is she could not tell. Had she missed her appointment? Would the movie queen be gone? She caught her brea
o a chair, she looked at the clock.
the room. "They
aitress, "very black tea
he great dome she felt in
n Florence ushered into the now all but empty room a perso
and the stranger stared a
eanne at last
u who are to be some one else. You are to be Lor
ered, "bring us c
asse," Jean
star had drained the last drop of her co
see
he rosy-cheeked mountain girl, who stood beside them. "You see everyone
y, touched by the girl's simple kindness. "Yes, we
suggested caution. "This is
he mountains secrets are kept as nowhere else in the world. Je
inly is true,"
Lorena LeMar move
'Little Hollywood.' Five days from now I am to begin a picture-you know, show the people how it's done. There are seat
nce!" Jeanne murmured
Not for me!" Miss L
it! A yacht a hundred and forty feet long! Singing, dancing, drinking! Oh, yi! yi! Moonlit waters. Mackinac Island, the Soo Canal, Isle Royale in Lake Superior, speed boats, sailb
on the electric signs all ove
it's all over the thing's sure to be scr
s out there, short ones; but not this
you are my double, so perfectly, and since you'd been in light opera, you might
" Jeanne stared a
ne was eager. "All you'd have to do would be to study the script, g
never will. One of those natural things, not spicy at all-don't you know? And besides
w what that meant. Florence was saying to herself: "She's off again! F
s little more than a whispe
doesn't amount to much. As I've told yo
ow," Jeann
Miss LeMar's tone was light. "The side of Bi
stened quietly until now, exclaimed. "Th
was born!" said Jeanne. There wa
urse," she went on. "Boy and girl standing on the side of a
rrected. She was lea
's going away. They're saying good-bye. No clinches. Too bashful for that. Just a tou
looks. A donkey appears around the rough path. An Italian, with big brow
iew. A downcast sort of woman is riding the ho
ings, silver spurs, you know, comes dashing along on a blooded horse. He bumps into the
swears, as he leaps from his saddle. '
ong-eared sort of hound, comes out barking. The fat youth giv
e beautiful Zola with a flattering smile wh
. But you can see she'd
after the fat youth has ridden on. 'Damn Dago!' Everybody like us, eh? Ha! Getta
ughs at
arts a mine. Zola's father owns some rough land full of co
yawned, "is what you mi
I suppose the mine prospers. Zola marries the dar
resh start. "They mine coal and ship it. The fat youth from the
has his coal held on the rails. Costs pile up. He is
switchmen dig her out and wash her up. When they see what a swell l
outh, insults Zola. Tony throws him over a cliff-not a very high c
s has lost all his money. His
eanne put a hand ov
comes back. He and Zola go into a clinch. Tony adds his blessing, sells his share in the mine
ere's a lot more to it. But you can see. What do you say? Is it a go? I'll see
week!" It was Jensie, the little mo
favored her with a smile, "is
logised to Jeanne. "It's
ne was not thinking of the money at all, but of the strange cir
o forget that Petite Jeanne lives at all. To act in the movies when one
autiful story," she
d. "But they could make it so much
ss LeMar opened
he moun
ut the little mountain girl an all but irresistible appeal. "That doe
eanne repeated musingly. Then sudden
ht, I'll
iss LeMar leap
you in the next few days," Jeanne i
-night. I'll be seeing you." The great movie star, Lorena LeMar, was away
e murmured at last. "Who in
rence smiled. "And her
coul