The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-05-23
CONTINUED from our last issue)

''The man I've got in mind to direct
You in your first picture. Mrs Lee.
that is, if you can get hold of Barry. |
You couldn't do better, but his salary's |
ee.normous. III give him ring and
find out for you"
There's no hurry, Mr.. Summerlad. |
Remember, Mr.. Lontaine hasn't taken
The first step toward forming COM
pany yet"
N well, but I'd hate to have you lose
Il chance. Barry's a wonder. Even
Griffith takes a back seat when Barry
Nolan picks up the megaphone."
Lontaine interspersed a question of
technical nature, and as Summerlad an
swered him at length, Lucinda's atten-
ton wandered, she began to think more
= about the speaker. less about what he
was saying. Undeniably u most salts
flying creature at least to look at. Bend
g ing ever the table his face glowing as
he illustrated his meaning with an
animated play OF hands; though his
words were all for Lontaine, Summer
lads consciousness was constant to
Lucinda his quick eyes were forever
seeking hers . Hard hit and making
q no, secret of it.
Not that it mattered. more than for
the good it did ones self-esteem to be
respectfully If openly adored by per
sonable young man whom one found
agreeable Vanity had been sorely
sprung by Bellamy's sacrifices N his
wifes love to his appetite for flirting
with women Of cheap emotions. Neither
had ,paubeney's devotion meant great
deat being something TOO familiar
through old acquaintance not 10 be mis-
prlzed. 1t had needed some new con
Quest as this to make Lucinda think
well of herself again; this at least prov
ed her charms not yet passee.
Lucinda inclined to approve the style
in which Summerlad maintained him
SELF The bungalow, secluded in wide
and wel.kept grounds, might have serV'
ed as the warm-weather retreat Of
grand duke.
BY merely turning her head she could
look out through an open easement 10
a lawn where moonlight Ike liquid
silver slept between mysterious, dense
masses Of purple shadow. TIE breath
of the night was bland and fragrant
IN Chicago the thermometer had shiV-
cred in the neighborhood Of zero New
York, according TO telegraphic news
was digging out from under a snow
fall second only to that Of its legendary
blizzard.
...'I want to purr" Lucinda confessed
finding Summerlad's eyes upon her'
f.,rD Da1fforuiq -
az must make the most Of these mo
ments, then. Presently well both De
busy, you in especial far too busy 10
give me many evenings Ike this
red ..rm not at all afraid Of being doom
ed TO ennui through any lack of inge'
nuity on your part.
M ...If I'm not mistaken. that's a dare
~ ats as you care to take II"
He accepted with smile the smiling
n gage OF her eyes. They understood
each other perfectly.
- When il was time TO return 10 the
Alexandria. Summerlad insisted q"
driving them home himself.
B Lucinda fell asleep that night to dream
of coursing a will-o'-the-wips through
hand whose painted illusion failed ana
faed as she fled, till in the end there
was- no more beauty, only the pare
grin of the desert savage and implac'
ibie
She started awake with her hus-
bands name trembling on her lips
XVIII.
The room the Lontaines occupied
in the Alexandria adjoined Luclnda ;
lind while she was lazing over break
=}ast Fanny tapped on the communicate
ks door and drifted in, en- negligee'
him a cigaret and an airy nonchal'
dnce oddly at war with q prohlemauc
.Aadow that lurked in her eyes.
"a "AIy amiable first husband" she an
1bunced. has charged me TO arrange
for an audience at your convenience.
eAs sooon as you like" Lucinda
laughed.
This morning Harry has walked
up with his poor dear head more than
usually added with gorgeous schemes
an says he wants TO consult you. What
he really wants is your unconditional
approval OF everything he has TO pro
pose. So do be wise as well as kind
I'm try" Lucinda promised.
Considered in the light OF this semi
serious warning, all that Lontaine haC
10 lay before her seemed almost dis
appointngly conservative.
"Tve been thinking 1t over all night,
he assured Lucinda seriously as she an,
Fanny settled TO give him attention
"and It seems 20 me I ought TO lie
you know more specifically what your
letting yourself In for, before I asl
you TO hold yourself pledged"
"That sounds suspicously like prer
aration FOR letting me down easily
please don't think that" There wa
a convincing CLINT of alarm in Lor
taine's look. "Nevor more enthusiastic
more sure Of anything that ] am O
your eventual success. But it's goin
TO mean hard work FOR both OF U.S."
81 shant mind hard work." Lucnd
replied. "As for disappolntments,
don't expect much, so ! can't be har
hit II everything doesn't turn out a
happily as one might wish"
A "It that spirit won't win for us
nothing will. Boniaine declared. moi
for n tentative program ... Our firs
step, naturally. will be TO incorpoBt,
And since IL seems to be the fashlo
on this side. and our corporate nam
will serve as a trademark. / ventur
to suggest Linda Lee. Inc"
zone name is as good as anothe
don't you. think7"
Good Call that settled Then a
to finances. My study OF America