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now against her. Now with his family and now against them. Now with the broker and art critic, now against them , Jekyll and Hyde on the fence, the family's unremitting efforts to get, and the maid's to keep the paintings, mystery and a highly active furtherance of both pursuits providing the answer to Chris Bean's increasing grip.
In The Three Smart Girls, three girls, two boy friends, a butler incidentally, and the Count, six people in all, were combatting the appeal and cunning of an attractive and experienced fortune hunter and her mother; an alumna of the same school. Accordingly the ratio of opposition was 2 to 6 in favor of the three daughters, indicating another one-sided contest, but the inexperience and impetuosity of adolescence, the lovesick boy friends and the tippling Count, the divided loyalty of the father, the romantic and paternal struggling to possess him, with his millions and his age giving steam to the fortune hunter's siege, equalized things very neatly.
Keeping furtherance equal was helped by the fact that everybody the three sisters looked to for aid or cooperation proved unreliable: The Count failed them. One of their boy friends, the one who had conceived the idea of using the Count to lure the adventuress off was called out of town on business right at the moment he was needed most. The young Australian Lord, mistaken for the Count, purposely lending himself as bait to hook the siren, was too much in love with Joan to be of help to anyone, including himself.
Every attempt at childhood reminiscing failed to cool their Daddy's ardour and their last card, the police, serenaded by Penny into the idea that she was not lost — a ruse to separate the siren and her Daddy — also failed. But no sooner did one aid or idea fizzle out than another was sent into the fray. Aids were unreliable but numerous, succeeding each other so rapidly and with such smart timing, audience interest had no chance of flagging.
Because the unreliable character of the aids was well sustained, singularized a little higher every time a new scheme, plan or idea was launched, furtherance had to be extremely active on both sides. And an increasing grip was secured with practically no mystery.
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