The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-29
SYNOPSIS

Synopsis
10 DARLEN breaks her en-
Kngement to BRET PAUL. col.
ieSe athletic star, because he OBJ.
je0ts % her taking . job as
hostess nc Crest Lake INN, fash.
ionnble summer resort owned by
wealthy DOUGLAS MARSH. 10
goes 20 Crest Lake and later
Bret arrived as life guard.
Douglas Marsh's eccentric
mother dlsliles 10. PETER
FNRAGONET, film actor, pays 10
marked attentions and asks her
20 marry him as soon as he can
get q divorce. 10 becomes friend.
" with LOLA MONTEZ, Aim
actress.
Prompted by his mother.
Marsh asks 10 to leave Crest
Lake. She decides to go to Hol-
lywood to look for q job. and
flies there with Fragonet. Later
she begins TO doubt Fagonct'S
promises and moves to o room
ing house where he cannot find
her.
Lola Montez gets 10 o job in .
sandwich shop, but she gives this
up when Mrs. FragOnet threat
ems to make trouble. 10 receives
q telegram that Bret is Ill and
asking her to come TO Crest
Lake. She takes the first plane.
Al Crest Lake she learns the
tklegram was q trick on Bret's
part. He Is not Ill. They quarrel
and 10, running away, becomes
lost in the thick woods.
CHAPTER XLvI.
Night came suddenly In the for
est dropping like a curtain be-
fore, JOS frightened eyes. Her first
she recognized dimly
as wrong yet could not resist--was
to rush on blindly, wherever her
legs would take her. In her swift
panic she chung to the hope that
by sheer good fortune she might
stumble again to the dust OF the
road. But In the blackness she kept
brushing against the rough. un-
yielding tree trunks, and low-hang-
ing boughs struck her with force
that seemed moving and human.
Even in the little clearings she
sank almost waist-deep In the UNI
derbrush, as confusing and clutch
ing as quicksands.
At length she drew herself up
on the hard surface OF q fallen
tree, rested there, GREATNESS. Il
must stay right here now" she
told herself. II must stay right
here until morning when can
see." she added. half-aloud In the
lone darkness, I'm the morning
III be able to get out"
But as she chung there she kept
remembering snatches of stories
she had heard--of men lost for
days almost within calling distance
OF help, unable to find their bear
inEs. And Of what was In the
what dangerous animal
enemies, 10 could only guess. The
clearing around Crest Lake Inn
had been friendly, but she knew
that beyond 1t Todd Barston and
Douglas Marsh and their hunting
had reported bear ana
an occasional wildcat.
It was hardly comforting to as
sure herself that the airport could
not be far away, that the road
must be nearer still. Not knowing
their direction, she might as well
have been hundreds of miles from
she realized that In her
night and her subsequent efforts
TO locate the road she might have
more deeply into the
weeds than she'd thought.
Though the air was warm, she
couldn't have slept even II she had
been. able to accept the bark OF
the fallen tree as a bed. TIL mys-
terious night sounds were too
frightening. She had always I'M
agined the forest as quiet, but now
il was filled with nameless sounds.
How long DO chung to the broken
trte, lying almost prone as
though It were rock jutttng up
from q tossing sea, she never knew.
But as long as she lived she would
not forget the CLEAN Of light which
she saw beyond the dark outlines
OF the trees. At first 1t filckered
then kept up It's intermit-
tent flashes even when 1t grew In
Intensity. With u joyful start, she
recognized the light as from a
car. Coming down the dis
lance beyond the thick wood It
seemed to flicker as 1t passed be-
hind the trees.
10 leaped from her haven and
into the yielding underbrush. But
there was no panic In her heart
now, for the lights of the car told