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 Circus tent. I love the background. I think I may be in it if Auburn Six isn't too hateful about it.

Why, Ambrose exclaimed, she said she didn't know you.

Well, she doesn't. Perhaps she won't.

Ambrose felt certain that he was presently going to be afflicted with a splitting headache. He turned Wilhelmina's attention to the menu. Absent-mindedly, her eyes ran down the card as she suggested, You can get it for me.

Get what for you?

The part of the equestrienne in Spider Boy. You don't know what a good horsewoman I am. I wouldn't need a double. I once rode in a Pendleton round-up.

But what can I do?

What can you do? she mocked him. Talk to Griesheimer about me, of course. If Hallam directs the picture, he's for me.

The band was playing Sometimes I'm Happy.

What all the creatures were talking about Ambrose could have no idea and yet it was impossible for him to profess ignorance. He must bluff along until he might confer with Philip Lawrence.

What good would that do? he inquired dully.

Now, Ambrose, Wilhelmina declared, if you