Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-01-07

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II member. you are not In a position
II ASH favors"
II 'Then suppose wen have to z
/ down fghting?"
II II do not anticipate much OF
| light"
| And I'll begin by running you
| woods-boss out OF the country"
| "Ah-hw
| you know why, OF course-thos,
burI panels In your dining room. Ron
deau felled tree In our Valley OF tn,
Giants to get that burl for you. Colone
Pennington"
Pennington flushed. 81 defy you to
prove that" he almost shouted
VERY WELL I'll make Rondeau con
fess; perhaps he'll even tell me who
sent him after the burl. Upon my
word. | think you inspired that
dastardly raid. AT any rate, | know
ROndeau Is guilty. and you. as his
employer and the beneficiary OF his
crime. must accept the odium."
The COlOnel's face went white. 81
do not admit anything except that you
appear to have lost your head. young
man. However. for the sake Of argu.
ment: granting that Rondeau feIled
that tree. he did II under the appre-
hension that your Valley OF the Giants
is part of my Squaw creek timber
adjoining"
II do not believe that. There was
malice In tho 70 Igfv ayo, g..
my mothers grave identified the land
as ours, and ROndeau felled the tree
on her tombstone"
IF that is so, and Rondeau felled |
that tree-I do not believe he did
am sincerely sorry. Cardigan. Name
your price and I will pay you for the
tree"
"You can't pay for that tree" Bryce
burst forth. mo pitiful human being
can pay in dollars and cents for the
wanton destruction of Gods handi-
work. You wanted that burl, and
when my father was blind and could
no longer make his Sunday pilgrimage
up to that grove. your woods-boss
went up and stole that which you
knew you could not buy"
THAT will be about all from YOU.
young man. Get out Of my office.
And. by the way, forget that you have
net my niece"
IT'S your office-so I'll get out. AS
or your second command"-he snapped
lis fingers in Pennington's face
fooeyl" L
When Bryce had gone, the Colonel d
urriedly called his logging-camp on Il
ne telephone and asked for Jules d
only to be informed By the u
mekeeper who answered the tele- u
hone. that Rondeau was I'D In the e.
reen timber with the choppers and az
ould not be gotten to the telephone o.
less than two hours. w
DO not send for him, then" Pen
ngton commanded. "Tm coming nm pl
the eleyen-fifteen train and will lie
Tx to him when he comes In for his re
nch." TO
At eleven o'clock, and just as the de
'lonel was leaving to board the VIC
even-hfteen logging-train bound sw
npty Tor the woods, Shirley Sumner WI
ade her appearance in his office grl
uncle Seth" she complained. I'm thf
1esome. The bookkeeper tells me wa
ure going up to the logging-camp. "n
~ l go with your"
Dy al means. Usually I ride In -.
cab with the engineer and fireman: VIII
I IL you're coming, I'll have them ua'
OK on the caboose. Step lively, nv ina
ar or they'll be holding the train "
US and upsetting our schedule" iiIt
era
~ virtue Of their logging-contract u-iu
II remington, the Cardigans and p -,
III employees were transported free ~
+ Fennington's logging railroad: Is,
zee when Bryce Cardigan resolved "n -,
wait upon Jules Rondeau in the mat
OF mat murdered Giant, it was 49, ~
racter'stic of him to choose the nc
rtest and most direct route TO his '''i
Try and as the long string of EMMY 81 u
'ihS-trucks came crawling off the "',i
una Grande Lumber company's loo. upi''
lp' ne swung over the side ouite e",
'rant of the fact that Shirley and not
precious relative We're riding in le''o
little caboose in the rear. arouu
twelve-ten the train slid in IN ''''le
log landing. croo
Where's RondeauY Bryce asked Term
ne engineer pointed to bure nrYc
rthy man approaching across the oio''
ring in which the camp was sir spra'
a. That's him." he replied Br
without further ado, Bryce strobe you,
leet his man. in ca
IRE you Jules Rondeau?" he do
ded MS he came nm 20 e., ue feSS
The latter nodded. I'm Rrvce ID
Iigan." his interrocotor onna. .'SVe to 20
I'm here to thrash v,,,, s elo HI
that big redwood tree over in want
little valley where NV o'ei IN at
ID" 10 ing I
hp' Rondeau s,,,,oa , of tn,
'ure. M'sieur" And 49,, VIZ ais.
ents hesitation he rushed pr,.. Threw