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Thereafter followed a discussion, which in the main consisted of joint

and several rejection of parts Marguerite Whitland irl, even though Bones proh he wheedled his best,

even though he struck attitudes indicative of despair and utter ruin,

even though the gentle persuasiveness of Mr Lew Becksteine was added

to his entreaties And Ha to do with the bad man Mr Becksteine solved the difficulty

by undertaking to produce the necessary actors and actresses at the

minimum of cost

"Of course you won't play, Bones?" said Hamilton

"I don't know," said Bones "I' talent in me, and I feel the part--that's a

technical term you won't understand"

"But surely, Mr Tibbetts," said the girl reproachfully, "you won't

allow yourself to be photographed eed his shoulders

"Art, my dear old typewriter," he said "She'll be no more to me than

a bit of wood, dear old et all about

it the second after You need have no cause for apprehension, really

and truly"

"I airl coldly, and Bones

followed her to her office, showering explanations of hisover

her shoulder

On the third day Hamilton went back to Twickenhaable," he said irritably, but yet ad in the open fields, on