The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-19
CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN

WITHOUT word 10 Frasonet'
w 10 walked 10 the telephone.
lifted the instrument from its
cradle.
what are you going to do?" he
asked, moving across the room.
10 spoke quickly into the mouth
piece: Hello? . >. Please let me have
the cashiers Office"
FragoneC reached out as If to take
the telephone from her hand, but
10 turned gusrdedly. Cashiers Of
flee? This is Miss Darien in 718.
There's been little misunderstood
ing about my account. I want the
statements to come to me-and not
TO Mr.. Fragonet. Thanks so
much
Replacing the telephone, she
turned 10 Fragonet again. Il NAV
as we'll stay here until the end of
the week. But after that, Peter, ]
want you to be sensible person and
not try 10 find my new address"
But, 10. it's so foolish not TO &C
cept my help. After all, / brought
you here-and I'm responsible"
10 smiled. I'D rather be reSpon-
sibIe." She held out her hand.
Good night =. and good Peter"
He took her hand. tits not good
BY. 10. You can't dismiss me so
easily" His eyes were clouded with
faint anger, and 10 was fearful of
one of his unressoning outbursts.
But with obvious effort he held him
self silent, and left without further
protest.
IF 10 Darien lived TO be a nun
j dred she would always remem-
Der her first days in Hollywood
remember them in conglomerate
nightmare detail. In her mind
she had not dismissed Fragonet
as completely as she wanted him
to believe.
In her heart she knew that if he
proved himself really finished with
Edna Fragonet, if he was sincere
in not caring for the public fable
OF Peter Fragonet, she would be
willing TO see him again. 1t could
be true that he loved her, as he
said: and, after all, nothing that
had happened was really his fault.
Poor Fragonet was caught up in the
complications of his own tenuous
fame.
But, despite these conclusions,
10 was resolved TO carry herself in
Hollywood. just how this should be
done, she hadn't the slightest no
ton.
The morning after Fragonet's
revelstio that he was still mex
tricably imprisoned within the des-
TIMES Of Edna Fragonet and the
Atlas organiza ton, 10 took inven-
tory of her resources. When she
had paid a week in advance at the
expensive apartment on Wiltshire
boulevard she found to her alarm
that she had less than 500. She
recognized too late that she should
have moved at once and, spurred
now by the swiftly approaching
necessity, she spent hours in the
bright sunlight of Hollywood,
huntington a job.
BY bus and street car and on
foot she searched through the shops
and the stores and the restaurants
sometimes guided by want ads"
and sometimes going it blindly,
hoping by sheer luck to run into
something. But there were thou
sands like her in HOLLYWOOD
thousands who had come for money
and fame and who were now anX-
ious enough TO settle into the secur-
ity of a low-paid job at almost any
thing.
Her pride kept her from taking
what little she had left and escap-
ing with it to Weston. And in a
few short days her money dwindled
to the point where escape was i'm
possible and q job-any sort of a
job-was more important than ever
before. She had not even advised
her parents that she was no longer
at Crest Lake, for she didn't want
TO worry them until she could as
sure them she was safely situated
in city which her mother had al
ways regarded with more or less
suspicion.
10 knew that an appeal to Frago-
net would surely find her some
thing, and she suspected he was
waiting for this appeal. 1t was the
suspicion which made 10 all The
more Stubbornly set against asking
his help.
At the end of the fruitless week
she left the luxurious apartment he
had selected. Leaving no forward
ing address, she moved into a sin
gle narrow room in an outmooed
SflIcco him IoW owned nv a widow