Part 35 (1/2)
”You're not going?”
”I am, Sir John”
The head of his profession sat up ”How right you are!” said he ”How right you are! Trent, I knew from the first words it wouldn't do It lacks colour I want sohter parts of this jacket, sorees withDon't trouble to read any , what o'clock is it?”
”It is nearly noon,” said Edward Henry, in the tone of an old friend
”Well, I'e me, Sir John I'm off to see Sir Gerald Poe you?” protested Sir John ”Who knohat sacrifices I would not hest interests of the profession? Alderility of an acrobat, but they are false conclusions! Miss Taft, the telephone!
Chung, ood-bye!”
An hour later Edward Henry met Mr Marrier at the Grand Babylon Hotel
”Well, sir,” said Mr Marrier, ”you are the greatest man that ever lived!”
”Why?”
Mr Marrier showed hi paper, which read: ”Sir John Pilgrim has abandoned his ceremonious departure froent Theatre on Wednesday week He and Miss Cora Pryde will join the _Kandahar_ at Marseilles”
”You needn't do any advertaysing,” said Mr Marrier ”Pilgri for you”
III
Edward Henry and Mr Marrier worked together ade And--such was the interaction of their separate enthusiasht sense of the word ”all”) must and would be at the ceremony Characteristically, Mr Marrier happened to have a list or catalogue of all London in his pocket, and Edward Henry appreciated him more than ever But towards four o'clock Mr Marrier annoyed and even soe of rew uneasy, darkly preoccupied, and inefficient At last, when the clock in the room struck four, and Edward Henry failed to hear it, Mr Marrier said:
”I'm afraid I shall have to ask you to excuse me now”
”Why?”
”I told you I had an appointment for tea at four”
”Did you? What is it?” Edward Henry demanded, with an employer's instinctive assuht for such su to tea here That is, downstairs”
”In this hotel?”
”Yes”
”Who is it?” Edward Henry pursued lightly, for though he appreciated Mr Harrier, he also despised hirace to add: ”May one ask?”
”It's Miss Elsie April”
”Do you mean to say, Marrier,” complained Edward Henry, ”that you've known Miss Elsie April all these months and never told me? There aren't two, I suppose? It's the cousin or so of Rose Euclid?”
Mr Marrier nodded ”The fact is,” he said, ”she and I are joint honorary organizing secretaries for the annual conference of the Azure Society You know--it leads the New Thought land”