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"Georgie" "They're doing their best to get another shop, and they've answered heaps of advertisements in the 'stage'; but it's no go. And, in any case, they haven't enough money to get out of the town. Of course if they got anything decent to go to, I would finance them with pleasure, but they don't seem to have any luck."

"Would you, indeed?" I murmured. "Are they complete strangers to each other?"

"Quite. The pianist comes from Liverpool, poor chap, and this girl, as I said, from Devonshire. She thought Lappin's advertisement was genuine. The pianist had his doubts from the beginning, he says; but he risked it because he had been out so long, and he's a bit of an ass, anyhow. Long hair, you know, and collars that are—well—I can't think why he wears 'em. The girl's as sweet as a rose, and that's why I asked you to come, Drusilla."

She turned and looked at him in surprise. 90