| Show aa R E N a ap N L by MAE FOSTER 1101 JAY aay service copyright by W A wilde oo 00 SYNOPSIS mary daughter of 0 a millionaire has the tha idea that her personality Is obscured by the fact act that she Is the child of 0 the rich david brown and determines ter mines to make her way in life unaided she has a million dollars which itie she insists her father invest in the wildest dream imaginable and about which she must know nothing she Is a graduate engineer As AL mary secures a position ils as engineer with the paradise valley project a development concern she Is engaged by letter on the train on her way to her lob job she meets denis craig who immediately antagonizes her alighting from the train mary Is left at a way station practically penniless craig cragg coming to her assistance Is also left behind lie he befriends her despite her coldness toward him enabling her to continue her jour journey arriving at the project she Is accused by john stark chief engineer of deception in concealing her sex and again meets craig who it Is the promoter of the project mary alary Is given a position she cannot make up her mind as to whether craig Is an honest visionary or a slicker mary blary makes good on her lob job winning the friendship and esteem of her bar fellow engineers CHAPTER V continued 10 it could give the young people in fo foggy y gulch wholesome play so that they get into mischief for all your drinking your crap games your indecent dancing your myrtle arel just play gone wrong I 1 money could give the young people decent play my money could and would it if I 1 had oh just a uttie she said more ruefully thun than bf be knew she dreamed when she washed her hands of the million that shed ever long tor for it as foggy gulch sometimes made her long iona 0 for it still if she had IL it and use used d it for these needs what would she be doing but bill defeating her own purposes this was just another of I 1 the he things she bad sacrificed to success gut your money mr johnson could give thero them wholesome play you could oh there are so many uses sir mr johnson for a a gymnasium I 1 and those two lots of yours back of f the dorseys would make the loveliest place for it and a swimming 1 1 I gymnasium SwI swimming pool bank johnsons words petered into mere choky noises in his throat and mary expediently expediency slipped from the car ile he swelled fled all up and got red she to told id june and lucretia that evening lie he made me think of the frog that puffed itself until it burst I 1 the man will be off you for life mary but mary shook her head bead cockily cock lly study your subject ladies experience proved that the mor more estren strenuously blank johnson insists ile he wont do a thing the more surely he will urn um I 1 I 1 can hear bear the squeak of the apparatus this minute it began to look as if mary alary was right the following morning spro apropos pos 0 of f nothing at all nir mr johnsto demanded do you know what those lots Is wurth worth five hundred dollars dollar sl 1 and already having such valuable lots would make it so much cheaper for you to carry out the project than if you had to buy them sweetly heres a plan I 1 drew up last night for a gym that would just fit on them think Ill hili im an old od fool with my ms money mary alary preferred to hedge 1 I 1 lust just nave have a feeling that youre going to te be a philanthropist with it 1 I 1 hear that what you set up to oe ae he told tier her sharply the storys all round town that you paid all the funeral expenses of old man oleson and his girl to keep em cm from gln to the paupers haupers pau pers neld how could you afford to do that mary flushed but did not answer allm its a horse borse ot of another color when I 1 stick my nose into how bow you spend your woney money aint it nothing more was said about gym nasia for several days the thin thing is just dying a natural death said allt the thin thing Is just soaking in sala said alary undaunted and surely enough flank hin hainsel hi insel iseli reopened the subject one evening as they were returning to town that you said kids has got that makes ein cm play instinct said mary alary and held forth at length upon the dangers and harm of neglected or misdirected play why should I 1 worry I 1 aint got no kids I 1 dont like em nine out of ten of em grows up tip good tor for noth ln only to go to the dogs 10 but your fault as ive been telling you my M Y ile be slammed on his bis brakes before the dorseys house bouse in an unmistakably allsta kably final manner mary alary glanced up at nis his face and silently alighted hank threw the car into gear almost before site she had closed the door he ele 8 started violently then he stopped 1 igalo aln lie ile leaned ov over er and thundered darkly at mary alary out of a face she never had bad seen before how flow dare you say its the parents fault what do you know about it it if kids gets mixed up in all sorts of devilment has their folks got any call to put up with them at all answer me that I 1 then there was a screeching of q sears ears a car tearing off at a mad pace and mary making her way toward the house utterly bewildered lucretia at her desk looked up at tier her askance well creesh you win faintly the gymnasium Is definitely out hank johnson just slapped my sassy face practically call y 1 she was tearing open an envelope gymnasium is a closed subject if im any prophet she was looking lookin at a letter ancon then s she e looked at it consciously ly held it out to lucretia can you interpret this notice the bank has ha sent me what does 0 D mean overdrawn answered lucretia why why how could I 1 be ive written only two or three checks but bill two at least were large ones collins coffins come high but you ever learned my dear that noble impulses of this sort are the privilege of the rich 1 I never realized mary answered truthfully but I 1 do now she went thoughtfully to her room put but lucretia followed with reckless decision mary I 1 think youre a great ba big sll sil you dont dodt go into this dancing bust busl ness for nil all its worth I 1 you mean aghast commercial ly just that why you you could make enough through the winter to pay oft of your ybur indebtedness keep your classes for the young pe people 0 of the town free if you will but let ours pay and organize others in the oaks it Is a good town plenty of money 1 I creesh Non nonsense 1 any one would think you had been trained in the smartest dancing schools in new york I 1 oh really gasped alary sometimes the ice fee got so thin I 1 why im so urgent it would be so easy for you with your vitality that never lets down accumulate while the accumulating Is good I 1 a always I 1 tench teach when I 1 can claribel does secretarial work and lelen helen rich nich has had her hand band in everything from ten tea rooms to cotton fields 11 its all in the same game asked mary incredulously the bothersome money question again of course she ha nt stopped to figure holy smoke 1 she groaned what a bother I 1 to have to worry about simple subsist subsistence ence w when hen youre all poised to soar to famel fame I 1 what a drag on your wings I 1 she sighed and then said finally reluctantly well I 1 can do anything th ats necessary I 1 suppose I 1 can pace the d istance distance between stakes with one toot foot and do the 11 light ht fantastic with the other ill have the classes lucretia looked sympathetically at the young girl the dreams in whose eyes temporarily were clouded by the scheme of things it Is the dickens it if only we have to eat and wear clot clothes hest 1 I 1 wonder how atwould feel to be a millionaire and not have to worry about the necessity of merely existing dont ask mel me 1 implored the dau daughter h of the rich david brown CHAPTER VI A gully washer upon the night before thanksgiving day marys sisters eve and diane helped their father and three secretaries until midnight taking care of last minute pleas for charity then they went on with a gay crowd to look 1001 in on two or three parties and amusedly wondered as they separated at 4 a m how that young iconoclast mary would be spending thanksgiving at that precise moment 4 a m mary filary was reaching out of bed to throttle an imperious alarm clock A cold rub a quick dressing in woolen shirt shift woolen riding breeches and high heavy boots and she went forth lantern in hand out through the back yard across a lonely alley and into a spooky old barn where the sole occupant she hoped looked at her mournfully with disillusioned eyes again the decrepit gray horse seemed to demand it has to be done belinda I 1 said mary alary as she took a saddle from a hook swung it across a swayed back bach and added fatalistically fatalistically all because we choose a ladylike lady like profession or a boy boyl ill the winter rains had set in making the road to the project impassable for motor cars the men engineers with homes in fo foggy gy gulch had gone into quarters in camp since the laws of convention made it impossible for mary thus to lessen the grief of the days work she had rented belinda 1 and spent four extra hours a day traveling back and forth with the lantern hung over the pommel of the saddle they set out through the sleeping town in the rain and dark it was thanksgiving day mary remembered ironically well she had her job to be thankful for john stark apparently belonged to the old school which conceded only christmas and the fourth of july as holidays his fils in men en worked six days of the week rain or shine and seven in an emergency progress 0 was the thlin thing 1 I 1 TO BE CONTINUED |
