It would
be splendid if Roger Crain would come back and redeem himself."
Half an hour later Bonnie Dundee, in the file room of _The New York
Evening Star_, was in possession of the bound volume of that newspaper
for the month of May, 1922. On the front page of the issue of May 3,
under the caption which Serena Hart had quoted so accurately, was a
picture of a young, laughing Nita Leigh, her curls bobbed short, a rose
between her gleaming teeth. And in the issue of May 4 appeared two
pictures side by side--exotic, straight-haired, slant-eyed Anita Lee,
who had found life so insupportable that she had ended it, and the same
photograph of living, vital Nita Leigh.
When he returned the files he asked the girl in charge:
"Does this copyright line beneath this picture--" and he pointed to the
photograph of Nita which had appeared erroneously, "--mean that the
picture was syndicated?"
The girl bent her head to see. "'Copyright by Metropolitan Picture
Service'," she read aloud. "Yes, that's what it means. When _The Evening
Star_ was owned by Mr. Magnus, he formed a separate company called the
Metropolitan Picture Service, which supplied papers all over the country
with a daily picture service, in mat form. But the picture syndicate was
discontinued about five years ago when the paper was sold to its present
owners.
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