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I guess there ain't many changes in the old town. You see any of my folks lately?" And then Highsmith played his trump. The part of "Sol Haytosser" called for pathos as well as comedy. Miss Carrington should see that he could do that as well. "Miss Posie," said "Bill Summers," "I was up to your folkeses house jist two or three days ago. No, there ain't many changes to speak of.
Promptly there came to Herr Timothy a capable twentieth-century young character actor by the name of Highsmith, who besought engagement as "Sol Haytosser," the comic and chief male character part in "Paresis by Gaslight." "My boy," said Goldstein, "take the part if you can get it. Miss Carrington won't listen to any of my suggestions.
When her flounces and streamers were all safely tucked inside she dazzled them with au revoirs from her shining eyes and teeth. "Come around to the hotel and see me, Bill, before you leave the city," she called as the glittering cab rolled away. Highsmith, still in his make-up, went with Herr Goldstein to a café booth. "Bright idea, eh?" asked the smiling actor.
At 11.45 A. M. on the next day Highsmith, handsome, dressed in the latest mode, confident, with a fuchsia in his button-hole, sent up his card to Miss Carrington in her select apartment hotel. He was shown up and received by the actress's French maid. "I am sorree," said Mlle. Hortense, "but I am to say this to all. It is with great regret.
The actor estimated that it had suffered as few actual changes since the departure of its solitary follower of Thespis as had a stage upon which "four years is supposed to have elapsed." He absorbed Cranberry Corners and returned to the city of chameleon changes. It was in the rathskeller that Highsmith made the hit of his histrionic career.
Highsmith took the train the next day for Cranberry Corners. He remained in that forsaken and inanimate village three days. He found the Boggs family and corkscrewed their history unto the third and fourth generation. He amassed the facts and the local color of Cranberry Corners. The village had not grown as rapidly as had Miss Carrington.
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