1930-09-30 — Page 9

THE HOLLYWOOD

STORY-By Ernest Lynn.

CHAPTER XXIV.

Anne talked with her father, and mother for 15 minutes.

"There's a nice telephone bill," she said a little ruefully when she

THE

Anne was deeply concerned. "Why, what do you mean?" And he told her that several in his de-

given: two Partment had been weck layoffs. 4.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

A. Politician Of Six.

Six-year-old: "Father, may I have

Father:

a penny for a poor old man."

"Certainly, my boy. Where is he?"

Six-year-old: “At the end of the road, selling ice- cream."

Six-year-old probably got his penny. He deserved it, if only for his politic approach to the delicate subject. Some of our wes ones are born politicians, when it "It's no longer a secret that Con-comes to getting things they want hung up. "Promise. Dan, that you'tinental is selling out. I mean it'such as ice-cream. And after not forget to tell me how much ufficial now. And some big bugs all, such little treats, now and for 11 call up the telephone from Lawson Brothers have been company and write a cheque here parading around and sitting in at then, do them far more good than mysterious conferences, and pro- harm. There's little harm in ice-

said

and now."

Roriner auction is at ̧u standstill.". "I promise," "Well, what's the verdict?" ...

"Just what I thought it would! be" Anne Winter laughed. "Fa-t

.

He drew a deep breath. "Believe ther said to do what I thought best, me, it will be, a relief to get away Father always says that in the from that mad house for two long run. He was awfully proud, weeks. The morale of the place is though, and so was mother. They'll simply shot-hore guys moping probably call up the newspapers around and whispering, and wor- right away and tell them all about rying about their jobs! I'll be

satisfied if I never see it again."

"But why do you say it's the be "Did he offer any legal advice?" Johnny Riddle asked. He chuck-ginning of the end? Do you mean led, ile was in a tough spot, I'd that you think they are going to say, trying to be legal and fatherly let you go?" at the same time-and by long dis tance in the bargain.

it."

"No.. He told me if I needed a lawyer, to get me out here and he'd pay for it."

Riddle said. "You might send him a bill for my services. I'm pretty reaonable, Anne."

"Sure. Adamson thinks I'm a bolshevik, anyway."

"Perhaps Adamson will be let out himself," she hazarded, but Dan said he was beginning to. think that was unlikely.

"He's a smooth article, and he ean talk plenty fast. And if he stays I hope I do go.”

"How about me?" said Collier. Anne, laughed, wish," she Care perched lightly on Rori- said, "that I had more nerve. I'mmer's shoulders, Anne thought, going to laye cold chills running letting her eyes rest on 'him; and up and down my spine tomorrow she gave silent consideration, to when I tell Mr. Johnson that I've the problems he might be decided the contract isn't satisfac-pelled to face should his surmise tory."

concerning his status at Con-

cam-

But Don said she shouldn't let tinental prove correct. that bother her, "Johnson is used They were having Sunday sup- to dealing with hard-boiled eggs.per at the Brown Derby, the place, Look him in the eye and tell him she now remembered with a faint,

ix-nay, big boy, ix-nay?

reminiscent smile, where, she and

It was something of an ardeal Dan, Rorimer had eaten their first- for her, Anne was afraid that Mr. meal together. Then, as now, he Johnson might get out of patience had been dissatisfied with things with her, think her an ungrateful at Continental Pictures, Anne re- upstart calculating and mercenary, called, and she watched him gravely But he heard her calmly. Behind while he ordered for them.

his vast desk, a faint smile playing; The waiter gone, Horimer turned an his lips, he looked like a manto speak to her, encountered her who could play a very good game intent gaze, stopped.

"Oh, I wis just thinking." "About me

of poker. He had one question: "Why the brown study?" he de-

Is that your father's advice,) munded. Miss Winter?" Cool; casual, one) hand resting on the desk before him, its polished nails making little clicks on the hard wood sur-

fnçe.

Anne coloured. "No, Mr. John AOIL He left the decision entirely to me."

"Yes," she admitted.

That's a break! I hope it was

nice."

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"I was thinking that, for a young man about to lose a very important position, you certainly were the he was heavy-hearted, ` realizing] embodiment of indifference."

that beneath her lightness and her] Dan laughed. He said he was jocularity there was a serious and A little nod from Mr. Johnson. Every disappointed. "You see, determined unwillingness. "Very good judgment on the was hoping it was something else part of your father." He paused. you were thinking about." Then:

"Perhaps you'd better think it -over."

Anne's method of refusing to hear him, he reasoned, was her "What, for instance?"

way of letting him know that she "Oh, I don't know; but it would | did not want to hurt him, and that] be wonderful to get a pleasant sur she wanted their relationship to But I have thought it over. prise. New, when I think about stand as it was, on the same easy, Please don't think me ungrateful, you and I'm doing that practical-comradely basis. Anne, he knew but it's hardly as much as I made ly all the time="

preferred it that way, and the on the stage."

thought held no solace for him.

(To Be Continued)

"But you didn't have a three- year contract on the stuge."

"I'm sure you are.",

always think how wonder- tul you are, and how beautiful,

should feel better if the.con-and--"*

tract were for one year."

"I hope you have a good time in

Mr. Johnson's eyebrows rose San Francisco, Dan. Have you ever ever so slightly.

been there before" Her eyes

"really mean it." Anne said,[danced with little lights of mile- and he considered this gravely and chief,

then got up.

*

He anid, with his faint smile: "You seu ** Dar complainedi "It looks as though we can't come "livéry time I start making love to to an agreement. Pra sorry." [you, you let me down with a great "I am very sorry." Anne said, big thump. S I've never and he owed her out.

been there, but I knew a couple of When she had gone, Mr. Johnson boys on the News." And he demand- called in his secretary, told her toed to know why she dways steered, see if Garry Sloan could have him off the subject whenever he lunch with him.

ixot norious.

"Were you serious. Han Ban Rorimer, when she told him)

I'm what had happened. said. "Don't sorry. 1 thought you were Just worry. He knows now that you're foolium ujkain,"

smart," And Johnny Riddle, whom "You always think I'm fooling.") Dan informed, nodded sagely. Dan grumbled. "Some of these!

"They'll think a lot more of her days you're going to be sorry for now. A little independence doesn't triding with my affections the way hurt." And he predicted that you do. I'm going to make you Grand United would make her in-pay and pay and pay." other offer,

"Horrors!" Anne shuddered.

"You'll see." he threatened dark-

"Maybe not right away. int they'll come around. She'd be And he was suddenly serious crazy to tie herself up for that once more he reached across the kind of money."

Two days later.Anne again en-

table, let his hand linger on hers for a moment or two; and 'Anne

countered Garry Sloan on the set. saw in his eyes that which caused

but this time the director did not

stop to talk, Remarking his quiz-| zical smile, she was hotly embar rassed. Sloan had done her a great

her to drop her own.

"Happy, Anne?"

She nodded.

He said, "So am I. I'm always

"So am I Dan."

favour and she had repaid him happy when we're together."

with what appeared to be ingrati- "Honest?" His eyes sought liers

tude. Anne would have liked to explain to him that it was not, but

he was not alone. She could not even thank him.

"I thought of the saying about

eagerly; he leaned closer.

"Of course, silly! Why shouldn't be ""

don't know. Only, I sort of hop- Rorimer smiled and sighed. "Oh, the serpent's tooth," she told Dan, fed there might be some special but Rorimer scoffe:},

reason why you should be." "Why should it make any differ-

"But there are reasons," Anne ence to Sloan? I hope you won't insisted. "For one thing, you can lose any sleep over it. Besides be very nice, if you only knew it,

"Besides what?",

Dan Rorimer." She paused. "And

Dan grinned. "Oh, I gucas his you think of such nice places to hide's plenty thick." Which was go, and things to do. And you've not exactly what he had started to been very kind to me. Now, does say. He thought, feeling again that satisfy you?" that strange antagonism toward But Dan stubbornly shook his the man he had never met: "Who head. cares what Sloan thinks, any-

how?"

"I'll tell you" my reason, Anne, Would you like to hear it?"

Dan was going to San Francisco But Anne found laughing, ban for a vacation. "An enforced one," tering ways of evading him that he explained to her with a care- were just as effective as a definite- leas laugh. "I think perhaps it's 13 spoken refusal. And though he the beginning of the end.”

met her smile with one of his own,

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