New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1922, Page 17

e BEGIN NERE TODAY Youth, beauty, soclal position and love—these were not sufficlent to hold the affection of her husband, BELLAMY DRUCE, a man cursed with an appetite for cheap fllrta. tions and expensive liquor, The de- cision to leave him came whei his . wife, ! LUCINDA, ous escapades and promise to reform, discovered him intoxicated, unil dancing with =a ©107 by Louls Josesh Vance in after tolerating numer- recelving his self, merlad," with a hint of self-consclousness, he amplified: her to think well name, Lucinda found no echo for it blank “Oh!" LOUIS JOSEPH VANQ Mrs. Druce. After My name s Sum- a slight pause and “Lynn S8ummerlad.” Sensible that he seemed to expect of that preclous the chambers of her memory. “But how is it you know my name, Mr. Summerlad?"” “That's easy: your husband told me,"” Agaln Lucinda was reduced to a This time she felt that woman of ill-repute in o Broadway cabaret. On the eve of her departure, cinda renews a friendship with FANNY LONTAINE, and l:arns that her hushanlrl. HARRY LONTAINE, forming a motion picture com- pany In California. With them, srhe visits the New York studios of Alma Daley, motion picture queen and takes keen interest in scren life. Then comes her break with Bellamy and her sudden de- parture for Chicago. Bel follows her and trizs to stop her as she leaves her hotel to board & train for Reno. GO ON WITH THE STORY she was coloring. Lu-| In the police station!" Mr. Sum- merlad added with a broad grin. r"But don’t be alarmed. You see, Mr. Druce rather lost his head—wouldn't be happy till he'd had me arrested on a charge of assault. At the station house your husband cooled down and remembered that publicity wasn't his best bet. So he withdrew the charge.” “How dreadful!” Lucinda mur- |mured, her thoughtsewith Bellamy. “I'm so sorry.” 5 “No reason to be. If you must know, I enjoyed the adventure tre- mendously. That's what one gets for having been born with a per- verted sense of humor. Besides, it is thinking of \ tion-picturo intercsts had peremptori- ly called Lontaine, It seemed a eenslbie move as woll a8 one most agreeable in prospect 8She could rest in comfort and friend- ly companionship for a few weeks, consult with Harford Willls by letter, at lelsure and with a calm mind plan for the future, And then it would be amusing to see Los Angeles under the wing of 8o well-informed a motion-picture impresario as Lontalne. That after- noon at the Culp studios had been fascinating; how much more so would 'it be to live for a time In a elty that was, at least as Lontaine limned ft, one vast epen-air studio, to be as- soclated with people who were actual- ly doing something with their lives! “But you haven't told me,” she complained, ‘“about those tests. How daid I look?"” “You were adorable, simply raved about you!" “Ifact, Mrs. Druce, You outclassed eyen Alma Daley in that Palm Room scene. No, but seriously; it was you first, Miss Daley sccond, Fanny a good third, the field nowhere,"” “Well, it's hard to believe, but if you mean ft, the Culph and their cameraman would seem to have been right."” “Right about what?" earnestly wanted to know. “Why, they were so sure I would screen well, as they put it, Mr. Culp made me an offer, as we were leaving, to act with his wife in her next pic- ture.” Lontaine's eyes widened into a lu- minous blue stare; and abruptly, as if to hide the thought behind them, he threw a half-smoked cigarette and, helping bimself to another, bent for- ward taping it on a thumb-nalil, everybody Lontaine /Somebody came between them. Btartled, she identified the strange young man of the foyer. “Can I be of service?” ed in an amused drawl. Instinctively she gasped “No please—!"” At the same time Bel tried to shoulder the other roughly out of his way; the gratuitous cham- pion stood firm, merely counseling, “Fasy, old thing, easy!" Then Bel/ lost his head. Lucinda heard him damning the other. There was a slight scuffle, in which the two, locked in each other's arnis, reeled to one side. The bellboy was shout- ing “Now, ma'm—now's your chance!” She stumbled into the taxi. Holding the door the boy de- manded: ‘“Where to, ma'm—where t0?” She gasjed: ‘“Anywhere—only tell him, hurry!” The door crashed, gears meshed with a grinding screech, the cab leaped forward with such spirit that Lucinda was thrown heavi- ly against the back of the seat. When she recovered, the vehicle was turning a corner. ‘Thorugh its window she caught glimpse of the sidewalk beneath the canopy of the Blackstone, just a bare glimpse of two figures struggling, with severul others running toward them. Then the corner blocked out the scene. XI1v As she was pouring herself a sec- ond cup of coffee in the Pullman din- ing car the following me~ning the vacant chair at her table was drawn out and an amiable amused voice asked: “Do you mirg my sitting here, Mrs. Druce?” Lucinda jumped in The speaker bowed with an ingra- tiating emile; her unsought cham- pion of the night before! * ¢ ¢ “I'm murprised, too,”” he confessed —*"pleasantly, if you don't mind my say g so. And yet the dear public continually kicks about coinci- dences!" Lucinda found her tongue but found ft incompetent to frame any but the most formal phrases. “I have a great, deal to thank you for—" “Please don't think of it that way. To the contrary, I owe you all sorts of apologies—"" “Apologies!"” “For butting in where any rational angel would have been scared to death to tread, and particularly for being’ hewe.” The waiter thrust an order blank with the bill of fare un- der the young man's nose. “If gou'll excuse me * * *" The head he bowed over the cards was well-modeled and thatched with a good quantity of hair, light brown in color and amazingly lustrous. A skin whose patina of faint tan re- sembled that of old ivory, with never a blemish, covered boldly fashioned features The mobile face had a trick of lightening up when its owner was talking as if aglow with the light of his thought, so that his look was in fact more eloquent than his speech. Lucinda thought she had never seen hands more strong and graceful, or any better cared for, not even Bel's. Nor had Bel ever dressed in better taste. The object of her interest waved the waiter away and met her openly interested regard without loss of countenance. “I guess it's time I introduced my- — Why Are Some Women Popular, ‘happy, beloved and successful, while others drag out a negative existence of no use to themselves or anyone else? Except in a few cases the an- swer is to be found in a state of free- dom from the troubles known as “fe- male.” The well woman radiates cheerfulness and serenity, while the ailing one repels because of her lack of these qualities. It is not necessary, however, to harbor aches and palns, and the ‘“blues” that make one a detriment to soeiety. The use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound has brought relief to such women, and given them a new lease on life. —————— he sugest- AWKWARD EXPLANATIONS HAD BEEN AOZEPTED WITHOUT QUESTION. wasn't as if I'd never been pinched before.” “Y%u don't mean to tell me you're the habit of—of—" “I mean, pinched for speeding. You know what‘the roads are, out on the coast, hard and smooth and straight as a string for miles at a time. You can hardly resist them, once you get beyond the city limits. Lucinda caught the eye of her walter and gave him a bill to pay for, her bregkfast. But she couldn’t escape with good grace just yet, un- less she wished to administer a down- right snub she would have to wait for her change. “I'd like to show you what motor- ing is around Los Angeles.”” Mr. Summerlad pursued with breath- taking ‘assurance. “If it isn't an impertinent question, may I ask if that's where you're bound?” “No,” Lucinda replied briefly. One began to foresee that to put a damper on such abounding enter- prise would prove far from easy. Lucinda gathered up her change. And Summerlad’s face fell touchingly as he grasped the fact that she was realy going to leave him to finish his breakfast alone. *“I am deply in- debted to you,” she pursued. “But, of course, it isn't a thing one can talk about—"' “‘Well, there are lots of other things w ecan talk about,” Summerlad re- Jjoined cheerily. *‘So let's forget the unpleasant ones. It's a long, lonesome trip, and I'll be very happy if you'll let me prattle in your company now and then.” Lucinda contented herself with re- plying, no, she wouldn't mind, and thrust back her chair. Immediately Summerlad was on his feet, napkin in hand, bowing prettily. “Awfully good of you, Mrs. Druce. Where shall I find you say in an hour or two? The observation car?” “Perhaps,”” Lucinda smiled. She made her way back to her reservation but was not well settled when she heard a joyful cry— “Cindy! Cindy Druce!"—and rose, dropping the book in her astonish- ment, to be enfolded in the arms of Fanny Lontaine. in consternation. Xv Awkward explanations, haltingly offered, had been accepted without question: Fanny's and her husband's tactful sympathy not only won Lu- cinda’s heart completely but, together with her reluctance to proceed to Reno before she could feel reasonably sure of living there unmolested, had influenced her to agree to go on with the Lontaines to L.os Angeles: whither (she was tacitly le dto infer) his mo- TAKE A OLE MAN'S \ | ADV\CE, GAL AN FERGIT THE FELLER! MEN’S NECKWEAR Knitted Ones 45¢ SE-LELAND CO. FOX’S—Mon., Tues., Wed. “ARABIAN LOVE” Remember “The Sheik?” ou’ll Like This Just As Well POLLY AND HER PALS “Really, dearest? How priceless! And what did you say to the crea- ture?"” “‘Oh, I was kind but firm.” “Ben Culp's a big man in the cinema game,” Lontaine commented without looking up. “If he says you'd make a hit, you might do worse than listen to him. That is, of course, if you should ever think of taking a fiyer in the motion-picture business."” Robust .} babies delight any mother’s heart. They grow and thrive consistently on FAGLE BRAND I'm not even dreaming of such a thing. Why, it's absurb!"” “Then you'se the modern miracle, Mrs. Druce—a woman without cither vanity or a secret ambition to be a cinema star,” Lontaine laughed and lazlly got up * * * “But if you'll ex- cuse me now, I'll arrange matters with the conductor and porters.” The door. was behind Lucinda's shoulder. Closing it, unseen by her, Lontaine contrived to exchange with his wife a look of profound signifi- cance. (Continued in Our Next Issue) DECLARE 7 I. W. W. INNOCENT. Two Jurors In Centralian Murder Case Give Affidavits to That Jffcct. Seattle, Wash.,, May 10.—An affi- davit setting forth the belief of two jurors in the case that seven alleged industrial Workers of the World, con- victed of second degree murder in connection with the slaying of War- ren O. Grimm during an Armistice Day parade at Centralia, Washing- don for the seven men, it was an- notneed at the legal burcau of the Seattle Central Labor Counell, The seven men are*serving prison sentences of from twenty-five to forty years, imposed following their con- viction in March, 1920, Ten men were originally plaged en trial, two being acquitted samd a third being judged insane. The afidavit, signed by W, I, Inmon and . . Sweitzer, and made hile by t e bureau, set forth that “the avidenee showed, as affidavits verily beileve, that all the defendants were innoent and not gullty and that not one of sald de- fendants . ... killed, Injured, wound- ed or harmed any one. ELEPHANT RUNS OFF ON WILD RAMPAGE He Leaves Thirty-Mile Trail of De- struction in Washington ‘ State. 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