I'd have told you before, but it's developed rather sudden, and I've not had a real chance, and, besides, I knew you'd be all for it.

Jimmie and I have canned that stock-selling scheme for good--unless an easy chance for it develops later.

Our big idea now is to put YOU across!" Barney believed that there might still remain in Maggie some lurking admiration for Larry, some influence of Larry over her, and to eradicate these completely by the brilliance of what he offered was the chief purpose of his further quick-spoken words.

"To put you across in the biggest kind of a way, Maggie! A beautiful, clever woman who knows how to use her brains, and who has brainy handling, can bring in more money, and in a safer way, than any dozen men! And I tell you, Maggie, I'll make you a star!" "Barney!...

But you haven't told me just what I'm to do." "The first thing will be just a try-out; it'll help finish your education.