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"Could you get me in?"
"Yes, indeed!"
"Then I want to come when you're on the stand."
"Great goodness! Why?"
"Why, if you want a reason," she answered mischievously, "say that I
want to bring good luck to your _premiere_, as you brought it to mine."
"I'll probably make a sorry showing. Perhaps you would give me some
training."
She answered in kind, and the acquaintanceship was progressing most
favorably when a messenger of the theater manager's office staff
appeared with early editions of the morning papers. Instantly every
other interest was submerged.
"Give me The Ledger," demanded Betty. "I want to see what Gurney says."
"Something pleasant surely," said Banneker. "He told me that the play
was an assured success."
As she read, Betty's vivacious face sparkled. Presently her expression
changed. She uttered a little cry of disgust and rage.
"What's the matter?" inquired the author.
"Gurney is up to his smartnesses again," she replied. "Listen. Isn't
this enraging!" She read:
"As for the play itself, it is formed, fashioned, and finished in the
cleverest style of tailor-made, to Miss Raleigh's charming personality.
One must hail Mr. Laurence as chief of our sartorial playwrights. No
actress ever boasted a neater fit.
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