New Britain herald., 1927-02-17
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1 She. herself, turned and watched | him now. He had reached the head of the stairs, and was knock ing upon the door of Suite 204. Suite 204 was Monicas suite!
 "IIo-hum." said Robbie to her self, and twinkle of pure enjoy ment came into her eye. There is 1 no woman so noble that she is not ! tickled by finding out some dread | ful secret about her enemies. And 1 Robbie certainly counted Monica as one of her enemics-one of her 1 bitter ones.
 Hollywood is not such broad 1 minded little town as we are led i to believe. Like all little towns, { it is a hotbed of gossip.
 Stories start at Dolores Daw- sons beauty shop near Franklin Circle, and travel all over the United States. Stories of the movie people their parties and | their love affairs - their troubles ! and their scandals.
 And as the dark green car ! flashed past Dolores Dawson's shop that February afternoon, a bit of i gossip that had started there came ! into Bobbie's mind. It had to do with herself and Gus MacCloud.
 By the way, Gus" she said, turning to him and nestling against the lark green leather curtains, 'Lottie heard some goss1p about you and me in Dolores Dawson's shop the other day"
 She waited for him to ask what kind of gossip it was. But he only raised one of his thick eyebrows and grunted. Contempt for wo- kind was in that grunt. "Ycs, they say that you're en- tirely too thick with a little blond extra girl from Magnifica," she went on, watching him as she spoke. And Lottie says that the little blond extra girl is I. Some body has seen me going into your .house-and coming out. And be- cause you're the handsomest bach elor in Hollywood. people talk about you-and me-"
 He gave her a quick glance. "Lottie told you that story"
 She nodded.
 Take it with a little salt, then" he said gruffly. she probably fJ ~ But she knows you go up to my house, and she wants to frighten you so you won't do 1t any more. She thinks I'm some kind of a wcrc- wolf and not to be trusted with nice little girl like you. Well, you tell the Honorable Mrs. Lotte Schultz for me to mind her own business and keep her eyes on her own side of the hedge!" The angry. childish words came from him sullenly. sulkily. And as the car turned in at the driveway be- tween the two houses he cast an angry eye upon Lottie's innocent pink stucco house.
 That night Robbie sScked An gus's check for two hundred and twenty-five dollars into the bottom drawer of her dresser, where Andy Jerrold's sparkling bracelet had lain the night before.
 With what I have in the bank" she thought, holding Up the empty white silk box that had held the bracelet and looking at it with wistful eyes. with what I have, that S225 will keep me going for a few months longer. And I'll be sure to get some work, too, to help out, in the mean time"
 Gus had made her promise to stay in town for six more months. He had told her no one ever made good in less than that time.
 Besides, when l make that pie ture of mine I'm going to put you in it, as sure as sunrise" he had promised her that afternoon.
 The sound of his voice, making that promise, still rang in her ears as she locked the door of the dresser. And she could still see the eager, hungry light in his blue eyes as he had tried to make her take the money and keep the bracelet.
 "Only don't he such little chestnut burr" he had said to her, half-lightly. half in deadly earnest. as he had tried to take her in his arms. Trust me a little more. Robbie. There's nothing l wouldn't do for you if you'd only meet me half way. I'm crazy for you"
 "Then why don't you ask me to marry you?" she had said, in her heart. If you're so wild about me-" But aloud she had only looked at him. and said nothing at all. Just like woman in love.
 Nevertheless, the remembrance
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