DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD. DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. r.HSVftS5VS???. 'K7I5Xm3ZXfl,VSIMlXUmKKBlI,TXmKXV L.t.ttSn&CS.'J: S IV JIH v!l 'i'M' "vW ')rlm 3 1ST 7 'Tk 15? TT TJn 1 iV y1 ri wmmema- fv "JULES nONDEAUl" SjhopmIr rionor In llio Califor nia rrdwnod tt'Klon, Jolin CnulifcHli. . fiirty-nevpii. In Hie leailltiK ctrlen s'erruola, owner of mills. nlilp. (rid man acres of timber, n wl'l ower after threo jcarn of married life mid father of twn-day-olil llryre C'ardlKun. At fourteen Itryie makes ihp at r)iiulii t a ticn of Hhlrley S itnricr, u visitor lit Sequoia, and l Junior by u few year. Together tlpp Hlt tho Valley of the Ulanta, Furol to John Cardigan and hl 11 ,i- thp luirlal place of Hryio'a t ilier and ji.irt with mutual re oi While llryre la at vollece J tin ( inllKnti meptH with heavy i -iih Iohhph and for tho first in in tho future with unccr ii niv Vfter graduation from col It i,p uinl it trip abroad, lir i Car di, ii, i emits home On the train ha ti -i- Shirley hiiinner, on ln-r way in -'piii'il-t to make her liorm- there - 111 in uncle, ( ulnncl I'eiinington 1 i -e 1- iino th.it IiIh father h -e-i i,l t li.ii failed und Unit Colonel 1 rnriltiittun In h' eking to take ud- - iril;u,-i- of tint old miin'H tmsltiosH ml." rorlunt'B John CHiiIlgiin la de Mnirlni;, but llryco Ih full of light. CHAPTER V. Continued. 5 .John Cnrdlgiin -shook Ills head. "I'm tnortgngctl ti the lust penny," lit? con fessed, "and Pennington bus been Imy lng Cnrdlgiin lied wood Lumber com puny first-mortgage bonds until lit' Ih In control of Hit- Issue He'll liny In the San lledrln timber tit the fore closure snle, and In order to net 11 buck and save something for you tint of the vvieckugo, I'll have lo make an unprofitable tntde wllh him. I'll hae to xlu' liliu my timber adjoining his north of Heciuolii, together with my Valley of the iilants, In return for the Sim Iledrln Umber, to which he'll hne a sheriffs deed. Iiut (he mill, nil my tild employees, vvltji their miuieroiis JcpendenLs gone, with you left html poor and without u dollar lo pay your taxes. Smashed like thutl" And he drove Ids list into the palm of his li"l "Perhaps hut not without a light," Bryee unsvvoicd. ulthnugh he knew their plight wiih well-nigh hopeless. "I'll clve that man Pennington u run 4r bin money, or I'll know the reason." lie leh'iilioue on (he table beside film tinkled, ami he took down the rt'fi Her and Mild "Hello!" "Mercy I" came the sweet voice of Shirley .Sumner over the wire. "Do jou feci us savage as all that, Mr. iinllgiiii." I'of the second time In his life 'lie tnrfll Hint was akin to pain came to OJryce Cardigan. Ho laughed. "If I 'hnd known you were culling. Miss Sumner," he said, "I shouldn't have son led so." "Well, you're forgiven for several reasons, hut principally for sending nw Hint delicious blackberry pie. ThnriL. you so much." "Chid you liked It, Miss .Sumner. 1 cJnre to hope that I may have 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 I cut) simre his boy, you might bo In terested to bee our buil-rcdwond-'pupe'i-d dining room Uncle .Seth Is so pi ' '. f. Would Thursday night he v in en nt 1" erfectl.v. Thinik you a thousnud t'.ui" ." She bade him goodnight. As hi1 turned from the telephone, his father Tii Give That Run tor Man PenmnQten Ills Money." loofcod up. "Wlint are you going to do to-morrow, IncH" he queried. "I buvo to il some thinking to orroiy," Hryce tniHvveml. "So I'm ruing ui Into Cardlgiin'8 redwoods t do It." Tho de-pvcjodii und rhododendrons s blixwilng now," tho old man murium wistfully. Hryco know whnt ho w thlnlrlnn tt "111 II H Brill tfl tllH (1(1 re for Mother," ko assured CardlgUH li ! 'I ft J Wr XiaBHB3aaa35UiaMB3XJ5&Xa23IHrrZV; and he added fiercely: "And I'll at tend to the battle for Father. We may lose, but that man I'cutiiugton will know he's been In n light before we (In " lie broke off abruptly, for he hud Just remembered Hint lie was to dine nt the Pennington house the following Thursday nnd he was not yie sort of man who smilingly breaks liicatl with Ids enemy. All about' Hryce were scenes of activity, of human endeavor, and to him In that moment came tho thought ; '.M father brought all thin to pass and now the task of continuing It Is mine! All those men who earn a lllng in Cardigan's mill and on Cardi gan's dock those sailors who sail the ships that carry Cardigan's luml or Into the dlsiant marts of men are de pendent upon me; ami my father used to tell me not to fall them. Must my father have wrought all this In vain? Anil miiMt I stand by ami see all this go to sal Isfy the overw helming ambition of a stranger?" Ills big hands clench eil. "No!" he growled snvagely. "(Jive me your last live unnual statements Mr. Sinclair, please." The oltl servitor brought forth thr documents In question. Hryce stuffed them Into his pocket and left the olllee Three iiarters of an hour later he en tered the little amphitheater In the Valley of the (Slants and paused with an expression of dismay. One of the giants had fallen und lny stretched across the Utile 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 tre was down, however, was secondary to the fact that neither wind nor lightning bail brought It low, hut 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 littered the ground. For fully a minute Hrjce stood dumbly gazing upon the sacrilege be- fote his rage and horror found vent in words. "An enemy has done this thing," he cried aloud to the wood goblins. "And over her grave!" It was u hurl tree. At the point where Hryce paused n malignant growth had developed on the trunk of the tree, for all the world like a tiemendoiiH wart. This was the burl, so prized for table-tops and panelling because of the fact thai the twisted, Wavy, helter-skelter grain lends to the wood an extraordinary bi'auty when polished. Hryce noted that the work of removing this excrescence hntl been accomplished very neatly. With a cross-cut saw the growth, erhaps ten feel In diameter, had been neatly sliced off much as a housewife cuts slice after slice from a loaf of bread, lie guessed that these slices, practi cally circular In shape, hail been lolled out of the woods to some conveyance waiting to receive them. What Hryce could not understand, however, was the stupid brutality of the raiders In felling the tree merely for that section of burl. Hy permit ting tlie lieo to stand and merely building a staging up 1 (be burl, the latter could have been lemoved with out vital Injury to the tree vvherens by destroying the tree the wretches had evidenced all too cleaily to Hryce a wanton desire to add Insult to In jury. "Poor old Dad I" he nun mured. "I'm glad now he lias been unable to get up here and see tills. 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 Is operated on ami gets back Ids sight, he will come up here and he must never know. Per haps he will have lorgotten how many trees stood In tills circle," lie paused. Peeping out from un der a chip among tho litter at bis feet was the moldy corner of a white 1 envelope. In mi Instant Hryce hud it I In his hand. The envelope was dirty and weatherbeaten, but to a certain etent the redwood chips under which It had lain hidden had served to pro tect It, and the writing on the face was still legible. The envelope was empty anil addresMHl to Jules Kon ileau, care of tho l.aguna Grande Lumber company, Sequoia, California. Hr.veo rend and reread thnt address. "Itondetui!" ho mutteied. "Jules Uoudciui! I've hoard that name be fore ah, ye I Dad spoke of him last nlxht. lie's Pennington's woods-boss and " An enemy hrul done this thing and In nil the world John Cardigan had but one enemy Colonel Setli Penning ton. Had Pennington scut Ids woods hoM to do this dirty work out of sheer HpltoV Ilniilly. The section of burl vva gone, and this argued that t!i (iietlon of spite had been purely n matter .of Mvondiir.v nnslderutloii. Evidently, Hryce reasoned, someone had deMlred that burl redvvoixl greatlj and I hut Miuieone had not been Jules Hondeau, slneo u woods-boss would not bo likely to spend live minutes of his Mb ire time In consideration of Uie bfiiutles of a burl tnblo-top or panel ill Author of "Cappy Ricks" CTTTX Hence if Ilondciu had superintended the task of felling the tree, It must have been at the behest of a superior; anil since a woods-boss acknowledges no superior save the creator of the pay-roll, tic recipient of that stolen burl must have been Colonel Penning ton. Suddenly he thrilled. If Jules Hon denti had stolen that bur' to present It to Colonel Pennington, Ills employer, then the finished article must he In Dryce Stood Dumbly Gazing Upon the Sacrilege. Pennington's home! And Hryce had been Invited to that home for dinner the following Thursday by Uie Colonel's niece. "I'll go, after all." ho told himself. "I'll go and I'll see what T shall see." CHAPTER VI When Shirley Sumner descended to the brcnkfnst room on tho morning following her arrival In Sequoia, the first glance at her uncle's stately countenance informed her that during the night something had occurred to Irrltnte Colonel Setli Pennington and startle him out of ids customary bland coinpie iti'. "Shli " lie began, "did I hear you calling .voting Cardigan on the tele phone after dinner last night or did my ears deceive me?" "your ears are all right, Uncle Setli. I called Mr. Canftgan up to thank him for the pie he 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 Cauli gnn, naturally I opined that he was to be the object of our hospitality." "I dare say It's quite all right to have Invited him, Isn't It, Uncle Seth?" "Certainly, certainly, my dear Quite nil right, hut, cr nh. sllghtlj Inconvenient. I am expecting other company Thursday night unfortunate ly. Hrayton, the president of the Hank of Sequoia, Is coming 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 perfect lj marvelous roses! How did you sue coed In growing them, Uncle Setli?" Ilo smiled sourly. "I didn't raise them," he replied. "Thnt half-breed Indian that drives John Cardigan's car brought them around about an hour ago, along with a card. Then It Is, beside your plate." She blushed ever so slightly. "1 suppose Hrjco Cardigan Is vindicating himself," she murmured as t-hc with drew the card from the envelope. A she had surmised. It was Hryce Cnnll gan's. Colonel Pennington was the pioprletor of a similar surmise. "Fast woik, Shirley," he murmured banterlngly. "1 wonder whnt he'll send oti for luncheon. Some dill phJes, probnbly." She pretended to be very busy with the roses, and not to have heard him. Shirley, left alone ut tho brenkfmt table, picked Idly nt the preserved tig the owlish butler set before her Vaguely she wondered nt her uncle's apparent hostility to the Cardigan; she was as vaguely troubled In the knowledge thnt until she should succeed In eradicating tills hostility, It must Inevitably act as a bar to the furthei progress of her friendship with Hrjee Cardigan. And she told herself she did not want to lose thnt friendship. She wasn't the least hit In love with him albeit she realised he was rather lovnMe. And lastly he was a good, de vow l son and was susccptlblo of deve ipuient Into a congenial and wl H liul of acceptable comrade to a young tisolutoly Incklng In other means (--uient finished her breakfast In thoughtful silence, then she went to IT nffiJD'TTT r -TM-'XWMgUHfI 7WRWInffGV!lBKRMfttXmTRKiffniB1BB&nf&InnnvrWMVSMriMJ7WJi!ll&t9rw 1 flic telephone and called up Hr.vce. He recognized her voice 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. "I'm glud you liked them. Nobody picks flowers out of our garden, you know. I used to, but I'll be too busy hereafter to bother with the garden. Hy the way, Miss Sumner, does your uncle own u car?" "I believe he does u little old rat tletrap which he drives himself." "Then I'll send George over with the Napier thl afternoon. You might uire to lake a spin out Into the sur rounding country. Hy the way. Miss Sumner, jmi are to consider George and Hint ear us your personal prop erty. I fear you're going to find Sequoia a dull place; .so whenever you vvNh to go tor a ride, Just call me up, and I'll have George report to you." "Hut think of all the expensive gaso line and tires I" "Oh. but j on mustn't look at things from that angle after you cross the Itocky mountains on your way west. What are you going to do this after noon?" "I don't know. I haven't thought that far ahead." "Tor siitne real ,pnrt I would sug gest thnt ou motor up to l.aguna Grande. That's Spanish for Hlg La goon, you know. Take a rod with oti. There are some land-locked sal mon In the lagoon. "Hut I haven't any rod." "I'll send joti over a good one." "Hut I have nobody to teach me how to use it," she hinted daringly. "I appreciate that compliment," he flashed liaek nt her, "hut unfortunate ly my holidays are over for a long, long time. I tools 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, Geotge Sea Otter will prove an Invaluable Instructor, lie is n good boy nnd you may trust him Implicitly. On Thursday evening ou can tell what success you had with the siilmon." "Oh, that femlnds me, Mr. Cardigan. You can't come Thursday evening, after all." And she explained the rea son. "Suppose j on come Wednesday night Instead." "We'll call that a bet. Tliank you." She chuckled at his frank good hu mor. "Thank you, Mr. Cardigan, for all your kindness and thoughtfulness; and If you will persist in being nice to me, on might send (Jeorge Sea Otter and the car nt one-Uilrty. I'll be glad to avail myself of boUi until I ,cnn get a ear of iny own sent up from San Francisco. Till Wednesday night, then. Good bye." As Hryce Cardigan hung up. he heaved a slight sigh. It was difficult to get out of the habit of playing; he found himself the possessor of a very great desire to close down the desk. call on Shirley Sumner, and spend the reninluder of the day basking In the sunlight of her presence. Following his discovery of the out rage committed on his father's sanctu ary. Hr.vce wasted considerable val uable time nnd effort In a futile en denvor to gather some further hint of the Identity of the nndnls; but despairing at last, he dismissed the ' matter from his inlnd, resolving only that on Thursday he would go up Into Pennington's woods nnd Interview tho redoubtable Jules Hondeau Uryce's natural Inclination vvns to wait upon M. Hondeau Immediately. If not sooner, but the recollection of his dinner engagement nt the Penning ton home warned lilm to proceed cautiously; for while hnrborlng no apprehensions as to the outcome of a possible clash with Hondeau, Hryce was not so optimistic us to believe he would escape unscathed from an en counter. Colonel Pennington's pompous Im ported Hrltlsh butler showed Hryce Into the Pennington living mom nt six-thirty, nnnoiinclng him with due ceremony. Shirley rose from the phuio whore she had been Idly lingering the keys and greeted him with every ap pearance of pleasure following which, she turned to present her visitor to Colonel Pennington, who was standing in his fnMirlte position with bis back to tho lli-oplace. "Uncle Seth. this Is Mr. Cardigan, who vvns so very, nice to me the day I Innded In Ited HlulV." The Colonel bowed. I have to thank you, sir, for your courtesy to my niece." Ho had nssumed an air of reserve, of Ustlnct aloofness, despite Ids studied politeness. "Your nloee. Colonel Is one of thow fortunnto beings the world will nlwax -clamor to serve." "Quite true, Mr. Cnrdlgun. When she vvns quite u little girl 1 came un der her spell myself." "So did 1, Colonel. Miss Sumner has doubtless told jou of our 11 rM nic-'tlng some twelve years ago." Quite so. May I offer you n co Mail, Mr. Cardigan?" "Thank you, certainly. Dad nnd I y PETER B. KYNE I Copyright by Peter II. Kyne have been pinning one on about ti'H time every night since my return." "Shirley belongs to the Hand ot Hope," the Colonel explained. "She's ready nt any time to break a lance with the Demon Itiiui. So we will have to drink her share, Mr. Cardigan. Pray be scaled." Hryce seated himself. "Well, we lumbermen are a low lot nnd miturally fond of dissipation," he ngtoed. "I fear Miss Sumner's prohibition tender, ties will he still further streir.'tlieiiii nfter she has seen the mad-trali.. ' "What Is that?" Shirley quenen. "The inad-iralii runs over .mc uncle's logging railroad Into Townsh p nine, where his timber nnd ours is t-i cated. It Is the only train opeiK'-ii on Sunday, and It leaves Sequoia ,i live j). in. to carry the Pennington ,i, m Cardigan crev s back to the vv. ' after their Saturday-i'.'ght celebicoi In town. As a usual thing, till ham s with the exception of the bral.emaii, engineers, nnd fireman, are singing, weeping or lighting drunk." "Do they light, Mr. Cardigan?" "Frequently. I might say usually. It's quite ii' inspiring sight to see a couple of in iberjaeks going to it on n nat-car traveling thirty miles a hour." "How horrible!" "Yes, Indeed. The right of wny Is lined with empty whisky bottles." Colonel Pennington spoke up. "We don't have any lighting on the in-id-train any more," lie said blandl.v. "Indeed! How do you prevent it?" Hryce asked. "My woods-boss, Jules Hondeau, makes them keep the peace," Penning ton replied with a small smile. "If there's nnj lighting lo be done, he does It." "You mean among his own crew, of course," Hryce suggested. "No, lie's In charge of the mud-train, und whether a fight starts among our men or ours, he takes a hand. He's hud them all behaving mildly for unite a while, because he can whip an.v man in the country, and everybody realize it. I don'i know what I'd do without Hondeau. He certainly makes tho.-.e bohunks ol mine step lively." "Oli-h-h ! Do you employ bohunks, Colonel?" "Cortainl. They cost less; they are far less independent than most men and 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 doughnuts at the same meal!" "Well. Dad started in to feed his men the same food lie fed himself. fej HI "He Can Whip Any Man In tho Country." nnd 1 .suppose the habits one forms in youth nre not readily changed in old ngo. Colonel." "Hut that innitoH It hard for nib t manufacturers," the Colonel protested "I iced my men good plain food .i- d plenty of it quite better food th m they were used to before they ctuoi to this country; hut I cannot scent satisfy them. Your respected pa lent Is tho hnsls for comparison in tins country, Cardigan, and I llnd it devil ish Inconvenient." lie laughed Indul gently nti'l piuscd his cigarette use to Hryce. "Uncle Petit always grows restless when some other niiin Is the leader " Shirley volunteered with n mtscli'e vous glance nt Pennington "Pmi t ou, N'unky-dunk?" "You know why, of course those burl panels in your dining room." TO UK t'o.S 1'INl'KD.) So ne persons uro perfectly killing ni , to killing time. iBf i I I r I rrmfifflSfflfflm .--& itm lESStSfA if w mail a ft& M i&SSim t . a nT5 mmmt ; tlPiiP! ! vm il iy mm HEED SWAMP-ROOT Thousands of women have kidney and bladder trouble and never BUpcct it. 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