The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-05-29
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Knows, Jul ShS
dangerous, too. They all are, once!
the stuff gets hold ON them,
There's nothing they wont do, p
lisfheySwon't tell ~
end this is what goes on in
this earthly paradise"
isn't California it isn't Hol-
slywood Tits human nature.
XVII
Lnctnda dated from that Satur-
day the dawn OF a fortnight when
went wrong for her
with such regularity that, in the
end the burden of its crosses grew
too sore, he woman had been
somathing more than merely NOR
tai whose stores OF fortitude and
had not run low.
NATURALLY she blamed Bellamy.
ButSone% day Lucinda devoted
painfuI5honrss to totaljng up her
q bank accounts, a duty which she
had hbeensre forgetting for
months and whose performance
toElight the fact that she
had already given Harry Lontaine
checks to his order in the sum OF
two hundred and ten thousand dol
lars to @bescashed by him and de-
posted to the$credit of Linda Lee,
Sine:
this discovery, it was less because
ssof he money involved-for she
had from the first been prepared
N TO pay more dearly for her whistle
than Lontaine had declared it
would @cost-than because the end
WAS not yet, the first picture re-
Il main edsunfinished
was IN ow. necessary to write
SWtlIisSand ask him to find her
more money.
3ssButHher5 only course was to con-
Sn 1T Lontaine in the faint hope
that out Of the sum entrusted to
8s him there might be enough left
ssi nj sthe#company's treasury to see
Through the present production.
And this she hestitated to do be-
cause Of an int uitiye feeling that
heSVould take this as directly chal-
5lenging his competency. Lontaine
ssyy :aggs SCI soul However,
she spared her the pain, for the
next time they met he blandly
advised SLucinda that the company
.cou1d#do with another twenty
afhousand as soon as she could
lind time; to draw the check; and
s. that it would have to
few days, or until she
coHldE hearfroma Willis. he seemed
discountenanced or
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CT.
The8day when Lucinda broke
with Barry Nolan began auspici-i
ousIy#enough&w with night letter
Willis stating that
money matters had been arranged
with Lucinda's
wishes, and adding that Willis
hoped before long to give himself
eth e pIeasure#of calling on her in
person; e was leaving New York
the day he photographed.
Not little to her own wonder,
gssI5ucinda found$ herself pleasantly
excited by the thought% that she
sWasSt to- see this old friend again.
BusySWith such reflections, and
BithR the pleasing prospect of soon
having audience for her
Lucinda made moth
ing of%th fact that Lontaine
Showed the whites of his eyes and
ssh led back like a skittsh cob from
the Telegram which she submit
ted to his sinspection, and was not
much tranquilized by the check
which, It the same time, she gave
him for the rep1enishment of the
Golfers. And in her
nost8ami able ten per she hurried
from his office to her dressing
room. into the newest, prettiest
land most becoming dance frocks
she had ever owned. who had own
sAsd SO many, and then out to the
sstage.
The company was waiting, the
sgeameras were waiting, Nolan with
an &air#of noblest patience was
waiting. All of which was quite
needles, for thereSwas other work
gtnsabundance thatscould have been
Ssattend ed to-
Lucinda drew near, Nolan
hoisted himself. out of the bas-
ket-chair#4i which he had been
sloungfng, with something more
han a suggestion of limbs cramp-
ed by prolonged inactivity. and
sssbowedS politely, too politely.
Sorry If I've kept you waiting,
IA Nolan, but l had some bust
mess with Mr.. Lontaine we could
sn put off. Z
No matter at all, Miss Lee, I
assureSyou-notm matter a-tall! My
CIT ime is yours, the company's time
q is yours, all the time there is is
yours to use or waste, just as you
think best
Lucinda couldn't very we'll let
Soffensiveness so pointed pass
ssrgfthout comment. She stopped,
turned squarely to face Nolan with
Keen smile looked him deliber-
ate1y#up and down, a movement
of shoulders summing up clearly
enough the substance of her i'm
presions
hank you for telling me-" she
said sweet1y.A And now that is un-
derstood suppose we try to make
M farSthe time I've wasted, II
possible by getting to work at once
NoIanss eyes snapped, but the
only fetort that occurred to his
ynizd Las at all appropriate he felt
dnstinctiyely to be Inadequate IN
points of8eieganee.
enough, he agreed with
passsbIs dfsp lay of good spirit
Lets go To 1t. then He ap-
preached the set, upon which two
cameras stood trained at close
ranEe. with Kieis lights focused