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Marrier was thus proceeding with his list of star attractions, Edward Henry was thinking: "'Her new theatre' now! It was 'his' a few minutes back!... 'The well-known Midlands capitalist, eh? Oh! He drank again. He said to himself: "I've had all I can digest of this beastly balloony stuff." And he finished the glass, and planked it down firmly on the table. "Well," he remarked aloud cheerfully.
Marrier gaily soothed him, as he went over to the telephone. And Mr. Marrier's bright, boyish face radiated forth the assurance that nothing in all his existence had more completely filled him with sincere joy than this enterprise of procuring a photograph of the party.
The forty minutes of waiting were forgotten, expunged from the records of time just as the memory of a month of rain is obliterated by one splendid sunny day. Edward Henry enjoyed the tea, which was bad, to an extraordinary degree. He became uplifted in the presence of Miss Elsie April; whereas Mr. Marrier, strangely, drooped to still deeper depths of unaccustomed inert melancholy.
"We baoth agree with you," said Marrier. "The fact is, we've done all we could, but it's no use. She's splendid, only " He paused. "Only you can't make out ten per cent of what she says," Edward Henry finished for him. "Well, I've got no use for that in my theatre." He found a singular pleasure in emphasizing the phrase, "my theatre." "That's all very well," said Marrier.
Marrier had been extremely taken up with the dramatic soirée of the Azure Society which Edward Henry justifiably but quite privately resented. Was he not paying three pounds a week to Marrier?
"Eho yes!" exclaimed Mr. Marrier. "I began life as a lawyah's clerk, but " "So did I," Edward Henry interjected. "How interesting!" Rose Euclid murmured with fervency, after puffing forth a long shaft of smoke. "However, I threw it up," Marrier went on. "I didn't," said Edward Henry. "I got thrown out!"
"She may have been and gone away again," said Edward Henry, apprehensive. "Oh, no! She wouldn't go away." Mr. Marrier was positive. In the tone of a man with an income of two hundred pounds a week he ordered a table to be prepared for three. At ten minutes to five he said: "I hope she hasn't been and gone away again!" Edward Henry began to be gloomy and resentful.
But in the recesses of his soul he was not sure that she had not defeated him in this their first encounter. However, Seven Sachs might talk as he chose she was not such a persuasive creature as all that! She had scarcely even tried to be persuasive. At about a quarter-past six when he saw his underling again he said to Mr. Marrier: "Marrier, I've got a great idea.
"I threw it up," said Marrier, "because the stage had an irresistible attraction for me. I'd been stage-manajah for an amateur company, you knaoo. I found a shop as stage-manajah of a company touring 'Uncle Tom's Cabin. I stuck to that for six years, and then I threw that up too. Then I've managed one of Miss Euclid's provincial tours.
Alderman, you jump to conclusions with the agility of an acrobat, but they are false conclusions! Miss Taft, the telephone! Chung, my coat! Good-bye, Trent, good-bye!" An hour later Edward Henry met Mr. Marrier at the Grand Babylon Hotel. "Well, sir," said Mr. Marrier, "you are the greatest man that ever lived!" "Why?" Mr.
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