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feet long and two hundred feet broad, the parties them-
selves were undoubtedly intimate affairs, at which a girl
was able to express herself by dancing on the table and
throwing off some of her clothes. Everything this girl
wore, every movement she made, only called the atten-
tion of these leering fellows to some part of her ravish-
ing figure; and even when she herself had stopped
making eyes and smiling at them and' undulating
round them, with a champagne glass in her hand, her
charming legs still insisted on claiming their notice. It
was obvious that at any moment these rich cads would
make their old mistake, they would assume that she
was not a virtuous girl and would act accordingly, to
her astonishment and indignation and shame at being
so misunderstood, so treated. Meanwhile, the young
inventor had received a letter (and you heard him tear
it open) asking him to come to New York to meet three
heavy men who had just been barking at one another
about him in the previous scene. It was, as he himself
admitted, his "beeg chaince."

His train was still roaring across the screen when
Turgis, whose interest had been thoroughly roused,
heard a voice say, " 'Scuse me/' and saw a dim feminine
shape that was obviously trying to get past.

" 'S'quite all right/* he said affably, withdrawing his
knees to let her pass.

She dropped into the seat on his left, taking the place
of the man with the foul pipe, who must have crept out,
towards the other gangway, without Turgis noticing
him. This girl who had just arrived was still only a dim
shape, but he felt sure she was young and pretty.

" 'Scuse me," she whispered again, "but is this the
big picture?*'