to take her back?" Potter cried fiercely. "Do you
think I'll break one of my iron--"

"We couldn't all have married her!" said the playwright with a fine
inspiration. "But if you take her back we can all see her--every day!"

The actor gazed upon him sternly, but with sensitive lips beginning to
quiver. He spoke uncertainly.

"Well," he began. "I'm no stubborn Frenchman--"

"Do it!" cried Canby.

Then Potter's expression changed; he looked queer.

He clapped his hands loudly;--Sato appeared.

"Sato, take that stuff out." He pointed to the untouched whiskey. "Order
supper at ten o'clock--for five people. Champagne. Orchids. Get me a
taxicab in half an hour."

"Yisso!"

Tinker rose, astounded. "Taxicab? Where you--"

"To Brooklyn!" shouted Potter with shining eyes. "She'll drive with me
if I bring them both, I guess, won't she?"

He began to sing:

"For to-night we'll merry, merry be!
For to-night we'll merry, merry be--"

Leaping uproariously upon the aged Tinker, he caught him by the waist
and waltzed him round and round the room.

THE END

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