Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-21


1rhHe on trip to New York. meets
laurence French, n press agent. ,rho
6ccomcS interested IN her aud secures
tor hCr an important part playing
Opposite JOhn Sccdrd famous
screen star. SCwdrd asks Uorothy
10 marry him. but she refuses. Elk.
norm. biC producer. OBcrS Dorothy
contract. but she docSn like the pic
tyre aud declines the contract.
Dorothy rC0li:cS that she lores Ldr-
renee French. She lenrcs for Ithaca
TO p'0y small part in a picture.
TIVE always supposed that girls
l. tainted when they had m awful
shock. ] didn't. though, when ! heard
that girI mention my name. just
as II ! Il never move again.
] knew. now. why Persis had sat up
the night before. writing that letter.
Nnd ! knew. too. why Larry had looked
after IN" man with the Newspapers he
must have caught sight of the headlines
on one OF them, and thought he could
save mo from learning the news. some
how.
After little | came myself and
had tho porter bring me a newspaper.
And there | read all about what had
happened in Pcrsis' little room at tho
club, after had gone to my own
! room. AS ! read. ] wondered how ]
, could possibly have been so selfish as
not to realize that she was in trouble
too; far more serious trouble than mine
| must have been very blind.
it nearly broke my heart to think OF
what had happened: it made it seem
! worse. too. TO have it told there in the
fn
She had taken poison, some tim,
during the night; if the doctors csti
| mate OF how long she had been deac
! was right. it must have been just be
tore | slipped out of the house. Per.
maps, II Id Obeyed my impulse TO gc
| IN and tell her good by, her life nigh
have been saved. But I'd thought o
now short she cut me off tho night be
fore, and had gone on.
She had left a letter Tor me. tha
was printed In the paper.
Dear Dorothy" she had written. {"
JnHt can go on any longer. There
nothing in this game as I've played it
should hav" stuck 10 my stcnography
Better Fiill. should have stayed a
home and never come to New York.
''lIaving n good time went 70 m,
head. and after Id played around
crowd. and seen thom snend r,omo,, III, III
water | rouldn't 70 hack r. oarrin
twenty five a wccE and nova, howin
any fun.
81 did hovo o,o,oo B., ,, :.
n.ct',res with Fov "%, wv, io l." m"rh ,T,, i
really do anything on her own hook
, and nil she wanted wos 10 marry SON,
,ch man and stop working
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and s,rrn,tbotic +homoL "onL''H L ny ny
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,.n., N-,
h"t Mcl JUST hhled mo after that
ilha "h'n we got doWh to Nld l'oln
"i'iI"ri h' gave IN" money enough I
Gci PACK TO New Aork' and said he wa
gong west II" Sald we W"r"n real
MAJ rieH' because ne was forced into il
anu ne was gong 10 I"hNe me. anyway
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At hrSt l r"uIdh : I"a.i|" what ha
rhpPoh"d' even as J. read about It
me pApe". it SAD tina friend of n
glrl s. Dorothy Lane to whom the let
= ter h0d h""n written hnd diSappeare
during IN" night, ana that tn" authorj
ties wanted I" ma hCr' as thcy wei
sure thA' shc c"n'd zen something MOI
nb"ut IN" ahAIE' Inc, paper said. to-
0'hai II was th"ught Pat the lead 81
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"nu t."' ~ = ,""uo'''I SY'.iT,nInH IH TO
W.. ~ no "' laom ''ot''"'' ,nn "''''oH' "'S''
] wondered why IT was that the pui