The Montague girl seemed more strangely intense.

She beckoned the manager to her side.
"Now, here, Jeff, here was something I just naturally had to laugh at." Baird had not wholly conquered those facial spasms, but he controlled himself to say, "Show me!" "Now, Merton," directed the girl, "take that same pose again, like you did for me, the way you are in this picture." As Merton adjusted himself to the Parmalee pose she handed the picture to Baird.

"Now, Jeff, I ask you--ain't that Harold to the life--ain't it so near him that you just have to laugh your head off ?" It was even so.

Baird and the girl both laughed convulsively, the former with rumbling chuckles that shook his frame.

When he had again composed himself he said, "Well, Mr.Gill, I think you and I can do a little business.