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With evident pride in her appearance, Vance introduced the two men to his wife, and then sent her and Mannie from the room the latter with orders to dismiss the visitors in the front parlor and to admit no others. At the door Mrs. Vance turned to Vera and nodded mysteriously. "If that party calls," she said with significance, "I'll put him in the front parlor."
She glanced at him. "Jew," she sneered. "All right; only wait! I've come to the end of my rope. I've got just money enough left to get back to Paris " "You lie, Mannie!" He paid no attention to this compliment, but lighted a cigar and dropped the match on the floor, grinding it under his heel. "You have ten thousand francs today! You lie if you say you have not."
"You mustn't tell me where you can do it," he said. Mannie gave a terrified gasp and, for an instant, clapped his hands over his lips. "That's right," he cried. "Gee, that's right! I'm such a crank on all kinds of sport that I clean forgot!" He gazed at the much-dreaded District Attorney with the awe of the new-born hero-worshipper. "I guess you are, too, hey?" he protested admiringly.
Her eyes were filled with concern. "You, Mannie!" she demanded anxiously. "What had you done?" "Done!" exclaimed Mannie indignantly, "nothing! What'd you think I'd done? Did you think I was a crook?" Vera bowed her shoulders and shivered as though the boy had cursed at her. She shook her head vehemently and again swung back to the piano.
Mannie Day and Vance closed in upon the visitors, and motioning them before them, drove them from the room. Part III The departure of the District Attorney and Miss Coates left Vera free to consider how serious, if she carried out her threat, the consequences might be. But of this chance she did not avail herself. Instead, with nervous zeal she began to prepare for her masquerade.
You got Lotta Faust's blue skirt back to Levey's. But not in the white goods!" He shook his head sadly, firmly. "You look, now, like you was made up for a May-day picnic in the Bronx, and they'd picked on you to be Queen of the May." Mabel carried the much-admired opera cloak to Vera, and held it out, tempting her. "You'll wear it, just to please me and Mannie, won't you, dearie?" she begged.
I was just shaping to hit it right that time when you butted in, you " The minstrels melted away. The bearded man patted the fermenting monarch paternally on the shoulder. "Ma mannie," he said, "ye may no' be a gowfer yet, but hoots! ye're learning the language fine!" King Merolchazzar's fury died away.
Vance had draped a Neapolitan scarf; an upright piano, upon which Emmanuel Day, or, as he was known to the cross-roads of Broadway and Forty-second street, "Mannie" Day, provoked the most marvelous rag-time, an enlarged photograph in crayon, of Professor Vance, in a frock coat and lawn tie, a china bull dog, coquettishly decorated with a blue bow, and, on the mantel piece, two tall beer steins and a hand telephone.
I'm runnin' this arm." McRae slammed a heavy fist down into the palm of his hand. "I'll be showin' you aboot that, mannie." "Hell, what's the use o' jawin'? I'm goin' to wait, I tell you." "Don't curse in my camp, Mr. Morse, or whatever your name is." The Scotchman's blue eyes flashed. "It's a thing I do not permeet. Nor do I let beardless lads tell me what they will or won't do here.
Already, to the same place, a wagon had carried the cabinet, a parlor organ, and a dozen of those camp chairs that are associated with house weddings and funerals; and while, in the library, Vance and Mannie arranged these to their liking, on the third floor Vera, with Mrs. Vance, waited for that moment to arrive when Vance considered her entrance would be the most effective.
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