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5-19-55 P.7 quick switch, she tells Chuck that she'll pick him up in a few minutes, But Kelly knows guys, and she's watched Chuck while Maria was Rehearsing* Good-naturedly, she removes herself from the competition. When Maria comes hack, she finds that Chuck doesn't want to gamble. Wot even-when he learns that the management has prepared a private gambling room for them ?╟÷ to keep them comfortable, and happy ?╟÷ and to cut on the number of people gambling with them, of course, ^huck wants to be with Maria, They don't know anythihg 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's a 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 hoodj|money on the ranch, he goes to Las Vegas anf],- loses it. Cheerfully, Maria meets the kind of people she's never met before -- just 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 Chuckand Maria at the Sands continues to work. Chickens start laying eggs insanely, cows give milk like maniacs, and horses-.;who are not expecting drop foals. When, finally, the well?╟╓which hasn't even|got'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.