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The Catspaw
Yes, why don't you take a chance?" they all asked him.
by way of the ready fire escape. The plans had been completed for the ''cleaning up" of Milville, plans by which Rokane and her confederate planned to be the richer by several thousand dollars. Milville, though near to the city, had proved an easier victim than they had foreseen. The inhabitants had accepted Kitt without question, simply because he had taken the pains to display considerable wealth ; and one short month had seen him lodged in the best hotel, a member of the most exclusive club, and a guest of the foremost families of the town.
He had planned a new method, he had told Rokane, back in the room, which he had to keep secret from even her. She had objected to this, and had seemed just a little cool to him during the remainder of the interview. As he walked down the street, he wondered if it was not on account of his goings about with Dorothy Paget. Couldn't she see that he cared nothing for that little doll face, though? She was only valuable to keep him in a secure social position. Rokane had said nothing about her to him, but she had objected firmly to his secrecy about his
plan. Yet he could not tell her — he could not tell any one — because the slightest leaking out of the facts would ruin them both. After he had passed Bonwit, he looked back toward him, laughing to himself. Poor Bonwit, he thought. Rokane certainly would attend to him! And, still thinking of Bonwit's coming experiences, he entered his hotel and went directly to his room.
Forty miles away, in the city, on the following morning, a group of idle actors were sitting around the breakfast table, at the Comedy Club, poring over the advertisements. It had been a poor season, and half of them had had nothing to do for months. How rotten the theatrical game was, after all, thought one of them. He thought it so strongly that he said so to his neighbor.
''You're right," agreed Bayard, who had been a leading man in three of Broadway's greatest failures that year, "but here's a chance for somebody. Here's a prime chance." And he passed the paper across the table to the others. They scanned the advertisement he indicated with much interest :