The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-18
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
20 DARIEN, finishing, her
flrst year IN college, learns her
father is out of work. 10 gets q
job rs b0Okkeeper in q small
marine supply store. She Il en-.
gagged to BRET PAUL. athletic
star.
DOUGLAS MARSH, handsome
wealthy, comes to the store to
buy equipment for the summer
colony he is establishing at
Crest Lake. 10 works overtime,
assisting with the order, and
Marsh asks her to have dinner
with him. She agrees.
Marsh tells her about his sum.
mfer colony and offers 10 the
Job OF hostess there. Scarcely
able to believe such good luck,
she accepts. When Bret hears
about her new job they quarrel
and Joe tells him their engage
Iilent Is Mt an end.
Next day she goes to Crest
Lake. Marsh meets her. He
warns her that some people con-
slider his mother ECCENTRIC.
CHAPTER x
JOS doubt was quickly forgotten
when the green roadster topped
a gentle rise in the road and she
saw below her the broad and
bseathless beauty of Crest lake. 1t
was so wide that the opposite
shore was almost obscured by the
mists of an early dusk, and it
stretched to either side of the
smooth clearing below, disappear
ing beyond the thick green Of the
trees. Unconsciously Douglas Marsh
halted the car to get moments
view.
"oh," cried 10 in delight, cts
it's beautiful"
1t was not just as she remem-
bered 1t from the summer motor
trip with her parents, for below
her the trees and stumps had been
cleared to make a wire clearing
which was carpeted now with
clipped grass. She saw the corner
Of a tennis court, and, beyond 1t,
a golf green that edged along O
small neck OF the lake. Marsh al
lowed the car to coast slowly down
the hill now, and in moment 10
saw the new Crest Lake Inn,
huge and rambling structure OF
logs and single roof, with unbe-
lievably wide windows and We
randa on the lake side.
Perhaps" said Marsh dubious
~. II should have left the spot
alone. It's always dangerous to
try to improve on nature.
10 shook her head. II think it's
wonderful"
What Marsh had done he had
done with infinite taste. The Inn
seemed to belong to its setting
quite as much as the lake itself,
and there was nothing gaudy or
jarring to mar the natural charm
OF the place.
"The cottages are beyond. the
Inn," Marsh said. I'VE can't see
them from here. The inn is even
larger than it looks. Mother and
I have our rooms there, and I've
regerved suite for you which
overlooks the lake. think you'll
find 1t very pleasant"
TIN sure Of it," breathed 10.
Ashley drew nearer to the clear
in gshe saw the boat house, the
lohg low dock which ran out to q
safe depth for even a deep-keeled
sail boat which was moored along
side. When the car rolled into the
wider graveled road, two men in
Stacks and sweaters waved at
Marsh from the golf course.
"Charlie Gunder and Todd Bar
ston," he explained to 10, return
ing the pairs greeting. "Gunder
holds most Of the stock in LISTENS
where you say you bankrupted me
yesterday-and Barston's the avia-
tor. You know, long-distance rec
ords and all that business
10 laughed. "I,ve seen his pic.
tufe in the advertisements. endors-
Ing q cigaret."
SWELL" Marsh replied, joining
her laughter, "he can't be flying
all the time!"
As they drew alongside the huge
wooden steps OF the Inn two white
coated Japanese boys appeared ex-
citedly and began cropping for the
luggage in the rumble seat.
I'm tell you now about these
boys" Marsh whispered, because
you will have to direct them oc-
casionally. We have six at the inn,
three on a shift-and just to sim
pity matters I cali each set of
three. Tom, Dick and Harry. That's