The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-05
CHAPTER, VI. Andree DuphOt

Andree Dupnot, with every induce ment to be otherwise. had somehow attained the age of eighteen and re- mained a good girl. The child of a drunken cabaret singer and an ex- model, in the crooked streets which climb Montmartre like ill-made stairs, she learned to dance on the cobb1e- stones, and could climb drain-pipes, work her way hand-over along clothes-line, or scale a ten-foot fence as easily as a. young monkey. As fshe was a pretty and precocious child, her thrifty parents sent her out into the boulevards and restau- rants as vender of flowers, where | she wheedled many coppers from kind old gentlemen.
 Very soon she proved that her legs were more nimble than those of the regular dancers at the cheaper cab arets. She had no difficulty in se- curing engagements. and broke and remade them at her whim. She had
 been at the Mill of the Half-Gods | barely a week when Billy Kane had | wandered in.~
 Andree regarded breaking hearts as womans chief end in life. But
 her own heart had never so much as | suffered one little crack. It is doubt
 full if she had ever danced as much | with the same man in one evening as she had with Billy Kane, or felt so | kindly toward one. It wasn't love at
 first sight-nothing like that; but it
 was a quite unusual interest
 l When Chicoq lost his head with such dire consequences, Andree promptly terminated her engagement. collected her wages to the minute,
 and departed in company with the
 Apache.
 She did not desire or need his pro- | lection; but as both lived on the l Butte, she could not very well avoid
 him. She was not afraid Of him
 but she was afraid for the young American
 She knew that Chicou would nev-
 CT forget the blow in the face he had
 suffered in public. the news of which
 would sweep through Montmartre to
 the discredit of the Apache leader.
 She knew, also. that Kane would
 come back to the Mill of the Half
 Gods looking for her, and that Chi
 coq would know this, too. Therefore
 she promptly resigned. Tomorrow
 she would sign up at some far-dis-
 tant resort, trusting to luck that her ill-assorted rivals would never meet
 Thus she dismissed the American
 indifferently when her Scompanion
 cursed him heartily, and did not
 make the mistake of trying to divert him from his purpose Rather she yaWned prettily and advised him to gather his chosen ones and prepare
 to garrote the young American on the first opportunity, as he would cer-
 tainly be no match for him alone
 Ch1coq would seek to do so anyhow
 put with less zeal than if she seemed to hinder him.
 Ihe Apache, leaving her at the
 loot Of the long flights which led
 to her breezy aerie at the top of a many-storied house. was convinced that she felt no more interest in Kane , than in any other personable and , prosperous male she had ever met
 He regretted that his tnpulsiveness had led him to act before she learn ed
 the foreigners name and address. He might be casual, here today and !. gone tomorrow; but if he remained ir Paris. the noseless one was sure tha, l he could find him sooner or later Andree, her muscular littla legs
 dragging little. plodded up fligh 3 after flight in the dark we'll of the old house in which she dwelt Com. Ing at last to the very top landing : sheN entered an imme1,se attic-likt room containing a tumble of nis. mated furniture, a few Hloth-eater rugs, some cheap Autographs. and
 two peos-a large canopied one and s a white iron cot.
 n In the big bed. s1ent the two nal. = little nidinettes with whom Andret J shared her room She smiled a- n them' removed the boots from hel q urea Feet. lighted a. cigarette, and
 Tn her stockinged feet battered over r 10 one or the two low: wide windows
 Leaning upon the sill, she gaze6 r out over Paris asleep-if Paris evel f ooes sleep. Then blowing out thu : candle she diyed into bed as one