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Of course, her mother would expect her to go to church the following day; but after Sunday School she would undoubtedly be free. But again her hopes were frustrated. Ruth sought her immediately after class and walked home with her. "Let's go for a walk, Marj," she said. "Harold's coming over for me at your house, and I thought maybe Jack would go, too."
I ain't arguing it with you." "You take it back, I said." He laughed and flecked his fingers for a waiter, flinging out his legs at full length alongside the table. "You're a clever little girl, Marj, and I've got to hand it to you. Another stein there, waiter, and one for the girl; she needs it." "I'll spill it right out if it comes." "Lord! what you so sheety-looking for?
I come from a counterfeit crowd, and who's going to take the trouble to find my number and see if it's real?" "Aw, now " "Didn't a broken-down old granny over in the Thirty-fourth Street house where I roomed give me notice last week, because Addie Lynch found me out one night and came to see me, lit up like a Christmas tree?" "That's why I say, Marj, stick to the old ones who know you."
But you don't hear me throwing it up to you, do you? 'Ain't I got Checkers on you?" "You " "But I ain't blaming you. Come, Marj, let's swap our real names." "What?" "Sure, I ain't blaming you. Only be on the level, girl be on the level. If it's big fry you're after, and we don't measure up down here, say so." "You I think you're crazy, Blink." "I know life, kiddo.
But he did not find her easy to talk to. "Jack, what's Marj going to do on Friday?" Ruth asked as she poured the cocoa from the chafing dish on the tea-table. Marjorie looked up, amused. She was sincerely thankful that Jack knew as little as Ruth about her coming adventure. "You can search me!" replied the boy. "I did hear dad mention an auto ride." "Your father?" repeated Ruth. "Is that all?
"The other direction out the Main street." In a second, he was inside the car, and Harold stepped on the starter and released the emergency. "How long ago?" he asked, as the machine began to move forward. "Just long enough for me to get my things on and run over here. About five minutes, I should say." "Just Marj and your father?" asked Ruth. "Yes." "Is he a fast driver?" inquired Harold.
"A letter from the hotel says that there are three bedrooms and a bath together on one side of the hall, and two one is a single room for me on the other. Now who is rooming with whom?" "Marj and I are together!" cried Lily, proudly. "Frances and I," announced Ethel Todd. "Doris and I," said Ruth. "So Edith and Helen must be," laughed Miss Phillips. "Well, that works out very well.
"A line of talk like that will send me home quicker than anything, if you want to know it." She turned her face away and toward the dark aisle of the side street. "I didn't mean it, Marj." "I hate whining." "Don't go, girl. Don't. Don't give me the horrors and leave me alone to-night, Marj." She moved slowly into the gloom of the cross-town street. Solemn rows of blank-faced houses flanked it.
She turned around quickly, for someone was entering the office. It was Ruth Henry! "You look as if you'd struck a gold mine, Marj!" said the other girl. "Whatever has happened?" "Just a dance invitation. But a very nice one!" "I seem to have a letter, too!" exclaimed Ruth, always anxious for mail. "I wonder who from!" "Why, it's the same shape as mine!" cried Marjorie, in astonishment.
Evidently Marjorie had no conception of the great number of theaters in New York, or of the difficulty, for a novice, in obtaining a part in a show. And the idea of Frieda Hammer rude, awkward, and uncouth on the stage, was absolutely grotesque. "I hardly think she'd be able to get the job, Marj," she replied, succeeding in hiding her amusement.
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