The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-07
CHAPTER xxx

CHAPTER xxx
 During the six weeks that follow ed Carolyn's sensational arrival in Arizona, life settled into an oddly contrasting and beautiful routine, 1t was as if the frenzied troubles had passed away with that mid- night rainstorm, leaving the skies both figuratively and literally blue.
 Carolyn had telephoned her mother, and Mrs. Tyler, happily excited in her own right now. had packed her trunks and personal effects to follow west It was a big change in her life. It subtracted years from her countenance.
 This airl" Mrs. Tyler kept say ing. Tt makes me want to sing!"
 Mountain altitude, Mrs. Tyler, Bob Hale explained.
 Carolyn smiled. T love it.. Everything's big and free and-far awayt I feel like a pioneerl"
 They decided to take her mother into partial confidence, explaining that the chemical substance" was hidden in the abandoned Copper King Mine shaft only because 1t was valuable and dangerous to persons who wouldn't handle it properly" They did not tell her just how terrifically great it was in explosive power, fest she be uneagy.
 It is a mighty big mountain for a laboratory" Mrs Tyler gazed at Tonto Peak in awe.
 pr. Hale nodded. About 5000 feet. odd formation, really. Note the bald. perpendicular spot on top = that's 0 granite face. Left half the mountain, seen from here, is almost solid rock. Other half, you1l note, had up-ended strata, loose shale and all manner of stuff. There are severe beautiful old trails, Mrs. Tyler. shall order 6 very gentle horse for you"
 Mrs. Tyler appreciated his thoughtfulness. The more she saw of pr. Robert Hale. the better she liked him. She couldn't blame her impressionable daughter for being a little bit foolish" about such man. A young girl is likely to idealize any gentlcmanly employer, wise Mrs. Tyler knew. On the other hand, Carolyn was singularly mature, not given to flighty fall-in-love im- pulses.
 Carolyn saw Leana Sormi only when chance or circumstance re- uuired 1t, as when in Bobs pres- ence The two women would speak with at least surface courtesy, but never actually converse.
 Leana had been installed in a rather luxuriously fitted three- room cabin and had her private caretaker and cook, a trained Hopi Indian woman.
 Bob Hale kept batch" Git was a joke with him) with four tech- nical workers in the largest house of all, aside from the new labora- tory. An ex-army cook and l6- year.old Mexican boy took care Of their personal needs.
 The Tylers were in a three-room rock house across narrow can- yon in shouting distance from Bob's front porch.
 All of 1t was exceedingly pic- turesque. Contour of the hills here made 1t so, contour and color and verdure and the blue-blue Arizona sky, a sky that ranged from dawn's yellow to turquoise to aquamarine and back to days day's-end gold again.
 Twelve cabins for workmen and minor assistants were going up, An electric power line from Boulder Dam had, as Bob and Carolyn anticipated, been tapped to supply the impromptu village Every house, including the seven guest cottages under construction, was fitted in time with every elec- trical convenience, even to air. conditioning. Telephone lines were extended from Blair.
 The whole new settlement. even the new rock laboratory building, was half a mile from the granite side of Tonto Peak and partly screened from Tonto by lesser hill. which Carolyn named Tonto, Jr, Where big Tonto was 5000, Junior was scarcely 800 feet, and she could climb 1t easily after dinner to watch the majesty of Q sun going down.
 within three weeks after they all arrived, Dr. Merrivale and pr, Can- by came by invitation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy: pr. O'Mara from the Univer- gity of Minnesota, Engineers Hard ing and Treat, and Capitalist Dev- sreaux from great incustrial corpo-