Show AwRE awrey naw jasiM J R 1 Cla h L L by mae faster jay by W A wilds wilde co service SYNOPSIS mary daughter of a millionaire has t the h e idea that her personality Is ob 0 cu red by the fact that she gha Is the child of the rich david brown and doter determines ter mines to make her way in ufa life unaided she has a million dollars which she insists insist 0 her father invest in the w wildest 1 I 1 dest d dream ream imaginable a ble and about wh which ah the she must know nothing she in IB a graduate engineer As IM M brown mary secures a position as engineer w with ith the tha Parn paradise dise valley project a development concern she Is engaged by letter on the train on her way to her job she meets dents denla craig who immediately antagonizes her alighting from the train mary to Is left at a way station practically penniless craig coming to her assistance Is also left behind lie he befriends her despite her coldness toward him enabling her to continue her journey arriving at the project she Is accused by jolin join stark chief engineer of deception in concealing her sex and again meets meet 11 craig who to Is the promoter of the project mary Is given a position sh she cannot make up her mind as to whether craig Is an honest visionary or a slicker CHAPTER IV continued 7 five fire hundred dollars dollar sl 1 five hundred dollars he makes his boasts that hes putting over a ten million dollar project with five pun hundred oil hes a shrewd one bought this whole tract for about forty dollars an acre and now lies hes peddling it for from three hundred to two thousand per but only good goad busl business 1 aint no land round here worth a hundred dollars an acre mary alary was silent during the rest of the ride her mind was busy arguing the case for and against dents denis craig promoter A crook or a philanthropist or sorts A dreamer or hardheaded hard headed business man why should she worry engineers had bad to do with the development of a project not with with its ultimate destiny they came to the little town you say eay there is no hotel mary alary came back to earth to ask nope nor rooming house bouse perhaps some one would take a boarder nope dont know of no one but he stopped the car before a wretched looking unpainted house go in here mis ails leigh can help you it anyone can she helps every one makes alalea it tier her business lookin loolen out out for folks one of the engineers wives in here mary alary keep the dismay out of her voice the unkempt fence the weed grown yard the wretched house aint many houses like mine in town hank johnson set marys baggage down by the dilapidated gate gated how you coln to get back an and forth to work ill have to see soberly how much do I 1 owe you mr johnson he lumbered into ills his car ill send my bill ile he started the engine released his brakes taint Ta tnt 11 he be flung back at her as lie he rolled down the tha hill and ill take you back bach and forth but ill charge you plenty aplenty a mary alary looked down at the bill he be had refused looked at his departing car smiled suddenly wisely but with a flooding of tier eyes A person derson whose god was money no this was the sort of person hank johnson was something about him incongruously reminded her of tier her father his surreptitious charity it would be she climbed up the rough slope into the yard before she reached the house the door was flung open hospitably pit ably A young woman stood in the doorway surrounded by stepping stones of children A gay and gallant young woman with a lilting voice and a laugh that ran down into the brown depths of her eyes like sunshine into a pool good morning 1 she called are you wife no mary laughed with instant friendliness tor for this girl im somebody himself lf if by somebody you mean one of these litt alutin engineers 11 you I 1 1 two outstretched hands pulled mary inside the house you an engineer I 1 this is the most romantic thing I 1 knowl youre going to work here 1 I wish I 1 knewl mary alary made a grimace 1 I exactly popular with the chief I 1 think hes planning to make quick work of me don my husband will help you and adore him I 1 don laughingly preening herself Is the embodiment of all the heroic things you think of when you hear the word engineer you know ehnow service full value progress those are the things he thinks in money aloney pour I 1 1 I 1 know I 1 shall adore him mary alary prophesied promptly and I 1 almost adore hank johnson for piloting me to you ile he needs some one to love him june juhe grinned maybe that would make him human worth three hundred thousand and never spending a cent on anyone but himself I 1 and if ever there was a town in need of a public hearted citizen foggy gulch is it I 1 it so bad for the grownups grown ups but tile the poor children I 1 mediocre schools the three RB its and no play if some one could pry the affluent citizen loose from enough for even a swimming nole hole it would be to rejoice marys eyes glistened be rather fun to try it but she was to lo call it by a different name later day without obviously looking at it she was conscious of the wretched house and ana here was this woman beside her blooming like a rose in au an alley evidently money was not her god either dont be upset by my house laughe june leigh its the worst in town really the only one left when we came besides all our money has gone into babies instead of over stuffed furniture furnita r but were satisfied with our investment arent we junior r and kay and nancy as she presented the ste stepping aping stones beaming little images of herself and here in here neglected ell all this time god love him halml I 1 Is our baby jimmie she led tle the way to an adjoining room where six cots were lined up like hospital beds jimmy a curly headed sprite of two sat in the fam lly ily washtub industrious Indus industriously triou sly baling himself out by spooning the water from it to the floor sit down miss drown brown on one of the cots since all the chairs s seem eem to be full of clothes 1 I wont stay to bother you said mary alary mr johnson said perhaps you would know knois of some place where I 1 could get A a room 11 of course I 1 do though I 1 cant think ju just st now where it Is I 1 will later in t the e meantime youre having lunch with us A few minutes later she went to the mantel in the living room here junior selecting change from one of five or six piles of money run down town and get us some rolls and a pie this she bubbled to mary Is my budget system food rent clothes oil dont took look so critical mary blary brown we manage lunch was a haphazard merry meal life in this house mary gathered was a merry haphazard life where a better illustration that money everything bromidic stock consolation of the poor why money anything here beret I 1 yet mary alary never had felt so happily entertained where covers were laid in pompous dining rooms with candelabra and shining silver sparkling glass and fragile china as she did at this table with its oilcloth lunch set odds and ends of china meager silver and plain food run down kay said june after lunch and tell aalthe girls to come up for the afternoon well have a party for miss brown and shortly little groups of engineers wives were making V t 1 way up the dusty street they greeted mary warmly she was one of them instantly A great sense of satisfaction swept her she was more than realizing her dreams she was starting at the bottom but not in isolation and loneliness she would be with peopled people of identical ideals she studied the girls interestedly amid the chatter lucretia Luc retla dorsey wife of the engineer to whom mary was to report tomorrow lucretia Luc retla as methodical and orderly and efficient as june leigh was the opposite the stay of them all mary alary gathered Clarl clarabel bel moore albore vital fun loving product of the hawaiian islands as young as aa mary alary wedded to a fledgling engineer playing n at housekeeping and calling it a gorgeous goge ous lackl helen rich older the easygoing easy going wife of the horticulture expert speaking casually of when we lose our jobs one of the exigencies ot of the profession fes sion hilt says lucretia Luc retla explained projects are always being finished or petering out A and nd with a plunger at the helm of this one onel I 1 what do you hit all think of mr craig mary blary probed A dreamer amerl 1 A golden voiced crook I 1 A slicker I 1 A busin business man watch him swing this thing I 1 A dalbo dahn good sport 1 we should worry about his ethics hes the life of the pal cahty ityl hes an idealist june leigh coq coil tributes trl tri buted the final word who has the courage of his convictions some day all eat your scoffing fling words some one laughed at her he has ha about as much chance of ever putting his house in order as you have junel june I 1 speaking of houses said mary reminds me that I 1 must find a root roof to cover my heal head before night they discussed possibilities while they had tea well mary alary set down her cup decisively ci cl it resolves itself into this there Is one vacant room tor for rent in town ill take it A little later her bags were loaded upon junior leighs Lel glis little red wagon kay was to town with a trunk check and mary alary brown said goodby good by to mrs leigh and picked tier her way through the long dusty grass grasl to a squat little house next door she was admitted by a sl slatternly girl in her tens sure I 1 guess you manhave can have it mas sick in here Is the room just make yourself at home she went out and mary dropped upon the lone chair a straight one with a broken cane seat and gave release to the gasp she had smothered upon entering make herself at homel home I 1 why all at once june leighs house loomed a palace it had bad clean cleah bare floors air light here there was a appet carpet dingy worn filled with the dust aust and dirt and grease of years there was an iron bedstead with a little litile green paint adhering in spots a swaybacked iway sway backed mattress a filthy spread TO BE CONTUSED |