rather what little I have,"
he told her, modestly enough. "I expect this Pulp Company, however, to
lift me out of that, for a few years at least; then when I come back
into the promoting field I can go after things on a big scale. The
Pulp Company ought to make me a lot of money if I can just keep it in
my own hands," and involuntarily he sighed.

She looked at him musingly for a moment, and was about to say
something, but thought better of it and said something else.

"The tail of your kite will be almost a perfect letter 'S'," she
observed. "How beautiful it will be; the big, broad lake out there in
the main valley, and then the nice, little, secluded, twisty waterway
back in through here; a regular lover's lane of a waterway, as it were.
I don't suppose these springs have any names. They must be named,
and--why, we haven't even named the lake!"

"Yes, we have," he quickly returned. "I'm going to call it Lake
Josephine."

"You haven't asked my permission for that," she objected with mock
severity.

"There are plenty of Josephines in the world," he calmly observed.
"Nobody has a copyright on the name, you know."

She smiled, as one sure of her ground.

"Yes, but you wouldn't call it that, if I were to object seriously."

"No, I guess I wouldn't," he gave up; "but you're not going to object
seriously, are you?"

"I'll think it over," she said.

They were now making their way along a bank that was too difficult of
travel to allow much conversation, though it did allow some delicious
helping, but when they came out into the main valley where they could
again look down on the road, they paused to survey the course over
which they had just come, and to appreciate to the full the beauty of
Sam's plan.

"I don't believe I quite like your idea of the hotel built down there
at the roadside," she objected as they sat on a huge boulder to rest.
"It cuts off the view of the lake from passers-by, and I should think
it would be the best advertisement you could have for everybody who
drove past there to say: 'Oh, what a pretty place!' Now I should think
that right about here where we are sitting would be the proper location
for your hotel. Just think how the lake and the building would look
from the road. Right here would be a broad porch jutting out over the
water, giving a view down that first bend of the kite tail, and back of
the hotel would be this big hill and all the trees, and hills and trees
would spre