The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-03
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Bets eyes and mouth frightened.
ITS not an unnatural supposit1oa.
that you may have concluded
you've had enough"
Enough BeI?"
of both. e.
That can't be anything but ca
culated imp
Bel made wry face as he stoop-
ed to pick mp his motor-coat- This
conversation is degenerating into a
5wrangle In which i have the tradi-
Stfonal chance a snowball has In the
place where motion-pictures "ere
spawned. Mind lending me a nand,
Linda Can't quite manage this
with one arm"
At once angrily and gently Luz
cinda draped the motor-coat over
his shoulders.
5 Bel continued: I'm to under
stand tn zen, my wishes mean moth
ing TO you? p
Lucinda gave little, silent laugh.
and lin silence for moment gazed
eon Be1lamy. her eyes unreadable:
you forget, what I don't, Bel
Lucinda said slowly, "thot it was
which II was content impossible for
me If this life I've taken up here
lis in some sense a makeshift, it's
aITsI've got to take the place OF all
81 had. sAnd how you'd rob me even
Sof ii, And one thing more you for
get: If Il should give in to your
wishes and leave Hollywood today.
II would only be doing what you
say you want to prevent, confess
ing by flight that my only real IN
Sterest in my picture work was my
greater interest in Lynn Summer
lad For that reason alone-and
not, as you believe, to spite YOU
I'VE got. to and I'm going to go on
to the end of this present produc-
ton. at least. After that
don't know
Discountenanced. hadn't
ittoughtSof that" Bel owned SQUARE
~. gu may be right That's
your last word, Linda?"
t.BIy@Iast word to you, Bel =
hope:
The finding of Nelly's body
crushed beneath the wreckage OF
a motor.car on the beach some
fifty miles north of Los Angeles.
gave the story Of the SImmerlac
shooting an extended lease of TWEEN
ty-four hours only on front-page
space in the. newspapers.
Then, since the death of the un
happy women had defeated all hope
of a5Iurid court proceeding and rem
dered piquant exploitation of wild
life inside the movie colony" the
case went into quick eclipse.
Lucinda spent the best part OF
that day in the projection-room
with linn and Wallace Day, her
new director sitting in judgment
on t1irty-six reels of film, the ac-
cumu1ated sum Of Nolan's fumbling
with about two-thirds of picture.
a. To the WEAKNESS of those days
the visit of Hartford Willis came as
aswe1come interlude.
N It lid Lucinda good to hear him
growl and scold about anything as
relatively inconsiderable as the
lunacy of throwing money away
like then refusing TOT
set the machinery of the law in mo-
ton to apprehend and punish Lon
tame.
86s5 And Lucinda took leave OF him
with dewy eyes her one true
friend
a Now she had nobody left but
Fanny; and she was coming daily
to repose less Faith in Fanny's 10y
atty.
q She was feeling very sorry for
herself, and very lonely. and when
most in need of friendly compan-
ship-Fanny was seldom at her
cali. Fanny had give up the bun
galow and moved to a residential
hotel on the outskirts of the VIII
shire district, whose accommoda-
lions she claimed We're cheaper
than the Hollywood's.
Deep in, Lucinda's subconscious-
ness an incidental recollection
turned in its sleep. somewhere,
some time, she had heard that Bar
~ Nolan had bungalow down Will
shire way. Or hadn't he?
& A week from the night of their
rencontre in Summerlad's bunga-
low Bellamy called to tell Lucinda
he was leaving for New York the
next morning. linn would take
charge of his producing interests
during his absence. He couldn't
say Just how long that might be.
Il he could be of any service to
Lucinda in the east, he would be
glad
Bel" she said. with not
unkind decision but decision I'M
for all that. And good
luck. But please never come
back" II
THAT night she sobbed herself
awake from dreams OF dear days |
dead and lay for hours hating the
cheerless comfort of hotel rooms. |
=, Sn,s,,, raipnauflU the intimacy of |