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Alice Winters was twenty-two. When she was seventeen her mother had died, and ever since then she had worked and struggled in order that her younger sister, Janice, might have all the things that her mother had planned. Janice was to go on the stage, she was to become the idol of London, and all Alice’s humdrum activities were directed towards that end.So when Janice left London on her first stock company engagement Alice was faced for the first time with her own problem. The first disturbing event was another job, with explorer-scientist Jack Ashburn. Alice fell in love with Jack, but that happiness was quickly dispelled when Janice and her dynamic young producer, Derek Warman, returned to London.