Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

.ASSIC P)ened it and read the few curt lines (■ithin ; I' “Dear Rita— The wind was the wrong way I is afternoon, and I heard what you said to iaat man. I guess I’ve had my answer, whether it’s the one you intended to give me not. Maybe it seems queer, but it wasn’t just '-^)u I wanted — but your love, too. Good-by. j. , H. C.” li T. J. Olverson, Junior, flabby, faintly impurpled, as ever, found her staring I'own at a crumpled sheet of paper, a arious, mirthless smile twisting the jeautiful scarlet mouth. “I’m in luck !’’ 'e wheezed. “Never dreamed of finding ou here. What d’you say to a little ide and a bite of supper at a nice place j know, eh, girlie? How’s that listen b you ?” _ I She looked up at him with sudden 'jecklessness, tho her eyes did not match i[er laugh. “Why not?” she cried deliantly. “After all, what’s the odds? I’ll •et what I can out of life anyw^ay!” It was late the next afternoon when )octor Varian knocked at the door of drs. Potts’ third-floor-back room and, vithout waiting for an answer, opened it, tepped inside and closed it behind him. The limp huddle on the bed stirred and lifted a face that brought a shock'ed exclamation to his lips. I “Rita ! My poor girl ” Rita Charles dragged herself to her feet and faced him, pushing back her lisheveled hair with a sickly, hopeless ^’■esture. Her face was ghastly, blotched with weeping, twisted and drawn out of [ill semblance of its old nonchalant beauty. “Wait!” she told him, harshly; “wait! you may not have seen the evening bapers, so I’ll tell you. Last night — the man I said I was going to marry turned me down — and I went to a roadhouse with another man. We — were dining in la — a private room and there was a — a raid. It seems his — his wife had been trying to get evidence for a divorce for some time, so she hired detectives ” She began to laugh monotonously. “It was rather — horrid ! And so you — see — I’m not going to be married after all — I’m going to be a co-respondent ” She staggered, and would have fallen but for his arm about her. “Dont, Rita !” begged the doctor. “Listen, dear, I know all about it! I didn’t come home yesterday afternoon. I — well, I sort of hung around in case you should need me. And about midnight I saw that befuddled scoundrel tumble out of his car with your coat across his arm. I got the whole story out of him — as well as he could tell it — and the upshot of it was I persuaded him” — she felt the muscles of his arm tauten under her close-x)ressed cheek, but his tone was cheerfully matter-of-fact — “I persuaded him to keep your name out of the case. 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