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A Girl Comes to Hollywood
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pocket, asked her nephew to pour out some brandy, and then drop in the tablet. He had obeyed, and later absent-mindedly slipped the vial into his own pocket instead of returning it to the bag. His aunt, according to him, had said in a faint voice, "That's a pick-me-up my doctor prescribed." But the only doctor she was known to have consulted denied having prescribed for Lady Gates any medicine whatever.
The one remaining tablet in the vial had proved to contain a large quantity of granil. And the letter which had caused sharp words between Lady Gates and, first Mary Smith, then Malcolm Allen, had also been absent-mindedly pocketed by the author of "Red Velvet." It was an anonymous letter to Lady Gates prophesying dire consequences if she kept to her purpose of marrying the dancer, young enough to be her son. It accused Lopez of concealing a marriage, not
dissolved, with a woman in Buenos Aires ; and Allen, while insisting that he was not the writer, acknowledged the similarity of the paper with some he had been in the habit of using. He had been taken to jail, on the accusation of Lopez, and the evidence against him.
"Dearest one,' Madeleine said, "I'm going to help fight for you. And I know how I'm going to do it."
Late though it then was, Mary Smith had telephoned a famous Hollywood lawyer and induced him to visit Allen at once.
It was this part of the newspaper scoop which pleased Sonnenberg least. It remained to be seen what effect on the public an accusation of murder against an author would have. But he had felt, in reading of Allen's trouble, that, " Anyhow, the guy was wiped out of Mary Smith's life." She might have been smitten with him, and he with her, but girls who wanted to succeed in pictures didn't marry accused murderers, even if the latter happened to be acquitted. It simply couldn't be done. It was the wrong kind of publicity. The right kind was to marry a big producer. The situation was turning very much to Sonnenberg's favor.