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pect to be movie mad" But that | is exactly what she is. For years she has been dreaming of going to Hollywood to break into pictures. The only drawback to her ambi- ton to become film star. 50 she thinks, Is lack of money. Every | thing she earns slips through her fingers like water, because of her love of finery.
 | She tries to borrow several hum dreds of dollars from her father and her spinster Aunt Gertrude Ram som. who brought her up, because she has no mother. But both of them refuse to lend her cent for what they call "a wild goose chase" !" So does Andrew Jerrold. who's in i love with Robbie and wants her to stay at home and marry him. But she feels more like a sister to Andy , than sweetheart.
 Just before the first day of school, a certain Mrs. Burrage of fers Robbie a chance to go to Holly wood with her and her little daugh- ter Jean. Mrs. Burrage who enjoys poor health and Is spoiled invalid, wants to go into sanitarium while Robbie, of course, is wildly eager to go. and when Mrs. Burrage de- | cides suddenly to go to southern France instead of Hollywood. she is | heartbroken.
 On her way home from Mrs. Burrage's house after hearing he bad news. Robbie happens to bump Into Mrs. Parkins, a pretty well-to- do widow with whom her father is in love. Mrs. Parkins lends Robbie the money she needs to take her to Hollywood and pay her expenses for few weeks.
 She tells her father that evening that she Is going to go to Holly wood on her own, and he roars out that he won't let her do it. Like many fathers he seems to forget now and then that he has a grown daughter on his hands. While they are wranglng, Aunt Gertrude ap- pears in the doorway and tells him who lent Robbie the money to go away. Aunt Gertrude has no use for the Widow Parkins, and is glad of a chance to turn MT. Ransom against her.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VII Silence rolled across the bright comfortable room like ice-cold fog.
 MT. Ransom, his mouth hanging ter and then at his defiant young daughter. He seemed stunned, and 1t was more than 8 minute before he spoke:
 "Dyou mean to say. Roberta, that you asked Mrs Parkins to let you have that money, when I had expressly told you l did NOT want you to go to Hollywood alone?"
 Robbie nodded, and drew herself up, braced for the struggle.
 'I dfd," she said. Now, look here, I'm not two years old, Dad, as I've been telling you for ages. And If I want to borrow money from a woman friend of mine, I can't see that it's any of your busi- ness. The fact that you happen to be a friend of Mrs. Parkins has nothing to do with 1t, so far as can see."
 "Friend!" snorted Aunt Ger trude, from her post between the red rep curtains in the doorway. "Friend-He's no friend of Mrs. Parkins. He wants to marry her. He's like a sixteen-y ear-old boy. he's that silly about her! You'd think I hadn't given the best years of my life trying to make him com- fortable and happy. You'd think he'd be satisfied with his own home, and not plan to get rid of it-and turn me out in the cold to earn my living doing office work" She began to cry. al- though Robbie knew that deep down in her heart Aunt Gertrude was looking forward to the day when she could start work in an office. Any office is more exciting than keeping house for relatives.
 Putting that woman who talks like man and paints herself up like an actress in poor Elsie's place!" Aunt Gertrude went on sobbing loudly and brokenly. "A woman who wears pearls and dia- monds when she goes to market" And as if the thought of such a woman was too much for her, Aunt Gertrude burst into still louder sounds and rushed upstairs with swiftness that was amazing in one so stout.
 Left alone, father and daughter faced each other.
 Everything about Robbie that night fairly breathed rebellion. The stamp of T will' was one every line of her lovely face. Her full heart- shaped mouth was drawn into a straight line, and Mr. Ransom noticed that 1t was outlined with the vermillion lipstick he had long forbidden her to use - but without success.
 There's no use In our quarrel ling about this any more, Dad" she said firmly. You've got to make up your mind that I'm not a child any more, but woman. And not only that-but I'm not the kind of woman my mother was. You say, yourself. that she always wanted to go on the concert stage and you wouldn't let her. We'll, you can't stop me from doing what I want to do as easily as that. You can't stop me at all. I'm going"
 Before he had a chance to an- swer, she backed out of the room and followed her aunt up the | stairs.
 She had some idea of going into her room to comfort her. But the door was closed and locked and from behind it came the sound of . rustling paper and then the bang