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Linda Lee, Incorporated: A Novel
Linda Lee, Incorporated: A Novel
AUTHOR'S NOTE
There are no portraits of living persons in the following pages.
The incidents related in illustration of present-day methods of motion-picture production are, on the other hand, with one minor exception, drawn from first-hand observation in the California studios.
Under the title of THE COAST OF COCKAIGNE, an abridged version of this story was published serially, during the Winter of 1921-22, in McCall's Magazine.
Louis Joseph Vance
Darien, 20 January, 1922.
I
"Mrs. Bellamy Druce! Rather a mouthful, that."
"Is that why you make a face over it?"
"Didn't expect me to relish it, did you, Cinda?"
"I'm afraid I wasn't thinking of you at all, Dobbin, when I took it."
"Meaning, if you had been, you might have thought twice before taking?"
"No fear: I was much too madly in love with Bel."
"Was?"
"Dobbin!"
"Sorry – didn't mean to be impertinent."
"I don't believe you. Still, I'm so fond of you, I'll forgive you – this once."