We all
bow to the power of gold."
Louise, whose gaze was fixed upon the approaching sloop, smiled. She
was thinking; "All but Lawford Tapp, the philosophic fisherman!"
"I believe," Bane said, with flattery, "that I should delight to play
opposite to you, Miss Grayling, rank amateur though you would be. This
Anscomb really is a wonderful director and gets surprising results from
material that cannot compare with you. I'll speak to him if you say
the word. He'd oblige me, I am sure. One of the scripts he has told
me about has a part fitted to you."
"Oh, Mr. Bane!" she cried. "I'd have to think about that, I fear. And
such a tempting offer! Now, if you said that to Gusty Durgin----"
At the moment Betty Gallup came into view. Masculine in appearance at
any time in her man's hat and coat, she was doubly so now. She frankly
wore overalls, but had drawn a short skirt over them; and she wore gum
boots. Bane stared at this apparition and gasped:
"Is--is it a man--or what?"
"Why, Mr. Bane! That is my chaperon.
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