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"1 wanted:isome (advice Suppose
you wanted very, veryimuch totkno'v
what two people were 'talking about,
blit found yourselfin a position where
you couldn't eavesdrop. What would
you, do a,
"L wouldn't eavesdrop," he. told her
severely. "That isn't a nice thing to
do, and I didn't think you would con-
template anything that isn't nice,"
"I wouldn't ordinarily. But I have
every moral, ethical, and financial
right to be a party to that conversa-
tion, only well-"
"With you present there would be
no conversation -is that it?"
"Exactly, Mr. Cardigan."
• "And it is of the utmost impprt-
ance that you should know what is
said?"
"Yes " .
"And you do not intend to use your
knowledge of this conversation, when
gained, for an illegal or unethical pur-
pose?"
."I do not. On the contrary, if I
am aware of what is being planned, I
cant prevent others from doing some-
thing illegal and unethical."
"In that event, Shirley, I should say
you axe quite justified in eaveedrop-
in "
p "But how can I do it -2 o I can't hide
in a closet and listen."
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2.37
2.52
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8.20
8.28
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9.60
10.04
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"You are very` •I�d, gin:
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)how is your dear old fattier? Moira
told me sometime ago that he was
`jIe's.?quite:,iielb again, thank you,
By: e wny, Moira doesn't know that
you•and;'have ever Met.' Why d2n't
you tell her?"
"I ,can't anserer that question -now.
Perhaps some day I may be in a posi-
tion to db so."
"It's too bad the circumstances are
such that we, who started out to he
such agreeable friends, •see so little.
of each other, Shirley."
"Indeed; it is. However, it's all
your fault. I have told you once how
you can obviate that distressing sit-
uation. But you're so .stubborn, Mr.
Cardigan."
"1. haven't gdt to the point where
I like crawling on my hands and knees
be flared back at her. "Even for
your sake, I decline to stimulate
friendship or tolerance for your un-
cle; hence I must be contebt to let
matters stand as they are between
us."
She' laughed lightly. "So you are
still uncompromisingly belligerent-
still after Uncle Seth's scalp?"
"Yes; and I think I'm going to get
it. At any rate, he isn't going to get
mine."
"Don't you think you're rather un-
just to make me suffer for the sins of
my relative, Bryce?" she demanded.
She had called him by his first
name. He thrilled. "I'm lost in a
quagmire of debts --Pin helpless now."
he murmured. "I'm not fighting for
myself alone, but for a thousand de-
pendents -for a principle -for an an-
cient sentiment that was my father'a
and is now mine. You do not under-
stand."
"I understand more than you give
me credit for, and some day you'll
realize it. I understand just enough
to make me feel sorry for you. I
understand what even my uncle does
not suspect at present, and that is
that you're the directing genius of the
Northern California Oregon Railroad
and hiding behind your friend Ogilvy.
Now, listen to me Bryce Cardigan:
You're never going to build that road.
Do you understand?"
The suddenness of her attack•amaz-
ed him to such an extent that he did
not take the trouble to contradict her.
Instead he blurted out, angrily and
defiantly: "I'll build that road if it
costs me my life -?if it costs me you.
Understand! I'm in .this fight to
"You will not build that road," she
reiterated.
"may?"
"Because I shall not permit you to.
I have some financial interest in the
Laguna Grande Lumber Company,
and it is not to that financial inter-
est that you should build the N. C.
0."
"How did you find out I was be-
hind Ogilvy?"
"Intuition.- Then I accused you of
it, and you admitted it." •
"I suppose you're going to tell your
uncle now," he retorted witheringly.
"On the contrary, I am not. I
greatly fear I was born with a touch
of sporting blood, Mr. Cardigan, so
I'm going to let you two fight until
you're exhausted, and then I'm going
to step in and decide the issue. You
can save money by surrendering now.
I hold the whip hand."
"I prefer to fight. With your per-
mission this bout will go to a knock-
out."
"I'm not so certain I do not like
you all the more for that decision.
And if it will comfort you the least
bit, you have my word of honour that
I shall not reveal to my uncle the
identity of the man behind the N. C.
0. I'm not a tattletale, you know,
and moreover I have a great curios-
ity to get to the end of the story. The
fact is, both you and Uncle Seth an-
noy me exceedingly. How lovely ev-
erything would have been if you two
hadn't started this feud and forced
upon Titre the task of trying to he fair
and impartial to you both."
"Can you remain . fair and impar-
tial ?"
"I think I can -even up to the point
of deciding whether or not you are
going to build that road. Then I
shall act independently of you both.
Forgive my slang, but --I'm going to
heed you each a poke then."
"Shirley," he told her earnestly,
"listen carefully to what I am about
to say: I love you. I've loved you
from the day I first met you. I shall
always love you; and when I get a-
round to it, I'm going to ask you to
marry me. At present, however, that
is a right I do not possess. However,
the day I acquire the right I shall ex-
ercise it."
"And when will that day be?" Very
softly, in awesome tones!
"The day I drive the last spike in
the N. C. 0."
Fell a silence. Then: "I'm glad,
Bryce Cardigan, you're not a quitter.
Good-bye, good luck -and don't for-
get my errand." She hung up and
sat at the telephone for a moment,
dimpled chin in dimpled hand, her
glance wandering through the window
and far away across the roofs of the
town to Where the smokestack of
Cardigan's mill cut the sky -line. "How
Pd hate you if I could handle you!"
she murmured.
Following this exasperating but il-
luminating conversation with Shirley
Sulfa irk over the telephone, Brice
Catrin was ii4dtstressed and badly
We. : ed: man. However, Bryce, Was
etitrtnihnicant of -a very simple faith
. to wilt, that one is nevelr'up pped till
One is counted out, and the rat shook
of Shirley's discovery ha ng.. passed,
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'dlssocite,'the husixiese. froaii the pert
sepal aspects of ':Isis .relations with
"Shirley,. and he 'recalled; that she had,
the very -best of reasons for placing
their relationson a 'business basis
rather than a sentimental one. ate
had played a,, pare in their little
drama which he knew mist have baf-
fled- and infuriated her. More, had
she, in those delightful few days of
their early acquaintance, formed for
him a sentimental somewhat stronger
than friendship (he did not flatter
himself that this was so), he could
understand her attitude toward ,him
as that of the woman scorned. For
the present, however, it was all a
profound and disturbing mystery,
and after an hour of futile concen-
tration there came to Bryce the old
childish impulse to go to his father
with his troubles. That sturdy old
soul, freed from the hot passions of
youth,2Its impetuosity and its prone-
ness to consider cause rather than
effect, had weathered too many storms
in his day to permit the present one
to 'benumb his brain as it had his
son's.
"He will be able to think without
having his thoughts blotted out by a
women's face," Bryce soliloquized.
"He's like one of his own big redwood
trees; his head is always above the
steins"
Straightway Bryce left the office
and went home to the old house on
the knoll. John Cardigan was sitting
on the veranda, and from a stand be-
side him George Sea Otter entertain-
ed him with a phonograph selection -
"The Suwanee River," sung by a male
quartet. As the gate clicked, John
raised his head; then as Bryce's quick
step spurned the cement walk up the
little old-fashioned garden, he rose
and stood with one hand outstretch-
ed and trembling a little. He could
not see, but with the intuition of the
blind, he knew.
"What is it, son?" he demanded
gently as Bryce came up the low
steps. `George, choke that contrap-
tion pff."
Bryce took his father's hand. "I'm
in trouble, John Cardigan," he said
simply, "and I'm not big enough to
handle it alone."
The leonine old man smiled, and his
smile had all the sweetness of a
benediction. His boy was in trouble
and had come to him. Good! Then
he would not fail him. "Sit down,
son, and tell the old man all about it.
Begin at the beginning and let me
have all the angles of the angle."
Bryce obeyed, and for the first time
John Cardigan learned of his son's
acquaintance with Shirley Sumner
and the fact that she had been pres-
ent in Pennington's woods the day
Bryce had gone there to settle the
score with Jules Rondeau. In the
wonderful first flush of his love a
sense of embarrassment, following his
discovery of the fact that his father
and Colonel Pennington were implac-
able enemies•, had decided Bryce not
to mention the matter of the girl to
John Cardigan until the entente cor-
diale between Pennington and his fa-
ther could be re-established, for Bryce
had, with the optimism of his years,
entertained for a few days a thought
that he could bring about this desir-
able condition of affairs. The discov-
ery that he could not, together with
his renunciation of his love until he
should succeed in protecting his heri-
tage and eliminating the despair that
had come upon his father in the lat-
ter's old age, had further operated to
render unnecessary any discussion of
the girl with the old man.
With the patience and gentleness
of a confessor John Cardigan heard
the story now, and though Bryce
gave no hint in words that his affec-
tions were involved in the fight for
the Cardigan acres, yet did his father
know it, for he was a parent. And
his great heart went out in sympathy
for hie boy.
"I understand, sonny, I understand.
This young lady is only one addition-
al reason why you must win, for of
course you understand she is not in-
different to yon."
"I do not know that she feels for
me anything stronger than a vag-
rant sympathy, Dad, for while she is
eternally feminine, nevertheless she
has a masculine way of looking at
many things. She is a, good comrade
with a bully sense of sportsmanship,
and unlike her skunk of an uncle, she
fights in the open. Under the cir-
cumstances, however, her first loyalty
is to him; in fact, she owes none to
me. And 1 dare say he has given her
some extremely plausible reason why
we should be eliminated; while I
think she is sorry that it must be
done, nevertheless, in a mistaken im-
pulse of self-protection she is likely
to let him do it."
"Perhaps, perhaps. One never
knows why a woman does things, al-
though it is a safe het that if they're
with you at all, they're with you all
the way. Eliminate the girl, my boy.
She's trying to play fair to you and
her relative. Let us concentrate on
:;tiixacaas
hriv10
denness o f . t ;all ki s
loss dumb. Why d
duce the city"eouncil
temporary franchise
• buy your rails from, l''en l gton. : He
has a mile of track running up Laurel
Creek and Laurel CrecIV Was logged
out three years ago. s3(3lieve that
spur is useless to. Pen'gton, and
the ninety -pound rails. arc rusting
there."
"But will he setlt them th. ine?"
"Not, if you tell' him whir you want
them."
"But he hates me, old ,p1"
"The Colonel never per,rtits senti-
ment to interfere with htttiness, zny
son. He doesn't need the rails, and
he does desire your money.,, Consider
the rail -problem settled."
"How do you stand with the Mayor
and the council?"
"I do not stand at- all. I opposed
Poundstone for the office; Dobbs, who
was appointed to fill a vacancy caus-
ed by the death of a regularly elected,
councilman, was once a bookkeeper in
our office, you will remember. I dis-
charged \ him for lootieg !'the petty -
cash dray er. Andrews' and Mullin
are professional politicians and not to
be trusted. In fact, Poundstone,
Dobbs, Andrews and Mullin: are known
as the Solid Four. Yates, 'and That-
cher, the remaining members of the
city council, are the result of the re-
form ticket last fall, but since they
are in the minority, they are help-
less."
"That makes it bad."
"Not at all. The Cardigans are
not known to be connected with the
N. C. 0. Send your bright friend
Ogilvy after the franchise. He's the
only man who can land it. Give him
a free hand and tell him to deliver
the goods by any means short of
bribery. I imagine he's had experi-
ence with city cquncils and will know
exactly how to proceed. I know you
can procure the rails and have them
at the intersection of B and Water
streets Thursday night. 'If Ogilvy
can procure the temporary franchise
and have it in his pocket by six
o'clock Thursday night, you should
have that crossing in by sunup Fri-
day morning. Then let Pennington
rave. He cannot procure an injunc-
tion to restrain tri from cutting his
tracks, thus throwing the matter in-
to the courts and bolding us up in-
definitely, because by the time he
wakes up, the tracks will have been
crit. The best he can do then will be
to fight us before the city council
when we apply for our permanent
franchise. Thank God, however, the
name of Cardigan carries weight in
this county, and with the pressure of
public sympathy and opinion back of
us, we may venture, my boy, to break
a lance with the Solid Four, should
they stand with Pennington."
"Partner, it looks like a forlorn
hope," said Bryce.
"Well, you're the boy to lead it.
And it will cost but little to put in i
the crossing and take a chance. Re-
member, Bryce, once we have that I
crossing in, it stands like a spite -
fence between Pennington and the
law which he knows 'so well how to
pervert to suit his ignoble purposes."
He turned earnestly to Bryce and
waved a trembling admonitory finger.
"Your job is to keep put of court. Once
Pennington gets th4 law on ns, the
issue will not be settled in our fav-
our for years; and in the meantime
-you perish. Run along now and
hunt up Ogilvy. George, pity that
'Suwanee River' quartet again. It
sort o' soothes me."
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CHAPTER XX%
It was with a considerably lighter
heart that Bryce returned to the mill -
office, from which he lost no time in
summoning Buck Ogilvy by telephone.;
"Thanks so much for the invita-
tion," Ogilvy murmured gratefully.
"I'll he down in a pig's whisper." And
he was. "Bryce you look like the
deli]," he declared the moment he
entered the latter's private office.
"I ought to, Nuck. I've just rais-
ed the devil and spilled the beans on
the N. C. 0."
"To whom, when and where?" t
"To Penning -ton's niece, over the
telephone about two hours ago."
Buck Ogilvy smote his left palm
with his right. fist. "And you've
waited two horns to confess your
crime? Zounds, man, this is bad."
"1 know. Curse me, Buck. I've
probably talked you out of a good
job."
"Oh, say not se, old settler. We
may still have an out. How did you
let the cat out of the bag "
"That remarkable girl called me
up, and accused you of being a mere
screen for me and amazed me so I
admitted it."
Ogilvy dropped his red head in -sim-
ulated agony and moaned. Present-
ly he raised it and said: "Well, it
might have been worse. Think of
what might have happened had she
called in person. She would have
picked your pocket for the corporate
seal, the combination of the safe, and
the list of stockholders, and probab-
ly ended up by gagging you and bind-
ing you in your own swivel -chair."
"Don't, Buck. Comfort and not
abuse is what I need now."
"All right. I'll conclude my re-
marks by stating that I regard you
as a lovable fat -head devoid of suf-
ficient mental energy to pound the
proverbial sand into the proverbial
rat -hole. Now, then, what do you
want' me to do to save the day?"
"Deliver to me by six o'clock Thurs-
day night a temporary franchise from
the city council, granting the N.C.O.
the right to rtiii a railroad grebe out
drying yard across Water Street at
its intersection with B Street and out
Firont Street." -
"Certainly. By ail meansi Has.
fest thing I dot ,Suite yon doh,'t Wane
to arrange to banter a gar 'i'r tem
to make a to -rata for the lady that's
ebaperonr joie
1, le to he icy 1i0' Qua
G.'elite rtrd% ''l ase S nor, who, f-om ;r
aceaunts is most brilliant and fascia
athig.
"Nothing doing!" Bryce almost
routed. , "Why, she's the 'girl that
bluffed the secret of the N. C. O. out
of me!"
"Do you hate her for it?"
"No, I hate myself."
"Then you'll .come. You promised
in advance, and no excuses go now.
The news will be all over town by
d
day morning; So why bother to
keep up appearances any longer.'
Meet me at the Canton at seven and
cheek dull care at the entrance."
And •before Bryce could protest;
Ogilvy had thrown open the office
door and called the glad tiding to
Moira, who was working in, the next
room; whereupon Moira's wonderful
eyes shone with that strange lambent
flame. She clasped her hands joy-
ously. "Oh, how wonderful!" she ex-
claimed. -"I've always wanted Miss
Shirley to meet Mr. Bryce."
Again Bryce was moved to protest,
but Buck Ogilvy reached around the
hallf-opened door and kicked him in
the -shins. "Don't crab my game, you
miserable snarley-yow. Detract one
speck from that girl's pleasure, and
you'll never see that temporary fran-
chise," he threatened. "I will not
work for a quitter --so, there!" And.
with his bright smile he set out im-
mediately upon the trail of the city
council, leaving Bryce Cardigan a
prey to many conflicting emotions,
the chief of which, for all that he
strove to suppress it, was riotous joy
in the knowledge that while he had
fought against it, fate had decreed
that he should bask once more in the
radiance of Shirley Sumner's adorable
presence. Presently, for the first
time in many weeks, Moira heard him
whistling "Turkey in the Straw."
CHAPTER XXVI
Fortunately for the situation which
had so suddenly confronted him,
Bryce Cardigan had Mr. Buck Ogilvy;
and out of the experiences gained in
other railroad -building enterprises,
the said Ogilvy, while startled, was
not stunned by the suddenness and
immensity of the order so casually
Id
dieing
I1�yy 1.
franchise. • .
to' *Moak Up-: en .th
blinc sides
bloelks farther on, 11
paused and snapped his fc#,._
oronsly. "Eureka!" •" he 'ta urs
"I've got Poundstone by the tail- on
a downhill haul. Is it a cinch? Well,
I just guess I should tell a Maser,'
He hurried to the telephone linaitd
ing and put in a long-distance eon.
for 'the San Francisco office, of the
Cardigan Redwood Lumber Company,
When the manager came on the line,
Ogilvy dictated to him a message.
which he instructed the manager to
telegraph back to him at the Hotel
Sequoia one hour later; this pays'ter-
ious detail attended to, he continued
on to the Mayor's office in the city
hall.
Mayor Poundstone's bushy eye-
brows arched with interest when his
secretary laid upon his desk the card
of Mr. Buchanan Ogilvy, vice-presi-
dent and general manager of the
Northern California Oregon Railroad.
"Ah -h -'h!" he breathed with an un-
pleasant resemblance to a ben vivant
who sees before him his favourite vin-
tage. "I have been expecting Mr.
Ogilvy to call for quite a while. At
last we shall see what we shall see.
Show him in."
The visitor was accordingly admit-
ted to the great man's presence and
favoured with an official handshake of
great heartiness. "I've been hoping
to have this pleasure for quite some
time, Mr. Poundstone," Buck announc-
ed easily as he disposed of his hat
and overcoat on an adjacent chair.
"But, unfortunately I have had so
much preliminary detail to attend to
before making an official call that at
last I grew discouraged and conclud-
ed I'd just drop in informally and get
acquainted." Buck's alert blue eyes
opened wide in sympathy with his
genial mouth, to deluge Mayor
Poundstone with a smile that was
friendly, guileless, confidential, and
singularly delightful. Mr. Ogilvy
was a man possessed of tremendous
personal magnetism when he chose
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of disarming suspicion
ing confidence.
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ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CLUB
(Mewl-ership Limited to 50)
NEW PIANO
CLUB OFFER
Regular $475 for $339
BENCH FREE
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- THESE
TERMS
NEW PLAYER PIANO
CLUB OFFER
Regular $750 for $549
BENCH and 10 Player rolls FREE
You have longed for a chance like this NOW IT IS
HERE. Pay $5.00 to join, then $2.50 a week from now
till Christmas. Nothing more till January 25th, 1927.
Then $R.00, $10.00 or $12.110 a month till fully paid.
OTHER PIANO
BARGAINS
REBUILT USED PIANOS
$150 $225 $275
Send for list
20 Good Square Pianos
$45 each
Any 6 -Octavo Organ $25
ORTHOPHONI C
VIC TROLA
With 20 Selections
$122.5°
CLUB TERMS
USED PHONOGRAPHS
$25. $35. $60.
Records 3 for $1.00
Opera Selections • SI.1S
Musical Instruments, the Greatest of All Gifts, at prices
and terms you will not resist.
Pay a deposit -we will deliver now or Christmas eve.
Come early while the selection is Complete.
M
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son & Risch,
97 Ontario Star., Stratford, Ont: