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Show Thursday, May 21. 1931 THIS TIMES-NEW- PAGE THREE NEIMII. UTAH S. Scenes and Persons in the Current News "He's an Idealltst." June Leigh Brown, I understand. The sensation contributed the final word, "who has of the hour on the project. I'm a the courage of hU couvlctlous. Some lucky guy and the other par? day you'll all eat your scoUlng chiefs are eaten up with Jealousy Stiow them your stuff, M. Brown! words." Some one laughed at her, "He You had a big Idea when you be has about as much chance of ever came the pioneer woman In this pro putting his house In order as you fession. Creesh lay awake all nluht regretting that she didn't think of It have, June!" ".Speaking of houses," said Mary, first" "Come and drink your coffee," "reminds me that I must find a roof to cover my head before uight" laughed Lucretia. "Hilt, that room . . ; VI' ; , They discussed possibilities- while which Mary Brown rented already was occupied like the one we drew they had tea. "Well." Mary set down her cup up In the Sacramento valley a year decisively, "it resolves Itself Into ago." Hilton Dorsey let himself go In this. There la one vacant room for ' one booming laugh. "Just one of the : rent In town. I'll take It." -'A little later her bags were load exigencies of the profession, M. ed upon Junior Leigh's little red Brown. Engineers are shoemakers' ,: wagon, Kay was despatched to town children. We spend our lives makwith a trunk check, and Mary ing outposts livable for mankind Brown said good by to Mrs. Leigh but our own living quarters are forand picked her way through the ever anything to cover our heads prophesied promptly. "And I almost long dusty grass to a squat little which an outpost offers." CHAPTER IV Continued me adore Hank Johnson for piloting "We must decide what she shall house next door. do. Hilt I" a admitted was Ilnnd In hand they raced down to you." She by slatternly "He need some one to love him. "I've already determined my tirst In her teens. "Sure. I guess you the last fifty feet, laughing, stum- June "Maybe that would girl until all hut can have It. Ma's sick. In here Is move," Mary stated. "I'll send the fulling, they make grinned. bling, hun three Worth him human. lauded abruptly by the aide of the room. Just make yourself at landlady a week's room rent and dred thousand, and never spending home." have my baggage removed. I preMary's waiting taxi wan. a cent on anyone but himself! And fer the open spaces where I spent A last glimpse of his dizzying and went She out, dropped Mary If ever there was a town la need of lone cliulr a straight one last night to competition over a the smile, and Mary was swirled away upon public-heartecitizen. Foggy with a broken cane seat and gave bed." by Hunk Johnson. abruptly Gulch Is It! It Isn't so bad for the -"But you should have come So you've fallen for the slicker, had smoth . But the poor children! release to the gasp she grown-ups' i here I" Lucretia cried In dismay 1 r, herself Make ...1 I too iiissiKiiiiiwiiliK mi ill i ered iiiiisiiiiir'J"f""pCT'Mmiag" ins upon entering. f schools the three It's, and I A great hot wave swept Mary's Mediocre June at all home at once, Why, the one some could no If pry play. 1 Luke Lea, former senator from Tennessee (right), and his son, l.uke Lea, Jr., In prison stripes at cheeks. How little it had taken to from enough Leigh's bouse loomed a palace. It loose citizen affluent 2 Mrs. W. E. Ochiltree, presI defenses Still Kalelgh, N. C, where they are serving sentences for fraud In a bank fullure. sweep awny her It would had clean bare floors, air, light. cemA little resentment for even a swimming hole, was a carpet, dingy, "Slicker?" ident of the American War Mothers, pluclng a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Here there 3 Members of the Bonus Army of 1934 in the chow line at their camp at Fort on Mother's would show In her voice. "Why do be to rejoice." dust and dirt the day. with filled worn, etery Mary'a eyes glistened. "Be rath- and grease of years. There was an Hunt, Virginia, near Washington. you call him that?" It?" But she "Don't you call It slick the way er fun to try,It wouldn't Iron bedstead with a little green name a different was to call by lie's putting over his game?" paint adhering In spots, a sway- a later day. it's none of my business 1 upon "I backed mattress, a filthy spread. Without obviously looking at It, The only place In town! And she I'm here as an engineer," wretched of the conscious was "lie she Hank Johnson chuckled. to live In It She dropped onto had woman was this And here house. stood on one of the mountain-tops- , of the chair, that being all the edge In her, blooming like a rose that young feller did, and looked beside there was to the chair, and laughed not was money an Evidently alley. about him, and dreamed this dream Ironically. This was starting In at of his. So they say." Hank chuckled her god, either. the bottom! A house," "Don't be upset by my It! think about She'd wouldn't She again. "With Just five hundred dol worst the lars la the pockets of them classy laughed June Leigh.-"It'go right to sleep and forget her silly :3 In town, really, the only one left Pi She had almost riding pants of bis." squeamishness. our all came. we when Besides, "Five hundred dollars!" found herself she when off dropped "Five hundred dollars. He makes money has gone Into babies Instead brought suddenly bolt upright She furniture. But we're Ids boasts that he's putting over a of her teeth. Wriggled. Tossed. our aren't gritted were a million humps in the There project with five satisfied withand Investment, and Nancy?' we. Kay Junior, hundred. Oh, he's a shrewd one. bed. the stones, as she stepping presented . Bought this whole tract for about : Presently she found herself JL. of herself. A all over! forty dollars an acre, and now he's beaming little InImages scratching. Itching all fine state of nerves she was work"And here. here, neglected It hundred from for three peddling this time. God love him! Is our ing herself into ! i to two thousand per." , v "4 "But that's only good business!" baby, Jlmmle." and v.: arose at She ?v:vS: last, lighted xW. Happening to Qlance at the She led the way to an adjoining the "Ain't no land 'round here worth lamp. She would read and calm Bed, Her Hand Went Over Her room where six cots were lined up herself. a hundred dollars an acre." Mouth to Check Her Outcry. Jimmy, a curlyMary Was silent during the rest like hospital beds. View of the thirteenth hole and the clubhouse of the Merlon Cricket club. South Ardsmore, Ta., where Happening to glance at the bed. In of sat the headed two, when she heard of Mary's sprite of the ride. Her mind was busy over her mouth to went her hand the national open golf tournament will be played In June. Industriously bal check her outcry. She grabbed an act. arguing the case for and against family washtub, wa out the by spooning A crook, ing himself "I'll send for your things, Mary," Denis Craig, promoter. envelope from her escritoire, used CITY MANAGER or a philanthropist of sorts? A ter from It to the floor. It to effect a pursuit and capture, she said, "and we can put up a cot to bother said won't "I you," on our stay back while for business porch dreamer or you sealed It, folded It many times, and man? Why should she worry? Engi- Mary. "Mr. Johnson said perhaps pinned It. the more securely to we cast about." some know of would place fasten It The morning quite suddenly was neers had to do with the develop- you together. disturbed by the starting of a car ment of a project, not with its ul- where I could get a room." off and She took her per pajamas I can't "Of course I do, though to the right of them, by the starttimate destiny. on think Just now where It Is. I will manently abandoned them on the ing of a car to the left From all diThey came to the little town. her a donned fresh bed, put suit, 'You say there is no hotel?" Mary later. In the meantime, you're hav shoes and stockings, a sweater and rections came the roar of motors. ing lunch with us." came back to earth to ask. She gathered up newspa Each morning the little town came Lunch was a haphazard, merry bathrobe. as motors at s and her coat. Then she raised alive "Nope." per In this house, Mary gath "Nor rooming house? warmed, as drivers of a dozen cars a Perhaps meal. Life out. window and Jumped some one would take a boarder?" ered, was a merry haphazard life. In the shade of a nearby tree she stopped and started, stopped and a better illustration that started, picking up their loads "Nope. Don't know of no one." Where - spread out newspapers for a bed Bromlwasn't everything? the engineers setting out for the But he stopped the car before a money a and coat folded for her pillow, up wretched-lookinunpainted house. dic? Stock consolation of the poor? stretched herself out on earth that day's work. "Go In here. Mis' Leigh can help Why, money wasn't anything here! had baked through six months of Mary, with Hank Johnson, folso happily lowed the other cars swirling out you If anyone can. She helps every Yet Mary never had felt were heat and drought. laid one. Makes It her business lookin' entertained where covers There In time the daughter of the toward the project, eating the dust out for folks. One of the engineers' In pompous dining rooms with can- rich David Brown fell asleep like an that arose In one vast cloud. Hilton delabra and shining silver, sparwives." Dorsey's car stopped beside a mule ordinary little hobo. team hitched to a wagon. From the "In here?" Mary couldn't keep kling glass and fragile china; as she mess tent hereafter Mary Brown's the dismay out of her voice. The did at this table with Itsofoilcloth CHAPTER V lunch set, odds and ends china, came boarding house engineers unkempt fence, the food. meager silver, and plain to seize transit or tripod, hurrying ' yard, the wretched house. "Kun down, Kay," said June after Starting at the Bottom. lunch boxes, bundles of stakes, "Ain't many houses like mine In first the of dawn come hint to the "and tell all Mary lunch, girls axes all the paraphernalia of the town." Hank Johnson set Mary'.s We'll have a WITH scrambling back through business of running a boundary baggage down by the dilapidated up for the afternoon. the hoistthankful for the shortAnd Brown." window, party for Miss line. gate. Hilt Dorsey was Introducing her "How you goin to get back and ly little groups of engineers' wives ing power of her long legs and arms. were making their way up the dusty She dressed In khaki shirt, pants to the browned fellows members of forth to work?" and putts, shook all her belongings her field party a confusion of Taking over the management of "I'll have to see," soberly. "How street. cities that are mired In financial They greeted Mary warmly. She thoroughly and replaced them In names, tanned, faces, clear Interestmuch do I owe you, Mr. Johnson?" He lumbered Into his car. . "I'll was one of them instantly. A great her bags orp trunk. Then, carrying ed eyes, sinewy putteed limbs. Of morasses Is the unusual profession envelope gingerly, the head chalnman of the transit that Irving J. Brower of Cleveland, send my bill." He started the en- sense of satisfaction swept her. She the pinned-ushe crept out of the silent house party to which she belonged, she shown above, specializes In. was more Mr. gine, released his brakes. " 'Taln't She was than realizing her dreams. Brower has Just taken his fourth starting at the bottom, but and down the street. took especial notice: Nell nothln'," he flung back at her as A It was scarcely six o'clock. a post as city manager, this time In alias he rolled down the MIL "And I'll not In isolation and loneliness. She a at shone back the of house would of identical be with light New Rochelle, N. Y. He has served t people deep-sefellow with back I'll But forth. and take you keen, young where she had been told the Dor-sey-s eyes, slow, deliberate movement, as previously In Tontiac, Mich.; Lima, Ideals. charge you lived. Mary hurried around to he took off his broad hat, slow, de- Ohio, and Greensboro, N. C. He Is She studied the girls Interestedly Mary looked down at the bill he at the kitchen entrance. liberate Bpeech as he drawled with a graduate of Cornell. had refused; looked at his depart- amid the chatter. Lucretia Dorsey, tapLucretia of the engineer to whom Mary Dorsey opened the door. an easy smile. "I understand we ing car; smiled suddenly, wisely, wife I" "Come out here begged Mary. "I two tenderfeet are to be mates on but with a flooding of her eyes. A was to report tomorrow. Lucretia, as want to show you something I" NEW WHITE SOX BOSS the chain, Miss Brown." . person whose god was money? No. methodical and orderly and efficient Here Is Earl Smith, probation officer of Pasadena, Calif., with part Carefully, as If it might have This was the sort of person Hank as June Leigh was the opposite, the was as The driver the of his collection of 2,000 cartridges of every possible variety, which he skinner, held of she of them all, Mary gathered. gold dust, opened grains Johnson was. Something about him stay exhibited at the hobby show held under the auspices of the Archeologlcal g the envelope, and held It so that dubbed, spoke to the mules, and Incongruously reminded her of her Claribel Moore, vital, off. the Jolted wagon society of southern California. could glimpse the prisoner father: his surreptitious charity, It product of the Hawaiian Islands,a Lucretia was a far cry from Mary's It within. to as as wedded young Mary, would be. g cushioned wagon that "Is It one?" asked Mary tragicShe climbed up the rough slope fledgling engineer, playing at houseran Itself back home. But Mary a "go'geous ally. into the yard. Before she reached keeping and calling It one Lucretia cer- clung In ecstacy to the bare backtook lahk!" the Helen "It easyolder, Rich, glance. was door the house the flung open extainly Is! Mary Brown, I knew we less board which constituted her hospitably. A young woman stood going wife of the horticulture should have looked over that room seat, and her eyes went probing of "when In the doorway, surrounded by step- pert, speaking casually before you took it. Here, let's cre- eagerly each suddenly revealed viswe lose our Jobs." ping stones of children. ta of the great estate. "One of the exigencies of the pro- mate the thing!" A gay and gallant young woman Her Job! At last! exShe led Inside the Hilt and . Lucretia tossed way fession, says," a a voice and laugh that with lilting The wagon stopped at a point bethe Into are the kitchen stove. envelope always ran down Into the brown depths of plained. "Projects In the hills, in extremely well up "Now toast or coffee have out." and finished you'll petering her eyes like sunshine into a pool. ing "And with a plunger at the helm with us while we decide what you rough country. Hilton Dorsey, act"Good morning I" she called. "Are are to do. Hilt," she called as she ing both as chief of party and of this one!" you somebody's wife?" set up his Instrument. Neil of Mr. looked af her watch efficiently, all think "What do you "No," Mary laughed with Instant walked ahead one hunGoodenough " two minutes' Just "you've grace , i friendliness for this girl. "I'm some- Craig?" Mary probed. ne In the doorway as she dred feet with measured stride, loomed "A dreamer!" body himself If by somebody you chain behind the him. dragging I" "A golden-voicecrook spoke, six feet of ruggedness with mean one of these 'hlfalutin engi"A slicker!" unruly brown hair and unruly brown Mary waited Impatiently to seize neers.' " him "A man. business Watch eyes, the mischief In them usually her end of It and hold it over the "You I" Two outstretched hands this uppermost, and with a mouth that tack over which Hilton Dorsey had thing!" pulled Mary Inside the house. "You swing "A da'hn good sport ! We should could smile at a very slim excuse hung his plumb bob. I romost Is the an engineer This The line took them down into a Mary was that at the moment ne mantic thing I know I You're going worry about his ethics. He's the life canyon. Mary bounded down like a "M. amusement with of the her regarded pahty!" Jimmy Dykes, veteran third baseto work here?" fleet deer. Goodenough, ahead of man, who was appointed manager of "I wish I knew 1" Mary made a her, planted his left foot planted the Chicago White Sox to replace "I wasn't FROM THE BEGINNING THE STORY exactly popugrimace. his right foot, evenly, rhythmically, Lew B'onseca. Dykes has been a lar with the chief. I think he's surely and slowly Ye gods I How major league player since 1017. Mary, daughter of a self made millionaire, feels her personality Is obI planning to make quick work of broke leash. scured by the fact that she Is the child of the "rich David Brown," and slowly Mary's patience me." "Wby don't you step on It, Good- to make her own way in life. She has a million dollars of "Don my lyisband will help determines A Practical Gift her own, which she Insists her father Invest In the "wildest dream" Im- enough?" you. And you'll adore himl Don," aginable, and about which she must know nothing;. She Is a graduate of "That's a very fine alarm clock," were at the Brown!" "Miss They college of engineering;. As "M. Brown" Mary secures a position as engiam sure your said the laughingly preening herself, "is the aneer with the Paradtse Valley Project, by correspondence. On the train, bottom of a small draw. "I'll race friend willJeweler. "I the embodiment of all the heroic things on nrpresent. iimw wfirA rn -r appreciate mtn rtiai rirnto her Job, she meets Denis Craig, who Immediately antag- yon to the top!" her way ja r rirnTftmMriir-you think of when you hear the onises her. Alighting from the train, Mary Is left at a way station, pracMary Indicated scornfully the Shall I send It to his home, so that Cesare Sabelll, first transand E. You know Lieut. Pond to service Is her assistance, also left behind. He hundred feet she had wiped out he can have It In the morning?" word engineer. (right) tically penniless. Craig, coming Capt George her journey. Arriving at the Projof the year, set out from New York on a nonstop flight te full value progress. Those are befriends her, enabling her to continue atlantic be office. to It as his I'll there around send them. between flyers "Oh, "No; ect, she is accused by John Stark, chief engineer, of deception In concealthe things he thinks In. Money I want It to wake him up when It's Borne, but were forced to land In Ireland because of engln trouble. ing her sex, and again meets Craig, who Is the promoter of the project. soon as you are and I'm w !" Their big Bellanca plane is shown In the Illustration. time to play golf." potif Mary Is given a position. She cannot make up her mind as to whether TO BB CONTINUER "I know I shall adore him," Mary Craig is an honest visionary or a "slicker." 1 r Ails, . T 7 V'i k ' A V J; T ' i - d r j ia , Where Golf Stars Will Contend in June ;' s n i over-stuffe- d v.!:;0f34l.i-oW- ' back-to-natur- e hard-heade- California Man's Unique Hobby d six-thirt- y g weed-grow- f Good-enoug- Wait-a-Mlnut- fun-lovin- Fail in Nonstop Flight to Rome low-slun- tran-sltma- n, v yt d 1 iiint , -- hitch -- |