Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-01-14

| can nave enough to buy the logging
| trucks now. and on the first of each
month, when l present my pay roll,
the bank viii advance me the money
TO meet It,"
Bruce, am amazed"
81 am not-since you tell me Colo
mel Pennington controls that bank.
That the bank should accommodate
us is the most natural procedure Inn
aginable. Pennington is only playing
safe-which is why the bank declined
to give me the money in lump sum.
If we run night shift, Pennington
= knows that we can't dispose of our
excess output under present market
conditions. It's a safe bet our lum-
Der Is going to pile up on the mill
dock; hence. when the smash comes
and the Sequoia Bank of Commerce
calls our loan and we cannot possibly
meet it, the lumber on hand will prove |
security for the loan, will 1t not? In |
fact, 1t will be worth two or three dol |
lars per thousand more then than II
is now, because 1t will be air-dried."
But what idea have you got back
Of such procedure, Rryce?"
Merely forlorn hope, dad Some
thing might turn up. The market may
take sudden squirt and go up three
or four dollars. And whether the mar
ket goes up or comes down, 1t costs us
nothing to make the experiment"
quite true" his father agreed.
Then, If you'll come down to the
office tomorrow morning, dad, wen
hold meeting of our board of direc-
tors and authorize me as president of
the company to sign the note to the
bank. We're borrowing this without
collateral, you know"
John Cardigan entered no further
objection, and the following day the
agreement was entered into with the /,
bank. Bryce closed by wire for the :,
extra logging equipment and imme- :.
diately set about rounding up crew r
for the woods and for the night shift
In the mill.
For month Bryce was as busy as h
the proverbial one-armed paper-hanger "
with the itch, and during all that time II
he did not see Shirley Sumner or hear
of her, directly or indirectly. -,
MORA McTavish, in the meantime, 20
had come down from the woods and l.,
entered upon her duties in the mill Of
ice. The change from her dull, drab 90
life, giving her, as it did, an opportun-
ty for companionship with people of 81
greater mentality and refinement than &
he had been used to, quickly brought IS
bout a swift transition in the girls *
ature. With the passing of the
oarse shoes and calico dresses and
he substitution of the kind of cloth rs
lg all women Of Moira's instructive E
efinement and natural beauty long M
Or, the girl became cheerful, animat- ~
d. and imbued with the optimism of =
er years. -
MORA worked In the general office,
nd except upon occasions when u
ryce desired to look at the books or n
-oira brought some document into the IN
rlvate office for his perusal there ~
ere days during which his pleasant lc51
food morning. Moira," constituted
lie extent of their conversation.
Bryce had been absent in San Fran ,,s,,
SEQ for ten days. He had planned to lilo
ay three weeks, but finding his bust Tho
80 So.'Se,lilna.eu I'D less time he re- they
rned to Sequoia unexpectedly. MORA And
rs standing at the tall bookkeeping v,er
SIX, her beautiful dark head bent ona
er the ledger, when he entered the enol
ice and set his suitcase in the .r
rner.
SIS that you, Mr.. Bryce? she In ~
eried NnU
THE identical individual, MORA. glad
DIV did you guess it was II" oro
She looked up at him then. and her foo
dark eyes lighted with a all
me Bryce had not seen in them sail
retofore. 81 knew you were COM tbev
:" she replied simply. isn't
You had bunch, MORA. Do Won .eu
tnose telepathic messages very opt
emp He was crossing the Office nor,
shake her hand , ,aal
I've never noticed particuIarlv 49,.
It is, until I came to work here sRnt to,,
A"o" "iien you are return at CT
after considerable absence" as,
- So" 1911 M'mi ner nanu' I'm SO glad shop
,1,I.r Inc.
ueinanued oiuntly. made
-. uoncu Il really don't have
W., w. =, Dye famil
We'll then" he persisted "what do ma 10
think makes you gladY' made
mad been thinking how nice ~ ..rr,
Id be to have you back, Mr.. BRYCE ,haro
en- you enter the office. IFS like q ana :,
ds INC tops OF the red "An
as. And your father misses Won ar.
he talks to me a great deal obo,,t corId,
Why of course, we miss YOU: a finn,
: he 49,, any tC
y Of - IVA ner nano' he glanced ut
ohonroa ~ uo'eu now greatly 1t toy su
ths - uuilng the past few "Th
a o,,o, ~, "er nand his glance fly, to,