New Britain herald., 1927-02-15
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wood where she hopes to break into pictures. They refuse to lend her { cent for such purpose, and so doe! Andrew Jerrold, who's in love witt her and wants her to marry him.
 Finally she borrows $500 ant goes to Hollywood with full purse end a high heart. At Mrs. Man gan's boarding house she meet! Stella Delroy, an extra in the movies Through Stella she gets a few days work at the Magnifica Studio! where great director, Roy Schult: and his wife, Lottie, take an interes ln her more as a person than al actress. The assistant director, Gu MacCloud, falls in love with her anc she with him. Later she learns tha he has been married, and that hi wife is divorcing him. She forbid him to make love to her.
 Gus is a man of many loves Stella hints that he once was il love with her and dropped her Later she commits suicide ant leaves him letter telling him tha her life isn't worth much to he with him out of it.
 Another Magnifica player, Mon ica Mont, tells Robbie that Gu is tickle and rather brutal in hi love affairs, but Robbie goes righ on caring about him.
 Robbie goes home for her aunt! funeral. While she is there Mon ica gets a fine part in a Ro, Schultz picture and moves to z luxurious new flat. Her salary. to- sether with what she gets out o. systematical "gold-digging," keep, her in style. Robbie learns ;har Gus often goes to see her. and C., ecomes jealous of her She, her. self, insists that there be no love. rassagcs between herself and Gus until his wife frees him.
 One day, while Robbie is making some extra money by teaching Jolly Schultz, aged six. hel letters, Gus calls her up and tehs her ho has a small part for her in a picture. and asks her to ride cut to "location" at Laguna Beach with him.
 Lottie calls up and advises her not to go with him, and tells her to come to see her, and she'll explain why.
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 CHAPTER XNXIN
 There was walled garden be- hind the Schultz's big pink stucco house. and in it were all kinds of lovely fashioned flowers tha. Lottie raised.
 She was at work in 1t when Bob- lie got 10 the house that morning. She stood up, shading her eyes with one cotton glovcd hand, and smiled at Robbie as she came toward her between the Towering hedges that bordered the path.
 On a stone bench against the sun folded newspaper. Lottie was q coffee fiend, and wherever she was for any length of time there was also a pot of coffee.
 Hello, infant" she called out. T suppose you think I'm crazy. asking you not to go down to La- Guna Beach today, don't you?"
 Then she lowered her voice, and glanced across the garden toward Gus MacCloud's house. His cream colorcd roadster stood gleaming in the sun, beyond the pepper trees and the beds of flowers.
 'Sit down and let mo talk to you like your Dutch aunt" she said quietly, and she put her arm around Hobbies waist as they sat down op the bench.
 1T found out from Roy that some of the company really are drivin- :, down 10 Laguna today" she went cn. land. of course, Gus has to go to pick out q good location. But there's no reason on earth why you should go."
 She shook her head and looked squarely at Robbie with her big honest brown eyes. "No reason in the world" she repeated firmly.
 T suppose not" Robbie an- swered, and after that there was a long pause filled by the low hum ming of bees and the sound of the garden spray on dripping plants.
 Do you know anything about Gus?" Lottie asked suddenly, and Robbie shrugged her shoulders.
 Not very much" she answered. 'T know that he's been married, and that he's getting divorce-or that his wife is getting one, rather"
 "She has It." Lottie broke in Gus has been a free man for week or two. He told Roy so, at any rate. But he never men, tioned it to you. did he?"
 Robbie shook her head with its shining mass of hair. The toe of her slipper moved restlessly, nerv- ously in the gravel path. making little circles and squares.
 No. he didn't, Lottie," she said, without looking up, but even be- fore I knew he'd been married, he told me he wouldn't marry the best woman on earth. He said he didn't I helieve q man connected with pie lures should marry. He said there was too much temptation in his daily life"
 Temptation, fiddlestlcks, l don't believe Roy is tempted very much by the beautiful women he sees. He says he isn't, anyway. Te says he's so used to them that they all look alike to him"
 You're jealous of him, just tho same," Robbie said to her in her heart.
 "Now, I'll tell you what I think about all this husiness-this l.a- guna trip" Iottie ran on, picking l D the newspaper and creasirF it with her gloved fingers. "You can go if you want to. You're a grown woman. and Gus $ n grown man.