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You wouldn't call a man a quitter if he stayed out of a hurdle race because he'd broken a leg, would you?" "Well," said Anna, "I'm willing to live in such a cheap apartment that the landlord calls it a flat. And you can't get any servants these days; there aren't any. And who cares about entertaining? And for outside pleasures, why couldn't we go to the Orpheum?"
He had intended to go straight home to Anna, but automatically his steps led him to the Orpheum, where he went into his tiny office and sat down at his desk. There were two envelopes on his blotter; he slit them, diffidently, and found a bill from the novelty house which had supplied the souvenirs, and a supplementary statement from the decorator.
She and George had a good dinner, and later went to the Orpheum, and were happier than they had been for a long time. The next Sunday they went to Oakland to see Emeline's sister, and possibly to begin househunting. It was a cold, dark day, with a raw wind blowing. Oakland looked bleak and dreary, the wind was blowing chaff and papers against fences and steps.
Mix, strolling nonchalantly downtown, was also talking to himself, and his conclusions would have astonished her. "What I've got to do," said Mr. Mix, thoughtfully, "is to string the old dame along until I can raise five thousand bucks. But where's it coming from?" Then, squarely in front of the Orpheum Theatre, he met Henry Devereux. "Good-morning, Henry," said Mr. Mix, soberly.
Mix started, and gripped the receiver more tightly. "Nothing!... Why, I don't quite get you on that.... It's an open and shut proposition No, I most certainly am not trying to make a pun; I'm calling you up in my official capacity. That's the most flagrant, barefaced attempt to evade a law Why, an idiot could see it! It's to drive the crowd into the Orpheum during the week, so that "
Whilst he was suspected of being intimately connected with several shady transactions, he could boast truly that there was not a scrap of evidence to associate him with any breach of the law. He was less inclined to boast that evening, when he turned into the stage-box at the Orpheum, and pulling his chair into the shadow of the draperies, sat back and considered his position.
But the night before her return to San Rafael, Mr. Oliver, in his nicest mood, took Susan to the Orpheum, and they had fried oysters and coffee in a little Fillmore Street restaurant afterward, Billy admitting with graceful frankness that funds were rather low, and Susan really eager for the old experience and the old sensations.
The contractor was apologetic, but wages were going up materials were high labour was scarce transportation was uncertain shipments were slow Henry was angry and disillusioned, but he knew that belligerence would gain him nothing. "In other words," he said, genially, "there's something the matter with everything but the Orpheum, and everybody but me. I congratulate myself.
He was in the act of tossing away the paper when his attention was snatched back by a half-page advertisement; in which the name of the Orpheum Theatre stood out like a red flag. Mr. Mix glanced at it, superciliously, but a moment later, his whole soul was strung on it.
A PURELY VOLUNTARY COLLECTION will be taken up and divided between The Associated Charities The Starving Children of Belgium and The Chinese Famine Fund This Sunday THE SWORDMAKER'S SON an absorbing drama of Biblical days Next Sunday BEN-HUR, in seven reels THE ORPHEUM Motion Pictures Mr.
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