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Page 27
She studied the tips of her boots, stretching boyish limbs
straight in front of her, then smoothing the soft folds of her
skirt.
"Talk money to me, Mr. Man!" she exclaimed. "Talk the shekels,
the golden shekels."
"We're broke," he protested. "A thousand--"
She shook her head.
Werner broke in, suddenly anxious. "Don't pass up the chance,
Enid," he pleaded. "What can Pentangle do for you? And I've
always wanted to direct you again--"
"I'll make it twelve hundred," Manton interrupted, "if you'll
make the contract personally with me. Then if Manton Pictures--"
"All right!" She jumped to her feet, extending a hand straight
forward to each, the right to Manton, the left to Werner. "You're
on!"
I thought that I was forgotten. A wave of jealousy swept over me.
After all, she simply wanted me to write her up. In a daze I
heard Manton.
"You're a wise little girl, Enid," he told her. "Play the game
right with me and you'll climb high. The sky's the limit, now.
I'll make you--make you big!"
With a full, warm smile she swung around to me and I knew I was
not being slighted, after all.
"That's what Longfellow said, isn't it, Mr. Jameson?"
"What?" My heart began to beat like a trip hammer.
"Excelsior! Excelsior! It packs them in!"
She laughed so infectiously that we all joined in. Then Manton
turned to Kennedy.
"I've located Millard for you. He's to meet us at my apartment at
seven. It's six-thirty now. And you, Enid"--facing her--"if
you'll come, too, there's another man I want you to meet, and
Larry, of course, will be there--"
Enid studied Kennedy. He was hesitating as though not sure
whether to accompany Manton or not. I never did learn what other
course of action had occurred to him.
But I did notice that the little star, with her pert, upturned
face, seemed more anxious to have Kennedy go along than she was
to meet the mysterious individual mentioned without name by
Manton. For an instant she was on the point of addressing him,
flippantly, no doubt. Then, I think she was rather awed at
Craig's reputation.
All at once she shrugged her shoulders and turned to me, plucking
my sleeve, her expression brightening irresistibly. "You'll come,
too"--dimpling--"Jamie!"
VIII
LAWRENCE MILLARD
It struck me on the trip to Manton's apartment that the film
people were wholly unfeeling, were even uninterested in the death
of Stella Lamar except where it interfered with their business
arrangements. Werner excused himself and did not accompany us, on
the score of the complete realignment of production necessary to
place Enid in Stella's part. It seemed to me that he felt a
certain relish in the problem, that he was almost glad of the
circumstances which brought Enid to him. His last words to Manton
were, to be sure to have Millard recast the action of the scenes
wherever possible, so as to give Enid the better chance to
display her own personality.
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