- A small-town girl returns home from schooling in the East to find that her father's small store and indeed the whole town are in danger of being eliminated by a ruthless land developer. The developer has a son who falls for the young girl, and together they try to come up with a plan to save her father's store and the town.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Peggy Manners is the daughter of H.E. Manners, who runs a general store in Felton, Cal, Peggy thinks he is a prosperous merchant in a large town, for he manages to send her checks and keep her east during the summer vacations of the fashionable school which she attends there. One summer when he sends her a check for the summer's expenses, Peggy decides to surprise her father by a visit to California. She surprises him, and herself, too, for she finds his establishment to consist of a run-down place, with one lazy clerk. Peggy sets to work housecleaning. She stirs up the clerk until he displays the wares so attractively that costumers begin to come in frequently. Later she meets Clyde Gardiner, the son of Roland Gardiner, who has bought up most of the forest for miles around and wants to start a game preserve. Gardiner closes up the mountain road and forbids hunting or fishing, much to the anger of the mountaineers, who have made their living off the mountain for so many years that they looked upon it as free grounds. Clyde is much under the thumb of his father, and father does not propose to have the daughter of any country storekeeper marry his son. Gardiner has summer guests, a widow and her daughter. They have designs on the Gardiner money, until one night when all sorts of things happen to keep the mountainside busy. First the villagers decide to burn out Gardiner and run him out. Peggy persuades them not to do it, and herself goes to the rich man and begs him not to shut off the mountain privileges from them. He tells her that he has recently purchased the property and that he can do what he wants with it. That night a storm almost drowns him out. Next morning there is no food, no fire, no servants, nothing but shivering and hunger and complaints from the company. Clyde disobeys his father and asserts his rights. He goes down to the store and hires out to Peggy as a clerk. Father stands it as long as he can and then goes to the store to buy provisions. Peggy is waiting for him. She charges him a hundred dollars a pound for ham and other things in proportion. "Holdup," shrieks Gardiner. "Not so," smiles Peggy, "the stuff is ours. We bought it and we can do what we please with it." Gardiner pays the price and gets the provisions. But nobody at home can cook. The summer guests leave in a rage and Gardiner goes back to the store, where Peggy gets him a nice hot breakfast and he decides that she is just the girl they need in the Gardiner family.
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