You know the money is waiting."
Mr. Slosson perused the document; and it was certainly to his credit
that he did so without any superficial symptoms of dismay.
"What will Mr. Wrissell and the Woldo family say about that, do you
think?" asked Edward Henry.
"Lady Woldo will never be allowed to carry it out," said Mr. Slosson.
"Who's going to stop her? She must carry it out. She wants to carry it
out. She's dying to carry it out. Moreover, I shall communicate it to
the papers to-night--unless you and I come to an arrangement. And
if by any chance she doesn't carry it out--well, there'll be a fine
society action about it, you can bet your boots, Mr. Slosson."
The document was a contract made between Blanche Lady Woldo of the one
part and Edward Henry Machin of the other part, whereby Blanche Lady
Woldo undertook to appear in musical comedy at any West End Theatre to
be named by Edward Henry, at a salary of two hundred pounds a week for
a period of six months.
"You've not got a theatre," said Mr. Slosson.
"I can get half a dozen in an hour--with that contract in my hand,"
said Edward Henry.
And he knew from Mr. Slosson's face that he had won.
VIII
That evening, feeling that he had earned a little recreation, he went
to the Empire Theatre--not in Hanbridge, but in Leicester Square,
London.
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