Part 32 (2/2)
”By standing for that antediluvian broet it off my chest to somebody, or else blow up Far better to hire an audience when you can't be original Remember that; you've been paid: you daren't object”
”Thankyousir,” said the lackey blankly
”And now--avaunt--before I brand thee forout an imperative, melodra finger-tips The servant retired in haste and dismay
”'E's balmy--or screwed--or the Devil 'imself!” he rinned privately at theyour wits on helpless servants
A waiter has no friends, anyway!”
An elevator, descending, discharged into the lobby half a dozenprettiness (in a cloak of erentleman in scarlet mask and ser
”What--you, Lucifer! Traitor! Where have you been all evening?”
”Madaly--”in spirit, always at your ear”
She flushed and bit her lip in char confusion; while an abbess, with face serene in the frae:
”Ah, in spirit! But in the flesh?”
”Why, poppet!” he retorted in suave surprise--”it isn't possible that _you_ irl dressed all in buckskin fros and dainty moccasins, bent to peer into his face
”Who are you?” she demanded curiously ”I don't seem to know you--”
”That, child, you have already proved”
”I? Proved? How do you mean?”
”You alone have not yet blushed”
And wheeling mischievously to the others, he covered them idespread hands in burlesque benediction
”The unction of my deep damnation abide with ye,sparks frohtly into the elevator
”But your ht--e all unate, the little gentleman shot a Parthian spark or two