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asking mo" she exclaimed. "Well, no, I haven't,"

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Shella had dined at Dean's fre- quently, always Bomeone's gucat, It was an excellent. steadily. She buttered a bit of restaurant just off Broadway, one toast and took a generous mouth-flight up. Not flashy but expen- ful. "You'd get sick of it in asive,

week. It's allly for you to talk "I've been there," Sholla went that way. With your career! You on. "But I've never seen a couple have the makings of a real dancer, there who loniced happy. Remem- A musical comedy star like Marion |ber Lily Train? I saw her there Meriton. I. don't see why you three times. Each time she was couldn't be as good ne she was. with a different husband. When All you need is a break. Things you see a married couple at Dean's can't keep up the way they are you can always tell whether the forever. They're bound to change.". husband or the wife is making the Her voice shook. "I'm old, most money. You can tell when And Sheila. I'm 80 but you're young. they've been quarrelling. She smiled through sudden tears.

you can tell when they think more "Thirty isn't old," Sheila said of being a success than they do uncomfortably. It hurt her to of each other. When I marry I don't want it to be like that! I think of Myrt as old.

"You'd have a good time in a house. I want curtains blowing want a real husband and a real amall town," Myrt decided after at the windows, fresh and white. moment's thought. "You

A ten table out near the lac pretty. You'd have beaua. Evory-bushes. Little tulip-lined walks. body has a car~”

Porches-"

"And the moon-and maybe fireflies."

"And the mosquitoes! And the beaun from the local garage! No

Myrt shrugged.

Waiks get cluttered."

"Porches have to be swept.

Sheila'a volca was eager. "I'vo

-Broadway is the place for you,acen 'em! Lots of people feel the Sheila, Broadway needs you."

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way do, Myrt!"

"I know what you mean, kid," | Sheila laughed a bit mirthlessly. Myrt anid in a softer tone. "Well, | Certainly Broadway's need for her I hope you get it. Only remember talent to-day was hardly apparent. this. Life is where you find it. "I think it's a mistake to marry) A furnished room or a palace. Just to have a homo," Shella went The chances are better, maybe, fn. on after a moment.

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Myrt looked at her sharply, ¡to stumble over each other all the "You aren't thinking of getting time. Otherwise the place doesn't married, are you?"

måtter much. Love is anywhero you find it.”

Strange to hear this from Myrt whom love had passed by. "I don't mean marrying anyone They rose from the table and here, Myrt," Shella went on, look-Sheila paid. They went out Into The rooming house keeper reach- Ing off into space. "I mean the sunny street again. For downed them, a shavi caught over her marrying someone in a little town the block a wagon loaded with house drena, her plodding foot where living means something. potted flowers moved slowly to-still in carpet

"Sheila!" slippers. If I had the chance to-morrow or ward them, the hawker shrilly cry; she gasped. "It's a good thing to-day I'd do it!"

ing his warcu, stopping now and you two have been gossiping over "You're crazy," commented then to make a sale. Myrt. "If you must marry, pięk

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that Daisy Gleason. She has a Myrt's own morning was an dancing number with a new act accepted routine. She would go and she's sprained her ankle. They back to the rooming house and want you to fill in." wait for the telephone call which A job! Sheila looked Sheila nodded. "Sure, I know, never came. For weeks now Myrt grubby scrap of paper Ma pressed

course of on her. You're thinking about Bee and had been taking the Walt. But they were exceptions, least resistance.

"That number," Ma explained Did you ever eat at Dean's Chop "Here comes Ma Lowell," Sheila unnecessarily, "Is Joe Paris' place. House, Myrt?"

said as her eye caught a figure Brady telephoned. He'll teach you The other's суся widened. į coming toward them.

the routine. You'd better call him Dean's was the rendezvous of the "And in a hurry?" Myrt ans quick as you can!" Auccessful, the great, "You're nounced. "Well, if Ma's hurrying

(To Be Continued.)

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