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THE STORYOF
A GIRL vjio
made; men.
LIKE HtR
SALEM
PORTLAND TWO STORES
EUGENE
VANCOUVER
LONG VIEW
ABERDEEN
EVERETT
By. ROE FULKERSON
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by Central Pra AariatM; lie.'
READ THIS FIRST: " V ' r
In Iter short cart-rr &s a profession
al dancer. Betty Brown finda the men
nhe attracts are fair weather friends.
She is in an automobile accident with
Andy Adair, the sod of , a wealthy
family, arid dislocate her knee. In the
liosplta! for ten days,. George Harris,
or ner dancinc car
per, pays au - her bills, while - Andy
who disapproves
tever comes y see her after the aeci
ctent. Loving Andy, she feels she must
marry Oorre for-his kindness. Out of
the hospital with a stiff knee George
Fives her work In the restaurant be
ownjs. She pays him back what he had
spent on her and la comparatively
happy in bar loo.
1NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY)
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CHAPTER XXXVIII
NE day at the lunch hour
Betty's old school friend,'
Lois, came to the restau
rant. As she walked past Betty's
desk without speaking, Betty
thought she had Intended to cut
he, dead. But she was mistak
en; in :jthe midst of her luncheon
Lois j. Wig-wagged to her cheerily
across the dining room, and when
she paid her cheek, greeted her
effusively.
"Well, of all things! . Who
wQuld ever expect to see you
here! I knew George Harris
owned this place, but I thought
you had left' town with a road
show."
"No, I'm through dancing for
life," answered Be,tty "I hurt
my knee in an automobile acci
dent." f ' "
"Oh, that's too bad! I ran
away from home and joined a
road show," returned Lois. "I'm
home again now, but father won't
let me dance any more, even for
charity. We are both out of the
dancing game." .
"I'm sorry. I know you liked
dancing."
, "I wish you would come and
see tne.'J begged Lois. "Mother
will be glad. to see you when I
tell her you aren't dancing any
more. She isn't very keen on my
Aanclng friends." ' :
"IH Mlklad to."
"Then; Wotoe tonight whfeHyoU
are through. What time .do you
get offtr-
? "I'm usually -through by ..eight
o'clock.
"Then I'll come for you. Father
bought me a nice little car and
I'll drive you out."
When Lois came she suggested
they go riding instead of to her
house. Betty: suspected Lois'
mother might not hare been as
glad to have her as Lois thought,
hut: she discovered that Lois
wanted to talk about her exper
iences on the road.
"It war a , scream!" she an
nounced, when they ' had driven
cut in the country and parked.
"Jessie, a girl named Olive, Bess
and I arranged a dance act- We
pooled out money and bought a
few rather nice props ana put i
set nn in rood shane. We luur a
lot of nice, fresh costumes.
"Before we were home, Bess
wished we had started with a
train Ad seal act so we could
have killed and eaten the seals!
We did get hungry a time or two
sad you would have tea to. see
some John take -one or two of us
nut and have the lucky, one
snitch things off " the table -to
KHnir hack - to those who' didnt
ret an Invitation.
"In Chicago we hardly had a
cent Jessie got a small Job in
a cafe, but they only paid her ten
a week. We lived on that while
a booklnr - agent told us every
day he was going to get us work!
Jessie lost the job, and we were
down t our last dollar when the
booking agent told everything
laVa He had a JOD ior us:
I'The Job was two .split weeks
l North: Carolina! -We didn't
have enough, money to go to
Englewood, right in the suburbs
nhicarn let alone to norm
Tarolina! Then I got a place pos
ing for shoe and stocking adver
tisements. We uvea on mui w
we got a Job rehearsing for a
show which was to play tank
tnwn in the west. One or the
other of us was on, the stage all
the time, and the only thing we
didn't do was play bass drum in
the street parade.
"We rehearsed for two weeks
Then the angel of the show said
It was so rotten he wouldn't put
up the money to send It out We
four cried all over him. and he
wgg fo easy that he gave us fifty
d&Qars each, although show girl?
ae nevek- paid during' reheartals.
"To tbp it all off. we got arrested-
That is. every one but
Olive. We met three boys In the"
theatrical bbardine house where
we lived, who said they were
medical students. They wero
loose at ashes with their money,
and for juweek we were with
them every night. Then, on'
night while we were out with
them. policeman came up tp
the car and arrested every one in
It The car bad been stolen by
the boys In Indianapolis, and one
of them had robbed bis father-
rash drawer before they left for
rhlMeo on their joy party.
J "We had an awful time. The
boys blamed ns for having spent
all the money, and said we were
kale and farewell girls. The
police were about to lock us up as
vagrants or something, but a wel
fare worker believed our story
and got In touch with father and
he cams after me! . .V-v;
; "He was cross as a bear!" He
brougnt me. home and gave the
other three enough money to pay
. their fares back also; but they
skipped out on him and went to
New York, where we started
from. Gee. but father was mad!
He said they were thieves, and
maybe he was right from his
viewpoint; but take It from me, I
got over my taste for being an
artistt ,
"Artist, your grandmother? x I
was hungry for the first time In
ivl life; -1 kissed men.' hoping
they would buy ma a dinner. Now
: . when I feel the .urge to dance I
slfs no. in the attic, where I have
an old pier glass, and do It to an,
rudlen.ee of one. snes more ap-
treciatlve than.- any - audience I
.had while I was on the-stage.
is lYou had "a lot of -experience.
'., anyway' Betty laughed at the
vacltal of Lois troubles.
"There was a lot of precisian
- H the. work we did in one. et out;
numbers,, but na precision in me
times the ghost wautea en us. i
guess I'll get married."
'Have you picked the lucky
min? asked Betty.
''All I ask is that ' he have
enough money to support me In
manner to which I would , like
to be , accustomed! I only know
three such men." I would rather
have Andy Adair than .any of
them.! - ,
"Do. you run" around with
Andy?" asked Betty, thrilled ai
the mention" of bis name.
"No. I don't, worse luck!" an
swered Lois. -
"Why not?"
0h, Andy's settled up or set
tled -down or something. He Is
never around where the white
lights shine and the talcum pow
der puffs, any more."
"Didnt I hear something -about
his having an automobile acci
dent?" asked. Betty, anxiously.. -
"I don't know," replied Lois.
If he did, it was on 'the road. I
like to say that. It sounds very
sophisticated to say you have been
on the road. The bove just eat
it up when I tell them I have been
on the stage.
What's the matter with men
that they fall for women who
have been In the profession? They
iuSt jrp crarv about von ! I guess
they think all women on the stag
are wicked, and tr-ev all use 'em
vbfn they are wicked.
'How lone since you saw.
Andy?" . Betty could not resist
bringing her back to this"sntject.
'Oh, I don't know how long,"
Lois answered, vaguely. "I just
flit around hither to yon and then.
kush from yon back to hither
again. I don't see the same boys
very often. I get tired of having
the same man around all the
time."
Betty susnected she . had seen
little or nothing of Andy Adair,
She knew Lois was a bit inclined
to boast of her affairs' with men.
If there was anything to the Ide.-v
that she was going to marry
Andy. Lois would have been more
definite. Betty felt relieved, be
lieving tnere was no prospect' of
Andy. marrying Lois. Lois was a
bit too flightv for Andy! Even
as she thought, she came to the
conclusion there was no reason
why she should feel anyone was
too good for Andy. He had cer
tainly not shown to a good ad
vantage In his affair with her.
She could hardly understand why
she was still interested in him.
She chatted with Lois . about
friends who went to school with
them, but refused Lois' Invitation
to attend a recital of a dancing
school to which she was going the
following night. Then Lois took
her home. -
Betty was glad when Lois left
her. . She did not enjoy being
with her as much as she used to.
Lois was shallow ; she would nev-1
er make any man who settled
down and took life seriously , a
good wife. Lois had said Andy
had settled down!
She.shook her head and frown
ed at her line of thought: Andy
Adair was not worth worrying
over! -She .went to bed wonder-
ing why she was unable to get
him out of her thoughts. Andy
and dancing were coupled In her
mind; she rarely thought of one
without thinking of the. other.
She sighed heavily, and went to
sleep to dream that she and Andy
had formed an adagio team and
were dancing before a large audi
ence. -When she leaped for An
dy's arms he stepped back laugh
ing, and let her fall into the
orchestra. . , .
HE UN AGAIN HITS
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