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    11 J ?√ß19-55 P.7 quick awitcl she tells Chuck that she?╟╓ll oick'-him up in ; ew minutes. But Kelly knows guys, and she?╟╓s-watched Chuclr-iwhile Maria was rehearsing. Good-naturedly, she removes herself from the competition* When Maria comes hack, she finds that Chuck doesn?╟╓t want to gamble. Not even when he learns that the management has prepared a private gambling room for them ?╟÷ to keep them comfortable, and happy ?╟÷ and to cut down on the number of people gambling with them9 of course* ^huck wants to be with Maria. They don?╟╓t know anything about each other except that when they hold hands, some- thing happens ?╟÷ but that's not a bad place to start from, is it? A short time later Chuck drives Marie thru the gates of the Lucky Seven Ranch -- his ranch, because, as.,-it says on all his bank loans, he'sva rancher. It's beautiful, but a little run-down. Things have been started, but not finished - among them, an oil well. That?╟╓s' because whenever Chuck makes .-some money on the ranch, he goes to Las Vegas and loses it. Cheerfully. Maria meets the' kind of peoulefshe' s never met before iust plain nice people. The. ranch hands, Chuck's friends, and his mother ?╟÷ a tart little old lady with an Italian-boy haircut. She and Maria' get along, like' two kids at a picnic. And the strange magic which started between Chuck, and Maria at the Sands continues to work. Chickens start laying-eggs insanely, cows give milk like maniacs$ and horses who are not cxuectlna drop foals. When, finally, the well which hasn?╟╓t even ^?╟╓ot::.a pump shoots up a geyser of oil, it becomes very clear to Chuck?╟╓s mother that Maria is one girl he must absolutely not let.go.