The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-19
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Linda Bourne, 20. pretty. is left almost
penniIess By the sudden death of her
father.
Peter Gardner, newspaper reporter.
helps her get job writing society news.
Linda is in love with Dix Carter. but he
goes abroad TO study singing. When
Pete rasks Linda to marry him she
agrees. but postpones the wedding.
Honey Harmon. film star. comes TO
Newtown, making personal appear
anee" tour, and buys q scenario written
by Linda. Later Linda goes to Holly
wood and, by expressing ideas that are
really Peters, acquires reputation for
being able to discover new stars. Soon
she is a celebrity.
Dix Carter comes to Hollywood to get
into films as an actor. Linda tries to
help him. To please Dix, she invites
Basil Thorne, director. TO her home,
though she dislikes and distrusts Thorne.
Peter Gardiner writes a successful
play and comes to Hollywood.
Ehorne drives Linda to a mountain
resort where the company is to begin
work next day. The others fail to arrive
There Is trouble with the car and Linda
and Thdrne are obliged to stay through
the night. The story gets about and
Linda asks Thorne to stop 1t. He says he
will-if she will marry him,
Linda confides in Dix, is amazed mat
ne treats the situation lightly. She tele-
phones Peter Gardiner and is told he
has left Hollywood.
NO" GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
my world in order is
~ getting to be a habit with
me-" Linda said to herself with
grim humor the next morning when
there was no sunshine to warm her
heart for all that it poured through
the sheer curtains of her bedroom
windows.
she sighed and closed her eyes
again. There were many unpleas-
ant things to do that day. She must
see her lawyer as Dix had advised
Strange that she could say his name
without its hurting her. She must
try to reason that but not now
There were other things to do.
There was one short week before
she would know whether her con-
tract with Commonwealth was to be
renewed. Before that moment came,
she must settle her debts. For if
they did not renew, she could not
afford to stay in Hollywood; she
would have to go home. Home to
NewtoWn.
NEWTOWN, where Pete had
4 Y been. Back to scenes that
would break her heart as Dix had
never been able to break it because
on this morning she was grown up.
knowing herself to have been fool,
to have thrown away the one
precious and beautiful thing she
might have had.
Had she thrown it away? Could a
man like Pete have loved her and
then stopped loving her?
Fool" she addressed herself
again as she swung her legs out of
her bed. You're not going back to
NewtoWn to live with memories.
You're going to stay right here in
Hollywood and if you don't get your
contract renewed, you'll jolly well
take any job you can get. You've
had your lesson in pride. And now
to get to work"
She dialed the number of George
MacMlllen, a well-known LAWYER
who had advised her in matters of
contracts, and made an appointment
to see him that morning. She
dreaded having to tell him the story.
made it easy for her
lVA Sympathetically he listened
md when she had finished, he set
her last fear at rest. He re-
membered the last case in which
Thorne had become involved and
was certain that firm reminder
would end the entire episode and
convince Thorne that such a night
had not been.
He told Linda that he would pro-
tect her utterly; he wouldn't write
to Thorne, he would ask him to
come to his office and telephoned