Tully's
concern. Then the steelhead trout began to run in Eel River, and the
sweetest event that can occur in any boy's existence--the sudden
awakening to the wonder and beauty of life so poignantly realized in
his first love-affair--was lost sight of by Bryce. In a month he had
forgotten the incident; in six months he had forgotten Shirley
Sumner.
CHAPTER IV
The succeeding years of Bryce Cardigan's life, until he completed his
high-school studies and went East to Princeton, were those of the
ordinary youth in a small and somewhat primitive country town. He
made frequent trips to San Francisco with his father, taking passage
on the steamer that made bi-weekly trips between Sequoia and the
metropolis--as The Sequoia Sentinel always referred to San Francisco.
He was an expert fisherman, and the best shot with rifle or shot-gun
in the county; he delighted in sports and, greatly to the secret
delight of his father showed a profound interest in the latter's
business.
Throughout the happy years of Bryce's boyhood his father continued to
enlarge and improve his sawmill, to build more schooners, and to
acquire more redwood timber. Lands, the purchase of which by Cardigan
a decade before had caused his neighbours to impugn his judgment, now
developed strategical importance.
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