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Another assignment was quickly put on his sched-
ule. Hollywood could not have enough movies by

® ].B. Its schedule called for a week’s location in a

mountain. An all-male crew and all-male cast would
do the work. The woman star would be doubled
because the rigors of the spot were too rough The

B men would have to camp out.

- ].B. welcomed the week away. It would give him a
chance to think. He could not have both—Franco
and his family. Somewhere there had to be a
decision. ;

He was refreshed when he came home, feeling so
much better that he failed to notice the preoccupled
§ look on his wife’s face.

After he had bathed and settled into his favorite

§ arm chair with a drink, she asked him, “Dear, who

§ is Franco B.?”

B ].B. literally jumped from his eat. “Franco, what
§ about him?”’

] “Nothing, dear, except the Immigration people
were here—something about trouble he’d been in.

They’re holding him at the County Jail. They say

B you know him.” ‘

]J.B.’s face whitened. He had intended to relax, then

[l slip out and telephone Franco, see him briefly and
8 make a date for tomorrow evening.