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"a fine kind of a job for rerry's
Caughteri" he commented. "She must
be doing we'll. though; see they've
given her a lot of parts. She's q viii
lager in the first act and a model and
jim the second, and in the third she's
Babette.'"
"That'n mean she's got line to
speak," Dennis remarked.
If We can't spot her from the rest
till then we'll know her when she
to be like her mother. God rest her
soul. You could hear her to the Bat
terry when Terry came home late.''
well know her, all right. Nc.
Carty smiled slyly. but Dennis had no
time to inquire the reason for his GER
mundane things were lost to him.
That's her!" McCarty exclaimed
after an interval Third from your
'That tall girl with a bunch of vio-
lets on her as big as a platter and
shifted incredulously. You're dippy.
Mac! There was never a blonde in
the family
Nevertheless he watched her assid-
uously during that act and one which
followed, and when in the third his
fed line or two to the comedian he
sank back in his seat.
True for you, Mac" he muttered.
She could shoot up like a water tow
er and bleach out the honest brown
hair Of her. but that's the voice of
MORA O'Mal1ey Burns!"
Later he sat in solitary state in the
taxicab from which he had refused to
bulge at the stage entrance to the
theater, while McCarty waited at the
door and furtively scanned the faces
OF the girls in plain or elaborate at
alone up the street or be whirled
away IN waiting cars, and he thought
miserably of the hours before him.
How was he ever to talk to this
strange: ehangeling daughter of
Terry, the fight promoter?
But when Miss Burns. with the
grinning McCarty in tow. appeared
at the door of the taxi, she unex-
pectedly lifted the anticipated burden
How de do. Mr.. Riordan2" She
touched his hand with her gloved fin
gers and settled with little whirl
into the seat beside him. "It was
awfully good Of you two old dears to
look me up. This is the first night
I haven't had date in a MONTH And
I want to thank you so much for my
violets; I got fined for wearing them
In the first act, but it was worth 1t
to see old Sylvester's face when she
made ma e her entrance; She's the worst
'Violets?" Dennis turned a suspi-
cious eye on the other "old dear" who
vas gazing steadily out of the win
Miss Burns was oblivious to the de-
We're in for an all-summer run?"
she went on. when Dolly Whitfield
leaves to head the Number Two COM
pany I'm going to have her part:
that's why I changed my hair. You
remember r. that song the tenor sings
Strand of Your Golden air'IWhere
are we going for supper"
There's a man I know that's seen
your show a lot" McCarty felt his
name wad and Ses in WiR ot Of so n1.
ciety people"
Sports. you mean!' Trixie laughed.
we all know Sam! He's crazy about
Whitef1eld. but she can't see him. he
gave supper party for her one night
last week in his apartment up on the
drive and he certainly knows how to
do things right. even if he is only a
kind OF con man. as they say. This
was my souvenir
Sam told me about that party and
there" he observed. Several of your
company"
only the girls. He left 1t to Whit
field and she asked eight of us. The
men were all Sans friends: Chedsey,
the hardware man. and Danton-you
know Danton's Flesh Cream-And
Mayer Of the Imperial Cloaks and
Suits, and jeffrey Hunt and Roy
Goodsell and Fales Ogden and a cou-
pie of bookies whose names I don't
remember" Trixie paused for breath.
Lots of money and good sports, but
Ogden was the only real swell"
Dennis stiffened and McCarty's grip
frightened upon his fork.
Sam said something about a fell
low named Waverly," he remarked
with studied carelessness. Maybe he
was one of the bookies-?
Trixie made a little grimace.
mo, he wasn't Who doesn't know
Doug Waverly? Disgusting beast,
but he's what you'd cali a society
swell, all right. It's funny Vedder
spoke Of him to you; trying to make
out he's intimate with people that
have got class. I suppose. Waverly
goes around with Ogden a lot, but he
wouldn't trail with q sporting man
like SAM"
'Then he wasn't at that party last
Thursday niEhtr McCarty persisted