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"You know," I smiled up at him, "I never did enjoy getting caught." "Hush! But that's better.... Tell me now " A buzzer sounded. The blue-eyed detective got up and came over to me. "Chief's ready," he said. "This way." They stopped Obermuller at the door. But he pushed past them. "I want to say just a word to you, Chief," he said. "You remember me. I'm Obermuller, of the Vaudeville.
"I'm tired of vaudeville," I answered. "Can't you give me a chance in a comedy?" "Hm! Ambitious, ain't you?" "Obermuller has a play all ready for me written for me. He'd star me fast enough if he had the chance." "But he'll never get the chance." "Oh, I don't know." "But I do. He's on the toboggan; that's where they all get, my dear, when they get big-headed enough to fight us."
The celebrated Gray jewels, including the great Rose Diamond, will be worn by Lady Gray in this number. No wonder Obermuller was raging. I looked at him. You don't like to tackle a fellow like that when he's dancing hot. And yet you ache to help him and yes, yourself. "Lord Harold's here yet, and the jewels?" I asked. He gave a short nod. He was thinking. But so was I.
"I am artiste, Monsieur Obermuller," I gutturaled like Mademoiselle Picotte, who dances on the wire. "I moost have about me those who arre who arre congeniale " "You monkey!" he laughed. "Then, when Tausig comes to buy your contract " "We'll tell him to go to thunder." He laughed. Say, Mag, that big fellow is like a boy when he's pleased. I guess that's what makes it such fun to please him.
It will be seen, in fine, that in the main Obermüller does not differ from accepted theories in German ethnology, which have long carefully dissevered the Celts from the Teutons, and assigned to each tribe with approximate accuracy its earliest fixed abode in Europe.
That M. Quatrefages should maintain such a postulate, his patriotism if not his scientific reputation might lead us to expect; but that Obermüller should be so eager to trace German origin back to the first murderer is rather more suprising. Obermüller's work embraces in its general scope the origin of all European nations, but the most striking part is that relating to Germany.
The whole act was such a ghastly failure that I " "That you'd better go out now and make your prettiest bow, Gray. Phew! Listen to the house roar. That's what I call applause. Go on now." She went. Me? I didn't say a word. I looked at Obermuller and and I just did like this. Yes, winked, Mag Monahan. I was so crazily happy I had to, didn't I? But do you know what he did? Do you know what he did?
"I want simply to call your attention to the absurdity and unreasonableness of this thing," Obermuller said, leaning up against the Chief's desk, while he threw out his left hand with that big open gesture of his, "and to ask you to bear in mind, no matter what appearances may be, that Miss Olden is the most talented girl on the stage to-day; that in a very short time she will be at the top; that just now she is not suffering for lack of money; that she's not a high-roller, but a determined, hard-working little grind, and that if she did feel like taking a plunge, she knows that she could get all she wants from me even "
I looked at the little man; the angry red was just fading from the top of his cocoanut-shaped bald head. "You always were a fool, Obermuller," he said cordially. "And you were always over-fond of your low-comedian jokes. If you hadn't been so smart with your tongue, you'd had more friends and not so many enemies in " "In the heavenly Syndicate, eh? Well, I have lived without "
Do you know that's a great graft, Mr. Obermuller lifting wholesale? Why don't you get in?" "Because a Trust is a lot of sailors on a raft who keep their places by kicking off the drowning hands that clutch at it. Can you fancy a fellow like Tausig stooping down to help me tenderly on board to divide the pickings?"
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