Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1925, Page 16

More Stately Mansions BY SAMUEL MERWI! Copsright. 19! A young woman apneared,’with be, a turban and sandals that M ;im. roft recognized with surprise and | ifiterest. This Mr. d ming young man thusiastic, yet evidently ious purpos 1gagingl stirred by by Consolidated Magazine Corporation. 7 [ 'Ouc of a series of the | year’s best short | stories. | I the beard. H- made no protest. He seemed to have heen swept along past the point where objections would be fitting. Glass tubes in frames sud- denly flared with a blinding light. Three young men in leather puttees turned cameras on him and ground at handles. He had to stand, move about n a narrow space, lift his hands, step without you. The company will be glad to satisfy you in the matter of salary. There will be at least four mployment, perhaps double May 1 ask if $100 a week would > satisfactory?” aded eyes were fixed on him. But the face exhibited no trace of ex- pression. )f course, you understand that it name for you. If you wouldn't mind stepping down to the cashier’s office, T'll have a check made out to bind the bargain. And while we're there, we'll look over the contract and sign . Yes, I'm sure Mr. Kerdok would be glad to offer you & preliminary week's salary just as an earnest of good faith. But you must, you really must, keep away from the barber shops. You can see why. That won- derful hair and beard mustn’t be i touched, except to keep them as they are now." “I—I'm mnot sure I could use a check— Oh, they'll be glad o you. It'll only be necessa your name on the back We'll fix it up right now. And come in the morn- ing at 9." Alice cooked up a little chipped beef ash it for to write ! white lie; but if her nerves were to be tried much longer, she'd be too upset to contrive anything. One o'clock passed—half past one. The creamed beef was thickening into a paste on the stove. At 2 o'clock she added hot water, put on her hat, and went fearfully down to the street. She even hurried over to the park and sought the gardener. He thought he had seen that elderly gentleman who always read on a bench, but wasn't sure. It would have been early in the morning, anyway.. Returning to the apartnient, khe found no sign of him. Then it was that she ran down to the drug store and telephoned the police. They had no word of an ac ent to an eiderly gentleman with a beard, but they took the name. She was in tears now. She could only climb the stairs again and sit on the edge of a chair in the window. kitghen, put_more hot water 1n| Angeles and especially of t beef and started two fresh pieces of toast. That was all right; she could use the others in bread pudding. He liked bread pud- ding. If only her pulse would quiet down! Somehow she must contrive to ! carry it offt. What she had determined to do was wholly for him. And Mrs. Stanton saw nothing wrong in it— though, of course, Mrs. Stanton had mot caught that feeling against Holly- [ wood among the better people of Los creamed REFRIGERATORS Pasadena. “You're all right? the tiny kitchen. “‘Oh, yes, Alice—quite.” wrong in thinking his voice a thought A unnatural? she called from |disimay tha Perhaps ik was her own colored @ll ahout her. didn’t go to the barber shop, Was she | dear 5 s (Continued in Tomorrow Star.) %o %o 20 4%5-6% ¢ 4% «%-¢% +% «5.o%.<°: :00:0\0..“‘“.\@:0(00.“"”’00,0.00&00“.00}4‘“‘-0:“:04“:“: speak. Back in the studio, Drake said: “I'm going to ask you if you won't be so good as to wait and have lunch with me. They'll have a print ready within a couple of hours. I want to show you what we've gof It scemed to Mr. Bancroft he should | get word to Alice—though that would | be difficult. “There was no telephone | {in the apartment. A telegram would frighten her. At that, it would he dif- | ticult to frame the message. He had time to think now. He was in motion picture studio. He had been photographed in a costume and with cal paint on his face. It was ing. Come to think of it, he | cream for luncheon and made toast. For dessert she had stewed pears. But Worace had not come in. She left the food on the stove and went anxiously to the front window. The automobiles dashed endlessly, recklessly bv. Something must have happened. The situation was difficult enough without this added worry. For two hours she had been nerving herself to utter her first deliberate he costume of the Prophet 3 I#aiah,” he explained eagerly. The Ypung woman withdrew. ““And now I have an unusual request to make, s Would you be so good as to put it on Bancroft did not reply, merely The sit m was moving more rapidly than could | 1t st half a million dol- FOR ALL PURPOSES ALSO ELECTRIC REFRIGERATING MACHINES McCray Refrigerator Co. 807 H Street N.W. Washington, D. C. Telephone Franklin 5371 Nearly an hour passed, and then she saw him—saw the shaggy white beard and the curling, long ha He was all right. But he had not gone to the barber shop. He walked with his usual grave dignity. Probably he had met an old friend, and naturally could not telephone. She pressed a hand over her fluttering heart. Once again she must nerve herself. She went to ill cost at le At least that.” no answer came. s rested on him. He stirred and suddenly cried out, \ hand down sharply on the wo hundry then! Two d a week! Naturally we can't overlook the fact that your name has no value to us. It isn't as it would | be if you were an established actor. I'm sure you will understand that. : Well, T will say two hundred _I'm afraid we can’t do more till those ey And still he it is in your power to ‘I think, sir work T have under- help in the great taken.” all there could be no great putting on the costume of Isaiah. Tt was all rather bewlldering. The young man drew out a screen about a chair in a corner of the room, D here ) Ba oft removed is S AN here M e Honned the robe |had already been away longer than and sandals of the prophet | ever before. It might be difficult to o i you don't mind T want to | explain on any terms. He had never photog ust tome this way. | had a secret from Alice. Unhappiness v sorry didn't your | filled his heart and silenced him as he rers = sat in the restaurant of the studio. After lunch he sat in a dark room The ment instru in and fift than tha really couldn’t permit my name i said Mr. Bancroft at last, |in ak voice. His heart was | beating again. But he was frightened. | All he could think of was Alice, how with a_number of swarthy men (o | wonderfully easy it would make every thing ‘for her. That won't matter. We'll find a whom Mr. Drake introduced him, but with whom he found it impossible to | have speech—keen young men, out of | some strange world. Europeans, he | felt. 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No professional actor could give to show New York destroyed as Baby- | the quality I felt from you there I lon was destroyed. A prophet mUSt [feel that you were sent to me. N Will | Kerdok, our director of production, ¢ !feels even more strongly about it. He his head We have a plan which makes it very easy to own one of these very wonderful instruments. Come in any time. and let us tell you about it. Mt. Pleasant Music ' Shop, Inc. ' 3310 14th St. N.W. Open Evenings Opposite Tivoli Theater says that you are By this time he has already Kirby, whom we btought out 1 | New York for the part, to take the train back. You shall be my Isaiah!” Mr. Bancroft gazed at him without a word. “I realiz ops They were to ) some one of the other buildings. | Strange-appearing young people moved | the sunshine. 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