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Frank met them at the door of the apartment. He
looked fatter than when Margo had last seen him and had patches of silvery hair on either side of his forehead that gave him a distinguished look like a minister or an ambas-sador. "Little Margo. . . . Welcome home, my child.
. . . What a beautiful young woman you have become." When he took her in his arms and kissed her on the brow,
-253-she smelt again the smel of bayrum and energine she'd remembered on him. "Did Agnes tel you that I'm going on the road With Mrs. Fiske? . . . Dear Minnie Mad-dern and I were children together." The apartment was a little dark, but it had a parlor, a diningroom and two bedrooms and a beautiful big bath-room and kitchen. "First thing I'm goin' to do," said Margo, "is take a hot bath. . . . I don't believe I've had a hot bath since I left New York."
While Agnes, who had taken the afternoon off from the tearoom, went out to do some marketing for supper,
Margo went into her neat little bedroom with chintz cur-tains on the wal s and took off her chil y rumpled summer dress and got into Agnes's padded dressinggown. Then she sat back in the morrischair in the parlor and strung Frank along when he asked her questions about her life in Havana.
Little by little he sidled over to the arm of her chair, tel ing her how attractivelooking she'd become. Then sud-denly he made a grab for her. She'd been expecting it and gave him a ringing slap on the face as she got to her feet. She felt herself getting hysterical as he came towards her across the room panting.
"Get away from me, you old buzzard," she yel ed, "get away from me or I'l tel Agnes al about you and Agnes and me we'l throw you out on your ear." She wanted to shut up but she couldn't stop yel ing. "Get away from me. I caught a disease down there, if you don't keep away from me you'l catch it too."
Frank was so shocked he started to tremble al over. He'let himself drop into the morrischair and ran his long fingers through his slick silver and black hair. She slammed her bedroom door on him and locked it. Sitting in there alone on the bed she began to think how she would never see Fred again, and could it have been a premonition when she'd told them on the boat that her father was sick. Tears
-254-came to her eyes. Certainly she'd had a premonition. The stearnheat hissed cozily. She lay back on the bed that was so comfortable with its clean pil ows and silky comforter, and stil crying fel asleep.
NEWSREEL LVII
the psychic removed al clothing before séances at Har-vard. Electric torches, bel s, large megaphones, baskets, al il uminated by phosphorescent paint, formed the psychic's equip-ment My brother's coming
with pineapples
Watch the circus begin
IS WILLING TO FACE PROBERS
the psychic's feet were not near the professor's feet when his trouser leg was pul ed. An electric bulb on the ceiling flashed on and off. Buzzers rang. A teleplasmic arm grasped objects on the table and pul ed Dr. B.'s hair. Dr. B. placed his nose in the doughnut and encouraged Walter to pul as hard as possible, His nose was pul ed.
Altho' we both agreed to part
It left a sadness in my heart
UNHAPPY WIFE TRIES TO DIE
SHEIK DENTIST RECONCILED
Financing Only Problem
I thought that I'd get along
and now
I find that I was wrong
somehow
Society Women Seek Jobs in Vain as Maids to Queen
-255-NUN WILL WED GOB
I'm broken hearted
QUEEN HONORS UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Police Guard Queen in Mob
Beneath a dreamy Chinese moon
Where love is like a haunting tune
PROFESSOR TORTURES RIVAL
QUEEN SLEEPS AS HER TRAIN DEPARTS
Social Strife Brews
COOLIDGE URGES ADVERTISING
I found her beneath the setting sun
When the day was done
Cop Feeds Canary on $500 Rich Bride Left
While the twilight deepened
The sky above
I told my love
In o-o-old Ma-an-ila-a-a
ABANDONED APOLLO STILL HOPES
FOR RETURN OF WEALTHY
BRIDE
MARGO DOWLING
Agnes was a darling. She managed to raise money
through the Morris Plan for Margo's operation when Dr. Dennison said it was absolutely necessary if her health wasn't to be seriously impaired, and nursed her the way she'd nursed her when she'd had measles when she was a little girl. When they told Margo she never could have