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THE HOLLYWOOD

STORY-By Ernest Lynn.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

"Well, we'll talk then."

Dan

settled back in the seat and laughed. "You can talk my head off if you want to and it will be all right with me.”

He drove then to Santa Monica, and there they swung down to the beach. The ocean lay in front of them, heaving and murmuring with a whispered song and bearing a grateful brecze to them. And there they sat and talked for a while in muted voices, but present ly both were silent with thoughts

of their own.

Dan smoked, and after a while Anne stirred and said the ocean was like that. "It takes all the talk out of you, doesn't it? I mean at night. In the daytime it's a gas, frolicking thing, but at night it's so solemn. It seems to be saying

hush' all the time."

ward the dark, ocean, and so he spoke ngain.

looked slyly at her to see if she was taking notice of the song. Anne isaw him and she laughed.

think you're horrid," she said, "Come on, Anne, sing for me." Not that one." She shook her head.

"Come on," he pleaded; "for old times' sake, Anne,” and he argued so persuasively and so persistent- ly that finally she consented and closed her eyes and sang: 3

."

"Why was I born? Why am I liv- "There for a while, when things

ing? weren't breaking for me, I man-What do I get? What am I giving? age to keep quiet about it, but

Why do I want a thing I daren't whet can I hope for? I wish I

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Anne interrupted him with a vehement shake of her head. "Oh, Dan that wouldn't have made any difference-not a bit. You

Eyes straight ahead on the road, don't understand."

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Anne opened her eyes then and looked at him, and in alarm "That's very true." he gravely agreed, and he took her hand and "Well, it's either yes or no, isn't she glanced at the speedometer and held it in his own and seemed to it? Dan laughed shortly. "Per-called his attention to it.

Dan smiled and released he haps you mean you don't want to be studying it. And finally

pressure of his foot somewhat. He looked up at her face again. "I hurt my feelings-is that it?" was just thinking. Anne. You've That was not it at all, Anne.de- thanked her then for singing. come a long way since that first nied, "I think you're rather cruel ("Just like old times." And then | Capital (fully paid up) ....................Y. 100,000,000 sharter periods in Local Currency and Sterl night we came down here." to say that, Dan. And she tried he talked on rapidly, told her how errs Fund 118,500,000. un terms which will be quoted on applicatio

"And you too, Dan," she smiled. to explain then that marriage was much her voice had improved. "I "No, it's different. I had every-something that she thought of only wouldn't have believed it. That thing in my favour to begin with, as a dim. far-off prospect; as some fellow must be a marvel." and 1 came very near to making a thing probably eventual but

He said he wondered when pro- mate from her present scheme. She duction would start on his picture. mess of it."

rather You've done said.

apologetically, as "What do you think of Lester though there might be something Moore? Think you'll get along not exactly normal in the admis- with him all right? Phillips telli sion, that e had set her mind me he's a regular guy-no temper- and that perhaps ament or anything--so you're go- upon a career, she had made a mistake and let it ing to get a chance to do

thing." matter too much.

"But you didn't. | something to be proud of. And where would I have been if it hadn't been for you?"

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She tried to smile. "Anyway, To all of this Anhe, knowing that Dan, that's the way I feel-if you he was acting unnaturally, and Hongkong Anne gave a little pressure to can make any sense out of what worrying about him, murmured the band that was holding hers. said. And that's why I've been short replies, but when It was just like him, she said soft rather afraid of your saying what reached the bungalow she y, not to want any credit for what you did. I had hoped you wouldn't strangely reluctant to let him go, he had done.

somehow, until I was aurer of my- and she found things to say that an excuse for him And Dan insisted that none be-self. I like you, Dan-I like you would serve as lenged to him. He told her again sure that I'm in love with you.".

tremendously. But I'm not at all to linger.

And when he did leave, with a that her chance would have come

promise to see her at the studio on anyway. He didn't want her to feel

the morrow, she waited at the BANK OF CHINA. under any obligation to him. For Dan said, with a shrug and a open door until he had climbed into one thing, he thought, it ra her queer little smile: "Well, if the car, and then she waved to him complicated the thing that he wantyou were," and he pulled out a fand called goodbye to him again. You will see printed on any Kodak Filmed to say to her, and it probably Ligarette and lighted it.

Mona was not yet home and the would be said awkwardly enough at This means best.

And Anne, watching his face, replace suddenly was cheerless, Anne carton the word "Speed."

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mouth and laid a hand caressingly found herself, for some strange most of the light. The light may be poor

Reclining behind the wheel. hejon his arm. "You understand, reason. wondering what she would because the day is a dull one; or it may gazed up at the sky, and pres- don't you, Dan?" she asked anxious- have done if Rorimer had again ho a bright day, and yet the light fently he said, without turning his y. "We needn't be so utterly seri-kissed her. She had not expected

hend:

ous about it, need we?"

him to try it, but she wondered admitted inside the camera is diminished

"Anne, how would you like to get; He said, "No, we can always be nevertheless, because Dan had said. because you have ahortened the exposure married?

friends," blowing on the end of something about "old times." re- in order to take a moving object. Either

his cigarette; and the irony of it ferring to their first evening at was almost like a blow to Anne. Santa Monica, and she had not for way, the Kodak film, being "speedy," will

But she said nothing, and Dan gotten that it was that night that ment both at home and abroad. make a plucky negative.

cas-sensed that she was hurt, and he Dan had kissed her. ual one in my life, I must say." was contrite.

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"Why, Dan," she laughed, that a proposal?"

"You're darn right it is.". "Well, I never heard such a

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He saw her eyes then and they trying to hide part of it from her- you give it ever so little over-exposure, Anne made a sound with her shone with unshed tears, and he she had done wrong in not saying it turns nasty and the negative is flat, dall tongue. "Tehk. Such slang !" let his arm rest lightly around her something long before this. She Authorised Capital and unprintable. Kodak Film is "speedy." suddenly serious. "Now, look here, and jokingly of other things.

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