Transcriber’s Note Table of Contents added by Transcriber and placed in the Public Domain. THE GIRL FROM HOLLYWOOD [Illustration: The director’s eyes snapped.... “Only a camera man and myself are here,” he said] THE GIRL FROM HOLLYWOOD BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AUTHOR OF “TARZON OF THE APES,” “THE RETURN OF TARZON,” ETC. FRONTISPIECE BY P. J. MONAHAN NEW YORK THE MACAULAY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I 1 II 9 III 16 IV 21 V 32 VI 46 VII 54 VIII 58 IX 63 X 70 XI 79 XII 88 XIII 96 XIV 103 XV 115 XVI 129 XVII 145 XVIII 151 XIX 164 XX 168 XXI 180 XXII 189 XXIII 195 XXIV 204 XXV 211 XXVI 218 XXVII 226 XXVIII 236 XXIX 244 XXX 249 XXXI 254 XXXII 264 XXXIII 275 XXXIV 283 XXXV 293 XXXVI 304 XXXVII 308 THE GIRL FROM HOLLYWOOD CHAPTER I The two horses picked their way carefully downward over the loose shale of the steep hillside. The big bay stallion in the lead sidled mincingly, tossing his head nervously, and flecking the flannel shirt of his rider with foam. Behind the man on the stallion a girl rode a clean-limbed bay of lighter color, whose method of descent, while less showy, was safer, for he came more slowly, and in the very bad places he braced his four feet forward and slid down, sometimes almost sitting upon the ground. At the base of the hill there was a narrow level strip; then an eight-foot wash, with steep banks, barred the way to the opposite side of the cañon, which rose gently to the hills beyond. At the foot of the descent the man reined in and waited until the girl was safely down; then he wheeled his mount and trotted toward the wash. Twenty feet from it he gave the animal its head and a word. The horse broke into a gallop, took off at the edge of the wash, and cleared it so effortlessly as almost to give the impression of flying.