Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-03

For her part. the thing was dead
and done and finished and as some
thing hat had never been; the only
wonder was. IL ever had
One evening, as she was leaving
the studio, she met Wallace Day on
the steps of the administration
building. and learned from him that.
making fair allowance for every
imaginable delay. he counted on
making an end TO camera-work in
two days more.
Accordingly. instead of going d.
rectly home to the Hollywood. Lu-
cinda motored to Los Angeles and
booked reservations for Reno.
On the way back to Hollywood
she instructed her chauffeur -
make a detour and stop at Fannys
hotel.
Drawing near the hotel she recog-
nized the conspicuous a of Barry
Nolan waiting at the carriage-block
and as she bent forward to tell her
chauffeur not TO stop. she saw Fan
ny come out of the entrance. Nolan
ambling, with an air Of ~contented
habit. at her elbow.
Well thai was that .
Yet it was long before the picture
faded of that girlish figure. posed
prettily in startlement. brief skirts
whipped about it by the evening
wird. with it's gay look of mirtn.
half shame-faced, half-impudent,
wholly charming . sweet grist
for the mills whose grinding knows
When she had bribed her maid
to observe discretion concerning
her plans, and had herself attended
A. t-aNf-. Aa.
trunks through to Reno, thus keep
the woman. Lucinda felt fairly con-
fident of getting away unhindered
and unpursued.
She caught the train with little TO
spare, and not until it was in motion
did she discover a box of roses IN
the luggage rack in her drawing
room.
Her favorites. Hadleys. two dozen
suavely nodded blooms of deepe IT
crimson. ~exquisitely fresh and frag-
rant: roses such as Bel had been
accustomed to send her daily. once
upon a time . g.. . how long ago! =.
An age since any one had sent
The box bore the name of a city
florist but was untagged and con-
tanned no card tc identify the donor.
And il was as If she had slept not
at all, save hat she felt rested; as if
she had closed her eyes on darkness
and Enclosed them an instant later
to find the very scene she had been
gazing on bathed in hot splendor of
sunlight. warm with color. Still the
desert stretched its flats of sand and
alkali; still the train drudged stout
ly on an up-grade; still upon tho
trail beside the racks raced tho
motor-car. Lucinda had been watch
ing when sleep claimed her
Another car. of course. Neverthe-
less the coincidence was surprising.
She lay for a little lazily watching
1t; a powerful, spirited piece of ma
chinery, well-driven, breasting gal
lantly that long ascent about which
the train was making such vast ado;
drawing abeam, forging ahead, fir--
ing derisively a all of dust as L
vanished from the field commanded
by the window . Bound whittier?
upon what urgency of life or death ?
that it must make such frantic hasre
in the heat of the desert sun! . .
She waited by the window, look
ing out upon without seeing the few
rude buildings that composed a tank
town at which the train had made
a halt for water.
A knock at the door. She started
up. pronounced a tremulous Come
in"
Bel entered, shut the door. drop
ped upon the red plush seat a dust
err and a caked with alkali. and