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From the barber's, Johnny went to Stinchcombe's, the costumier's, in Drury Lane. "I am playing in a burlesque," explained the Babe. "I want you to rig me out completely as a modern girl." "Peeth o' luck!" said the shopman. "Goth the very bundle for you. Juth come in." "I shall want everything," explained the Babe, "from the boots to the hat; stays, petticoats the whole bag of tricks."
This to old Goslin, who closed the door and returned. "Lady in a heliotrope dress with a lace collar, three flounces on the skirt?" "That's right, Mr. Bennett," agreed old Goslin. "It's the Babe himself!" asserted Harry Bennett. The question of Hamlet's madness was forgotten. "Was in at Stinchcombe's this morning," explained Harry Bennett; "saw the clothes on the counter addressed to him.
The wig also was promised within the hour. The spirit of completeness descended upon the Babe. On his way back to his lodgings in Great Queen Street, he purchased a ladylike umbrella and a veil. Now, a quarter of an hour after Johnny Bulstrode had made his exit by the door of Mr. Stinchcombe's shop, one, Harry Bennett, actor and member of the Autolycus Club, pushed it open and entered.
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