Show I EXTRA GIRL By Stella G. G S. S Perry I PEARLS AND PASSION Yes Vance Ill I'll ride back with you you- ou But you d dont don't nl dare Odile Youre You're so queer lately Oh of course 1 I un tin Your friends friend's death death- death death- But Bui it if f I 1 were you I wouldn't let people think hink I 1 cared so much all dear not such a nice gang that bunch Glad I you didn't get really involved with them hem She had never told Vance about her part partin in that night John Garvey had made her promise to tell no one BeIdes Besides Be Be- sIdes Ides Juana Juana and and Vance had not liked each ach each other ets et's not talk about It Vance please Forgive me rue Of ot course no not noL Lets Let's Letsgo Letsgo go pretty soon Bluebell Well We'll drive about bout first I want to talk t td to you How wise vise you arc areto to wear blue always Idea It was Zoras Zora's Ohl He didn't care much for Zora either cither She had bad that same smarty look ook look as as' as of perpetually calling hi his bluff luff that John Garvey tried not to tc have As to Garvey he suspected half him II of f trying to get Odile for tor himself Swell chancel chance el They rode through the blue and gold t to a bluff beholding the sea ea S Oh no Dont Don't stop here Vance Please Too much like that parapet at Santa Monica over over which h the gray car had dashed lashed Never suspected you of nerves Bluebell Where then I I haven't any usually I If there were at flat low gentle bayou somewhere somewhere some some- where under tinder a great moss hung oak sweet with honeysuckle bright with fireflies Anywhere else Vance Down own there thereby by the shore where its it's flat a t. t As you will Down there they sat on the sands He spread a motor robe for her to tc sit it on on put her white cape about her shoulders His His' carefulness In small attentions W was one orie of his charms to women a smoke moke screen that hid his ruthlessness in n big ones The twilight t deepened The dark waves rolled in ln pink fringed with afterglow Homing Horning gulls wore above their wings vines blue sh shadows dows beneath them theine Odile drank In the beauty and the peace Murdock drew her head bead to his shoulder There were distant lights and one great rolling hoop of at a brilliant revolving re- re Ferris wheeL But here here beside their car on the sands ands under the Ithe cliff they seemed alone lone in the dark blue tipped hose-tipped world Odile I am going to lo New York for tor or the premiere of the new picture Did you know That will be wonderful for tor you Garvey is going to be sent scat ahe ahead d whoop o her up get me me a great reception re- re eption Shouldn't wonder if it they did me as well as they did Mary and Doug and nd Charlie Garvey says he doubts that that-he lat he doesn't care how he hurts you ou that but ellow-but but it willbe be good goodall goodall I all the same he says s ys yr I i expect a won von der erful time Back to Broadway in ina intone a tone of ot reminiscent rapture What he remembered was walking out ut his shoe leather there vainly hunting a job in inthe the chorus It will be great for tor you Is John going to be there long John Well Wen I luke like that thaU I know you must come back soon Vance she apologized To start Hold Yo Your r Hearts She really was wondering at herself her her- self elf for having asked first about Garvey arvey But Buthe he was was was' such a comfort Good old John Odile Murd Murdock ck hesitated Yes Vance You are my ny sweet friend But you know It after Saidee Saidee after this big picture Js Is out ut and its success success assured she assured she says she's ics ic's going to divorce me after all No use parleying any more her lawer lawyer law law- yer er says She's determined Silence Anyway I r cant can't keep raising the ante buying buying her off oU forever antly going to persuade her her it If they can to get it itu off somewhere Quietly Going to try to keep it out of the ic papers It If only she shed she'd d. d go to Reno stay ay long enough No scandal But aidee's Saidee's so damn selfish Its ns more money she wants No bitterly Theres a man Thinks Think she can do better He la laughed But she could scarcely do worse dile's diles French clarity of vision be blind to that thal It hadn't been een very nice for Sa Saidee idee 0 dil ct Yes I r I I shall shaU never marry again I A little gasp To me inc that seems for But for y you u u. u why Vance Im not the kind I fear tear Ive I've had too oo much trouble Given too much too oo maybe Three tries No Its It's enough nough It wouldn't d do anyway The bIg Ig chief thinks to too oo He lie thinks an artist temperamental temperamental had better not nol ot otHis His chief it more crudely What he h had d said was What the hell hello do o you want to marry for Cripes Gripes knows mows you dont don't need to And weve we've had ad enough trouble that way with you Can an it it Silence I I 1 fear I I. I couldn't marry anyway he sighed dr dramatically Theres There's another another anther an an- other ther reason She Shedid did not nt ask what It was But as Im I'm determined not ever evero everto to o marry marty anyway y what docs does it matter mat nat ter tr Except the pain to nie me Still I want you to t know I can tell you now I love you terribly Bluebell He Hc crushed her to him Vance loved Javed her She gave him her heart eart in her lies i I I I i I I I I I r didn't want wint want to tell Iwas 1 I was free But since ince Saidee has de- de dared lared herself I am free tree to tell you Though that'll all the good it t will ever evero dome domel o mel melHe He let her go buried burled his head headon on her knees He shook with sobs It was a good deal like a scene in in 1 his old s picture Pearls and Passion It will be hard for tor us both Vance dear ear B But t what must be be must He raised his head gave her a quick side glance Could it be that she didn't realize didn't understand to what he was leading He took her in his arms arnis again kissed her fervently Just over the rose tucked in the coral bro ch at her breast Odile trem trem- led bled O Odile me Odile I cannot live ive without a love life met Suddenly her memory saw Undine coiled up upI in lap ZaroU's head buried horribly horri J in her bel shoulder that shoulder that day when the door insecurely bolted had yielded to knock Undine had said Id that too I cannot live without without with with- out a alove love life Suddenly she heard Sister Marie Marie- Clementine in that last sacred talk to ta the graduates gr Love is not only physical my children always ber It is an attribute of God It is pure Of the spirit That is is' why life can bo be b built on it There is more more joy joy more love in sacrifice sacrifice-It This will not do Vance dear said Odile raising her with both her hands hand A queer feeling came over her as she saw his face Almost for fora a moment mo no ment she did not like him Take me home now please e. e I want to go home now Vance Quickly It was not easy for him him to to give him that much credit due due but but he thought it wise vIse to obey Hed He'd driven her er as far as shed she'd go o for the present pres pres- ent eat It was damnably hard But he rose immediately went with her herto to the car He drove her home quickly all but silently and kissed her hands devotionally devo devo- at parting She took the little yellow rose from the coral brooch washed it clean and andset andset andset set it in a glass beside the picture of herself with Sister Marie Mat at the the feet feet of the blessed Lord She was crying hard But there was love lovo and joy in sacrifice She did not know why she fled lied so sofrom sofrom from the intense embraces toward which her whole body still tingled But that very yearning gave her mind minda a silent warning Something in that small womanly body made for mothering mothering moth moth- ering warned her against baser uses of its instinct She had no notion of the purpose in Vance mind But much muchas as she seemed to want his new exciting ex cx- citing embraces must as she felt for them she knew she desired no such love as the fleshly something she had sensed like a black mist around and Undine that da day With the thc spirit No one had ever told her ller that love were different things But she knew that glorious as it ought to be in spite of the pain of ot denial for Vance Murdock to love her her her- somehow it was not glorious She wanted some woman to talk to But she would not could no not join the silly chorus of at the girls around her interminably about loves and ro roo ro- ro mances Even now she knew they were were profane pro pro- fane lane Was Vances Vance's love so too Something wrong Something wrong though Well there was work Always work Have to play a waiting game Vance Vanc Murdock Murdo k was saying to him him- self But I 1 know Ill I'll love this one always I know I shall So Sold Id I'd be jus jus- Id I'd be just as bound more bound more bound than bound than if I did marry her her- herId Id I'd be f faithful to her always If shell she'll come con Then he drove to the Hardens They were expecting him and he thought hed he'd better go Odile soon learned that even being advanced to parts to parts to roles instead of bits did bits did not mean a steady income income in in- come in the picture business Indeed now the waits were longer if it anything Because a player of ot bits could descend the one step back into atmosphere and emerge into bits bitson bitson bitson on opportunity But to a player of parts especially a new one not thoroughly thoroughly thor thoro established it was fatal to retrograde Again her carefully guarded purse got thin And now one had a certain certain tain lain obligation to appearances a front to maintain A life lile of ot sordid worry this for people peo peo- pIe to whom wrinkles were disasters No wonder they worked over their faces all the time No wonder they were gay and reckless whenever they got a chance chanc for escape There were so many girls in like case The veiled sense of competition tion of envy of gloating was immeasurably immeasurably irksome to Odile And so was the tradition of pretending to prospects pros pros- peeLs better than they were The Thc Acadians Acadians Aca Aca- are arc a people reticent about their own own business but when t thy they y speak atit of at it at all frank to the thc least detail She wrote the thc Hardens a reminder of that old loan they had forgotten for Hallie was was' app aring often orten now in roles and had been noted by the press agents agents' club as one of the promising youngsters But Odile got no answer answer to to her note She saw Hallie sometimes lunching at Montmartre and sometimes sometimes' dancing ing lug with successful rn in the ugly tropical grove room of the otherwise handsome hot hotel l that featured featured fea fea- their assemblies Odile managed to app appear ar in tn these places whenever she could not of of- ten Hallie always s as fluffy flurry and chirpy as a newly hatched chick was ever surrounded by men ever chaperoned mamma mamma Mamma Harden knows l. her onions Zora said She wont won't let baby baby-baby Bet that little rip could o 0 voted for Harding go go out alone with anybody by Vance Murdock Zora seldom says anything wIthout without with out a reason Wants me n-ic to ask her why Who Zora They were walking In the fine gardens around the hotel loitering down clown the long paths among the roses Why S So she can claim they're engaged of course when the Saidee Murdock divorce starts Unless Vance wants it like that you'd better put puta a flea nea in his ear car He must sort o 0 like the little tle rat rat though or he wouldn't hang around her so much Yes He does like her She knew whom he loved but hut she couldn't tell Zora I r dont don't think Id I'd better say anything to him about it Zora Justs you OU like For my part I couldn't find it in my heart to wish them two married to each other and andI I aint considered cruel either He makes me feel like somebody was I scratching on a slate with a pin anc and she makes me mc feel Id I'd got my hand stuck in the flypaper Otherwise J I 1 like cm em fine rine If U she was an ignorant young kid kid maybe Id I'd feel different about it Zora meant that for tor me mc That bozos bozo's like a looking glass to any woman Odile He Hc shows her back her own face and so she thinks think hes he's like she's But as soon as she moves along somebody else gets a look lookin And all the time nobody sees through him I Dont worry Zora I know you mean me mc Vance Isn't going to arry anybody ever again And as for me mc you know I couldn't marry him It wasn't his marrying you I was worrying about little thing Oh Zora Well as long as you can say It like that youre you're safe sate I guess Any Anyone Anyone Anyone one else but think that comes great from me mel But Bul it wont won't cross that kids kid's mind Speaking of ot weddings Odile Will liU you come to mine Next Sunday To be continued con tomorrow |