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A week later, I think it was, Bat Masquerier telephoned to me to come to the Trefoil. 'It's your turn now, he said. 'I'm not asking Ollyett. Come to the stage-box. I went, and, as Bat's guest, was received as Royalty is not. We sat well back and looked out on the packed thousands.
And there was a leader, a grave and poised leader, which tore me in two with mirth, until I remembered that I had been left out infamously and unjustifiably dropped. I went to Ollyett's rooms. He was breakfasting, and, to do him justice, looked conscience-stricken. 'It wasn't my fault, he began. 'It was Bat Masquerier. I swear I would have asked you to come if 'Never mind that, I said.
To the sergeant he said, 'Will you or will you not enter the charge? To the village solicitor he gave the name of his lawyers, at which the man wrung his hands and cried, 'Oh, Sir T., Sir T.! in a miserable falsetto, for it was a Bat Masquerier of a firm. They conferred together in tragic whispers.
Then I recalled prismatic music-hall posters of enormous acreage that had been the unnoticed background of my visits to London for years past. Posters of men and women, singers, jongleurs, impersonators and audacities of every draped and undraped brand, all moved on and off in London and the Provinces by Bat Masquerier with the long wedge-tailed flourish following the final 'r.
And I'm Bat Masquerier, he went on. He dropped his chin in his fists and scowled straight in front of him.... 'I made the Silhouettes I made the Trefoil and the Jocunda. I made 'Dal Benzaguen. Here Ollyett sat straight up, for in common with the youth of that year he worshipped Miss Vidal Benzaguen of the Trefoil immensely and unreservedly.
'There's one man in the world who is going to get a little of it if I live for the next twenty-four hours, said Woodhouse, and explained how this would come about. Masquerier stared at him lengthily with gunmetal-blue eyes. 'You mean it? he drawled; the voice was as magnetic as the look. 'I do, said Ollyett.
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