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“Obsolete before she is even launched?”

“Dooles with a real dreadnought, it better be in calm waters Hell!” he snorted “We should anchor her in San Francisco Bay to greet the Japanese”

A petite girl wearing a very expensive hat secured to her red hair with Taft-for-President “Possum Billy” hatpins stepped up “Excuse me, Captain Falconer I’m sure you don’t remember me, but I had a wonderful time at a picnic on your yacht”

Falconer seized the hand that she had offered tentatively “I rerinned “Had the sun not shone on our clambak

e, your s lady is Miss Katherine Dee Katherine, say hello to an”

Katherine Dee’s big blue eyes got bigger “Are you the -picture director?” she asked breathlessly

“Yes, I am”

“I love Hot Tiht! I’ve seen it four times already”

“Well, thank you very much”

“Do you ever act in your movies?”

Marion laughed “Good Lord, no!”

“Why not?” Captain Falconer interrupted “You’re a good-looking woman”

“Thank you, Captain,” Marion said, casting a quick sood looks don’t necessary show up on film The camera has its own standards It prefers certain kinds of features” Like Katherine Dee’s, she thought to herself For soht tended to favor Katherine’s type, with her petite figure, large head, and big eyes

Almost as if she could read hermade”

Marion Morgan took a closer look at the girl She seeely so In fact, behind Katherine’s breathless, little-girl htly peculiar But didn’t the camera also often transform peculiarities into characteristics that charmed the irl indeed had qualities the caue But there was so about her that made Marion uncomfortable