The Okarche Times. (Okarche, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1920 Page: 2 of 8
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"JULES R0NDEAU1”
Synopsis— Pioneer in tbs Califor-
nia redwood region John Cardigan
at forty-seven Is the leading cltUen
of Sequoia owner of mills ships
and many acres of timber a wid-
ower after three years of married
life and father of two-day-old
Bryce Cardigan At fourteen Bryce
makes the acquaintance of Shirley
Sumner a visitor at Sequoia and
hts Junior by a few years Together
they visit the Valley of the Giants
sacred to John Cardigan and his
i son as the burial place of Bryce's
mother and part with mutual re-
gret "While Bryce Is at college
John Cardigan meets with heavy
business losses and for the first
time views the future with uncer-
tainty After graduation from col-
lege add a trip abroad Bryce Car-
digan comes home On the train he
meets Shirley Sumner on her way
to Sequoia to make her home there
with her uncle Colonel Pennington
Bryce learns that his father’s eye-
sight 'has failed and that Colonel
Pennington Is seeking to take ad-
vantage of the o'd man’s business
misfortunes John Cardigan Is de-
spairing but Bryce Is full of fight
CHAPTER V-Continued
John Cardigan shook his head Tni
mortgaged to the last penny" he con-
fessed "and Pennington has been buy-
ing Cardigan Redwood Lumber com-
pany first-mortgage bonds until he Is
In control of the Issue He’ll buy In
-the- San Iledrln timber at the fore-
closure sale and In order to get It
back and save something for you out
of the wreckage I’ll have to make an
unprofitable trade with him TU bave
to give him my timber adjoining his
north of Sequoia together with my
Valley of the Giants in return for the
San Hedrln timber to which he'll have
a sheriff’s deed But the mill all my
oldgemployees with their numerous
dependents — gone with you left land-
poor and without a dollar to pay your
taxes Smashed — like that I” And he
drove hjs -fist into the palfn of hl8
hand ’ '
Perhaps — but not without a fight”
Bryce answered although he knew
their plight was well-nigh hopeless
"I’ll give that man Pennington a run
for'his mohey or I’ll know the reason”
'The telephone on the table beside
him tinkled and he took down the
receiver and said “Hello I”
-'"Mercy 1” came the sweet voice of
Shirley Sumner over the wire "Do
you feel as savage as all that Mr
Cardigan”
For the second time in his life the
thrill that' was akin to pain came to
Bryce Cardigan He laughed "If I
' had known you were calling Miss
Sumner” he said "I shouldn’t have
growled so”
- you're forgiven — for several
reasons but principally for sending
me' that delicious blackberry pie
- Thank yon so much”
"Glad you liked it Miss Sumner I
dare to fhope that I may bave the
privilege of seeing you soon again”
‘"Of course! One good pie deserves
another - Some evening next week
when that dear old daddy of yours
'cad spare his boy you might be In-
terested to see our ' burl-redwood-paneled
dining room Uncle Seth Is so
proud of Would Thursday night be
convenient?”
"Perfectly Thank you a thousand
-lines” "
She bade him- good-night As he
turned from ’the telephone bis father
“'I'll Give That Man Pennington a
Run for Hla Money”
“ - -
Jooked up "What are you going to do
-to-morrow lad?” he queried -1
1 "I have to clo some thinking to-
morrow” Bryce answered “So Pm
going up Into Cardigan’s redwoods to
llp it” -
“The dogwoods and rhododendrons are
‘blooming now” the old man murmured
-wistfully Bryce knew what he was
’ thinking ot “I’ll attend to the flow-
ers for Mother” be assured Cardigan
and he added fiercely: “And I’ll at-
tend to the battle for Father We
may lose but that man Pennington
will know he’s been In a fight before
we fin ”
He broke off abruptly for he bad
just remembered that he was to dine
at the Pennington house the following
Thursday — and he was not the sort of
man who smilingly breaks bread with
hla enemy v -
e - e e
All about Bryce were scenes of
activity of human endeavor and to
him In that moment came the thought
“My father brought all this to pass —
and now the task of continuing It Is
mine ! All those men who earn a
living In Cardigan’s mill and on Cardi-
gan’s dock — those sailors who sail the
ships that carry Cardigan’s lumber
Into the distant marts of men — are de-
pendent upon me and my father used
to tell me not to fall them Must my
father have wrought all this In vain?
And must I stand by and see all this
go to Atlsfy the overwhelming ambition
of a stranger?” His big hands clench-
ed “No !” he growled savagely “Give
me your last five annual statements
Mr Sinclair please”
The old servitor brought forth the
documents In question Bryce stuffed
them into his pocket and left the office
Three quarters of an hour later he en-
tered the little amphitheater In ' the
Valley of the Giants and paused with
an expression of dismay One of the
giants had fallen and lay stretched
across the little clearing In- its de-
scent It had demolished the little
white stone over his mother's grave
and had driven the fragments of the
stone deep Into the earth
The fact that the tree was down
however was secondary to the fact
that neither wind nor lightning had
brought It low but rather the impious
hand of man for the great Jagged
stump showed all too plainly the
marks of cross-cut saw and axe a
pile of chips four feet deep Uttered the
ground -
For fully a minute Bryce stood
dumbly gazing upon the sacrilege be-
fore his rage and horror found vent in
words “An enemy has done this
thing” be cried aloud to the wood-
goblins “And over her grave!”
It was a burl tree At the point
wfyere Bryce paused a malignant
growth had developed on the trunk
of the tree for all the world like ' a
tremendous wart This was the burl
so prized for table-tops and panelling
because of the fact that the twisted
wavy helter-skelter grain lends to the
wood an extraordinary beauty when
p4ished Bryce noted that the work
of removing this excrescence had been
accomplished very neatly With a
cross-cut saw the growth perhaps ten
feet In diameter had been neatly
sliced off much as a housewife cuts
slice after slice from a loaf ot bread
He guessed that these slices practi-
cally circular In shape had been rolled
out of the woods to some conveyance
waiting to receive them
What Bryce could not understand
however was the stupid brutality of
the raiders in felling ’the tree merely
for that aectlon of burl By permit-
ting the tree to stand and merely
building a staging up to the burl the
latter could have been removed with-
out vital Injury to the tree — whereas
by destroying the tree the wretches
had evidenced all too clearly to Bryce
a wanton desire to add Insult to In-
jury “Poor old Dadt” he murmured
“I’m glad now he has been unable to
get up here and see this It would
have broken his heart I’ll have this
tree made into fence posts and the
stump dynamited and removed this
summer After he la operated on ard
gets back bis sight he will come up
here— and he must never know Per-
haps he will have forgotten how many
trees stood In this circle”
He paused Peeping out from un-
der a chip among the litter at his feet
was the moldy corner of a white
envelope In an Instant Bryce had It
In his hand - The envelope was dirty
and weatherbeaten but to a certain
extent the redwood chips under which
It bad lain hidden had served to pro-
tect It and the writing on the face
was still legible The envelope was
empty and addressed to 'Jules Ron-
deau care of the Laguna Grande
Lumber company Sequoia California
Bryce read and reread that address
“Rondeau 1” he muttered "Jules
Rondeau I I’ve heard that name be-
fore — ah yes ! Dad spoke of him last
night He’s Pennington's woods-boss
and ”
An enemy had done tills thing — and
In all the world John Cardigan had
but one enemy — Colonel Seth Penning-
ton Had Pennington sent his woods-
boss to do this dirty work out of
sheer spite? Hardly The aectlon of
burl was gone and this argued that
the question of spite had been purely
a matter of secondary consideration
Evidently Bryce reasoned someone
had desired that burl redwood greatly
and that someone had not been Jules
Rondeau since a woots-boss would not
be likely to spend five minutes of his
leisure time In consideration of the
beauties of a burl table-top or paneL
Author of “Cappy Ricks1
Hence If Rondeau had superintended
the task of felling the tree It must
have been at the behest of a superior
and since a woods-boss acknowledges
no superior save the creator of the
pay-roll the recipient of that stolen
burl must have been Colonel Penning-
ton f
Suddenly he thrilled If Jules Ron-
deau had stolen that burl to present
It to Colonel Pennington his employer
then the finished article must be In
Brycs 8tood Dumbly Gazing Upon the
Sacrilege
Pennington's home! And Bryce had
been invited to that home for dinner
the following Thursday by the Colonel’s
niece
“I’ll go after all” he told himself
“I’ll go — and I’ll see what I shall see”
CHAPTER VI
When Shirley Sumner descended to
the breakfast room on the morning
following her arrival in Sequoia the
first glance at her uncle’s Btately
Countenance informed her that during
the night something had occurred t f
irritate Colonel Seth Pennington and
startle him out of his customary bland
composure
“Shirley” he began “did I hear you
calling young Cardigan on the tele-
phone after dinner last night or did
my ears deceive me?”
“Tour ears are all right Uncle Seth
I called Mr Cardigan up' to thank him
for the pie lie sent over and Incident-
ally to Invite him over here to dinner
on Thursday night”
“I thought I heard you asking some-
body to dinner and as you don’t know
a soul in Sequoia except young Cardi-
gan naturally I opined that he was to
be the ob1e£t of our hospitality”
“I dare say it’s quite all right to
have Invited Mm isn’t It Uncle Seth?”
“Certainly certainly my dear
Quite all right but er — ah slightly
Jnconvenlent I am expecting other
company Thursday night — unfortunate-
ly Brayton the president of the Bank
of Sequoia Is cofblng' up to dine and
discuss some business affairs with me
afterward so if you don’t mind my
dear suppose you call young Cardigan
up and ask him to defer his visit until
some later date” -“Certainly
uncle What - perfectly
marvelous roses 1 How 'did you suc-
ceed in growing them Uncle Seth?"
He smiled sourly “I didn’t raise
them” he replied “That half-breed
Indian that drives John Cardigan’s
car brought vthem around about an
hour ago along with a card There
It Is beside your plate"
She blushed rover so slightly' “I
suppose Bryce Cardigan is vindicating
himself” she murmured as she with-
drew the card from the envelope As
she had surmised It was Bryce Cardi-
gan’s Colonel Pennington was the
proprietor of a similar surmise
“Fast work Shirley” he murmured
banterlngly “I wonder what he’ll
send you for luncheon Some ' dill
pUVJes probably”
She pretended to he very busy with
the roses and not to have heard
him
Shirley left alone at the breakfast-
table picked Idly at the preserved figs
the owlish butler set before her
Vaguely she wondered at her uncle’s
apparent hostility to the Cardigans
she was as vaguely troubled In the
knowledge that nntil she should succeed
In eradicating this hostility It must
Inevitably act as a bar to the further
progress of her friendship with Bryce
Cardigan And she told herself she
did not want to lose that friendship
She wasn’t the least bit In love with
him albeit she realized he was rather
lovable And lastly he was a good de-
voted son and was susceptible of
development Into a congenial and
Vholly acceptable comrade to a young
lady absolutely lacking ln(other yeans
of amusement'
She finished her breakfast in
thoughtful silence then she went to
the telephone and called up Bryce
He recognized her volca Instantly and
called her name before she had oppor-
tunity to announce her identity
“Thank you so much for the beauti-
ful roses Mr Cardigan” she began
Tm glad you liked them Nobody
picks flowers out of our garden you
know I used to but Pll be too busy
hereafter to bother with the garden
By the way Miss Sumner does your
uncle own' a car?”
‘‘I believe he does — a little old rat-
tletrap which he drives himself”
“Then I’ll send George over with
the Napier this afternoon You might
care to take a spin out into the sur-
rounding country By the way Miss
Stunner you are to consider George
and that car as your personal prop-
erty L fear you’re going to find
Sequoia a dull place so whenever you
wish to go for a ride Just call me up
and ril have George report to you” -“Rut
think of all the expensive gaso-
line and tires I”
“Oh bat you mustn’t look at things
from that angle after yon-cross the
Rocky mountains on yonr way west
What are you going to do this after-
noon?” “I don’t know I haven’t thought
that far ahead” - £
"For some real sport I would sug-
gest that you motor up to Laguna
Grande That’s Spanish for Big La-
goon you know Take a rod with
you There are some land-locked sal-
mon Iq the lagoon
“But I haven’t any rod” -Til
send you over a good one”
“But I have nobddy - to teach me
how to use it” she hinted daringly
“I appreciate that compliment” he
flasled back at her "but unfortunate-
ly my holidays are over for a long
long time I took my father’s place In
the business this morning”
“So soon?" '
"Yes Things have been happening
while I was away However speak-
ing of fishing George Sea Otter will
prove an Invaluable instructor He Is
a good boy and you may trust him
implicitly On Thursday evening
you can tell wbat success you had
with the salmon”
“Oh that reminds me Mr Cardigan
You can’t come Thursday evening
after all” And she explained the rea-
son "Suppose you come Wednesday
night instead”
"We’ll call that a bet Thank you”
She chuckled at his frank good hu-
mor “Thank you Mr Cardigan for
all your kindness aqd thoughtfulness
and If you wlll-pcrslst in being nice
to me you might send George Sea
Otter and the car at one-thirty I’ll
be glad to avail myself of both until
I can get a car of my own Bent up
from San Francisco Till Wednesday
night then Good bye”
A s “Bryce Cardigan hung up he
heaved a slight sigh - It was difficult
to get out ofhe habit of playing be
found himself the possessor of a very
great desire to dose down the desk
call on Shirley Sumner and spend the
remainder of the day basking In the
sunlight of her presence
Following his discovery of the out-
rage committed on hla father’s sanctu-
ary Bryce wasted considerable val-
uable time and effort In a futile en-
deavor to gather some further hint
of the Identity of the vandals but
despairing at last be dismissed the
matter from his mind resolving only
that on Thursday be would go up
Into Pennington’s woods and Interview
e redoubtable ' Jules Rondeau
Bryce’s natural Inclination was to
wait upon M Rondeau Immediately
If not sooner but the recollection of
his dinner engagement at the Penning-
ton home warned him to proceed
cautiously for while harboring no
apprehensions as to the outcome of a
possible clash with Rondeau Bryce
was not so optimistic as to believe he
would escape unscathed from an en
counter"
e “
Colonel Pennington’s pompous Im-
ported British butler showed Bryce
Into' the Pennington living room at
six-thirty announcing him with due
ceremony Shirley rose from the piano
where she had' been idly fingering the
keys and greeted him with every ap-
pearance of pleasure — following which
she -turned 1o present her visitor to
Colonel Pennington who was standing
in bis favorite position with his back
to the fireplace
“Uncle Seth this Is Mr Cardigan
who was so very nice to me the day
I landed in Bed Bluff"
v The Colonel bowed ' “I have to
thank you sir for your courtesy to
my niece” He had assumed an air of
reserve of distinct aloofness despite
his studied politeness
“Your niece Colonel Is one of those
fortunate beings the world will always
clamor to serve”
“Quite true Mr Cardigan When
she was quite a little girl I came un-
der her spell myself"
“So did 1 Colonel Miss Sumner
has doubtless told you of our first
meeting some twelve years ago”
“Quite so May I offer you - a
cocktail Mr Cardigan?”
“Thank you certainly Dad and I
' Copyright by Mw -kiM
have been pinning pne on about this
time every night since my return”
- “Shirley belongs to the - Band - ot
Hope” the Colonel explained- “She’s
ready at any time to break a lance
with the Demon Rum So we will
have to drink her share Mr Cardigan
Pray be seated” -Bryce
seated' himself' “Well we
lumbermen are a low lot and naturally
fond of dissipation” he agreed “f-
fear Miss Sumner's prohibition tenden-
cies will be still further strengthened
after she has seen the mad-traln”
“What is that?” Shirley queried
' “The mad-traln runs over your
uncle’s logging railroad into Township
nine where his timber and ours is lo-
cated It Is the only train operated
on SUBday and ' It leaves Sequoia at
five p m to carry'the Pennington and
Cardigan crews back to the woods
after their Satnrday-nlght celebration
In town As a usual thing all hands
with the exception of the brakeman
engineers and fireman- are singing
weeding or fighting drunk”
“Do they fight Mr Cardigan?” -
“Frequently I might say usually
It’s quite an inspiring sight to see a
couple of lumberjacks going to It on
a flat-car traveling thirty miles an
hour" r
“How horrible!”’
“Yes Indeed The right of way is
lined with empty whisky bottles” -Colonel
Pennington spoke up “We
don’t have any fighting on the mad-
traln any more” he said blandly
' “Indeed I How do you prevent it?”
Bryce asked
“My woods-boss Jules Rondeau
makes them keep the peace” Penning-
ton replied with a small smile “If
there’s any lighting to be done he does
it” ’
“You mean among his own crew of
course” Bryce suggested
“No he’s in charge of the mad-traln
and whether a fight starts among your
men or ours he takes a hand He’s
had them all behaving mildly for quite
a while because he can whip any man
ih the country and everybody realizes
It I don’t know what I’d do without
Rondeau He certainly makes those
bohunks of mine step lively”
“Oh-h-h! Do you employ bohunks
Colonel?” ' - -
“Certainly They cost less they
are fhr less Independent - than most
men ancl more readily handled And
you don’t have to pamper them — par-
ticularly In the matter of food Why
Mr Cardigan with all due respect to
your father the way he feeds his men
Is simply ridiculous! Cake and pie
and dgughnuts at the same meal !”
“Well Dad started in to feed his
men the same food he ' fed himself
“He Can Whip Any Man In the
Country
and I suppose the habits pne forms In
youth are not readily changed in old
age Colonel” -
“But that makes it hard for other
manufacturers” the Colonel protested
“I feed my men good plain food and
plenty of It— quite better food than
they were used to before they came to
this country but I cannot seem to
satisfy them' Your respected parent
la the basis for comparison In this
country Cardigan and I find It devil-
ish Inconvenient” He laughed Indul-
gently and passed his cigarette-case
to Bryce
“Uncle Seth always grovs restless
when some other man la the leader”
Shirley volunteered with a mischie-
vous glance at Pennington “Don’t
you Nunky-dunk?”
‘‘You know why of course
—those burl panels in your
dining room”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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