Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-07

He paused.
you was," Sunny said. But you
INT. Bert; you've got to come"
Il aInt going" Bert said.
And he did not. That snttlnd 1t. so
Sunny went alone.
CHAPTER XIII
Making Terms
When Hurlingham's portrait of Sunny
appeared in the illustrated It attracted
more attention than most other portraits
Of celebrities. People asked one an
other who Miss Sunny Ducrow was.
They did not know the name. 1t was
not every one in London who had been
10 see the revue, Keep of the Grass"
Those who had, knew, OF course; but
they were few compared with the many
who had not The Laughing Girl" was
success. Ono of the leading comic
papers parodled it, putting instead of
sunnys face that of well-known states
man, and 1t all advertised Sunny. The
result was letters-a shoal of letters
and not few of them were from pho
togaphers.
"Madam-1f you have not yet made
arrangements with regard to your Pho
tographs--picture post cards and por-
traits for the illustrated papers, ETC.
We shall be glad II you can give us an
tract"
There were half II dozen or moro of
these letters and Sunny carefully Put
them on one side. ray after day she
made journeys first TO one, then to an
nj haN
nothing
TN think It over" she said. Any
way, ! cant do anything yet II de-
pends on what Mr.. Hurlingham says"
and now today had come the time for
ner visit TO the eminent photographer,
S Sno had done remarkably we'll out of
sunny so far
There was no question about her ad-
m.l'ance this time. The young lady
VINO had at FIRST snubbed her received
ner with smiles. She showed Sunny into
coy little waiting-room.
Mr birmingham will be with you in
Jew minutes, Miss Ducrow," she said.
ssary not e Keep oyST ySr TEstnF EeTae long" Sunny
holght, "Lor', what a difference time
20 BRING sometimes, don't it?"
riomlnent among the papers In the
,WHalehg'room was the particular Issue of
Sa tnet paper in which THE Laughing
Slr!" appeared, There was also q huge
enlargement OF the same picture hanging
sI,n,vvh sTsr vhe mnntelpiece. In fact, wherever
sunny looked she saw reproductions
large and small
,,,t should think they'd get fair fed up
WIZ my mug here" shc Thought.
M; birmingham came In. Good morn
hept you waItirg?
'Of pOurun ,,r,, bnro
Hot Hnut nothing as you need worry about.
VOW. then, what | want to know Is, how
I've going on?"
a, HOW how are, we going on?" He looked
"dHher i don't quite follow"
,o,, DVhe pretty we'll out Of that, didn't
eSIar, sunny said. She pointed to The
was 'eS qStt yes si,GGdsiy, S2iry II n small way it
+. sunny looked at him hard. He might
cisv s cLeIer artist, but he was also q
foo, business man, and she was no
Of ot0t rItS eIt1her' 1t was likely to be a battle
~. "WelI, We'll, I'm. glad ! did you a turn"
sSs sSSed mo TO call today: so I've called,
e"a mats all about It."
.WWow do you mean all about it'?"
/ so' ~, s, we've settled up now, amt we?
r6In. sSt Tor you and you paid me now I'm
1,i 70 slt tor some one else"
,,bo. oou-you have not made any--any
'"sI o%rangeements?" he said quickly.
'.rorIS ! am because promised you |
|T2UuIan't I'LL I'd seen you again. Now
roon SS seen you, I'm going Off this after
iN%Un TO make Arrangements with Bill
"tss and Wilson. They've offered mo
|anSui ma u me hest terms, though De Lisle
|Iber.pp ppetnuru , and the rest are pretty
NnAt do tn,, ,,,ra,
81, What ! mean is this" sunny said
mo sot ABOUT six contracts waiting for
iEeo 70 sign, and ! can choose the ono l
uest, Lake the game, amt it?" She
EpoSS Em,;Sq IL at him, Sally Waters, you
,,I 4 .i'S1' don't know tho young lady" he
|Dncro, Let mo understand, Miss
Ear Fans y You have other offers?"
|ments?' nave MAUI no arrange
S,Nji ~ course I aIn't. I told you I
|YS'unt |seea l. ! waited to see you. Now I've
FTSam you I'm of to Billings and Wilson
|meay ARE, ARE the boys for my money!
In in ir iheir money and my face. See?"
l ne did see, but he pretended not to.
|ofer am am willing" he said slowly. TO
|sitt1rn |itttr you-ahem terms for, say, three
|nmnss year--Once every four months
her, rrss""e'y pictorial for the Illustrated pa
wo not taking any" Sunny said. What
/ 81 "Ins ns, s thls' picture post cards"
"a never never touch them" he said. "They
al right, we've done then !" Sunny
ka~. She held out her hand. Good
kHd y 20 and fix up with Billings
a moment" he said II say
bre rstHver lever do picture post cards they
4, ' -
tand?n s"'" iiie' 10 you uhuef-
Sunn1 they aren't beneath me-"
10 on SAD SAD "pve got to advertise and
a. auyertising all the time. Seer"
but-sSs II from your point Of view,
limeY the use me wasting your
cards N ~ amt going to make post
y and-p"e very wen. then; good
'"'ts he said. II might---I say |