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"I haven't a doubt of it," replied the young man. "I think you girls had better adopt that poor child and look after her." "We have already," answered Grace. "Didn't Miriam tell you about it?" "Miriam? No; she never tells me anything. Besides, what has she to do with it?" The girls were silent. "By the way," continued Grace, "speaking of barnstorming, we want to ask your advice, David.
I'm no anarchist railing at wealth and luxury ... but you men that want everything ... and give nothing " She broke off and abruptly demanded, "Well, when you think about it, what do you call it to yourselves?" "Where is she?" demanded Paul. "She's out with a dinky, barnstorming company, playing one-night stands on a route of tank-towns and whistling stations. It was all she could get.
"Not love letters at all," Josie decided. "When he says he misses her so much, can't get along without her, he means he wants her to act with him again." The last one was from Chicago. In it he made an urgent appeal to his former partner to join him there. "A big thing if you can come in a day or so. Plenty of tin and three-night stands in big towns. No barnstorming bizness in this job."
"I owe it all to you," she whispered. "Pooh!" he answered. "You stole fire from heaven. I am but a theatrical, bombastic, barnstorming Thespian." "Would you spoil me?" she interrupted, tenderly. "You are your mother over again, my dear! If she were only here now! But where is Saint-Prosper? He has not yet congratulated you? He, our good genius, whose generosity has made all this possible!"
The daughter of a strolling third-rate actor, who goes barnstorming about the country, and she has been on the stage, too. She has a very good opinion of herself since Mrs. Gray and certain Oakdale girls took her up, but I wouldn't trust her as far as I could see her. Why should girls of good Oakdale families be forced to associate with such people?
When I first conceived the plan of sending my show down the river, on the river itself, I took a trip out here to look over the ground " "You mean the water," corrected Teddy innocently. "A little of both, my boy. I found that no show since the early days of the barnstorming outfits had ever attempted the feat. I learned a number of things that made me all the more anxious to try it.
Then she disappeared into the cottage. "Well, this was a night's adventure," observed Grace, as they started homeward. "I am afraid Anne's father is a night's adventurer," muttered David. "He looks mightily like one of those strolling actors who go barnstorming through country towns." "Poor Anne! Do you suppose he wants her to barnstorm?" asked Nora.
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