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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

APHNE was very calm about it. “I'm sorry that you do,” she said, “but I'm a little surprised. And while I dislike quotations, you might | remember that one about sauce for the goose.” “This is no time to be gay,” Jen- | nifer said, “we're going to have a | showdown.” “Don’t be vulgar, Jennifer. What | on earth do you mean by a show- | down? It's all on the table. There's | nothing you don’t know—or have | guessed—about it. Mr. Herzberg | offered me the part and I've | accepted. You've always known that | I was interested in the theater and | you've always said a girl should | take her chance when it was of-| fered to her.”

HANKS for the compliment. I was going to point out to | vou that it’s about time I had a | bit of glamour in my life. It’s not | too late I'm beginning to dis-| cover. I lived in a furnished room | and earned my keep so that ou | could stay in an expensive school. When you got out, I did everything 1 could to give you a good start. You didn’t show up too well so I'm the worm that’s turned.” “I never asked for any dig 12?” “Only a few,” Daphne said politely. “On the other hand, you gave none. Suppose you look at it this way: Granting that I've | used your tactics and 1t is poor sportsmanship—I know it is—it’s | the one way of showing you that | the girl who uses poor sportsmanship doesn’t always win. Granting | that, isn’t it fair exchange?” “I don’t know what you mean.” “I'm going to tell you what I mean. You knew that I loved | Larry. You knew that he loved me. You knew that we had quarreled | but vou should have known that | a lover's quarrel can be mended. | Yet, deliberately, when I was| away, you took him away from me.” | Jennifer started to speak but | Daphne went on: “All right, it’s air exchange; youll have Larry and I'll have the | {heater. And if this is the lesson | I mean it to be, you'll be a better wife to Larry. You'll try and see his point of view when ethics arise. Perhaps you'll remember that you lost one thing because you didn't know how to play squarely. Maybe | it'll make you the kind of a girl I | tried to make of you. That's all.” | Daphne whirled out of the room.

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ENNIFER followed her. “Daphne | . . . are you doing this just to! teach me a lesson. Because if you sre... Daphne was very cool, keeping a | firm hold on herself. She answered, | “Not at all.” | After that, for the remainder of the week, the two girls avoided each other. If Jennifer pretended to be asleep when Daphne rose in the morning, it was no different from Daphne's pretense of the same thing | at night. But Daphne had little need to pretend many of those nights. Re- | hearsing at the tense speed and | concentration that was necessary | if the play was to open on the date | Gordon Herzberg intended, proved | a soul-fatiguing task. Daphne left | the house before 10 in the morning | and often did not return until 2or3 | in the next morning.

the word,” Daphne | “Don’t I get any-|

everything.”

un ”

favors, |

HE week-end was just another series of rehearsing days for her, What she was thinking was something that even Anne, her con- | fidante, didn't know. | Jennifer spoke to her only when | it was necessary and then in mono- | syllables. But Jennifer took to giving her strange glances and more | than once she came into the room they shared and stood silently star- | ing for a moment as though there | was something she wanted to say. | Daphne had to keep her mind | from thoughts of Jennifer. A new '

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| handed methods!

| one.

quiet, a strained haunting in Jennifer’s eyes smote her and more than once she was tempted to ask

| Jennifer to talk to her.

Then, thinking of Jennifer and | Larry, she was firm again and put her pity out of her heart. Five days before the play was wo open, she found Jennifer in tears. Jennifer hadn't cried even when he was a baby. un n ” HAT is it, Jennifer?” asked gently. Jennifer wiped her tears away on her sleeve; an incredibly childish gesture. { “Nothing,” she said proudly and walked into the bath. Daphne got up and followed her. “I suppose you think this is easy for me?” “I'm sure I don’t know, but if it makes you any more satisfied, | you'll be glad to know that you'res breaking my heart.” “Have you really Daphne said. “Yes, it seems that I have. was all in the theater until . . She put her hands over her face

she

got one?”

land her shoulders shook.

“All of it couldn't have been, there's Larry,” Daphne reminded her. “There isn’t Larry . .. and there .. . there never was. He wasn't in | love with me. He's eating his heart | out over you.” | Daphne listened with her heart! standing still. { “Jennifer, tell me this minute what you mean. Stop acting like child.” The blood pounded in Daphne's ears.

n ” un { ENNIFER dried her eyes and sat | on the side of the tub. Her tone | was sulky and her eyes were fixed | on the floor as she began to talk: “You ought to have known Larry was in love with you all the time. I did.” She gulped and went on again. “After you went away and I called Tuck and he said he wouldn't come over because you | told him he couldn't, that was the | last straw. You and your high- | I was jealous.” “Jealous of me?” Daphne demanded incredulously. “Certainly. You were always the prettiest. You were the successful You were the big wage earner. | All the men were crazy about you. |

| All the men I met here who were

attractive always talked about you. | And 1 was crazy about Tuck. I liked him better than anyone else | until I got in the theater. Oh, Daphne, I wanted to be an actress! I'd have worked myself to death for | the rest of my life!” The tears | started to flow again. |

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APHENE handed her a kerchief. “You'll be back. want to hear about Larry.” “Well, I lied to him. I told him, I wanted to have him help me] make a decision about something | and he came to see me. I told him |

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| vou were completely through but I

came back I |

thought when you He used to |

could plead for him.

| hang around me to hear me talk | about you.

Then . . then I pre- | tended he was my beau to get back | at you for what you had done to Tuck. The night of the party I guess he knew that you didn’t care about | him anymore. He was wretched.” | Daphne poured cold water on a towel. “Here, put that on your | head and lie down for a few minutes. I'll give you an hour to rest and then we've got work to do.” “Aren't you . aren't you mad?” | “Just as mad as anyone could be at a 6-year-old child. Now take off | that dress. I'll call you in an hour | and we're going to start rehearsing.” | “We?” “Yes,” Daphne said as she went | into the other room. “I might need |

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| Daphne

an understudy. I don't think one we have really knows all business I do. I can teach it to Just in case.”

you.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE % 0, Jennifer!

once I've told you 50 times | remembering |

to stop are Jennifer Brett. You're The man is NOT

you Louise Goldsby.

wrong. You are taking the blame | to have every |

for it. You've got tiny gesture exactly have it.” Jennifer waited docilely. “If you do not shade the part precisely as I do, youll be out. take it again. And lower your head; don’t fling it up. on.” Daphne was unutterably wearv. She had been rehearsing all day. “Go on had said,

the way I

kids,” the show.

nome, “and forget

to finish tomorrow at 10.

respite.”

Daphne had come home to re- |

hearse Jennifer—a new Jennifer. She was a subdued, grateful Jen-

nifer only too glad to try to re- | member all the things that Larry |

had said to her about Daphne and to relate them, bringing them out like jewels for Daphne to treasure. “He was so sure that your job meant more to you than anything else. Why did you let him?” Even then Daphne couldn't tell Jennifer why she had done it. The

| money was there and she was free. | Free | wanted her.

to marry Larry if he still

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F he still her. Could

she believe what Jennifer had |

told her? She dreamed a little while the script was in her hand. “Have I got it?”. Jennifer demanded as she made her exit. “Oh . . . oh, I'm sorry, 1 wasn't looking. I was thinking.” “Daphne, look,” Jennifer squatted on the floor tailor-fashion. “You

must admit I'm doing a good job |

of reforming.” “Excellent,” Daphne granted. “Then, why won't you tell what you've got up your sleeve? I'm perishing of curiosity. You're working me like mad, and yet you have an understudy. And you insist that you're going to open Tuesday in the show. Now, does it all mean?” “I can't tell you, Jennifer. ing to play the part. Please don't to explain anything else. Trust me.” Jennifer was 19. She sighed. “Okay. How about some food?” Over their crackers and milk, said, “Jennifer, Larry to come to the opening.” “You don’t seem to learn, do you, Daph? him away. H2'll be there somewhere in the audience. I don't known why you haven't more assurance about yourself. If I had what you've got . . .” Daphne couldn't yet get used to the idea that Jennifer had been jealous of her, had was more attractive in every way.

If I've told you |

Go |

Hoadley | | about Larry, promised him a per-| said

take it through from start | Three | | days to opening and you need a |

me |

what |

1! have promised you that you're go- |

I want |

Wild horses couldn't keep |

thought she |

the | Jennifer had been sincere, Daphne |

the | knew, @ s ; y dni HETeY, Jd She wis rover vo be able | over, the final bow had been taken |

| to reason why. | “Youll have the world in the cup of your hand, if you use your | { head.” | | “But, Daphne, what good will all | | this rehearsing do if Gordon won't | let me take the understudy?” | “Oh, I forgot to tell you! He said | |he would. The day after the show | apens.” ” =

# APHNE didn't tell Jennifer |

formance equal to her own in Jen- | nifer and had gotten his promise in |

return. It hadn't been easy. | “The day after?” “But why not the day does ...” “Jennifer! Please!” “All right, sorry. By the way, how | many seats do I get for opening! | night?” | | “I'm not the star you know, honey. | You'll get two seats. On the aisle | | and not too far down front.” “That's what I call fine treat-| | ment! Why am I going to be the | | stepchild?” | “Because my dear girl, you are | going to have a job. You're going to | | have a look-see over that audience | and find Larry. If he is there, you're | | going to bring him to my dressing | room. Now who's so dumh?” { Jennifer reached a hand across | the table. “Shake, gal. You're get- | ting there. I suppose after that I'm | | to make a laughing exit or do I pull a minister out of my pocket?” | “I'm not quite sure what you do | | after that. Or even if Larry will be | | there. But I've no doubt the Brett | sisters will have no trouble taking | cues from each other.” “You won't have any trouble with | me, Daphne. I've learned my lesson | | and I'm so ashamed.” | “You ought to be ashamed to be! up this late with all we have to do. Leave the glasses in the sink; Mag- | gie'll take care of them in the morn- | | ing. Oh, I'm so tired! I'll probably | | fall asleep when I sit on the sofa in| the second act opening night.”

when it |

| ® w @® | PENING night. A Herzberg opening. Gilda | Kayne in the leading role. First | | string critics. Ermine and orchids. | Tails and tophats. A first night | | audience. Bright lights and laugh- | | ter. Diamonds and street urchins. | { The people who “came to look” at | the people “attending.” A house filling up, its shadows | | lightened by glimmering gowns. | The clean new smell mingling with | | the perfumes of a thousand odeurs. | The orchestra coming up out of the | darkness to take places in the pit. | The lights dimming, dimmed. The faint echo in front of the | | ring backstage. Curtain going up. | | One minute of absolute silence. | The butler crosses the stage, raises a curtain, straightens al

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drape. Clifton Sayre steps through the left door. The play is on! Gordon Herzberg stops beside the figure of the girl in the gray, girlish gown. “Scared?” Daphne smiled at him. bit,” she said. { He shook his head. “Too bad, | Daphne. You have everything an | actress needs. Beauty, brains, un- | derstanding and a selflessness.” A few minutes later when Paul | said, “You do her unfairly. The girl is . . .” Daphne made her en‘rance.

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and Daphne was trying to avoid the | congratulating groups gathered backstage. If Jennifer found Larry | and was bringing him backstage, she |

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right into Larry Smith's arms. It

was entirely accidental but there

they stood!

“Larry!” Her hands gripped the | lapels of his coat and then she] away. He dropped his arms. | I'm|

backed He sorry.”

laughed a little. “Oh,

“Were you?” she asked quickly be- |

fore the moment was gone and they

would be two polite strangers again.

“

No, I wasn’t really,” he said.

“Then, why don't you put your |

arms back?” He didn't. He said, you were id . . . ” He wet his lips. “What did Jennifer say?” ked softly. “It couldn't have

“I thought

been true.”

Daphne's eyes commanded him to |

go on. “Daphne, she said you still loved me.” “I do, Larry.” ” » ” ARK as it was in the wings, he could see the radiance in her face. “But now you have the theater. I can’t ask you to give it up. You are going to be a star some day.” “I did it because I wanted to have you know that even this doesn’t mean as much to me as starring in a domestic drama called ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith.’ Please ask me to give it up, darling.” “Please!” She clung to him. He disengaged her arms, in his pocket for a cigaret lighter, snapped it on and held it to his watch. Then he grabbed her by

the wrist, took her practically off |

her feet. “Get in there, young woman, and wipe that stuff off your face.

intend to marry me tonight.” “It's practically off,” she

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