Copyright, 1914, by GROSSET & DUNLAP

PRESS OF THE COMMERCIAL BOOKBINDING CO. CLEVELAND

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
PAGE
[I An Unceremonious Departure] 1
[II Russ Dalwood Apologizes]11
[III The Old Trouble]20
[IV Despondency]33
[V Replaced]43
[VI A New Proposition]51
[VII Alice Changes Her Mind]60
[VIII "Pay Your Rent, or——"]70
[IX Mr. DeVere Decides]78
[X The Man in the Kitchen]87
[XI Russ is Worried]96
[XII The Photo Drama]106
[XIII Mr. DeVere's Success]113
[XIV An Emergency]124
[XV Jealousies]132
[XVI The Moving Picture Girls]140
[XVII A Promise]151
[XVIII A Hit]159
[XIX A Bit of Outdoors]170
[XX Farmer Sandy Apgar] 181
[XXI Overheard]189
[XXII The Warning]197
[XXIII The Missing Model]205
[XXIV The Pursuit]214
[XXV The Capture]221

CHAPTER I

AN UNCEREMONIOUS DEPARTURE

"Oh, isn't it just splendid, Ruth? Don't you feel like singing and dancing? Come on, let's have a two-step! I'll whistle!"

"Alice! How can you be so—so boisterous?" expostulated the taller of two girls, who stood in the middle of their small and rather shabby parlor.