The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1921-04-06
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I-Pioneer in the California
redwood region, John Cardigan, at forty
seven, Is the leading citizen of SeQuoia,
owner OF mills, ships, and many acres of
married life, and father of two-day-old
Bryce Cardigan.
CHAPTER u.-At fourteen Bryce makes
me me aeqqaintance Of Shirley Sumner, Wis
years. Together they visit the Valley of
gpe Giants, sacred to John Cardigan and
his son as the burial place of Bryce's
notner' and part with mutual regret
CHAPTER Iu.-while Bryce is at coll
lege John Cardigan meets with heavy
business losses and for the first time views
the future with uncertainty.
CHAPTER Waiter graduation from
college, and trip abroad, Bryce Cardi-
gan comes home. On the train he meets
make her home there with her uncle,
Col Pennington. Bryce learns that his
fathers eyesight has failed and that Col.
Pennington is seeking to take advantage of
CHAPTER Win the Valley of the
Giants young Cardigan finds a tree felled
cations are that It was cut down to secure
the burl, and evidence seems to show that
Pennington and his woods-boss, Jules
Rondeau, are implicated in the outrage.
CHAPTER vI.-Dining with Col. Pen.
nington and his niece, Bryce finds the
room paneled with redwood bur1, confirm
ing his suspicious of Pennington's guilt
In a diplomatic way, unperceived by Shir.
ley, the two men declare war.
CHAPTER vII-Pennington refuses to
renew his logging contract with the Cardi-
gans, believing his action means bank
SPy for the latter s syGe Tse RG fe
Valley of the Giants, at Pennington's Or
der. After Furnishing the man, Bryce
hurls him at Col. Pennington, who, with
Shirley, had witnessed the fight Penning-
ton is Inundated, and the girl, indignant,
orders Bryce to leave her and forget their
friendship. He leaves, but refuses to &C
cept dismissal
CHAPTER withdrawing to Sequoia,
the train on which Shirley, her uncle, and
Bryce are travelling, breaks away from
the locomotive, and Bryce, who could have
at ths sE Of b hs f em cuts oS
death, being painfully injured in doing 80.
CHAPTER IX.-Moira McTavish, chilo-
once, makes shiriey's acquaintance and
the two become friends. Needing money
badly, John Cardigan offers to sell PEN
nington the Valley of the Giants, but the
be his through the bankruptcy of his
enemies, contemptuously refuses. I'm
known to her uncle, Shirley buys the
lease of business life. They interest capt.
tai and decide on a scheme to parallel
Pennington's logging railroad.
CHAPTER X.-Buchanan OgiIvy. rail-
road contractor and Bryce's college friend
IL decided on by the Cardigans as the
man to figure as the builder of the pro-
posed railroad: Bryce goes to San Fran
cisco to meet him.
CHAPTER X.-Ogilvy ostentatiously
begins work Of surveying for the line,
which Is announced as a proposed through
route. Pennington, vaguely alarmed, de-
cides to block operations by making it i'm
possible to secure franchise for the line
through SeQuoia. In this he plans to en-
list the aid of the mayor, Poundstone.
CHAPTER XII:-"Buck" Ogilvy. as
builder of the projected Northern Cali
fornia & Oregon railroad, meets MORA
McTavish and is much impressed. Bryce
and his father make plans for securing a
franchise for the line from the city
council.
CHAPTER XIII.-Ogilvy, in a business
interview, favorably impresses the Mayor
and later engages that officials son as at
torney for the new road. Through him
they obtain the temporary franchise
Pennington, finally convinced that the
Cardigan interests are behind the scheme,
gets to work to balk them.
CHAPTER XIV.-Pennington refuses
Bryce the use of a locomotive and trucks
70 move equipment for laying switch,
and Bryce and Ogilvy plan to steal both
and during the night put in a crossing
cutting Pennington's tracks in the city.
Pennington brides Mayor Poundstone to
ignore the temporary franchise granted
and to refuse a permanent one. That
night Pennington hears the Cardigan
tracklaying crew at work and hurries to
the spot.
CHAPTER XV.-Bryce and Ogilvy disre-
IsiLs Uon AiS I IeIIIsc u alcSs
word to the Mayor and also employs
desperate to shoot Bryce. Bryce is wound
ed. Work on the track is stopped by the
chief of police. Shirley accuses her uncle
Of conniving at the murder of Bryce, and
the Colonel leaves for San Francisco to
safeguard his interests through further
legal proceedings.