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SERIAL STORY PLAY BY PLAY BY PAUL DAVID PRESTON COPYHIOHT. I4i, wa HVic. ma. MOVIE MOGULS CHAPTER XXIII nMIB two distinguished arrlvala rnmo elrnlght to Pop' office. And Summon, tha newspaperman trust him ' to mini nothing! promptly aiiumrd the prlvllcgn of Introducing them. "Qentlemonl" h orated proud ly,' "thla la Aba Loumann and T. 1 J. Natwlck from Hollywood. Coma ahaka handal" But Loumnnn and Natwlck thimelvfs mnda tha rounda, beaming and talking. Their bruaqua cordiality hero itamped tham for what they wero men of . powor. Natwlck, tha talent acout, and Loumnnn, the director, 'ho had helped maka World Fea ture!, Inc., a greut nama In Holly wood and throughout tha amuse ment world. If thcie two men looked twice at any peraon, It waa aald, that poraon became a movie alar before next dawn, Blythe Miller had unconsciously backed behind a ateel filing cabi net near the door. There, ilio waa quite blocked out of the maacu line ring; a panicky child, crouch ing unteen. She waa about to flee on a dcaperate miulon of hot own, but Loumann'a voice ar retted her. "Looking for a girl named Nancy llnlc," he waa aaylng now, to Pop. "World Feature! wante her, quick! The picture maga tlne people ahowed ui her atllla. T. J. and I enw her on the acreen la.it night In St Louli, too. Sho'a perfectl" " Blythe went wide-eyed. They wanted Nancyl Natwlck apoke up brlikly. "We aaw her In the newsreela of tho A. and M. game, Coach. I already told Aba here about her and her baby. I waa down for that game myielf, but I wanted Abe to ire her, loo." "Don't need any teat ihote. Newireel'a enough," Loumann ro aumed. "Where la alio? Under wood iha worked here. Get her quick, T. J. She work for you, Miller? We'll buy your contract. What you pay her? Don't matter, we'll buy It, aend you a better offlce glrl.M tyoU'HE Lmun man, Aoe, . T. J. announced. . "Look, T. J,, how'a thla 8weet heart of the Flying FlelcUl The jOIrl Who Keepa 'Em Flying no, too long ay, the Sky-HIgh OlrL America'! Sky-HJgh GlrL Mis iNancy Halel" "Okay, okay, but ana's Mr. Male, Abe." "Make It MJis. Telephone Baker jta New York. TeU him to put publicity department onto It, quick The Avlatora' Sweetheart IPerfecU Phone Baker quick land" ' ; "Listen, Abe, the glrt'a widow with a youngster, but you want her to be a Mlssl Now lliten, you have to" "Your worry," Loumann barked. Yours and Baker's. Make her famoua, quick. Make her beauti ful. Make her the Spirit of A via tlon. Make her the cadeta dream. Order half a million' color atllla. 'Send one to every aviator In the Air Corps, free. Take 20 posea and have 'em In my hotel room tonight. Take her" "What about the baby?"' Nat wick out In. "Put the baby under contract, too, quick. Start him at $200. filnrl Nanev at J500. Pod Miller got In . word. Hevl" "Where la ahe?" Loumann de manded. "Where la ahe now7' "Fl Ave hundred dollara?" Pop croaked. Blythe, overhearing all of It, won wldo-eved with Interest anow. "Ohl . . . Ohl" She breathed that Irrationally. "Make it 700. then," Loumann tossed at Pop. "And $500 for the baby, plua a thousand flat bonus for vour contract. Miller. T. J., write It nn even $1200 a week in her contract She'll be the hnhv'i nunrdlan anyway, and after we feature her In the first flvlnff n cturo. we can make it . "Hoyl" Pop waa still Inco herent, and by now Elmer Sum mers was dancing a little Jig. None of the other men listening wArA nulls normal, either. . "Where la sho at?" T. J. Nat' talrk demanded. Pon got his tongue. ' "She ahe ain't here now, gentleTnenl stopped out a minute ago. UtllP " ' That's nil: Blythe heard. She iknew where Nnncy was. Nancy ilmrl ullnned out a sldo door minutes ago when aho, Blythe, whs stalling and waiting Iran. tlrnllv for a call from Duane, : "I'll rim out to your house now 'and get Scooter," Nancy had mur .miired to her In loavlng. "Your mother Is a darling wanted him nil afternoon. She's knitting him a snow cap. But I want him for supper with the big boys, they're the only kind of daddies he can have. I know they like Scooter, too. Norman .brought him toy motorbont for tho bathtub, and Duane Is teaching him Indian sign rfnllc Imnnlnel But I sot to hurryl Stick around a whllo 'and help Pop, Bly." Then pretty Nancy twa Just But JpULL Importance of tho movie men's talk hadn't qulto sunk Into Blythe. film wns too confused by everything. She only aaw that tho clock said 4:28. And tho gam blers wcro duo to reach- Nancy's apartment exactly at 5! They could eiislly slip upstulra now without being noticed. Perhaps or nol , , . No, Nnncy hadn't had time to get buck up there to re ceive them. Not yell "Oh-h-h-h, If Diinno would only cornel" Blytho almost moaned that, squeezing her hands, The movie men, Pop, Summers and Die others wero still talking ex citedly. She heard them only as vague sounds. "I can't wolt any Iongorl I've got to do somcthliigl Nowl". Desperuto reasoning told her that ahe would huve to do It alone, and that she would havo to bo prepared for anything. "I ll need I'll Just havo to hove gun. If Ihat ono Pop nol No, he has It under his coatl All tilts week. But those gamblers will do anything. And 1 must catch them and show them up! I . . that closet it's a clothes closed It thny are to hide In there I" It was a crazy sort of plan shaping In her fevered mind, but It began to show faint possibilities. All she lacked was tho gun. Unnoticed by tho rather hys terical guthorlng, she slipped around to Pop'a desk. Quietly, sho opened his mlddlo drawer. She felt Inside. When her hand came out It held the short, stubby timer's pistol used In football games. It was a real .38 caliber, but of course it was loaded only with blanks. It felt strangely comforting to Blythe now. It "waa real enough, In appearance at least, to bluff any man Attracting as little attention as possible, she slipped bock around the men, out the same door Nancy had chosen, and ducked under the ihrubbory now touched with au tumn snow. In a moment she wns tiptoeing up the gloomy stairs to Nancy's apartment (To He Continued) FIHBT MISSISSIPPI COLONY Fort du Mnurepas, on Blloxl liny, first colony on Mississippi soli, wns established by Pierre In Moyne, Slour d'lhervillo, In lillill, and is now the altn of Ocean Springs, Miss. NO FEAT NOW Blorlot, unions flyer, amazed spectator nt the world's first nvliillnn exposition In Franco, Just 33 yenra ago, by circling a racing courso In his plane nt a speed of 47 miles an hour. 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