Part 21 (1/2)
”To-?”
”Ye-es”
”That is to say, to- you will have 2250 in actual cash--coin, notes--actually in your possession?”
Miss Euclid's disengaged hand was feeling out behind her again for some surface upon which to express its e
(”These people are astounding,” Edward Henry reflected, like a God
”She's not got the money I knew it!”)
”It's like this, Mr Machin,” Marrier began
”Excuse me, Mr Marrier,” Edward Henry turned on him, deter face ”Any friend of Miss Euclid's is welcome here, but you've already talked about this theatre as 'ours,' and I just want to knohere you come in”
”Where I come in?” Marrier seneral manajah”
”At what salary, if it isn't a rude question?”
”Oh! We haven't settled details yet You see the theatre isn't built yet”
”True!” said Edward Henry ”I was forgetting! I was thinking for theto be opened to-ht with 'The Orient Pearl' Have you hadtheatres, Mr Marrier? I suppose you have”
”Eho yes!” exclaian life as a lawyah's clerk, but--”
”So did I,” Edward Henry interjected
”How interesting!” Rose Euclidshaft of smoke
”However, I threw it up,” Marrier went on
”I didn't,” said Edward Henry ”I got thrown out!”
Strange that in thatbeen dise that all the co been disretted that he also had not been dismissed! But so it was
The possession of much ready money emits a peculiar effluence in both directions--back to the past, forward into the future
”I threw it up,” said Marrier, ”because the stage had an irresistible attraction for e-manajah for an ae- 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' I stuck to that for six years, and then I threw that up too Then I've ed one of Miss Euclid's provincial tours And since I met our friend Trent I've had the chance to shohatreally are I fancy otten in a hurry You know--'The Nymph'?
You read about it, didn't you?”
”I did not,” said Edward Henry ”How long did it run?”
”Oh! It didn't run It wasn't put on for a run It was part of one of the Sunday night shows of the Play-Producing Society, at the Court Theatre Most intellectual people in London, you know No such audience anywhere else in the wahld!” His rather chubby face glistened and shi+mmered with enthusiasm ”You bet!” he added ”But that was only by the way My real gaement And I think I may say I knohat it is?”