Show awn E wl iff i auneen by mae mac foster jay by W A wild co ca sor borvice vice LU SYNOPSIS maryr mary daughter of a millionaire has haa the th 0 idea that her personality la Is obscured ac r ed by the tact act f that hat t she I 1 la a the child of the tha rich david brown and do ter mInes to make her way la in ufa life unaided sho has a million dollars which she elie insists her father invest in the wildest dream imaginable and about which she aha must know nothing she ah to la 1 ft graduate engl engineer nee r As il at brown 1 mary iary cecur secures e s a post position tion as engineer with the ra paradise paradisa radisa valley Prole ct ek a development concern sh she in by letter on the train on her way to her lob job she ahe meets dents crater who immediately antagonizes her alighting from the train mary la Is left at a way tt tation atlon practically penniless craig coming om ng t to 0 her assistance to I 1 also left behind tie H befriends her enabling her to con continue nu her tourney journey arriving nt at the project she Is accused by john stark chief engineer of deception in concealing her sex bex and again meets craig who Is the promoter of the project mary la 13 given a position she bhe cannot make up her mind as to whether tift crale Is an honest ho visionary to nary or a a licker at the risk ot of her he r life she saves eaves a valuable instrument tind and through the incident la in drawn closer to craig A feeling much resembling lovo love creeps into her heart concerning him mary alary learns learna inadvertently that it t Is her money which la Is financing t tha h a paradise valley project liar her father having loaned it to craig CHAPTER IX continued 17 simultaneously from the last one of the row of white tents another figure emerged mary started forward with brisk fm impulsive steps in the direction of headquarters headquarter a house the other figure with deliberate strides started in the same direction lines of travel converged the two figures halted looked into each others eyes a moment and grinned mary broke the impasse of weeks do you happen by any chance to have a slim little book in your pocket walt a minute nell tapped upon a pasteboard cover poetry he drawled and a summons to the carpet cooperation co operation Is an important essential of organization grinned mary shall hall we face the grief together they went up the hill toward the lighted office of the chief engineer and entered john stark looked up from his writing oh you two ills his keen eyes probed and as theirs met his understandingly stan and a little sheepishly Y a smile softened his severe face evidently you found tho the volumes I 1 picked up for you in the tha city all then back on your own jobs la in the morning having demonstrated his own leadership by his recognition of individual natural assets and by placing those assets where they would bring in the greatest return to society john start starl turned back to his desk mary and nell went down the path at first like ilke two awed children Ildren cb who miraculously had escaped punishment pun ishmen L but when they reached the deserted campfire camp fire exuberance welled up overwhelmingly in mary brown she not only had her job she was the recipient of the chiefs solicitude ile he had gone out of 0 his way to teach her and walt a minute a lesson in the ethics and the technique of the profession 1 she seized nell by the arms and an d suddenly they were dancing foolishly about the campfire camp fire to the whistled duet moonlight and roses as they demonstrated that quick impulsive stride and slow deliberate stride can keep ap apace ace if necessary im sorry I 1 messed up your pretty field book walt a minute mary biary said as aa she broke away that goes double mary alary the sorry part parl bo halfway half way across the pacific I 1 by now if been running that reconnaissance progress Is not entirely a matter or of speed mary informed him as she turned toward the hotel walt a minute he overtook her you dont suppose do you mary that I 1 could have worked beside you day by day for a year and have any real animosity for you in my heart why yes I 1 thought I 1 thought then think again ills his slow smile was wa 9 more significant than his words look in your thesaurus for an antonym for animosity will you mary oil oh oh walt a minute ill 1 mary brown ran yeti yet her hep optimism notwithstanding it was scarcely two weeks before mary again was in john starks office by command listening to hla his brusque bru s que orders turn over your survey party parly to anderson tomorrow morning ai M brown yes sir air mary managed the chief engineer don y VY was as c consulting 0 o 0 ait nse his noted not ea to all aphea appearances ranc the conversation was as ended what d this portend she swallowed Allowed sN hard hart and where if anywhere shall I 1 report sir mary heard his incredible answer nion nien Dopart department merit of design M brown stark looked up at her twinkle w coming into the deep set iet eyed byes all the e ferocity of his bristling little mustache ousted by a smile 1 I ca li ulato NI browe long ago I 1 capitulated I 1 have no quarrel with a agart girt on the job at least this girl I 1 congratulate you not only for efficiency in your work but for your level headedness your balance you never naver have been masculine but you never have used your sex as an alibi moreover you never have let the patent admiration of half a dozen of these young edginee r s interfere w with ith bustness business n ess with lie he chuckled chuckle d progress pro grais mary blary brown drew in her breath opened her mouth and closed it lung flung out 0 ut her hands and walked to the window 1 I cant I 1 cant say anything sirl cant thank you dont bother design was your aspiration pi ration it mary oh yes 1 I marys head was reeling this this was realization 1 she was vas on her way to success definitely now by virtue of merit alone she had put behind her the days of apprenticeship without pull without money 1 I want to get our oar reorganization to functioning stark was saying by the time denis stages his coup I 1 he waved his hand toward the knoll outside where one hundred new white tents festively grouped themselves under the oaks fluttering their flaps like spring maids di sporting their draperies dra perlea in a wood dance reorganization reorganizations 1 mary questioned tin im leaving the project except to in A consulting capacity P mary blary involuntarily made a cry of protest in the cause of efficiency tho the project can do wl without phout me from this point hilt will have ft a fine chance to try his wings as chief engineer leigh till still will be superintendent I 1 want to see things lined up a as I 1 have planned them and I 1 want you settled at design before I 1 go mary reached out to take his hand bands IS impulsively you never cao can appreciate what you lave have done for me sir ill 1 As he looked down at her he was the john stark who had fathered her the night of the storm her warm warin outburst touched him will you always come to me when you need help mary she nodded a promise yes she rushed from his office her own owa elation quite transcended by the sense sensa of personal loss felt by all his associates for the executive rejoining his firm in san francisco thence to look after the practical end of making some other dreamers dream come true denis craigs coup through the virgin streets of which with their scent of fresh pine floors and new canvas ilary biary now passed was that dreamers argument that seeing Is be ba kleving the paradise valley project was about to hold open house and purchasers and prospective purchasers not only were invited to drop in for a week or two but bul with glorified hospitality pita lity were being transported from all parts of the united states expenses paid to this trumpeted wonderland where they would be 0 offered ered the tha opportunity of becoming pioneers pl onders do on this vast estate which mary browns flouted million had purchased upon the appointed day crowded trains began to roll into the station a mile from the embryonic civic center the tent city the great land sales convention was on hospitality was rampant and the contracts signed were amounting to millions of dollars mary brown busy from early morning until late at night was a mixture of emotions there was elation she had made mad good starting in debt she had worked her way to financial solvency starting under the handicap of prejudiced opinion she had worked her way to the security of professional solvency there was ample opportunity here bere tor for her to advance in her profession there was the thrill of a new adventure one to which she as the daughter of the rich david brown had been a stranger she was playing around with boys of her own age just as she had bad watched girls unencumbered with millions do she was waa popular with them and one of them had assured her that the feeling he held for her was not called animosity with the coming of the visitors to paradise vali icy le y mary experienced her first rush she was a romantic figure this girl engineer in her riding breeches and putts she danced and dined and rode and flirted a little with young men blown in by the four winds and told herself that she was having a grand and glorious time but there was a tittle little sting behind her ber joy no one of course admirer or scoffer could watch denis craig in this environment and not be in a conflict of mind about him ills his charm his magnetism his bis appeal to all classes of visitors were approached only by one other thing the compelling beauty of the foothill country the two made a dangerously intriguing combination people hung bung upon his words they believed they scrambled to buy they hailed him as a superman as a moses they talked of his ivine divine I 1 inspiration as he pictured for them an elysium there was waa a stampede stamp eue tor for reservations could be would he build this elysium mary asked ashen herself persistently ns as sho she tried to analyze whether this universal adoration provoked or pleased her TO BE BB |