New Britain herald., 1922-05-19
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 Youth. beauty. social position and love-these were not sufficient to hold the affection of her husband,
 BELLAMY DRUCE. a man cursed
 with an appetite for cheap fiirtn.
 tions and expensive liquor. The dc.
 cision to leave him came when his wife,
 LUCINDA, after tolerating numer.
 ous escapades and receiving his
 promise to reform. discovered him
 intoxicated. ana dancing with q
 woman of ill-repnte in . Broadway
 cabaret.
 On the eve of her departure. lu-
 cinda renews a friendship with FANNY LoNTAINE, and learns that
 her husband,
 HARRY LONTA1NE. is thinking of
 forming a motion picture com
 pany in California. With them,
 she visits the New York studios
 of Alma Daley. motion picture
 queen and takes keen interest in
 scren life. Then comes her break
 with Bellamy and her sudden de-
 parture for Chicago.
 Bel follows her and tries to stop her as she leaves her hotel to board Q train for Reno.
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 Somebody came between them. Startled, she identified the strange young man of the foyer.
 Gan I be of service?" he suggest ed in an amused drawl.
 Instinctively she gasped No please-!" At the same time Bel tried to shoulder the other roughly out of his way; the gratuitous cham pion stood firm. merely counseling, "Easy, old thing. easy!" Then Bel lost his head. Lucinda heard him damning the other. There was a slight scuffle, in which the two, locked in each others arms, reeled to one side. The bellboy was shout ing Now, ma'm-now's your chance." She stumbled into the taxi. Holding the door the boy de- IuhHOeu.E w ueIc lo, iin III hSi V to-" She gasjed: "Anywhere-only tell him, hurry!" The door crashed, gears meshed with grinding screech, the cab leaped forward with such spirit that Lucinda was thrown heavi- ly against the back of the seat.
 When she recovered, the vehicle was turning a corner Thorush its window she caught glimpse of the sidewalk beneath the canopy of the Blackstone. just a bare glimpse of two figures struggling, with several others running toward them. Then the corner blocked out the scene.
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 As she was pouring herself sec ond cup of coffee in the Pullman din- ing car the following mcrning the vacant chair at her table was drawn out and an amiable amused voice asked: Do you mir-S my sitting here. Mrs Druce?"
 Lucinda jumped in consternation. The speaker bowed with an ingra- tiating smile: her unsought cham pion of the night before!
 I'm surprised, too," he confessed -"pleasantly if you don't mind my sayt7g so. And yet the dear public continually kicks about coinci- dences!" Lucinda found her tongue but found it incompetent to frame any but the most formal phrases. T have a great, deal to thank you for Please don't think of it that way. To the contrary, I owe you all sorts of apologies-'
 N"Apologies!" For putting in where any rational angel would have been scared to- death to tread, and particularly for being hee." The waiter thrust an order blank with the bill of fare un- der the young mans nose. If you'll l excuse me |"
 The head he bowed over the cards was well-modeled and matched with a good quantity of hair, light brown in color and amazingly lustrous. skin whose patina of faint tan re- sembled that of old ivory, with never a blemish, covered boldly fashioned features The mobile face had a trick of Tightening up when it's owner was talking ar if aglow with the light of his thought, so that his look was in fact more eloquent than his speech. Lucinda thought she had never seen hands more strong and graceful, or any better cared for not even Bells. Nor had Bel ever dressed in better taste.
 The object of her interest waved the waiter away and met her openly regard without loss or 
 T guess it's time introduced my