The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-06
CHAPTER EIGHT

A NNE WINTER had moved and
n now was living with Mona Nor
rison and Eva Harley in the little
furnished bungalow on the western
fringe of Hollywood.
1t was a modest place of pale
green stucco, but it was cheerful and
well-lighted and honey" and Dan
Rorimer, contrasting it with Anne's
former quarters, well could under
stand her enthusiasm for the
change.
"a place to live in," Anne said,
rather than mere storage for ones
body and ones belongings" And she
had added: Even if it is too close
to the tracks to be fashionable, it's
home at least; which is more than
I could say for one room and
kitchenette."
Mona won Rorimer's liking in
stantly. She was as vivid as her
flaming hair, which was curly and
bobbed, and she didn't look a day
over 19, and she was slightly tough
in a pleasant, boyish way that he
found altogether delightful.
She was considerably shorter than
Anne, and more rounded, and Dan
suspected that Mona might oc-
casion have to pay careful attention
to her diet.
He discovered before he had
known her more than few minutes
that she was quite tease and that
she seemed to take keen delight in
plaguing her friends and receiving
their banter in return.
Eva Harley he liked, too. but with
reservations. She had been neither
cordial nor unfriendly in her greet
ing, but after a brief smile and
murmured commonplace or two had
quietly withdrawn from the con-
versation, and Dan sensed a guarded
aura about her that left him
little i'll at ease in her presence.
She was striking looking per-
son, though-tall and slender and
1.-THE of figure, and dangerous of
motion-and crowned almost spec
tacularly with abundant pale-gold
hair.
Gorgeous looking, Rorimer
thought, at the same time remark
ing that her mouth was just little
too wide and thin of lip to be beau
tiful; her cheek bones a trifle high,
and marring the oval contour of
her face. And he judged that she
was older than the other two girls.
Anne had said, "Eva's just a lit
tie uncommunicative and mysteri-
Gus, but I like her-she minds her
own business, and that's saying a
great deal"
ut is" Dan agreed, "for a girl"
We'll, you needn't be uncompli-
mentary," she said with a grimace,
and Dan grinned. where is she
from?" he asked. Somewhere down
south, with that drawl. You can't
fool TenneSSeean."
Eva comes from New Orleans"
Anne informed him. Mona says
she has been in Hollywood almost
three years"
Doing extra work?"
A NNE hesitated a little. Eva
IA hasn't been very busy" she
said. Mona tells me she some
times models clothes in one of the
Los Angeles depar 5ment stores. She
has a beautiful figure"
Rorimer thought: Eyes, but
there's something just little
wrong about her. She's-she'S hard
to figure"
And he had the strange thought
that Eva Harley ought to have a
foreign name and speak broken
English, ard this, somehow, would
make her less difficult of explana-
ton.
He thought: There's something
about her voice; Something-dis-
appointing" 1t ought to be, he felt,
low and vibrant, like low-strung
guitar. and it was unexpectedly
high and wrongly keyed, and in dis
harmony with her personality.
Dan had gone over to the bunga-
low one evening to call on Anne. 1t
was shortly after their removal,
and he found the girls busy with
some new pale-green curtains which