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Susy.A Story of the Plains

CHAPTER XI
5/15

It's gettin' too fresh here.

I'll have to give the landlord notice and cut the whole hotel.

They don't seem to have ever seen a gentleman and a professional before." "Then you're a play-actor now ?" said the farmer, in a tone which did not, however, exhibit the exact degree of admiration which shone in Phoebe's eyes.
"For the present," said Jim, with lofty indifference.

"You see I was in--in partnership with McClosky, the manager, and I didn't like the style of the chump that was doin' Red-handed Dick, so I offered to take his place one night to show him how.

And by Jinks! the audience, after that night, wouldn't let anybody else play it,--wouldn't stand even the biggest, highest-priced stars in it! I reckon," he added gloomily, "I'll have to run the darned thing in all the big towns in Californy,--if I don't have to go East with it after all, just for the business.


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