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"Even if you can't pay salaries when they're due, Obermuller." The Chief grinned under his white mustache. "Even though the Trust is pushing me to the wall; going to such lengths that they're liable criminally as well as civilly, if I could only get my hands on proof of their rascality. It's true I can't pay salaries always when they're due, but I can still raise a few hundred to help a friend.
"Be patient, Mag; let me tell it my way." There wasn't room in the coupe waiting out in front for more than two. So Obermuller couldn't come in it. But he put me in Mag, dear, dear Mag he put me in as if I was a lady not like Gray; a real one. A thing like that counts when two detectives are watching. It counted afterward in the way they treated me.
"If I'm innocent and can prove it, Fred Obermuller, I'll get even with you for for this." "Do you want to do something for me now?" "Do I?" "Well, if you want to help me, don't sit there looking like the criminal ghost of the girl I know." The blood rushed to my face. Nance Olden, a sniveling coward! Me, showing the white feather me, whimpering like a whipped puppy me Nance Olden!
I showed the note to Gray, just to make her jealous. "Of course, you won't accept?" she said. "Of course, I will." "Oh! I only thought you'd feel as I should about appearing before a lot of snobs, who'll treat you like a servant and " "Who'll do nothing of the sort and who'll pay you well for it," put in Obermuller. He had come up and was reading the note I had handed to him.
"Well," he said, pulling on his coat as though he'd done a good day's work, "I guess you'd just better come along with me." "Don't you think you'd better get out of this?" I asked Obermuller, as he came into the station a few minutes after I got there. "No." "I do." "Because?" "Because it won't do you any good to have your name mixed up with a thing like this." "But it might do you some good."
Oh, I was drunk, Mag, drunk with thinking about that diamond! I didn't care even to please Obermuller. I just wanted the feel of that diamond in my hand. I wanted it lying on my own neck the lovely, cool, shining, rosy thing. It's like the sunrise, Mag, that beauty stone. It's just a tiny pool of water blushing. It's How to get it! How to get away with it!
"And there isn't a theatrical man in all America that knows it quicker than Fred Obermuller, that can detect it sooner and develop it better. And you've got it, girl, you've got it! ... Officer, take this for your trouble. I couldn't hold the fellow, after all. Never mind which way he went; I'll call up the office and explain." He shut the door after the cop, and came back to me.
"I'll quit the show here and now," she squawked. "It's a shame, a beastly shame. How dare you play me such a trick, Fred Obermuller? I never was treated so in my life to have that dirty little wretch come tumbling on like that, without even so much as your telling me you'd made up all this new business for her! It's indecent, anyway. Why, I lost my cue. There was a gap for a full minute.
From where I stood, Mag, I could read the plain gold lettering on the dark leather. I didn't have to move. It was plain enough quite plain. Mrs. Hush, hush, Mag; if you take on so, how can I tell you the rest? Obermuller got in front of me as I started to walk into the dining-room. I don't know what his idea was.
But she hasn't set foot on the stage yet under Tausig, and they say Obermuller " I didn't get the rest of it, so I don't know what they say about Obermuller. I only know what they've said to him about me. 'Tisn't hard to make men believe those things. But I had to stand it. What could I do?
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