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boulevard, past all the windows glittering with semi-precious neck. laces and bangles, rich with Span. ish shawls and handmade slippers She tried to turn her head the other way as she passed them, but they drew her eyes anyway. In one shop window near the Egyptian theater. was a flesh -colored scarf covered with silver spangles.
 It was as thin and rosy as dawn mist. and the spangles lay upor it like drops. Robbie could see it in her minds eye long after she stopped looking at it, and went on up the boulevard. She kept or thinking about it. as a woman will when she yearns for thing and has the price of it in her pocket book.
 How well it would look with my evening dress" she said to her self. She knew just how her bare shoulders would gleam through that dim pink misty stuff.
 But then, what was the use in buying such lovely things when she never went anywhere in the eve ming any more? When there was i no Gus to cal her up and take ar l to dinner in the hillside house or at the Montmartre restaurant? Gus. Gus.
 Nevertheless, she found herself | facing around and starting back ! toward the shop where the pink scarf hung in all it's roseate and sparkling glory.
 AS she did so, a light colored car i flashing past, caught her eye. With out looking at it squarely, she knew whose car that was, and who was in it,
 It turned in the middle of the block breaking a traffic law, and Grew up beside her.
 "My girl. There she is!" said Gus MacCloud, and he leaped out of the car and took her by both arms. shaking her little. There was no mistaking the welcome and relief in his face. He was tickled to death to see her. He said so in those very words. They stood there. enraptured, in the blue dusk with all the lights of Hollywood boulevard blossom ing out around them like big yellow liowers-and they didn't care ! whether people looked at them of | not.
 You never even wished me Merry Christmas" said Gus, think ing of himself and his wrongs first, as usual
 T didn't have a Merry Christ i mas" Robbie came back at him softly. T had a very wretched and terrible and miserable Christmas, and I cried all day" That's what makes your eyes shine so now"
 'They're shining because they're looking at you.' Robbie answered.
 She tried to say it flippantly and airily, the way Monica might have But her voice broke, and she bit down hard on her lips 10 keep from crying then and there. She was so glad to be here with him.
 Well, we'll start the New Year right anyhow" Gus said, and very quickly, so that no one should see. he kissed the top of her hat that was right under hi; nose.
 ''J'11 cO1pn Jpv-p n ,-opr +o get you about eight o'clock that night. if you'll come---?" He waited for her answer. and when she nod ded he went on
 And we'll go up to my house, and I'll throw the best and biggest party you ever saw-iust for you. We'll ask evorybody--'
 But not Monica" Robbie broke in, shaking her head. T don't want Monica.'
 Then We won't have Monica. Now, come on, hop into the old Speed Merchant, and I'll run you home"
 But Robbie said no-she had some shopping to do.
 And when he was out of sight, she danced along the sidewalk to inc little shop and bought the scarf with the dewdrops shining all over it. It was sa0, but Robbie felt that it. was cheap at the price. She was going to wear it for Gus.
 For Gus" she said over and over and over on the way up Las Palmas street to Mrs Mangan's.
 Gus echoed the dripping fau- cets in the bathtub late that night as she lay awake in bed, thinking Of him.
 Gus" repeated tho wind, rust ling the Wet palm leaves out Of doors. There wss nothing in the world for her that night but Gus MacCloud,
 CHAPTER NXNII
 Late in the afternoon of New Years ev" Robbie made the discov- cry that her gold kid evening slip pers were gone from her clothes- closet
 That's funny" she thought, mys- tfied, Maybe I put them in my trunk She remembered putting away two pairs of her white buck