Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-08-18

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A battered teaketrle was set 70 boil
over an absurd alcohol stove that re
aulred expert assistance 70 maintain
its equilibrium. Adorea flung out OF
her aasyv and donned a japanese robe
Offering another 70 Lorelei ) plate
Of timber era ~keps was unearrhed
from somewhere. also the dlsreputaole
remains Of box Of marshmaiioNs.
ara these latter Mademoiseue Demo
rest toasted on a hatpin.
You're the most xtraordinary per
son her guest at length remarked.
aren't sou going TO show me your
Jewels or-aurehlnE Ike tharf
lyon probably have better Jewels Of
veur own carelesslr replied Adoree:
then she voiced a very tame and Won
AMY oath as q marshmalIov dripped
into the flames. Pickles. I spoiled
THAI one"
bur the caBochon rubtes are real"
sure So is the square toe who
brings en- ana takes EN- away 50 is
the bond mat covers EN-. Lordy, but
they are pretty
Then the king didn't give them to
you7'
MY dear. ! never saw Elng-out-
side af g rjEoch.e deck. If 7 lost one
81 those rUbles -he Maiden Lane Shy
lock who owns them would tear
enough curIed hatr out Of his beard to
fill a mattress. You never really be
Heved tba- king stuff. did yous"
"Thv. yes"
"T had 20 idea il worked SO we'll"
Again Miss Deuorest smiled crookedLE.
$50 wonder you didn't want to go 70
the Waldorf with nee; 7 wonder you
consented to come here.
tT0ur advance work is great
SCI knew the public swallowed it: but
7 supposed the profession knew press
stuff when they saw it, sang and
danced for ten years In This country
and never got better time than the
scbuetzen parks and airdomez. 7 was
agnes smith then. Somehow got the
price Of e ticket 70 England. and
pulled Ibe airlome stuff that had
scored IN Little Rock and Michigan
City. and IL got ny somehow Ny
mother was q Canuck. 80 knew some
French. and eventually I reached the
continent There I met the Old Nick.
You may think the devil is what he
looks Ike on the ham cans; but in
reality hes a little, fat. bald man with
g tenor voice. and he eats cloves. His
name is Aubrey Lane he was ia
Paris selling patent garrers at the time
lie saw me work al a.cabaret and told
nae was good. bur not good enough.
I'll known that for years. 50 he didn't
hart uE feelings he confessed that
lac was tired Of working and intended
Il have me make : lot cf money for
him. hut warned ue that he had ex-
prn~ive tastes and I'd have 10 pay weE
for the privilege. Eo was right: I did.
Bur here / am in electric lights on
Broadway while he is exercising "A
wheeled chair az Atlantic CITY"
Hes your m6naeere"
Hes mat very utt.a thing Ee Of
fereJ ta make me starif Ia allow him
70 hitch his chariot 10 me-ou a share
If the gross. There was one trIding sac
rl9ce had to make in the nature Of
nay personal renutatIou-s8 he told me
Tfe began by tying a can 80 the Agnes
Smith. aud handed ne 'Adoree Demo
rest instead, then he went 70 work.
He really did work. too. although II
nearly killed him. and he's never done
anything since The king fable is
joke on the other side but New York
swallowed IT clear Up TO the slnker,
ana Aubrey zaTed the Palace Garden
mana cement for three years cen
tract OF course. my advertised sal
airy is phonv Just ike tie rubfes and
rhe wrecked throne and that gildea
handwagon with the p0odles and the
scufed supers on rle box. Aubrey
owns them AZ except the rubies. which
he rents. I'm billed as the most no
torlous woman N America. ard the
shred Of reputation have left
wouldn't make a nscktie for a gnat,
whereas in reality lave marshmal-
lows ana tea much more than men.
But I II star, at the head Of nay own
company. ana playing to sidewalk
prices DO you thlzk it WAS q good
bargain E"
Lorelei had listened with breathIess
interest Now she burst out impul-
sively
You poor dear
Miss Smith smiled. but her eyes
were tragic.
Sometimes I cry when I thtnk
about it I-cry q good deal" said
she Il didn't realize until too late
what If meant. buC you see, was
I-ed OF working. tired Of ambition
and I wanted 70 come home Thank
God, have no people, 7 save all the
money 7 can. ana when / get enough
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