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calendar from the desk and glanced at all the appointments and interviews that Angie would miss over the next week-or even longer.

Jean was watching Robert Cort thoughtfully. "Publicity isn't needed for any of Angie's films, is it?" she asked.

Cort scowled fiercely. "There is some publicity which could wreck all our careers," he said in a very low tone. "But I don't know." He ran his hand through his short hair, and Jean suddenly realized how worried he was, too. "She could have gone off with a man, you know. She may have had an accident, and be in a hospital somewhere, a time-bomb, just waiting to go off in Pacific's corporate face." His expression darkened even more. "She could be off on a jag, or in the kind of hospital that does a special kind of surgery. We have to find her," he went on a touch of desperation joining the bitterness, "not for publicity's sake, but for our own."

Jean had begun to cry. "I don't know how she could do this to me," she sobbed.

Cort turned back moodily towards the dark window that looked out over the Pacific Studios complex. His eye was caught by the picture that the Publicity Department had put up on his wall. It was nearly a life-size picture of her, in a tight, black, evening dress. Tiny, silver straps over her shoulders held up the open front of the gown. A slit up the side showed off her beautiful legs and her open-toed high heels. She was smiling gaily at the photographer, her lips parted in fun, her eyes alight with mischief. The photograph showed well why Angie was the darling of the media. She was so attractively feminine and vivacious. She was everything a woman should be, thought Cort, angrily, of his wife. It was such a pity that Angie Saunders was really

a man.

Arthur Mayer, recently appointed director of Pacific Studios, the "discoverer" of Angie Saunders, and long-time talent scout for the studios, had found just the man whom Robert Cort wanted. Glen Lincoln was only recently an exile from regular police and detective work. Eager for new and exciting cases, he had, however, been long enough on his own to understand the realities of the term, "private investigator."

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