching Sequola-and with a bound
the Colonel sat up In bed, trembling
In every limb.
Suddenly, out of the deep, rumbling
diapason he heard sharp click-then
another and another. He counted
them-six In all.
"A locomotive and two fiat cars !" he
murmured. "And they just passed over
the switch leading from the mainline
tracks out to my log dump. That
means the train is going down Water
street 10 the switch into Cardigan's
yard. BY George. they've OUT fed
mel" ~
With the agility Of boy he sprang
into his clothes, raced downstairs, and
leaped into Mayor Poundstone's jitney
standing In the darkness at the front
gate.