The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-05

Continued from our last issue)

BEL 3 eyes anu lnoutu lBhteHeu -
not an unnatural supposition that you
may have concluded you've had enough.
Enough, Bel?"
| "Of both :"
THAT can't be anything but calculat-
ed impertinence"
Bel made a wry face as he stopped
to pick up his motor-coat. This con-
versation is degenerating into wrangle
in which l have the traditional chance
SNOWFALL has in the place where mo-
ton pictures were spawned. Mind lend
ing me a hand. Linda? Can't quite
manage this with one arm"
At once angrily and gently Lucinda
draped the motor.coat over his shoul-
ders.
Bel continued I'm to understand,
then, my wishes mean nothing to you?'
Lucinda gave little, silent laugh,
and in silence for moment gazed on
Bellamy, her eyes unreadabe.
you forget, what / don't, BEL, Lu-
cinda said slowly, that it was you
who made the mode OF life with which
| was content impossible for me. If
this life I've taken up here is In some
sense a makeshift, it's all I've got to
take the place of all | had. Ard now
you'd rob me even OF III And one
thing more you forgot: II should give
in to your wishes and leave Hollywood
today, | would only be dong what
you say you want to prevent, confess
ing by flight that my only real interest
in my picture work was my greater
interest in Lynn Summerlad. For that
reason alone--and not. as you believe.
to spite you've got to and I'm going
to go on to the end OF this present pro.
duction, at least. After that !
don't know :. -
Discountenanced. II hadn't thought
o fthat" Bel owned squarely. you
may be right That's your last
word, Linda?"
My last word to you, Bell hope.
The finding of Nelly's body crushed
beneath the wreckage Of u motor.car
on the beach some fifty miles north OF
Los Angeles, gave the story Of the
Summerlad shooting an extended lease
of "A hours only on front.page space
in the newspapers.
Then, since the death of the unhappy
, woman had defeated all hope OF luric
court proceeding and rendered piquan'
. exploitation of wild life inside tn,
movie colony" the case went into quicl
eclipse"
Lucinda spent the best part Of tha
day in the projection-room with Zinr
and Wallace Day, her new director
sitting in judgment on thirty.six reel.
of film. the accumulated sum Of Nolan'i
funbling with about two.thirds Of 9
picture.
To the WEAKNESS of those days the
visit of Hartford Willis came as q wei
come interlude.
II did Lucinda good 10 hear hin
growl and scold about anything as rela
lively inconsiderable AS the lunacy o
throwing money away-''like waterr
and then refusing to set the machin
: cry OF the law in motion to apprehenC
and punish Lontaine.
And Lucinda took leave of him with
dewy eyes her one true friend D..
Now she had nobody left but Fanny
and she was coming daily TO repost
less Faith in Fanny's loyalty.
She was feeling very sorry for her
self, and very lonely. and when most
in need of friendly companionship-
Fanny was seldom at her call. Fam,
and given up the bungalow and moved
to residential hotel on the outskirt,
OF Wiltshire district. whose accommo
datlons she claimed were cheaper thar
, the Hollywood's.
!. Deep in Lucinda's subconsciousnesi
f, an incidental recollection turned In IL
S sleep. Somewhere. sometime. she ha'
Q heard that Barry Nolan had bungalow
down Wiltshire way. Or hadn't he?
A week from the night OF their rem
o contre In Summerlad's bungalow Bel
@ lamy called TO tell Lucinda he wa
!. leaving for New York the next morn
ing. Zinn would take charge OF nj