The Monticellonian., 1918-02-01
CLARK, ALIAS CLARK
per SyndioateD
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS.

She had had two manuscripts fe turned that morning from magazine editors. and just moment before she had failed to get seat for the fsfce she wanted to see.
 Not n seat in the house," the box office man informed her.
 Nina was disappointed. She glanced through the casts of characters of sew eral theaters as she passed them 10 see if she could find out whether there was anything else worth spending dollar on.
 'Oh !" she calculated softly. "l won- der if this Is the Mir. Clark l crossed on the Lymric wlth?" She was glancing through the cast of characters for A Night and n Day" pasted in front of the Triangle theater and no- tfced the name X. G. Clark. "Fm sure he must be Calvin Clark. Isn't that lucky? I shall write and ask him to tea in the studio"
 Meanwhile Nina purchased seat for the Saturday matinee and felt slightly less discouraged.
 When she returned to her studio Nina wrote a short note to NIT. Clark asking him to tea for the following Sunday.
 She waited impatiently for matinee time on Saturday.
 When A. c. Clark made his appear ance Nina gasped. It was not the Calvin Clark whom she knew, but one compellingly different.
 "Oh. And I've invited him to tea. Isn't that perfectly awful?"
 Now while Nina realized that she had plenty of time to send q message te this Mir Clark before Sunday morn- ing. she recognized no terrible sin in not doing sa.
 On Sunday afternoon Nina dressed trifIe more beeominely than she knew she would have 10 for Calvin Clark.
 Her heart futtered q trife desper- ately when she knew \. c. Clark had dropped the copper knocker on her door, If Nina WAS embarrassed with her guilty conscience, she cid not show t.
 l 2 however. glance q bit neryonsly into Sina's brown eyes when she opened the door.
 Her start Of surprise was well as sumed
 "oh=h.n she blufed naturally, you are not NY Nr. Clark. I am so sarry.s she said, and cast a wonderful glance into tBe actors eyes.
 I'm serrx. teo-Fery sery. 7 laughed A. c. Clark. II ius1 came up To tel yau that Pm not YOUR Mir. Clark, " he added. by way of Broloa.Ing the interview. He remained standing neaf the door. hoping. however, that he would aot have L. % right aWaE.
 T have the kettle boiling and Eng l fish cramPets-a1 ready Ter tea. Nlaa said boldly while iH#arsitx sheaaakea at her own tFmeFi4e. "aHa Ia one To eat them" With that she ssHt aH= other glance into 3fr. Clark's eyes.
 If that's an invitation. laughed Clark. "I accept happily. ] have been desperately iaugsa1ae for someone just like vol" Ee ca3Hred as he realized how aa5seriaz his speech seemed. I mean. h. aGaed qnick[E. +1hat we ac- tors daa.r astaa meet honey girls.8 He had far down hEs hat and walking stick an Efaa u3I0ned him to coZy seat hes F. her little len wagon.
 .sYaa know she said with brilliant color flaming into her cheeks, 'that I found 6at u plenty of time to have let yoa know that you were not MY Alr. Clark. I-I saw the farce yester- day and c0uld have sent a message"
 q say" he laughed, you're q little bit of all right as the Britons say. Most girls would have bluffed this thing out" He held out friendly hand. and Nina put her own in it.
 And most men would have bluffed 1t out too. You could so easily have thought you had met me and all that old game" she told him.
 While consuming tea and toasted crumpets, the young actor and Nina found much in common to interest them. She even told him of her dis couragement regarding some of her stories.
 Later they seemed to lack pep" she said, and a worried little line sianted between the brown eyes.
 "If you let me look them over," he suggested, 'perhaps I can dust the pepper pot over them. Many times two minds work better than one on certain types of stories."
 When finally the moment of parting came and Clark had Nina's promise to join him Wednesday for lunch Nina said laughingy but with a tremor in her voice. Though you are not MY Mr. Clark am very glad you came." And while he still held her hand and would have liked to make the re- tort that hls heart suggested he re- trained and said instead:
 "You couldn't be as glad as I am If you tried. And we're going to work up those stories and get checks from all the editors and after that we'll write sketches-I have heaps of ideas and need just you to help me"
 Nina blushed warmly. He was ap- parently going to be HER Mr. Clark sooner or later.
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