Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)

"Ridgway of Montana" is a romance novel set in the New England mining town of Mesa. Waring Ridgway is the President of the Mesa Ore-producing Company, a successful businessman whose exploits are the talk of Mesa, not least because he seem to make money on business ventures where other men failed. But the fair Virginia Balfour mulls over his proposal to marry her, and wonders whether his lack of scruples would be a good thing for her, or would drag her into a life she would live to regret…