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has dreamed of going to Hollywood to try to break into pictures; and now, at 22, she firmly makes up her mind to risk everything and go. ~
 The only drawback Is that she has no money. for she is the soul of extravaganza and always has spent every dollar she made. So she asks her widowed father to lend her five hundred dollars but he angrily refuses to finance such a "wild-goos chase" He and his sister, Miss Gertrude Ransom, an old maid, who has mothered Robbie all her life, wish the girl would settle down and marry Andrew Jerrold and behave herself.
 Robbie tells them both that if her father won't lend her the | money to make possible her trip to Hollywood she will borrow it1 from Andrew, or Andy, as she calls him. Aunt Gertrude Is mortified. but nevertheless when Andy comes to the house to see Robbie that night, she determines to ask him to let her take the money. Andy is a highly successful merchant Of used" automobiles. He drives up to the house in one, of them at dusk, and Robbie asks him If he would like to stay home that night and talk instead of going out danc- ing as they had planned.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER II
 It is not easy for girl to fall in love with a man she knows as we'll as Robbie Ransom knew Andy Jerrold.
 She is almost sure to feel sis terly and friendly toward him ln- stead of lover like. And that Is exactly how Robbie felt toward Andy.
 She could not possibly feel TO- mantle about him. She was too used to having him around. For wears he had been dropping in at the white house like one Of the family-and it was almost as one of the family that Robbie thought of him.
 The tall straightness of his body. his fascinating smile that raised one corner of his fine mouth bit higher than the other, the man smell of tobacco smoke and out-of- doors and shaving soap that clung to him had no power to thrill her as they might have thrilled another girl. She was too used to him. She was used to the way he talked, the way he laughed, the way he looked at things. He had been coming to see her three nights a week for more than five years, and he was as comfortable as an old shoe and just about as exciting to her.
 Tonight, in the shadow of the vines that screened the porch and made a lacy pattern against the moonlight, he took Robbie in his arms and kissed her the way a man kisses the woman he expects to marry-respectfully and ten derly.
 But Robbie was used to even that, and besides she had some thing else on her mind tonight She moved restlessly in his arms. Come on, sit down and let me talk to you, Andy" she said, and pulled him down beside her on the top step of the porch.
 The moonlight poured down into her gold-colored hair, and made her face like a bit of sculptured ivory and her eyes like deep pools of bright darkness.
 The effect of her beauty was al ways the same on Andy. It ali ways made him want to hold her tiebt in his arms until she prom ised to marry him. And because his desire for her was so great, ne moved away from her and looked very grim and cold and stern.
 Well, what do you want 10 talk about?" he asked shortly.
 Money" Boobies answer was all ready.
 Andy stared down at her. thun- der-struck.
 "Money?" he reapeated. "Why!- How much?
 "con,d YOU spare me five hun dred dollars?'
 q suppose I could" Andy an- swered slowly. "Of course, l could.
 He seemed to be thinking. What do you want it for?' he asked. .,
 Robbie drew long breath. "] want to go out to Hollywood. 1ou know, I've told you dozens of times how crazy I am to get into the movies. IT can't help it, AnN' I've just got to go."
 There was a long silence. Then Andy said quietly: This Is where the joke starts to be funny.
 What do you mean?
 "Oh, nothing" he replied. 'Only is it fair to ask me 10 give you the money that's going to carry YOU out of my life to God-knows' where? Is it, I ask you? ?' I I'm not going to God-knows- where. I'm going to Hollywood California; Boobies soprano voice was high and sharp. ana d ne gone for only three months-unless I made good within that time Then, of course, I'd stay"
 Andy groaned and dropped ms dark head down into his brown hands.
 That's just it. You would make good" he said in a mutiled voice." and you'd never come nacH to me. You'd be sure to make a ten-strike in the movies. There nothing as pretty as you anywhere in the world And the Lord only knows what would happen to you out there, all alone.'
 Andy had the popular idea thai Hollywood is city of moral lepers wild parties, dope and gilded vice To him it was the modern SodoH and Gomorrah. The world-capita of wickedness.
 And when he thought of his sir