The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-10-01
What has happened beforei

The story deals with Birmingh gham's future.
 Robert Landon, at IA, begins to awake to young manhood. The son of a poor woman, he does not lead mn enviabIe existencey but citizen ship and what it means awakes in his soul. Aloud, he vows that he will be n great man
 A rsd-haired child hears hina, and much to Bob's embarrassment, speaks out and encourages the idea He loses her after q hoyisk promise he will make good for her sake. An automobile vhisks her away before he learns her name.
 Bob becomes an architect nnd real estate man. He plans to build a series of giant electrical figures above the city which will be mag nificent to look upon from the top of Red mountain Twfnlxling lights, he feels, arc tame. He hopes to see only castles. municipal buildings, houses of God. vast nuditoriums, statues, public and state buildings erected along Red mountafn's crest all of them to be of stone and marble. Their spires, turrets, towers and artistic beauty, he feels, would forever be an inspiration when Bir- mingham citizens and visitors lifted their eyes to look upon them. A broad and magnificent thoroughfare should traverse the mountain's top, He tbinks colonial types of houses belong rightly to southern clfmes- not western bungaIows-and builds his towns in this style.
 One day, on the street, he sees the red-haired girl again, but once more she escapes him. In seeking her he accidentally meets Annette Kingston, young society girl. Mary witnesses the meeting, without recognizing Bob. Mary is being pressed to marry Herbert McAflister.
 Hob persuades Mir. EIberton, prom fnent financier. to come to Birming- ham and build n home from his draw ing of the ghost house. He finds a child model for his main electrical figure. He and Annette become great friends. Having seized a dog on the street. which proves to be Mary TrevOr's, the red-hafred girl announces desire never to see Bob again. Bob Is welcomed into the Elberton home like q son. He acci- dentai1y encounters the red-haire1 girl again with Annette. Disregard ing her desire that he let her alone. Bob wordiessiy, frankly idolizes her. She decides she will leave town SnC does not realize he loves her, Sud- denly. Bob's sick mother mysteriousIy disappears. He cannot find any trace of her.
 Meanwhile, Annette announces Mary's engagement and approaching marriage to McAlIister.
 Chapter 13 (Continued)
 Suddenly this thought would not be denied: Mary Trevor did not know him. How was it possible for her to give him even any consideration Could she see his heart. he felt sure she could not help but respect him. He could not let her go without even a word: he must make demand. He must do everything in his power to make 1t right with his soul. If he lost her, he would not lose without fight
 His heart gave him that right For him she was life and joy and inspira- ton. Without some hope of her, he felt as man might feel left to die upon an alien shore.
 He had made her, even though it might have seemed silly. a definite promise in the long ago.
 Why had he been so long in ac-
 
 waiting was about to rob him of his chance to make Mary realize. She was no mind reader! Three thoughts a week of him did not chase through her adorable, alto be cherished d head.
 Stalking All
 It might do no good-this plan of his-but 1t was little ship he would send out loaded with the most pre- cious gold and treasure of his soul. And pray God that no i'll wind might blow it from it's harbor!
 He fairly ran to his waiting auto mobile, and madly drove until he had reached his office downtown.
 There. from his desk, he drew out a thing over which he had spent months of agonizing work.
 It was deed. plans and drawings of house that he had just finished constructing upon an acreage a half mile below the Elberton residence upon Red mountain.
 A Fairy House
 Its general appearance was one of artistic delicacy-almost frailty-his idea having been to give the sugges- tion of fairy house. It had many fretwork, and was all in white set amid green trees.
 It was a departure from the col onial styles he had adhered to and while 1t had been presumably for sale to anyone who had the price to pay, Bob had built it with only this purpose-that it was to be Mary's- the house he had promised her when he was little boy.
 Of course. he could not present it to her in his own name. Bob appre- ciated conventions-never sniffed at them; was glad of them.
 And so he had gone north and taken into his confidence only one man-the president of a firm in New York, who had drawn up the deed. willing the property to Mary as a legacy from poor person she had once befriended when she was a little girl and who wished to remain un- known. This person had turned over to the executor a certain sum of money, specifying that it be used to purchase g handsome home and prnperty in Rirmin gham