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CHAPTER XXXV
Garry Sloan looked at Anne. **Ready1" he asked, and she rose and handed the manuscript back; to him and faintly smiled.
Anne nodded. "I know." She looked then at Hurley, who smil- ed and wagged his head encourag- ingly...
"All right.". Sloan held up al hand. "Remember, Anne; you come on just as they're taking Michael away."
called her by her first name. Anne Sloan, consciously or not, had
His shirt sleeves arms.
came As it turned out, Aune did not the sun glinted on the thick blonde down not quite to his elbows and have to ask Garry Sloan. She hair of his arms and Anne wondered if he was aware of it, saw him the next morning, sitting marked the girth of the wrist on a bench in the sun in the big around which he had strapped his court. He was in his usual-cos-watch. tume of white flannels and white shirt open at the throat, and he was reading a manuscript,
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The scene was the one in which the unfortunate Michael, guilty of many crimes but charged now CAWNFORE He said presently, with a slight with one of which he was entire frown: "If you want a test I'll be ly innocent accused Jenny, his glad to give you one.
I've been girl." Anne was steeling herself to trying to make up my mind who fer f reaction
helping to "frame" him. make the request that she some-
was utter be wanted to play opposite Moore.wildert.ent at his cruel accusa- how dreaded to make when Sloan You're sure you'd like to do it?"tion; then protest; and finally, glanced up from his reading, and saw. her coming down the palmy, and she thought the smile with despair.
She was, she assured him enger- when Michael had gone, complete shaded walk. He smiled and im which he greeted her fervency mediately said, "Come here, child,"
Silence." A quick nod from was a bit sceptical. She was re- Slean. Anne stepped into the and beckoned to her.
Rentful of that, and she said a brilliant light, and Sloan leaned to make the proudly, "It won't take you forward and watched her through room for her on the bench. Annelong to find out whether I'll do." did look rather like a child be
eyes intently narrowed. Sloan, she felt, persisted in side the huge Sloan.
thinking of her as just what he "I want to look at you," he said.had called her child. crossing one leg over the other and resting an arm on the back of the bench; and he gazed at her as though he expected to something new in her.
He moved his bulk
find
Garry Sloan grinned. When, he asked, would, she like to have the test? What about this after Root?**
Aine cried, "Michael"
She moved toward the enmern and then she suddenly checked herself, and a look of incompres hension and of hurt came into her eyes. Then she shook her head quickly, vehemently. "No, Anne was thankful then for the Michael, no!. How can you say
with Mona and Dan as her au- dience and critics.
"You look nice," he said finally lady she had put in last night that?"
"but you look awfully innocent for Jenny."
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She left him then, sitting on the with his gaze trailing after her and bench where she had found him,
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fore, had even approved her choice play," he said. "Mike wouldn't Anne wished that Dan Rorimer of it by telling her it was what suit this guy at all. It's got to be were there to hear Sloan say that. he would have had her do.
Michael; he's that kind of a per- She replied that she thought it And he had looked at her with son." was a very fine thing. "Do you something, like respect in his eyes, He continued to hold Anne's really like it?"
for the scene was a difficult one, hand as she waited for the play- "I think," Sloan said thought- and one lacking in courage, or in back that would bring to her the fully, "it may make a wonderful confidence, or both, would have sound of her own voice. picture," and Anne said that she hesitated to choose it.
Presently they heard a scratch- was sure it would, with his direc-i Fred Hurley sauntered on the ing in the loudspeaker. overhead, tion. Nor did she intend any flat-scene a little later, and as he sat and then came a word, low in has opened. tery. There was, after all, only down Sloan and one of the crew pitch, vibrant, full of bewilder- one Garry Sloan..
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