, 1923-04-01

with all the primeval instinct of a
savage desire for paint. He repeated
tho of tho various layers of
grease and color as a most delightful
lesson.
When was ready to begin on his
face he held It up like a little balloon
for adornment.
Leva had taken over the automobile
of the housemate who Rad gone back
east to the middle west. She drove
the Dacks and Mem to the studio.
The streets were full of actors and
actresses in automobiles OF every sort.
Most of them made up their faces at
homo and some Of them put OF their
costumes there.
~csrnival's morning after and strang-
to the established populace it was
nothing but the daily exodus to the
factories OF the working classes in
their overa,ls M caps. The makeup
boxes the toilers carried were merely
their tool kits.
The iron grills at the studio en-
trance were wide open and n throng
poured in. Automobiles were parked
along the curbs and famous artists,
extra folk. camera men, executives,
cabinetmakers. electricians, chemists
scene painters, decorators. cowboys.
Chinese. Arablans, cooks. Mattresses
"a mali cityful-flocked to h num-
berless tasks hat combined TO build
a show of pictures.
Claymore was waiting for his pro-
teSe and carried him off to his set.
where he pit him through ar ordeal
he was too young and too eager 10
regard as anything out the pastime
Claymore pretended 1t was.
The boys magnetism was instant
with everyone. Everyone smiled at
the sight Of him. He put a live coal
nj every heart to warm its cookies,
The camera man smiled and joked
as he turned the crank.
Terry Dack had that which gives
certain poems. dramas. painting, sta
tues, orations. an Irresistible fascin.
alton. His wheedling pout nigh be
known for a more trick; cynics might
resent his big eyes, his babylsh pref
tiness, and rebel against his tears
but they would find their eyes moist
their lips quiverlng. their hands ach-
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could not be ignored.
Mr.. Bermond. on an carly round OF
inspection. stopped to watch the test
being made. TO ask who the child
was. and to humble TO Claymore,
Sign him upF' He paused also to
shake hands with the young tyrant.
to toss him in the air and hug him
tight with a heartache he dared not
confess.
And SO Terry's fortune was made,
Or at least. It was assigned to him
to get. 1t would not be so easy to
earn as it seemed. He would not
realize, himself, what intellect he was
developing, what intuitional proc
esses he was perfecting in the labor.
atory Of his soul.
He was cent home that day with
n promise of n verdict on the morrow.
He left tho studio with bitter regret
and a gnawing terror. His fierce
imagination dramatized the defer.
ment as exile.
His mother took the contagion of
fear from him, and they were in an
anguish until Mem returned that eve
ming with the glad news that the test
film had been rushed through the lab
oratuhry and had evoked vast enthu-
s-asm in the projection room
1t was always a problem whether
the charm would photograph. In
Terry's case the picture was beyond
the reality. His skin had an mean
descence. His emotions were graphic
upon his features.
The next day was Terry,s first
hfN hIa-r - --tN.s No.
nounced herself as his true mother,
and Ciaymore said. Then 1 am his
father!'
They looked at each other with a
kind Qf fright. They were already
linked in a wedlock of art, and a
child was born of the union of their
souls. And this had terrifying impli.
cations.
CHAPTER XXXvIu
It helped Terry's art somewhat to
be told that he must play a little girl
That angered him and anger gave
him pathos. His hum liation was
only a child's humiliation. but the
pint cur trimming with bitterness IL
as overcharpcd as a tun of malmsey.
His Inimetic seniuS. after the flrs,
shame Of being clad in a girls bon.
net. slip. and short socks. found de
light in a satire on the poses and
carriage Of llttle womankind.
The stage was a magic playground
to him. He had to have his school
ing-they gave him n private teach
er who put him through his spelling
and sums in the envlrons OF the
scene where no was called now and
then to enact his role. Work was re
cess to him. and he scampered from
his textbooks to the set as to q
wholesale toy shop.
The electricians told him all about
tho big light machines. Tho property
men let him help them with their la
bors. The assistant director lent him
the megaphone for q toy and he bel
lowed through It Ike an infant Sten
tor. The lady who had to make her
self look very old with all Il
paint was as gentle an ogress as over
ate a child. Tho beautiful star held
him in her lap. and he learned to keer
his hands off her makeup and kiss
her behind the EAR. He was as close
to heaven rs a child may climb on
this do.eful footstoo,. He had ever
tho supreme pride of co~ndescension
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