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The Huron Expositor, 1926-11-19, Page 7. . .1 I. . . " • • • U!:io' c. • • s t it s' 1. LC. it ;e to a ly re ty BO P - be he re or st" kOS , /*ter, .S011eitere end Notary Public. %Solid , for the lifoninion Banix. Offleo paa, fleeforth. loan; PETER ICYNE GliciliaT Lti32141,P New York , BMW & BEST - 1041rrieterst, Solicitors, Courigen, ears and l'iletazies Ete. 'Office In the Edge Blanding, opposite The alPeaiter Office. VETERINARY F.-HARBURN, V. S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- , ary College, and honorary member of the Medical Association of the Ontario Veterinary College. Treats diseases of all domestic animals by the most mod- ern principles. Dentistry and Milk Fever a specialty. Office opposite Dick's Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth. All orders left at the hotel will re- ceive prompt attention. Night calls received at the office. JOHN GRIEVE, V. S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges 'Moderate. 'Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Mackay's Office, Sea - forth. • A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary Cellege, University of Toronto. All Manages of domestic animals treated by the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or night eels promptly attended to. Office on Main Street, Henaall, opposite Town "ha Phone 116. MEDICAL DR. R. P. L DOUGALL Honour graduate of Faculty of Medicine and Master of Science, Uni- versity of Western Ontario, London. Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office, 2 doors sat of post office. Phone 56, Hensel. Ontario. 8004-tf DR. J. A. MUNN Successor to Dr. R. R. Ross Graduate of Northwestern Univers- Aty, Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toront. Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St., B eidorth. Phone 151. DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY 13ayffeld. Graduate Dublin University, Ire- land. Late Extern Assistant Master Bottmda Hospital for Women and 4hildren, Dublin. Office at residence .41y occupied by Mrs. Parsons. Boort, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.; S undays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2886-26 • DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence Goderich Street, past of the Methodist church, Seaforth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DR. C. PdACRAY C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin tty University, and gold medallist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Sur - &one of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office -Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. AUCTIONEERS F. W. AHRENS Licensed Auctioneer for Perth and Huron Counties. Sales solicited, Real Estate, Farm Stock, Etc. Terms en application. F. W. Ahrens, phone 164 r 6, R. R. No. 4, Mitchell, Ont. OSCAR W. REED Licensed auctioneer- for the Coun- ties of Perth and Huron. Graduate of Jones' School., Auctioneering. Chicago. Charges moderate, and sat- isfaction g-uaranteed. Write or wire Oetar W. Reed, Staffa, Ont. Phone 11-2. 2965x52 THOMAS BROWN Licensed auctioneer for the counties of Huron and Perth. Correspondence arrangements for sale dates can be made by calling up phone 212, Sea - forth, or The Expositor Office. Charg- es moderate, and satisfaction guar- anteed., OSCAR HLOPP Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School of Auetioneering, Chi- eago. Special course taken in Pare Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer- chandise and Farm Sales. Rates in keeping with Prevailing market. Sat- isfaction assured. Write or wire, Oster Elopp, Snitch, Ont. Phone 18•01. 2866-52 R. T. WHIM Licensed auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales attended to in all parts of the county. Seven years' eft - pretence in Manitoba and Saskatche- Waal. Terms reasonable. Phone No. 118 r 11, Exeter, Centralia Pi; O., fl B. No. 1. Orders left at The Huron itirpositor Office, Senforth, promptly attended. F. W. ABBOTS Blamed Auctioneer for Perth and Huron Counties. Sales Solicited. /keel tate, Parra Stock, It& on Appiteatioin Nitelioll. Ont. saassassmaws000010a0.100imissaiim • (continued from last week) •Colonel Pennington's, eyes twinkled. •Ux greatly fear, my dear, I should Make a noise like something doing." "Suppose you lost the battle." "In that event the Laguna Grande Lumber Company wouldn't be any worse off than it is at present. The principal loser, as I view the situa- tion, would be Miss Shirley Sumner, who has the misfortune to be loaded up witle Cardigan bonds. And as for Bryce Cardigan -well, that young man would certainly know he'd been through -a fight." "I wonder if he'll fight to the last, Uncle Seth." "Why, I believe he will," Penning- ton replied soberly. "I'd love to see you beat him." "Shirley! Why, my dear, you're growing ferocious." Her uncle's tones were laden with banter, but his count- enance could not conceal the pleasure her last remark had given him. "Why not? I have something at stake, have I not?" "Then you really want me to smash him?" The Colonel's voice proclaim- ed his incredulity. "You got me into this fight by buying Cardigan bonds for me," she replied meaningly, "and I look to yop to save the investment or as much of it as possible; for certainly, if it shoukl develop that the Cardigans HEIRS WANTED Missing Heirs are being Bought hroughout the world. Many people are to -day living in comparative pov- Irty who are really rich, but do not mow it. You may be one of them. Send for Index Book, "Missing Heirs and Next of Kin," containing cere- mony authenticated lista of missing heirs and unclaimed estates which save been advertised for, here and *broad. The Index of Missing Heirs we offer for sale contains thousands A names which have appeared in Ametican, Canadian, English, Scotch, Irish, Welsh, German, French, Bel- gian. Swedish, Indian, ,Colonial, and Aber newspapers, inserted by lawy- ers, executers, administrators. Also eontains list of English and Irish 3ourts of Chancery and unclaimed lividends Het of Bank of England. Your name or your ancestor's may be a' the list. Send $1.00 (one dollar) it once for book. International Claim Agency Dept. 296, Pittsburgh, Pa., U. S. A. 2930-tf LONDON AND WINGHAM North. Exeter Hensel! Kippen Brucefield Clinton Jct. Clinton, Ar. Clinton, Lv. Clinton Jet. Londesborough Blyth Belgrave Wingham Jct., Ar Wingham Jct., Lv Wingham South. Wingham Wingham Jct. Belgrave Londesborough Clinton Jet. Clinton Clinton Jct. Brucefield Kippen Hensall Exeter C. N. R. TIME East. Goderich Holmesville Clinton Seaforth St. Columban Dublin Dublin St. Columban Seaforth ° Clinton Holmesville Goderich a.m. 10.16 10.30 10.35 10.44 10.58 11,05 11.15 11.21 11.35 11.44 11.56 12.08 12.08 12.12 a.m. 6.55 7.01 7.15 7.27 7.35 7.49 7.56 8.03 8.15 8.22 8.32 8.47 TABLE 21.M. 6.00 6.17 6.25 6.41 6.49 6.54 West.. a.m. p.m. 10.37 5.38 10.42 5.44 10.58 5.58 11.10 6.08 11.20 7.03 11.40 7.20 •1•••••••,•••••••••1 C. P. R. TIME TABLE Mast. Goderich Menset MeGaw Auburn Blyth alton McNaught Toronto West. Toronto MeN'anght Walton ......... Myth Auburn MAW..... Menset Goderiali p.m. 6,04 6.18 6.23 6.32 6.46 6.52 6.52 6.58 7.12 7.21 7.33 7.45 7.45 7.55 p.m. 3.15 3.21 3.32 3.44 3.52 4.06 4.13 4.20 4.32 4.40 4.50 5.05 2.20 2.37 2.52 3.12 3.20 3.28 p.m 9.37 9.50 10.04 10.13 10.30 a.m. 5.50 5.55 - 6.04 6.11 625 6.40 6.52 10.25 a.m. 7.40 11.48 12.01 12.12 12.22 12,84 12.41 12.45 Viril.:,,441'4441i''' a 'e •4:,,sitmatusolo'LTne !•,0,174[0T1,4,-:haV,ev'' • lainti,d414 4ot. ell6eridliledi:".,'0„tn$111,ndr(94 -,-We 4ai 40° (tr.-Lint:111000e againSt Your better 4veilingi MAO Olt,i4lgait jtaigeWnt andeeterre4MIne.??, I"You, MariPt shrugge - "One Must ,figure evert angle oft a 4p0Sale eituation, My dear, and I should hesitate U. start semethiiig with, the Cardigan% and have yoli, because of foolish sent- iment, call of MY dos." iShirley thrust out her adorable chin aggreseivelly. "Sick tem, Tige!" she answered. "Shake 'em up, boy!" "You bet I'll shake 'em up," the Colonel declared joyously. He paus- ed with a morsel of food on his fork and waved the fork at her aggres- sively. "You stimulate me into ac- tivity, Shirley. My mind has been singularly dull of late; I have worried unnecessarily, but now that I know you are with me, I am inspired. I'll tell you how we'll fix this new rail-, road, if it exhibits signs of being dangerous," Again he smote the table. "We'll sew 'era up tighter than a new buttonhole." "DO tell rite how," she pleaded erly. "I'll block them on their to run over Sequoia." "How?" By making the mayor and the cit§ council see things my way," he an- swered dryly. "Furthermore, in order to enter Sequoia, the N. C. O. will have to cross the tracks of the Lag- una Grade Lumber Company's line on Water Street -make a jump -crossing -and I'll enjoin them and hold them up in the courts till the cows come home." "Uncle Seth, you're a wizard." "Well, at least I'm no slouch at looking after my own interests -and yours, Shirley. In the midst of peace we should be prepared for war. You have met Mayor Poundstone and his lady, haven't you?" "I had tea at her house last week." "Good news. Suppose you invite her and Poundstone here for dinner some night this week. Just a quiet little family dinner, Shirley, and after dinner you can take Mrs. Poundstone upstairs, on some pretext or other, while I sound Poundstone out on his attitude toward the N. C. 0. They haven't asked for a franchise yet; at least, the Sentinel hasn't printed a word about it; but when they do, of eourse the franchise will be advertis- ed for sale to the highest bidder. Naturally, I don't want to bid against them; they might run the price up on me and leave me with a franchise on my hands -.-something I do not want, because I have no use for the blamed thing myself. I feel' certain, however, I can find some less ex- pensive means of keeping them out of it -say by convincing Poundstone and a majority of the city council that the N. C. 0. is not such a public asset as its promoters claim for it. Hence I think it wise to sound the situation out in advance, don't you, my dear?" She nodded. "I shall attend to the 1 matter, Uncle Seth." Five minutes after dinner was over, Shirley joined her uncle in the lib- rary and announced that His Honor, the Mayor, and Mrs. Poundstone, would be delighted to dine with them on the following Thursday night. the city eag- franchise streets of CHAPTER XXIV To return to Bryce Cardigan: Having completed his preliminary plans to build the N. C. 0. Bryce had returned to Sequoia, prepared to sit quietly on the side -lines and watch his peppery henchman Buck Ogilvy go into action. The more Bryce con- sidered that young man's fitness for the position he occupied, the more satisfied did he become with his de- cision. While he had not been in touch with Ogilvy for several years, he had known him intimately at Princeton. In his last year at College Ogilvy's father, a well-known railroad ,mag- nate, had come a disastrous cropper ir, the stock market, thus throwi'ng Buck upon his own resources and cut- ting short his college career -which was probably the very hest thing that could happen to his father's son. For a brief period -perhaps five minutes --Buck had staggered under the blow; then his tremendous optimism had as- serted itself, and while he packed his trunk, he had planned for the future. As to how that future had devekped, the reader will have gleaned some slight idea from the information im- parted in his letter to Bryce Cardi- gan, already quoted. In a word, Mr. Ogilvy had had his ups and downs. Ogilvy's return to Sequoia follow- ing his three -weeks tour in search of rights of way for the N. C. 0. was heraleled by a visit from him to Bryce Cardigan at the latter's office. As he breasted the counter in the general office, Mnira 'McTavish left her desk and came over to see what the visitor desired. "I should like to see Mr. Bryce Cardigan," Buck began in crisp busi- nesslike accents. He was fumbling in his card -case and did not look up until about to hand his card to Moira -when his mouth flew half open, the while he stared at her with consum- mate frankness. The girl's glance met his momentarily, then was low- ered modestly; she toa the card and carried it to 13r3rce. "Hum -m -m!" Bryce grunted. "That noisy fellow Ogilvy, eh?" "Fris clothes are simply wonderful -and so is his voice. He'a very re- fined. But he's carroty red and hag freckled hands, Mr. Bryce." Bryce rose and sauntered into the general office. "Mr.. Bryce Cardigan?" Buck quer- ied pOlitely, with an interrogative lift of his blond eyebrows. "At 3rour service, Mr. Ogilvy. Please eCinatin." "Thank you so much, sir!' He followed Bryce to the latter's! 'private par rola tat,04,1 oroft.TA to‘,, be nor PPPOO',. °nee a etiqrb e010,14 e(lk, Mle01!. (Vali iiyo'a iecogniR,ct by.4-40 Mecheei 4 •kme of the 'I.persisent of throat iinaddition ants which embesnes eramatiou, etomach, gr!,atept lieaOiag a coughs and celde, trotibleS4Oreora 0" Oat to creosote) other soothe*And`beall. ". ed stop theeirritatlenee while the crecistetegOefiPT44 is absorbed into the. WOOdi a , :kg' the seat of the trouble and cheeks tbeOveth of the germs. Creomulsion Is in the treatment o colds, bronchial ast teed:liatisIacton, itelistent'Paughs And *Janis and other forms of respiratory ases, and is excellent for building up the ostem after colds or flu. Money reftaided if any cough or cold is not relieved after taking according to directions. Ask yeur druggist. Creomulsion Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. office, closed the door carefully be- hind him, and stood with his broad back against it. "Buck, are you losing your mind?" Bryce demanded. "Losing it? I should say not. I've just lost it." "I believe you. If you were quite sane, you wouldn't run the risk of be- ing seen entering my office." "Tut -tut, old dear. None of that! Am I not the main -spring of the Northern California Oregon Railroad and privileged to run the destinies of 'that soulless corporation as I see fit?" He sat down, crossed his long legs, and jerked a speckled thumb toward the outer office. "I was sane when I came in here, but the eyes -of the girl outside -oh, yow, them eyes! I must be introduced to her. And you're scolding me for coming around here in broad daylight. Why, you duffer, if I come at night, d'ye suppose I'd have met her? Be sensible." "You,like Moira' S eyes, eh?" "I've never seen anything like them. Zounde, I'm afire. I have lit- tle prickly sensations, like ants run- ning over me. Blow can you. be in- sensate enough to descend to labour with an houri like that armind? Oh, man! To think of an angel like that working -to think of a brute like you making her work!" "Love at first sight, eh, Buck?" "I don't know what it is, but it's nice. Who is she?" "She's Moira McTavish and you're not to make love to her. Understand. I can't have you snooping' around this office after to -day." Mr. Ogilvy's eyes popped with in- terest. "Oh," he breathed. "You have an eye to the main chance your- self have you? Have you proposed to the lady as yet?" "No, you idiot!' "Then Pill match you for -lier-or rather for the chance to propose first" Buck produced a dollar and spun it in the air. "Nothing doing, Buck. Spare your- self these agonizing suspicions. The fact of the matter is that you give me a wonderful inspiration. I've al- ways been afraid Moira would fall in love with some ordinary fellows karnoouvrud Sequoia -propinquity, you "You bet. Propinquity's tee stuff. I'll stick around." "-and I've been on the lookout for a fine man to marry her off to. She's too wn kerful for you, Buck, but in time a " ght learn to live up to her." "Duck! I'm liable to kiss you." "Don't be too precipitate. Her father used to be our woods-hoss. I fired him for boozing." wouldn't care two hoots cif her dad was old Nick himself. I'm go- ing to marry her -if she'll have me. Ah, the glorious creature!" He wav- ed his long arms despairingly. "0 Lord, send me a cure for freckles. Bryce, you'll speak a kind word for me, won't you--snrt of boom my stock eh? Be a good fellow," "Certainly. Now come down to earth and render a report. on your stewardship." "I'll try. To begin, T've secured rights of way, at a total cost of twelve thousand, one hundred and three dollars and nine cents, from the city limits of Sequoia to the south- ern boundary of your timber in Tow -n - ship Nine. I've get. my line surveyed and so far as the building of the road is concerned, I know exactly what I'm going to do, and how and when I'm going to do it. once I get my material on the ground." "What steOs have you taken toward Securing your material?" "WeIl, I can close a favourable contract for steel rails with the Col- orado Steel Products Company. Their schedule of deliveries is 0. K. as far as San Francisco, hut it's up to you to provide water transportation, from there to Sequoia." "We can handle the rails on our steam schooners. Next?" "I have en option of a rattling good second-hand locomotive down at the Santa Fe shops, and the Hawkins & Barnes Construction Company have offered' me, a steam shovel, half a dozen flat -kers, and a lot of fresnos Drd.D.KELLOGGI STlirvi REMEDY • sus loran Satt4b•ancruirss..0-**PC 1.as* NIGHTS, ORITAVON au.00.* ian.litve.0 AND 01 Assuan:. 10d, USING THE-Pitiklite0411At mita H Wk. *0 1.140Urnata00 iturnawleas : 4P.10 en iA g A44 10141int.:$01. • teir me.hewe tieliere $0.0)0tt'Ore 41tAt'0100,141'1141ere'tlielitin4!. trache enter' the•-•;.,:eit.p41,4j;':,-, StreS, with pee sr.* ieleise.P.0.449: and another out Mili41oCk From the main.line #aeic,ssIsio,:alsO have built a spur threeigh.Oer. drying - yard' it to .the leg-duMpe Mid ee ewitch-line out on to our inilleclOck. We canunload our lecomotive, steam shovel, and. flat -ears on our own wharf, but unless Pennington gives us permission Weise his main -line tracks out to the point beyond the city limits -where a Y will lead off to the point where our construction begins. -we're up to stump." • "Suppose he refuses, Bryce. What then?" Why we'll simply have to enter the down Front Street, paralleling Penn- ington's traeks on Water Street, turn- down B Street, make a jump -crossing. of Pennington's line on Water Street, and connecting with the spur in our yard." "Can't have an elbow turn at Front and B Streets ?." "Don't have to. We own the square block on the corner, and we'll build across it, making a gradual turn." "See here, my son," Buck said solemnly, "is this your first adven- ture in railroad building?" Bryce nodded. "I thought so; otherwise you wouldn't talk so confidently of run- ning your line over city streets and making jump -crossings on your com- petitor's road. If your competitor re- gards you as a menace to his pocket,. book, he can give you a nice little run for your money and delay you in- definitely." "I realize that, Buck. That's why I'm not appearing in this railroad deal at all. If Pennington suspected I was back of it, he'd fight me before the city council and move heaven and earth to keep me out of a franchise tc uSe the city streets and cross his line. Of course, since his main line runs on city property, under a fran- chise granted by the city, the city has a perfect right to grant me the privilege of making a jump -crossing of his line-" "Will they do it? That's the prob- lem. If they will not, you're licked, my eon, and I'm out of a job." 'We can sue and condemn a right of way." "Yes, but if the city council puts up a plea that it is against the best interests of the city to grant the franchise, you'll find that except in most extraordinary cages, the courts regard it as against public policy to give judgment against a municipal- ity, the State or the Government of the United States. At any rate, they will hang you up in the courts till you die of old age; and as I under- stand the matter, you have to have this line running in less than a year, or go out of business." Bryce hung his head thoughtfully. "I've been too cocksure," he mutter- ed presently. "I shouldn't have spent that twelve thousand for rights of way until I had settled the matter of the franchise." "Oh, I didn't buy any rights of way -yet," Ogilvy hastened to assute! him. "I've only signed the land -own- ers up on an agreement to give or sell me a right of way at the stipu- lated figures any time within one year from date. The cost of the surveying gang and my salary and expenses are all that you are out to date." "Buck, you're a wonder." "Not at all. I've merely been through all this before and have pro- fited by my experience. Now, then, to get hack to our muttons. Will the city council grant you a franchise to enter the city and jump Penning - ton's tracks?" "I'm sure I don't know, Buck You'll have to ask them -sound them out. The city council meet e Saturday morning." "They'll meet this evening -in tho private 'lining room of the Hotel So - (11101a, if I can arrange it," Buck Og- I •'I I 1110 '6TARC my log -landings jammed until 1 ea.) -et. move, and I don't want Penningten'e engineer to take a curve in =Ob. a hurry that he'll whip my loaded lege ging-trucks off into a canon And leave me hung up for lack of rolling -stock. I tell Rom the man has me under his thumb, and the wily way I can es-' cape is to slip out when he isn't looking. He can do too many things to block the delivery of my logs and then dub them acts of God, in order to avoid a' judgment against hini on suit for non-performance of his haul- ing contract with this company." "Hum -m -m! Slimy old beggar, isn't he? I dare say he wouldn't hesitate to by the city council to block you, would he?" "I know he'll lie and steal. I dare say he'd corrupt a public official." • Buck Ogilvy rose and stretched him- self. "I've got my work cut out for me, haven't I?" he declared with a' yawn. "However, it'll be a fight worth while, and that at least will make it interesting. Well ?" Bryce pressed the buzzer on his desk, and a moment later Moira en- tered. "Permit me, Moira, to present Mr. Ogilvy. Mr. Ogilvy, Miss Mc -1 Tavish." The introduction having been acknowledged by both parties, Bryce continued: "Mr. Ogilvy will have frequent need to interview me at this office, Moira, but it is our joint desire that his visits here shall remain a profound secret to every- body with the exception of ourselves. To that end he will hereafter call at night, when this portion of the town is absolutely deserted. You have an extra key to the office, Moira. I wish you would give it to Mr. Ogilvy." The girl nodded. "Mr. Ogilvy' will have to take pains to avoid our watch- man," she suggested. "That is a point well taken, Moira. Buck, when you calk make it a paint to arrive here promptly on the hour. The watchman will be down in the mill then, punching the time -clock." Again Moira inclined her dark head and withdrew. Mr. Buck Ogilvy groaned. "God speed the day when you can come out from under and I'll be permitted to call during office hours," he murmured. He picked up his hat and withdrew, via the general office. Half an hour later, Bryce looked out and saw him draped over the counter, engaged in animated con- versation with Moira McTavish. Be- fore Ogilvy left, he had managed to impress Moira with a sense of the disadvantage under which he laboured through being forced, because of cir- cumstances Mr. Cardigan would doubtless relate to her in due course, to abandon all hope of seeing her at the office -at least for some time to (-erne. Then he spoke feelingly of the unmitigated horror of being a stran- ger in a strange town, forced to sit around hotel lobbies with drummers other lost souls, and drew from Moira the assurance that it wasn't more distressing than having to sit around a hoarding -house night after I night watching old women tat and tattle. This was the opening Buck Ogilvy had sparred for. Fixing Moira with his bright blue eyes, he grinned 'bold- ly and said: "Suppose, Miss MeTay- ish, we start a league for the disper- 1 sion of gloom. You he the president, and I'll he the financial secretary." "How would the league operate?" Moira demanded ceutiously. ‘3, ( « are«nphatically."I'm "Well, it might begin by giving a ing to have them all lip for dinner and talk the m I' dinner to all the members, followed at.t er n r . ni not exactly aged. Bryce, huh I've handled about fifteen city councils and county hoards of superviSOrs, not to mention Mexican and Central American gov- ernors and presidents, in my day, aril I know the breed from rover to cover. 1 Following, n preliminary conference, 191 let you know whether you're go- ing to get that franchise without dif- ficulty or whether somebody's itchy paltm will have to he crossed with first. Honest men never tem - pod% You know where they stend, but, a grafter temporizes and plays a waiting game. hoping to wear your patience down to the point where you'll ask him bluntly to name his figure. By the way, what do you know about. your blighted old city council, anyway?" "Two of the five councilmen are for sale; two are honest men -and One is an nncertain quantity. The May,,r is a politician. I've known them all since boyhood, and if 1 dared come out in the open, T think that even the crooks have Sentiment enough for what the Cardigans stand for in this county to decline to hold -me up." "Then why not come out in the open and save trouble and expense?" "1 am not ready to have a int of notes called en me," Bryce replied dryly. "Neither am I desirous of having the Laguna Grande Lumber 'Company start a riot in the redwood lumber market by cutting prices to a point where 1 would have to sell my limber at a loss in order to get hold of a little ready money. Neither do r desire to have trees felled across the right of way of Pennington's road after his trainloads of logs have gone through and before mine have started from the woods. 1 don't want tation. ' Bryce listened tto her.44, 'with all the Areet Tinnoce' years .and uitneAginess. OgiIvyA proposit4:hefore "By all meE014F.a404," b:0'cou led her. "Buck eeettilvi,is one** finest gentleirien eve, I'll stake my reputation, You'll find him vastly anusin,M� ra. He'd make Niobe "levet trenbles, and he does knoW how, order a dinner." "Don't you think I ought to havu chaperon?" "Well, it isn't neeessane. aliltorilt it's good form in a small 'town. Sequoia, where everybody knows eve : erybody else." "I thought so," Moira nuirinureiX thoughtfully. "I'll ask Miss Sumner to come with us. Mr. Ogilvy won't mind the extra expense, I'm sure." "He'll be delighted," Bryce assured her maliciously. "Ask Miss Sumner, by all means." When Moira had left him, Bryce sighed. "Gosh!" he murmured. "I wish I couldego, too." He was roused from his bitter in- trospections presently by the ringing of the telephone. To his amazement Shirley Sumner was calling himl "You're a wee bit surprised, aren't you, Mr. Cardigan?" she said teasing- ly. "I am," he answered honestly. "I had a notion I was quite persona non grata with you." "Are you relieved to find you are not? You aren't, you know." "Thank you. I am relieved." "I suppose you're wondering why I have telephoned to you?" (Continued next week) 1)N: a little motor -trip into the coon - try next Saturday afternoon,' Buck ge-est ed. Madonna glance appraised tUrn tdi1p '1 haven't known you very long, Mr. Ogilvy," she reminder!' "Oh. I'm easy to get acquainted with." he retorted lightly. "Besides, .itin't 1 come well recommended ?" He pondered for a moment. Then: "Ill tell you what, Miss McTavish. Sup- pn,r we put it up to Bryce Cardigan. ff he says it's all right we'll. pull off tht. part f. If he says it's all wrong, 111 go out. and drown myself -and fairer words than them has no man spoke." "I'll think it over," said Moira. "By all means. Never decide such animpOrtant matter in a hurry. .lust tell me your home telephone -number, and I'll ring up at seven this evening for your decision." Reluctantly Moira gave him the number. She was not at all preptui- iced against this carroty stranger - in fact, she had a vague suspicion that he was a Sure Cure for the blues, an ailment which she suffered from all too frequently; and, moreover, his voice, his respectful manner, his alert eyes, and his wonderful clothing were all rather alluring. Womanlike, she was flattered at being noticed -par- ticularly by a man like Ogilvy, whom it was plain to he seen was vastly su- perior to any male even in Secomia, with the sole exception of Bryce' Car- digan. The flutter of a great adven- ture was in Moira's heart, and the flush of a thousand roses in her cheeks when, Buck Ogilvy having at le-ngth departed, she went into Bryce's. private office to get .Ifis opinion as to the propriety of accepting the 1n4' "Father thought something serious had happened!" -When I telephoned home last evening, Father got a mild shock," said a school teacher to her friend. 'His first question was - 'Are you well, .1 n?' V,hen I- re- plied 'Fine,' 1 explained how sur; risrd ho 'as to hear the operator say ce.ling, please hold the line' "You know roy *home is ninety miles away and I haven't paid Father a visit. 'tette the winter, but in future 1 intend to talk to him frequently." Instead of using Tong Distance only in emergencies, many telephone users are making it a habit to call friends in far- away places on pre -arranged nights and at frequent ilattr- vals. e."