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A Girl Comes to Hollywood
hiding place in his car, and was keeping in touch with her, at least through the mail. Probably it had seemed wise to both that, as Lopez would soon be freed from the film, she should be safely out of Hollywood before he was ready to go. Then he could join her secretly, and somewhere far away — with a fortune in jewels— they could begin a new life under new names.
"The woman could pass as a Russian princess in Paris or London," Madeleine thought, "for nobody would be surprised there that a Russian refugee should have lots of jewels to sell. For Lady Gates' things are handsome, but not historic
on in this bungalow as they had lived for months, until the woman died, or grew well enough to go with her lover to another land, where stolen jewels might be turned into money with little danger. Yet, suddenly, they had left their snug hiding place, Marco Lopez to remain in Hollywood, quietly finishing his part in the film "Red Velvet," the woman to go — where ?
The pair had moved from the bungalow directly after the death of Lady Gates, though no suspicion attached to Lopez. He had offered a simple excuse for wishing to be rid of his house, and if he intended, as he said, to turn his back on Hollywood as soon as "Red Velvet" was finished, the excuse was quite a good one for wanting to sell. It was not, however, any kind of an excuse for the man's haste to move out.
Why couldn't he have stopped comfortably in the house and done better business for himself, since John Barrett felt so stire the bungalow was worth ten thousand dollars instead of eight? Of course there was a reason, but Madeleine had been busy for many hours struggling to fasten her mind firmly upon it.
She who alone knew of the woman's existence, connected the sudden sale, the sudden move, inextricably with her.
The woman 'had found it necessary to separate herself from her lover. Why? If she and Lopez were still on good terms, he had most likely driven her to her present
like ours. Broken up, they ought to be fairly safe to dispose of, so far from the place where they disappeared."
But still there remained the big question of how the pair could have got possession of Lady Gates' jewels.
So far as clews to the mystery might, be hoped for in this house, the almost frantic haste with which Lopez had got his few belongings out, greatly favored Madeleine's theory. And the girl hoped for several clews — for one in particular.