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That night she went to Patricia Leigh's. Patricia had had a busy and prosperous day. She had written some verses that she felt were good they had a tang that always gave Patricia the belief in their quality; she had sold two other small things. She was, therefore, at her flightiest, and greeted Joan with delight. "I'm so glad Syl is not tagging on, Joan," she said.
The effect must have been puzzling to the audience. Indeed, many of them seemed to consider it ludicrous. Charlie Dickman confided in me later. 'Syl, my boy, says he, 'this bird Duffy has caused my first gray hairs. It was little wonder that he persuaded young Duffy to abandon the drama. He was not meant for the higher planes of our art.
"You funny old Syl," Joan flung back over her shoulder as she drew the curtain over the closet that screened the housekeeping skeletons from the wonderful studio. "We won't have to resort to marriage, anyway. We've solved the eternal question!" "Exactly! And now give those chops a twist. Thank the Lord, we both love them crisp." The experiment in a few days had Joan by the throat.
"Syl Harte," said his master with a smile, "ay, I was thinkin' so; well, no matter, Art, have strength and resolution not to do the like again." "But that's the curse, sir," replied the young man, "I have neither the one nor the other, and it's on that account I sent for you." "How is that, Art?"
"The self-expression of yourself," Patricia smiled serenely. This always reinstated Joan in her old resolve. "To come to town and cut capers at the Brier Bush," she confided to Sylvia, once Patricia was off the scene, "is poor proof of anything. Syl, I'm going to get to work seriously soon with my music."
All there's in it is what I said or rather what you took me up on so fast," ended Plank, abashed. "About your being in love with Syl " "Confound it!" roared Plank, crimson to his hair; and he set his heavy spurs to his mount and plunged forward in a storm of dust.
His father and mother, seated in the front row, nudged each other in ecstasy at the sight of their son sitting up there on the platform with the minister and the schoolmaster and looking far handsomer and better dressed than either of them. But poor Syl did not derive as much enjoyment from his proud position as did his parents. Maggie was extremely difficult.
Donald's face grew dark with anger. He was too indignant to consider that he had returned much sooner than she expected. He realised only that she had left him on this his last night, and for that fellow! He turned with a fierce jerk, and almost skated into Maggie. That young lady was darting wildly here and there in her efforts to elude Syl Todd.
"Syl is the best they make, but she does somehow get under the skin and make people feel themselves 'seconds'." Joan sank into a chair. "Syl is writing reams to her John," she explained. "I doubt if she noticed my leaving. She probably thinks I'm still singing." And then Joan told Patricia about the man who, for some unknown reason, had made himself permanent in her interest.
Basketful took the mail-bag with a withering air. "Kind o'," he remarked sarcastically. "Guess your 'orse 'ad a sunstroke on the road. 'Ere 'Syl, tend to that hanimal, will you?" A stylishly dressed young man came down with elegant leisure from his position on a cracker barrel and proceeded to water Coonie's horse.
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