After that, I rather lost sight of Nita,
and practically forgot her, our paths being so very divergent."
"And you never saw her again?" Dundee asked, very much disappointed.
"Oh, yes, two or three times--at openings, or on the street, but we
never held any significant conversation," Serena Hart answered, reaching
for her plain, rather dowdy little hat. "Wait! I was about to forget! I
had quite a shock in connection with Nita. One afternoon--let's see,
that was when I opened in 'Hullabaloo,' in which I made my first real
success, you know--I bought _The New York Evening Star_, which devotes
considerable space to theatrical doings, to see what sort of review the
show had got, and on the first page I saw a picture of Nita, beneath a
headline which said, 'Famous Model Commits Suicide'----"
"What!" Dundee exclaimed, astounded.
"Oh, it wasn't Nita Leigh," Serena Hart reassured him. "There was a
correction the next day. You see, an artists' model named Anita
Lee--spelled L-e-e, instead of Le-i-g-h--had committed suicide, and, as
the _Star_ explained it the next day, the similarity of both the first
name and the last had caused the error in getting a photograph from the
'morgue' to accompany the story. There was a picture of Nita Leigh, with
Nita's statement that 'the report of my death has been exaggerated,' and
a picture of the real Anita Lee.
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