The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-08-16
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
10 DARIEN breaks her en-
gagcment to BRET PAUL, COL
lcge athletic star, because Bret
objects to her taking n job as
hostess at Crest Lake Inn, FASH
iOnable summer resort owned by
wealthy DOUGLAS MARSH.
b goes to Crest Lake. Marsh's
eccentric fother dislilxes her and
causes difiiculties. These are in
creased when PETER FRAGO-
NET, film actor, arrives. Frago-
met pays 10 marked attentions,
asks her to marry him as soon as
he can secure O divorce.
Bret Paul comes to Crest Lake
as life guard. BABS MONTGOM-
ERY, school acquaintance who is
jealous of 10, is also there.
Fragonet leaves and returns
when his film company UNDER
takes to make part of a motion
picture ut the resort. 10 becomes
friendly with LOLA MONTEZ,
actress.
Babs tells 10 that she (Babs)
Soon after Marsh, prompted by
his mother, asks 10 to leave
Crest Lake. She agrees to go inn
mediately. 10 decides to go to
Hollywood to look for a job. Fra
Comet persuades her to go with
him by plane.
CHAPTER XXXV
As 10 sat beside Fragonet in the
careening car which he had order
ed from the Crestmont airport she
had no time to think. He had in
structed the driver to make all
possible speed to the airport, and
10 wondered at his Impotence
when the plane was under his own
charter and so would stand by un-
til they arrived. The road to
Crestmont was not a good one, and
several times 10 felt certain they
were skidding into oblivion.
"If you're hurrying just because
you're afraid I'll change my mind,
she told Fragonet at last, IT wish
you wouldn't. I've quite made up
my mind to go with you"
He patted her hand as though
she were a small child fearful
without cause. Wen be all right,
darling. You see, there's usually
fog around Grouse mountain after
nightfall and I want to get over
that before dusk. That's why all
this hurry"
Still 10 felt that Fragonet was
uncertain of her, that he would not
be at ease until they were settled
in the plane from which she could
not escape until they were both in
Hollywood. Involuntarily, 10
smiled. Peter Fragonet was so like
a small and very intense boy. If
he wanted something badly he had
but one instinct - to grab it hur-
riedly and rush away with it de-
spite everything. To him there
weren't any rules, because, as Peter
Fragonet, he was beyond rules. 1t
wasn't egotism which made him so
sure that once he and 10 were to-
gether in Hollywood everything
would be as he wanted. 1t was
simply that he was unable to con-
celve of a world in which things
were not as he wanted them. For
10 years it had been that kind of a
world for Fragonet - and he had
quite forgotten the hard years
which had preceded those 10 magic
ones.
At last they roared into the
Crestmont airport and the driver
stopped the car with screaming
brakes. 10 saw the plane, a speedy
snub-nosed monoplane with two
cowled cockpits in line. Already the
propeller was turning, and the
portable steps were ready by the
fuselage.
SIT won't be such chummy
jaunt," Fragonet explained, getting
out of the car. But there'll be
stops when we can talk. wanted
a cabin plane with the seats to-
gether. but the fools sent up this"
JOS heart skipped beat at the
realization that the pilot who had
delivered the plane would not be
with them. Il hope"
she said, trying her best to make
her voice sound jaunty, that you're
not as reckless plotting plane
rs you are about other
things
Fragonet laughed. I'm good
pilot" he told her.
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