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COMING TO

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STORY-By Ernest Lynn.

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.

ness. That's not all," she ad Through a letter that he receives from amitted, "but it's one reason. An- friend In New York, Dan Borimer, Hallywood other, if you care to know it, is scenario writer and former New York newas beper man, meets Anne Winter, who has come that Mona's just a kid and she from Tulsa, Okla., to try to get extra work needs somebody around who knows Den finds her charmlog and takes a does what's good for her and what isn't Interest, in her. She leams from him that he You don't see any of these would-be works at Continental Pictares. She has work sheiks hanging around her, do ed, anly, one day as an extra herself, but few days after their meeting the gels extra work at Grand United,

In the moviet."

Her Brst day there she meets s zizi sazied Hana Merrion, and immediately likes her, Mona is living with Eva Harley, and Anne Ilves alone, and Mons surrests that the three occupy a bungalow that, she and Eva bare

seen.

They do this. Dan learn from Mons that Garry Sloan, the famous director, actually has natived Anne, and she may be gives "bit." Dan, not liking Sloan, although he hes never actually, met him, le a bit appres hensive. Anne seeras, wo ambitions that he Imagines he may be making nuisance of himself, and be does not call on her for some lime. Then one day he accs Ifarley on the Continental lot.

CHAPTER X. Rorimer. had entered the restaurant with Martin Collins, the director, and Jim Donnelly; but at sight of Eva Harley sitting alone at a corner table, he excused him self and hurried over to her.

"Mind it I join you?" he asked, and Eva, looking up, said, "Not a bit; glad to have you."

She was in makeup; her cheeks bright red, lips carmine, dark blue eyes intensified and enlarged by purple shadows.

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you?"

She demanded, and Dan anid he hadn't.

"And you won't as long as Mona's willing to listen to me.".

Rorimer thought that Eva Her- ley was dangerously close to tears. There was a fierceness in her last sentence, a sort of ragged-edge quality that he felt might border. on hysteria; and he welcomed the arrival of the waitress with their luncheon.

But he knew an increased re- spect for Eva Harley; and if he had entertained any doubts con, cerning her suitability as a living companion for Anne Winter, they now were gone.

He thought: "There's a story somewhere down deep in Eva, and it's not very pleasant. It's tearing her heart out."

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the

Presently he reminded the tall, blonde girl sitting across table from him that, though she had given her reasons for think- Ing that Mona's chances for Holly-|--- wood fame were small, she had not, after all, said anything about her : own case. He knew that he would He followed her swift down-be interested now in anything she

Her said about herself. ward glance at her costume. coat covered bare white arms and shoulders, and a low-cut,

tight-asked. waisted gown of another 'era "I'm supposed to be a Floradora girl," "Eva explained briefly. parked the hat."

"You don't mind," do you?" he

Eva shrugged. "Why should I?" "Because," Dan said, "you gave me the impression when I met you of being very quiet and self-effacing "I see." Dan, locking about and do you mind if I speak frank- the restaurant, noticed other girls ly--and a little mysterious." He similarly arrayed; but these wore smiled. "I felt that you didn't like their old-fashioned hats without mend that's an uncomfortable trace of self-consciousness, or, assort of feeling to have."

at one table he saw, they made a Eva looked at him, looked him merry joke of it.

and

"How long have you been at Continental?" Dan

asked,

him informed Eva unsmilingly that she was just there for the day.

"And

straight in the eyes until Dan felt awkward and ill at ease; and he concluded then that Eva Harley would be the wrong person to lie to, "Because," he thought, "those eyes. of hers would find it out."

She said presently, "You're all right, Dan Rorimer, and I do like you."!

He thought, pityingly: to morrow spent in the hope that the next day,

or the next, may

In the name "I'm very glad." Dan said "I bring another job.

like you, Eva."

of heaven, how does she stand it!"

Ile thought, watching her: "What

a heartbreaking smile!"

"How are Anne. and Mona?" he asked casually, and Eva said

"I'll tell you about myself." Eva they both were fine..

said. "You've heard everybody, "Keeping bus?" "Not just at present." Mona, she has heard-of what happened to one day some of the stars when pictures elaborated, had worked vince Dan had seen her last, and started to talk. There's Barrett, Anne had been relieved of further for instance-The Great Barrett; duties in "Married in May" near- he's through and he doesn't, know ly a week ago,

it But all Hollywood knows it." heAnd she mentioned others he had heard of. But there were hundreds of other cases, no less tragic by raz son of their obscurity, that the world never would hear about.

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"How did she make out?" "Anne? All right, Anne would," she added with some emphasis.

He said. "Just why did you say that, Eva?" and she told him it She said. "I've got a voice like was the way she felt about Anne. night-club hostess; it's about as "You can see

it in her blind pleasant and musical as scraping

your finger-nail along man could."

a window Eva added, bitterly: "She's not pane." an ordinary, ham like the rest of.

Rarimer laughed. "That's fool-

us; she's a real actress; if she getsih talk. Eva," he said, but she any breaks at all ahe'll make a few told him: "You ought to hear how of these alleged stars look sick." it records."

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Singapore, Sept. 12.

A bather who entered the sea at "but you're not fair to yourself, can sing a little and do a tap

The most ghastly crime of its Brighton against the advice of a or to Mona." Sole Agent

dance routine without falling on kind for years occurred last night Corporation boatman, and while "Oh, yes I am." She paused your face, there's jobs to be had in on a small rubber estate at Tam-danger flags were flying, was even- while Rarimer held a light to her the revuca..... That's not my penis, Singapore, when an elderly tually rescued by the boatman MITSUI

cigarette. "Mona," she said, "is one style." Her laugh was short and Chinese, Ong Kok, ran amok and whose advice he had failed to ac- BUSSAN sweet kid; but she doesn't know mirthless. "I'm out of luck, that's butchered almost his entire family cept. KAISHA what it's all about. She'll have to all." she concluded,

with a heavy axe and then killed

The bather was Edward Bicker be awfully lucky if she ever gets "But you're working today," | himself.

(19), of Mildmay-grove, London, The Bank of England & Midland Bank, Lid. anything better than extra work." Rorimer pointed out.

When neighbours broke into the N. In company with his 16-year- She's a mighty pretty girl, Dan "Yes. Today

a bit of house which Ong Kok had set old. sister, Doris, he went to Bangkok said. "I thought she was pretty scenery."

alight in an endeavour to conceal Brighton from Nutley, where they atavia clever."

A shaft of sunlight threw an fr- the traces of his crime, they found were on holiday.. Eva's brief smile came and went. regular shadowed triangle on her him sitting on top of a heap of When Bicker was about to go Colombo "What of it?" B "There's thousands just as pretty low gold in turnar, velot, his throat slit from car to car do so by the boatman, John Santuel Hongkong

she challenged. throat and caught and held the yel scrap rubber soaked in kerosene into the sea he was warned not to le and just as clever. Mona's just a mer's eyes smarted at its bright and a bloodstained butcher's knife Marchant. Bicker went further chorus girl in Hollywood; but," she ness, Eva, he thought, in her alongside.

along the "beach and entered the added, enthusiasm coming into her deonllete costume of early-century His seven victims were strewn sea near the Banjo Groin. voice and kindling her eyes, "if vintage, and her exaggerated make on the floor. Two small children wishing could do it for her Mona up, was like a study in disillusion had been killed outright and a 14- would be a star. You wouldn't find ment as she blew smoke across her year-old son, his wife and

three Tit hard to remember that girl in shoulder from the side of her paint daughters were terribly injured. your prayers if you knew her the ed mouth. She was like those full. They were taken to hospital where way I do."

blown and fading creatures he had the wife and one. daughter died. Her swift ardour surprised Rori-seen so often on the screen as scar The others are lingering between mer, left him a little embarrassed. Iet women of rough western dance life and death. "I'm sure you're right," he mur-halls; women, he reflected, whose It is known that Ong Kok sins sentimental directors generally owed money to a chetty and it is Eva, blowing an ash from her washed away in a great regenerat believed that he was worried over cigarette and turning her gaze to- ing love, or who explated their pur-the state of rubber-Our Own Cor-viously on the victim of a bank ward the sun-filled window, remark-ple pasts when they plugged the respondent. ed that if it had not been for Mona bad man and thus saved the

mured to fill in the silerice.

A Morrison she would have left Hol-heroine for a nobler passion.

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"But Mona," she said, "makes

you feel a little ashamed of the thought of giving up."

Rendered Unconscious. Within a few seconds

a wave

kanked him over and rendered him unconscious.

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A police official said after the and presently Eva turned toward wood and its irresistible fascina- "And you mean to say," Dan de him again,

was thinking, of rescue, "It is all very well for the manded, "that it's Mona's cheerful- cigarette, and informed him that Collier and what the latter had bathers. They may come out all

extinguishing her tion... Dan Ting you here?"

ness and optimism that are hold today's was the first motion pictare called "The Hollywood Story," as right, but what about the men whose duty it is to warn them not employment she had had in almost he asked: His tone caried scepticism, and a month.

"Eva, how do they manage to get to go, and who feel in duty bound Eva, though she met his eyes calm- Dan thought: "How can they along, anyway?" He hoped, he told to attempt to rescue them when ly enough, coloured more deeply be live?" His mind ran back to Paul her, that she wouldn't regard the they get into difficulties? neath her makeup, and Rorimer re-Collier's speech that night about question as personal, "It's my "Boatmen risk their own lives marked that her hand trembled as the extras of Hollywood. Collier newspaper curiosity, I suppose in such rescue efforts, risks which it closed on her water glass. had said something about their haven't outgrown it. But it-Eva, need never be taken

the bathers And her reply came with a shade hanging on and hoping that, by it makes a man wonder."

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ary caution."

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