The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1921-04-13
SYNOPSIS.

SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER L-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
Timber, widower after three years of
married. lie, and father of two-day-old
Bryce Cardigan.
CHAPTER II.-At fourteen Bryce makes
me acquaintance Of Shirley Sumner, a Wis
years. Together they visit the Valley of
t4e Giants, sacred to John Cardigan and
his son as the burial place of Bryce's
Dother, and part with mutual regret:
CHAPTER III.-while Bryce is at COL
lege John Cardigan meets with heavy
business losses and for the first time views
the future with uncertainty.
CHAPTER Iv.-After graduation from
college, and a trip abroad, Bryce Cardi-
gan comes home. On the train he meets
Shirley Sumner, on her way to Sequoia to
make her home there with her uncle.
fathers eyestght has failed and that Col.
Pennington is seeking to take advantage of
the old mans business misfortunes.
CHAPTER Win the Valley of the
Giants young Cardigan finds a tree felled
directly across his mothers grave. Indi-
cations are that Il 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 vL-Dining with Col. PEN
room paneled with redwood burl, confirm
ing his suspicious OF Pennington's guilt.
In diplomatic way, unperceived by Shir-
ley, the two men declare war.
CHAPTER Vu.-Pennington refuses to
gans, believing his action means bank
ruptcy for the latter. Bryce forces Ron
deau to confess he felled the tree in the
Valley Of the Giants. at Pennington.s or.
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
cept dismissal.
CHAPTER VIII.-Returning to SeQuoia,
the train on which Shirley, her uncle, and
Bryce are travelling. breaks away from
escaped, at the risk of his life cuts out
the caboose and saves them from certain
death, being painfully injured In doing 80.
CHAPTER IX.-Moira McTavish, chilo-
nood friend of Bryce and employed In his
ONCE, makes ShirleyS acquaintance and
the two become friends. Needing money
nington the Valley of the Giants, but the
Colonel, confident the property must soon
be his through the bankruptcy of his
known to her uncle, Shirley buys the
Valley and the Cardigans have a new
lease of business life. They interest capt.
tai and decide on a scheme to parallel
Pennington's logging railroad.
CHAPTER X.-Buchanan Ogilvy, rail-
road contractor and Bryce's college friend
Is decided on by the Cardigans as the
Iv.a1l H.. ,f H.
posed railroad. Bryce goes to San Fran
cisco to meet him.
CHAPTER XI.-Ogilvy ostentatiously
begins work of surveying for the line,
which Is announced as a proposed through
route. Pennington, vaguely alarmed, de-
cioes 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.
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CHAPTER XIt.-"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
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 locomotive and trucks
70 move equipment for laying a 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-
gard Pennington's frenzied remonstrances
and continue work, but the Colonel gets
word to the Mayor and also employs a
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