Cleveland County herald., 1920-08-12

i young male secretary.
 He had been in town less than an hour when the editor of the Sequoia Sentinel sent up his card. The an nouncement of the incorporation of Ogilvy, in huge enjoyment of the misery he was about to create, dubbed the road) had previously been flashed to the Sentinel by the United Press associations as a local feature story and already speculation was rife in Sequoia as to the identity of the hare brained individuals who dared to back an enterprise as nebulOus as the mil lenium. Mir. Ogilvy was expecting the visit-in fact, impatiently awaiting it !; | and since the easiest thing he did l was to speak for publication, natural | ly the editor of the Sentinel got story which, to that individuals sim pie soul, seemed to warrant a seven l column head-Which 1t received. In 1 glowing terms he spoke of the billions of tons of timber products to be haul ed out of this wonderfully fertile and 1 little-knOwn country, and confidently | predicted for the county future com- mercial supremacy that would be sim 1 ply staggering to contemplate
 When Colonel Seth Pennington read this outburst he smiled. That's a | bright scheme on the part of that l Trinidad Redwood Timber company | gang to start railroad excitement and .Jo eIo | clared.
 When Bryce Cardigan read 1t, he | laughed. The interview was so like Buck Ogilvy! In the morning the lat | ter's automobile was brought up from the steamship dock, and accompanied by his secretary, Mir Ogilvy disappear ed into the north following the bright new stakes of his surveying gang, and | for three weeks was seen no more.
 On a day when Bryce's mind hap l pened to be occupied with thoughts of | Shirley Sumner, he bumped into her on the main street of Sequoia, and to her great relief but profound surprise, he paused in his tracks, lifted his hat, smiled and opened his mouth to say omething-thought better of 1t, changed his mind, and continued on about his business. AS Shirley pass ed him, she looked him squarely in the face, and in her glance there was nei- ther coldness nor malice.
 Bryce felt himself afire from heels to hair one instant, and cold and clam my the next, for Shirley spoke to him.
 Good morning, Mir Cardigan" He paused, turned, and approached her. Good morning, Shirley" he re- piled. "How have you been?"
 "I might have oeen dead, for all the interest you took in me-" she re- piled sharply. AS matters stand, I'm exceedingly well-thank you. By the way are you still belligerent?" He nodded. 'T have to be-
 q think you're a great big grouch, Bryce Cardigan" she fared at him. You make me unutterably weary"
 'T'm sorry" he answered, "but just at present I am forced to subject you to the strain. Say a year from now, when things are different with me, I'll strive not to offend"
 "I'll not be here year from now" she warned him.
 He bowed. "Then I'll go wherever you are-and brsng you back" And with mocling little grin, he lifted his hat and passed on.
 r Col. Seth Pennington was among those who, skeptical at first and in clined to ridicule the project into an early grave, eventually found himself swayed by the publicity and gradually coerced into serious consideration of the results attendant upon the build ing of the road. The Colonel was naturally as suspicious aH rattle snake in August; hence he had no sooner emerged from the ranks of the framed the question:
 "How Is this new road-irprobabl as I know it to be-going to affect the interests of the Laguna Grapde Lum- Der company. if the unexpected should happen and those bunco-Steerers should actually build a road from Sequoia to Grants Pass, Ore, and thus construct a feeder to trans continental liner"
 Five minutes of serious reflection suficed to bring the Colonel to the verge of panic, notwithstanding the fact that he was ashamed of himself for yielding to fright despite his firm belief that there was no reason why he should be frightened. Similar con alterations occur to small boy who is walking home in the dark past { cemetery.
 The vital aspects of his predica- ment dawned on the Colonel one night at dinner, midway between the soup and the fish. So forcibly did they oc- cur to him, in fact, that for the nonce he forgot that his niece was seated opposite him.
 "Confound them" the Colonel mur- mured distinctly, "I must look into this immediately"