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Then she ojyened her eyes and looked at him — unsmilingly, steadily, almost accusingly
The Love Dod
A story from behind the curtained windows of Hollywood
Part Two
TWO days later, Cleveland Brown received a note from her. It bore that remembered heavy fragrance and his heart stopped as it came to him, so vividly did it bring back the soft yielding of her in his arms. In bold, ten-words-to-the-page writing, it read — "Dear Cleveland Brown — I am having a very small dinner party on Tuesday night at eight. Will you come? I want an opportunity to thank you for saving my life and also I don't want you to go through life with such a dreadful and, really, erroneous picture of
"LedaO'Neil"
He stuck the thing immediately into his pocket out of sight.
Of course he wouldn't go. Ridiculous idea. He had been
shocked to the very depths of his being by her condition. It
was the first time he had ever been close to a woman who had
By Adela Rogers St. Johns
Illustrated by Arthur William Brown
drunk too much, though he had seen them. His whole being recoiled from the experience. A drunken man was bad enough — but a drunken woman!
And yet, how strangely sweet and soft she had been, unlike anything he had ever known! The memory of it simply would not be erased. How sweet it might have been to hold her like that, if she belonged to him!
Rather a rotten trick that fate had played him — throwing such a creature as Leda O'Xeil into his arms that way.
He took out the note and read it again. "A dreadful and, really, erroneous picture of Leda O'Xeil."
At least she had the grace to be ashamed of herself. Perhaps it had been one of those unfortunate and accidental things that happen nowadays. He himself had once drunk two glasses of some gin whose parent had recommended it highly and had forthwith passed into that state where all men are indeed equal.
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