The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-25
CHAPTER I. fin ThnaaS

 ture to hear a girls voice say any thing like that, to know it is none of your business, and not to Le interest ed.
 Note the squareness of his chin. That means he would not permit me to rule him. You would be putty Tn my hands, Will. That's why I won't ever marry you. And look-see how he lets his hands fall on that dogs head. It's a caress without being Tn any sense a silly fond1ing. A man who loves dogs would never be a brute"
 There was one and only one man in the scene that f1ickered before us. was the man-anyhow, it was my picture.
 But my dear Alice" whispered the unlucky Will Hes only a movie actor; he's been coached for every motion he makes 'tI'm not wholly an idiot, Will" the girl went back at him with ginger, thereby adding to my interest. "I've allowed for all that. Coaching couldn't give him that straight nose, nor those fine eyes. nor his square shoulders"
 His tailor could supply the shou1- ders," grow1ed the man.
 Something 1n his voice made me think his dinner had gone wrong with him, or he had too much claret with it. Just then a whole family came up the aisle and the pair moved over to make room for them. l could hear no more. But I could still see them.
 ''They act as if they'd never been in a movie show before and think mo- body can hear them any better than zee them. Say!' I went on with my thinking, "they belong to that inn ported Rolls-Royce gas wagon ous- side. That motor-veil and duster- Gee!"
 I mechanically felt of my necktie and assured myself that the frayed edge still remained tucked out or sight as I had fixed. it before sumter ing forth to view the town of Milf- vile Manor. That girl interested me more than any of the ones who had ever forwarded their faces in care of the o. K. Ubet Film Company.
 For that chin of mine had proven itself a joke. so far as getting me anywhere was concerned. I,eEdwarG Eggleston MoSre, author. dramatist, actor, scenario writer, was financially well, 1t had taken more than seeing my name on the billboards outside to get me into that little theatre.
 It had taken a real thunderstorm and the consideration of what walk lhS OdCh WOuld NO IO lily OHIy ooCSnL suit to make me give up a whole dime for shelter.
 And may as well tell the trUth-I was interested enough in any girl who sounded as if she had money while she talked interest in me-that made up my mind to have look at her face before I decided her interest was not to be cultivated.
 I kept my eye on that motor veil. ' made up my mind that my time for leaving the show would coincide with that pairs departure.
 But riding all night and all day in a daycoach saves some money but costs lot of sleep. All at once came. to with a start, looked up at the other end of the row. and saw that the motor-veil was, gone.
 got up with a jump. It must have been their leaving that woke me. They were hardly six rows ahead of me, going down the side aisle as I slowed up my steps down the middle one to keep from beating them to the door.
 Then heard a stif1ed little cry the theatre. I got to the side of the girl in a hurry, as she dropped to her knees by her fallen escort.
 Pardon me-" I whispered; FPM carry him to the office. There he can lie quietly until we get a doctor'' e I picked him up as I spoke. He was not big or heavy. There are six feet of me and a hundred and ninety pounds. that were still solid from the training of movie stunts.
 Wait a moment" the girl caution ed I got him nearly to the door. Would you - could you carry him out to the car instead? We - he wouldn't want this known. I'm sure"
 My heart skipped a beat or two. She had a nice voice and way. It instant ly dawned on me that this was the third coincidence of a bunch. I had run across my own act here, a thou sand miles from home ana two years old; I had overheard her favorab1e' consideration of me as a matrim oniaI possibility: now I was in way to get acquainted.
 "AlI good things are three.' the Germans say. I would bet the dollar had left in my pocket on something coming from these three occurrences felt it in my bones that my luck was changing right then and there. Bur then it was about time for it to change.
 The girl hurried across the side walk and opened the cars door. In- SLlICLlVSIy lOOk0d around A TOT a chauffeur as soon as I had the inert William safely deposited inside on the back seat.
 "Oh, Heavens!" the girl cried, "I forget. 5WMl was driving. I've just begun to learn. but I wouldn't dare risk it. If we could only push the car or something-out of this glare"
 She looked up at me for a solution of this fresh problem. Since we were directly under the blaze of the arc light in front of the theatre, got good view of her face.
 Right there I mislaid my mercen- ary thoughts about that girl. I went ashamed of them. I think really blushed. First I thought she was the girl of my dreams. Then I knew she wasn't, because I had never dreamed of anything to compare with her.
 She was beautiful Lovelyi Rat t1ingly, g:ddyingly, madeningly su- perbi