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Show 6j LOUIS JOSEPH VANqW BEGD4 BBRSi today Youth, beauty, social position and love thee were not sufficient to hold th affecttOn of her husband. lELLAMY DRUCB, a man Olirssdl with an appe'ltK for cheap flirtations flirta-tions ami expensive llq'ior. The de-j cislon to leave lilm cam when his v if,-. iTJCINPA, after tolf-ratlnp: numerous escapades and receiving his prom-lae prom-lae to reform, discovered him fntoxl-1 fntoxl-1 . ,1 a,nd 1 uicing with a woman of ill-repute In a Broadway cabaret. 1 in the eve of her departure, Lu-1 Lu-1 Inda renews a friendship with 'ANN Y IjONTATNE, and learns that her hushand. ARBT LONT1NS, is thlnkinK ofi forming a motion picture company In California. With them, sho vlslta, tin New '.k -iidin- t Alm: Da'uJ.1 motion picture yuecn, and lakes keen interest In sercen life. Then comes her break with Bellamy and her sudden departure for Chicago. Kel follows her and tries to stop her as she leaves her hotel to board a tr:iln for Reno, (.0 on 1 1 11 THE ETTORI Somebody cam between them. ftartlefli she identified the strange; uunp man of the foyer "Can 1 be of service?" he suggest-1 id In an amusing drawl, instinctively she gasped. No. please !" At the .same time Bel tried tol boulder the other roughly out of hlsi iray; the gratuitous champion stood irm, merely counseling, 'Easy, old hing. cosy!" Then Bel lost his head, .uclnda heard him damninK the other "here was a slight scufflo in which he two, locked in each other s arm eeled t" one id The bellboy was hulling "Now, ma'm now's your banco!" Sshe stumbled Into the t.ii loldlng the door the boy demanded: "WhetS to mu'm where to?" She rasped: "Anywhere only tell him. 1 irr !f The ,.nir crashed, gears tnesh-d tnesh-d with a grinding screech, the cab eaped forward with such spirit that LtUClndM wus thrown heavily agaltist he back of the seat. When she recovered, the vehicle ivas turning a corner. Through Its ivlndow she caught a glimpse of the iidewaik beneath the canopy of the Uhn kstone. just a bare glimpse of wo figures struggling, with several sthers running toward them. 'Then he corner blocked out the scene. XIV As she was pouring herself a second, :up of coffee in the Pullman dining ar the following morning the vacant ?halr at her table was drawn our and 111 amiable, amused voice ike.i Do you mind my sitting here. .Mrs. Dru ? Luclnda Jumped in consternation. The speaker bowed with an Ingratiating Ingra-tiating smile; her unsought champion cham-pion of the night before! . . . I'm surprised,, too," he confessed "pleasantly. If you don't mind my. j saying so Ami yet the dear public pontlnially Kicks about coincidents!" Luclnda found her tongue but found It Incompetent to frame any but the must formal phrases "I have a great 1 leal to thank you for " "Please don t think of It that way To the contrary, 1 owe you all sons Of ipologles " "Apologies!" "For butting in where any rational angel would have been scared to death to tread, and particularly for being here." The waiter thrust an order blank with the bill of fare under un-der the young man's nose. "If you'll excuse me. The head he bowed over the cards was well-modeled and thatched With H Kood quantity of hair, light brown In color and amazingly lustrous A skin whose patina of faint tan re-semhled re-semhled that of old ivory, with never a blemish, covered boldly fashioned features. The mobile face had a trb k of lighting up when Its owner Bra talking aa If aglow with the light of his thought, so that his look was in fact more eloquent than his speech. Luclnda thought she had ne' 1 seen hands more strong and graceful, r any better cared for, not even Bel's, Nor had Bel ever dressed In better taste. The object of her interest waved tin waiter away and met her openly Interested regard without loss of countenance. I guess it's time 7 introduced myself. my-self. Mrs. Druce My name is Sum-merlad Sum-merlad " After a alight pause and with a hint of self-consciousness, he amplified: "Lynn Summerled." S' -risible that he seemed to expect her to think well of that precious name, Luclnda found no echo for It In the chambers of her memory. Hut how Is It you know my name, Mr Sum merlad " That's easy, your husband told mc." .ealn Luclnda was reduced to a blank. "Oh!" This time she felt that she was coloring "In the police station!" Mr Sum- merlad added with a broad grin. "But don't bo alarmed You see, Mr. Druco rather lost his head wouldn't j be happy till he'd had mo arrested' on a charge of assault At the sta- tlon houso your husband cooled down ami remembered that publicity was: not til- best bet So he withdrew the I charge." ' "How dreadful' 1 Luclnda murmur-ed, murmur-ed, her thought:, with Hcllatuy. "I'm so sorry." I "No reason to he If you must know, 1 enjoyed the adventure? tremendously. tre-mendously. That's what one geta for having been born with a per- ' verled sense of humor Besides. It. Wasn't If I'd never been pinched before." "You don't mean to tell me you're. In the habit of of " T mean pinched for speeding XOU know what tho roads are, out on the coaat, hard and smooth and straight j as a string for miles at a lime You can hardly resist them, once you get be ond the city limits. Luclnda caught the eye of her. waiter and gave him a ltll to pay for her breakfast. But she couidn 1 1 escape With good grace just yet, unless un-less she wished to administer a downright snub she would have to wait for her change. "I'd like to show you what motor-J ing Is around Los Angeles" Mr. Summerled pursued with breathtaking breath-taking assurance. "If it Isn't an Impertinent Question, may l ask if that's where you're bound?" ' No." Luclnda replied briefly. Ono bl g ui to foresee that to put a damper on such abounding enterprise enter-prise wouki prove far from easy Luclnda gathered up her change. And Summerlad's face fell touchlnu-ly touchlnu-ly as he grasped tho fact that she 1 was really going to leave him to finish his breakfast alone. "I am deeply Indebted to you." she pursued, pur-sued, "but, of course, It Isn't a thing one rati talk about " "Well, ihere arc lots of nthei things we ran talk about," Summer-, lad rejoined cheerily. "So let's forget ; the unpleasant ones. it's a long.; lonesome trip, and I'll be very happy! If you'll let me prattle in your com- pany now and then." Luclnda contended herself with re-j plying, no, she wouldn't mind, and' thrust back her chair. Immediately i Summerlad was on his feet, napkin In hand, bowing prettily. " A 1M f 1 ,11 1, ir.kA.I rf Mra rifiir. Ylhere shall I find you. say in an! hour or two? The observation car?" "Perhaps," Luclnda smiled. She mode her way back to her reservation but was not well settled When "he heard a Joyful cry "Cindy! Cindy Druce!" and tov, dropping the book in her astonish-1 ) I wUwnnl explanations had been ao-' ci pted w Ithoul question. ment, to be enfolded In the arms of Fanny Lontalne. XV Awkward explanations, haltingly of-fried. of-fried. had been accepted without question; Fanny's and her hushund'sj tactful sympathy not only won Luanda's Lu-anda's heart completely but. together with her reluctance to proceed to Keno before she could feel reasonably reason-ably sure of living there unmolested., had influenced her to agree to go on With the Lontajnes to Lo Angeles; whither 1 she was tacitly led to Infer 1 his motion-picture interests had peremptorily per-emptorily called Lontalne. It seemed a sensible move as well as ono most agreeable In prospect. She could rent in comfort and friendly friend-ly companionship for a few weeks, consult with Harford Wills by letter, let-ter, at leisure and with a calm mind plan for the future And then It would be amusing to sco Los Angeles under the wing of ao well-informed a motion-picture iinpressario as Ixintalne. That ofter-noon ofter-noon at the Culp studios had been fascinating; how much more so would It be to live for a time In a city that was. at least as Lontalne limned It, one vast open-air studio, to be associated with people who were actually doing something with their lives' "But you haven't told me." sho . omplalned, "about thoso tests How did I look. "You were ndorable, everybody simply raved about you'" Fact, Mrs. Wruce You outclassed oven Alma Daley in that Palm Room scene No, but seriously. It was you 1 first Mies Daloy second, Fanny a j good third, tho field nowhere " 'Well, it's hard to believe, but if I you mean it, the Culpa and their cameraman would seem to hae been right ' "Right about what"1" TyOntalnc earnestly wanted to know. Why. they were so sure I would screen well, as they put It, Mr Culp made me an offer, as we were leaving, leav-ing, to act with his wife in her next I picture." Lontalne'a eyes widened into a luminous lu-minous blue stare; and abruptly, as If to to hide the thought behind them he throw away a half-smoked clgaret and, helping himself to another, bent forward .tapping It on a thumbnail. "Really, dearest? How priceless! And what did you say to the creature?" crea-ture?" ' Oh, I was kind but firm " "Ben Culp's a big man in the cinema game," Lontalne commented without looking up. "If he says you'd make a hit, you might do worse than listen to htm. That Is. Of course. If you should ever think of taking a flyer in tho motion-picture business." ' I'm not even dreaming of such a thine. Why, It's absurd!" "Then you're the modern miracle, Mrs Druce a woman without either vanity or a secret ambition to be a cinema star," Lontalne laughed and llzlly got up . . "But If you'll excuse ex-cuse me. now. I'll arrange matters with tho conductor and porters " The door waa behind Luclnda's shoulder. Closing It, unseen by her Lontalne contrived to exchange with his wife a look of profound Slghlfi- cance. (Continued lu Our Next Issue) ' A 1 V si |