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* it ■ 46 THE "GOLD DIGGER" The gruff, old lawer's heart was touched at the pathos of it all. He knew the kind of a man Parry was—of his philandering, of his infatuation for his leading woman. So he sent for Parry. Parry came at the lawyer's bidding. Many of the film workers do. They know what he knows. They are afraid not to answer when he beckons. Parry came—and met his loving wife and his tearful daughter at the gruff, but kind hearted law- yer's office. Joyfully did the little girl bounce to the side of her "Daddy. Daddy! Oh, my Daddy!" she cried, throwing her arms about the comedian's neck. Roughly the comedian loosed the tiny arms that encircled his neck. Then he turned to his wife— *■ the wife he had promised to love and cherish—the wife who had helped him when he needed help most. The woman stood aghast at his actions. Tt was in- credible ! "Still nagging, I see," he said, sneeringly. "Still ing me! Well, what do you want?" )J - The wife fell upon her knees before the come- dian, begged him for the sake of the baby to make a home for them—to love them—to live with them. But he turned away from her-—whistling. "Let's get it over with," he said to the lawyer. "What does this woman want?" "She wants—and we intend to get—all that is coming to her—in money," answered the attorney. "She wants your love and your kindness—she wants a father for her daughter—she wants a home. But this she sees now she cannot have. She wants hap- piness—and you are denying her that. So she must