CHAPTER XIII.
"STAR OF THE WEST" All the way home Azalea wondered how she would be received.
Both Patty and Bill were somewhat suspicious of her and would naturally question her as to where she had been all day.

She was tempted to tell them the whole truth and throw herself on their mercy, and but for one thing she would have done so.

This was the fact that she had previously taken the baby, Fleurette, over to the studios and had used the child in the pictures.
This she felt quite sure the Farnsworths would not forgive.
Azalea would not have done it, if it had occurred to her at first how the parents would resent such use of their child.

But Mr.Bixby had needed a very young baby in a certain picture and Azalea, anxious to please, had offered to bring Fleurette over.

She was herself so devoted to the little one and so careful of her, she felt no fear of any harm coming to her.