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out an alarm. Chaplin offered a thousand dollars reward for her return. Crowds gathering in front of the police station were at lynching tension. Sirens screamed and rumors spread. Vigilantes scoured the hills and woods above Hollywood. Airplanes were held ready to fly to the rescue if she were located at any distance.
The unconscious form of Miss Windsor was finally found in brush on a hill that had already been searched over. She was now in a hospital but not yet in a condition to see anyone. It wTas given out that she had fallen from her horse and had suffered an amnesic shock.
The next day the young couple who had found her called at the Chaplin studios for the reward. Chaplin was ready to pay but Carl Robinson decided to consult Miss Windsor first. Pale, and with dark circles under her eyes, Miss Windsor could hardly talk. But her pantomime was better than her dialogue. She told conflicting stories and Robinson noticed that her riding boots were unmarked. On closer inspection her wan appearance turned out to be make-up. Robinson suggested that it would be better if she told the truth.
Miss Windsor finally admitted that the kidnapping was a stunt arranged by a young publicity man, who, incidentally, was in love with her. For two days and nights she had hid in the attic of a house from which she could watch the searching parties. When it was judged best for the publicity she allowd herself to be "discovered." The young couple were talked out of the reward. The publicity agent left town. The public, however, swallowed the story whole and Miss Windsor went on to stardom.
In his rented new home on Beechwood Drive and Argyle, a garish palace in Moorish style, Chaplin entertained mainly intellectual people — "free thinkers," writers, and artists. Max Eastman was a frequent visitor, as were Dudley Field Malone, the lawyer, Upton Sinclair, the novelist, and Clare Sheridan, the sculptor. A new Chaplin,