' His mother
named him that. But everybody called him 'Lafe'--after Lafayette, ye see.
"Land sakes! I should just have to change my name if I acted in the
pictures. Your complexion's real, too, ain't it?" pursued this waitress
with histrionic ambitions. "Real pretty, too, if 'tis high colored. I
expect you have to make up for the pictures, just the same."
"I suppose I should. I believe it is always necessary to accentuate the
lights and shadows for the camera."
"'Accentuate'--yep. That's a good word. I'll remember that," said
Gusty. "You goin' to stay down to The Beaches long---and will you like
it?"
"The Beaches?"
"That's where you'll work. At the Bozewell house. Swell bungalow. All
the big bugs live along The Beaches."
"I am not sure just how long I shall stay," confessed Louise Grayling;
"but I know I am going to like it."
CHAPTER II
CAP'N ABE
"I see by the _Globe_ paper," Cap'n Abe observed, pushing up from his
bewhiskered visage the silver-bowed spectacles he really did not need,
"that them fellers saved from the wreck of the _Gilbert Gaunt_ cal'late
they went through something of an adventure.
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