Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West

Uncle John and the girls have set up themselves in Hollywood, still near enough to Louise and her family. Before long, Louise, Arthur and Baby arrive to join them, it being the time of year when the crops on the trees will not be ripe for months. Arthur discovers he knows a family met in the dining room, a lady and two of her nieces. As it turns out, they are involved in the film industry which is still in its early days. The book holds a great deal of facts about the film industry. To me this really pushed the story concept because a great deal of the facts were presented almost as if a booklet about how things work. Anyway, on one of their friend’s day off from filming, the majority of the group goes to the beach. While there, one of the girls, Maud, notices a man in difficulties further out from shore than is safe. Being a competent swimmer, she swiftly goes to his aid. Pastry, quick thinking spots a row boat and soon she and Arthur are headed out to help, knowing that both would be too tired to make it back easily, if at all. From this point, curious things happen and strange steps are taken by this young man who seems a great mystery. He seems very ill, and yet doesn’t eat. Hotel staff and Filmmakers alike treat him with great deference, humbling themselves to do whatever they may ask. There seems to be a man loitering about who is also greatly interested in the young man. Even rudely eavesdropping on the conversation of their party when the young man joins their group. Who is the young man? Where does he come from? Is he telling the truth? The reader was good.