Show R 1411 rw LOLE Aft by mae mac foster say jay J by W A will wilds co I 1 service SYNOPSIS alary daughter of a millionaire has the idea that her personality Is in obscured by the fact that she la in the child of the rich david brown and determines ter mines to make her way in life un aided she has a million dollars which she insists her father invest in the wildest dream imaginable and about which she must know ho nothing thing she li Is a graduate engineer an ac ILL M brown mary secures a position as am engineer with the paradise valley p project a development concern she to Is engaged engage by letter on the train on her way to her job she meets meats denis craig who immediately antagonizes her alighting from the train mary Is in left at a way station practically penniless craig coming to her assistance Is also left behind he ha befriends her despite her coldness toward him enabling her to con continue dinue her journey arriving at the project she sha Is in accused by john stark chief engineer of deception in con bealing her sex and again meets craig who to Is the tha promoter of the project mary la in given a position she cannot make up her mind as to whether craig Is in an honest visionary or a slicker CHAPTER V continued 9 so the morning wore on hundred feet by hundred feet uphill and down if by noon marys unhardened legs began to ache she showed no sign but she smothered a grateful sigh as they stopped under a live oak by a clear spring for lunch she was thankful for tho the fragrant coffee quickly boiled over a small fire for the thick buns with their gobs of butter and thin fat slices of ham tor for filling for the tough white cake and apple pie with its soaked crust but most of all she was thankful that the men of the party discovering they had fifteen minutes of their lunch hour still left stretched out in the shade for a siesta what a man could do she could she followed precedent mary ate her dinner in the mess tent that evening she was too tired to talk to hank johnson on the ride into town they arrived at the dorseys to find hilt hill and lucretia Luc retla out surveying a framework that had been added to the end of the house going on mary asked curiously another room said hank johnson Job brusquely its my house I 1 can add on to it cant 17 I 1 and he alighted to scatter a group of children the afie ring of carpenters hammers had brought why did you do that mary had the temerl temerity ty to ask dont like children grumpily ile he looked over the job as it if to see that he had received his moneys worth during the day and departed mary turned to lucretia Luc retla however you know how he Is well this morning as he passed I 1 asked him lo 10 fix our gate he said no nol I 1 I 1 wont let your old man fix it iti I 1 he busted it 11 in ten minutes he was back with a carpenter so I 1 screwed up my courage and asked him if he want to build on an addition for you since the carpenter was already here and all and when he strode off down the street fairly with rage I 1 guessed correctly that the lumber would be here in half an hour it was you see he take a chance either on the depreciation of his gate or on losing an extra five dollars a month rental the crude little room went up apace mary browns work went on apace A week or so and her legs and back were hardened to fifteen miles a day of climbing up and down hill so that she was not too tired on coming home to relax into joyous contentment within her own four walls mary had sent up to san francisco fo for her furnishings and with lucreta ala had dressed up the room with naive delight this mary wrote tier her father Is realization I 1 beyond my wildest dreams I 1 in anticipation she had thought only of her work the chance to start at the bottoni bottom and work up but this life was full not only of work that held opportunity but of play primitive wholesome play she put it foggy gulch taken over as it were by engineers was startled out of its lethargy by luncheons dinners teas bridge parties the newcomers even danced on rough pine living room floors until they learned that mary brown knew all the late dance steps they hired a hall ball when site she promised to teach them but when they came to the business detail of terms mary blushed from her fair slim throat to the tips of her fragile ears 1 I with an of her head take money as a dancing teacher but her audience read into her confusion only denial of her own ability not the affront the rich david browns daughter instinctively had bad felt not money from my friends friend st t rm fro getting more out of this than any of you see tills this Is the way the besita tion waltz gocal she danced away from them alone light as a blown leaf totally unselfconscious cons clous she was a W vivid bit vibrantly alive the azure of her simple dancing frock bringing out the blue of df her eyes the sliver gold of her hair she pivoted to a stop to catch her breath inwardly an the doorway unnoticed by her before stood john stark and denis craig caig how long had they been there with his fits charming disarming smile dents denis was waa coming toward her now 4 aji nJ i dont you know he be was wan laughing lehat that in the smartest schools pros have their partners for demonstration ue ile swung her off to the rhythm she had been demonstrating leading her ber with with ease and heavenly rhythm initiating his own steps step the comradely crowd had bad given up tip their attempts and stood watching with open admiration it was enough to send any girls stock soaring marys rose to the peak and then slumped to the bottom as denla denis said in hla his most teasing tone still snapping your fingers at money I 1 see M brown A small unreasonable fury swept mary ile be could mention money at a time like this money 1 money I 1 I 1 it provoked her to the stinging retort im no dancing teacher not every one can take money upon misrepresentation sen tation you know she felt a little start of surprise he ha held her back to look down at her et tu why should you think I 1 was getting personal mary asked innocently and added incidentally I 1 aupp aup pose the reason mr stark glowers at me so Is because rm im refusing to hasten my financial status to the point where ho he conscientiously can dispense with my services and pondering the way a girl can carru corrupt pt his organization we had bad no such as dancing classes before your advent incongruously marys spirits rose rosa again and then she and hank johnson johnsoa came driving into town one evening to gaze upon the amazing spectacle as im no dancing Te teacher achem they rounded a corner of clarabel Clarl bel moore and lucretia Luc retla dorsey racing down the street as fast as they could run before mary could question hank he stopped his car and with amazing behavior of his own commanded get out I 1 mary got out one did not temporize with such a tone hank turned about and drove r rapidly toward his own home the racing pair dashed past mary past a small whitewashed white washed wooden structure which was the town jail to a framework beside it which bore at its summit an enormous bell from which a rope dangled the bell pealed outfits terrible sum mons from a house far down the street a great black cloud of smoke now poured from all the other houses men and women came running with palls of water mary drew in her breath and looked about the other houses would catch I 1 the whole town might go she realized as she saw the tragedy of human and material risk in a community which has no water system the three girls hurried up the street with the rest of the crowd toward the house which already had bad lost its identity they arrived just in time to meet four men hearing bearing upon a charred cot a glowing red burden that had the shape of human bodies mary dug her nalls nails into her palms who was it she asked a townsman he just looked at her and moved away but a woman who had heard whispered it was jake oleson and that daughter of his she was a wild one every one in town knew only too well what was about to happen to her and so she waved an eloquent hand at the blazing ruins it looks as if the old man had bad faced the disgrace in the easiest way ashes made life iffe hell ohl oh mary cried oh 11 and then she heard something about a paupers haupers pau pers field she shut her lips tightly but the next morning when hank johnson inferred that it was just as aa well that that fire had been she opened them decisively mr johnson if foggy gulch had had just one public spirited city father that tragedy probably never would have happe happened nedi I 1 what do you mean public spirited city father one who would spend his money tor for the public good how could money prevent such things answer me that I 1 TO BE CONTINUED aerl |