The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
TINE next time Linda travelled
Il the road to San Jacinto it was
daylight and she was with the
players in her company. She would
not have recognized the deserted
spot where she had been forced to
spend the night with Thorne. Sets
had been built, cabins made habit
able, and now there was action.
And she was much too busy to
think again of that night.
They remained for nearly a fort
night. Linda heard nothing from
Thorne, but the day she returned
home he turned up unexpectedly at
her apartment.
"Ive missed you," he said. He
said other things and when he had
left Linda had the feeling that he
had been trying to force her to say
something-what she did not know
but her earlier feeling of disquiet
aWoke again.
HOWEVER, she had other things
L. l. to think about. Careers wax
and wane with surprising sWiftneSs
in the moving picture business. Lin
da knew that she had reached the
top, but could she stay there? Her
contract would be up in two months
and her company had no option.
Paul Leonhardt had come out from
the New York Office to head Com
monwealth, and changes were in the
air. Linda had no reason to think
her contract would not be renewed.
On the other hand, she knew Leon
hardt was bringing out new writer's.
It was difficult not to worry.
Linda had gone completely spend
thrift, she thought unhappily,
thrusting the mounting pile of bills
back into her desk. She had bought
clothes recklessly, had her apart
ment redecorated, entertained eX-
pensively.
She was suddenly appalled, to real
lie that she spent more in a week
than she had in months when she
lived in Newtown. Yes, it was neces-
sary to have her contract renewed.
She had enough money now to pay
her debts, but when they were paid
there would be little or nothing left.
It was not comfortable time for
her. The only reassuring thing was
Dix's happiness. He was working in
Thorne's picture, and the director
liked his work, he had said. She
found escape from her own worries,
thinking of this and the bright flu
ture when Dix would be established
and she would be his wife. She
wanted to go on working after her
marriage. Life wasn't very amusing
for wives in Hollywood who had no
work, and, besides, she felt that Dix
would want her to continue.
GONE day she and Dix would
- leave Hollywood and then their
real life would begin. Linda was a
little tired of her career and sought
refuge in dreaming of the future,
even when the present was so ter
ribly important.
She ceased worrying about Thorne
in her anxiety over her contract and
would have forgotten the incident
entirely had she not found herself
at Andre Aliens party, discussing
the mountain sequence of the pic
ture they had finished making that
day.
1T left the day before the last
scenes were shot" Linda said in an
swer to some question.
Honey Harmon was in that little
group. She stabbed an olive in her
glass and raised wide eyes to
Linda's face.
"You mean the week before, don't
you?" she asked sweetly.
Linda couldn't quite adjust her.
self. Had that been a slip on Honey's
part? 1t was a week before that she
and Thorne -.
A IL manner of things jumbled
N in Linda's mind. Honeyl
Thornel Gossip Thorne's promise
or had 1t been . promise? But
Honey and Thorne had not seen