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too, which plays their accompaniment and plays it mighty damned well. One of the papers carries a story next day that was all straight except where it says I knelt and sang with ’em. That was an error. I don’t sing.”
Girls with candles are lighting a pretty little candle number on the stairs. Greater mimes from earlier shows in the loop are showing at tables on the firing line. Yonder is one of the best of the American leading men, and near him one of the newest of the season’s dramatic stars. Comes an intermission of supping, sipping and dancing — and how some of those actor folks can dance!
But where, oh where, are the dance-hall girls of yesternight whose overlord and master was Bloom? What became of her with the violet eyes and cupreous hair whom we shall call Vera? Let Ike tell it:
“In the old nights of the dance-hall those girls knew I wouldn’t stand for larceny. That was barred. They knew it was the one thing that’d make a copper out of me. So I can tell you, old man, I felt pretty sore one morning when a guy that’s been here most of the night gets Vera pinched for jack-rolling him in a taxi for a hundred and ninety. She sends for me. I says I’ll get her a lawyer and I’m through if she took it.
“‘I didn’t, Ike,’ she says; ‘but here’s a diamond ring worth two-fifty. You take the ring and give the guy his hundred and ninety, which I’d rather lose than spend another night in jail.’
“ ‘It’s a cinch she got it,’ says the inspector when Vera pulls off the ring. ‘But I don’t know about that,’ says I to him ; and I put Vera back on the floor and collect out of her twenty dollars a week salary.
“Well, it was more than a year before the bird