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Moreover , he had embarked upon a war -- a war which he meant to fight to a finish . George Sea Otter , summoned by telephone , came out to Freshwater , the station nearest the wreck , and transported his battered young master back to Sequoia . Here Bryce sought the doctor in the Cardigan Redwood Lumber Company 's little hospital and had his wrecked nose reorganized and his cuts bandaged . It was characteristic of his father 's son that when this detail had been attended to , he should go to the office and work until the six o'clock whistle blew . Old Cardigan was waiting for him at the gate when he reached home . George Sea Otter had already given the old man a more or less garbled account of the runaway log-train , and Cardigan eagerly awaited his son 's arrival in order to ascertain the details of this new disaster which had come upon them . For disaster it was , in truth .