New Britain herald., 1927-02-17
READ THIS FIRST:

widowed father and her Aunt Ger trude, she asks Andy Jerrold to lend it to her. But Andy, who want her to stay at home and marry him, re- fuses to do it. Robbie returns his engagement ring to him. borrows the money from the Widow Parkns. who is to marry her father. and goes to Hollywood.
 There. at Mrs. Mangan's boarding house, she meets Stella Delroy, an extra in the movies. Through Stella she gets 8 few days work at the Magnifica Studios, where Roy Schultz. famous director, and his wife, Lottie, take great interest in her - more as person than an actress, however. Gus MacCloud, the assistant director, falls in love with her and she with him. He keeps promising her a part in a picture when he makes one, but never makes good his promise.
 She learns that he's married but that his wife is divorcing him, and so she drops him. Stella kills her
 
 that tells about her unhappy love affair with Gus. and then Robbie hears that he has been running around with Monica Mont, rath- | CT disreputable vamp of the films. She is dsgusted with him, but re- mains infatuated with him some how; and when she happens upon him in the street one day, promises to see him as often as ever.
 Lottie gives her an opportunity 10 make some extra money by tu- toring her little daughter, Jolly, l for a time. And it is from Lottie that Robbie hears that Gus is free from his wife. So when he makes violent love to her without men, tioning the word marriage" Bob- | bic repulses him and refuses to drive with him to movie "loca- ! tion." Monica, however, goes with | him. Their car is wrecked on the | way and she tells newspaper re- porters that they were on their way to be married. Gus denies the newspaper story to Robbie when i he returns, and offers to give her all the help he can in the future. 1 She tells him she will sell him a bracelet that Andy Jerrold sent her l for Christmas and some dull dia- monds, left her by Aunt Gertrude, who has recently died. When she | looks for the diamonds, they are | gone.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XLIII
 Would you mind stopping at Monica's for iiffy on the way up to your house?" Robbie asked as Gus sprang ahead of her into the | dark green car.
 Like flash of lightning, 1t had come to her that she must go straight to Monica with the story of the stolen brooch. Not to blunt ly accuse her of taking it. but to ask her If she knew anything about it.
 No. you needn't come up with me. I won't be a second" she said to Gus as he stopped before the imposing apartment building with it's shining glass doors and trimly- clipped bay trees.
 Gus must have come over this road dozens of times" she thought as she went up the thickly-carpet- ed stairs to Monica's flat. How swiftly and surely his car had come, taking two short cuts on the way. New as 1t was, the dark green car seemed to know the road already. The road that ended at the paneled door of Monica's rooms
 It opened as Robbie reached the head of the stairs, and Monica stuck her head out.
 It was not a pretty head, seen at this time of day. when Monica wasn't expecting visitors. The red hair, that was beginning to look too red from too many trips to the hair-dyeing shop, was done up in curl papers.
 The face beneath 1t was pasty- white and covered with cold cream. Her blue eyes were the least bit bloodshot, and without mascara Monica's eyelashes were almost white Her lips were pinched and bloodless.
 She led the way to the cozy. un- tidy sitting-room, her soiled latin mules Tapping on the floor. She picked up a half burned cigarette 1 from a table before the fire. and sat down. pulling her Ameri- can beauty kimono around her.
 "What's under your hat?" she asked. which was her way of ask ing Robbie what was on her mind.
 Robbie drew long breath. She was not lion-hearted by nature. and she knew that Monca would be a pretty tough customer in a real | battle.
 She spoke gently, and not as firmly as she would have liked to.
 Monica" she began, You re- member those diamonds that my Dad sent me?"
 Monica shook her head. "No," she said calmly, and Robbie gasped. Why, how could Monica pretend that she hadn't seen the diamonds? She had even advised 1 Robbie to sell them, and had called | them dirty diamonds."
 Why, sure you remember them" Robbie told her with a flash of her big eyes. She wasn't going to let Monica put thing like that over on her! Don't you 1 remember the night I asked you for the S20 you owed me for our room rent and you told me to sell q dirty diamond If 1 needed | money?"
 Monica shook her vivid head again. and spat into the fire with the sure aim of country-store i loafer.
 T never owed you s2O. Don't be sil," said she. But here blue eyes | fl Fl nt .t.I