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UNDER THE GLASS TOPS.
He approached the office of the Holden studios the following morning with a new air of assurance.

Formerly the mere approach had been an adventure; the look through the gate, the quick glimpse of the privileged ones who entered, the mingling, later, with the hopeful and the near-hopeless ones who waited.

But now his feeling was that he had, somehow, become a part of that higher life beyond the gate.

He might linger outside at odd moments, but rightfully he belonged inside.