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RY EVELYN SHULER
With the ease of a man of the
world who adapts himself to a var
iety of personalities and circum-
• stances, Gilthrop had gradually over
come Mary’s distrust. She had aired
her suspicions to Sandy after the
first Visit.
"What’s this Gilthrop want around
here?” she had demanded. "A rich
fellow like that has his own friends.
If it’s Andrea he’s after—” Her eyes
hardened. “Well, we saw’ where
Eloise landed when she crashed the
millionaire class. Sometimes I think
Andrea will never marry. I wish that
David—” She broke off with a sigh.
“Let them alone.” Sandy counsel
ed. "Gilthrop’s not a bad chap. He
has brought in a couple of good
ideas for this radio contraption. May
be he wants to see how the other
half lives.” Sandy’s tone was grim.
He had been dicharged that day from
the plant where he worked through
no fault of his own, but he could not
bring himself to tell Mary. Andrea,
for a while, would have to pull the
w’hole load—support four of them.
It was bitterly unfair, but he felt
disparingly that as his own star fell
steadily, Andrea’s rose. She was no
longer a model. She had become a
salesw’oman and unorficial assistant
to the buyer. Already she was be
ginning to build up a clientele of
her own; her sales book was yield
ing worth-while commissions.
Trys to Pay Debt
At intervals Andrea added to
money she kept carefully apart as
payment to Gilthrop. But even after
months of effort, the sum seemed
pitifully small, almost entirely in §1
bills as it was.
When Gilthrop came as usual this
night. Mary suggested to Sandy that
they go. to a movie. He hadn’t the
heart to refuse her . . maybe after
the movie he could tell her about
losing his job. Alone with Gilthrop
Andrea brought the money from the
drawer.
With an attempt at lightness, she
announced: “Will you please note
that on this day and instance you
received Installment one-” She dou
bled Dean’s hand over the bills, but
he dropped them as if they burnt.
"What’s this?” he demanded.
"Jut. a small part of the money
owe you,” Andrea said.
"Nonsense! What are you talking
about ” Gilthrop
showed it.
"Think back.”
him." How about
Eloise for me?”
Gilthrop flushed uncomfortably.
"That was nothing,” he said stiffly.
"A clumsy gesture on my part to the
things over—”
"Until you could get me a job,”
Andrea finished quietly.
"Until I could do something your
pride would permit you to accept,”
he corrected, looking at her steadily.
Andrea’s heart misgave her.
Gilthrop suspect that Eloise
kept the money and used it?
flooded to her cheeks, making her
lovelier and more desirable than ever
"When I took the money,” Andrea
tried to keep her voice steady as she
told the lie, "I understood it as a
loan. If you’re really generous, you
will let me pay you back, if only a
little at a time.” She attempted to
be businesslike. "Seveny-five dol
lars.” She unfolded the bills, aware
too late that they gave mute evi
dence of long and painful saving.
Gilthrop made no move to touch
the money. He saw that he existed
in the girl’s mind purely. as a credit
or—that she would take nothing at
his hands—love, money, protection
no matter how sorely she needed
them.
the
$500 out of the profits of your own
business?’’ Gilthrop’s voice and man
ner were completely impersonal.
•‘I’m prepared to finance you in a
small dress establishment of your
own,” ho went on. "You’ve got a
peculiar gift for convincing women
how to dress according to their own
particular type. You’ve built UP
your own cleintele who would follow
you to a place of your own.”
"A place of your own!”
“A place of my own!” Andrea’s eyes
sparkled. "I’ve often dreamed what
I’d do with it!” she exclaimed.
“Let’s figure it out, just for fun,
what a place of your own would cost
rent, decorating, equipment, stock,’
said Gilthrop.
“It’s nice of you to offer, Dean,
but I couldn’t accept. You know’ that,
don’t you?” Andrea said, looking in
tently at him.
Before he could reply, the Sander
sons returned. When Andrea looked
at them, she sensed instinctively that
something was wrong. Gilthrop
promptly told them what was on his
mind . • his proposition about the
dress shop. Andrea saw’ Mary and
Sandy1 exchange a quick glance. She
w’ondered if Gilthrop had discussed
this with them before.
"Andrea,” Mary said slowly, "I
think you should know. Sandy lost
his job today.”
"All the more reason why Andrea
should go along on this,” Gilthrop
said promptly. Andrea looked from
Mary to Sandy uncertainly.
I
was angry and he
Andrea reminded
the $500 you gave
Did
had
Color
Business Proposal
So that was why she had come to
his aid* in the courtroom? He studied
her proud, averted face and knew
instinctively that girl would never
cease payment, until the debt was
honorably discharged. He wanted
to take her in his arms and beg her
to leave the hard 'circumstances of
her
left
the
But
The Die is Cast
she
stir
“Would you want me to?”
asked, excitement beginning to
within, her. If 'they wanted her to,
if they approved, she might accept,
"It would certainly heli? us out of
a fix,” Sandy said, glancing for con
firmation from Mary. Gilthrop pro
duced paper and pencil from his
pocket. Andrea, breathless with in
terest, bent her head beside his over
columns of figures and it was ’thus
David saw them as he came to pay
his nightly visit.
“What are you doing—cross-word
puzzles?” he asked.
"You’d never guess,” Andrea said.
"Were figuring out a way for me to
go into' business for myself, and make
us all rich. .It would take
seven years, but it would be
it.”
"What are you talking
of the great city, but Eloise did not
heed IL
Impatienytly she swung a foot on
which hung a heelless fur-bordered
lounging pump of satin. Her 'Cigar
ette dangled from an ivory holder
:hat bore a monogram in diamonds,
the hand she reached out occasionally
for the highball on a small table be
side her was covered with expensive
rings.
But there was discontent and bore
dom on her beautiful face. Eloise was
discovering, surprisingly enough that
money could not keep her free from
restlessness; that quantities of
spending money was no armor from
loneliness.
She was waiting now for David,
who, amazing, as it seemed, was on
the way to become a celebrity since
his lost song had scored such an
amazing hit. The supine adoration
which he offered was salve for her
wounded vanity that still smarted
from the defection of Gilthrop. What
he found to amuse himself with An
drea, Eloise could not imagine.
Why didn’t Andrea marry Gilthrop
Why did she insist on working so
hard, and why, above all, was she
so insistent that Dean be repaid the
$500 he had advanced? Eloise turn
ed the questions over in her mind
and decided that perhaps it were
best, after all, if you weren’t married
to keep busy at something. She would
ask David when he came tonight if
she could get a spot on radio some
where. That would keep her in
practice at least and she might meet
some interesting people.
During the short violent
her married life Eloise had
opportunity to meet people
chette’s circle, nor to make
She supposed vaguely that her form
er husband was “shut up somewhere’
The lawyer who handled the busi
ness details of her divorce had been
indefinite and Eloise had asked no
questions.
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and David’s
he said with
a while, An-
the hit
about,
Andrea?” .David demanded sharply.
“Where would you get the money
for a business of your own?” An
drea made a curtesy in mock defer
ence toward ’Gilthrop,
face darkened.
"You can’t do that,”
finality. "Better wait
drea. If my new song’s
it promises to be, I’ll be able to set
you up with all the French frills.
Listen tO' this.”
He sat down at the piano and fell
into an intoxicating rhythm. “I got
the idea from the music I heard down
in Miami.” He hummed the lyric
and then began to sing. Gilthrop lis
tened with an amused expression;
he had encountered David on several
of his visits, and had rated him as
temperamental and artistic, but not
especially important.
As the song ended, there was an
outburst of handclapping from the
small audience.
"You’ve done it this time, Dave,”
Gilthrop said. “That song has what
it takes,
know
He
must,
drea,
to go
and Mary.” Andrea’s
She could be a success! Here was a
chance to fight out of the rut—a
chance too big to be missed.
We'll all be glad to say we
you ‘when.’ ”
picked up his hat and coat. "I
run along,” Turning to An-
he said seriouly. "I want you
over those figures with Sandy
heart lifted.
I
life — the enslaving work that
her W’eary at the day’s close-
shabby rooms in which she liv-
he knew it was hopeless.
'Suppose instead of taking this
first payment I make you a business
proposition,” he said in a practical
tone. “Suppose I invest it for y-ou in
a way that will permit you to pay
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David Objects
When the door closed on Gilthrop,
Andrea, said to David: “You don't
think I ought to do it, do you, Da
vid?”
"No,” David answered, something
surly settling in his face. “I saw
what happened to Eloise in Miami
when she began playing around with
rich men, and I think you’re a fool
to let Gilthrop hack you. You’ll pay
him back, all right—and how!” Da
vid swung back to 'the piano and be
gan to strum. "Oh, go ahead,” he
finally said indifferently. "Nothing
can stop you now, I see, and I would
not want to. You’re just not turn
ing out to be tile girl that has al
ways been my ideal—the sort of girl
I thought you were?’
CHAPTER XIV
Eloise Mowbray
since the day
door upon the
hated and the
The richly
term of
had no
in Bur-
friends.
hands jammed in the po-
his light overcoat, pushed
into the room without a
had come a long
she had slammed
shabby little flat
people who loved
furnished hotel
way
the
she
hen
suite in which lived gave ample evi
dence that she was “in the money.’’
The flame-colored hostess gown
that Eloise wore was bordered with
mink. The big double window fram
ed one of the most magnificent views
will use another name and dye my
hair if necessary, to keep Rufus from
recognizing me.”
My story singer
But in the end it was to the career
of night club singer that Eloise turn
ed, incongruously enough, in her
search for oblivion. The proprietor
with an eye to capitalizing her pub
licity, made Eloise a generous offer
for two appearances on the evening
program. She had received the man
in her apartment, and insisted on
singing for him before they discuss
ed further business.
“Why, you’ve really got a voice,”
he exclaimed in amazement. And
then, looking around the room, and
at the piano where she sat, he said
sheepishly: “You certainly don’t
need the money, either.”
"But I’d like, the experience,”
Eloise answered quickly. "I’ll take
the job provided there is no public
ity concerning my real name, In
fact,” she suggested excitedly, “why
dont’ you let me sing in a mask? I’ll
be Tamara, the Mystery Singer, and
that will be much better advertising
for you than if you billed me by my
right name.”
So the deal was ciosed, and the
unknown but beautiful Tamara, now
wearing clothes and jewels that out
shone those of the patrons, became
the rage of "The Jungle of Gold.”
iWth David, her only confidant,
pledged to secrecy, Eloise plunged
into the life she loved most. She took
the precaution of moving to an ob-
secure but chraming uptown hotel.
With Andrea’s assistance, she had
made a series of masks that matched
her various costumes.
“I’ll tell you some time what I am
using them for,’’ Eloise told her
younger sister. “But don’t ask me
now. It's a measure of protection
against Rufus.”
If Andrea had not been wholly
absorbed in the business of getting
her shop organized and opened, she
would have been distracted with
worriment concerning Eloise. She
knew that her elder sister was drink
ing too much, David, when she
questioned him, was mysterious but
reassuring.
“It’s something in the nature of
a lark,” he told Andrea, “and it’s
something that will keep Eloise from
brooding about Burchette’s
initiation to
her, and let
are.”
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A knock sounded and, having dis
missed her maid, Eloise went herself
to the door. Expectant of seeing
David, she was amazed at the visitor
who stood there. Rufus Burchette,
with a felt hat pulled down over his
eyies, his
^ckets of
his way
word.
“Rufus, what are you doing here?
What do yuo want? Eloise felt her
mouth go dry with terror.
"I’m calling on my beautiful wife
Can’t blame a man for that, can you?
Burchette strode over to the divan,
tossed hat and coat aside and emp
tied the remainder of Eloise’s drink
at a gulp. After pouring himself a
glassful of raw whisky he sat down
and said conversational: “How are
you, beautiful?”
But Eloise had begun backing to
ward the door. Her hand was upon
the knob, and she had managed to
1 open the door before Burchette was
upon her. His hands closed upon
her throat with a maniacal .grip
Dragging her back to the divan, he
threw her on the cushions as if she
were a rag doll.
"I came to finish the job I began
in Paris,” Burchette announced om
inously. "Say your prayers, beauti
ful, if you happen to know any,. They
will be your last.”
He thrust her back upon the cu
shions; his fingers closed on her
throat like an iron vice. Through
glazed eyes Eloise saw his flushed,
terrible face, close to her own.
There was a sound at the door,
and from far away she heard David's
voice crying her name. She was aware
that Burchette relaxed his hold, that
he turned to spring upon the intrud
er, then wild cries for help sounded
and there was a sound of running
feet.
When she struggled back to full
consciousness, it was to find David
on his knees beside her, a hotel em
ployee holding sal volatile under her
nose, and the room filled with many
people.
I "Rufus—where is he?” she de-
i manded.
"He got away,” David told her.
"He ran to the fire-escape and must
have got to an elevator before I
could spread the alarm. It wasn’t
important to catch him anyway. All
that mattered was you.” He pressed
his lips as her hand. "He might have
killed you!” David shuddered,
"He’ll be back again,” Eloise said
with something like despair. “Rufus
will never rest until he kills me. I
know him.”
What, added to her terror Was the
(newspaper version of the strangling
I that appeared the following day.
There were pictures of Eloise and
Burchette, with reminiscences of the
quick marriage that had followed
the rescue of the Nomad. But fea-
turned with them was David’s photo
graph and a highly colored account
of his heroism.
Eloise shuddered. “Um going to
move to a smaller hotel Where no
body knows me,” she murmured, “I
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