The producers news., 1926-10-29

An overwhelming power laid my bet
ter instincts in the dust and forced
me to remain perfectly still.
you remember when you wrote me
that Sallie had told you that l would
not look at another girl and you ad-
vised me to flirt a bit and make her
less sure ,"
Yes" came fathers reply, "and
I'm glad of this opportunity to ex-
plain, you see, in that intimate chat
I had with Sallie, l discovered many
things about her that I am quite GER
tain you could never know. I saw
that she must continually dramatize
her married life and even then she
was on the verge of seeking diversion
elsewhere believing your affection for
her to be absolutely sure. I attempt
ed to reason with her." father ex-
planned, "but she met all my repri-
mands with the clever slang of mod
ern wives and l knew, then and there,
that it wOuldd require much stronger
tactics than a scolding from her de-
voted old Dad to bring home to her
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much of that sort of thing, Curtiss,
and | was determined to 90 to any
lengths to protect my precious child!"
His voice broke, so that for a few
moments / could scarcely catch the
words, then he went on again, BE
sides, / know her real happiness was
at stake and I placed everything on
that one desperate chance to save
her from herself! The suggestion
must have seemed most extraordinary
however, coming from me?" dad
asked
Il must admit it was something of
a shock" Curtiss said, especially
when the last thing on earth | want
ed to do was to make Sallie jealous
by entering into your plan, I loved
+ her so much that it seemed an unfair
thing to do and then after turning
the thing over and over in my mind,
realized that if you, with your tre-
mendOus love for her, could suggest
such a scheme it was only because
{ YOU understood her perhaps even bet
ter than / and had analyzed the situa-
tion from perspective that it would
I have been impossible for me, as her
F husband, to obtain. And, So" Cur
+ tiss changed his voice to a lighter
tone, began looking around for the
+ other girl. IF the stage had been set
for it, things, in the beginning, could
not have played better into my hands
i Since you do not know the lady in
I the case can tell you the details
without hurting her reputation which,
! assure you, have no desire to do.
She was ideal, I thought, for the
+ part, for her name had been discussed
on several occasions with married men
/ prior to this time and I felt that my
being seen with her now and then
could not get her more talked about
than she had been in thespast. Here's
/ the way. I had her figured out.
Flrtations and reckless with ultra
4 modern views but otherwise perfect
/ " respectable in every sense of the
word Fine old family and, regardless
Of her pranSs, the girl was accepted
everywhere in town"
81 agree with you" father exclaim-
ed, "you could not have found a more
perfect typel Naughty but nicel" he
laughed
But, just a minute, sir" Curtiss
interrupted and his voice was serious
and low, $50 far so good, but there
were some angles Of the situation that
neither you or I had figured out, for
/ Just as / had begun to thank the gods
for placing the right girl in my path
for the harmless Irritation YOU had
outlined in your plan, things began to