Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-10

money away-'like water!''-and then re-
fusing to set the machinery OF the law
! in motion to apprehend and punish Lon
taine
| And Lucinda took leave Of him with
| dewy eyes !. her one true friend -
! Now she had nobody left but Fanny ;
and she was coming daily TO repose less
Faith in Fanny's loyalty.
| She was feeling very sorry for herself
| and Very lonely, and when most in need
! OF friendly COMMUNICATION was
! seldom at her call Fanny had given up
I the bungalow and moved to residential
hotel on the outskirts uf the Wiltshire dis
trict. whose accommodations she claimed
were cheaper than the lIollywood's.
Deep in Lneindas suhconsciousness an
incidental recollection turned ii it, sleep
Somewhere sometime, she had heard that
larry Nolnn had a bungalow down Viii
shire way. Or hadn't he?
week from the night Of their recon
ter III Summerlad's bungalow Beliamy
called to tell Lucinda he was leaving
for New York the next morning, Zinn
would take charge Of his producing in
terests during his absence. He couldn't
say Just how long that might be II
{ he could be Of any service to Lucinda in
I the East, he would be glad.
"Goo6! by, Bel she said, with not un-
kind decision, but decision uumi stakahle
for all that And good luck But
I please never come back
That night she sohhei herself awake
from dreams or dear days dead. and lay
! fer hours hating the cheerlcss comfort
OF hotel rooms, missing poignantly the
intimacy OF her home and the sense Of
security she had known nowhere else.
And IN the morning and morning after
morning she rose with heart as heavy
as any she had ever known to address
herself to the daily grind.
Yet she had no light to whimper. The
new director was fviag up To all Hinn :
! claims There was no friction and Nh
DIR lis sympathetic guidance she felt she
was doing better work than she had ever
hoped to DO.
Rut be counted hourly the tale Of the
days.
! Twice she heard from Summerind- on
the day following Belamy's departure
penciiel scrawl Informing her that ne
was now permitted to receive callers and
nrotestlne his impotence for the visit
which he knew her charity would not
hermit her to deny him; and four days
inter another letter and longer. bring
ing proof Of steady Improvement in less
intirm peumanship and phrases turned
more carefully. repeating all he first had
snid and calling attention to the ven
cradle saw about the III wind; on the
writer's side at least every impeachment
TO their marriage had been abolished.
In the upshot Lucinda acknowledged
recent Of neither but for two morning
her waste basket with It's deep drifts or
note paper infinitely scrapped, more wit
ness to her endenvors to frame reply at
once flnaI aud not too cruel,
Better fshe decided) send no word at
/ all than a letter which could only hurt
his pride IL Lynn still believed
he loved her II he had
ever
For her part. the thing was lead and
done and finished and something TIM.
had never been the only wonder was.
IL ever had
one evening. "a she was leaving the
studio, she met Wallace Day on the steps
or the administration building, anu
learned from him that, making fair al
lowance for every imaginable delay, ne
/ counted on making an end to camera
work In two days more.
Accordingly. instead of going directly
home to the Hollywood, Lucinda motorei
Ito Los Angeles and booked re ~rvatlons
for Reno.
ON the way back to Hollywood she In
structed her chauffeur 10 make detour
and stop at Fanny's hotel.
Drawinc>ne, the hotel she recognized
the conspicuous car Of Barry Nolan wait
ing at the carriage block, and as she
bent forward to tell her chauffeur not TO
stop. che saw Fanny come out or the en-
trance. Nolan amhling, with an air OF
contended habit at her elbow.
Well, that was that
Yet 1t was long before the picture
Yf-if Il
tily in startlement, brief skirts whipped