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Show 6)f LOUIS JOSEPH VANj BEGIN" HERE TODAY Had the time come for IA"'IX1A ( K wenlthy youns and beautiful, to break with her husband BELLAMY? This was the thought running; throue;)i Kuclnda' mind its he lunched with hor friend FANNY LONTAINE. ;it the Kit.. After five yar8 of married kite. Bel's Incurable nppctlte for rherxp flirtation and his heavy drinking had almost destroyed hM" love. Should sh havo married nirilAKD 1AI RENEY. "frond old Dobbin,-' who had now returned to New York? Thrit very morning she had, by accident, ac-cident, overheard her husband making mak-ing a luncheon appointment with MRS AMELIK SEVERN the most, recent object of his attentions In the lobby, she soparatod from herj friends for an Instant and was confronted con-fronted hy Iit husband, "lightly Intoxicated. GO WITH THE STORY rhought I d look in on your party. Yon know, you nfked me " She could not trust her tongue. If .-in' - n. i mod' in ii. -r anjftr. ."no wouio say too much. Sho cried all In a breath: "Well, so away then! I don r want you I won't have you!" and pushing pa.t Bel. fled into tho cloakroom. cloak-room. I He drew himself up shnrply and. Ironed out all Indications of his eni-baTrassmenl eni-baTrassmenl i-'-iiniinK what he believed be-lieved to be a look of haughty indif- ference. HIa k.(7 focused Intelligently upon l In: irl.ixH i-iw that dlxplnyx Ihe wares nf the- hotel florist. "Women liked, flowers. But there were four In Unda's party, her gueU would think It funny fun-ny if he joined thorn, bringing flow-j era for hla wife only. . A tough i problem. ii- decided to step round to the luh and mull it over . . . 11' had disappeared by the time L.u-1 inda showpd herself again. Outward-I y mistress of herself, she resumed hr' chair as Richard Daubeney passed, jylth his luncheon party, and made I directly for her corner Instantaneous- j ly Lur Inda experienced a slight psychic shock and found herself again the) aelf-contalned, the young woman ofl tho world whom nothing could dismay. dis-may. Dobbin knew everybody except the Lpntalnes; aud when the flutter creat-ed creat-ed ly his introduction had subsided, he found n chair by Luclnda's side and when the conversation swung to B pageant ho took advantage of the! 'i-rp'ral Interest to detach Luclnda's ,i t tentlon. ' I couldn't resist the temptation to butt In, (. Inda. Hope you don't mind." "It's always nice to see you " 'I can see you're troubled about something because I know so much better than anybody else. I'll lay-long lay-long odds no one Hse has noticed anything, any-thing, but to my seeing eyes you've been flylntr signals of distress all during dur-ing luncheon That being so. it wouldn't be decent of me not to give you a hail and stand by In case I'm needed now would It?" Momentarily Lucinda contended against temptation. Then. "You arc B iloar Dobbin." she said almost regretfully But it Isn't fair of you I to see too much. If its true I have! secrets I don't want to share. It1 would be kinder in let me keep 'hr-m don't you think?" Jean Sedley was claiming her attention at-tention 'What do you think of that Cindy? Isn't It a ripping Idea'1" v "Afraid I didn't hear I was flirting flirt-ing with Dobbin." "Yes. I know. But Mr. Lontaine has lust made a priceless suggestion about1 the pageant He Fays we c;in hav. mo :nK-pleturefl taken as we enter thf ballroom and shown before tho eve-' nmg is over." I don't know." Lueinda demurred If must be u weird sensation " -Not one you need be afalrd of Lontaine promised "If you don't , mind my saying BO von would screen wonderfully. Mrs. Druce " "You think so reallj ?" "Tell you what" Lontaine offered! eagerly: 'suppose you take test i what' No trouble at all to fix it up' for you. Take us all. for that matter Just an we are What do vou say'' "I say It'?- perfectly splendid!" Ji-ar.' Scdloy declared. "We'd all love it I When can you arrange it?" "This afternoon. If thai suits every-1 bo.lv. imlv have to telephone. .-, n, Inj half an hour they'll be all ready for, us. Shall I?" Dontalne got out of hlsj chair. "Do say yes, all of you. Mrs., Druce? I know the others will If you do?" I don't mind," Duclnda agreed hesitantly. hesi-tantly. "Rlght-O! Give me five minutes VII As Lontaine had promised, so had ho performed. "This- cinema chap he knew. ruip. had professed himself only too delighted. With two cars at its disposal, the party Npiit up into threes, Mrs Scd- ley1 Mrs. Huest, and Lontaine lead-) ing the way. On the point of entering enter-ing her car after Kinny. however Luclnda recalled her bridge engagement engage-ment and tinned back lo telephone that she would be late. HaTinsj aeen no more of Bellamy sin"o their encounter aha had diam laser) la-ser) the po -ihiiity of his returning. The surprise was so much the inorej unwelcome, corfsequontly, when on I leaving the booth she saw her hus-l band, with his hat cn the back of his head add hi arms full of lavender' orchids, wavering Irresolutely In the! entrance lo me raim room, surveying! with a dashed expression Its now all1 hut deserted spaces. With sickening I Contempt LAlcinda made hastily for the revolving door. Simultaneously Bel caught sight of her and, with a blurred travesty of his really charming smile and a faltering falter-ing parody of that air of gallant alacrity alac-rity which she had once thought - engaging, moved to intercept LiUCinda. And flndinpr her escape cut off. she I paused and i waited him with a stony countenance "Ah! there you are, eh; Linda! T'rald I'd missed you, Sorry couldn't' get back sooner, but " "I'm not." Duclnda Interrupted But look here, Linda, be reason-' able " "I think I have been what you call reasonable long enough too long:' Kellamy hesitated) nervously moistening mois-tening his lips. Here take these flowers, won t you? Plent for j ou and all your; friends." Again Luclnda defeated his attempt! to disburden himself. "Oh, Bel." she cried sadly. "how can you be such a fool?" "How'm I a fool'.' Thought I wasi going to pfeaaa you I've made; arrangements lo have the afternoon free, just to be with you We'll gu somewhere " ' We win not," Lueinda told him In-; flexibly. "I don't mind tagging along " "Sorry, but I don't want you " Injudiciously again, Bellamy elected elect-ed to show his teeth: "See here; ! where are you going? I've got a right; to know " "Have you. Bel Think again T never ask you such questions. If 1 did. you'd either lose your temp i i lie to me. and Justify yourself by' asserting that no man ought to be i .1 to stand prying Into his affairs So I leave you to your affairs and onlv ask that you leae me to mine.", Neither spoke in that (lash of wills until Bellamy's weakened, his eyes Reverently the Barbarians tlp-to-cl lnt the studio. shifted, and he stepped aside slightly slight-ly sobered "Please"' he begged In a turn of penitence "Didn't mean . had; to pull myself together somehow to Calk business at luncheon " ' ' 'h, It was a business luncheon,! hen?" asked Lueinda sweetly, paus-, ing. "Of course " "You leave mo to infer that your affair with Amelle has reached the point where you take her to the Clique I Club to talk terms." Bellamy's Jaw !-agged. his eyes were blank with con- j aternation. "What else do you wish me lo think. Bellamy?" Ho made a pitiable effort to pull himself together. "Look here. Linda, you're all wrong about this misinformed. misin-formed. I can explain Damn it, you can't refuse !" "Can't I? Go home, Bel get some sleep. When you wake up, if you still think you have anything to say consider it carefully before you ask ma to listen. Remember what I tell you now; you've Ud to me for the last ime. one more lie will end everything between us, finally and for all time! "i VIII cn the far West Side, the brougham dn w to a shuddering stop before a row Ol brick buildings That they were united In one service was proved by the legend running from end to end of the row beneath its second-story I u mdows . ALMA DALEY BTUf08 CTJLP1 CINEMAS, ITCC. BEX CULP 1 i'RES'T. This was tho nursery In which what ! Mr Culp (or his press agent) had' brilliantly Imaged as the youngest.! 'alrest sister of the plaBtlc arts was' fostering the- finest flower of its ex-! prcsslon. to wit, the artistry of Alma. Daley. In private life Mr Culp With every symptom of disgust, the) doorkeeper growled at Lontaine "ees kin g'wan up but molnd yer! -hep; thoy'B a darrick turn in tho I sthalrs" Ho pressed a button and u wire door swung back, the party filed' through and stumbled up two flights of creaklfng stairs to a tlnv landing upon which a number of doors stood all closed, each sternly stenciled- Pri-I vate. One of the doors opened hastily and'' ejected a nervously Ingratiating young man. Mr. Lane, secretary to Mr. Culp He shook each visitor warmly by" the' hand, then throw wide another of the i private doors. This Is the main stage, ladies. I Miss Daley is working on one of the; sets now. making the final scenes' of her latest picture. "The Girl In I the park" so if you'll be kind enough not to talk out loud . . .Miss Dilcy Js very, er, temperamental, vou understand under-stand . . ." ,HVuVe?UZ th bjr,arians tiptoed into the stu.ho ,nrl huddled in an awe-"frleken awe-"frleken prroup. 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