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made him seem more attractive.
 T thought you might like tt drive around and see the town since you've just arrived" he said smiling down at her. T haven't z thing to do for an hour or 90. It's l just lunch time" l Robbie shook her head. T just promised Monica Mont I'd drive | home with her." she said. Thanks just the same, but I've got to SC with her."
 She said 1t awkwardly, and be- gan 10 back away from him.
 "Goodby," she added, but he cid rot answer her.
 When she was in the car and turned to look for him, he was gone.
 She did not see him again until the next morning when she was on , the set in her pink costume, once more.
 She sat on a barrel and watched Jim going about his business-giv ing one group of extra girls direc tions. then moving on to the next group.
 You all come on the set by count" Robbie heard him say, when I count 'One-Two-Three' and so on. Get me-"
 They all nodded, and most of them tried to flirt with him a lit tie. too. After all, an assistant di- rector may be q real director some day, and it was just as well to stand in with him.
 And you. with the lemon-col- ored hair,' Robbie heard Mac. Cloud call you come in on Four"
 "I wonder where l come in on this scene?" Robbie was wonder ing. when he called again.
 YOU. You, with the lemon- colored hair, Are you deaf?"
 She jumped up, startled. Why, it was her that he was speaking 10 in that rough, brutal way-to her,
 She stared at him with wide, startled eyes that had no softness in them.
 If it's to me you're talking like that" she said quietly and clearly, T may as well tell you, you can't do ii, I'll walk right of this set!'
 There was q seconds dead si- lencc. And then, from somewhere behind her. came Monica's giggle.
 I'm going to take all my doll dishes and go right straight home, and tell my mamma on you." said Monica mockingly.
 The extra girls all laughed, but Robbie never moved muscle. She st ood perfectly still, looking more like a school teacher than she had ever looked before, in spite of her scant ballet dress and the ribbon tied around her hair.
 MacCloud looked her up and down for a few seconds. Then with his hands in the pockets of his knickcrs, he lounged over to her.
 He spoke to her so low that 10 one but herself heard him.
 T beg your pardon" he said. and he said it sullenly.
 CHAPTER XIV
 What I started to say to you. when you got up on your ear" said MacCloud, lis that you're to go over 10 the makeup man right away. He's to fix up your eyes for you-Schutz order. And hurry right back. He'll be ready for you in about six minutes. So scoot!"
 Robbie tiptoed away on the pink sandals that showed every spot of dirt. When she came back five | minutes later with her new make up on Joan Joyce and all the extra girls were sitting at the table again. i
 The broken wine glass lay shat | tered on the lace table cloth, and Joan Joyce sat with her head proppcd in her hands and glycerine l tears shining on her face like real |, ones. Roy Schultz stood behind | the cameras. reading something that he held in his hand
 Above the set the "110' lamps | shone like morning stars. pouring binding white lights into every body's eyes.
 "Now, then, Miss Ransom," Schultz called without looking up from his paper, and Robbie won dered whether he had eyes in the back of head and could see that she had come back from the make up man. NOW, then, you're to come dancing in on your toes between those curtains. smiling. Then when you see that Miss Joyce is crying,