South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-05-29
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CONTINUED From Our Last Issue.l
I'm sorry. only wanted you TO.
understand why felt had 70 warn
you against Nelly She's unfortu-
nate. God knows. but she's danger
Gus. too. They all are. once the
stuff gets a hold on them. there's
nothing they won't do. no lie they
won't tell......
And this is what goes on in this
earthly paradise"
1T isn't California. 1t isn't Holly
wood, it's human nature"
XVII
Lucinda dated from that Satur-
day the dawn Of a fortnight when
when everything went wrong for
her with such regularity that, in the
end. the burden Of its crosses grew
| too sore. the woman had been some
thing more than merely mortal
/ whose stores OF fortitude and for
/ 'bearance had not run low.
Naturally she blamed Bellamy
But one day Lucinda devoted
/ painful hours TO totaling W her
/ bank accounts. a duty which she
/ had been religiously forgetting for
/ months and whose performance
/ brougt tc light the fact that she
had already given Harry Lontaine
checks to his order in the sum Of
two hundred and ten thousand dol
lars. 10 be cashed by him and de-
I posted 10 the credit of Linda Lee,
Inc.
If she felt slightly dashed by this
discovery. il was less because of the
money involved-for she had from
the first been prepared TO pay more
dearly for her whistle than Lon
i taine had declared il would cost
than because the end was not yet.
the first picture remained unfin-
ishedt
1t was now necessary to write
Willis and ask him 10 find her more
money.
But her only course was to con-
suit Lontane in the faint hope that
out Of the sum entrusted TO him
there might be enough left in the
cOmpany's treasury 10 see it through
the present production. And this
she hesitated to do because OF an
intuitjve feeling that he would take
this as directly challenging his COM
/ retency. Lontaine was a sensitive
| soul. ..... However, ne spared her
the pain for the next time they met
he handy advised Lucinda that the
company could do with another
| twenty thousand as soon as she
could find time to draw the check;
and on learning that it Would have
to wait a few days. or until she
could hear from Willis he seemed
considerably discountenanceA or
else fancy misled her
The day when Lucinda broke with
Barry Nolan began auspiciously
! enough with night-letter from
I Hartford Willis stating that money
matters had been arranged in con-
Torrance with Lucindas wishes
and adding that Willis hoped before
long to give himself the pleasure
Of calling on her in person; he was
leaving New York the day he tele-
graphed
Not a little to her own wonder.
Lucinda found herself pleasantly
excited by the thought that she was
TO see this old friend gain.
| busy Win SuCn reflections. ana
with the pleasing prosrect Of soon
\ having a willing audience for her
complaints. Lucinda made nothing
of the fact that Lontaine showed
the whites of his eyes and shied
| back like skittish cob from the
| telegram which she submitted to his
! Inspection. and was not much tran
/ quilted by the check which. at the
same time. she gave him for the
/ replertishment of the company's cof-
| fers And in her most amiable tenn
/ per she hurried from his office 10
| her dressing-room. into the newest.
| prettiest and must becoming dance
! frock she had ever owned. who had
| owned so many, and then out TO the
1 stage.
The company was waiting. the
/ cameras were waiting. Nolan with