The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-10
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By Marie eIizsr5 e pstW ssraAN

It wasn't, 50 he tried a new fine.
 T suppose it will sound funny to you. my dear, but I've always want ed Q woman to mother me. My own dear mother died when was Q llt- tie chap. A man can grow up starved for that kind of love. and few women ever appeal to him that way"
 I'm sorry you think I am that one women, Basil" Linda replied finally. T hope you are mistaken. Because there just isn't anything I can do about 1t. I don't love you and I can't marry you"
 She wished she could tell him that she loved Dix, was going to marry him, but she was afraid that if she did, he would deny Dix his chance, the thing that she had been working toward 90 hopefully.
 'Ts there someone else?" he asked with his voice pitched at the low est dramatic level.
 She didn't answer because she didn't want to lie; she smiled and said quickly, Please let's turn of the main road here. At all costs we must avoid meeting the others. And, once more please, Basil, will you promise never to breathe . word about this?"
 If Hollywood heard about 1t, Lin- da knew that she was through. There was only one way that they might be discovered, and that was if either she or Basil Thorne them- selves were to tell about it. There was no simulated intensity in her plea to him.
 Thorne hugged her with his free arm, giving her brotherly squeeze. "You worry too much" he said.
 That wasn't exactly reassuring, and later that day Linda remeTn- bered little things about Thorne's eyes, a quirk at the corner of his mouth when he had said 1t. She felt the beginning of a disquieting cloud of doubt that was to grow with time.
 As she had expected, one of the telephone messages she had ig- nored the day before told her that there was a change of plans and the company was postponing the trip to San Jacinto until the next week. If only she had seen 1t, she might have avoided that trip and would not now be worrying lest 1t become known and destroy her. Be- cause destroy her it would. She was too important to be able to stand a breath of scandal. Only unimportant people could afford that in the movie colony where dis- cretion was an obligation.
 It was too much for Linda to keep to herself. She didn't intend to tell Dix, but when he told her he had been telephoning her the night before, she told him the whole story, hoping and knowing that he would believe her.
 But why be so upset about it?" Dix asked in his lazy way.
 "If you must know, Dix, I don't trust Thorne. He isn't exactly a gentleman, and I have reason to believe that he isn't to be trusted" !" There were several things Linda hadn't told Dix, yet she expected and wanted him to share her feel- ing about Thorne.
 Dix grasped her by her elbow and looked into her eyes, Did he make love to you last night?" he demanded.
 Linda loved that. He was jeal- ous. tes& .
 NO, he only proposed to me-"
 He let her go. "Then that's all right. I think you've got him all wrong. Just forget 1t, Linda"
 The unpleasant thought occurred to her that Dix really didn't care whether Thorne had made love to her or not, that his anxiety was only that she might have spoiled things for him. She dismissed the thought as unfair and untrue.
 (TO Be Continued)