They were sending him, now, again to Arizona, this time as the resident manager of their properties in the Prescott district.

This new advance in his profession, together with the substantial increase in salary which it brought, meant much to the engineer.

Most of all, it meant his marriage to Helen Wakefield.

A stop-over of two weeks at Cleveland, on way West, from the main offices of his Company in New York, had changed his return to Prescott from a simple business trip to a wedding journey.
At the home of the Yavapai Club, on top of the hill, a clock above the plaza, a number of Prescott's citizens, with their guests, had gathered to watch the beginning of the automobile race.

The course, from the corner in front of the St.Michael hotel, followed the street along one side of the plaza, climbed straight up the hill, passed the clubhouse, and so away into the open country.