neously Mrs. Fieldstone shrieked aloud and sank swooning into
the arms of her husband. As for Sidney Rossmore and Ralph Zinsheimer,
they lingered to see no more; but at the first outcry they fled through
a doorway at the end of the room. In the upper part it was fitted with
a ground-glass panel that, as if in derision, bore the legend: Cafe for
Men Only.

When they emerged a few minutes later Miss Goldie Raymond had been
spirited away by the management with the mysterious rapidity of a
suicide at Monte Carlo, and Miss Vivian Haig, hatless and dishevelled,
was laving Mrs. Fieldstone's forehead with brandy, supplied by the
management at forty cents a pony.

"You know me, don't you, Mrs. Fieldstone?" Miss Vivian Haig said. "I'm
Hattie Katzberger."

Mrs. Fieldstone had now been laved with upward of two dollars and forty
cents' worth of brandy, and she opened her eyes and nodded weakly.

"And you know that other woman, too, mommer," Fieldstone protested.
"That was Goldie Raymond that plays Mitzi in 'Rudolph.' I was only
trying to get her to sign up for the new show, mommer. What do you
think?--I would do anything otherwise at my time of life! Foolish
woman, you!"

He pinched Mrs. Fieldstone's pale cheek and she smiled at him in
complete understanding.

"But you ain't going to give her the new part now, are you, Jake?" she
murmured.

"Certainly he ain't!" Miss Vivian Haig said. "I'm going to get that
part myself, ain't I, Mr. Fieldstone?"

Fieldstone made a gesture of complete surrender.

"Sure you are!" he said, with the earnestness of a waist manufacturer
and not a producing manager. "And a good dancer like you," he
concluded, "I would pay the same figure as Goldie Raymond."

* * * * *

The following morning Lyman J. Bienenflug dispatched to Mrs. J.
Montgomery Fieldstone a bill for professional services, consultation
and advice in and about settlement of action for a separation--Fieldstone
versus Fieldstone--six hundred dollars. He also dispatched to Miss
Vivian Haig another bill for professional services, consultation and
advice in and about settlement of action for breach of contract of
employment--Haig versus Fieldstone--two hundred and fifty dollars.

Later in the day Ralph Zinsheimer, managing clerk in the office of
Bienenflug & Krimp, and over and above the age of eighteen years as
prescribed by the Code, served a copy of the summons and complaint on
each of the