useter call me 'Dusty Gudgeon.' Course, my right name's Augusta; but
nobody ever remembers down here on the Cape to call anybody by such a
long name. Useter be a boy in our school who was named 'Christopher
Columbus George Washington Marquis de Lafayette Gallup.' 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